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Couzen to the first Lord William Percie Raynfrede a knight
Was first Prior of Whitby inspired by heavenly grace

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Maintaineinge the foundacion & of his Uuckle the Right
Serlo Pearcy the first the second Prior succeeded in short space
Brother to ye first Lord William Pearcy & first foundr of ye place
soe not onely by martiall acts floured the Pearcie name
but alsoe ye bloud of them were fathers of Christs Church increasinge vertuous fame.