Mary Pearce

In the south aisle lyeth the body of Zachary PEARCE, D.D. who was made Rector of St Bartholomew’s, behind the Royal Exchange, London, March 10 1720, Vicar of St Martin’s in the Fields Westminster Jany 10, 1724, Dean of Winchester, Aug. 4, 1739, Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation Dec. 7, 1744, Bishop of Bangor, Feb. 21, 1748, Dean of Westminster, May 4, 1756, and Bishop of Rochester, June 4, 1756. He resigned the Deanery of Westminster June 24, 1768 and died, in a comfortable hope of (what was the chief aim of all his labours upon earth) the being promoted to a happier place in Heaven. He was born Sep. 8, 1690 and died June 29, 1774, aged 84 years. In the same Vault is interred Mrs Mary Pearce, Wife of Zachary Lord Bishop of Rochester Who died October 23d 1773 Aged 70 years