In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent
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[Illustration: FIG. 44. WILMINGTON.] [Illustration: FIG. 45. WANSTEAD.] [Illustration: FIG. 46. SOUTHFLEET.] [Illustration: FIG. 47. WILMINGTON.] [Illustration: FIG. 48. LEWISHAM.] [Illustration: FIG. 49. BUNHILL FIELDS.] FIG. 44.--AT WILMINGTON. "To Richard Barman, died 1793, aged 71 years." More elegant testimony is paid by the figure of a winged urn in Wanstead Old Churchyard, the flame which burns above indicating, it would seem, that though the body be reduced to ashes, the soul survives. FIG. 45.--AT WANSTEAD. "To William Cleverly, died 1780, aged 40 years." Eternity is usually, as we have seen, represented by an endless ring--often as a serpent. It is so in the Southfleet sketch, in which appear the two horns of the archangels, and the living torch, with |
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