In Tewkesbury Churchyard :

My friends lament their loss to see,
Because so soon Death cut of me.

Their joys in heav'n will be full store,
When Christ shall say Cease, weep no more.

In St. Michael's Churchyard, London :-

Here lies her Type, who was of late

The Prop of Belgia, Stay of France,
Spain's Foil, Faith's Shield, and Queen of State,

Of Arms and Learning, Fate and Chance.

In brief, of women ne'er was seen

So great a Prince, so good a Queen.
Sith Virtue her Immortal made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)
Her earthly parts did so invade,

As in it wrack'd Self-Majesty.

But so her Spirit inspired her Parts,
That she still lives in Loyal Hearts.

In the Church of St. Mary's, Truro, Cornwall :

*Δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις Θεῷ

To the pious and wel deserved memory of Owen Fitz-Pen als Phippen, who travelled over many parts of the world, and on ye 24th March 1620 was taken by the Turkes, and made a captive in Argier. He projected sundry plots for his libertie, and on the 17th June 1627, with 10 other Christian captives, Dutch and French (persuaded by his counsel and courage), he began a cruel fight with 65 Turkes in their own ship, wc. lasted 3 howers, in wc. 5 of his companie were slaine, but God made him captaine. So he brought the ship into Cartagene, being of 400 tuns and 22 Ordce. The King sent for him to Madrid to see him; he was offered a captaine's place and the K's favour if he would turn Papist, wc. he refused. He sold all for 6000l., returned to England, and died at Lamoran 17' March 1636.

Melcomb in Dorset wos his place of birth,
Age 54, and here lies Earth on Earth.

Geo. Fitz-Penals Phippen,

Ipsius frater et hujus Ecclesiæ Rector,
H. M. P.

In Insch Churchyard :—

Wm. Breck, feuar, Insch, d. June, 1818, a. 63; his wf., Janet Milne, d. April same year, a. 58; their son, Alex., student of divinity, d. 1820, a. 22-

Nipt by the wind's untimely blast,
Scorch'd by the sun's directer ray;
The momentary glories waste,
The short-liv'd beauties die away.
Yet these new rising from the tomb,
With lustre brighter far shall shine;
Reviv'd thro' Christ with 'during bloom,
Safe from diseases and decline.

In Bath Abbey:—

1637.

To the deare memory of the right vertvovs and worthy Lady, Lady

Jane Waller ..

Sole issve of a matchles paire,

Both of their state and vertves heire;

In graces great, in statvre small;

As fvll of spirit as voyd of gall.
Cherefvlly grave, bounteously close,
Holy without vainglorious showes.
Happy, and yet from envy free,

Learn'd without pride, witty yet wise;

Reader, this riddle read wth me,

Here the good Lady Waller lyes.

In Kirk Arbory Churchyard, Isle of Man :

Catherine, daughter of Henry and Joney Corrin, died 9th June, 1794, aged 3 years.

Asleep in bed I laid,

Where none I did offend ;

From thence against my will convey'd

To a plaguey pox by men.

Dear parents cease to weep,
I innocently forgive;

Rather remember me to meet

Where love doth ever live.

N.B-What gave rise to this was inoculating the child when she

was asleep.

In the Churchyard of West Kilbride, Ayrshire (date 1795) :—
Here lye the banes of Thomas Tyre,

Wha lang had trudg'd thro' dub and mire,
He carrying bundles and sic like,
His Task performing wi' sma' fyke;

To deal his snuff Tam ay was free,
And served his friends for little fee.
In 's life obscure was naething new,
Yet we must own his faults were few:
Altho' at Yule he sip'd a drap,
And in the Kirk whiles took a nap,

True to his word in every case,

Tom scorned to cheat for lucre base.

Now he is gone to test the fare

Which none but honest men will share.

In St. Lawrence Churchyard, Isle of Thanet :—
An angel form, for earth too pure, too bright,
Glanc'd in sweet vision o'er parental sight.
It fled. This holiest hope to faith is given,
To find the dream full realis'd in heaven.

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care,
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there.

Near the village of Mauchline, Ayrshire :

Here lie the bodies of Peter Gillies, John Bryce, Thomas Young, William Tiddison, and John Bruning, who were apprehended and hanged without trial at Mauchline in 1685, according to the then wicked laws, for their adhesion to the Covenanted worke of Reformation.— Rev. xii., II.

Bloody Dumbarton, Douglas, and Dundee,

Moved by the Devil and the Laird of Lee,

Dragged these five men to death with gun and sword,
Not suffering them to pray or read God's word:

Owning the worke of God was all their crime-
The eighty-five was a saint-killing time.

Erected by subscription in 1830.

In Ollaberry Churchyard, Shetland :

Interr'd beneath this monument we find
Virtuous children, as they're here defin'd;
In bloom of youth out of this earthly stage
Free'd from the follies of a corrupt age.
Their parents' comfort here, and now in bless
With them partakers of their happines.

In Dagenham Church, Essex:

Were here no epitaph, nor monvment,
Nor line, nor marble to declare the intent,
Yet goodnes hath a lastinge memory.
The just are like to Kings that never dye,
Their death a passage, or translation is,
An end of woes, an orient to bliss.
Thrice happy couple that doe now posses
The frvits of theire good workes and holyness,
Now God rewards theire allmes and charitye,
Their strict observinge Saboath's pyetie.

Heere were they wont to spend their seaventh day,
Heere was theire love, their life, theire heaven's way,
Heere did they pray, bvt now they praises singe,
And God accepts their sovles' sweet offeringe,
Onleye theire bodyes heere remaine in grovnd
Waitinge the svrge of the last trumpet's sovnd.

In Glenholm Churchyard, Peeblesshire :

John Forrester, Schoolmaster, died 1841.

For 49 years held the office, with honour to himself, as a faithful teacher and instructor of youth in the principles of religion.

This monument is erected in testimony of an affectionate remembrance by a number of scholars and others.

1828.

In Memory of William Steven.

His was a heart devoid of guile,

Tho' Master of Art they did him style.
You that are bent to get to Heaven
Be innocent as Willie Steven.

In the Calton Burying-Ground, Edinburgh, upon David Hume :—

Beneath this circular idea,
Vulgarly called a tomb,
Ideas and impressions rest,
Which constituted Hume.

In Ross-on-the-Wye Churchyard :—

Near this stone in easy slumber lies
Three dusty bodies that at last shall rise;
Their parted atoms shall again rejoin,

Be cast into new moulds by hands divine.

:

On Admiral Blake, in St. Margaret's Churchyard, London :-
Here lies a man made Spain and Holland shake,
Made France to tremble, and the Turks to quake;
Thus he tam'd men, but if a lady stood
In 's sight, it rais'd a palsy in his blood;
Cupid's antagonist, tho' on his life
Had fortune as familiar as a wife.

A stiff, hard, iron soldier ; for he

It seems, had more of Mars than Mercury;

At sea he thunder'd, calm'd each rising wave,

And now he's dead, sent thundering to his grave.

In Darrisdeer Churchyard, Dumfriesshire :—

Here lyes Daniel McMichel, Martyr, shot dead at Dalveen by Sir John Dalziel for his adhering to the Word of God, Christ's Kingly Government in His House and the Covenanted Work of Reformation against tyranny, perjury and prelacy 1685-Revelations xi. II :— As Daniel cast was in Lyon's Den For praying unto God and not to men So Lyons thus cruelly devoured me For bearing witness to truth's testimony

I rest in peace till Jesus rend the cloud

And judge 'twixt me and those who shed my blood

In memoriam: William Gartly, reporter Scotsman newspaper, died

6th June, 1869, æt. 27 :—

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

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