Note 383 — Chapter XVIII
Reading edition
See Cansick’s interesting and painstaking work, A Collection of curious and interesting Epitaphs ... in the Ancient Church and Burial Grounds of St. Pancras. London, 1869. ‘It is lamentable,’ says the author, ‘to see the dilapidated state of the monuments in this ground, belonging to wealthy and well-known families, which for a few pounds might be restored and made a credit to the churchyard.’