| Sacred To the memory of Thomas Depledge, Who was murdered at Darfield, On the 11th of October, 1841. |
| At midnight drear by this wayside A murdered man poor Depledge died, The guiltless victim of a blow Aimed to have brought another low, From men whom he had never harmed By hate and drunken passions warmed. Now learn to shun in youth’s fresh spring The courses which to ruin bring. |
A stone dated 1853, the Minster graveyard, Beverley, is placed to the memory of the victim of a railway carriage tragedy, and bears the following extraordinary inscription:—
| Mysterious was my cause of Death In the Prime of Life I Fell; For days I Lived yet ne’er had breath The secret of my fate to tell. Farewell my child and husband dear By cruel hands I leave you, Now that I’m dead, and sleeping here, My Murderer may deceive you, Though I am dead, yet I shall live, I must my Murderer meet, And then Evidence, shall give My cause of death complete. Forgive my child and husband dear, That cruel Man of blood; He soon for murder must appear Before the Son of God. |
Near the west end of Holy Trinity Church, Stalham, Norfolk, may be seen a gravestone bearing the following inscription:—
| James Amies, 1831. |
| Here lies an honest independent man, Boast more ye great ones if ye can; I have been kicked by a bull and ram, Now let me lay contented as I am. |
The following singular verse occurs upon a tombstone contiguous to the chancel door in Grindon churchyard, near Leek, Staffordshire:—
| Farewell, dear friends; to follow me prepare; Also our loss we’d have you to beware, And your own business mind. Let us alone, For you have faults great plenty of your own. Judge not of us, now We are in our Graves Lest ye be Judg’d and awfull Sentence have; For Backbiters, railers, thieves, and liars, Must torment have in Everlasting Fires. |
On a stone in the north aisle of the church of St. Peter of Mancroft, Norwich, is the following pathetic inscription:—
Susan Browne, the last deceased of eleven children (the first ten interr’d before the northern porch) from their surviving parents, John and Susan his wife. She sought a city to come, and upon the 30th of August departed hence and found it.