text:  To Sir Laurence Altham's embittered feelings the very rooks of Lexley Park seemed evermore to infringe upon the privileges of the rookery at Lexley Hall; and when in the parish church the new squire (or rather his workmen for he was absent at the time attending his duties in Parliament) inadvertently broke off the foot of a marble cherub weeping its alabaster tears at the angle of a monument to the memory of a certain Sir Wilfred Altham of the time of James II