This week I bring you two photographs of magnificent memorials from Goudhurst church in Kent, taken at the end of the day after we had been round some of the nearby villages in search of my ancestors.
[You really do need to click the images and look at larger versions on Flickr!]
The first, which dates from around 1616, is to William Campion and his wife Rachell:

Goudhurst Campion Tomb
Goudhurst, Kent; September 2014
The second, of about the same date, is the tomb of Sir Thomas Colpepper:

Goudhurst Colepepyr Tomb
Goudhurst, Kent; September 2014
Just look at this Colepepyr tomb. The guy had 14 sons (two of whom died as babies) and 5 daughters, admittedly by two wives. OK he was clearly well off — the Culpepers were Tudor and Stuart courtiers — but to have this many children and to lose only two under the age of about 5 or 6 is remarkable.