On the blest Ascension Day
In the cheerful month of May.”
The above is Professor Reed’s note. The following is an exact copy of the epitaph:—
Palmers all our faders were;
I, a Palmer livyd here
And travyld still till worne wyth age,
I endyd this world’s pylgramage,
On the blyst assention day
In the cherful month of May;
A thowsand wyth fowre hundryd seven,