[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—Here are one or two more somewhat unusual and original epitaphs from old Irish churches.

The first is one from a monument in a church in County Cork. It is to a former Rector and runs as follows :-

" To the Glory of God

and in Memory of The Revd. Devereux Spratt. • Born May 1st, 1620, in Somersetshire.

Graduated at Oxford. • Ordained 1640 in the Diocese of Ardfert, Co. Kerry, Ireland.

Imprisoned and Besieged there 1841.

Escaped under escort to Cork.

Captured 'off the Coast by an Algerian Corsair—and sold as A Slave in Algiers.

Ransomed by Leghorn Merchants.

Returned to England 1847.

•

Rector of this Parish of Brigown ' or Mitchelstown 1661 to 1663.

Died 1688.

`In journeyings often, in Perils of waters, In Perils of Robbers, In Perils by mine own Countrymen,

In Perils by the- Heathen.'

Cor. 2, Chap. xi.

Erected by Vice-Admiral Spratt, 1880."

Another epitaph points to a moral and is to be found in the old churchyard of Holy Cross Abbey (now in ruins) near Thurles, Co. Tipperary. It runs thus

Return and do the Good That were I here I would. Remember thou must lie In dust as now rest. L"

—I am, Sir, &c., Duneske, Cahir, Co. Tipperary.

E. M. SMITH.