FREELAND, Rebecca (d.1741)

Epitaph in Edwalton churchyard

Near the porch of the church of St.Lawrence, noted Guilford*, there stood a tombstone bearing these lines:-

"She drank good Ale, good Punch and Wine,

And liv'd to th' Age of ninety-nine"

 

* From GUILFORD, Everard L. Nottinghamshire (London: Methuen & Co., 1910), p.83

 

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