Anonymous British

Epitaph Of Madam Babington, 1

Here lyeth the body of Madam Babington, who was laid in this sepulchre the 9th Sep. 1670. My time is past as you may see, I viewed the dead as you do me; Or long you'll lie as low as I, And some will look on thee. [Catharine Haslerigg was the eldest daughter of Sir Arthur Haslerigg, Bart. , of Noseley Hall in the county of Leicester. She was born at Brooke House, London, in November 1635. She first married Col. Fenwick, and later Col. Philip Babington, another celebrated character during the commonwealth, and died at Harnham, in the parish of Bolam, Northumberland, August 28th, 1670, where she was interred in a vault cut out of a rock in the garden, now called the Tomb-garden. "She was interred in a leaden coffin, most of which, and some of the bones, were remaining when Mr. Wallis [the first historian of Northumberland] visited the place [in 1760]. Some faws [itinerant besom-makers, tinkers or muggers], however several years since, rifled the tomb, and stole part of the coffin; but the following inscriptions, the first on stone, the second painted on wood, still remain with it:. . . "] ~ The History and Antiquities of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth, &c. , vol. 1, pg. 495, printed 1858.