A correspondent, MERCURII, has also directed our attention to a small
volume, published in 1848, by one of the most valued contributors to
our own columns, MR. DAWSON TURNER, under the title of _Sepulchral
Reminiscences of a Market Town, as afforded by a List of the
Interments within the Walls of the Parish Church of St. Nicholas,
Great Yarmouth, collected chiefly from Monuments and Gravestones still
remaining, June, 1845_. This little volume may be regarded as a public
testimony on the part of MR. DAWSON TURNER to the value of the plan
under consideration, and there are few antiquaries whose opinions are
entitled to greater respect upon this or any other point to which he
has devoted his talents and attention. Can we doubt, then, the success
of a plan which has met with such general approbation, and is
undertaken with so praiseworthy an object,--an object which may well
be described in the words which Weever used when stating the motive
which led him to undertake the publication of his _Funeral Monuments_,
viz., "To check the unsufferable injury, offered as well to the living
as to the dead, by breaking down and almost utterly ruinating
monuments with their epitaphs, and by erasing, tearing away, and
pilfering brazen inscriptions, by which inhumane deformidable act, the
honorable memory of many virtuous and noble persons deceased is
extinguished, and the true understanding of divers families is so
darkened, that the course of their inheritance is thereby partly
interrupted."
Notes.