Occasionally, too, some plain device appears on even a modern headstone, such as the following, which is one of the few I have from the London area. The graves of the same half-century may be searched without finding many carvings more ambitious than this. FIG. 53.--AT ST. JAMES'S, BERMONDSEY. "To Charles Thomas Henry Evans, died 1849." Churchyards beside the Upper Thames are nearly all prolific in old gravestones, the riparian settlements having been well populated during the favourable period. This is especially the case at Richmond and Twickenham, but of the great number of eighteenth-century stones in both churchyards there are few very remarkable. Richmond has a rare specimen of the _full-relief_ skull. The death's head has on either side of it the head of an angel in half-relief. The stone is a double one, and I have never met its fellow. FIG. 54.--AT RICHMOND. "To Annie Smedley (?), died 1711, aged 90 years." As companions to this I present a pair of dwarf stones with full-relief heads of seraphs and cherubs--an agreeable change--from the same county. FIG. 55.--AT RIPLEY. "To Sarah wife of Henry Bower, died 1741. To Henry Bower, died March 23rd, 1758." The Rector of the parish passed as I was sketching these interesting objects, and was surprised to find that he had anything so unusual in his churchyard. [Illustration: FIG. 52. LYDD.] [Illustration: FIG. 53. BERMONDSEY.] [Illustration: FIG. 54. RICHMOND.] [Illustration: FIG. 55. RIPLEY.] [Illustration: FIG. 56. COBHAM.] [Illustration: FIG. 57. BARNES.] CHAPTER IV. PROFESSIONAL GRAVESTONES. It is more than likely that somewhere will be found a pictorial accompaniment to the verse which has been often used as an epitaph for a village blacksmith. I have met with the lines in two or three versions, of which the following, copied in the churchyard at Aberystwith, appears to be the most complete: "My sledge and hammer lie reclined; My bellows too have lost their wind; My fire extinct, my forge decay'd, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone; My nails are drove, my worck is done." There are many instances in which the implements of his craft are depicted upon an artizan's tomb; these also for the most part being of the eighteenth century. In the churchyard at Cobham, a village made famous by the Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, is a gravestone recording the death of a carpenter, having at the head a shield bearing three compasses to serve as his crest, and under it the usual tools of his trade--square, mallet, compasses, wedge, saw, chisel, hammer, gimlet, plane, and two-foot rule. FIG. 56.--AT COBHAM, KENT. "To Richard Gransden, carpenter, died 13th March, 1760."