Читать книгу Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 - Various - Страница 2

Being on a visit to some friends on the confines of the county of Salop, bordering on Herefordshire, I took the opportunity long cherished of visiting the spot where lie the remains of the author of Boscobel; Fragmenta Antiquitatis, or Ancient Tenures of Land, and Jocular Customs of Manors, &c., and copied the following inscription from his monument, in the chancel of the ancient church of Orleton in the latter county. I believe it has never been published; and although neither Note nor Query is connected with it, it may serve to fill up a corner in your valuable miscellany, and thus preserve from the oblivion of a retired country church, a memorial of one well known to the antiquarian world of literature. It is on a brass plate inserted in a stone monument against the wall of the chancel:

"D.O.M

Hic seminatur Corpus Animale

Spiritale resurrecturum

Thomæ Blount

De Orleton in agro Herefordiensi Armigeri,

Ex interiori Templo Londini J Cti

Viri priscis Moribus avitæ Fidei,

Vitæ integerrimæ, Pietatis solidæ,

Fidelitatem, Dilectionem, Amorem, Charitatem,

In Principem, Suos, Amicos, Omnes,

Illibate coluit

Uxorem duxit

Annam

Filiam Eadmundi Church Armigeri

E Maldoniâ East Saxonum

Unicâ Corporis prole

(Elizabetha)

Mentis multiplici

(Libris utilissimis)

Familiam propagavit, perennavit Famam

Requiem, Lector, si fas ducis, huic apprecare

Et melior abi

Obiit Decembris 26, 1679. Ætatis 61

——

Pientissima Coniunx

mœrens

Posuit."

The village of Orleton is celebrated for a very large annual fair, which occurs on April 23; and a saying is connected therewith: "That the cuckoo always comes on Orleton fair-day;" which has doubtless arisen from the circumstance, that this "messenger of spring" generally arrives in this country by that day.

J. B. Whitborne.