Poem From St. Margaret's Church, Ockley: Parish Register and Margesson Family Records (1539–1707)
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- Document type
- Church Record
- Date
- 1539–1707
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"On the first page of the register reads a version of a very familiar poem that appears every November:
"Remember Remember ye
5th of November is gunpowder
Treason and plot
I know no reason
why gunpowder treason
should be forgot
ever"[1]
There are several other poems in the register, one starting with the line, "Mans Body is Like a house", and another, "Poor man when Threescore winters he has told". It is possible that these are poems written by members of the Margesson family, and many are homilies about living your life wisely; not even the innocence of childhood is left out:
"The New born Infants in the cradle lies; And when it sleeps not; fills
Our ears with Cries; Being grown big with foolish spoorts and play
The first ten years of life are thrown away; yet he Injoys;
Till those ten years are over; That Inocence which he must boast no more.""