The following is from St. Julian's church, Shrewsbury:--
The remains of HENRY CORSER of this parish, Chirurgeon, who Deceased April 11, 1691, and Annie his wife, who followed him the next day after:--
We man and wife, Conjoined for Life, Fetched our last breath So near that Death, Who part us would, Yet hardly could. Wedded againe, In bed of dust, Here we remaine, Till rise we must. A double prize this grave doth finde, If you are wise keep it in minde.
In St. Anne's Churchyard, Soho, erected by the Earl of Orford (Walpole), in 1758, these lines were (or are) to be read:--
Near this place is interred THEODORE, King of Corsica, Who died in this Parish December XI., MDCCLVI., Immediately after leaving The _King's Bench Prison_, By the benefit of the _Act of Insolvency_; In consequence of which He _registered his Kingdom of Corsica For the use of his Creditors_!
The grave--great teacher--to a level brings Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings! But THEODORE this moral learned, ere dead; Fate pour'd its lessons on his living head, Bestow'd a kingdom, and denied him bread.
In the burial-ground of the Island of Juan Fernandez, a monument states:--
In Memory of ALEXANDER SELKIRK, Mariner, A native of Largo, in the county of Fife, Scotland, Who lived on this island, in complete solitude, for four years and four months. He was landed from the Cinque Ports galley, 96 tons, 18 guns, A.D. 1704, and was taken off in the Duke, privateer, 12th February, 1709. He died Lieutenant of H.M.S. Weymouth, A.D. 1723, aged 47 years. This Tablet is erected near Selkirk's look out, By Commodore Powell and the Officers of H.M.S. Topaze, A.D. 1868.
It is generally believed that the adventures of Selkirk suggested to Daniel Defoe the attractive story of "Robinson Crusoe." In the "Dictionary of English Literature," by William Davenport Adams, will be found important information bearing on this subject.
In _Gloucester Notes and Queries_ we read as follows: "Stout's Hill is the name of a house situated on high ground to the south of the Village of Uley, built in the style which, in the last century, was intended for Gothic, but which may be more exactly defined as the 'Strawberry Hill' style. In a house of earlier date lived the father of Samuel Rudder, the laborious compiler of the _History of Gloucestershire_ (1779). He lies in the churchyard of Uley, on the south side of the chancel, and his grave-stone has a brass-plate inserted, which records a remarkable fact:--