 She still lives and never will die while any spark of gratitude remains in this country")

Henry Bourchier died at Tawstock on 16 August 1654, and was buried there the next day.His widow erected in the south aisle chapel of Tawstock Church a large monument to her husband, deemed "splendid" by Pevsner, "massive and ugly" by Hoskins and "almost unequalled in singularity and absurdity" by Marland.It consists of a free standing base of black and white marble on which sit four white marble dogs supporting on their shoulders a big black square bulging sarcophogus.