BLUNTISHAM.
On a Wrestler.
Here lyes the Conqueror conquered,
Valient as ever England bred;
Whom neither art, nor steel, nor strength,
Could e’er subdue, till death at length
Threw him on his back, and here he lyes,
In hopes hereafter to arise.
Kent.
CRAYFORD.
Here lieth the body of Peter Isnel (30 years clerk of this parish.)
He lived respected as a pious and mirthful man, and died on his way to church, to assist at a wedding, on the 31st day of March, 1811, aged 70 years. The inhabitants of Crayford have raised this stone to his cheerful memory, and as a tribute to his long and faithful service.
The life of this clerk was just three score and ten,
Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen!
In his youth he was married, like other young men,
But his wife died one day, so he chanted Amen!
A second he took—she departed—what then?
He married and buried a third with Amen;
Thus, his joys and his sorrows were treble, but then
His voice was deep bass as he sung out Amen!
On the horn he could blow as well as most men,
So his horn was exalted in blowing Amen;
But he lost all his wind after three score and ten,
And now, with three wives, he waits, till again
The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen!
SNODLAND.
Palmers al our faders were,—
I, a Palmer, lived here,
And travylled till, worne with age,
I endyd this world’s pylgrymage
On the blyst Assention-day,
In the cheerful month of May,
A thousand with foure hundryd seven,
And took my jorney hense to Heven!
SANDWICH.
To Thomas, son of Thomas Danson, late a Preacher
in this town. Born Oct. 23, 1668; died Oct. 23, 1674.