Kecords of the Old Charlton Hunt 



MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION AT SINGLETON 



CHURCH IN SUSSEX 



Nkar this Place lies interred 



THOMAS JOHNSON 



WHO DEPARTED THIS LiFB AT ChARLTON 



December 20'^ 1744. 



From his Early inclination to Fox Hounds 



He soon became an experienced Huntsman 



His knowledge in this Profession wherein he 



Had no superior and hardly an Equal, 



Joined to his Honesty in every other particular, 



Recommended him to the service and gain'd 



Him the approbation of several op the Nobility 



and Gentry. Among these were the LORD CONWAY 



EARL OF CARDIGAN, The LORD GOWER, The DUKE 



OF MARLBOROUGH and the Honourable M«. SPENCER. 



The last Master whom he served, and in whose service 



He died was CHARLES DUKE OF RICHMOND 



LENOX AND AUBIGNY, who erected this Monument 



To THE Memory op a good and faithfull servant 



As a reward to the deceased, 



And an incitement to the Living. 



Go AND do thou Likewise, St. Luke Chap. x. ver. xxxvii. 



Ou a slab below : — 



Here Johnson lies, What Hunter can deny 

 Old honest TOM the Tribute of a Sigh, 

 Deaf is that Ear, which caught the oi^ning Sound, 

 Dumb is that Tongue, tohich chear^d the Hills around 

 Unjdeasing Truth, Death hunts us from our Birth 

 In vieio ; and Men, Like Foxes, take to Earth. 



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