Afflictions Sore
A popular epitaph adorns this stone found in the abandoned graveyard of St Peter in the Rushes, Rempstone, Nottinghamshire.
Afflictions sore long time I bore,
Physicians were in vain:
Till God did please to give me ease
And rid me of my pain.
An epitaph such as this gives a hint as to how the person died, in this case, in great pain after a lengthy illness. Epitaphs such as this give a sense of the fragility of life before modern medicine, but 81 was a good age for the day.
The inscription reads:
Here lyeth interr'd the
Body of Thomas Steel
Who departed this Life the 26th
Of June Ann Dom 1731
In the 81st Year of his Age
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