Jenking, Matilda

[Round edge] Here lyeth the Body of Matilda the Daughter of Matthew Sharrock and Agnew His Wife. Born the First of January and in the year of our Lord 1698 and this life departed the Thirty First of July 1750. [In centre] To William Jenking almost 32 years I was a wife/ I hope I always lived a virtuous life/ Search the register and in it you may plainly read/ I had by him eleven sons besides daughters three/ One son I had among the rest his fancy for to please/ Resolved was to go on board and cross o'er the salt seas/ Unto the East Indies in Fort Davids Road/ It happened then his sad fate to be that time on board/ One of his Present Majesty's ships called Namur/ The name I never more could bear to hear nor could endure/ When the stormy winds did rise and billows they did roar/ Several hundreds of dead bodies there lay dashing on the shore/ The news of this made my poor heart and flesh to pine away/ So here my body lyeth now amidst this cold bed of clay/ Yet though my body here doth lie amid this clod of clay/ I hope that it will rise again at the Great Judgement Day/ When Christ shall call for me and all to come before his throne/ And reunite soul and body again together both in one/ There to receive the judgement then as He shall think most meet/ A due reward of all our deeds as Christ shall judge most fitt