Mild was her nature;
A tender wife,
A good humoured creature."
From the churchyard of St. John, Worcester:
"Honest John's
Dead and gone."
From the churchyard of Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire, are the two following:
"Here lieth the body of John Galey, sen., in expectation of the Last Day. What sort of man he was that day will discover. He was clerk of this parish fifty-five years. He died in 1756, aged 75."
The next is also to a Galey. Your correspondent Pictor (Vol. viii., p. 98.) gives the same epitaph, slightly altered, as being at Wingfield, Suffolk:
"Pope boldly asserts (some think the maxim odd),