 | Samuel Tymms - England - 1832 - 262 pages
...aged 102, Mary Cross, widow. On a monument in WARLINGHAM Church, are the following curious lines : " O cruel Death, what hast thou done, To take from us...hast taken toll, ground, and drest his grist, The brand lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ." At Clandon Place, WEST CLANDON, built by the first... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - Counties - 1842 - 256 pages
...aged 102, Mary Cross, widow. On a monument in WARLINGHAM Church, are the following curious lines: " O cruel Death, what hast thou done, To take from us...hast taken toll, ground, and drest his grist, The brand lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ." At Clandon Place, WEST CLANDON, built by the first... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - Surrey (England) - 1844 - 288 pages
...month. — The lord of the manor upholds the premises, and pays the poor. 18 Manning and Bray, (SURREY, vol. ii. p. 432), preserve the following singular...worth four thousand pounds, which he humanely divided. The interest of this epitaph is heightened by the discovery of the fact, that, according to the authors... | |
 | John Harland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1876 - 484 pages
...neighbourhood, on the tombstone of a miller (Lionel Gregory), gives the pronunciation of this word : — ' 0 cruel Death, what hast thou done. To take from us...darling Son ? Thou hast taken toll, ground and drest his griit, The hran lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ.' Gnit. or Gurt, corruption of great; generally... | |
 | Granville William Gresham Leveson Gower - English language - 1876 - 488 pages
...neighbourhood, on the tombstone of a miller (Lionel Gregory), gives the pronunciation of this word : — 1 0 cruel Death, what hast thou done, To take from us our mother's darling Son P Thou hast taken toll, ground and drest his griit, The In an lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ.'... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - English language - 1876 - 180 pages
...neighbourhood, on the tombstone of a miller (Lionel Gregory), gives tho pronunciation of this word :— ' 0 cruel Death, what hast thou done, To take from us our mother's darling Son P Thou hast taken toll, ground and drest his grist, The hrau lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ.'... | |
 | George Phillips Bevan - 1879 - 164 pages
...inscription on a tombstone to a miller, which formerly existed here. It is worth preserving:— " 0 cruel Death, what hast thou done, To take from us our mother's darling son? Thou has taken toll, ground and drest his grist, The bran lieth here, the flour hath gone to Christ." The... | |
 | Robert Phillips Anderson - Reigate (England) - 1885 - 412 pages
...Chelsham are also on the hills. In the former churchyard was a stone with this inscription : — " In memory of Mr. Lionel Gregory, late of Mitcham in...master thirty years, and never said " No " by night or day : he died worth four thousand pounds, which he humanely divided." The tomb of Alderman Kelly... | |
 | England - 1900 - 408 pages
...1760, aged 102, Mary Cross, widow. On a monument in Warlingham Church are the following curious lines : "O cruel Death, what hast thou done, To take from...hast taken toll, ground, and drest his grist, The brand lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ." At Clandon Place or House, West Clandon, built by the... | |
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Gregory), gives the pronunciation of this word : — ' 0 cruel Death, what hast thou done. To take from us our mother's darling Son ? Thou hast taken toll, ground and drest his griit, The hran lieth here, the flour is gone to Christ. 