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As a side note - six months ago I could not view the Eartham BTs or registers or BTs for West Hoathly from home on the familysearch site.  Now I can see both and a number of other useful documents, including Poor Rates and Land Tax.   Something must have changed in the licencing arrangements.

I am hoping someone located in Salt Lake City may be able to lookup a film that appears to have  not yet been digitised:

“Inscriptions in the churchyard of the parish church of West Hoathley in the county of Sussex” copied by J. Harvey Bloom in 1935 apparently from an original manuscript produced in 1875.

The film is located on the British B1 Floor
Film number: 2214197, Item 8
DGS 4428064

Within this document I am looking for the tombstone inscriptions of Fasham NAIRN (1731-1810) who was buried at West Hoathly on 3 Nov 1810 from Barnetts Place.

There are at least three people buried in the tomb:

1.   A Friend (possibly Charlottee NUNN, buried 16 Jul 1802) for whom Fasham NAIRN built the tomb
2.   Fasham NAIRN himself
3.   A 5 week old infant also named Fasham NAIRN who died 29th March 1823.

The tomb seems to have originally had three marble inscription tablets attached with metal pins to the two ends and one of the long sides.  Only one tablet survives – that of the elder Fasham Nairn - and is now illegible.  From an old photograph it read:

In this Tomb
Are deposited the Remains of
FASHAM NAIRN
Of Barnetts Place
In this parish [….]
Who died the [27th] day of Octr 1810
Aged […] [years]

If the document can be located and this tomb was recorded in 1875 there is a good chance all three inscriptions may still have been extant.  If so, and the third person is not Charlotte(e) NUNN, then could a search also be made for her inscription, if any.

Alternatively, if there is a way I can view this film from outside the United States, please let me know how.

Does anyone have access to either or both of the Bishop's Transcripts and original registers of the parish of Eartham?

A modern transcription of the BTs contains the following consecutive entries for 1776/77:

31 Dec 1776, Jasper NYREN, age 92
30 Oct 1777, Frances KENT, age 68

I think there is a possibility the ages have been transposed, by either the modern transcriber or the producer of the Bishop's Transcript - ie. it is Jasper NYREN who was 68.  This would fit the baptism of Jasper NYREN at Eartham in 1708, who othewise disappears after the birth of his 4th child Thomas in 1741.

Ideally I would like to confirm from the original registers, if they still exist, what the recorded age of Jasper NYREN was.

I now agree with goldie61 and horselydown68 that the brother-in-law is Gade - the initial is very like the third example from the Rootsweb alphabet.

The word in last line being "uttered" fits with this being a nuncupative will.

Also Traice is a much better interpretation than Graine.

I am almost sure the brother-in-law's name is Robert Heade.  Not sure about the testator himself.

I transcribe the fragment as:

"In manner and forme following. Imprimis he gives unto his Brother in Law Robert Heade his Colte and his two Cowes, and all other his goods and chattles, and called for a paire of breeches which he had in a Chest, and when they were brought to him, he the said John [Graine?] delivered the said breeches to Robert Heade aforesaid; in lieu of all the rest of his goods whatsoever. All which words or the like in effect he [..offered] declared ..."

I have seen a few wills of this vintage in which the testator is referred to in the third person.  Does he sign with a mark?