Writer Augustus Hare quotes the inscription in the appendix of his Epitaphs for Country Churchyards (1856).
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He or she was very resourceful: I copied it from an inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral, and a military friend then quartered there informed me that a statement once appeared in Fraser's Magazine to the effect that the quatrain commencing "Here sleeps in peace," was written by Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, sometime Bishop of Winchester.
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Thomas Thetcher's tombstone at Winchester Cathedral features a poem that blames his death on drinking small beer while hot.