This epitaph was made by Thomas Bonham, of Essex, esquier.
The serjeant's epitaph on his wife at Bowe church, Heriff.:—
Hic Benedicta jacet, de qua maledicere nemo
Cui genus aut virtus vel pia lingua potest:
Bournii et Hoskinii conjux et prolis utrique
Mater erat, Moyli filia, serva Dei.
On Mr. Bourne, his sonne-in-lawe[1752], by him:—
Nobilis innocuos transegit Bournius annos
Multa legens, callens plurima, pauca loquens.
Juridicus causis neque se ditavit[1753] agendis
Non in habendo locans sed moriendo lucrum.
[1754]Serjeant Hoskins:—Serviens ad legem; quaere, if <he was> a knight. His crest (I believe) granted for his bold spirit, and (I suppose) contrived by himselfe.
Amici <included> Egremund Thynne.
Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus,
Tuendis paradoxis clarus.
Mortuus est, ut hic apparet:
At si loqui posset, hoc negaret.
Was wont to say that all those that came to London were either carrion or crowes.