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scarcely legible) is the following inscrip- 

 tion in characters of that date. 



HERE LIETH THE BODY OF » 



EDWARD BURTON, ESQ. 



WHO DIED ANNO DOMINI I55S. 



JVast for denying Christ, or some notorious Jact, 



That this man's body Christian burial lack't? 



Oh no, not so! his fait hjn I true profession 



Was the chief cause, which then was held transgression. 



When Popery here did reign, the see of Rome 

 Would not admit to any such a tomb 

 Within her idol-temple walls; but he. 

 Truly professing Christianity, 

 Was like Christ Jesus in a garden laid. 

 Where he shall rest in peace till it be said, 

 Come, faithful servant, come receive with me 

 A just reward for thy integrity. 



I advised this tomb to be repaired, and 

 the inscription preserved on a brass plate, 

 covered with a gothic canopy of the same 

 date with the event. This forms an appro- 

 priate ornament at tlie angle of the house, 

 Avhich stands on a bold terrace in the gar- 

 den, commanding an extensive view of 



