English: Mural monument in the Yarty Chapel of St John's Church, Membury, Devon, to Nicholas Fry (d.1632) of Yarty, Sheriff of Devon in 1626. He kneels opposite his wife, who had predeceased him, Ellinor Brett (d.1620/1), daughter of John Brett of Whitstanton, Somerset (ancestor of Brett, Viscount Esher. The arms are as follows, quarterly of four,

• 1: Gules, three horses courant in pale argent (Fry);
• 2: Sable, a fess engrailed between three mullets argent (Bratton) (Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.474, but with tinctures reversed);
• 3: A lion rampant (possibly Mathwew of Llandaff, Glamorgan, an heiress of Bratton (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.375, pedigree of Fry);
• 4: Argent, three birds or (Said to be the arms of de Yarty (not listed in Pole) Argent, three mallards gules (see The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 2, 11 November 1843, pp.309-11 "Membury Church"[1] (refers to Yarty throughout as "Tarty")). Possibly Newbery of Stockland, Dorset, family of Nicholas Fry's heiress mother).

Stab wrote as follows: ("Membury", from Some Old Devon Churches By J. Stabb, London: Simpkin et al (1908-16), Page 159[2]:

"Just inside the screen, on the right hand side, is the monument of the Fry family, with figures of a man and a woman kneeling facing each other, with a prie-dieu, with a book and skull carved on the front, between them. They both wear ruffs, and long robes, and kneel on cushions. The inscription is as follows:- Here lieth the bodies of Nicholas Fry of Yeartie, Esq. died 25th October 1632 in the 79th year of his age, and of Elynor, his wife, the daughter of John Brett, of Whitstantone, in the county of Somerset, Esq. She died the 28th of March 1619 in the-- year of her age. They lived in wedlocke 37 years. They had issue 4 sonnes and 6 daughters. William the eldest sonne who married Mary the youngest daughter of John Yonge Esq. Henry the second sonne who married Elizabeth the youngest daughter of Richard Parrett of Buckerell, Gent. Nicholas the third sonne who died an infant. John fourth sonne who yet liveth unmarried. Margaret the first daughter who married Robert Ashford, of Kingston newell, Esq. Elizabeth their second daughter who married Henry Worth of Worth, Esq. Bridgett their 3rd daughter who married Edward Pine of Eastdowne, Esq. Anne 4th daughter who died an infant. Alice the 5th daughter who married Henry Luscombe of Luscombe, Esq. Agnes who married Gideon Sherman of Knightstone -- The rest of the inscription is illegible. In this chapel there is also a monument of Robert Fry of Yearty, who died in 1725, and a marble bust of Frances Fry, daughter of Robert Fry, who died in 1718".