" SURSU3I CORDA I " ITO THE EDITOR or THE
SFECFATOR."1 Stn,—I think that perhaps the beauty and calm hopefulness of a seventeenth-century epitaph may have a message for many of your readers who have suffered through this devastating war. The inscription met my eye in the Church of St. tiles, Cripplegate, and abides helpfully in my mind:— "To the memorie of Constance Whitney, eldest daughter to Sr. Robert Whitney of Whitney, the proper possession of Him and his ancestors in Herefordshire for above 500 yeares past, by Constance Kingsmel, daughter and Heyre of Richard Kingemel, surveior of the Court of Warden—The lady Lucy, fourth daughter of Sr. Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warwickshire, bred her since shoe was eight yeeres old. That ghee excelled in all noble qualities boesmming a Virgin, of no aweete proportion of beauty and liar- monie of parts, thee bad all sweetness of manners answerable, a delightful sharpness of Witt, an offenseless modeatie of conversa- tion, a singuler respect and pietie to her parents, tint relighins even to example.—Shea departed this life most Chrintianhy at Seaventeen, dyeing [to] the griefe of all, but to her Grandmother an unrecoverable Joss, save in her expectation shoe shall not stay long after her, and the comfort of knowing Whose ghee is, and where in the Resurrection to meets her."
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