Sir Gabriel Livesey momument - All Saints - Eastchurch, Kent - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

On the south side of the chancel a fine alabaster chest tomb with effigies commemorating Sir Gabriel Livesey of Hollingborne, Sheriff of Kent (d 18.03.1622) and his 2nd wife Anne Sondes (dau of Sir Michael Sondes of Throwley), in All Saints' church, Eastchurch.

"Gabriel Livesey, (or Levesey, as he usually spelt his name), was of Hollingborne-hill, esq. and sheriff of Kent in the 18th year of king James I. He died in 1622, and lies buried with his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Michael Sondes, of Throwley, in this church, under a handsome monument, on which are both their effigies lying at full length."

SOIURCE - (visit link)

The figure kneeling on the left side of the base of the monument is that of his son Michael -

His son Sir Michael Livesey (visit link) or Levesey, Bart (b c1611, a 10.1663, dspm) was created a baronet in 1627. He made this parsonage-house his residence, appointing from time to time a curate for the service of the church. He was a zealous Puritan and great republican in the reign of king Charles I and, sided with the parliament in the troubled times in which he lived, acted as one of the king's judges, and signed the death warrant of the ill-fated Charles (making him one of the regicides of King Charles I), and afterwards served the office of sheriff in 1656 and 1657. He died before the Reformation, nevertheless immediately after that event, an act of parliament passed, for his attainder and the forfeiture of all his lands ... The Baronetcy was of course extinguished.
His wife was Elizabeth Clinton (dspm c1666, dau of Sir Henry Clinton or Fynes)

There is a very fine account of the monument and family history in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 14, 1882 - (visit link) p.379

The inscription reads:

Here sleeps in y° hope of Resurrection y° Body of Gabriel Livesey of Hollingborne in y° County of Kent Esq. He first tooke to wife Anne daughter of S^r Thomas Crumpton K^t who dying with out issue he married Anne daughter to Sr Michael Sonds K^t By whom he had 2 sonnes Michael now living and Eobert deceased. He lived honoured with y° vertues and qualities becoming His degree and died both beloved and lamented of friends and neighbours. Anno 1622. March 18. Ætat. 55.

On a corresponding panel,

We thinke not that true fame doth rest upon
Each costly monument of carved stone
Or that well polishd rance or marble can
Add honor to the name of any man
And though y° fashion of y^e world we borrow
To build y^e dead these complements of sorrow
We raise them not because it is conceaved
Death had y^e fame of Livesey els bereaved
But rather we this monument provide
To showe our love is living though he dide.

On the front of the tomb.

Stay passenger & marke before thou passe
Thine owne condition in death's looking glass.
Thou y^t dost read these lines shalt lye among
Worms bones & roten carkesses er long
Tenn thousands y^t are full of life today
Shall by tomorrow y^s tyme sleep in clay
And freind for ought y^t any mortall knowes
Thou maist be marked out for one of those
Let therefor these dead lynes remember thee
How well prepared thou hast need to be.
So thou shalt gaine by looking on y^s tombe
A better life than from thy mother's womb.