Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs — John Shaqi
Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious EpitaphsNorfolk, Horatio Edward
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Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs
Norfolk, Horatio Edward
Epitaphs; Epitaphs -- Great Britain
Here Sept. 9th 1680,
was buried
A true born Englishman.
Who, in Berkshire was well known
To love his country’s freedom like his own,
But being immured full twenty years,
Had time to write as doth appear.
MATHERN.
John Lee is dead, that good old man,
You ne’er will see him more,
He used to wear an old brown Coat,
All buttoned down before.
* * * * *
Here lyeth entombed the body of Theodoric, King of Morganuch, or
Glamorgan, commonly called St. Theodoric, and accounted a martyr,
because he was slain in a battle against the Saxons (being then
Pagans) and in defence of the Christian religion. The battle was
fought at Tynterne, where he obtained a great victory. He died here,
being on his way homewards, three days after the battle; having taken
order with Maurice his son, who succeeded him in the kingdom, that in
the same place he should happen to decease, a church should be built
and his body buried in the same, which was accordingly performed in
the year 600.
Norfolk.
HOTHILL.
Miles Branthwaite.
If Death would take an answer, he was free
From all those seats of ills that he did see,
And gave no measure that he would not have
Given to him as hardly as he gave:
Then thou, Miles Branthwaite, might have answer’d Death,
And to be so moral might boyle breath,
Thou wast not yet to die. But be thou blest,
From weary life thou art gone quiet to rest,
Joy in the freedom from a prison, thou
Wast by God’s hands pluckt out but now,
Free from the dust and cobwebs of this vale;
And richer art thou by the heavenly bail
Than he that shut thee up. This heap of stones
To thy remembrance, and to chest thy bones,
Thy wife doth consecrate; so sleep till then,
When all graves must open, all yield up their men.
NORWICH.
Thomas Legge.
That love that living made us two but one,
Wishes at last we both may have this tomb.
The head of Gostlin still continues here,
As kept for Legge, to whom it was so dear.
By death he lives, for ever to remain,
And Gostlin hopes to meet him once again.
* * * * *
Sarah York this life did resigne
On May the 13th, 79.
* * * * *
Here lies the body of honest Tom Page,
Who died in the 33rd year of his age.
* * * * *
On Bryant Lewis, who was barbarously murdered upon the heath near
Thetford, Sept. 13, 1698.
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