"The following inscriptions are on plain gravestones; the substance of which is here inserted: "Mr John Read, yeoman, died Sept. 2d, 1718, aged 51 years. Mary his wife, Nove. 5th, 1742, abed 69 years." [1]
[1] Zechariah Cozens, A Tour through the Isle of Thanet, and Some other Parts of East Kent; Including a particular Description of the Churches ... (London: J. Nichols, 1793), 41, [GoogleBooks].