The old church of St. Mary's, Sculcoates, Hull, contains several interesting monuments, and we give a picture from a specially taken photograph for this volume of a quaint-looking mural memorial, having on it an inscription in shorthand. Sheahan's "History of Hull," the following translation is given :

In

In the vault beneath this stone lies the body of Mrs. JANE DELAMOTH, who departed this life, 10th January, 1761. She was a poor sinner, but not wicked without holiness, departing from good works, and departed in the faith of the Catholic Church, in full assurance of eternal happiness, by the agony and bloody sweat, by the cross and passion, by the precious death and burial, by the glorious resurrection and ascension of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. We believe that the foregoing is a unique epitaph, at all events we have not heard of or seen any other monumental inscription in shorthand. The following curious epitaph is from Wirksworth, Derbyshire :—

Near this place lies the body of

PHILIP SHULLCROSS,

Once an eminent Quill-driver to the attorneys in this Town. He died the 17th of Nov., 1787, aged 67.

Viewing Philip in a moral light, the most prominent and remarkable features in his character were his zeal and invincible attachment to dogs and cats, and his unbounded benevolence towards them, as well as towards his fellowcreatures.

TO THE CRITIC.

Seek not to show the devious paths Phil trode,
Nor tear his frailties from their dread abode,

In modest sculpture let this tombstone tell,

That much esteem'd he lived, and much regretted fell. At Castleton, in the Peak of Derbyshire, is another curious epitaph, partly in English and partly in Latin, to the memory of an attorney-atlaw named Micah Hall, who died in 1804. It is said to have been penned by himself, and is more epigrammatic than reverent. It is as follows:

Το

The memory of

MICAH HALL, Gentleman,

Attorney-at-Law,

Who died on the 14th of May, 1804,

Aged 79 years.

Quid eram, nescitis;

Quid sum, nescitis;

Ubi abii, nescitis;

Valete.

This verse has been rendered thus:—

What I was you know not

What I am you know not

Whither I am gone you know not-
Go about your business.

In Sarnesfield churchyard, near Weobley, is the tombstone of John Abel, the celebrated architect of the market-houses of Hereford, Leominster, Knighton, and Brecknock, who died in the year

1694, having attained the ripe old age of ninetyseven. The memorial stone is adorned with three statues in kneeling posture, representing Abel and his two wives; and also displayed are the emblems of his profession-the rule, the compass, and the square-the whole being designed and sculptured by himself. The epitaph, a very quaint one, was also of his own writing, and runs thus :This craggy stone a covering is for an architector's bed; That lofty buildings raised high, yet now lyes low his head; His line and rule, so death concludes, are locked up in store; Build they who list, or they who wist, for he can build no more.

His house of clay could hold no longer

May Heaven's joys build him a stronger.
JOHN ABEL.

Vive ut vivas in vitam æternam.

In the churchyard of Walcott, Norfolk, the following cynical epitaph may be seen :

In memory of

WILLIAM WISEMAN,

who died 5th of August, 1834, aged 72 years.

Under this marble, or under this sill,

Or under this turf, or e'en what you will,
Whatever an heir, or a friend in his stead,
Or any good creature, shall lay o'er my head,
Lies one who ne'er cared, and still cares not a pin
What they said, or may say, of the mortal within,
But who, living and dying, serene, still, and free,
Trusts in God that as well as he was he shall be.