Summary: Written not long before 31 January 1758 presumably at the request of John Clerke to commemorate his wife Jane who died 27 April 1757 aged 31. Inscribed on a mural tablet in St George's parish church, Beckenham, Kent, 1758. First published, as "An Epitaph copied from a Tomb-stone in a Country Church Yard", in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1759.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 42, 83; Pearce, E. H. and Leonard Whibley (eds.), The Correspondence of Richard Hurd and William Mason (Cambridge, 1932), 168
Contents: Transcript, possibly in the hand of Richard Hurd, here untitled and headed "By Mr. Gray", together with a Latin version, in the papers of Richard Hurd.