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XII GEOEGIUS BARTON CONSUL BRITANNICUS . . . . MDCCXXXIX. D.O.M. HlC J AC ET MICHAEL DE YEZIK: QUI ORIGINE GALLUS, UNDER THIS MARBLE LTETH TE BODV OF MR. ROBERT BATE MERCHANT HE WAS TUB SON OF . . . DYER BATE BY ... . WAS BORNE IS YE PARISH OF .... IN THE COUNTY . . . KINGDOM OF ENGLAND LOXDIKIS XATUS, BRITANNICI REGIS SCUTARIUS, AB EO CONSUL MISSUS M.S. PETRI BOWEN (9 lines illegible) IN ALEPA» ET CYPRUM MUKUS HOC DIGNE PROBEQUE ANNOS xvi GESSIT, ET E TITA DECESSIT A.S. M dccxcii JETATISQUE SVJK 111. CUJUS MEMORISE DLLECTISSIHA CONJUX ELIZABETH PFAUZ: ORIGINE GERMANA, ΝΑΤΙΥΙΤΑΤΕ VENETA, MŒRENS HOC MONUMEXTÜM POSUIT. Oil a slab affixed to the outer wall of the Church at Omodos, a village some 35 miles ΛΓ. W. of Limasol The Church (Η ΜΟΝΗ TOY ΪΤΛΥΡΟΥ) is said to enshrine a piece of the True Cross, and part of the Itempen rope with vhich our Lord was bound. Under This Marble are Deposited THE REMAINS OF HENRY ROOKE ESQ" FORMERLY MAJOR IN THE HUNDREDTH REGIMENT OF FOOT WITH BREVET RANK OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY KING GEORGE TOE THIRD. AFTER QUITING THE ARMY HE TRAVELLED TUBO VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE AND BEING IN ITALY IN THE YEAR 1799 JOINED THE RUSSIAN ARMY BEFORE ANCONA AS A VOLUNTEER OFFICER & FOR HIS SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE IN REDUCING THAT FORTRESS HIS LATE IMPERIAL MAJESTY OF ALL THE RUSSIAS PAUL CONFERRED UPON HIM THE ORDER OF ST ANNE OF HOLSTEIN 2" CLASS. HE DIED IN THIS CONVENT THE 7T DAY OF JULY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD & SAVIOUR 1814 AND WAS INTERRED BY THE HOLY FATHERS UNDERNEATH THIS STONE WITH THEIR CONSENT AND THAT OF THE MOST REVEREND THE BISHOP OF THE GREEK CHURCH IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS. HIS OSLY SURVIVING BROTHER W" ROOKE AS A LAST TRIBUTE OF FRATERNAL REGARD AND AFFECTION HATH CAUSED THIS MEMORIAL TO BE CONVEYED AND PLACED OVER HIS GRAVE. 47« EXCERPTA CYPRIA.

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