8o LEONARD WHEATCROFT, OF ASHOVER. 



" Upon my loving friend Giles Cowley, who departed this life 

 March 7, 1686, aged 87." 



" An Elegy vpon my aged Mother Anne Wheatcroft. Buried 

 Feb. 12, 1692. Aged 87 : — 



" Who e'er was hurt, if this ould Matron knew 

 Haste would she make, and presently them view 

 Either in head or foot, or armes, or shoulder ; 

 A rare Chirurgeon and the poores' uphoulder. 

 All that she did was done for charitee : 

 Come poor or rich, they all to her were free. 

 Rare were her cures, and what she did was sure : 

 Of this ould matron I shall say no more. 

 From us shee's gone : I hope her soul's ascended 

 To live with Christ; for thousands she has mended." 



" My friend Margaret Cowlishaw departed this life Decern. 30, 

 1695." 



"My sister Charity Summers departed this life January 20, 

 1697. Aged 78. 



. . . . " You mid wives all, that learned of her that art 

 Shiphrah & Puah, like them act your part. 

 Value no threats ; whatever people say 

 Mind well that art, as she did night and day," etc. 



" By mee Leo. Wheatcroft her Brother. 

 "Jan. 26 Shee was buried." 



" An Epitaph upon Master Richard Berresford, Doctor of 

 Divinity, who departed this Life March 3, 1694 : — 



. . . . " Doctor in Cambridge in College of S"' John, 

 I scarce in England e'er knew such a one." 



" Upon my old friend Roger Clark of Stretton : — 

 " He was laid on his back July the 6''' 1696." 



