English: Mural monument in Sandford Church, Devon, to Mary Davie (1688-1762), a daughter of Sir William Davie, 4th Baronet (1662–1707), of Creedy, in the parish of Sandford, who married Nicholas III Hooper (son of Sir Nicholas II Hooper (1654-1731) of Fullabrook,^[1] Braunton^[2] and Raleigh, Pilton in Devon, a lawyer who served as Tory Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1695-1715), who rebuilt Raleigh House on an adjacent site slightly higher up the hill, which building survives today.^[3] Without progeny. Mary Davie (Mrs Hooper) was the heiress of Downside, in the parish of Midsomer Norton in Somerset, inherited from her mother Mary Steadman, which she settled on John Hippisley-Coxe (1715-1769),^[4] the builder of Ston Easton House in Somerset, the husband of her half-niece Mary Northleigh (daughter and heiress of Stephen Northleigh (c.1692-?1731) of Peamore, Exminster, MP for Totnes (1713-1722),^[5] by his wife Margaret Davie, half-sister of Mary Davie (Mrs Hooper)). John Hippisley-Coxe erected the surviving mural monument to Mary Davie in Sandford Church, inscribed as follows:

"Near this place lye interred the remains of M^rs.[6] Mary Hooper, relict of Nicholas Hooper of Rawleigh Esq^r. and daughter of S^r. William Davie of Creedy in this county, Baronet. She died the 16^th of May in the year of our Lord 1762 (in the year) of her age 74. In testimony of his great esteem and to perpetuate the memory of so valuable a friend & so worthy a relation, John Hippisley Coxe of Ston-Easton in the county of Somerset Esq^r. caused this monument to be erected in the year of our Lord 1764"