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The following quaint epitaph is from a tomb on the North side of Pannal Church, and refers to a former proprietor of the Crown Hotel, Harrogate Wells
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HERE
Lieth the Body
of
J0SEPH THACKWRAY by Name,
Who, by the help of God,
Brought Sulphur Wells to Fame.
In the year of our Lord 1740
I came to the Crown ;
In 1791 they laid me Down.
When I shall rise again,
No man can surely tell;
But, in hopes of Heaven,
I'm not afraid of Hell.
To Friends I bid farewell,
And part without a Frown ;
In hopes to rise again,
And have a better Crown.
He departed this Life the 26th of November,
in the 79th year of his
AGE."
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