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. Bibliography of Epitaphs. Addison, Joseph. Westminster Abbey, the _Spectator_, Nos. 26 and 329. Alden, Rev. Timothy. A Collection of American Epitaphs; New York, 1814, 12mo., 5 vols. Andrews, William, F.R.H.S. Gleanings from Yorkshire Graveyards, _Yorkshire Magazine_, vol. 2, pp. 95-6; Epitaphs on Sportsmen, _Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News_, July 24th and 31st, 1880. Curious Epitaphs, _Chambers's Journal_, vol. 55, pp. 570-572. Many articles in the _Argonaut_, _Eastern Morning News_, _Fireside_, _Hand and Heart_, _Hull Miscellany_, _Hull News_, _Long Ago_, _Newcastle Courant_, _Notes and Queries_, _Notes about Notts._, _Nottingham Daily Guardian_, _Oldham Chronicle_, _Press News_, _Reliquary_, _Whitaker's Journal_, _Yorkshireman_, and about fifty other London magazines and provincial newspapers. Anthologia: A Collection of Ludicrous Epitaphs and Epigrams; 1807, 12mo. Appleby, Henry Calvert, Hull. Shakespeare and Epitaphs. "Miscellanea," edited by William Andrews, F.R.H.S., pp. 28-32. Archer, Capt. J. H. Lawrence. The Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies, from the earliest date, with Genealogical and Historical Annotations from original, local, and other sources, illustrative of the Histories and Genealogies of the 17th and 18th Centuries. London: Chatto and Windus, 1875, 4to. Capt. Archer collected these epitaphs during the years 1858 and 1864-5, in the colonies of Jamaica and Barbadoes. The above is a very interesting volume. Asiaticus: Sketches of Bengal, Epitaphs in Burial Grounds round Calcutta. Calcutta, 1803, 8vo, 2 parts in 1 vol.