'Sixty-four days after Thomas Sanford married ..., he laid his wife, Friswith, in a grave in the noble yard of that same church of Stanstead Mountfitchet. The record in the parish register of this untimely sorrow, as written at the time of the burial, reads:
"ffryswth Sampford the wife of Thomas Sampford was buryed the 24th of November 1581." '