Stepney Church-Vard. At the East end of the Church, on the outside, is a spacious marble monument against the wall, adorned with a cherub, urn volutas, palm, branches, and the arms namely: Five paly of six or, and azureo on a between two bends wavy argent. With the following Inscription : Here lies interred the body of DAME REBECCA BERRY, The Wife of Thomas Ellon, of Stratford-bow, gent. Who departed this life, April 26, 1696; Aged 52 years. Come ladies, you that would appear K Which once adorn'd as fair a mind, These ne'er disturb'd her peaceful mind, The same in low-in high estate, Ne'er vext with this, ne'er mov'd with that. As fair, as great, as good as she, Mr. Lysons has inserted a note on this Coat of Arms, which I shall insert, “This Coat of Arms, which exactly corresponds with that borne by Ventris of Cambridgeshire, (as described in the visitation of that County, at the Herald's College, C,XI. p. 23.) has given rise to a tradition that Lady Berry was the Heroine of a popular ballad, called The Cruel Knight or Fortunate Farmer's Daughter." a The story of which is briefly this :- A Knight passing by a cottage, hears the cries of woman in labour, his knowledge in the occult science, informs him, that the child then born was destined to be his wife; his endeavours to elude the decrees of fate, and avoid so ignoble an alliance, by various attempts to destroy the child, are defeated. At length when grown to woman's state, he takes her to the sea side, intending to drown her, but relents; at the same time throwing a ring into the sea, he commands her never to see his face again, on pain of instant death, unless she can produce that ring. She afterwards becomes a cook, and finds the ring in a-cod fish, as she is dressing it for dinner.-The marriage takes place of course. IN MEMORY OF MISS MARY HODGON, Late of Kingston-upon-Hull, Who died, 10th November, 1813; aged 18 years. The wintry blast of death kills not the buds of virtue, Beneath the heavenly beams of brighter suns, ON AN INFANT. Once lovely and dearly belov'd, Under a stone, South from the Church, was interred the Pilgrim, as he was commonly called. It had this Inscription : Here remains all that was mortal of MR. ROGER CRABB, Who entered into eternity, the 11th September, 1680 ; Aged 60. Tread gently, reader, near the dust, TO THE MEMORY OF The following persons, who all suffered in a MRS. BARBARA FORD, Aged 71 years; MR. JOSEPH WILLIAMS, MARY his WIFE, and DAUGHTER of the above. MRS. BARBARA FORD, ESTHER WILLIAMS, JOSEPH WILLIAMS, Aged 9 years; AND RICHARD WILLIAMS, Aged 7 years; Children of the aforesaid JOSEPH and MARY WILLIAMS. Tremendous God, thy sov'reign power, |