[To THE EDITOR OF VI " SPECTATOR."'
SIR,—I have not seen the following epitaphs among those which have appeared lately in your columns. You may think them sufficiently quaint to deserve publication :-
" Here lies Mary, the wife of John Ford, We hope her soul has gone to the Lord ; But if for hell she has changed this life, She bad better be there than be John Ford's wife."
This (date 1790), which appears in Mr. Ravenshaw's book of " Autiente Epitaphes," is said by him to have been formerly at Potterne, in Wiltshire :— " Here lies Robert Trowlup, Who made you stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole rip."
This is quoted thus by Surtees, in his " History of the County of Durham," as having been formed y on the tomb of Robert
Trollope (architect of the Town Hall, Newcastle, 169), who was buried at Gateshead on December 11th, 16,36. I have, however, reason to believe that this inscription still exists somewhere in
the North. Can any of your readers tell me where P A wrong version appears in the Gentleman's Magazine for 17kH.—I am,
176 Cronzwell Road, S. fr., September 1st.
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