I found many stones dating from 1726 to 1800, but even these had become much defaced by time. Where freestone slabs had been used, the inscriptions were either illegible or quite obliterated. Some of the older slate stones had been painted to protect them from the weather. The city takes commendable care of the grounds; yet I could not help thinking that a little money might be well spent in renewing the fading inscriptions. Throughout the inclosure the pious chisel of some "Old Mortality" is painfully in request.
In a retired part of the ground I found two horizontal slabs—one of white, the other red, freestone—lying side by side over man and wife. I transcribed the epitaph of the wife, as the more characteristic:
Here lyeth the body of Harte
Garde the wife of Iohn Garde
Merchant who departed this
the 16 day of September An
Dom 1660
Aged 55 years.
Another slate stone contained the singular inscription given in the engraving; and still another was lettered:
In Memory Of