Io8 MISCELLANEA. 



On a high tomb with a coped top, south of the porch, are the 

 following epitaphs, printed here because the stone is already 

 nearly illegible, and the family commemorated had an ecclesias- 

 tical status in the neighbourhood : — 



" Here lie the remains of 



" the Rev'*. William Wilson 



" minister of Trinity Chapel. 



" He was born at Eaglesfield 



"in the County of Cumberland 



" and died at Higham in this Parish 



"on the 15'" day of July, 1815, 



" aged 76 years." 



On the south side of the same tomb — 



Here also lie the Remains of 



his brother, the Rev'^ Peter Wilson, Vicar 



of Blackwell, Minister of Trinity Chapel 



and Rector of Pinxton. 



He was born at Eaglesfield in the 



County of Cumberland, 



and died at Pinxton the . . . 



June .... 1820 



in the 79"' year of his age. 



On a plain stone to the east of this : — 



"Sacred to the memory of Jenny 

 the wife of Peter Elliott late of Shirland 

 who departed this life Jan. 6, 1830, 



aged 47 years." 



" She was 



But words are wanting to say what. 

 Think what a wife should be : 

 She was that." 



The earliest record of the Spatemans in the Morton Register 

 occurs in 1609, when " Joane Spademan" was buried on the 

 1 6th of May. 



