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 u s. vi. DEC. 28, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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l.v. Corruption, Earth, and Worms,

Shall but refine this flesh, Till my triumphant spirit comes, To put it on A fresh.

From ' Northumberland and the Border,' 1859.

2. In Newbiggin Churchyard :

Tho infant years no pompous honours claim, The vain parade of an immortal frame ; To be their praie, the last great day shall rear. The spotless innocents that sleepeth here.

3. In Workington Churchyard :

Stop My friends When this you See George then

John both went to Sea, J >hn lies here Makes Friends to weep, but George

lies in the Mighty Deep.

From ' All Round the Wrekin,' 1860.

4. In Tong Church, Salop. Sir William

Stanley, 1756:

Not Monumental Stone preserves our fame. Nor sky-aspiring Pyramids our name. Thfj Memory of him for whom this stands Shall outlive marble and Defacers' hands : When all to Time's consumption shall be given, Stanley, for whom this stands, shall stand in Heaven.

From ' Eastern England, from the Thames to the Humber,' 1865.

5. In Barking Churchyard, Essex. On a Churchwarden, died 1670:

Stay here awhile and his sad fate deplore heare lies the body of one Thomas More his name was More but now it may be said he is no more because that now he 's dead and in this place doth lye sepulchared.

W. B. H.

I have not seen the following in any local guides ; they may perhaps interest the reader. Rame Church, Cornwall:

Here Lye the Bodyes of Mary and

Anne Daughters of Roger Ashtqn

Dr. of Divinity and Margarett his

Wife, who died in the yeeres 1664

and 1667 as also a Son of theirs

who departed this Life the same

hour it began to live 1666.

Heere Reader see

poore Infants three

Lye like greene fruit pluckt from the Tree

yet they are blest

and are at rest

Though Implumd birds forct from their nest

one was a Son

his Race soone run

Hee Liv'd not once to see the Sun

1 murmur not

they were begot

To the grave mankinds common lot

it glads my heart

their better part

Is now with God never to part.

Dr. Ashton was Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, and died in 1677.

Maker Churchyard, Cornwall :

John Roper

Gunner in H M R Is

Ob 1 1819 .'69

Mary his Wife died May 20 th

1831 Aged 80

Reader pass on ne'er spend your tim' In reading o'er this rugged rhyme What I am this humble stone ensures What I was is no affair of yours.

In Anthony Church a Mrs. Carew, 1631, i-

described as "Respective'' to her husband.

Aged 40 years, Betsey Hicks.

You that pass by and say of me

Alas ! her life is done,

Be it well known unto you all

My life is now begun.

The life I liv'd among you all

Was sorrow, grief, and pain

But now I have a life indeed

Of pleasure joy and gain.

M.A.Oxox.

Bowness Church. A tablet on wall of south aisle :

The author's epitaph upon himselfe, made in the

tyme of nis sickness. A man I was, wormes meat I am To earth returned from whence I came Many removes on earth I had In earth at length my bed is made A bed which Christ did not disdaine Altho it could not Him retaine His deadlie foes might plainlie see Over time and death His victorie Here must I rest till Christ shall let me see His promised Jerusalem and her fo-licitie. Veni Domine Jesu veni cito.

Robert Philipson, Gent, xiiito Octo Bris An" Salutis 1631 anno aetatis suae 63tio.

In Elton Churchyard, Durham :

17 years a virgin 40 years a wife 5 days illness and then departed life. (Date 1878 )

Mary Beuton Jan. 4, 1853

In the 116 th year of her age. A spinster.

F. R. F.

In peaceful rest two sinless sisters lie, Saved by death's curse from sin's attendant sorrow. In certain hope they sleep till time shall die ; Night waxes old '1 hey waken on the morrow.

This relates to two infants, both of whom died when they were very young. I do not think that these four lines have ever been published. ASTARTE.