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Ledger stone records a local butcher. It is noticeable that the inscriptions for many clergy and some gentry were inscribed in Latin, but this largely disappears by about 1740. A ledger stone in St Nectan's Church, Hartland, Devon, to Thomas Docton (d.1618) of Docton, bore originally a "quaint" epitaph which is oft-quoted, for example in "" by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare. It begins "Rejoice not over me, oh my enemie," but was originally surrounded by a brass ledger line inscribed with the following verse: Ledger stones with engraved or relief figures of the deceased are not very common in the UK, but