Upon it are deeply cut the following inscriptions:--
Here lyes the Body
of William Clarke,
who was Clarke of this
Church 51 years, and buried
March 25th, 1525, aged 96.
Here lyes the Body
of William Clarke,
Clarke of this Church 71
years, who died Septem. 26,
1562, and aged 86.
The father lived in the reigns of six different kings, viz. Henry the
Sixth, Edwards the Fourth and Fifth, Richard the Third, and Henry the
Seventh and Eighth. The son in seven reigns, viz. from Edward the Fourth
to Mary the First.
_Morning Chronicle, October 8, 1822._
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LINES
_Written by a ragged Irishman, a passenger on board a vessel with the
Archbishop of Tuam._
If each man had his suum,
You would not have Tuam,
But I should get meum,
And sing a _Te Deum_.
G.K.
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MAY.
The following verses were composed by John Barbour, a poet and divine,
who was born at Aberdeen in 1330. They afford a specimen of the poetry
in his time:--
"This was in midst of month of May,
When birdis sing on ilka spray,
Melland[5] their notes, with seemly soun,
For softness of the sweet seasoun.
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