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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n<i S. No 98., Nov. 14, '57. 



headed tombstone in the picturesque churchyard 

 of Moorwinstow, in the far north of Cornwall. A 

 cross is engraved on the round head of the stone, 

 and the inscription is in characters of old and 

 peculiar form : 



" Here rests until the Judgment the body of William 

 B. Stephens, whose soul went into the Tlace of Shelter on 

 the 5th day of May, 1844." 

 Then follow these or similar words : 



" The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of 

 the Lord in that day." 



E. W. 



The following inscription, which occurs in the 

 churchyard of Gresham, in the county of Norfolk, 

 may find a place amongst grave-stone oddities. 

 The advice, be it remarked, is very good, although 

 the way in which it is recorded is somewhat un- 

 usual. I was lately informed, on the spot, that 

 Mr. Bond was a proprietor of lands in the parish 

 of Gresham, as well as a " Master Mariner." Be- 

 sides his claim to remembrance' derived from his 

 tombstone, he is famous for three other circum- 

 stances : 1. For many years he drank about a 

 gallon of spirits a week. 2. He was scarcely ever 

 seen without a pipe in his mouth ; and, 3. He 

 could walk at the pace of three miles an hour 

 until within a very short period of his death, at 

 the patriarchal age of ninety-two. E. G. 



" Sacred to the Memory of 



"John Bond, Master Mariner, who departed this life 

 on the llth July, 1838, in the 92nd year of his age. 



" Ann, the wife of John Bond, who departed this life on 

 the 14th Sept. 1831, in the 71st year of her age. 



" This burial ground ought to be kept only for the dead, 

 Where we are all traveling to our place of rest. 

 Neighbours, no stock ought to be suffered 

 Amongst these gravestones, nor yet to trespass 

 Over the dead on this burial ground." 



In the church of Broughton Gifford, in Wilt- 

 shire, is a brass plate to the memory of Robert 

 Longe, who died 1620. There is engraved on the 

 plate a figure of a herald holding a bundle of 

 shields, from which Death has drawn out the shield 

 with the arms of Longe. Underneath are the 

 following lines : 

 " The life of man is a trewe loltarie 



Where venturouse death draws forth lots short and 

 longe, • 



Yet free from fraude and partial flatterie 



He shuffled shields of several size among, 

 Drewe Longe, and so drewe longer his short days, 

 The auncient of days beyopd all time to praise." 



Above are two scrolls, one of which bears part 

 of the first and second lines of Juvenal's 8th 

 Satire, Pontice being replaced by mortue : 



" Quid prodest, mortue, Longo sanguine censeri," 

 and the other the 20th line of the same satire : 

 " Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus." 



Ltbia. 

 Kugby. 



The following curious epitaphs are to be found 

 in Kenilworth churchyard. On the tomb of Luke 

 Sturley, upwards of sixty years parish clerk, died 

 Feb. 13, 1843 : 



" The graves around for manj' a year 

 Were dug by him who slurnbers here, 

 Till, worn with age, he dropped his spade, 

 And in the dust his bones are laid ; 

 As he now mouldering shares the doom 

 Of those he buried in the tomb. 

 So will his body too with theirs arise, 

 To share the judgment of the skies." 



Another : 



" cruel death I in a moment fell, 

 I had not time to bid my friends farewell ; 

 Think nothing strange, chance happens unto all; 

 My lot to day, tomorrow thine may fall." 



T. Lampray. 



On David Williams, who died June 30th, 1769, 

 In Guilsfield churchyard, Montgomeryshire : 



" Under this yew tree 

 Buried would he be, 

 Because his father he 

 Planted this yew tree." 



Epitaph. — The following is said to be on the 

 tomb of an idiot boy somewhere in Lancashire. 

 Can any of your readers say whether such is the 

 case, and give the locality, &c. ? 



" If innocence may claim a place in heaven, 

 And little be required for little given, 

 My great Creator has for me in store 

 A world of bliss — what can the wise have more ? " 

 R. W. Hackwood, 



LOUIS PHILIPPE AND LE COMTE DE BEAUJOLAIS. 



The words of Shakspeare, " Some are born 

 great, some achieve greatness, and some have 

 greatness thrust upon them," are identical with 

 the fortunes of Louis Philippe. Nor was all this 

 elevation unalloyed with repeated alternations of 

 calamities and misfortunes ; indeed, his whole life 

 was one of unparalleled vicissitudes : at one mo- 

 ment at the pinnacle of grandeur, in the next 

 plunged in the abyss of human misery ; still sup- 

 porting his fate at all times with prudence, dignity, 

 courage, and equanimity proportioned to the cir- 

 cumstances in which he was placed. Perhaps the 

 greatest affliction. he had to endure was the loss 

 of his two brothers while they were in exile. The 

 eldest, the Duke of Montpensier, died of con- 

 sumption in England, May 18. 1807. The other 

 brother, the Comte de Beaujolais, a fine, young, 

 noble-minded man succumbed under the same 

 disease, after an interval of a twelvemonth, dying 

 at Malta, May 30, 1808. There is one circum- 

 stance particularly deserving notice relating to 

 this last young man. When the two brothers had 



