Reader take notice
That on ye 12-Feby 1760
THO. CORBISHLEY
a brave veteran Dragoon
Here went into his quarters.
But remember that when the trumpet calls
He’ll out and march again.
* * *
ANN COLLINS
died 11th Sept 1804
Twas as she tript from cask to cask
In at a bung-hole quickly fell
Suffocation was her task
She had not time to say farewell
* * *
Here lyeth
ye body of
MARTHA DIAS
always noisy not very pious
Who live to ye age
of
3 sc and 10
And gave to worms
What she refus'd to men.
* * *
Here lies
JOHN HIGLEY
whose
FATHER & MOTHER
were drowned
in the Passage from America
Had they both lived
they would have been
buried here
* * *
Here lies
Father & Mother
And Sister and I
Wee all died within the
space of one short Year
They be all buried at Wimble,
except I
And I be buried here
* * *
To the memory of
Emma & Maria
LITTLEBOY
the twin children of
George and Emma Littleboy of Hornsey ~
who died
JULY 16TH 1837
two littleboys lie here
yet strange to say
these little boys are girls
* * *
Here lies my Wife
Here lies She
Hallelujah
Hallelujee
* * *
Here lies the body of ~
ELIZABETH
Wife of
Major-General
HAMILTON
Who was married forty seven yrs
And never did one thing
to disoblige her husband
She died 18th March 1746
* * *
O
Cruel Death!
How cou'd you be so unkind
To take him before & leave me behind?
You should have taken both of us if either
Which would have been more pleasing
To the survivor
* * *
In memory of
CHARLES WARD
who died May 1770
aged 63 years
A dutiful Son
A loving Brother
and
An affectionate Husband
NB This stone was not erected by Susan his Wife.
She erected a stone to John Salter, her second husband
forgetting the affection of Charles Ward, her first Husband.
* * *
Martha Blewit
of the Swan, at Baythorn-end, in this Parish
Buried May 7th, 1681
Was the wife of 9 husbands
successively
but the 9th outlived her
the text for her Funeral Sermon was
"Last of all the Woman dyed alsoe"
[«После же всех умерла и жена; итак, в воскресении, которого из семи будет она женою?» – Мф. 22:27]
* * *
In remembrance of
that prodigy in nature
DANIEL LAMBERT
A native of Leicester
who was possessed of an excellent & convivial mind
& in personal greatness had no Competitor
He measured 3 ft 1 inch round the leg,
nine ft 4 in round the body
& weigh’d 52 stones 11 lbs (14 lb to the stone)
He departed this life on the 21st of June 1809 aged 39 yrs
As a testimony of respect
this stone was erected
by his friends in Leicester
* * *
IN
A VAULT
UNDERNEATH
Lie Interred
Several of the Saunderses
Late of this Parish
Particulars
the Last Day
will disclose
* * *
THORPE’S
CORPSE
