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.