Know posterity, that on the 8th of April, in the year of grace 1757, the rambling remains of the above John Dale were, in the 86th yeare of his pilgrimage, laid upon his two wives.
| This thing in life might raise some jealousy, Here all three lie together lovingly, But from embraces here no pleasure flows, Alike are here all human-joys and woes; Here Sarah’s chiding John no longer hears, And old John’s rambling Sarah no more fears; A period’s come to all their toylsome lives, The good man’s quiet; still are both his wives. |
On a slab affixed to the east wall of St. Mary’s Church, Whitby, is an inscription containing some remarkable coincidences:—
Here lie the bodies of Francis Huntrodds and Mary his wife, who were both born on the same day of the week month and year (viz.) Sepr ye 19th 1600 marry’d on the day of their birth and after having had 12 children born to them died aged 80 years on the same day of the year they were born September ye 19th 1680, the one not one above five hours before ye other.
| Husband and wife that did twelve children bear, Dy’d the same day; alike both aged were ’Bout eighty years they liv’d, five hours did part (Ev’n on the marriage day) each tender heart So fit a match, surely could never be, Both in their lives, and in their deaths agree. |
The following is from St. Julian’s Church, Shrewsbury:—
The remains of Henry Corser of this parish, Chirurgeon, who Deceased April 11, 1691, and Annie his wife, who followed him the next day after:—
| We man and wife, Conjoined for Life, Fetched our last breath So near that Death, Who part us would, Yet hardly could. Wedded againe, In bed of dust, Here we remaine, Till rise we must. A double prize this grave doth finde, If you are wise keep it in minde. |
In the church of Little Driffield, East Yorkshire, were placed in modern times two inscriptions to the memory of Alfred, King of Northumbria. The first states:—