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THE CLEMENT NEVILL MONUMENT
THE INSCRIPTION READS
Under neath lieth the Body of
Honourable Lieutenant General Clement Nevill who departed this life the fifth
day of August 1744 in the 70th year of his age.
He was the eldest commissioned officer in his present Majesty King George the
Second service and had the honour to receive his commission from the ever
glorious King William the Third, when Prince of Orange which bore the date the
31st December 1688, as he set out in military service, under that great Patron
of Liberty, so he had the happiness to be first employed, under General Kirk in
the relief of London Derry; and soon after carried the Colours at the Battle of
the Boyne, both memorable events; by which this kingdom in particular, was
delivered from impending Slavery.
He afterwards served as Lieutenant Colonel in Spain and acquitted himself with
great honour when Paymaster to the unhappy persons who were left prisoners in
that country. His public services ended as they began, in the defence of his
country; at the Battle of Preston, where his treatment of those deceived men,
when in his care as prisoners, will always be mentioned as an example, when true
courage, and the tenderest humanity, ever go together.
He was descended by his Fathers side, from a younger branch of Lord Abergavenys
family, and his mother, was sister, to Sir Charles Wolseley, of Wolseley, in the
Kingdom of England, and a County of Stafford, Baronet.
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