Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-09-17

thou art the cause Of This mans death.
The COWARD to seek 10 turn upon a
thing so weak as that, The heavy sin which
clung to his own soul
Some say the body lies in Chelsea
Church, beneath the tomb we have sketch
ed-the epIlaph having been written by
himself before he anticipated the manner
Of his death. 1t is too long 10 insert; hut
the lines at Tire conclusion are very like
the man. The ePiraph and poetry are in
Latin: we give the translation:
" For Alice and for Thomas More's remains
Prepared, this tomb Johanna's form contains
One, married young with mutual ardor blest,
boy and three fair girls our JOY contest.
The other (no small prase) Of these aPpear'd
As fond as if by her own pangs endeared.
One lived with me, onelives in such sweet strife,
Slight preference could give 10 either wife.
Oh had it met Heavens sanction and decree,
One halIowed bond might have united three;
Yet still be ours one grave, one lot on high!
Thus death, what life denied us, shall supply"
Others tell that his remains were inter
Ied in The Tower, and some record that
the head was sought and preserved by that
same daughter Margaret, who caused it to
be buried in The family vault of the RoperS
IN S.. Dunstan's Church, Canterbury; and
they add pretty legend how that, when
his head was upon London Bridge, Mar
garet would be rowed beneath il, and, moth
inc Mortified at the sight, say aloud, that
head has layde many time in my lapPe {;
would TO God, would TO God, it would
fall in my lapPe as | pass under now and
the head did so fall, and she carried II in
her 'Iappe' until she placed it in her hus-
bands, son Roper's' vault, at Canterbury.
The king took possession of these fair
grounds at Chelsea, and all the chancellor's
other properly, namely, DunkinglOn,
Trenklord, and Benly Park in Oxfordshire,
allowing the widow he had made, twenty
pounds per year for her life, and indulging
his petty tyranny still more, by imPrison-
ing Sir Thomas's daughter, Margaret,
both because she kept her fathers head
for a relic, and that she meant TO set her
fathers works in print
We were calling to mind more minute
particulars Of the charities and good deeds
of this great man, when, standing at the
moment opposite grave where some low
ing hand had planted TWO standard rose
trees, we suddenly heard chant of chill
dren's voices, the infant scholars singing
their lrlle hymn; the tune, TOO, was a
well-knOwn ana popular melody, and very
sweet yet sad Of sound; il was just such
music, as for its simplicity, would have
been welcome TO the mighty dead ; and as
we entered among the little songslers, the
past faded away, and we found ourselves
Specializing on the hopeful present
We close Mrs. Halls pleasant sketches
of Sir Thomas More and his localities,
with brief description Of scene in his
prison, which the pencil Of Mr.. IIerberl,
Of the Royal Academy, has beautifully de-
piricd. Il must be remembered that More
was jealous Roman Catholic. He was
committed to the Tower in 1884, by the
hccntious Henry Will, partly to punish
him for refusing TO assist that monarch in
his marriage with Anne Boleyn, 'the pref
" fool as Mrs. Hall calls her; but par.
IicularIv because he declined to acknowl
edue tie kings ecclesiastical supremacy
as head of the Reformed Church. There
he remained until his execution the follow
ing year. During his Imprisonment,
say, his SON law and biographer, Roper,
who married his favorte daughter Marga-
ret. zone day looking from his window, he
saw four monks. (whO also had refused
the oath Of supremacy going TO their ex.
ecution, and rcgrellimg that he cou.d not
bear them company, said : look, Mcgee,
dost II on not see that these blessed fathers
be now going as cheerful to their death, as
bridegroumS to their marriage! BY which
thou may'sl see, myne own good daugItef'
what great difference there is between
such as have spent all their days in relI-
gous, hard and penilenlia life, and such
as have las thy poore father hath done
all their time in pleasure and
ease = and 80 he proceeded 10 enlarge on
their merits and marryrdom. His grand
son. Cresacre More. referring to this scene,
SAYS, by which most humble and heaven
ly meditation. we may easily guess what
a spirit of charity he had gotten BY often
meditation, that every sight brought hlm
new matter to practice most heroica! resp
lutions.