What is recorded here

The graveslab of John Dobbs who died in 1679 is preserved under a fitted carpet in the aisle of the present Church of Ireland church of St. Molua. The inscription has been recorded (Shirley 1879, 373; Maffett 1891) as: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF / JOHN DOBBS WHO DEPARTED / THIS LIFE MAY THE 17th 1679. / MORTVVS. / LOCKT VP IN HOPEFULL SILEN / CE HERE I LYE, WHAT ONCE I / WAS OTHERS MAY TELL, NOT I. / TVMVLVS. / WHO ERE THOV ART HERE I / PROTECT THE DVST, / OF ONE WAS KNOWING, KIND, / GENTLE, AND JVST; / THE HEART THAT GRVDGES / THIS TO HIM THATS GONE, / IS HARDER MVCH THAN MINE / THO THAT IS STONE.

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