Longnor.-I shall conclude these examples by a remarkable circumstance of another house being restored in the same style and character on the original site. At the corner of the old mansion of the Burtons, at Longnor, is a tomb erected over the body of an ancestor of the present family, who, having early become a protestant, died through excess of joy at the news of Queen Elizabeth's accession to the throne, and was refused burial in St. Chad's church, at Shrewsbury. On this tomb (though now scarcely legible) is the following inscription, in characters of that date:- HERE LIETH THE BODY OF EDWARD BURTON, ESQ. WHO DIED ANNO DOMINI 1558. Was't for denying Christ, or some notorious fact, That this man's body Christian burial lack't? Oh no, not so! his faithful, true profession, Was the chief cause, which then was held transgression. When Popery here did reign, the see of Rome Would not admit to any such a tomb Within her idol-temple walls; but he, Truly professing Christianity, Was like Christ Jesus in a garden laid, Where he shall rest in peace till it be said, Come, faithful servant, come receive with me A just reward for thy integrity."
