Here lies a breathless body and doth showe
What man is, when God claims, what man doth owe.
His soule a guest his body a trouble
His tyme an instant, and his breath a bubble.
Come Lord Jesus, come quickly.
The other was worded:
William Koope, of Little
Dartmouth dyed in Bilbao
January the 30th, 1666, in the 6
yeare of his abode there beinge
embalmed and put into a Leaden
Coffin, was, after Tenn Weekes
Tossinge on the seas, here
Below interred May ye 23
AO. DOM. 1667 AEtates svae 35.
Thomas Newcomen, born at Dartmouth in 1663, was the first man to employ
steam power in Cornish mines, and the real inventor of the steam engine.
The first steamboat on the River Dart was named after him.
In the time of the Civil War Dartmouth was taken by the Royalists, who
held it for a time, but later it was attacked from both land and sea by
Fairfax, and surrendered to the Parliament. Immediately afterwards a
rather strange event happened, as a French ship conveying despatches for
the Royalists from the Queen, Lord Goring, and others, who were in
France, entered the port, the captain being ignorant of the change that
had just taken place.
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