Chapter IV: Part 4

This singular epitaph points out the last resting place of Henry Marten, one of the judges who condemned King Charles I. to the scaffold. On the Restoration, Marten was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, Chepstow Castle being selected as the place of his incarceration. There he died in 1680, in the twenty-eighth year of his captivity, and seventy-eighth of his age. He was originally interred in the chancel of the church; but a subsequent vicar of Chepstow, Chest by name, who carried his petty party animosities even beyond the grave, had the dead man's dust removed, averring that he would not allow the body of a regicide to lie so near the altar. And so it was that Marten's memorial came to occupy its present position in the passage leading from the nave to the north aisle. We are told that one, Mr. Downton, a son-in-law of this pusillanimous parson, touched to the quick by his relative's harsh treatment of poor Marten's inanimate remains, retorted by writing this satirical epitaph for the Rev. Mr. Chest's tombstone:--

Here lies at rest, I do protest,
One CHEST within another!
The chest of wood was very good,--
Who says so of the other?

Some doubt has been thrown on the probability of a man of Marten's culture having written, as is implied in the inscription, the epitaph which has a place on his memorial.

The regicide was a son of Sir Henry Marten, a favourite of the first James, and by him appointed Principal Judge of the Admiralty and Dean of Arches. Young Henry was himself a prominent person during the period of the disastrous Civil War, and was elected Member of Parliament for Berkshire in 1640. He was, in politics, a decided Republican, and threw in his lot with the Roundhead followers of sturdy Oliver. When the tide of popular favour turned in Charles II.'s direction, and Royalty was reinstated, Marten and the rest of the regicides were brought to judgment for signing the death warrant of their monarch. The consequence, in Marten's case, was life-long imprisonment, as we have seen, in Chepstow Castle."

Next is a copy of an acrostic epitaph from Tewkesbury Abbey:--

Here lyeth the body of THOMAS MERRETT, of Tewkesbury,
Barber-chirurgeon, who departed this life the 22nd day of October,
1699.

T hough only Stone Salutes the reader's eye,
H ere (in deep silence) precious dust doth lye,
O bscurely Sleeping in Death's mighty store,
M ingled with common earth till time's no more,
A gainst Death's Stubborne laws, who dares repine,
S ince So much Merrett did his life resigne.

M urmurs and Teares are useless in the grave,
E lse hee whole Vollies at his Tomb might have.
R est here in Peace; who like a faithful steward,
R epair'd the Church, the Poore and needy cur'd;
E ternall mansions do attend the Just,
T o clothe with Immortality their dust,
T ainted (whilst under ground) with wormes and rust.

Under the shadow of the ancient church of Bakewell, Derbyshire, is a stone containing a long inscription to the memory of John Dale, barber-surgeon, and his two wives, Elizabeth Foljambe and Sarah Bloodworth. It ends thus:--

Know posterity, that on the 8th of April, in the year of grace 1757,
the rambling remains of the above JOHN DALE were, in the 86th yeare of
his pilgrimage, laid upon his two wives.

This thing in life might raise some jealousy,
Here all three lie together lovingly,
But from embraces here no pleasure flows,
Alike are here all human-joys and woes;
Here Sarah's chiding John no longer hears,
And old John's rambling Sarah no more fears;
A period's come to all their toylsome lives,
The good man's quiet; still are both his wives.

The following is from St. Julian's church, Shrewsbury:--

The remains of HENRY CORSER of this parish, Chirurgeon, who Deceased
April 11, 1691, and Annie his wife, who followed him the next day
after:--

We man and wife,
Conjoined for Life,
Fetched our last breath
So near that Death,
Who part us would,
Yet hardly could.
Wedded againe,
In bed of dust,
Here we remaine,
Till rise we must.
A double prize this grave doth finde,
If you are wise keep it in minde.

In St. Anne's Churchyard, Soho, erected by the Earl of Orford (Walpole), in 1758, these lines were (or are) to be read:--

Near this place is interred
THEODORE, King of Corsica,
Who died in this Parish
December XI., MDCCLVI.,
Immediately after leaving
The _King's Bench Prison_,
By the benefit of the _Act of Insolvency_;
In consequence of which
He _registered his Kingdom of Corsica
For the use of his Creditors_!

The grave--great teacher--to a level brings
Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings!
But THEODORE this moral learned, ere dead;
Fate pour'd its lessons on his living head,
Bestow'd a kingdom, and denied him bread.

In the burial-ground of the Island of Juan Fernandez, a monument states:--

In Memory of
ALEXANDER SELKIRK,
Mariner,
A native of Largo, in the county of Fife, Scotland,
Who lived on this island, in complete
solitude, for four years and four months.
He was landed from the Cinque Ports galley, 96 tons,
18 guns, A.D. 1704, and was taken off in the
Duke, privateer, 12th February, 1709.
He died Lieutenant of H.M.S. Weymouth,
A.D. 1723, aged 47 years.
This Tablet is erected near Selkirk's look out,
By Commodore Powell and the Officers
of H.M.S. Topaze, A.D. 1868.

It is generally believed that the adventures of Selkirk suggested to Daniel Defoe the attractive story of "Robinson Crusoe." In the "Dictionary of English Literature," by William Davenport Adams, will be found important information bearing on this subject.

In _Gloucester Notes and Queries_ we read as follows: "Stout's Hill is the name of a house situated on high ground to the south of the Village of Uley, built in the style which, in the last century, was intended for Gothic, but which may be more exactly defined as the 'Strawberry Hill' style. In a house of earlier date lived the father of Samuel Rudder, the laborious compiler of the _History of Gloucestershire_ (1779). He lies in the churchyard of Uley, on the south side of the chancel, and his grave-stone has a brass-plate inserted, which records a remarkable fact:--

Underneath lies the remains of ROGER RUTTER, _alias_ RUDDER, eldest
son of John Rutter, of Uley, who was buried August 30, 1771, aged 84
years, having never eaten flesh, fish, or fowl, during the course of
his long life.

Tradition tells us that this vegetarian lived mainly on 'dump,' in various forms. Usually he ate 'plain dump:' when tired of plain dump, he changed his diet to 'hard dump;' and when he was in a special state of exhilaration, he added the variety of 'apple dump' to his very moderate fare."

On the gravestone of Richard Turner, Preston, a hawker of fish, the following inscription appears:--

Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of RICHARD TURNER, author
of the word Teetotal, as applied to abstinence from all intoxicating
liquors, who departed this life on the 27th day of October, 1846, aged
56 years.

In Mr. W. E. A. Axon's able and entertaining volume, "Lancashire Gleanings" (pub. 1883), is an interesting chapter on the "Origin of the Word 'Teetotal.'" In the same work we are told that Dr. Whitaker, the historian of Whalley, wrote the following epitaph on a model publican:--

Here lies the Body of
JOHN WIGGLESWORTH,
More than fifty years he was the
perpetual Innkeeper in this Town.
Withstanding the temptations of that dangerous calling,
he maintained good order in his
House, kept the Sabbath day Holy,
frequented the Public Worship
with his Family, induced his guests
to do the same, and regularly
partook of the Holy Communion.
He was also bountiful to the Poor,
in private as well as in public,
and, by the blessings of Providence
on a life so spent, died
possessed of competent Wealth,
Feb. 28, 1813,
aged 77 years.

The churchyard of Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, contains a gravestone bearing an inscription as follows:--

As a warning to female virtue,
And a humble monument of female chastity,
This stone marks the grave of
MARY ASHFORD,
Who, in the 20th year of her age, having
Incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement,
Was brutally violated and murdered
On the 27th of May, 1817.

Lovely and chaste as the primrose pale,
Rifled of virgin sweetness by the gale,
Mary! the wretch who thee remorseless slew
Avenging wrath, who sleeps not, will pursue;
For though the deed of blood was veiled in night,
Will not the Judge of all mankind do right?
Fair blighted flower, the muse that weeps thy doom,
Rears o'er thy murdered form this warning tomb.

The writer of the foregoing epitaph was Dr. Booker, vicar of Dudley. The inscription is associated with one of the most remarkable trials of the present century. It will not be without interest to furnish a few notes on the case. One Abraham Thornton was tried at the Warwick assizes for the murder of Mary Ashford, and acquitted. The brother and next of kin of the deceased, not being satisfied with the verdict, sued out, as the law allowed him, an appeal against Thornton, by which he could be put on his trial again. The law allowed the appeal in case of murder, and it also gave option to the accused of having it tried by wager of law or by wager of battle. The brother of the unfortunate woman had taken no account of this, and accordingly, not only Mr. Ashford, but the judge, jury, and bar were taken greatly aback, and stricken with dismay when the accused, being requested to plead, took a paper from Mr. Reader, his counsel, and a pair of gloves, one of which he drew on, and, throwing the other on the ground, exclaimed, "Not guilty; and I am ready to defend the same with my body!" Lord Ellenborough on the bench appeared grave, and the accuser looked amazed, so the court was adjourned to enable the judge to have an opportunity of conferring with his learned brethren. After several adjournments, Lord Ellenborough at last declared solemnly, but reluctantly, that wager of battle was still the law of the land, and that the accused had a right of appeal to it. To get rid of the law an attempt was made, by passing a short and speedy Act of Parliament, but this was ruled impossible, as it would have been _ex post facto_, and people wanted curiously to see the lists set up in the Tothill Fields. As Mr. Ashford refused to meet Thornton, he was obliged to cry "craven!" After that the appellor was allowed to go at large, and he could not be again tried by wager of law after having claimed his wager of battle. In 1819 an Act was passed to prevent any further appeals for wager of battle.

The following is copied from a gravestone in Saddleworth churchyard, and tells a painful story:--

Here lies interred the dreadfully bruised and lacerated bodies of
WILLIAM BRADBURY and THOMAS his son, both of Greenfield, who were
together savagely murdered, in an unusually horrible manner, on Monday
night, April 2nd, 1832, old William being 84, and Thomas 46 years old.

Throughout the land, wherever news is read,
Intelligence of their sad death has spread;
Those now who talk of far-fam'd Greenfield's hills
Will think of Bill i' Jacks and Tom o' Bills.

Such interest did their tragic end excite
That, ere they were removed from human sight,
Thousands upon thousands daily came to see
The bloody scene of the catastrophe.
One house, one business, and one bed,
And one most shocking death they had;
One funeral came, one inquest pass'd,
And now one grave they have at last.

The following on a Hull character is from South Cave churchyard:--

In memory of THOMAS SCATCHARD,
Who dy'd rich in friends, Dec. 10, 1809.
Aged 58 years.
That Ann lov'd Tom, is very true,
Perhaps you'll say, what's that to you.
Who e'er thou art, remember this,
Tom lov'd Ann, 'twas that made bliss.

In Welton churchyard, near Hull, the next curious inscription appears on an old gravestone:--

Here lieth He ould JEREMY, who hath eight times maried been, but now
in his ould Age, he lies in his cage, under The gras so Green, which
JEREMIAH SIMPSON departed this life in the 84 yeare of his age, in the
year of our Lord 1719.

Mr. J. Potter Briscoe favours us with an account of a famous local character, and a copy of his epitaph. According to Mr. Briscoe, Vincent Eyre was by trade a needle-maker, and was a firm and consistent Tory in politics, taking an active interest in all the party struggles of the period. His good nature and honesty made him popular among the poor classes, with whom he chiefly associated. A commendable trait in his character is worthy of special mention, namely, that, notwithstanding frequent temptations, he spurned to take a bribe from any one. In the year 1727 an election for a Member of Parliament took place, and all the ardour of Vin's nature was at once aroused in the interests of his favourite party. The Tory candidate, Mr. Borlase Warren, was opposed by Mr. John Plumtree, the Whig nominee, and, in the heat of the excitement, Vin emphatically declared that he should not mind dying immediately if the Tories gained the victory. Strange to relate, such an event actually occurred, for when the contest and the "chairing" of the victor was over, he fell down dead with joy, September 6th, 1727. The epitaph upon him is as follows:--

Here lies VIN EYRE;
Let fall a tear
For one true man of honour;
No courtly lord,
Who breaks his word,
Will ever be a mourner.
In freedom's cause
He stretched his jaws,
Exhausted all his spirit,
Then fell down dead.
It must be said
He was a man of merit.
Let Freemen be
As brave as he,
And vote without a guinea;
VIN EYRE is hurled
To t'other world,
And ne'er took bribe or penny.
True to his friend, to helpless parent kind,
He died in honour's cause, to interest blind.
Why should we grieve life's but an airy toy?
We vainly weep for him who died of joy.

We will next give some account of an eccentric Lincolnshire schoolmaster, named William Teanby, who resided for many years at Winterton. Respecting the early years of his career we have not been able to obtain any information. At the age of 30, he was engaged as a school-master in the vestry of Winterton church. He had many scholars, and continued teaching until he had attained a very advanced age. Some years before his death a gravestone was ordered, whereon he cut in ancient court hand the epitaph of his wife and children. From this slab he mostly took his food, and long before his death, placed on two pieces of wood, it served him for a table. After the epitaph of his wife and children, he left a vacancy for his own name and age, to be inserted by a friend, which was done at his death. The coffin in which he proposed being buried was used by him a considerable time as a cupboard. The old man retained perfect possession of his senses to the last, and at the age of 95 attended the Lincoln assizes, and gave away as curiosities, many circular pieces of paper for watches, not larger than half-a-crown, on which he had written the Lord's prayer and creed. He was habitually serious. Through attending his school in the church, he became familiar with the house of death; in feasting from his stone slab, he enjoyed his meals from the very source which was afterwards to record the events of his life; and in what was his every day cupboard he now enjoys a peaceful and quiet rest. He passed away at the advanced age of 97. The tombstone bears the following lines:--

To us grim death but sadly harsh appears,
Yet all the ill we feel, is in our fears;
To die is but to live, upon that shore
Where billows never beat, nor tempests roar;
For ere we feel its probe, the pang is o'er;
The wife, by faith, insulting death defies;
The poor man resteth in yon azure skies;--
That home of ease the guilty ne'er can crave,
Nor think to dwell with God, beyond the grave;--
It eases lovers, sets the captive free,
And though a tyrant he gives liberty.

The following lines also appear on the same stone:--

Death's silent summons comes unto us all,
And makes a universal funeral!--
Spares not the tender babe because it's young,
Youth too, and its men in years, and weak and strong!
Spares not the wicked, proud, and insolent,
Neither the righteous, just, nor innocent;
All living souls, must pass the dismal doom
Of mournful death, to join the silent tomb.

The following lines to the memory of Thomas Stokes are from his gravestone in Burton churchyard, upon which a profile of his head is cut. He for many years swept the roads in Burton:--

This stone
was raised by Subscription
to the memory of
THOMAS STOKES,
an eccentric, but much respected,
Deaf and Dumb man,
better known by the name of
"DUMB TOM,"
who departed this life Feb. 25th, 1837,
aged 54 years.

What man can pause and charge this senseless dust
With fraud, or subtilty, or aught unjust?
How few can conscientiously declare
Their acts have been as honourably fair?
No gilded bait, no heart ensnaring need
Could bribe poor STOKES to one dishonest deed.
Firm in attachment to his friends most true--
Though Deaf and Dumb, he was excell'd by few.
Go ye, by nature form'd without defect,
And copy Tom, and gain as much respect.

Next we deal with an instance of pure affection. The churchyard of the Yorkshire village of Bowes contains the grave of two lovers, whose touching fate suggested Mallet's beautiful ballad of "Edward and Emma." The real names of the couple were Rodger Wrightson and Martha Railton. The story is rendered with no less accuracy than pathos by the poet:--

Far in the windings of the vale,
Fast by a sheltering wood,
The safe retreat of health and peace,
A humble cottage stood.

There beauteous Emma nourished fair,
Beneath a mother's eye;
Whose only wish on earth was now
To see her blest and die.

Long had she filled each youth with love,
Each maiden with despair,
And though by all a wonder owned,
Yet knew not she was fair.

Till Edwin came, the pride of swains,
A soul devoid of art;
And from whose eyes, serenely mild,
Shone forth the feeling heart.

We are told that Edwin's father and sister were bitterly opposed to their love. The poor youth pined away. When he was dying Emma, was permitted to see him, but the cruel sister would scarcely allow her to bid him a word of farewell. Returning home, she heard the passing bell toll for the death of her lover--

Just then she reached, with trembling step,
Her aged mother's door--
"He's gone!" she cried, "and I shall see
That angel face no more!"

"I feel, I feel this breaking heart
Beat high against my side"--
From her white arm down sunk her head;
She, shivering, sighed, and died.

The lovers were buried the same day and in the same grave. In the year 1848, Dr. F. Dinsdale, F.S.A., editor of the "Ballads and Songs of David Mallet," etc., erected a simple but tasteful monument to the memory of the lovers, bearing the following inscription:--

RODGER WRIGHTSON, junr., and MARTHA RAILTON, both of Bowes; buried in
one grave. He died in a fever, and upon tolling his passing bell, she
cry'd out My heart is broke, and in a few hours expired, purely thro'
love, March 15, 1714-15. Such is the brief and touching record
contained in the parish register of burials. It has been handed down
by unvarying tradition that the grave was at the west end of the
church, directly beneath the bells. The sad history of these true and
faithful lovers forms the subject of Mallet's pathetic ballad of
"Edwin and Emma."[2]

[2] Black's "Guide to Yorkshire."

In St. Peter's churchyard, Barton-on-Humber, there is a tombstone with the following strange inscription:--

Doom'd to receive half my soul held dear,
The other half with grief, she left me here.
Ask not her name, for she was true and just;
Once a fine woman, but now a heap of dust.

As may be inferred, no name is given; the date is 1777. A curious and romantic legend attaches to the epitaph. In the above year an unknown lady of great beauty, who is conjectured to have loved "not wisely, but too well," came to reside in the town. She was accompanied by a gentleman, who left her after making lavish arrangements for her comfort. She was proudly reserved in her manners, frequently took long solitary walks, and studiously avoided all intercourse. In giving birth to a child she died, and did not disclose her name or family connections. After her decease, the gentleman who came with her arrived, and was overwhelmed with grief at the intelligence which awaited him. He took the child away without unravelling the secret, having first ordered the stone to be erected, and delivered into the mason's hands the verse, which is at once a mystery and a memento. Such are the particulars gathered from "The Social History and Antiquities of Barton-on-Humber," by H. W. Ball, issued in 1856. Since the publication of Mr. Ball's book, we have received from him the following notes, which mar somewhat the romantic story as above related. We are informed that the person referred to in the epitaph was the wife of a man named Jonathan Burkitt, who came from the neighbourhood of Grantham. He had been _valet de chambre_ to some gentleman or nobleman, who gave him a large sum of money on his marrying the lady. They came to reside at Barton, where she died in childbirth. Burkitt, after the death of his wife, left the town, taking the infant (a boy), who survived. In about three years he returned, and married a Miss Ostler, daughter of an apothecary at Barton. He there kept the King's Head, a public-house at that time. The man got through about £2000 between leaving Grantham and marrying his second wife.

On the north wall of the chancel of Southam Church is a slab to the memory of the Rev. Samuel Sands, who, being embarrassed in consequence of his extensive liberality, committed suicide in his study (now the hall of the rectory). The peculiarity of the inscription, instead of suppressing inquiry, invariably raises curiosity respecting it:--

Near this place was deposited, on the 23rd April, 1815, the remains of
S. S., 38 years rector of this parish.

In Middleton Tyas Church, near Richmond, is the following:--

This Monument rescues from Oblivion
the Remains of the Reverend JOHN MAWER, D.D.,
Late vicar of this Parish, who died Nov. 18, 1763, aged 60.
As also of HANNAH MAWER, his wife, who died
Dec. 20th, 1766, aged 72.
Buried in this Chancel.
They were persons of eminent worth.
The Doctor was descended from the Royal Family
of Mawer, and was inferior to none of his illustrious
ancestors in personal merit, being the greatest
Linguist this Nation ever produced.
He was able to speak & write twenty-two Languages,
and particularly excelled in the Eastern Tongues,
in which he proposed to His Royal Highness
Frederick Prince of Wales, to whom he was firmly
attached, to propagate the Christian Religion
in the Abyssinian Empire; a great & noble
Design, which was frustrated by the
Death of that amiable Prince; to the great mortification of
this excellent Person, whose merit meeting with
no reward in this world, will, it's to be hoped, receive
it in the next, from that Being which Justice
only can influence.

MISCELLANEOUS EPITAPHS.

We bring together under this heading a number of specimens that we could not include in the foregoing chapters of classified epitaphs.

Our example is from Bury St. Edmunds churchyard:--

Here lies interred the Body of
MARY HASELTON,
A young maiden of this town,
Born of Roman Catholic parents,
And virtuously brought up,
Who, being in the act of prayer
Repeating her vespers,
Was instantaneously killed by a
flash of Lightning, August 16th,
1785. Aged 9 years.

Not Siloam's ruinous tower the victims slew,
Because above the many sinn'd the few,
Nor here the fated lightning wreaked its rage
By vengeance sent for crimes matur'd by age.
For whilst the thunder's awful voice was heard,
The little suppliant with its hands uprear'd,
Addressed her God in prayers the priest had taught,
His mercy craved, and His protection sought;
Learn reader hence that wisdom to adore,
Thou canst not scan and fear His boundless power;
Safe shalt thou be if thou perform'st His will,
Blest if he spares, and more blest should He kill.

A lover at York inscribed the following lines to his sweetheart, who was accidentally drowned, December 24, 1796:--

Nigh to the river Ouse, in York's fair city,
Unto this pretty maid death shew'd no pity;
As soon as she'd her pail with water fill'd
Came sudden death, and life like water spill'd.

An accidental death is recorded on a tombstone in Burton Joyce churchyard, placed to the memory of Elizabeth Cliff, who died in 1835:--

This monumental stone records the name
Of her who perished in the night by flame
Sudden and awful, for her hoary head;
She was brought here to sleep amongst the dead.
Her loving husband strove to damp the flame
Till he was nearly sacrificed the same.
Her sleeping dust, tho' by thee rudely trod,
Proclaims aloud, prepare to meet thy God.

We are told that a tombstone in Creton churchyard states:--

On a Thursday she was born,
On a Thursday made a bride,
On a Thursday put to bed,
On a Thursday broke her leg, and
On a Thursday died.

From Ashburton we have the following:--

Here I lie, at the chancel door,
Here I lie, because I'm poor;
The farther in, the more you pay,
Here I lie as warm as they.

In the churchyard of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, a good specimen of a true Englishman is buried, named Samuel Cleater, who died May 1st, 1811, aged 65 years. The two-lined epitaph has such a genuine, sturdy ring about it, that it deserves to be rescued from oblivion:--

True to his King, his country was his glory,
When Bony won, he said it was a story.

A monument in Bakewell church, Derbyshire is a curiosity, blending as it does in a remarkable manner, business, loyalty, and religion:--

To the memory of MATTHEW STRUTT, of this town, farrier, long famed in
these parts for veterinary skill. A good neighbour, and a staunch
friend to Church and King. Being Churchwarden at the time the present
peal of bells were hung, through zeal for the house of God, and
unremitting attention to the airy business of the belfry, he caught a
cold, which terminated his existence May 25, 1798, in the 68th year of
his age.

In Tideswell churchyard, among several other singular gravestone inscriptions, the following occurs, and is worth reprinting:--

In Memory of
BRIAN, Son of JOHN and MARTHA HAIGH,
who died 22nd December, 1795,
Aged 17 years.

Come honest sexton, with thy spade,
And let my grave be quickly made;
Make my cold bed secure and deep,
That, undisturbed, my bones may sleep,
Until that great tremendous day,
When from above a voice shall say,--
"Awake, ye dead, lift up your eyes,
Your great Creator bids you rise!"
Then, free from this polluted dust,
I hope to be amongst the just.

The old church of St. Mary's, Sculcoates, Hull, contains several interesting monuments, and we give a sketch of one, a quaint-looking mural memorial, having on it an inscription in short-hand. In Sheahan's "History of Hull," the following translation is given:--

In the vault beneath this stone lies the body of Mrs. JANE DELAMOTH,
who departed this life, 10th January, 1761. She was a poor sinner, but
not wicked without holiness, departing from good works, and departed
in the Faith of the Catholic Church, in full assurance of eternal
happiness, by the agony and bloody sweat, by the cross and passion, by
the precious death and burial, by the glorious resurrection and
ascension of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.

We believe that the foregoing is a unique epitaph, at all events we have not heard of or seen any other monumental inscription in short-hand.

The following curious epitaph is from Wirksworth, Derbyshire:--

Near this place lies the body of
PHILIP SHULLCROSS,

Once an eminent Quill-driver to the attorneys in this Town. He died
the 17th of Nov. 1787, aged 67.

Viewing Philip in a moral light, the most prominent and remarkable
features in his character were his zeal and invincible attachment to
dogs and cats, and his unbounded benevolence towards them, as well as
towards his fellow-creatures.

TO THE CRITIC.

Seek not to show the devious paths Phil trode,
Nor tear his frailties from their dread abode,
In modest sculpture let this tombstone tell,
That much esteem'd he lived, and much regretted fell.

At Castleton, in the Peak of Derbyshire, is another curious epitaph, partly in English and partly in Latin, to the memory of an attorney-at-law named Micah Hall, who died in 1804. It is said to have been penned by himself, and is more epigrammatic than reverent. It is as follows:--

To
The memory of
MICAH HALL, Gentleman,
Attorney-at-Law,
Who died on the 14th of May, 1804,
Aged 79 years.

Quid eram, nescitis;
Quid sum, nescitis;
Ubi abii, nescitis;
Valete.

This verse has been rendered thus:--

What I was you know not--
What I am you know not--
Whither I am gone you know not--
Go about your business.

In Sarnesfield churchyard, near Weobley, is the tombstone of John Abel, the celebrated architect of the market-houses of Hereford, Leominster, Knighton, and Brecknock, who died in the year 1694, having attained the ripe old age of ninety-seven. The memorial stone is adorned with three statues in kneeling posture, representing Abel and his two wives; and also displayed are the emblems of his profession--the rule, the compass, and the square--the whole being designed and sculptured by himself. The epitaph, a very quaint one, was also of his own writing, and runs thus:--

This craggy stone a covering is for an architector's bed;
That lofty buildings raisèd high, yet now lyes low his head;
His line and rule, so death concludes, are lockèd up in store;
Build they who list, or they who wist, for he can build no more.

His house of clay could hold no longer,
May Heaven's joy build him a stronger.
JOHN ABEL.
Vive ut vivas in vitam æternam.

The following inscription copied from a monument at Darfield, near Barnsley, records a murder which occurred on the spot where the stone is placed:--

Sacred
To the Memory of
THOMAS DEPLEDGE,
Who was murdered at Darfield,
On the 11th of October, 1841.

At midnight drear by this wayside
A murdered man poor DEPLEDGE died,
The guiltless victim of a blow
Aimed to have brought another low,
From men whom he had never harmed
By hate and drunken passions warmed.
Now learn to shun in youth's fresh spring
The courses which to ruin bring.

The following singular verse occurs upon a tombstone contiguous to the chancel door in Grindon churchyard, near Leek, Staffordshire:--

Farewell, dear friends; to follow me prepare;
Also our loss we'd have you to beware,
And your own business mind. Let us alone,
For you have faults great plenty of your own.
Judge not of us, now We are in our Graves
Lest ye be Judg'd and awfull Sentence have;
For Backbiters, railers, thieves, and liars,
Must torment have in Everlasting Fires.

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Capt. Archer collected these epitaphs during the years 1858 and
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Cemeteries, The, and Catacombs of Paris, _Quarterly Review_, vol. 21, pp. 359-398.

Churchyard Gleanings, or, a Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions. Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson; n.d., 8vo, 24 pp., and a large folding plate.

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There is, in the above history, (pp. 39-91), a survey of the monuments
in Canterbury Cathedral, with the inscriptions on the monuments and
tombstones, and 27 plates.

[Diprose, John]. Diprose's Book of Epitaphs: Humorous, Eccentric, Ancient, and Remarkable. London: Diprose and Bateman, Lincoln's Inn Fields, n.d., [1879, 1880], 8vo, 80 pp.

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Epigrams and Epigraphs, by the author of "Proverbial Folk-Lore," n.d., 8vo, 176 pp.

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----, _Penny Encyclopædia_, vol. 9, pp. 482-483.

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----, Bibliographical, _The Bibliographer_, vol. 1, pp. 81-82.

In this article there are epitaphs on Caxton, John Daye, Christopher
Barker, John Foster, first printer of Boston, U.S., John Baskerville,
Adam Williamson, and Rev. John Cotton.

----, Collection of, and Inscriptions, 1802, 12mo.

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----, Collection, A, of Curious and Interesting, copied from the existing monuments of distinguished and noted characters in the Churches and Churchyards of Hornsey, Tottenham, Enfield, Edmonton, Barnet, and Hadley, in the county of Middlesex, 1875, 8vo, with plates and arms.

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----, Original and Selected, with an Historical and Moral Essay on the subject; by a Clergyman, 1840, 8vo.

----, Scriptural, London: Smith and Elder, 1847, 18mo.

----, Select Collection of, A, not to be found in any other; dedicated to the Archbishops and Bishops. London, 1754, 8vo.

----, Some Curious, _Chambers's Journal_, vol. 57, pp. 666-668.

----, Traders', _Chambers's Journal_, vol. 50, pp. 377-379.

---- and Epigrams. _The Norfolk Garland_, 1872, 8vo, pp. 142-147. [Epitaphs on W. Slater, the Yarmouth Stage Coachman, Micaiah Sage, Sir Thomas Hare, Bart., Beatrice, wife of John Guavor, John Dowe, Thomas Allyn and his two wives, Robert Gilbert, Prebendary J. Spendlove and his wife, Richard Corbet, D.D., William Inglott, Organist of Norwich Cathedral, Tom Page.]

---- and Epigrams, Curious, Quaint, and Amusing, from various sources. London: Palmer, 1869, 12mo., 120 pp.

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Fisher, P., The Catalogue of most of the Memorable Tombes, Grave-stones, Plates, Escutcheons, or Atchievements in the demolisht or yet extant Churches of London, from St. Katherine's beyond the Tower to Temple Barre. London, 1668, 4to. There were two other editions of this work published in 1670, and 1684. The Tombes, Monuments, and Sepulchral Inscriptions, lately visible in St. Paul's Cathedral, and St. Faith's under it, completely rendered in Latin and English, with several discourses on sundry persons entombed therein. London, 1684, 4to.

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Gardiner, Richard. An Elegy on the Death of Lady Asgill, Lady of Sir Charles Asgill, Knt., and Alderman of London; to which is added, An Epitaph on the late Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart., of Gillingham, in the county of Norfolk. London, 1754, fol.

Garrick, David. Epitaphs on Claudy Philips, A Lady's Bullfinch, A Clergyman, William Hogarth, James Quin, Sterne, Mr. Holland, Mr. Beighton, Whitehead, Howard. _Poetical Works_, 1785, 12mo., 2 vols., vol. 2, pp. 480-486.

Gibson, James. Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments erected in Memory of the Covenanters. With Historical Introduction and Notes. Glasgow: Dunn and Wright, 176 Buchanan St., n.d. [1879], 12mo., pp. viii-291. [With five plates].

The above interesting sketches were written for the _Ardrossan and
Saltcoats Herald_, and appeared in that paper during the spring and
summer of 1875.

Graham, William. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Ancient and Modern; with an Emblematical Frontispiece, [Lanercost Priory, Camb.]. Second edition; London: for T. and J. Allman, 1823, 8vo, pp. iv-320.

Hackett, John, late Commoner of Balliol College, Oxford. Select and Remarkable Epitaphs on Illustrious and other Persons in Several Parts of Europe. With Translations of such as are in Latin and Foreign Languages. And Compendious Accounts of the Deceased, their Lives and Works. London: Printed for T. Osborne and J. Shipton, in Gray's Inn, 1757, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. 288, 246, and Indexes, (22 pp.)

Hall-Stevenson, John. Works: containing Crazy Tales, Fables for grown Gentlemen, Lyric Epistles, Pastoral Cordial, Pastoral Puke, Macarony Fables, Monkish Epitaphs. London, 1793-5, 8vo, 3 vols.

Hare, Augustus J. C. Epitaphs for Country Churchyards, Collected and Arranged. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1856, 12mo., 70 pp.

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Henney, William, of Hammersmith. A New and Improved Edition of Moral and Interesting Epitaphs, and Remarkable Monumental Inscriptions in England and America, to which are added Poems on Life, Death, and Eternity. Printed for and sold only by the Editor. Ninth edition, with additions, n.d., 8vo, 60 pp.; another edition, 1814, 12mo.

Hervey, James, M.A. Meditations among the Tombs. In a Letter to a Lady. _Meditations and Contemplations_, 1779, 8vo, 2 vols., vol 1, pp. 1-112.

Huddersford, George, M.A. The Uricamical Chaplet, a Selection of Original Poetry; comprising smaller Poems, Serious and Comic, Classical Trifles, Sonnets, Inscriptions and Epitaphs, Songs and Ballads, Mock-Heroic Epigrams, Fragments, &c. London, 1805, 8vo.

Inscriptions upon the Tombs and Gravestones in the Dissenters' Burial Place, near Bunhill Fields. London, 1717, 8vo.

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[James, J. A.] Bunhill Memorials; Sacred Reminiscences of three hundred Ministers and other Persons of note who are buried in Bunhill Fields, of every Denomination, with the Inscriptions on their Tombs and Gravestones. 1849, 8vo.

Jones, James, Gent. Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: or, a Curious Collection of above Nine Hundred of the most Remarkable Epitaphs, Antient and Modern, Serious and Merry; In the Kingdoms of Great Britain, Ireland, &c. In English Verse. Faithfully collected. Westminster, 1727, 8vo.

Johnson, Samuel, LL.D. An Essay on Epitaphs. _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. 10, pp. 593-596. Also included in his Works, Edited by Arthur Murphy, 1792, 12 vols., 8vo, vol. ii, pp. 270-280.

Essay on Pope's Epitaphs. "Lives of the Most Eminent Poets." [1801],
vol. 3, pp. 199-217.

This Essay was first contributed to _The Universal Visitor_, and
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Kelke, W. H. Churchyard Manual, with Five Hundred Epitaphs. London, Cox, 1854, 8vo.

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Kippax, J. R. Churchyard Literature: Choice Collection of American Epitaphs. Chicago, 1876, 12mo.

Last Homes of the Londoners, _Chambers's Journal_, vol. 37, pp. 406-408.

Loaring, Henry James. Epitaphs: Quaint, Curious, and Elegant. With Remarks on the Obsequies of Various Nations. Compiled and Collated. London: William Tegg, n.d. [1872], 8vo, pp. vi-262.

M'Dowall, William. Memorials of St. Michael's, the Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries, 1876, 8vo, pp. ix-446. [With a frontispiece (St. Michael's Church and Churchyard) and vignette title].

This is a most valuable local work.

Macgregor, Major Robert Guthrie, of the Bengal Retired List. Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology. Translated. London: Nissen and Parker, 1857, 8vo, 230 pp.

Macrae, D. Queer Epitaphs. Book of Blunders. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1872.

Maitland, Charles, M.D. The Church in the Catacombs: a Description of the Primitive Church of Rome, Illustrated by its Sepulchral Remains. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. 1846, 8vo, 312 pp., with illustrations.

Chapter III. of this work gives an interesting account of the
Catacombs as a Christian Cemetery.

Memorials of the Dead, The Journal of the Society for Preserving the, in the Churches and Churchyards of Great Britain. Norwich: Samuel Sayer, 1883, 8vo, Nos. 1-4. (continued).

A Quarterly Magazine of twenty-four pages.

Mills, J., of Cowbit, Lincolnshire. Verses, Odes, &c., on Spalding, and Letters and Epitaphs, addressed to various persons and subjects, n.d., 4to, 42 pp.

Monteith, Robert, M.A. A Theatre of Mortality: or, the Illustrious Inscriptions extant upon the Monuments in the Grey Friars' Church Yard, &c., in Edinburgh and its Suburbs. Edinburgh, 1704.

A Further Collection of Funeral Inscriptions over Scotland. Edinburgh,
1713, small 8vo, 2 vols.

Neve, John Le. Monumenta Anglicana: being Inscriptions on the Monuments of several Eminent Persons. London, 1717-19, 8vo, 5 vols.

Lives, The, Characters, Deaths, Burials and Epitaphs, &c., of all the
Protestant Bishops of the Church of England, since the Reformation as
settled by Queen Elizabeth, A.D., 1559. London, 1731, 8vo, vol. 1, in
two parts; part 1, 268 pp., part 2, 288 pp.

Norfolk, Horatio Edward. Gleanings in Graveyards: a Collection of Curious Epitaphs. London: J. R. Smith, 1861, 12mo., 172 pp.; Second edition, 1861, 12mo., 172 pp.; Third edition, revised and enlarged, 1866, 12mo., 228 pp.

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Norwood Cemetery, a Descriptive Sketch, with Copies of the Inscriptions, etc., 1847, 8vo, 42 pp., with many cuts.

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Parish Minister, A, Verses for Graves Stones in Churchyards. London, 1816, 8vo.

Parsons, Rev. Philip, M.A. The Monuments and Painted Glass of upwards of one hundred Churches, chiefly in the Eastern Part of Kent; most of which were examined by the Editor in person, and the rest communicated by the resident clergy. With an Appendix, containing three Churches in other counties [Hadleigh and Lavenham, Suffolk, and Dedham, Essex.] To which is added a small Collection of detached Epitaphs, with a few notes on the whole. Canterbury, 1794, 4to, pp. viii-549, with errata and indexes, 4 pages, pp. 424-8, omitted.

Mr. Parsons died at the College, at Wye, in 1812, at the age of
eighty-three.

Peck, Francis, M.A. Desiderata Curiosa: or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces relating chiefly to Matters of English History; consisting of Choice Tracts, Memoirs, Letters, Wills, Epitaphs, &c. Transcribed, many of them, from the originals themselves, and the rest from divers Ancient MS. copies, or the MS. Collections of Sundry Famous Antiquaries and other Eminent Persons, both of the last and present Age. The whole as far as possible digested into an order of time, and illustrated with ample Notes, Contents, Additional Discourses, and a complete Index. Adorned with cuts. A new edition, greatly corrected, with some Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Mr. Peck. London: Printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand, MDCCLXXIX., 2 vols., 4to. [With portrait and nine plates.]

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Pope, Alexander, Epitaphs on Charles, Earl of Dorset; Sir William Trumbal; Hon. S. Harcourt; James Craggs; Nicholas Rowe; Mrs. Corbet; Hon. Robert and Mary Digby; Sir G. Kneller; Gen. Henry Withers; Elijah Fenton; Mr. Gay; Sir I. Newton; F. Atterbury, D.D.; Edmund, Duke of Buckingham. _Works, edited by Bishop Warburton_, 1770, 8vo, 9 vols. Vol. vi, pp. 85-103.

Preparing for the End. _Chambers's Journal_, vol. 49, pp. 229-232.

Pulleyn, William, Church-Yard Gleanings and Epigrams. London, n.d., [1830] 12mo.

[Ranken, Peter]. Epitaphs: or, Church-yard Gleanings. "Better to have a bad Epitaph when dead, than their ill report while living."--_Hamlet._ Collected by Old Mortality, jun. London: Bemrose and Sons, and Ranken and Co. n.d. [1874] 8vo, 184 pp.

Richings, Benjamin. Original and Selected Epitaphs, with Essays. London: Parker and Son, 1840. post 8vo.

Robinson, Joseph R., Sculptor, Derby. Epitaphs, Collected from the Cemeteries of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Derby, &c. With Original and Selected Epitaphs by Tennyson, Longfellow, Montgomery, Mrs. Hemans, Eliza Cook, Wordsworth, Robert Nicholl, Chas. Mackay, Milman, Mrs. Norton, J. B. Langley, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Barbauld, Bernard, G. W. Longstaff, Alaric Watts, &c. The whole collected and arranged. London, Atchley, 1859, 12mo., 208 pp.

Rogers, Rev. Charles, LL.D. Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland. Printed for the Grampian Club, 1871, 8vo, 2 vols.

"Dr. Rogers has not merely collected the epitaphs and inscriptions on
the tombstones and monuments of Scotland, but he often gives
illustrative particulars of a biographical and historical character.
For this and similar things, his work must become a standard book of
reference."--_Glasgow Star._

S., H. L., and L. S. M. Epitaphs collected from Holy Writ, and our best Authors on Sacred Subjects. Arranged and edited by G. B. Chaloner. London: Atchley, 1868, 12mo. 200 pp.

Sanderson, Robert. Lincoln Cathedral; an exact copy of all the Ancient Monumental Inscriptions there, as they stood in MDCXLI; collected. And compared with and corrected by Sir William Dugdale's MS. Survey. London, 1851, 8vo.

Simpson, Joseph. A Collection of Curious, Interesting, and Facetious Epitaphs, Monumental Inscriptions, &c. London: Published and sold by Joseph Simpson; 1854, 8vo, 48 pp.

Smart, Christopher. Poems on Several Occasions, viz., Munificence and Modesty; Female Dignity; To Lady Hussey Delaval; Verses from Catullus; After Dining with Mr. Murray; Epitaphs; &c. London, 1763, 4to.

Smith, W. Browning. Epitaph. _Encyclopædia Brit._, ninth edition, vol. viii, pp. 493-496.

Snow, J. Lyra Memorialis; Original Epitaphs, &c., with an Essay by William Wordsworth. London: Bell, 1847, 12mo.

This is a second and an enlarged edition of his _Light in Darkness:
Churchyard Thoughts_, which was published in 1844.

Tissington, Silvester. A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions on the most Illustrious Persons of all Ages and Countries; 1857, 8vo, 530 pp.

Toldervy, William. Select Epitaphs. London: Owen, 1755, 8vo, 2 vols.

Tombs, Among the. _Household Words_, vol. 17, pp. 372-375.

Tombstones, Inscriptions on. _Christian Remembrancer_, vol. 6, pp. 421.

Trowsdale, Thomas Broadbent, F.R.H.S. A Visit to the Old Burial Ground in Castle Street, Hull. Hull: Printed and Published by J. M. Taylor, 1878, 8vo, 8 pp.

Reprinted from _The Hull Miscellany_.

Wake, H. T. All the Monumental Inscriptions in the graveyards of Brigham and Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, in the County of Cumberland, from 1666 to 1876. Cockermouth, 1878, 8vo.

Walker, G. A., Surgeon. Gatherings from Grave Yards, Particularly those of London: With a concise History of the Modes of Interment Among different Nations, from the earliest periods. And a Detail of dangerous and fatal results produced by the unwise and revolting custom of inhuming the Dead in the midst of the Living. London: Longman and Co.; Nottingham, J. Hicklin; 1839, 8vo, pp. xvii-258. [With an engraved title.]

Webb, T. A New Select Collection of Epitaphs: Panegyrical and Moral, Humorous, Whimsical, Satyrical, and Inscriptive. London, 1775, 12mo., 2 vols.

Weever, John. Ancient Funerall Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Ilands adiacent, with the dissolved Monasteries therein contained; their Founders, and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred; As also the Death and buriall of certaine of the Bloud Roiall, the Nobilitie, and Gentrie of these Kingdomes entombed in forraine Nations, with other matters mentioned in the insuing Title. Composed by the Travels and Studie of John Weever. Spe labor leuis. London: Printed by Tho: Harper, MDCXXXI. And are to be sold in Little Britayne by Laurence Sadler at the signe of the Golden Lion. Fol., 871 pp. [With Portrait and Engraved Title.]

Westminster Abbey, The History and Antiquities of, and Henry VII's Chapel; their Tombs, Ancient Monuments, and Inscriptions, &c. Illustrated. London, 1856, 4to.

Wignell, J. A Collection of Original Pieces: consisting of Poems, Prologues, Epilogues, Songs, Epistles, Epitaphs, &c. London, 1762, 8vo.

Winchester Cathedral. Historical and Critical Account of, with a review of the Monuments; 1801, 8vo, 148 pp.

Index.

Abdidge, John, 37.

Abel, John, 155.

Aberfeldy, Perthshire, 75.

Abesford, 63.

Adams, John, 39.

Adams's, W. Davenport, "Dict. of Eng. Literature," quoted, 136.

Adlington, 63, 64.