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TOMBSTONES IN COPLE PARISH.
From a tombstone in the Burnt-House fields, at Mount Pleasant,
Westmoreland county, where are yet to be seen the foundations
of large buildings, are the following:—
"Hic conditur corpus Richardi Lee, Armigeri, nati in Virginia, filii
Richardi Lee, generosi, et antiqua familia, in Merton-Regis, in comitatu
Salopiensi, oriundi.
"In magistratum obeundo boni publici studiosissimi, in literis Græcis
et Latinis et aliis humanioris literaturæ disciplinis versatissimi.
"Deo, quem, summa observantia semper coluit, animam tranquillus
reddidit xii. mo. die Martii, anno MDCCXIV. ætat. LXVIII."
"Hic, juxta, situm est corpus Lætitiæ ejusdem uxoris fidæ, filiæ Henrici
Corbyn, generosi, liberorum matris amantissimæ, pietate erga Deum,
charitate erga egenos, benignitate erga omnes insignis. Obiit Octob. die
vi. MDCCVI. ætatis XLIX."
The first is thus translated:—
"Here lieth the body of Richard Lee, Esq., born in Virginia, son of
Richard Lee, Gentleman, descended of an ancient family of Merton-Regis,
in Shropshire.
"While he exercised the office of a magistrate he was a zealous promoter
of the public good. He was very skilful in the Greek and Latin
languages and other parts of polite learning. He quietly resigned his
soul to God, whom he always devoutly worshipped, on the 12th day of
March, in the year 1714, in the 68th year of his age."
The second is thus translated:—
"Near by is interred the body of Lettuce, his faithful wife, daughter
of Henry Corbyn, Gentleman. A most affectionate mother, she was also
She died on the 6th day of October, 1706, in the 49th year of her age."
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