Notes & Queries Archive
NOTE1850

Epitaph of a Wine Merchant

By J. W. H.

The following is very beautiful, and well deserves a Note. It is copied from an inscription in All Saints Church, Cambridge. "In Obitum Mri. Johannis Hammond Oenopolae Epitaphium. Spiritus ascendit generosi Nectaris astra, Juxta Altare Calix hic jacet ecce sacrum, Corporū αναστασει cū fit Communia magna Unio tunc fuerit Nectaris et Calicis."

Topics: Epitaphs, Wine Merchants, Victorian Inscriptions

Locations: All Saints Church, Cambridge