25 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 18

[To- the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I believe that the

_following verse on a brass in Chester. field Parish Church, in memory of an aged townsman who died about the year 1700,. has never been printed :—

" 0-Poora house of clay how empty now thou lied When r11 the furniture is gone- to Paradise.

Angels has conveyed to heaven the Jewell mind Arid `nothing but the cabinet left behind." .

I quote from memory, but I think correctly. The brass is unevenly but beautifully -lettered. To me the epitaph bas the .rare quality of perpetuating the sense of a delightful