The Following Lines Are Cut on a Tombstone in Haltwhistle Church Yard, Northumberland
Ihon Redle that som tim did be,
The laird of the Waltoun;
Gon is he out of thes vale of misery,
His bons lies under this ston.
We must beleve be God’s mersy,
Into thes world gave hes son;
Then for to redem al christens,
So Christ haes hes soul woon.
All faithful peple may be faen,
When dath coms, that non can fre:
The bode kept the soul in paen,
Through Christ is set at liberte.
Among blesed compane to remaen,
To slep in Christ nowe is he gon;
Yet stil beleves to hav again,
Though Christ a jouful resurrecshon.
Al frends ma be glad to hear,
When hes soul from paen did go:
Out of this world as doeth appear,
In the year of our Lord, 1562.
N.B. The above John Ridley is supposed to have been brother to Bishop Ridley, who was burnt at Oxford, October 16th, 1555, he was the possessor of, and lived at Wall-town, and was one of the ancestors of the present Sir Matthew White Ridley, of Blagdon, in Northumberland, M.P. for Newcastle.