The Archive · 1923

An Interesting Epitaph

To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Datty News."

Sir,—The explanation of the epitaph, We were not slayne but raised, Raysed not to life, But to be buried twice By men of strife.

What rest could th'living have When dead have none Agree amongst you He ere we ten are one, Hen Rogers died April_17, 1641, is tha, Oliver Cromwell housed his troops in the old Priory doin, much damage. He ram short of lead for bullets and hearing that there were lead coffins in the cemetery he had nine contents emptied into the latest one, namely that of Rogers who, as we are informed, died April 17, 1641, using the lead as stated, I am, eto, Tsinanfu, Sept. 20, 1923,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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