Note HT — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 3)
Reading edition
Grasmere churchyard was, in Wordsworth's time,
almost wholly free From interruption of sepulchral stones.
Compare the Fenwick note to the Epistle to Sir George Beaumont (vol. iv. p. 258). Dr. Cradock wrote in 1878—"I cannot count more than two or three gravestones of earlier date than 1800. Most of the others are of a much more recent date."—ED.