Death & Burial
Sir John died while some of his children were young. He was buried in Umberleigh Chapel (now demolished), next to his manor house of Umberleigh. His chest-tomb with monumental brasses on top of himself between his two wives with his children below in two small groups exists in St Mary's Church, Atherington, to where it was moved in 1818 from Umberleigh Chapel.
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