AN EPITAPH ON M r. JOHN SMITH, alias ASHBURNHAM, Who having been an Eminent and most Notorious Robber on the Highway was Executed on the 26th of this present May, 1684. for Murder committed on the Road; and hangs now on Samford Hill in Chains.  
HEre Uninterred suspends that Highway Man  
Sur-named Smith, nicknamed Ashburnham:  
Who for his Ill Deeds, and Notorious,  
Is in Chains thus trussed up before us.  
Justice and Law Ordained him to be  
So sad an Object of Mortality:  
Thereto remain, a Terror to affright  
All wicked Men that do in Sins delight.  

As that of Murder, Rapine, Robery,  
Lust, uncleanness, and of Adultery,  
Riot, Drunkenness, and of Gluttony:   
Abuse of Plenty, full Carousing Bowls,  
Prising the Life of Sense above their Souls.  
This is the Reason, and the Cause that they  
May Warning take, and not in the Highway  
Be Hanged in Chains, as he doth to the Shame  
And Disgrace of's Family and Name.  
But yet his Body is Entombed in Air,  
Arched over with Twenty thousand fair  
And Glorious shining Stars; and I have  
Faith enough to believe, that ' though a Grave  
Be wanting to's Body, yet's Soul may be  
Truly Happy to all Eternity.  
For as his Sins were very great and many,  
So his Repentance scarce outdone by any.  Faelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cantum.  

LONDON, Printed by George Croom, at the Sign of the Blue Ball over against Baynard's Castle in Thames street, 1684.