Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-02-17
I'll Mist&llan&0us.
Written for the Eeporter.l
GLEANINGS FROM OLD TIMES.
EPITAPHS II

A tombstone is a strange place for puns, yet
we frequently find them in epitaphs the fol-
lowing is an example the name of the chapel
n which the tombstone is found is All Hal
lows, Barking. A very singular name for
church, gentle reader
He situs exanimis Siocki sub pulvere TitmrHs,
Quem quandam agnovt paStorem ccclesia tdem
lSta SUM nunce sancta tenent habitacua sanctum
Quo ma gnivs pan duct aves, q virumque masistros.
Thy lifeless trunk, 20, reverend Stocke)
Like Aaron's rod, sprouts out again,
For why. this work of Piety,
Performed by some of thy Flocke,
To thy dead corps and sacred urn,
Is but the fruit of this old Stoke
The next is from All HalIows the Less, in
London:
Jesu, that suffered bitter Passion and Peyn,
Have mercy on my soul. John Chamberleyn,
And on my wives two,
Agnes and Jane also.
The sayd John deceased the sOoth for to say,
In the month of December, the fourth day,
The yere of our Lord God reckoned full eeyn,
A thousand, four hundred, fourscore and seven.
The sacred shades of st. Albans, in London,
give us the next. Poor Tom, he had to bear
the shame of rags when living, and leave when
dead, \ ragged memory behind him.
Hic jacet Tom Shorthose
Sine Tombe sine Sheets, sine Riches,
Qui yiXit sine GOwne,
Sine Cloake, sine Shirt, sine Breeches."
The following inscription on the house where
the great fire began, which destroyed large
portion of old London, in the year 1866, may
be interesting it is kind of an epitaph:
Here bv the permission of Heaven He'll brake loose up
on this Protestant city from the malicious hearts OF
barbaous papists by the hand of their agent Hubert
who confessed and the ruins of this place declared
the ham viz hppp ~
the dreadful fire. which is described and perpetnated
on aud by the neghboring pillar erected Ammo l6SO''
The above is interesting from the peculiar
ity of style. The following epitaph is from the
old church of ST. Albans in London. This
church was erected by King Alfred.
" Here lyeth marmorate under thys Hepe of Stoan,
Syr Harry Viewer Aldyrman, and hys
Lady Dame Joan.
Thus Worldly Worschypp and Honor
With Favor and Fortune, passyth Day by Day,
Who may Withstand Deathys Schorne
When Rych and Por he closyeth in Clay"
Wherefore to God hertile pray,
10 pardon US of our misdeeds
And help US now in our most need"
10 me there is something very tender in the
quaintness of the above. Many might still
pray "hertelie" to be pardoned for their mis-
deeds.
The singular composition of the following
ePItaph justifes its insertion here, it was taken
rom rom the common burial ground, without the
.Ilrlmmesche Gate, at LeIpsic in Upper Saxony,
It's written in High German:
STOCK ACCOUNT.
Profit and Loss account
fortunate end a For Christ sinvalua-
Pfzei 10 die well bic purchase and
sthe best prize 100 900 Ransom 100 900
If fgeloenberg. April, l667-Upon the appointed day
AZ teiX Adam Blecksmidt's death, which shall happen
he twentyrst of October Ammo 1900, |, Jesus Christ
ohlse to pay unto him this my only bill of exchange,
ng purchased the value thereof through my merits
e9re being satisfied with his life and faith give him
''''na happiness through grace. JESUS CHRIST.
q IL IS said, that the common people suppose
%at thaers are meant by the 100000 But
"ere Is no representation of such coin. The
,edder will have observed that this extraordi-
nary bill of exchange is dated at the time of
'tcASmldts birth, and made PAYABLE 10 him