23 AUGUST 1884, Page 16

RARE EPITAPHS.

[To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following is from the interior of the Church of St. Peter's, liancroft, in this city, which has recently been restored, with great judgment and good taste :— " Here lyeth ye body of Svsan Browne, ye last deceased of eleven children. Ye first ten interred before ye northern porch without. All descended from their svrviving parents, John and Svsan, his wife. She sovght a city to come, and vpon ye thirtieth of Avgvst she de- parted hence and found it. Salvtis Anno 1686. 2Etatis svaa 19.

'Here lyes a single flower scarcely blowne ; Ten more before the northern gate are strowne, Pluekt from the self-same stalke onely to be Transplanted to a better nursery.'"