John Smith of Hickling
An interesting grave epitaph
Everard L. Guilford, writing in 1910* records the following epitaph (dated 1725) in the churchyard at Hickling in memory of one John Smith:-
This world's a city full of crooked streets,
Death is ye market-place where all me meets,
If life were merchandise yt men cold buy,
The rich would often live and poor men die
* GUILFORD, Everard L Nottinghamshire (London: Methuen, 1910) p.99
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