•JO LEONARD WHEATCROFT, OF ASHOVER. 



On Blackwell Steeple, just on th' weather cock, 



Two crows have built their nest so neat and high, 



'Tis thought no tree so tall beneath the sky. 



Hut only the Palmeto— royal high, 



AVhich far surmounts all other standing by. 



Shee sits this month : the other brings her food ; 



'Tis mighty strange, hard to be understood. 



They carried timber to their nest so large 



That both together bore an equal charge — 



One by one end, the other by the other. 



Such love scarce seen by father or by mother, 



To raise a fabric for their young and needy ; 



Tho' th' wind was high, they made it firm and steady 



As men who lived near with eyes beholding 



Saw them each day most neatly act their building : 



All this is true and much in admiration. 



There's stranger things will soon appear i'th' nation ; 



To tell you one, and let the rest pass by — 



A Parliament will sit, or else I fly." 



Xlitles ot Hnaovams, jEpitapbs, anC) otbei* 

 GleaniuGS. 



"On My old friend Thomas Low of Crich*: — 



" ' Low' was you borne, 'tis true what I here say. 

 Of parents true, on May the Twentieth day : 

 With joy and gladness when you first was scene. 

 It was just then Sixteen, eighteen." (1618) 



Appended to two anagrams, one upon his cousin EHzabeth 

 Wheatcroft, and the other on Rebeckah Boore, is a note that 

 they were written by him at Hockley, when he was just sixty. 

 Sep. 16, 1687. 



Another is dedicated to an unknown friend (William Bonner) 

 who had sent him a suit of clothes. 



Thomas Lowe of Crich issued a " Token " in 1669, inscriljed thus 

 (Obve?-sc) " Thomas . Lowe " 

 {Reverse) "Of . Criche . Bvtcher . 1699." 



(See Boyne's Trade Tokens by Geo. C. Williamson, Vol. L, p. 121 



