The antiquary William Andrews spent years copying inscriptions from gravestones, and here sorts his finds by theme: epitaphs on parish clerks and sextons, printers, sportsmen, tradesmen, drinkers, soldiers and sailors, along with punning verses and strange memorials. Most are gathered from churchyards rather than earlier books, and a bibliography of epitaphs closes the volume.
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