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Title: On Abigal Drummond, daughter of Robert, Archbishop of York, who lived alas! only xvi years
Author: Mason, William ?
Attribution: Mr Mason
Date(s): 1766
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Epitaph, or elegiac lament, on the death of a young girl Abigail Drummond, daughter of Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York. Followed by four further lines headed: "The four following lines were originally designed by Mr Mason to precede the
foregoing
Title: Mrs Masons Epitaph
Author: Mason, William
Attribution: Mr Mason
Date(s): 1811 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Epitaph on Maria or Mary Mason, extolling her beauty and virtue, suggesting that her life and premature death can be used as an example to others to lead godly lives.
Title: On Mrs Tatton. In the Churchyard of Withenshaw in Cheshire.
Author: Mason, William
Attribution: Mr Mason
Date(s): 177-?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Epitaph on Mrs Tatton, in which the author laments the death of his married daughter and more generally the impossibility of earthly happiness
Title: On Lady Coventry
Author: Mason, William
Attribution: Mr Mason
Date(s): 177-?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Lament on the death of Lady Coventry, praising her virtues, and reflecting on the transience of all things human.
Title: Epitaph on Mr Fountain
Author: Mason, William ?
Attribution: Mr Mason
Date(s): 177- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Elegiac lament for the death of a youth, full of promise, teaching that man
should not question God's unknowable ways