Partie 47 - Proposed inscription in Thomas Carlyle's hand for the pillar at Naseby

1 sheet.

'Siste Viator

Here, and for — yards to rearward lies the Dust of men Slain in the Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645. Hereabouts appears to have been the crisis of the struggle, hereabouts the final charge of Oliver Cromwell and his Ironsides, that day.

This Ground was opened, not irreverently or with[ou]t reluctance, Sat[urda]y 23? Sept[embe]r 1842, to ascertain that fact, and render the Contemporary records legible. Peace henceforth to these old Dead.

Edwd Fitzgd (with date)'

'This with a wider margin, or in some other way distinguishable from the rest of the inscription' [written by Carlyle at the side of the text and connected by a line to the passage beginning 'This Ground was opened...'

Note in FitzGerald's hand at bottom 'Here is for some.... yards to Westward & to Eastward - '

Endorsed 'Naseby Pillar (briefest and final form)'.

Tipped into O.4.54.

O./4.54/46 is another version.

Published in Ryals, et al. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Duke-Edinburgh ed., Duke University Press, 1970-. Transcriptions available online at Carlyle Letters Online (CLO): https://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/