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Memorial to Miss
Howard
THE LATE MISS HOWARD, OF CORBY. - A monument has lately been
erected in the Cemetery of St. Lorenzo at Rome to the memory
of the late Miss Mary Francis Howard, eldest child of P. H.
Howard, Esq., of Corby Castle, Cumberland, whose death
occured at Rome on the 24th of June last (see the
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, N.S. vol.iv., p.257). The following is
a copy of the inscription: "[alpha chi-ro omega] Hic in pace
Christi quiescit Maria Francisca, Philippi Henrici Howard,
F., Nobili Anglorum genere; quae Romam concedens ut Petri,
Apostolorum principis. solemnibus saecularibus interesset,
febri praecipiti absumpta est, viii. Kal. Quintil. an.
MDCCCLXVII. an. na. XX M.V.D.XII. Moriens Christi Jesu, quem
unice adamarat cordi se suamque vitam obtulit. Vale, et vive
in Deo, Maria Francisca.
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