On Dr. Walker, who wrote a book on English
      Particles: 

    “Here lie Walker’s Particles.”

  On Dr. Fuller: 

    “Here lies Fuller’s Earth.”

The same misplaced jocularity must be accountable for an enigmatical inscription at St. Andrew’s, Worcester, on the tomb of a man who died in 1780, aged 65 years: 

  “H.L.T.B.O. 
      R.W. 
  I.H.O.A.J.R.”

This, we are told, should be read as follows: 

  “Here lyeth the Body of
      Richard Weston
  In hope of a Joyful Resurrection.”

Rhymed epitaphs have a history almost contemporaneous with that of the old gravestones, having their flourishing period between the middle of the seventeenth century and the early part of the nineteenth century.  They were little used in England prior to the reign of James the First, and it is supposed that Mary, Queen of Scots, brought the custom from France.  She is also said to have been an adept at composing epitaphs, and some attributed to her are extant.

It may be suspected also that other inventors have written a vast number of the more or less apocryphal elegies which go to make up the many books of epitaphs which have been published; but this is a point wide of our subject, and we must be careful in our Rambles that we do not go astray.

INDEX.

Abbotts, Stapleford, 47.  Aberdeen, 89.  Aberystwith, 31.  Absalom’s Pillar, 98.  Acts of Parliament, 58, 59.  Afghanistan, 62.  Agricultural gravestones, 32, 33, 34.  “Amazon,” privateer ship, 81.  America, 58.  Anglo-Saxon Churches, 38.  Artizaus’ gravestones, 31.  Ashford, 23.  Assyrian tomb, 104.  Atkinson, G. M., on “Ogams.” 97.

Balbriggan, 79.  Bangor, Ireland, 80, 81.  Barking, 43.  Barnes, 32.  Barnet, 46, 76.  Barra, 101, 102.  Bath, 106.  Beckenham, 33.  Belfast, 78.  Belgium, 91.  Benenden, 16.  Bermondsey, 29.  Bethnal Green, 65.  Bexley, 41, 42.  Bishop of diocese, 73.  Black gravestones, 76.  Blackheath, 38.  Blacksmith, village, 31.  “Blackwood’s Magazine,” 75.  Blairgowrie, 88.  Board of Health, 59.  Bodiam, 16.  Book of Common Prayer, 54.  Boutell’s “Monuments,” 36.  Braemar, 86, 89.  Brandeston, Suffolk, 56.  Brash on “Ogams,” 97, 103.  Bressay stone, 100.  Bretons, 62, 63.  Bricklayer’s gravestone, 33.  British Museum, 99, 103, 104.  Britons, aboriginal, 50.  Bromley, 33.  Broxbourne, 45.  Buckhurst Hill, 45.  Bunhill Fields graveyard, 26, 27.  Burial in churches, 51.  Burial Service, 54.  Burke, Edmund, 51.

Caeesar, 50.  Carmichael, Mr., 101.  Carpenters’ gravestones, 31, 32.  Cattle in churchyards, 55.  Chalk, parish of, 13, 14.  Champion, S., 41.  Cheltenham, 68.  Cheshunt, 22, 69.  Chigwell, 46.  Chinese, 62.  Chingford, 45.  Chiselhurst, 19.  Christian burial, 50.  City Corporation, 58.  Clarkson, D.A., 61.  Cliffe, 21.  Closing graveyards, 59, 60.  Clubbe, Rev. Mr., 55.  Cobham, 31.  Colchester, court at, 55.  Colvill, Capt., 81.  Commonwealth, 53.  Continental gravestones, 91.  Cooling parish, 23.  Cornwall, 100, 104.  Covenanters, 84, 86.  Cranbrook, 16, 48.  Crayford, 17, 107.  Cray Valley, 38.  Culbinsgarth, Shetland, 100.  Cuthbert, Archbishop, 49.