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PREFACE. 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 "To define an Epitaph," says Dr. Johnson, "is 
 useless ; every one knows that it is an inscription on a 
 tomb." It is from the Greek ex\ upon, tcl^oq a tomb. 
 " An epitaph, therefore, implies no particular character 
 of writing, but may be composed in verse or prose. It 
 has no rule to restrain or modify it, except this, that it 
 ought not to be longer than common beholders may be 
 expected to have leisure and patience to peruse." 
 
 Epitaphs are often very striking and affecting. In 
 a few sentences, the characters and best qualities of the 
 most renowned are brought vividly before us, and make 
 an impression which is not easily effaced. The com- 
 piler of the present work has been exceedingly in- 
 terested for many years in collecting the memorials of 
 persons whose lives have been the most distinguished 
 in the annals of fame, and thinking his publication 
 might not be uninteresting, he has ventured to consign 
 it to the candour of the public, trusting that it contains 
 nothing which could displease the most susceptible or 
 delicate minds. 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 The origin of epitaphs, the precise period when 
 first introduced, and by what nation they were first 
 used, are subjects involved in obscurity. They are 
 supposed to be " of the same age with the art of 
 writing." The practise of erecting memorials to the 
 dead, is almost coeval with the existence of the human 
 race. The Pyramids, about which so many different 
 statements have been made, are generally supposed to 
 be the oldest sepulchral monuments, even older than 
 Abraham, erected to transmit to future ages the memory 
 of the princes who builf^them. 
 
 The earliest mention of a monument being erected 
 to the memory of the dead, is recorded in Gen. xxxv, 
 20, that of Jacob setting a pillar upon Rachel's grave. 
 Six centuries after its erection, mention is made of 
 "Rachel's sepulchre," 1 Sam. x, 2, and though no 
 allusion is made to the pillar, yet it is highly probable 
 that it was then standing, and indicated her resting 
 place. Whether the pillar bore an inscription is not 
 stated, for it has often been disputed whether the 
 ancient Jews inscribed epitaphs on the monuments of 
 their dead ; but, be that as it may, it is very certain 
 that inscriptions on remarkable persons, and to com- 
 memorate remarkable events, were in use many centu- 
 ries prior to the Christian era. The most ancient 
 epitaph with which we are acquainted, is that which 
 Sardaistapaltjs, about 876 b.c, ordered to be engraven 
 on his tomb, which was to be seen at Anchiale, in the 
 time of Alexander, 543 years afterwards, with this 
 inscription uponit : — " Sardanapalus built Anchiale and 
 Tarsus in one day. Go, Passenger, eat, drink, and 
 rejoice, for the rest is nothing." 
 
 VI 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 We read in history, that the Athenians, who fell 
 at the battle of Marathon, 490 B.C., were buried in a 
 mound on the spot, and pillars set up inscribed with 
 their names. This mound or tumulus, according to our 
 British travellers, is 180 feet round, and the elevation 
 30 feet. Near it, are the remains of two sepulchral 
 monuments, standing in a line with it, to the south : 
 their foundations are of white Pentelican marble; the 
 one sacred to the memory of the Platseans and slaves 
 who fought in this battle, and the other to Miltiades, 
 the Athenian General. The latter is a large square 
 pedestal, formerly supporting a trophy: it measured 
 eighty paces at the base, and thirteen in height ; but it 
 appears that the erection of these monuments was 
 contrary to the usual custom of the Athenians. 
 
 The Amphictyons erected a magnificent monument 
 480 B.C., at Thermopylae, in honour of the brave de- 
 fenders of that celebrated pass, and upon the monument 
 were two inscriptions, one of which was general, and 
 related to all those that died at Thermopylae, importing 
 that "the Greeks of Peloponnesus, to the number only of 
 4,000, had vanquished the Persian army, ivhich consisted 
 of 3,000,000 of men: " the other related to the Spartans 
 in particular, and is very remarkable for its simplicity. 
 It was composed by the poet Simonides, and is as 
 follows : — " Go, Passenger, and tell at Lacedcemon, that 
 we died here in obedience to her sacred laws." This tumu- 
 lus, erected as a monument over the bodies of the brave 
 Spartans who were slain in defending this pass, still 
 exists. It is a conical mound of earth, covered with 
 the broken remains of a massive square pedestal, which 
 served as a foundation for some monument. Forty 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 years afterwards, Pausanias, who gained the victory 
 of Plataea, caused the bones of Leonidas, who fell 
 defending the pass of Thermopylae, to be carried from 
 the latter place to Sparta, and erected a magnificent 
 monument to his memory, near which was likewise 
 another erected to Pausanias. 
 
 Gelon, king of Syracuse, who died extremely 
 regretted by his people, about 479 B.C., had a splendid 
 mausoleum erected by the people, without the city, in 
 the place where his wife Demarata had been buried, 
 surrounded with nine towers of surprising height and 
 magnificence. This mausoleum was afterwards demo- 
 lished by the Carthaginians, and the towers by Agath- 
 ocles. 
 
 The epitaph upon the tomb of Euchidas, a citizen 
 of Plataea, in the temple of Diana, was, "Here lies 
 Euchidas, who went from hence to Delphi, and returned 
 the same day." This Euchidas travelled 1000 stadia, 
 equal to 125 English miles, to Delphi, to fetch sacred 
 fire to offer a sacrifice on an altar, which they were 
 about to erect to Jupiter the Deliverer. He returned to 
 Plataea before the setting of the sun, saluted his fellow 
 citizens, delivered the fire to them, and immediately 
 fell down dead at their feet. This happened about 
 479 b.c. 
 
 The Magnesians erected a monument to the memory 
 of that renowned general and patriot, Themistocles, in 
 the public square, which was still standing in the time 
 of Plutarch, near 600 years afterwards : his tomb is 
 said to have borne an inscription written by Plato, the 
 illustrious philosopher. (See page 23.) 
 
 VIII 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 A building at the site of the ancient JScbatana, 
 formerly the capital of Persia (now Mamadan), is shown 
 as the tombs of Esther and Mordecai. The inscriptions 
 upon them only refer as far back as a.m. 4474, yet 
 they are equally as interesting to us as if they had been 
 written at the period of their death ; for they corrobo- 
 rate the truth, if such were needed, of that simple and 
 instructive narrative, which not only teaches us that 
 worldly possessions will not satisfy the heart where 
 Divine contentment does not prevail, but also conveys 
 a striking lesson of the instability of all human great- 
 ness — nay, of its certain downfall, unless secured by 
 God's blessing. As these inscriptions are worthy of 
 especial notice, we give them in full. Ferrier, in his 
 " Caravan Journeys and Wanderings" says, "On the 
 dome over these tombs is an inscription of which the 
 following is a translation : — 
 
 " On Thursday the 15 th of the month Adar, in the 
 year of the creation of the world 4474, the building of 
 this temple over the tombs of Mordecai and Esther 
 was finished by the hands of the two benevolent 
 brothers, Elias and Samuel, sons of the late Ismael 
 of Kachan." These tombs are held in great venera- 
 tion, and kept in a perfect state of repair by the Jews 
 of Hamadan. They are made of a dark, hard wood, 
 richly carved, and covered with Hebrew inscriptions, 
 still very legible. Sir John Malcolm thus translates 
 another inscription : — "At that time, there was in the 
 palace of Suza, a certain Jew, of the name of Mordecai ; 
 he was the son of Jair of Shimei, who was the son of 
 Kish, a Benjamite, for Mordecai the Jew was the second 
 of that name under the King Ahasuerus, a man much 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 distinguished among the Jews, and enjoying great 
 consideration amongst his own people, anxious for their 
 welfare, and seeking to promote the peace of all Asia." 
 
 Sir Robert K. Porter, the distinguished traveller, 
 thus translates the other inscriptions : — 
 
 On the sarcophagus of Esther: — "I praise thee 
 God, that thou hast created me. I know that my sins 
 merit punishment, yet I hope for mercy at thy hands ; 
 for, whenever I call upon thee thou art with me : thy 
 holy presence secures me from all evil. My heart is at 
 ease, and my fear of thee increases. My life became at 
 the last, through thy goodness, full of peace. God, 
 shut not my soul out from thy Divine presence. Those 
 whom thou lovest never feel the torments of hell. Lead 
 me, merciful Father, to the life of life, that I may 
 be filled with the heavenly fruits of paradise ! Esther." 
 
 On the sarcophagus of Mordecai: — " It is said by 
 David, Preserve me, God ! I am now in thy presence. 
 I have cried at the gate of heaven, that thou art my 
 God ; and what goodness I have I received from thee, 
 Lord ! Those whose bodies are now beneath in this 
 earth, when animated by thy mercy were great ; and 
 whatever happiness was bestowed upon them in this 
 world, came from thee, God ! Their grief and suffer- 
 ings were many, but they became happy because they 
 always called upon thy holy name in their afflictions. 
 Thou liftedst me up, and I became powerful. Thine 
 enemies sought to destroy me in the early times of my 
 life ; but the shadow of thine hand was upon me, and 
 covered me as a tent from their wicked purposes. 
 
 MoilDECAI." 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 An Epitaph was inscribed to the warriors who fell 
 at Potidsea, 432 e.g., the original of which, in a muti- 
 lated state, is among the Elgin marbles in the British 
 Museum. 
 
 The bones of the illustrious warriors who were 
 
 killed in the battle of Chseronea, 338 B.C., were brought 
 
 to Athens to be interred, where, on a monument erected 
 
 to their memories, were engraven the following lines: — 
 
 " This earth entombs those victims to the state 
 
 Who fell a glorious sacrifice to zeal. 
 
 Greece, on the point of wearing tyrant chains, 
 
 Did, by their deaths alone, escape the yoke. 
 
 This Jupiter decreed : no effort, mortals, 
 
 Can save you from the mighty will of fate. 
 
 To gods alone belong the atribute 
 Of being free from crimes, with never-ending joy." 
 This battle was a most important one, inasmuch as it 
 decided the fate of Greece for ever. Philip, with no 
 more than 32,000 men, gained a point which Persia, 
 with millions of men, had unsuccessfully attempted 
 three times before. It appears that the Greeks were 
 not ashamed to perpetuate their defeat, the cause 
 of which they did not ascribe to man, but to Divine 
 Providence, who "ruleth in the kingdom of men, and 
 giveth it to whomsoever he will." 
 
 Plutarch describes a sepulchral monument which 
 was raised by Alexander over the grave of Demaratus. 
 After the king had performed his funeral obsequies, 
 " The army threw up for him a monument of earth of 
 great extent, and fourscore cubits high." 
 
 Another epitaph is worthy of our attention, as it 
 
EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 was partly in consequence of the intention to inscribe 
 it. which saved Aeamania, 211 b.c AYhen the ^Etolians 
 invaded that province, the gallant Acarnanians had sent 
 their wives, children, and old men, who were upwards 
 of threescore, into Epirus ; all those who remained, 
 from the age of 15 to 60 years, engaged themselves by 
 a solemn oath never to return unless victorious, and 
 only desired the Epirots to bury, in the same grave, all 
 who should fall in the battle, with the following inscrip- 
 tion over them : — " Here lie the Acarnanians, who died 
 fighting for their country, against the violence and in- 
 justice of the ^Etolians." Such resolution, however, 
 terrified the ^Etolians, who retired without venturing a 
 battle. Alany other monumental inscriptions of great 
 antiquity are given in the pages of the present work, 
 from which we may see that they were viewed by the 
 ancients with more than common attention, and are 
 consequently -worthy of our particular regard. 
 
 The Phoenicians and Egyptians used stones with 
 hieroglyphic al figures engravtn upon them. The Lace- 
 daemonians allowed epitaphs to those only who were 
 killed in battle, and to women who devoted them- 
 selves to a religious life. The Romans used only 
 a single epithet to commemorate the victories gained by 
 their emperors, as Caesar German icus. According to 
 Air. Knight, the earliest epitaphs of this country were 
 those of the Eomans, or Romanized Britons, which 
 usually begin with D.AI. ( Diis ATanibus}, followed by 
 the name, office, and age of the deceased, and a conclu- 
 sion which informed the reader, by whom, and through 
 what means the inscription was raised. "Whether the 
 Saxons or the Danes used monumental inscriptions 
 
 XII 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 among us, has been doubted, but that they were in 
 regular use soon after the Norman Conquest, is indis- 
 putable, numerous examples of which exist from that 
 time to the present. Epitaphs have long since become 
 very common, and have thus, in a great measure, 
 defeated the object for which they were originally 
 intended, by inscribing the monuments with exaggerated 
 and offensive compliments which were never merited, 
 nor given during the life-time of the persons whose 
 memories they wish to perpetuate. Praise, for virtues 
 and excellencies never possessed, is culpable imposition 
 on the credulity of strangers; the reading" of which, 
 by those who were acquainted with the deceased, is 
 calculated to counteract that solemnity which medita- 
 tion among the tombs produces. A celebrated author 
 once said, " Some monuments are covered with such 
 extraordinary epitaphs, that if it were possible for the 
 dead person to become acquainted with them, he would 
 blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed 
 upon him. There are others so excessively modest that 
 they deliver the character of the person departed in 
 Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not under- 
 stood once a twelvemonth." It is said that the 
 Italian epitaphs are often more extravagant than those 
 of other countries, as the nation is more given to com- 
 pliment and hyperbole. In St. George's church, at 
 Verona, is a monument erected by the public, to one of 
 their Bishops : the inscription says, that there was be- 
 tween him and his Maker, "Summa necessitudo, Summa 
 similitude." 
 
 Our Christian epitaphs often begin with Siste 
 viator, probably in imitation of old Eoman inscrip- 
 
 XIII 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 tions, that generally addressed themselves to travellers. 
 It was impossible for them to enter the city, or to go 
 out of it, without passing through one of these melan- 
 choly roads, which for a great length was nothing- 
 else but a street of funeral monuments. The ancient 
 Romans generally buried their dead near the great 
 roads, none but those of a very extraordinary quality 
 being allowed to be interred within the walls of the 
 city. 
 
 The Turks usually set up a stone at each end of 
 the grave, on which are inscribed texts of the Alcoran, 
 or some prayer. On that which is placed at the head, 
 a turban is generally carved in relief, which denotes the 
 quality of the deceased, and in some measure corres- 
 ponds with the inscription of coats of arms on the 
 tombs or gravestones of this country. The ordinary 
 gravestones are held so sacred, that they are never 
 removed on any account, but are preserved with infi- 
 nitely more care than in most Christian countries. 
 
 Armenian tombstones, as well as those in Switzer- 
 land, are ornamented with emblems of the trade or 
 calling of him whose ashes repose beneath. Goldsmith 
 found in "Westminster Abbey many new monuments 
 raised to the memory of several great men, whose 
 names he forgot, but he remembered that Eoubilliac 
 was the statuary who carved them : he says " I could 
 not help smiling, at the two modern epitaphs in partic- 
 ular, one of which praised the deceased for being 
 descended from an illustrious house; the other commended 
 the dead, because he had propped up an old house that 
 was falling. Alas ! alas ! cried I, such monuments as 
 
 XIV 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 these confer honour, not upon the great men, but upon 
 little Boubilliac." With regard to the rules to be 
 observed in composing an epitaph, many opinions have 
 been given, but it is well known that they were 
 intended to benefit the reader, and to incite in him an 
 imitation of the virtues and excellencies of the dead ; 
 they may also properly be regarded as sources of infor- 
 mation, and admonition. Addison says, "When I 
 properly look upon the tombs of the great, every 
 emotion of envy dies within me, — when I read the 
 epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes 
 out, — when I see the grief of parents for children, my 
 heart melts with compassion, — and yet, when after 
 wards I have beheld the tombs of the parents them- 
 selves, I see the vanity of grieving for those that we 
 must follow, — when I see kings lying, perhaps, by 
 those who deposed them, — when I consider rivals who 
 are placed side by side, or the great men who divided 
 the world with their contests and disputes, in the same 
 situation, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the 
 little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind, — 
 and finally, when I read the several dates on the tombs 
 of some who died recently, and some who died many 
 ages ago, I consider that great day, when we shall be 
 all cotemporaries, and make our appearance together." 
 
 Ceomfoed, 
 
 December 10th, 1856. 
 
 XV 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 For page 57 read 73 
 
 For Oakham p. 87 read Ockham" 
 
 For accidently p. 101 rd. accidentally 
 
 For Blakeruore p. 172 rd. Blakemer'e 
 
 For Ms, line 10 p. 232 rd. this 
 
 For Bewdly p. 250 read Bewdley 
 
 For our, line 20 p. 263 rd. her 
 
 For 1662 p. 270 rd. 1626 
 
 For Stow pages 293 and 307 rd Stowe 
 
 For Flitten p. 341 read Flitton 
 For Wexham p. 355 read Wrexham 
 For Elrington p. 361 readEbrinston 
 For Bristol p. 484 read BirstaH 
 For Ercol p, 490 read Ercall 
 Omit the word ''which" in the epi- 
 taph on Miss Burdett, p. 369 
 For Clumleigh p. 470 rd. Chumleigh 
 For >"ear, line 23 p. 497, read Ne'er 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 SOVEREIGNS. 
 
 Sardanapaltts, the last king of the Assyrians, who 
 died 820 B.C., surpassed all his predecessors in effemi- 
 nacy, luxury, and cowardice. He never went out of 
 his palace, but spent all his time among a company of 
 women, dressed and painted like them, and employed 
 like them at the distaff. He placed all his happiness 
 and glory in the possession of immense treasures, in 
 feasting and rioting, and indulging himself in all the 
 most infamous and criminal pleasures. He ordered 
 two verses to he put upon his tomb, which imported, 
 " that he carried away with him all that he had eaten, 
 and all the pleasures he had enjoyed, but left all the rest 
 behind him." " An Epitaph," says Aristotle, "fit for 
 a hog." 
 
 After the death of Sardanapalus, a statue was erected 
 to him which represented him in the posture of a dancer, 
 with an inscription upon it, in which he addressed 
 himself to the spectators in these words, " Eat, drink, 
 and be merry; everything else is nothing :" an inscrip- 
 tion very suitable to the above epitaph he himself had 
 ordered to be put upon his monument. — Anct. Hist. 
 
 1 
 
EPITAPHS 
 
 Xitocris, the wife of Evil-Merodach, and mother of 
 Belshazzar 'Dan. v.), is that queen who raised so many 
 noble edifices in Babylon. She caused her own monu- 
 ment to be placed over one of the most remarkable 
 gates of the city, with an inscription dissuading her 
 successors from touching the treasures laid up in it, 
 without the most urgent and indispensable necessity. 
 The tomb remained closed till the reign of Darius, who, 
 upon breaking it open, instead of those immense treasures 
 he had flattered himself with discovering, found nothing 
 but the following inscription : — " If thou hadst not an 
 insatiable thirst after money, and. a most sordid avaricious 
 soul, thou wouldst never have broken open the monuments 
 of the dead." 
 
 MArsoirs, king of Caria, died about six centuries 
 b.c. Artemisia, his widow, gathered his ashes, and 
 caused the bones to be beaten in a mortar ; she mingled 
 some of the powder every day in her drink, till she had 
 drunk it all off ; desiring, by that means, to make her 
 own body the sepulchre of her husband. She survived 
 him only two years, and her grief did not end but with 
 her life. — Ancient History. 
 
 Cyexs. king of Persia, died 529 B.C., and ordered the 
 following inscription to be engraven on his tomb, as an 
 admonition to all men of the approach of death, "0 
 man, whosoever thou art, and whencesoever thou comest, 
 know that thou wilt come to the same condition that I 
 am now in. I am Cyrus, who brought the empire to 
 the Persians. Do not envy me, I beseech thee, this 
 little piece of ground which covereth my body." 
 
 Dapjts I., king of Persia, son of Hystaspes, when 
 dying, desired to have the following epitaph engraved 
 
SOVEREIGNS, ETC. 
 
 on his tomb : — " Here lies King Darius, who was able 
 to drink many bottles of wine without staggering." 
 He died 485 b.c. 
 
 An Extraordinary Phoenician Inscription :— 
 
 It was recently announced that the French had 
 obtained possession of a very curious sarcophagus of a 
 king, at Beyrouth, bearing a very extraordinary inscrip- 
 tion in Phoenician, and that it was to be forwarded to 
 the Louvre, at Paris. The duke of Luynes has made 
 the following translation of the inscription: — ''In the 
 month of Bui, in the fourteenth year of my reign, I, 
 Ezman Azar, king of the Sidonians, son of Tebunad, 
 also king of the Sidonians, son of Amestris, my mother, 
 high-priestess of Esther (Star of Venus), at Babylon, 
 spoke thus. — In the flower of my youth, in the midst 
 of my wives, perfumed and * * * ( illegible ) I was 
 carried off by death. From the funeral vault in which 
 my bones repose, and which I have built myself, I 
 adjure all dynasties, all generations, and every man, not 
 to violate the asylum of my repose, not to open my 
 coffin, not to place any weight on its lid, not to take 
 any of the offerings there deposited. * * * By the 
 side of me is also the tomb of Amestris, my mother, 
 high-priestess of iEstarte, at Babylon, who caused to be 
 built the Temple of Baal, at Babylon ; and also of 
 Elnaca, who made magnificent presents to the temple 
 of Dan. * * * I devote to malediction any dynasty, 
 any generation, or any man, who may violate my tomb, 
 or who may take off the lid of it, or touch the offerings 
 deposited there. May his marriage bed be sterile, may 
 my malediction fall on his family for ever, through all 
 his posterity ! May they be extirpated from the earth, 
 and may it not be permitted to him to bury his mother ! 
 for I, Ezman Azar, king of the Sidonians, son of Tebu- 
 nad, king of the Sidonians, son of Amestris, my mother, 
 high-priestess of Esther, at Babylon." * * * The 
 rest of the inscription cannot be made out. — News- 
 papers, 1855. 
 
 On Alexander the Great : — 
 Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis." 
 
 3 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Chaele^iagne died a.d. 814, in his 74th year, and 
 lies buried in the cathedral at Aix-la-chapelle ; the spot 
 being marked by a simple inscription on the pavement : 
 — " Carolo Magno." 
 
 Fasteada, the queen of Charlemagne, died a.d. 794, 
 and was buried in a church, now destroyed. A monu- 
 ment to her memory is in Mayence cathedral. The 
 inscription on the stone which covered her remains has 
 been translated literally in the Illustrated London 
 News, by a correspondent, and is as follows : — 
 
 " Fastradana the pious, called the wife of Charles, 
 Beloved by Christ, lies under this marble, 
 In the year seven hundred and ninety-four, 
 Which words the muse does not permit to include 
 
 the number in metre. 
 Pius King, whom the Virgin bore, 
 Altho' she is here turning into ashes, 
 May her spirit be heir of that country which knows 
 
 no sorrow." 
 
 In the cathedral church of Magdeburg, is still to be 
 seen the tomb of Otho the Great, emperor of Germany, 
 who died 972 — 3, aged 60, with an inscription upon it 
 to the following effect : — 
 
 " Beneath this marble tomb a monarch lies, 
 
 Whose loss a three-fold share of grief must claim ; 
 Religion's friend — a ruler brave and wise — 
 His weeping country's highest joy and fame." 
 
 Readings in Biography. 
 
 On the tomb of Hekry II., at Fontevraud, who died 
 a.d. 1189:— 
 
 "Rex Henri cus eram, mihi plurima Regna subegi. 
 Multiplicique modo, Duxque Comesque fui 
 
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 Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terrae 
 Chinata terra modo, sufficit octo pedum. 
 
 Qui legis haec, pensa discrimina mortis, et in me 
 Humanae speculum conditionis habe. 
 
 Sufficit hie Tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis, 
 
 Res brevisampla mini, cui fuit ampla brevis." '-Mirror. 
 
 On King John, in Worcester Cathedral : — 
 
 John died at Newark, Oct. 19, 1216. In his will he 
 directed his body to be buried in the Church of St. Mary 
 and St. Wulstan, in the cathedral of Worcester; over 
 his head being placed a monk's cowl, as a cover for all his 
 sins and a passport to heaven. The effigy of king John 
 sculptured in grey marble, which forms the superstruc- 
 ture of his present tomb, was originally the lid of the 
 stone coffin that contained his remains; and its first 
 position must have been upon the floor of the building 
 within which he was interred. His head is adorned 
 with a crown of state, and supported by two bishops, 
 undoubtedly intended for Oswald and Wulstan. He is 
 represented as wearing a dalmatic of crimson, lined 
 with green, the neck and cuffs edged with gold and 
 jewelled border ; his tunic is yellow ; he is girt with a 
 belt; on his hands are jewelled gloves, and a ring is on 
 the middle finger of his right hand, which supports a 
 sceptre, while his left grasps a sword. He wears red 
 hose, black shoes, and golden spurs ; and his feet rest 
 upon a lion. On July 17th, 1797, the tomb of king 
 John was opened, and the state of the king's relics 
 showed that they had been disturbed, and seemed to 
 favour the conjecture of their having been translated 
 from the lady chapel, in the cathedral, into the choir, 
 most probably about the time of Henry VII., as the 
 altar tomb, on which the coffin lid lies, resembles the 
 monument of prince Arthur in the same church, and 
 brick was much employed in architecture about that 
 period. — The following is given as John's epitaph : — 
 
 " Hoc in sarcophago sepelitur Regis imago, 
 Qui moriens multum sedavit in orbe tumultum, 
 Et cui connexa dum vixit probra manetu run, bant 
 
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 Hunc mala post mortem timor est ne fata sequantur. 
 Qui legis haec metuens dum cernis te mori — 
 Discite quid rerum pariat tibi meta dicrum." 
 
 From various sources. 
 
 Translation of the Latin inscription on the tomb of 
 Edward I. and his Father, in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 " Here lies Edward I., the hammer of the Scottish 
 nation:" — 
 
 " Death is too doleful which doth join 
 The highest state full low : 
 Which couplest greatest Things with least, 
 And last with first also. 
 
 No man hath been in World alive, 
 
 Nor any may there be, 
 Which can escape the Dint of Death, 
 
 Needs hence depart must We. 
 
 Noble and Victorious Man, 
 
 Trust not unto thy Strength ; 
 Eor all are subject unto Death, 
 
 And all must hence at length. 
 
 Most cruel Fate from Worldly Stage 
 
 Hath wrest a worthy Wight, 
 For whom all England mourned aloud 
 
 To see his doleful Plight. 
 
 Edward is Dead, which was adorn'd 
 
 With divers Graces here ; 
 A King, on fragrant Nardus Height, 
 
 A gracious, Princely Peer. 
 
 In Heart, the which was Lybard like, 
 
 Right puissant, void of Fear, 
 Most slow to Strife, discreet and wise, 
 
 And gracious every where. 
 
 In Arms, a Giant fierce, and fell, 
 
 Attempting famous Facts ; 
 Most prudent, did subdue the Proud 
 
 By Feat of Martial Acts. 
 
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 In Flanders Fortune gave to him 
 
 By Lot right good Success : 
 In Wales he wan, the Scottish Row 
 
 With Arms he did suppress. 
 
 This King, without his like alive, 
 
 Did firmly guide his Land, 
 And what good Nature could conceive, 
 
 He had it plight at Hand. 
 
 He was in Justice and in Peace, 
 
 Excelling : Laws took place, 
 Desire to chase all wicked Works, 
 
 Did hold this King's good Grace. 
 
 He now doth lie entombed here, 
 Which furthered each good Thing ; 
 
 JSTow naught he is but Dust and Bones, 
 Which was a worthy King. 
 
 The very Son of God, whom erst 
 This King did love right dear, 
 
 Hath given to him Immortal Bliss 
 For his good living here. 
 
 Whilst liv'd this King, by him all Things 
 Were in most goodly Plight : 
 
 Fraud lay hid, great Peace was kept, 
 And Honesty had Might." 
 
 On Charles VII. , king of France, surnamed the 
 Victorious, and died in 1461 : — 
 
 " Jadis fu ne en maison triomphant 
 Moult me grieva fortune, jeune enfant, 
 Mais trop plus fort pour un temps de mon regne 
 Et depuis, Dieu me fit roy si puissant. 
 Que je chassay le leopart ravissant ; 
 Et si conquis Normandie et Guienne. 
 Mais pour monstrer que gloire terrienne 
 Passe legier, la couronne ancienne 
 Laisse aujourd'hui, par un doulx desarroy, 
 Au propre lieu ou je pris nom de roy." 
 
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 On Mohammed II., emperor of Turkey. (By himself.) 
 He reigned 30 years, and died in 1481, aged 51 year3, 
 whilst on an expedition against Persia. During his 
 thirty years' reign, he had conquered 12 kingdoms and 
 upwards of 200 cities. On his tomb he ordered the 
 words to be affixed, — "I would have taken Rhodes and 
 conquered Italy ." — Partington's Cyc. of Biog. 
 
 Translation of the Latin inscription on the tomb of 
 Edward V. and his brother Richard, duke of York 
 ( who were murdered in the tower, a.d. 1483 ), in 
 Henry the Seventh's chapel, Westminster Abbey : — 
 
 "Here lie the reliques of Edward V., King of England, 
 and Richard, Duke of York, who being confined in the 
 Tower of London, and there stifled with pillows, were 
 privately and meanly buried by order of their perfidious 
 Uncle Richard, the Usurper : their bones, long inquired 
 after and wished for, after laying 191 years in the rub- 
 bish of the stairs ( i.e. those lately leading to the 
 Chapel of the White Tower), were, on the 1 7th of July, 
 1674, by undoubted proofs, discovered; being buried 
 deep in that place. Charles II. pitying their unhappy 
 fate, ordered these unfortunate Princes to be laid 
 amongst the reliques of their predecessors, in the year 
 1679, and the 30th of his reign." 
 
 Edward VI. died July 6th, 1553, in his 16th year, 
 and was buried in Henry Seventh's chapel, Westminster 
 Abbey. An epitaph was written in Latin for him by 
 Hierome Cardan, and recited by Henry Holland in his 
 Herologia Anglica. It is thus rendered in English : — 
 
 " Let the whole world their common loss deplore, 
 For Edward dies, and glory is no more. 
 He was the good man's hope, youth's brightest flower, 
 Joy of the age, and pride of the sovereign power ; 
 For him Apollo and Minerva moan 
 Their blooming hope, ultimately dead and gone. 
 
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 / Whilst these last gifts, the weeping Nine bestow, 
 
 ] Melpomene laments in strains of woe, 
 
 ( And hails thee fleeting to the shades below." 
 
 On Margaret of Austria. (By herself.) 
 
 Margaret was affianced to Charles VIII. of France, 
 but Charles having married Anna, heiress of Brittany, 
 she was sent back to her father's court, and was married 
 to John, infant of Spain, in 1497. On the voyage to 
 Spain a terrible storm threatened the destruction of the 
 ship. In the midst of the danger, while the rest of the 
 company were at their prayers, she is said to have com- 
 posed her epitaph in the following words : — 
 
 " Cy-glt Margot, la gente demoiselle, 
 Deux fois mariee et morte pucelle." 
 
 She arrived in safety, but on the 4th of October, 1497, 
 the infant died. She afterwards married the duke of 
 Savoy, and diedA.D. 1530, aged 50 years. — Cyc. of Biog. 
 
 In the old church of St. Clement, Eastcheap, was 
 the following epitaph on queen Elizabeth, who died 
 a.d. 1603 :— 
 
 " Spain's rod, Rome's ruin, 
 Netherlands relief, 
 Heaven's gem, Earth's joy, 
 
 World's wonder, Nature's chief, 
 Britain's blessing, England's splendour, 
 Religion's nurse, the Eaith's defender." 
 
 The tomb of Mary de Medicts, widow of Henry IV., 
 king of Erance. A writer in The Mirror for 1842 
 says, " On leaving the cathedral of Cologne, something 
 pierced the sole of my boot. I looked downwards, and 
 found that it was a large nail, projecting from the 
 
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 square of black marble upon which I was walking. 
 After examining the stone, I remembered that Mary de 
 Medicis had desired that her heart should be placed 
 under the pavement of the cathedral of Cologne. 
 Formerly a bronze or brass plate, with an inscription, 
 covered it, but when the French occupied Cologne, some 
 revolutionist, or perhaps a rapacious brazier, seized it, 
 as had been done to many others ; for a host of brass 
 nails, projecting from the marble, bespeak depredations 
 of a similar character. Alas, poor Queen ! she first saw 
 herself effaced from the heart of Louis XIII. , her son, 
 then from the remembrance of Richelieu, her creature, 
 and now she is effaced from the earth." 
 
 Monument to Gtjstavtjs Adolphtts : — 
 
 Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, was killed at 
 the battle of Lutzen. There are four columns raised 
 over the place where he fell. A frieze, reaching from 
 column to column, bears the following inscription : — 
 
 (That in front.) 
 "Here fell Gustavus Adolphus, on the 6th of Novem- 
 ber, 1632." 
 ( That on the right side.) 
 " He fought the battle of the Lord." ( Altered from 
 the 1 Sam., xxv, 28.) 
 ( On the hinder side.) 
 "God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but the 
 spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 
 ( On the left side.) 
 " This is the victory that overcometh the world, even 
 our faith." — 1 John, v, 4. 
 
 The whole structure has a pleasing, and indeed, an 
 imposing effect. It has been raised by subscription 
 throughout Germany, as well as by a liberal pecuniary 
 contribution from the king of Saxony, and the town 
 of Lutzen. 
 
 On Chaeles I. : — 
 
 " So falls that stately cedar; while it stood 
 That was the only glory of the wood ; 
 
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 Great Charles, thou earthly god, celestial man, 
 
 Whose life, like others, though it were a span, 
 
 Yet in that span, was comprehended more 
 
 Than earth hath waters, or the ocean shore ; 
 
 Thy heavenly virtues, angels shall rehearse, 
 
 It is a theme too high for human verse : 
 
 He that would know thee right, then let him look 
 
 Upon thy rare — incomparable book, 
 
 And read it o'er ; which if he do, 
 
 He'll find thee King, and Pried, and Prophet too ; 
 
 And sadly see our loss, and, though in vain, 
 
 With fruitless wishes call thee back again. 
 
 Nor shall oblivion sit upon thy hearse, 
 
 Though there were neither monument nor verse. 
 
 Thy suff rings and thy death let no man name ; 
 
 It was thy glory, but the kingdom's 
 
 For Charles II. (By the Earl of Eochester.) 
 
 "Here lies our sovereign lord the King, 
 Whose word no man relies on, 
 Who never said a foolish thing, 
 And never did a wise one."* 
 
 In the South-east corner of Hammersmith church, 
 near the pulpit, is a monument of black and white 
 marble, eight feet in height, and two in breadth, erected 
 by Sir Nicholas Crispe, in honour of his beloved and 
 unfortunate master, King Charles I., whose bust stands 
 above. Immediately beneath the bust is this inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 "This effigy was 
 
 erected by the special appointment of 
 
 Sir Nicholas Crispe, knight and baronet, 
 
 as a grateful commemoration of that 
 
 glorious martyr, King Charles 
 
 the first, of blessed 
 
 memory. " 
 
 * For this epitaph Rochester remained some time in disgrace. 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Beneath the inscription is an urn : it was placed 
 there by his direction, to remain for ever in humble 
 testimony of that devotion of which it was so long the 
 centre: it contains the old mans heart. "Lay my 
 body," he said, " lay my body in the family vault -of 
 St. Mildred, in Bread-street, but let my heart be placed 
 in an urn at my master's feet." The inscription on the 
 pedestal that supports the urn is simple, and runs thus : — 
 
 " ATithin this urn is entombed the heart of Sir Nich- 
 olas Ciispe,* knight and baronet, a loyal sharer in the 
 sufferings of his late and present Majesty. He first 
 settled in the trade of gold from Guinea, and there built 
 the castle of Cormantine. Died the 26th of February, 
 1665, aged sixty-seven years." 
 
 In the parish church of Landulph, in the eastern 
 extremity of Cornwall, is a small brass tablet fixed 
 against the wall, with the following inscription : — 
 
 * He was the founder of Brandenburgh house, and born in 1593 : brought 
 up in trade, he increased his wealth by mairiage, and being noticed at 
 Court he was knighted, and became one of the farmers of the King's 
 Customs. The times grew stormy ; Charles the I., whom Sir Nicholas 
 loved with an affection more than loyal, seeing the troubles of tbe state, 
 and the distress of his royal master for money, raised him, upon a short 
 notice, the sum of £200,000. 
 
 The Parliamentary war commencing, and calamities increasing by sea 
 and land, the brave merchant's cool head and high character, managed a 
 trade which produced his majesty nearly £100,000 a year, besides keeping 
 his ships ready for service. 
 
 No brief summary can suffice to represent fairly his princely dignity of 
 character, and his devotion to the cause of the King. 
 
 He was trusted with the supplies of arms, and with a knowledge of the 
 most important secrets of the state. In the disguise of a seller of fish, or 
 butter, he frequented the markets to pick up stray intelligence. Failing in 
 one of his designs he boldly threw off the civic gown and assumed the 
 sword at the head of a regiment of horse, raised at his own expense, and 
 became as distinguished a soldier as he had been a merchant ; and -with 
 the rarest bravery, bore himself through the terrible scenes of the civil 
 war. The Parliament, incensed by his vigorous resistance, and devotion 
 to the King, ordered him from the royal presence ; they sold his house in 
 Bond-street, and made him contribute, in conjunction with Lord Culpepper, 
 £6000 a year towards the pension of the Elector Palatine. 
 
 The King's cause became hopeless, and Sir Nicholas fled from the country. 
 When in exile, his private misfortunes were turned to public benefits, for 
 he investigated foreign improvements, and turned them to English uses. 
 On his return he again plunged into traffic, and gold poured like water 
 into the channels of his trade. 
 
 He improved the art of paper-making, powder-making, and brick- 
 making ; gave £700 towards the building of Hammersmith church, besides 
 beautifying the building at his own expense, and his charities to the poor 
 ■were equal to his bounties in other directions. 5 ' 
 
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 " Here lyeth the body of Theodore Paleologtjs, of 
 Pesaro, in Italye, descended from the Imperial lyne of 
 the last Christian Emperor of Greece, being the sonne 
 of Camilio, the sonne of Prosper, the sonne of Theodoro, 
 the sonne of John, the sonne of Thomas ; second brother 
 of Constantine Paleologus, the eighth of the name, and 
 last of that lyne that rayned in Constantinople until 
 subdued by the Turks ; who married with Mary, the 
 daughter of William Balls, of Hadlye, in Souffolke, gent, 
 and had issue 5 children — Theodoro, John, Ferdinando, 
 Maria, and Dorothy ; and departed this life at Clyfton, 
 the 21st of January, 1636." 
 
 Above the inscription are the imperial arms proper of 
 the empire of Greece — an eagle displayed with two 
 heads, the two legs resting upon two gates ; the impe- 
 rial crown over the whole ; and between the gates a 
 crescent for difference as second son. — The Booh of Table 
 Talk. 
 
 On the Tomb of James II : — 
 
 In his last moments he wished that his heart should 
 be carried to the monks of the Visitation de Chaillot, 
 that his body should be buried in the parish church, 
 without any other ceremony than would be used for a 
 private gentleman ; and wished that there should be no 
 inscription on his tomb but these four words — "Sic 
 jacet Jacobus II. " He had this so much at heart that 
 he often mentioned it, and he charged the cure of 
 Saint Germain to ask it, in his behalf, of the king of 
 France. But Louis XIV., judged it more fitting that 
 his body should be carried to Paris, and placed in the 
 church of the English Benedictines; which was accor- 
 dingly done, and the following inscription was after- 
 wards engraven on his tomb : — 
 
 C'est ici que Jaques second, 
 Sans ministres et sans maitresse, 
 Le matin allait a la messe, 
 Et le soir allait au sermon." 
 
 From various sources. 
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 On King William III., of Glorious Memory, who 
 died March 8, 1701. (By Dr. Isaac Watts.) 
 
 " Beneath these honours of a tomb 
 Greatness in humble ruin lies : 
 (How earth confines in narrow room 
 What heroes leave beneath the skies ! ) 
 
 Preserve, venerable Pile, 
 
 Inviolate thy sacred trust, 
 To thy cold arms thy British Isle, 
 
 Weeping, commits her richest dust. 
 
 Ye gentlest ministers of Fate, 
 
 Attend the monarch as he lies, 
 And bid the softest Slumbers wait 
 
 With silken cords to bind his eyes. 
 
 Rest his dear Sword beneath his head : 
 Round him his faithful Arms shall stand ; 
 
 Fix his bright Ensign on his bed, 
 The guards and honours of our land. 
 
 Ye sister Arts of Paint and Yerse 
 
 Place Albion fainting by his side ; 
 Her groans arising o'er the hearse, 
 
 And Belgia sinking when he died. 
 
 High o'er the grave Religion set 
 
 In solid gold ; pronounce the ground 
 
 Sacred to bar unhallow'd feet, 
 
 And plant her guardian Virtues round. 
 
 Fair Liberty, in sables dress' d, 
 
 Write his lov'd name upon his urn, 
 
 1 William, — the scourge of tyrants past, 
 And awe of princes yet unborn.' 
 
 Sweet Peace, his sacred relics keep, 
 With olives blooming round his head, 
 
 And stretch her wings across the deep 
 To bless the nations with the shade. 
 
 Stand on the pile, immortal Fame, 
 Broad stars adorn the brightest robe, 
 
 Thy thousand voices sound his name 
 In silver accents round the globe. 
 
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 Flattery shall faint beneath the sound, 
 While hoary Truth inspires the song ; 
 
 Envy grow pale and bite the ground, 
 And Slander gnaw his forky tongue. 
 
 Night and the Grave remove your gloom ; 
 
 Darkness becomes the vulgar dead ; 
 But Glory bids the royal tomb, 
 
 Disdain the horrors of the shade. 
 
 Glory, with all her lamps shall burn, 
 And watch the warrior's sleeping clay, 
 
 Till the last trumpet rouse his urn 
 To aid the triumphs of the day." 
 
 On Theodore Anthony I., king of Corsica : — 
 
 In the cemetery behind St. Ann's church, London, is 
 interred Theodore, the unfortunate king of Corsica, who, 
 having been compelled to fly his kingdom, was confined 
 for debt in the king's bench, but obtained his release 
 through the interference of Horace Walpole, when he 
 made over the kingdom of Corsica, for the benefit of his 
 creditors. He died Dec. 11th, 1756, and would have 
 been buried as a parish pauper but for the kindness of 
 John Wright, an oilman, who declared that for once he 
 would bear the funeral expenses of a king, which he 
 accordingly did. In 1757, Lord Orford erected a marble 
 monument to his memory, in the above churchyard, 
 with the following inscription upon it : — 
 
 "Near this place is interred 
 
 Theodore,* 1 King of Corsica, 
 
 Who died in this parish, December 11, 1756, 
 
 immediately after leaving the 
 
 King's Bench Prison, 
 
 by the benefit of the act of Insolvency ; 
 
 in consequence of which 
 
 He registered his kingdom of Corsica, for the use of 
 
 his creditors. 
 
 * Theodore had a son, known by the name of Colonel Frederic, who, 
 after following his father into England, entered into the army in foreign 
 service ; but he appears to have been disappointed in his hopes of rising 
 
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 The grave, great teacher ; to a level b: 
 Her<x -o . and kings, 
 
 rhis moral learn' d ere dead, — 
 - »n on his living h : 
 -'d a kingdom, and denied him bread." 
 
 Tomb of the Qrrzx or Pr.rssiA: — 
 
 " This tomb is in the garden of Charlottenburgh, near 
 Berlin : it was not without surprise that I came sud- 
 denly, among n a fair white Doric temple. I 
 have deemed it a mere adornment of 
 s - and the willow declared it 
 a habitation of the dead. Upon a sarcophagus of white 
 marble lay a sheet, and the outline of the human form 
 was plainly visible beneath its folds. The person with 
 me reverently turned it back, and displayed the statue 
 of his It is a portrait statue recumbent, said to 
 be a iblance — not as in death, but when 
 she lived to bless and be blessed. Nothing can be more 
 calm and kind than thv ires : the 
 : folded on the bosom : the limbs are sufficiently 
 - of life. Here the king 
 brings her children annually to offer garlands at her 
 — S) Ni tes and . :s daring a 
 rambl. iny. 
 
 On Quxe>- Caeolizte : — 
 
 In queen Caroline's will, she directed that her body 
 dd be btuied by th her lather and brother, 
 
 at Brunswick, and that the following inscription should 
 be engraven on her tombstone : — 
 
 or acquiring cren a competence, and after sustaining many 
 ■without timely relief, put an end to his life by a pistol, near the g 
 
 .. man of gentlemanly manners, 
 and accomplishme: - who knew him inti- 
 
 ^iterred in the church-yard of St. Ann's, by the side of 
 his father. 
 
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 " To the memory of Caroline of Brunswick, the 
 iNJUEED Queen of England."* 
 
 Napoleon's Tomb, at St. Helena : — 
 
 "We caught sight of the tomb at the bottom of the 
 ravine called Sloane's valley, and descending a zigzag 
 path, we quickly reached the spot. About half an acre 
 round the grave is railed in. The tomb itself consists 
 of a square stone, about 10 feet by 7, surrounded with 
 a plain iron railing. Four or five weeping willows, 
 their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pen- 
 sile branches over it. The willows are decaying fast, 
 and one of them rests upon the sharp spears of the 
 railing, which are buried in its trunk — as though it 
 were committing suicide for very grief. The foliage of 
 the rest is thinned and disfigured by the frequent and 
 almost excusable depredations of visitors." — Captain 
 Mundy's Visit. 
 
 Napoleon's remains were brought from St. Helena, in 
 1840, and placed in the church of the Invalides, at 
 Paris, with the following inscription upon his tomb — 
 which were his own words : — 
 
 " Carry back my bones, and lay them on the banks 
 of the Seine, amongst that people whom I loved so 
 well." 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of the Duke of Eeichstadt 
 (Napoleon's son), in the church of the Capauchins, 
 Vienna. It is in Latin, and is thus translated : — 
 
 " To the Eternal memory of Joseph Charles, Francis, 
 Duke of Eeichstadt, Son of Napoleon, Emperor of 
 France, and of Maria Louisa, Arch-Duchess of Austria, 
 born at Paris, March 20, 1811, saluted in his cradle 
 with the title of [ King of Rome.' At the flower of his 
 age, gifted with all the accomplishments of mind and 
 
 * The ancient inscription over the family vault of the Brunswicks will 
 apply to Queen Caroline with awful force ; — " Hie finis invidse, persecu- 
 tionis, et querelge."— ( " Here envy, persecution, and complaining cease.") 
 
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 body, remarkable for his fine stature, beauty of counte- 
 nance, extraordinary grace of speech, and his studies 
 and military labours, he was seized by phthisis. Sad 
 Death snatched him to the dwelling of the Emperors, 
 by the beautiful fountain near Vienna, July 22nd, 
 1832."* 
 
 On Louis Philippe: — 
 
 In the vault of a small chapel at Weybridge, in 
 Surrey, are deposited the remains of Louis Philippe. 
 A marble slab in the vault bears the following inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " Depositae jacent sub hoc lapide Donee in Patriam. 
 Avitos inter cineres Deo adjuvante trausferantur 
 Reliquiae Ludovici Philippi Primi Prancorum Regis 
 Claromontii in Britannia Defuncti. 
 
 Die Augusti xxvi. Anno Domini MDCCCL, 
 J^tatis 76. Requiescat in Pace." 
 
 On the Daughter of William the Conqueror : — 
 
 At Isfield was buried the daughter of William the 
 Conqueror, and the wife to the first earl of Warwick. 
 Her monument was removed and is now at Lewes 
 church. The tomb is of black marble, sculptured with 
 foliage, in a fine early style, and bearing around its 
 edge an inscription in Latin, with slight conjectural 
 supplements, in characters which have been verified as 
 Norman, and of the eleventh or early part of the twelfth 
 century ; thus translated : — 
 
 " Gtjndeed, of Ducal race, the ornament of her age, 
 
 * A writer in " The Mirror" saj*s, who visited the tomb, " I followed my 
 guide. He opened a side gate, and descending before me, illumined with 
 his lantern the steps of a stair-case that had but little of royalty about it, 
 and was completely dark at its upper end. At length, having" descended 
 about sixty steps, we found ourselves in a cave, rather long than large, and 
 on the two sides of which were ranged a great number of bronze tombs of 
 different forms and dimensions. There was the tomb of young Napoleon ; 
 upon it I read the inscription, surmounted by a small cross, and graved in 
 the middle of a plate of brass, which forms, so to speak, the cover of the 
 monument." 
 
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 a noble bud, brought into the churches of England the 
 balsam of morals. — She was a Martha to the wretched ; 
 she was, for piety, a Mary. The part of Martha has 
 
 died, the mighty part of Mary survives. 0, holy 
 
 Pancras ! Witness of her piety and righteousness. — She 
 made thee her heir ; do thou, benign, receive a mother. 
 The hostile dawn of the sixth calend of June broke the 
 alabaster of flesh."— The Mirror for 1838. 
 
 The French inscription on the monument of the 
 Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral, and who died 
 in 1376, is thus translated: — 
 
 " "Whoso thou be that passest by 
 Where these bones interred lie, 
 Understand what I shall say 
 As at this time speak I may. 
 Such as thou art, sometime was I, 
 Such as I am — such shalt thou be. 
 I little thought on the hour of death 
 So long as I enjoyed breath. 
 Great riches here I did possess, 
 Whereof I made great nobleness ; 
 I had gold, silver, wardrobes, and 
 Great treasures, horses, houses, land. 
 But now a caitiff poor am I, 
 Deep in the ground, lo ! here I lie ; 
 My beauty great is all quite gone, 
 My flesh is wasted to the bone ; 
 And if you should see me this day, 
 I do not think but you would say 
 That I had never been a man, 
 So much alter' d now I am." 
 
 History of Kent. 
 
 At Fotheringay, in Northamptonshire, was formerly 
 a nunnery, and the only part of it now remaining 
 consists of a lofty nave, two aisles, and a square tower 
 at the west end, surmounted by an octagon tower of 
 later erection. A stone monument, near the com- 
 munion table, has the following inscription : — 
 
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 u These monument? of Edwaed, Duke of York, and 
 Eichaed of York, were made in the year of our Lord 
 1573. The sayd Edward was slayne in the battle 
 of Agincourt, in the third yeare of Henry ye V.'* 
 
 And on a similar monument is this inscription : — 
 
 ' * Richard Plantaganet, Duke of 
 
 York, nephew to Edward. Duke of 
 
 York, father to Tying Edward ye 
 
 4 th, was slane at "Wakefield, 
 
 In the 37th year of Henry ye 
 
 6th, 1450. *And lieth burred 
 
 Here with Cicelv his wife."' 
 
 On the still-born, male child of the Princess Charlotte, 
 who. with its mother, was buried in St. George's Chapel, 
 
 "Windsor [ by .Johnson Grant" :'■ — 
 
 "Here lies tlr unhonoured, nameless thing, 
 That, had it lived, had been a king : 
 Eull moulded by th' Eternal hand, 
 For breath, for reason, for command ; 
 Once, by its rank, its form, designed 
 A monarch, — an immortal mind : 
 But. with some view man cannot sift. 
 High Heav'n withdrew the tendered gift. 
 And with a ban — ! doubtless, right — 
 ndemned him ne'er to see the light ! 
 
 Xo sceptre filled his tiny hand : 
 His robe is but the swaddling band ; 
 His lowly crown — the wool — worn frill ; 
 His reign 'tis here : — all dark and still. 
 
 ! who can tell in wisdom school' d 
 
 ' Twere better to have lived and rul'd : 
 
 To feel th' unnumbered anxious cares 
 
 That press each brow the crown that wears ; 
 
 Suspected hate, and dreaded scorn 
 
 That turn each jewel to a thorn ; 
 
 "While thousands round the footstool bend, 
 
 To stand too high to have a Mend ; 
 
 To know not whom to trust ; to fear 
 
 Ea h pi :' " - rvice insinc 
 
 
SOVEREIGNS, ETC. 
 
 To be the statesman's plaything made; 
 
 To be caress' d, — to be betray' d ; 
 
 Of each substantial joy bereaved, 
 
 Cajol'd, hail'd, flatter'd, and deceiv'd : 
 
 With faults — expos' d and magnified; 
 
 With virtues — oft, too oft, denied ; — 
 
 Perhaps — to injure ; to oppress ; 
 
 To joy in war ; to spread distress ; 
 
 To play th' unfeeling tyrant's part; 
 
 To own the selfish, sensual heart ; 
 
 The passions all without controul ; 
 
 The giv'n — and then the squandered soul ! 
 
 ! woe-fraught life ! ! blest release ! — 
 
 Sleep — still-born infant — sleep in peace. 
 
 Perhaps, on holier, happier ground, 
 (For who th' 'Eternal's power shall bound) 
 Further than furthest comets run, 
 The mother yet may clasp her son, 
 And say — ' Behold me, King of Heaven ! 
 ' Me, and the infant thou hast given ! 
 ' Behold us cast before thy throne 
 ' Our brighter crowns : — receive thine own.' 
 
 We know not : — but there speeds an hour 
 When fades to dust terrestrial power ; — 
 When many a sceptred mass of clay 
 May wish he ne'er had seen the day : — 
 When pageantry, and pomp, and pride, 
 Are but a garment — laid aside : — 
 And but for virtue, every king, — 
 ■ Like this, — a mute unhonoured thing." — Political 
 Examiner for 1817. 
 
 On the left side of the communion table in Prince 
 Arthur's chapel, in Worcester Cathedral, is the tomb of 
 Peince Arthur, elder brother to Henry VIII. Bound 
 the uppermost^ verge of his tomb of fine marble, is the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lyeth buried Prince Arthur, the first begotten 
 sonne of the right renowned King Henry the Seaventh, 
 which noble prince departed out of this transitory life, 
 
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 at the castle of Ludlow, the seaventeenth yeare of his 
 father's reign, and of our Lord God, one thousonde five 
 hundred and two." 
 
 For the Mausoleum to be erected in Kensall Green 
 Cemetery to the Duke of Sussex, who died April 21, 
 1843, aged seventy years : — 
 
 "Waiting the resurrection of the just, 
 This mausoleum treasures royal dust. 
 "While other monuments proclaim they show 
 Where sleep the ministers of human woe : 
 Here one reposes whose more gentle mind, 
 Ranked not with the destroyers of mankind. 
 He sought not to inscribe his hpnoured name 
 Among the blood-stained votaries of fame, 
 But left to them a giddy world's applause, 
 To plead the widow's and the orphan's cause ; 
 While in the counsels of the state he fought 
 For universal liberty of thought. 
 
 'Twas his to cultivate the art3 of Peace, 
 The sum of human comfort to increase, 
 To cheer the mourner and identify 
 His glory with refined humanity. 
 
 So passed his life among the haunts of men, 
 Till he had numbered threescore years and ten, 
 Each season but revolving to convince 
 The world, a Patriot might be. a Prince ; 
 And dying his last testament here brings 
 His bones, far from the sepulchre of kings ; 
 He wished, from principle he could not swerve, 
 To sleep in death with those he loved to serve." 
 
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ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 NAVAL & MILITARY OFFICERS. 
 
 Themistocles, the renowned general and patriot, and 
 the preserver of Athens at the time of the Persian 
 invasion, died b.c. 465, aged about 65. There are upon 
 his tomb a few lines by Plato, thus translated : — 
 
 "By the sea's margin, on the watery strand, 
 Thy monument, Themistocles, shall stand : 
 By this directed to thy native shore 
 The Merchant shall convey his freighted store ; 
 And when our fleets are summoned to the fight, 
 Athens shall conquer with thy tomb in sight." 
 
 Cumberland's Observer. 
 
 Hannibal, the celebrated Carthaginian general, put 
 an end to his life by poison, at Libyssa, b.c 182. A 
 tomb, however, has been lately discovered at Malta, 
 with this plain inscription : — 
 
 " Hannibal, the son of Hamilcar." 
 
 And if it could be established that there was no other 
 Hannibal, son of Hamilcar, than this celebrated com- 
 mander, it would overturn the general, or rather 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 universal opinion, that Hannibal died by a voluntary 
 death at Libyssa. — Editor's Note in Rollin's Anc. His., 
 printed in 1849. 
 
 Similis, captain of the guards to Adrian, obtained 
 leave to quit the Emperor's service, when he afterwards 
 spent seven years of his life in rural retirement. At his 
 death he ordered the following inscription to be put on 
 his tomb : — 
 
 " Here Hes Similis, who Hved but seven years, 
 though he died at sixtv-seven." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument to Major 
 General DrxDAs. On the monument Britannia is 
 attended by Sensibility ; and the Genius of Britain is 
 crowning the hero with laurel. On the pedestal, 
 Britannia is seen defending Liberty against Fraud and 
 Rebellion. The following is the inscription : — 
 
 " Major General Thomas Dttnt>as, 
 
 died June 3rd, 1794, aged 44 years; 
 
 The best tribute to whose merit and public services 
 
 will be found in the following vote of the House of 
 
 Commons, for the erection of this memorial : 
 
 June 5th, 1795. ' Resolved, nemine contradicente, that 
 an humble address be presented to his Majesty, that he 
 will be graciously pleased to give directions that a 
 monument be erected in the Cathedral Church of 
 St. Paul, London, to the memory of Major General 
 Dundas, as a testimony of the grateful sense entertained 
 by this House, of the eminent services which he rendered 
 to his country, particularly in the reduction of the 
 French "West India Islands.' " 
 
 On the pedestal of the statue of Szr Thomas Jones, 
 in St. Paul's Cathedral, is the following inscription : — 
 
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ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 " Statue of the late 
 Major General Sir John Thomas Jones, Bart., K.C.B. 
 
 Erected 
 
 by his surviving Brother Officers of the Boyal Engineers, 
 
 in testimony 
 
 of their sense of his high professional attainments, 
 
 and of his important military services. 
 
 His honourable career 
 
 extended from 
 
 a.d. 1797 to a.d. 1843." 
 
 On Captain Matthew Henderson, a gentleman who 
 held the patent for his honours immediately from 
 Almighty God. (By Robert Burns.) 
 
 " Stop, passenger ! my story's brief; 
 And truth I shall relate, man ; 
 I tell na common tale o' grief 
 For Matthew was a great man. 
 
 If thou uncommon merit hast, 
 
 Yet spurn' d at fortune's door, man; 
 
 A look of pity hither cast, 
 For Matthew was a poor man. 
 
 If thou a noble sodger art, 
 
 That passest by this grave, man ; 
 
 Here moulders here a gallant heart, 
 For Matthew was a brave man. 
 
 If thou on men, their works and ways, 
 Canst throw uncommon light, man ; 
 
 Here lies wha weel had won thy praise, 
 For Matthew was a bright man. 
 
 If thou at friendship's sacred ca' 
 
 Wad life itself resign, man ; 
 Thy sympathetic tear maun fa' 
 
 For Matthew was a kind man. 
 
 If thou art staunch without a stain, 
 Like the unchanging blue, man ; 
 
 This was a kinsman o' thy ain, 
 For Matthew was a true man. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 If thou hast wit, and fun, and fire, 
 And ne'er guid wine did fear, man ; 
 
 This was thy billie, dam, and sire, 
 For Matthew was a queer man. 
 
 If onie whiggish whingin sot, 
 
 To blame poor Matthew dare, man ; 
 
 May dool and sorrow be his lot, 
 For Matthew was a rare man." 
 
 Yan Dun, Yeoman of the Guard, was buried in 
 St. Margaret's church, Westminster. His monument 
 contains a good bust, and the following inscription : — 
 
 " Cornelius Yan Dun lieth here, borne at Breda, in 
 Brabant, soldier with King Henry at Turney, Yeoman 
 of the Guard, and Usher to King Henry, King Edward, 
 Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth : of honest and 
 virtuous life, a careful man for poor folk, who in the 
 end of this town did build for poor widows twenty 
 houses at his own cost." 
 
 Eound the figure is inscribed : — 
 
 "Obiit anno Dom 1577, buried the 4th of September, 
 JEtatis suae 94." 
 
 On colonel, the Hon. Sir Robert le Poer Feench. 
 " Stranger, of all the Mends I knew, 
 So firm, so tender, and so true, 
 None ever claim' d the genuine tear 
 More than the man reposing here. 
 Though brave in arms — yet braver still 
 In thwarting a corrupted will ; 
 Save the true glory of the cross 
 All other glory sunk as dross ; 
 His greatest pride — his only plea 
 Was this — the Saviour died for me." 
 
 In a village churchyard near Glasgow, is an epitaph 
 on Major Kicholls, 47th Regiment. (By Burns.) 
 
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ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 Ye maggots, feed on Nicholls' brain, 
 For few sic' feasts ye ha' gotten, 
 
 And stick your claws in Mcholls' heart, 
 For de'il a bit on't 's rotten." 
 
 Admiral Boscawen, was buried in St. Michael's 
 church, at Penkevel, in Cornwall, where a monument of 
 exquisite workmanship stands erected to his memory, 
 with this inscription : — 
 
 Here lies the right honourable 
 
 Edward Boscawen, 
 
 Admiral of the blue, general of marines, 
 
 Lord of the Admiralty and one of 
 
 His Majesty's most honourable privy council. 
 
 His birth, though noble, 
 
 His titles, though illustrious, 
 
 Were but incidental additions to his greatness. 
 
 History 
 
 In more expressible and more indelible 
 
 Characters, 
 
 Will inform latest posterity, 
 
 With what ardent zeal, 
 
 With what successful valour, 
 
 He served his country, 
 
 And taught her enemies 
 
 To dread her naval power. 
 
 In command 
 
 He was equal to every emergency, 
 
 Superior to every difficulty. 
 
 In his high departments, masterly and upright : 
 
 His example formed, while 
 
 His patronage rewarded 
 
 Merit. 
 
 With the highest exertions of military greatness, 
 
 He united the greatest offices of humanity. 
 
 His concern for the interest, and unwearied 
 
 Attention to the health of all under 
 
 His command, 
 
 Softened the necessary exactions of duty, 
 
 And the rigours of his discipline, 
 
 By the care of a guardian, and the tenderness 
 
 of a father. 
 
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EPITAPE 
 
 Thus beloved and revered, 
 Amiable in private life, as illustrious in public, 
 - gallant and profitable servant of his 
 
 When he was beginning to reap the har - 
 of his toils and dange:-. 
 In the foil meridian of years and gl : 
 Alter having been providentially p: 
 Through every peril incident to his profession, 
 Died of ■ fever, 
 On the 10th of January, in the year 1761, 
 And in the 50th of his g 
 At Hate-Hand' s Park, in S 
 A seat he had just fin nee 
 
 of the enemies of his coimb 
 amidst the groans and - 
 of his beloved Cornishmen, was 
 E::r leposiied. 
 nee happy wife inscribes this marble, 
 An unequal testimony of his worth. 
 And .: bei affection 
 
 :zvcE, memorable for his cor. 
 in India, and for his clemency to the vanquished. In- 
 n a monunri: elected I 7 3d B bext Park, and 
 written by Hannah More : — 
 
 Born to command, to conquer, and to spare, 
 As mercy, mild ; yet terrible as war. 
 H;tr Lajfkeh in death ! while living, fame 
 
 From Thames to Ganges wafts his honoured name. 
 T : nim this frail memorial Friendship re 
 Whose noblest monument's an n 
 
 Wh : - n fairer columns stand engraved, 
 
 In I . md Cities ^ed." 
 
 In St Paul's Cathedral is a monument to Sin Wscr 
 
 t.tav Hosts. Hs is represented in full naval uniform. 
 Underneath his arms is the following : — 
 
 
ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 "Cattaro Ltssa 
 Sir William Hoste, Bart., K.C.B., K.M.T., 
 
 Captain in the Royal Navy. 
 
 Erected by his brother Officers 
 
 and the admirers of his services." 
 
 At Gaieta, in Sicily, on Charles de Botjrbox, Con- 
 stable of France, who died May 6th, 1527, aged 38. 
 Constable Bourbon, the great warrior, and national 
 renegade, bore arms for the Emperor Charles V., of 
 Germany, against the church, as well as against his own 
 countrymen. As he was shot in the act of storming 
 Borne, and died under the Pope's excommunication, he 
 could not be allowed a burial place in consecrated 
 ground. As regard was due to his eminent services, 
 and rank, and dignity, his body could not be abandoned 
 or left in an unhonoured place ; the Spaniards, therefore, 
 had recourse to another expedient ; they dried the body 
 of the constable like a mummy, and set it up in a recess 
 near the gate of the castle of Gaieta. — Over the recess 
 was a Spanish distich which may thus be rendered into 
 English : — 
 
 " France gave me birth, Spain strength and fortune gave, 
 Rome my death -wound, and Gaieta a grave." 
 
 A Latin epitaph said in plain prose : — 
 
 " Here lies Charles of Bourbon, who, after enlarging 
 the empire, defeating the French, conquering Italy, 
 besieging the Pope, and taking Rome, lost his life in 
 the moment of victory." — Some Friend. 
 
 Major General Sir Isaac Brock:, has a tabular monu- 
 ment in St. Paul's Cathedral. He is represented 
 expiring in the arms of a British soldier, while an Indian 
 is gazing sorrowfully on the scene. The inscription is : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Erected at the public expense, 
 to the memory of 
 
 AEajor General 
 
 Srs Isaac Beock, 
 
 who gloriously fell 
 
 on the 13th of October. 
 
 ALDCCCXIL, 
 
 in resisting an attack on 
 
 Queenstown, 
 
 in Upper Canada. 
 
 On Captain Geexvllie. By Lord George Littleton.' 
 
 " Ye weeping Muses, Graces, Virtues ! tell 
 If, since your all-accomplished Sidney fell, 
 You or afflicted Britain e'er deplored 
 A loss like that these plaintive lays record ! 
 Such spotless honour, such ingenuous truth, 
 Such ripen' d wisdom in the bloom of youth ! 
 v mild, so gentle, so compos' d a mind, 
 To such heroic warmth, and courage join'd ! 
 He too, like Sidney, nursed in learning's arms, 
 For nobler war forsook her softer charms ; 
 Like him possessed of every pleasing art, 
 The secret wish of eveiy female's heart ; 
 Like him cut off in youthful glory's pride, 
 He unrepining for his country died." 
 
 Fejln-cois de ALeecy, one of the most distinguished 
 generals in the thirty years' war, fell on the 3rd of 
 August, 1645, in the battle of Allersheim, near Xordlin- 
 gen. He was buried on the field, and a stone was 
 raised with this inscription : — 
 
 " Sta, viator, heroem calcas." 
 
 Bousseau, in his " Emile," very justly remarks, that 
 "the simple name of one of his victories would have 
 been preferable to this inflated sentence, borrowed from 
 antiquity.'' — Cyc. of Biography. 
 
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ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 Morat, in Switzerland, is celebrated as the scene of 
 the defeat of Charles the Bold, in 1476 ; and a little 
 chapel, filled with the bones of those who fell, bears 
 this inscription : — 
 
 " The army of Charles the Bold, besieging Morat, 
 left this Monument of its passage." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey, is a monument to Lord 
 Aubrey Beauclerk, who was killed at Boca-chica, in 
 1740. On the monument are the following lines by 
 Thomson : — 
 
 " While Britain boasts her empire o'er the deep, 
 This marble shall compel the brave to weep ; 
 As men, as Britons, and as soldiers mourn — 
 'Tis dauntless, loyal, virtuous Beatjclerk's urn. 
 Sweet were his manners as his soul was great, 
 And ripe his worth, though immature his fate. 
 Each tender grace that joy and love inspire, 
 Living he mingled with his martial fire ; 
 Dying, he bid Britannia's thunder roar, 
 And Spain still felt him when he breath' d no more." 
 
 The Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was the youngest son of 
 Charles, Duke of St. Alban's, by Diana, daughter of 
 Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford. He went early to 
 sea, and was made a commander in 1731. In the year 
 1740 he was sent upon that memorable expedition to 
 Cartagena, under the command of Admiral Vernon, in 
 his Majesty's ship the Prince Frederick, which, with 
 three others, was ordered to cannonade the castle of 
 Boca-chica ; one of these being obliged to quit her 
 station, the Prince Frederick was exposed not only to 
 the fire from the castle, but to that of Fort St. Joseph, 
 and to two ships that gained the mouth of the harbour ; 
 which he sustained for many hours that day, and part 
 of the next with uncommon intrepidity. As he was 
 giving his command upon deck both his legs were shot 
 off, but such was his magnanimity that he would not 
 suffer his wounds to be drest till he had communicated 
 his orders to his first lieutenant, which were to " fight 
 his ship to the last extremity." Soon after this he gave 
 some directions about his private affairs, and then 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 resigned his soul with the dignity of a hero and a 
 Christian. 
 
 Thus was he taken off in the 31st year of his age, an 
 illustrious commander of superior fortitude and clem- 
 ency : amiable in his person, steady in his affection, 
 and equalled by few in the social and domestic virtues 
 of politeness, modesty, candour, and benevolence. 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a noble monument (by 
 Flaxman) to earl Howe. The statue represents him 
 with a telescope in his hand, the British Lion reposing 
 by his side ; and Britannia, holding her trident, is seated 
 on a pedestal, upon which History is recording the 
 earl's exploits, while Victory, bending forward, places 
 a palm-branch in the lap of Britannia. Near the top 
 of the monument is — 
 
 " Gibraltar relieved, October 11th, 1778. 
 
 The French fleet defeated, 
 
 June the 1st, 1784." 
 
 At the Admiral's feet is this inscription : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Admiral Earl Howe, 
 
 in testimony of the general sense of his great and 
 
 meritorious services, in the course of a long and 
 
 distinguished life, and in particular 
 
 for the benefit 
 
 derived to his country, by the brilliant victory which he 
 
 obtained over the French fleet, off Ushant, 1st June, 1 794. 
 
 He was born 19th March, 1726, and died 5th Aug. 1799, 
 
 in his 74th year." 
 
 There is a statue ( by Chantrey) in St. Paul's Cathe- 
 dral, to General Gillespie, bearing this inscription : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense, 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Major-General Robert Eollo Gillespie, 
 
 who fell gloriously, 
 
 on the 31st of October, 1814, 
 
 while leading the troops to an assault on the fortress of 
 
 Halunga, in the kingdom of Kepaul." 
 
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AfiMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 At Sweaborg, in Russia. 
 
 In the church of Sweaborg is a tombstone with the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lies Field-Marshal, Earl of Ehrensword, 
 surrounded by his work, the ramparts of Sweaborg ; 
 begun in 1749, under King Frederick, and completed 
 under Gustavus III. Sweaborg, which on one side 
 reaches to the shore, gives her wise sovereigns the 
 dominion of the sea and fleet." — CasselVs Family Paper. 
 
 Epaminondas was a Theban general, illustrious for 
 his talents and his virtues. He was sentenced to death 
 as a traitor to his country. On hearing the sentence he 
 calmly expressed a wish that this inscription might be 
 put upon his tomb: — "Here lies Epaminondas, who 
 suffered death for saving his country." This keen 
 reproof touched his judges, and he was pardoned. He 
 was killed in battle, b.c. 363. — Watkins's Biog. Die. 
 
 The Greek Government have selected a marble block 
 in the Parthenon for the monument of George "Wash- 
 ington (who died Dec. 14, 1799, aged 67), now being 
 raised in the city named after him. It is to bear this 
 inscription : — 
 
 "To George Washington, 
 
 The heroic general, the high-minded citizen, 
 
 The founder of modern freedom, the land of Solon, 
 
 Themistocles, and Pericles, the birthplace 
 
 of aneient freedom, dedicates this old marble, 
 
 as a sign of reverence and admiration." 
 
 London Journal, 1854. 
 
 Inscription to the memory of General Wolfe, slain in 
 the service of his country, at Quebec, in 1ST. America, 
 1759 :— 
 
 " If nobly fighting in a nation's cause, 
 And bravely dying to maintain its laws ; 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 If great exertion, honesty of heart, 
 And all the zeal true courage can impart ; 
 If these can make the laureate hero shine, 
 These, Wolfe, were thine — pre-eminently thine. 
 Too early lost — yet glory crown' d thy days, 
 And fame grows hoarse, unequal to thy praise. 
 But, Oh ! thy death, illustrious chief, destroys 
 The sudden burst of universal joys. 
 Our patriot king in pity drops a tear, 
 And mourns a conquest that was bought so dear. 
 Oh ! let the Muse thy fortitude proclaim, 
 And on thy tomb thus register thy name : 
 , Here lies brave W r OLFE, who fought on freedom's side, 
 Bled for his king, and vanquish' d tho' he died.' " 
 
 General "Wolfe fell at Quebec, on the plains of 
 Abraham, September 13th, 1759. A broken column of 
 black marble marks the place where the English com- 
 mander died. It bears this inscription : — 
 
 " Here died Wolfe, victorious." — The Rev. J. 
 Cauglieifs Letters. 
 
 General Poeliee, who was hung in Spain, Oct. 3rd, 
 1815, left orders in his testament that when circum- 
 stances should permit, he should be placed in a pantheon, 
 with the following inscription : — 
 
 " Here repose the ashes of Dox Jlax Diez Poeliee, 
 General of the Spanish armies, who was fortunate in 
 what he undertook against the enemies of his country, 
 and died a victim of civil dissensions. 
 
 Peeling souls ! respect the ashes of an 
 unfortunate patriot." 
 
 The grave of Major Axdee, in America ( prior to 
 1821), who was executed as a spy in 1780. On a green 
 eminence, over which hangs the dark and funereal shade 
 of the willow, is the grave of this unfortunate soldier ; 
 it is a short distance S.W. of the village. "No urn 
 
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 nor animated bust," only a few rough, and unshapely 
 stones without a word of inscription, and carelessly laid 
 upon a mound of rudely piled earth, are shown to the 
 traveller, as the spot where rest the remains of poor 
 Andre. — His remains were lately, by a special request 
 from the British Government to the United States, 
 brought to England, and placed among the worthies of 
 "Westminster Abbey, where he has a sarcophagus : — 
 Britannia weeping, — bas-relief represents the flag of 
 truce being conveyed to General Washington. Upon it 
 is this inscription : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory 
 
 of 
 
 Major John Andre, 
 
 who, raised by his merit at an early period of life 
 
 to the rank of Adjutant General 
 
 of the British forces in America, 
 
 and employed in an important but hazardous enterprise, 
 
 fell a sacrifice to his zeal for his King and Country, 
 
 on the 2nd of October, a.d. 1780, 
 
 Aged 29 ; 
 
 Universally beloved and esteemed by the Army in which 
 
 he served, and lamented even by his 
 
 FOES, 
 
 His Gracious Sovereign, King George III. 
 
 has caused this monument 
 
 to be erected." 
 
 Underneath is inscribed : — 
 
 "The remains of Major John Andre 
 
 were, on the 10th of August, 1821, removed from Tappan 
 
 By James Buchanan, Esq., 
 
 His Majesty's Consul at New York, 
 
 Under instruction from His Koyal Highness 
 
 The Duke of York, 
 
 And, with the permission of the Dean and Chapter, 
 
 Finally deposited in a Grave 
 
 contiguous to this Monument, 
 
 On the 28th of November, 1821." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument (by Eossi) to 
 the Marquis Coenwallis. It consists of a group in 
 
EPITAPHS. ETC 
 
 pyrainidical form, the apex being the statue of the 
 marquis on a round pedestal ; he is robed as a knight of 
 the garter. At the base are several figures personifying 
 the British empire in Europe and India ; the third 
 figure on the left is intended to signify the Bagareth, 
 one of the rivers of India ; the small one on the right. 
 seated on a fish, and a calabash, is the Ganges. The 
 inscription is : — 
 
 " To the memory of 
 
 CHAELES, llAEQEIS CoEXWALLIS, 
 
 GoYeraor-G-eneral of Bengal, 
 who died oth of October, 1805, aged 66, at Gliazeepore, 
 in the province of Benares. 
 on his progress to assume the command of the amrv 
 in the field : 
 This monument is erected at the public expense, 
 in testimony of his high and distinguished public cha- 
 racter, his long and eminent public services, both 
 as a soldier and a statesman, 
 and the unwearied zeal with which his exertions were 
 employed in the last moments of his life, to promote 
 the interest and honour of his countrv." 
 
 Tabular monument to Captain Miller, in St. Paul's 
 Cathedral (by Flaxman N . The figure-head of the Theseus, 
 in which the captain died, off the coast of Acre is seen ; 
 Britannia and Victory elevate the hero's medallion 
 against a palm-tree, on which are the words — 
 
 "St. Vincent— Nile." 
 
 Hound the medallion is inscribed : — 
 
 " To Captain R. Willbt 1lili.ee. 
 This monument is raised by his companions in victory." 
 
 In the public burying-ground at Munich, or near the 
 centre, rises conspicuously a lofty obelisk of marble, 
 resting on four large cannon balls, placed on a massive 
 
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 cubic pedestal of granite. A brass plate on the lower 
 part of the obelisk, bears the following inscription : — 
 
 " L'Armee du Rhin, 
 
 Commandee par le General Moreau : 
 
 A la memoire dn General Bastoul, 
 
 Blesse a la bataille de Hohenlinden 
 
 Le 12 Frimaire. 
 
 Mort a Munich le 25 jSTivose, 
 
 L'an 9 dela Rep. Franchise." 
 
 The Mirror. 
 
 On a mural tablet, in Westminster Abbey, erected to 
 Lieut. -General Henry Withers, who died 1729, is the 
 following epitaph, by Alexander Pope: — 
 
 " Here, "Withers, rest ! thou bravest, gentlest mind, 
 Thy country's friend, but more of human kind. 
 Oh ! born to arms ! Oh ' worth in youth appro v'd ! 
 Oh ! soft humanity, in age belov'd ! 
 For thee the hardy vet' ran drops a tear, 
 And the gay courtier feels the sigh sincere. 
 
 Withers, adieu ! yet not with thee remove 
 Thy martial spirit, or thy social love ! 
 Amidst corruption, luxury, and rage, 
 Still leave some ancient virtues to our age : 
 Nor let us say (those English glories gone) 
 The last true Briton lies beneath this stone." 
 
 On a military officer, in a churchyard near Oxford 
 
 " Billeted by Death, 
 
 I quartered here lay slain, 
 And when the trumpet sounds 
 I'll rise and march again." 
 
 On a sumptuous monument in Westminster Abbey :- 
 " To the memory of 
 Sir Charles Wager, Knt. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Admiral of the white, first commissioner of the 
 
 Admiralty, 
 
 And privy councellor ; 
 
 A man of great natural talents, 
 
 Improved by industry, and long experience ; 
 
 Who bore the highest commands, 
 
 And passed through the greatest employments, 
 
 "With credit to himself and honour to his country. 
 
 He was, in his private life, 
 
 Humane, temperate, just and bountiful ; 
 
 In public station, 
 
 Valiant, prudent, wise and honest ; 
 
 Easy of access to all ; 
 
 Steady and resolute in his conduct ; 
 
 So remarkably happy in his presence of mind, 
 
 That no danger ever discomposed him : 
 
 Esteemed and favoured by his king, 
 
 Beloved and honoured by his country ; 
 
 He died, the 24th of May, 1743, aged "79. 
 
 This monument was erected 
 
 By Erancis Gashry, Esq., 
 
 In gratitude to his great patron, a.d. 1747." 
 
 In the chapel of the Hospice of the Grand St. Ber- 
 nard, is a monument to General Desaix, who was killed 
 in the battle of Marengo, and was buried in that place. 
 It is finished with great taste and elegance. In the 
 centre of the pedestal is a bas-relief representing the 
 general falling from his horse, mortally wounded, into 
 the arms of a soldier. On either side stand a male and 
 a female figure, exquisitely sculptured. The simple 
 and expressive inscription is — 
 
 " A Desaix, mort a la bataille de Marengo." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral, on a monument : — 
 
 " The Services and Death 
 of two valiant and distinguished officers, 
 
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 James Robert Mosse, Captain of the Monarch, 
 
 and Edward Riotj, of the Amazon, 
 
 who fell in the attack upon Copenhagen, conducted 
 
 by Lord kelson, 2nd of April, 1801, are commemorated 
 
 by this Monument, erected at the national expense. 
 
 James Robert Mosse, 
 
 was bom in 1746 ; 
 
 he served as Lieutenant several years, under Lord Howe, 
 
 and was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain in 1 790. 
 
 To Edward Riou, who was born in 1762, 
 an extraordinary occasion was presented in the early 
 part of his service, to signalize his intrepidity and 
 presence of mind, which were combined with 
 the most anxious solicitude for the lives of those 
 under his command, 
 and a magnanimous disregard of his own. 
 When his ship, the Guardian, struck upon an island of 
 ice, in December, 1789, and afforded no prospect but 
 that of immediate destruction to those on board ; 
 Lieut. Riou encouraged all who desired to take their 
 chance of preserving themselves in the boats, to consult 
 their safety : but judging it contrary to his own duty 
 to desert the vessel, he neither gave himself up to despair 
 nor relaxed his exertions ; whereby, after ten weeks of 
 the most perilous navigation, he succeeded in bringing 
 his disabled ship into port ; receiving his high reward 
 of fortitude and perseverance from the Divine Provi- 
 dence, on whose protection he relied." 
 
 In the same Cathedral is a beautiful monument to 
 Sir William Ponsoxby. The sculpture represents the 
 horse falling exhausted to the ground, whilst Sir Wm., 
 at the moment of death, is receiving a wreath of laurel 
 from the hands of Victory. The inscription is : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Major-General the Hon. Sir William Poxsonby, 
 
 who fell gloriously in the Battle of Waterloo, 
 
 on the 18th of June, 1815. 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a Marine Officer, in the churchyard of Barwick- 
 in-Elmet, Yorkshire : — 
 
 ' 'Here lies retired from busy scenes 
 A first Lieutenant of Marines, 
 Who lately lived in gay content, 
 On board the brave ship Diligent. 
 
 Wow stripp'd of all his warlike show, 
 And laid in box of elm below : — 
 Confin'd in earth, in narrow borders, 
 He rises not till further orders." 
 
 Inscribed on a monument, erected to Admiral Hawke, 
 in the parish church of Stoneham, in Hampshire : — 
 
 "D. 0. M. 
 
 This monument is sacred to the memory of 
 Edward Hawke. 
 Lord Hawke, baron of Tawton, in the county of York, 
 Knight of the Bath, 
 Admiral and commander-in-chief of the fleet ; 
 Vice-admiral of Great Britain, &c. &c. 
 Who died October 17th, 1781, 
 Aged 76. 
 The bravery of his soul was equal to the dangers he 
 encountered : the cautious intrepidity of his delib- 
 erations, superior even to the conquest he 
 obtained; the annals of his life compose 
 a period of naval glory, unparalleled 
 in later times, for wherever he 
 sailed victory attended him : 
 a prince, unsolicited, 
 conferred on him 
 dignities he 
 disdained 
 to ask. 
 
 On Lieutenant 
 
 Is it not sweet to see the western wave, 
 Bright burning with the rays of setting sun ? 
 Is it not sweet when twilight's come and gone, 
 
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 And the clay's toil is past, to sink at length 
 In gentle, peaceful sleep ? It is, it is. 
 So, stranger, it is sweet for him whose faith 
 Rests on the Crucified, to fall asleep in death. 
 Faith is the dew that cools the burning brow, 
 Dries up the falling tear, composes decently 
 The drooping head, and softly turns the gaze 
 Unto thy heavenly hill, Zion ! 
 Thou who dost gaze, aread my lesson right ; 
 And when thou enterest on the journey drear, 
 Thou shalt be calm anon, as I am calm — 
 Thy fetters burst — thy spirit with thy God ! " 
 
 The Mirror. 
 
 The tomb of Marshal Blttcher, who died 1819 : — 
 
 " On my route to the mountains, from Breslau, I took 
 the Kanthe road, to visit the tomb of Blucher, at 
 Kriblowitz. Here, by the side of the road, reposes the 
 old hero, with no other canopy but heaven, and the 
 united foliage of three lindens. In this spot, in 1813, 
 at the advanced age of 71, at the head of the Prussian 
 Landwehr, he completely routed the French under 
 Marshal Macdonald, taking 17,000 prisoners and 
 100 pieces of cannon." — Germany and the Germans, by 
 an Englishman resident in Germany. 
 
 At Suthland, in Leicestershire, on Sir Joseph 
 Dan vers, who died a.d. 1753 : — 
 
 " When young, I sail'd to India, East and West, 
 But aged, in this port must lie at rest." 
 
 Captain Clerke, who succeeded to the command of 
 the two British ships after the death of Captain Cook, 
 and who brought the ships as far as Kamtschatka, died 
 there of a consumption which had manifestly com- 
 menced before he left England, and of which he had 
 
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 lingered during the whole continuance of the voyage, 
 a period of more than three years. His very gradual 
 decay had for a long time rendered him a melancholy 
 object to his friends, but the firmness and equanimity 
 with which he bore the slow approaches of death — the 
 constant flow of good spirits which he retained even to 
 the last hour, and a cheerful resignation to the decree 
 of heaven, furnished them with some consolation. He 
 was bred to the navy from his youth, and had been in 
 many engagements. He particularly wished to be buried 
 on land, and agreeably to his request, he was buried in 
 the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul, Kamtschatka, at 
 the foot of a tree. His escutcheon was prepared and 
 neatly painted by Mr. Webber, with the captain's coat 
 of arms properly emblazoned, and placed in the church 
 of Paratounea. Underneath the escutcheon was jhe 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lies interred at the foot of a tree, near the 
 Ostrog of St. Peter and St. Paul, the body of Charles 
 Clerke, Esquire, Commander of his Britannic Majesty's 
 ships, the Resolution and Discovery : to which he 
 succeeded on the death of James Cook, Esquire, who 
 was killed by the natives of an island we had discovered 
 in the South Sea, after having explored the coast of 
 America, from 42 deg. 27 min. to 70 deg. 40 min. 
 57 sec. K., in search of a north-west passage from 
 Europe to the East Indies. The second attempt being 
 made by Captain Clerke, who sailed within some few 
 leagues of Captain Cook, but was blocked up by a solid 
 body of ice, which he found from the American to the 
 Asiatic shore, and almost extended due east and west. 
 He died at sea, on his return to the southward, on the 
 22nd day of August, 1779, aged 38 years." — Captain 
 Cook's Voyages, Folio edition. 
 
 Monument to Colonel Cadogax, in St. Paul's Cathe- 
 dral :— 
 
 " Colonel Cadogan, when he was disabled in battle, 
 desired some of his soldiers to carry him to an adjoining 
 hill, whence he might witness the issue of the struggle 
 in which he had been engaged. He is depicted in the 
 
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 sculpture borne along by his men, with bis face still 
 towards the enemy ; one of the Trench standards (the 
 eagle) with its bearer, lies trodden underfoot, and 
 another is flying, while the soldiers who support the 
 wounded officer, seeing the French routed, are waving 
 their hats in triumph. The inscription is : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Colonel the Hon. Henry Cadogan, 
 
 who fell gloriously in the command of a Brigade, 
 
 in the memorable Battle of Yittoria, 21st June, 1813, 
 
 when a complete victory was gained over the French 
 
 army by the allied forces 
 
 under the Marquis of Wellington. 
 
 Colonel Cadogan was son of Charles Sloane, Earl Cadogan, 
 
 born 28th of February, 1780." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Captain John Cooke, 
 in St. Paul's :— 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Captain John Cooke, who was killed 
 
 Commanding the Bellerophon, in 
 
 the battle of Trafalgar, 
 
 in the 44th year of his age, and the 30th of his services." 
 
 In St. Paul's is a tabular monument to Major General 
 Boss, bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory 
 
 of Major General Robekt Ross, 
 
 Who, having undertaken and executed an enterprise 
 
 against the city of Washington, the capital of 
 
 the United States of America, which was crowned 
 
 with complete success, was killed shortly 
 
 afterwards while directing a successful attack 
 
 upon a superior force, near the city of 
 
 Baltimore, on the 12th day of September, 1814." 
 
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 In St. Paul's is a monument to Sir Pulteney 
 Malcolm, captain of the Donegal, under Lord Nelson. 
 A gale of wind made it impossible for him to reach 
 Trafalgar until the victory was won, but he was able 
 then to do great service in rescuing numbers of brave 
 seamen from the waves, as the confusion was subsiding. 
 On the pedestal of the monument is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " In memory of 
 
 Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, G.C.B. 
 
 Born at Burnfoot of Esk, Dumfriesshire. 
 
 Died at East Lodge, Middlesex, on the 20th of July, 1838, 
 
 in his 70th year. 
 As an officer, distinguished in every rank, by his skill, 
 zeal, and courage, 
 Well tried in the battle and the breeze ; 
 And by a mild, but efficient system of discipline, 
 Thrice appointed by his sovereign to the command -in- 
 chief of a British fleet ; 
 On one occasion co-operating with a French squadron, 
 which he also had the honour of commanding. 
 "Whilst he supported the honour of the British flag, 
 he obtained the respect and esteem, not only of our 
 allies, but of those against whom hostilities were 
 
 commenced, or in contemplation, 
 
 which by his conciliatory and moderate conduct, 
 
 He contributed to terminate or avert. 
 
 Active and amiable in all the duties and relations of 
 
 private life, whenever his services were not required 
 
 at sea, he passed most of his time in his native Eskdale, 
 
 where his kindness to all classes, and his 
 
 indefatigable endeavours to promote their welfare, 
 
 will be as fully appreciated as his public services have 
 
 been by other friends, not only of the United Service, 
 
 but of every rank and profession of civil life, 
 
 by whom this Monument has been erected." 
 
 Sir Francis Vere, the celebrated English commander 
 in the Netherlands, retired into private life a few years 
 before his death, which happened August 28th, 1608, 
 aged 53. He was buried in St. John the Evangelist's 
 
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 chapel, Westminster Abbey, and the following epitaph 
 was written on him : — 
 
 ""When Vere sought Death, arm'd with his sword and 
 Death was afraid to meet him in the field : [shield, 
 But, when his weapons he had laid aside, 
 Death, like a coward struck him, and he died." 
 
 English Mag. for 1777. 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Myees, Bart., 
 
 who gloriously fell in the battle of Albuera, 
 
 May 16th, 1811, aged 27 years. 
 
 His illustrious commander, the Duke of Wellington, 
 
 bore this honourable testimony to his services and 
 abilities, in a letter to Lady Myers, written from Elvas, 
 May 20th, 1811 :— 
 ' It will be some satisfaction to you to know that 
 your son fell in the action, in which, if possible, the 
 British troops surpassed all their former deeds ; and, at 
 the head of the Fusilier Brigade, to which a greater 
 part of the final success of the day was to be attributed. 
 As an officer he had already been highly distinguished, 
 and, if Providence had prolonged his life, he promised 
 to become one of the brightest ornaments to his profes- 
 sion, and an honour to his country.' " 
 
 Sir Clottdesly Shovel was buried at the national 
 expense in Westminster Abbey, where a stately monu- 
 ment was erected to his memory, consisting of a recum- 
 bent figure under a tent, a pedestal on each side ; bas- 
 relief represents a wreck ; underneath is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Sir Clotjdesly Shovel, Knight, 
 
 Kear Admiral of Great Britain, 
 
 And Admiral and Commander in-chief of the fleet, 
 
 The just rewards 
 
 Of his long and faithful services : 
 
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 He was 
 
 Deservedly beloved of his country ; 
 
 And esteemed, though dreaded by the enemy, 
 
 Who had often experienced his conduct and courage 
 
 Being shipwrecked* 
 
 On the rocks of Scilly, 
 
 In his voyage from Toulon, 
 
 The 22nd of October, 1707, at night, 
 
 In the 57 th year of his age. 
 
 His fate was lamented by all, 
 
 But especially the 
 
 Seafaring part of the nation, 
 
 To whom he was 
 
 A generous patron, and a worthy example. 
 
 His body was flung on the shore 
 
 And buried with others in the sands ; 
 
 But being soon after taken up, 
 
 "Was placed under this Monument, 
 
 Which his royal Mistress has caused to be erected, 
 
 To commemorate 
 
 His steady loyalty, and extraordinary virtues. " 
 
 Monument to Johx Hampden, the Patriot, on Chal- 
 grove Field, where he lost his life. It consists of a 
 large block of Portland stone, sixteen feet high, sur- 
 mounted by a ceppo cap, and resting on a massive 
 plinth of the same material. On the side of the mon- 
 ument and facing Warpsgrove, is his medallion portrait 
 in bold relief ; on the opposite side are his arms ; on the 
 third, the names of the subscribers by whom the mon- 
 
 * When Sir Cloudesly set out on the expedition in -which he lost his life, 
 there was a form of prayer composed by the Archbishop of Canterbury 
 (Thomas Tenison) for the* success of the fleet, in which his grace made use 
 of this unlucky expression—" That he begged God to be a rock of defence 
 to the fleet," which occasioned the following lines to be made upon the 
 monument set up for him in Westminster Abbey, he being cast away in that 
 expedition, on the rocks called " The Bishop and his Clerks," and his bodv 
 found a few days afterwards : — 
 
 " As Lambeth prayed, such was the dire event, 
 Else had we wanted now this Monument ; 
 That God unto our fleet would be a rock, 
 Xor did kind Heaven the fond petition mock. 
 To what the Metropolitan said then, 
 The Bishop and his Clerks replied ' Amen.' " 
 
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 ument is raised ; and on the fourth side is the following 
 inscription, from the pen of Lord Nugent : — 
 
 " Here, in this field of Chalgrove, John Hampden, 
 after an able and strenuous, but unsuccessful resistance 
 in Parliament, and before the Judges of the land, to the 
 measures of an arbitrary court, first took arms, assem- 
 bling the levies of the associated counties of Bucking- 
 ham and Oxford, in 1642. And here, within a few 
 paces of this spot, he received the wound of which he 
 died, while fighting in defence of the free monarchy 
 and ancient liberties of England, June 18th, 1643. In 
 the two-hundredth year from that day, this stone was 
 raised in reverence to his memory." — The Mirror for 
 1843. 
 
 Inscription on the monument to Captain Faulknor, 
 in St. Paul's : — 
 
 " This Monument was erected 
 by the British Parliament 
 to commemorate the gallant conduct 
 of Captain Bobert Faulknor, 
 who on the 5th of January, 1795, 
 in the 32nd year of his age, 
 and in the moment of victory, was killed on board the 
 Blanche Frigate, while he was engaging La Pique, 
 a French Frigate, of very superior force. 
 The circumstances of determined bravery that distin- 
 guished this action, which lasted five hours, deserve 
 
 to be recorded. 
 
 Captain Faulknor, observing the great superiority 
 
 of the enemy, and having lost most of his mast and 
 
 rigging, watched an opportunity of the bowsprit 
 
 of La Pique coming athwart the Blanche, and 
 
 with his own hands lashed it to the capstern, and thus 
 
 converted the whole stern of the Blanche into 
 
 one battery ; but unfortunately, soon after this bold and 
 
 daring manoeuvre, 
 
 he was shot through the heart." 
 
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 In St. Paul's is a statue of Admiral Lord Duxcax : 
 he is represented with his boat- cloak or dreadnought 
 around him, his hands grasping his sword, which is laid 
 across him. The pedestal represents in alto-relievo, a 
 sailor, with his wife and child ; indicating the venera- 
 tion felt for this illustrious man by the humblest seamen 
 and their families. The following is the inscription : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Adah, Lord Viscount Duxcan, 
 
 as a testimony of his distinguished eminence 
 
 in the naval service of his country ; 
 
 and as a particular memorial of the 
 
 glorious and important victoiy 
 
 which he gained over the Dutch fleet, 
 
 on the 11th of October, 1797. 
 
 He died on the 4th Aug., 1804. 
 
 In Bombay Cathedral is a monument from the chisel 
 of Mr. Badly, B.A., to the memory of Major Eldeed 
 Pottixgee, C.B., of which the following is the inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " This Monument erected by Public Subscription to 
 the memory of Major Eldeed Pottixgee, C.B., of the 
 Bombay Begiment of Artillery, is placed in the cathe- 
 dral church of Bombay, in token of the admiration and 
 respect in which his character as a soldier, and conduct 
 as a man, are held by his friends in the Presidency." 
 
 " Major Pottinger's successful defence of Kerat, his 
 gallant bearing, and judicious counsel, throughout the 
 eventful period of the British reverses in Afghanistan, 
 are recorded in the annals of his country, and need no 
 eulogium here. The recollection of those services must 
 add to the regret universally felt, that one whose early 
 career gave such promise of future eminence and distinc- 
 tion, should have found a premature grave. Compelled 
 by long exertion, anxiety, and fatigue in the discharge 
 of his public duties, to seek a change of climate for the 
 recovery of his health, Major Pottinger was returning 
 to England, via China, when he was attacked by a 
 malignant fever at Hong Kong, where he died on the 
 13th of November, 1843, aged 32 years." — Illustrated 
 London News. 
 
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 In the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, at Paris, on 
 General Foy : — 
 
 "Honneur au General Foy, 
 
 II se repose de ses travaux, 
 
 Et ses cenvres le suivent. 
 Hier quand de ses jours la source fut tarie 
 La Prance, en le voyant sur sa couche entendu, 
 Implorait un accent de cette voix cherie. 
 Helas ! au cri plaintif jete par la nature, 
 C'est la premiere fois qu'il ne pas respondu." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Sir Thomas Picton, 
 in St. Paul's :— 
 
 " Erected at the public expense 
 to Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, K.G., C.B., 
 
 who, after distinguishing himself in the victories of 
 
 Buzaco, Fuentes de Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, 
 
 Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Orthes, and Toulouse, 
 
 terminated his long and glorious military service 
 
 in the ever-memorable battle of Waterloo, 
 
 to the splendid success of which 
 
 his genius and valour eminently contributed, 
 
 On the 18th of June, 1815. " 
 
 There is also a monument to Sir Thomas Picton", 
 standing at the West end of the town of Carmarthen. The 
 structure stands about 30 feet high, and is similar to Tra- 
 jan's pillar at Rome, and is built of black marble. On the 
 south side is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Sir Thomas Pictoist, 
 
 Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of the Bath, 
 
 Of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Swords, 
 
 and of other foreign Orders ; 
 
 Lieutenant-General in the British Army, and 
 
 Member of Parliament for the Borough of 
 
 Pembroke. 
 
 Born at Poyston, in Pembrokeshire, in August, 
 
 1758; 
 
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 Died at Waterloo, on the 18th of June. 1815, 
 
 Gloriously fighting for his country, and the 
 
 liberties of Europe ; 
 
 Having honourably fulfilled, on behalf of the 
 
 Public, various duties in various dim: 
 
 And having achieved the highest military renown 
 
 in the Spanish Peninsula, 
 
 He thrice received the unanimous thanks of 
 
 Parliament. 
 
 And a Alonument erected by the British nation 
 
 in St. Paul's Cathedral 
 
 Commemorates his death and services. 
 
 His grateful countrymen, to perpetuate past and 
 
 incite to future exertions, 
 
 Have raised this column, under the auspices of 
 
 His Majesty King George the Fourth. 
 
 To the memory of a hero and a Welshman. 
 
 The plan and design of the Monument was given 
 
 by our countryman John Nash, Esq.. F.K.S., 
 
 Architect to the King. 
 
 The ornaments were executed bv 
 
 E. H. Bailey. Esq. R.A. 
 
 And the whole was executed by Mr. Daniel Alain waring, 
 
 of the town of Carmarthen. 
 
 In the vears 1S26 and 1827." 
 
 On Captain Cornwall, slain off Toulon in 1743. 
 By Lord Eyttleton.) 
 
 : Though Britain's genius hung her drooping head, 
 And mourned her ancient naval glory fled 
 On that famed day when France, combined with Spain, 
 Strove for the wide dominion of the main ; 
 Yet, Cornwall ! all with general voice agree 
 To pav the tribute of applause to thee. 
 AThen his bold chief in thickest fight engaged, 
 "Unequal war with Spain's proud leader waged, 
 AYith indignation moved, he timely came 
 To rescue from reproach his country's name ; 
 Success too dearly did his valour crown, 
 He saved his leader's life, but lost his own." 
 
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 In the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, on the Tomb of 
 Nelson, there is only inscribed — 
 
 "Horatio Viscount Nelson." 
 
 But in the nave of the Cathedral is a splendid monu- 
 ment (by Flaxman) which cost £6,300. The admiral 
 is depicted arrayed in the robe presented to him by the 
 Sultan ; he leans on an anchor, and a rope is coiled at 
 his feet. On one side of the pedestal is the British 
 Lion ; on the other, Britannia is pointing two young 
 sailors to the hero, for their imitation. On the pedestal 
 itself there are allegorical representations of the North 
 Sea, the German Ocean, the Nile, and the Mediterranean. 
 On the cornice, the words — u Copenhagen — Nile — Tra- 
 falgar." On the base is this inscription : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 Vice-Admiral Hokatio, Viscount Nelson, K.B. 
 
 to record his splendid and unparalleled achievements 
 
 during a life spent in the service of his county, 
 
 and terminated in the moment of victory by a glorious 
 
 death, in the memorable action off Cape Trafalgar, 
 
 on the 21st of October, 1805. 
 
 Lord Nelson was born on the 29th of September, 1758. 
 
 The Battle of the Nile was fought on the 1st of Aug., 1798. 
 
 The Battle of Copenhagen on the 2nd of April, 1801." 
 
 On Lord Collingwood' s tomb in the crypt of St. 
 Paul's, is this brief inscription : — 
 
 "Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood, died 7th March, 1810." 
 
 In the south transept is a monument erected to his 
 meinour. Subjoined is the inscription : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Cuthbert, Lord Collingwood, 
 
 "Who died in the command of the fleet in the Mediterranean, 
 
 on board of the Ville-de-Paris, 
 
 VII March, MDCCCX, in LXI year of his age. 
 
 Wherever he served he was distinguished for conduct, 
 
 skill, and courage ; particularly in the action with 
 
 the French fleet, June 1st, MDCCXCIV, 
 
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 as Captain of the Barfleur ; 
 
 in the action with the Spanish fleet, XIY February, 
 
 MDCCXCYII, 
 
 as Captain of the Excellent ; 
 
 but most conspicuously in the decisive victory off 
 
 Cape Trafalgar, obtained over 
 
 the combined fleets of France and Spain, 
 
 to which he eminently contributed, as Tice- Admiral 
 
 of the Blue, commanding the larboard division, 
 
 XXI October, MDCCCV." 
 
 Over the door leading to the cloisters in Westminster 
 Abbey, is an elegant monument ( by Koubiliac] to the 
 memory of Field Marshal AYade. From the midst of a 
 very curious pedestal, on which is affixed a medal, arises 
 a Doric column of red marble, crowned with an urn ; 
 this column is adorned with a trophy composed of his 
 various ensigns of honour, arms, &c, which the figure 
 of Time, placed on the left side, appears ready to destroy, 
 but is repulsed by another figure on the right, which 
 represents Fame. Several ornaments enrich the base, 
 on which is the following inscription : — 
 
 "To the memory of 
 
 Geoege Wade, 
 
 Field-marshal of his majesty's forces, 
 
 Lieutenant-general of the ordnance, 
 Colonel of his majesty's third regiment 
 of dragoon guards, 
 Governor of Fort-William, Fort- 
 Augustus, and Fort-George, 
 And one of his majesty's most 
 honourable priw-council. 
 He died 14 March, 1748, aged 75." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Colonel Gokdox, on 
 the field of Waterloo : — 
 
ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 "Sacred to the memory 
 
 of 
 
 Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Sir Alex. Gordon, 
 
 Knight, Commander of the most honourable 
 
 Order of the Bath, 
 
 Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshal Duke of 
 
 Wellington, 
 
 and third brother to George, Earl of Aberdeen, 
 
 who in the 29 th year of his age, 
 
 terminated a short but glorious career, 
 
 on the 18th of June, 1815, 
 
 whilst executing the orders of the great commander 
 
 in the Battle of Waterloo. 
 
 Distinguished for gallantry and good conduct 
 
 in the field, he was honoured with 
 
 repeated marks of approbation, 
 
 by the illustrious Hero, 
 
 with whom he shared the dangers of every Battle 
 
 in Spain, Portugal, and France, 
 
 and received the most nattering proofs of 
 
 his confidence on many trying occasions. 
 
 His zeal and activity in the service obtained 
 
 the reward of 
 
 Ten Medals, 
 
 and the honourable distinction of the order 
 
 of the Bath. 
 
 He was justly lamented by the Duke of 
 
 Wellington, in his public despatch, 
 
 as an officer of high promise, 
 
 and a serious loss to his country : 
 
 nor less worthy of record were his virtues 
 
 in private life ; 
 
 His unaffected respect for religion ; 
 
 His high sense of honour ; 
 
 His scrupulous integrity; 
 
 and the more amiable qualities, 
 
 which secured the attachment of his friends 
 
 and the love of his own family. 
 
 In testimony of feelings which no lan- 
 guage can relate, 
 a disconsolate sister, and five surviving brothers 
 have erected this simple monument, 
 to the object of their tenderest affections." 
 
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 Inscription on the monument of Major Caetweight, 
 in Finchley Churchyard : — 
 
 " In this place are deposited the remains of John 
 Caetweight, the son of William and Ann Cartwright, 
 Commander in the Royal Navy, and many years Major 
 in the Nottingham Militia. He was the author of vari- 
 ous works on legislation; the earliest, most strenuous, 
 and disinterested Reformer of his time ; the intrepid 
 advocate for liberty, whose labours for the public good 
 terminated only with his life, on the 23rd of Septem- 
 ber, 1834; aged 84. Also the remains of his beloved 
 wife, Anne Catherine Cartwright, who died on the 21st 
 of December, 1834." 
 
 D'auvergne-Corret, Theophilus of Latour, one of 
 the bravest soldiers mentioned in military history, who 
 fought under Massena, fell at Newbury in 1800. A 
 monument was erected on the spot where he fell, and 
 the inscription upon it was : — 
 
 "Died on the field of honour." 
 
 Partington's. Cyc. of Biog. 
 
 Monument to Major- Generals Goee and Skeeeett, in 
 St. Paul's Cathedral. The following is the inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Major- Generals Af.thue Goee, and John Byne Skeeeett, 
 
 who fell gloriously, while leading the troops 
 
 to the assault of the fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom, 
 
 in the night of the 8th and 9th of March, 1814." 
 
 On the monument to Captain Dttef, in St. Paul's, 
 Britannia is represented decorating a sarcophagus, on 
 
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 which is a medallion of the deceased hero, with laurel ; 
 a sailor, with his flag, is lamenting the loss of his 
 commander. Beneath is inscribed : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 Captain George Duff, 
 
 who was killed 21st October, 
 
 1805, 
 
 commanding the Mars, 
 
 in the battle of Trafalgar, 
 
 in the 42nd year of his age, 
 
 and the 29th of his service." 
 
 On the tabular monument in St. Paul's, erected to 
 Captain Hardinge, is inscribed : — 
 
 " National. 
 To Geo. IN". Hardinge, Esq., 
 Captain of the Fiorenza, 36 guns, 186 men, who attacked 
 
 on three successive days La Piedmontaise, 50 guns, 
 
 566 men, and fell near Ceylon, in the path to victory, 
 
 8th March, 1808, aged 28 years." 
 
 In Saffron Walden church, in Essex, is a monument 
 to the Hon. H. A. Neville, and the Hon. Grey Neville. 
 It consists of an elaborate Gothic sarcophagus ; on the 
 cornice is placed the bear skin cap, sword, and sash of 
 the Hon. H. Aldworth Neville, captain in the grenadier 
 guards; and on the opposite side, the helmet, sword, 
 and sash of the Hon. Grey Neville, colonel in the 5th 
 dragoon guards ; and above these are placed the flags of 
 the army and the regiment, thus forming a pyramidical 
 group. The whole weighs about one ton, with scarcely 
 a speck of colour to be found on it — very unusual in 
 so spacious a monument ; it is nearly nine feet in height, 
 and six feet in width, and projects 18 inches from the 
 wall. This inscription is on the tablet : — 
 
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 " Sacred to the memory of two gallant young officers, 
 the third and fifth sons of Lord and Lady Braybrooke, 
 who, having accompanied their regiments to the Crimea, 
 were both cut off in the short space of one week, while 
 nobly fighting for their Queen and Country. The 
 Hon. Henry Aldworth Neville, Captain in the 
 Grenadier Guards, after sharing in the glories of the 
 memorable day at Alma, was mortally wounded at the 
 battle of Inkermann, Nov. 5th, 1854, and expired a few 
 hours after ; aged thirty. 
 
 " The Hon. Grey Neville, Cornet in the 5th Dragoon 
 Guards, died in the hospital at Scutari, Nov. 11th, 1854, 
 of wounds received in the charge of the heavy cavalry 
 at Balaclava, Oct. 25th, aged twenty-four." 
 
 " In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and 
 their departure is taken for misery, and their going from 
 us to be utter destruction, but they are in peace." Wis- 
 dom iii. 2, 3. — The Illustrated London New*. 
 
 Translation of the Latin epitaph, on the Duke of 
 Marlborough, who died June, 1722, aged 71, and 
 was buried in Westminster Abbey : — 
 
 "Reader, whate'er thy clime, no stranger's here: 
 'Tis Marlborough's dust demands the generous tear, 
 Bavaria, Spain, the German, Belgic lord, 
 And haughty Gaul, or fear'd him, or adored. 
 This narrow urn confines the mighty dead ; 
 In this, his country's pride, and glory's laid : 
 By him, loud Ister, as he rolls, proclaims, 
 Freedom restored to Ganges, and the Thames. 
 He taught the British Lion where to roar ; 
 The German eagle his dread thunder bore. 
 
 In war's dire chance no sad reverse he found ; 
 Fortune, the favourite chief for ever crown'd. 
 His form here yields to fate ! his fame shall grow, 
 When Mosa, or when Ister cease to flow. 
 Lo ! kings and bards their ashes round him blend, 
 Ambitious once the hero to befriend, 
 That on the Gaulish tyrant vengeance hurl'd, 
 The soul of Britain, Europe, and the world." 
 
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 Inscription on a tablet in Langley church, Derby- 
 shire : — 
 
 " The Lieutenant Colonel and Officers of H. M. 75th 
 Regiment, to their late comrade and brother officer, 
 "William Meynell, Senior Lieutenant, who, a volunteer, 
 on leave from his regiment in India, fell gloriously at 
 Giurgevo, on the Danube, the 7th day of July, 1854, 
 aged 28, whilst gallantly leading a party of Turks 
 against the Eussians. This tablet is erected as a mark 
 of their affectionate regard and esteem, and of the deep 
 regret they feel at his untimely but glorious fate." 
 
 In Adlington church, near Horwich, is a beautifully 
 executed mural marble monument, inscribed as follows : — 
 
 " Erected by the inhabitants of Adlington, and its 
 vicinity, to the memory of Robert John Browne- 
 Clayton, Lieutenant 34th Regiment, only son of Richard 
 and Catherine Browne-Clayton, of Adlington-hall, in 
 this parish, and Carigbyrne, county of Wexford, Ire- 
 land, who died on the 12th of July, 1855, of wounds 
 received at the siege of Sebastopol, aged 20 years. At 
 his country's call, and in obedience to the claims of 
 honour and duty, he accompanied his regiment to the 
 Crimea. On landing he was attached to the Light 
 Division. He performed the duties of the siege in the 
 advanced trenches ; was twice called to lead, with the 
 officers of his regiment, a storming party — first, at the 
 attack and capture of the Quarries and Rifle Pits, on 
 the 7th of June — the second time, at the memorable 
 assault on the Redan battery, 18th June, when he was 
 mortally wounded. He resigned himself in peace and 
 hope into the hands of his Maker, humbly trusting, 
 through the merits of his Saviour Jesus Christ, to 
 inherit the joys of eternity. May this reminiscence of 
 him prove a consolation to his family and friends ; and 
 this tablet to his memory, a proof ( if such were needed) 
 that the man who sacrifices private interest to the 
 public welfare will ever live_ in the affections of a 
 grateful country." — The Illustrated London News. 
 
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 Inscription for a tomb to the memory of Captain 
 Hewktsow, of the ship " Town of UJ version." [ By James 
 Montgomery' : — 
 
 " TVeep for a seaman, honest and sincere. 
 Not cast avray. but brought to anchor here ; 
 Storms had o'erwhemied him, but the conscious wave 
 Repented, and consigned him to the grave ; 
 In harbour. Bafe from shipwreck, now he lies, 
 Till time's last signal blazes through the skies ; 
 Refitted in a moment, then shall he 
 Sail from this port, on an eternal sea. " 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a tabular monument to 
 Major-General Bowes. He is represented in the act of 
 aing the forts of Salamanca. There is the steep 
 breach of a shattered wall, crowded with the enemy, 
 and covered with the slain : the general is leading his 
 troops on to the charge with fixed bayonet-, at his feet 
 lies the French standard-bearer, who has fallen ; but in 
 the very moment of victory he himself receives a mor- 
 tal wound, and sinks into the arms of one of his soldiers. 
 The inscription runs thus : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 M ; : or-General Beexaed Fooed Bowes. 
 
 who fell gloriously, on the 27th of June, 1812, 
 
 while leading the troops to the assault of the forts of 
 
 Salamanca." 
 
 Inscription on the monument to Captain Bueges, 
 St. Paul's:— 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 Richaed Rexdee Bueoes. Esquire, 
 
 Commander of His Majesty's Ship the Ardent, 
 
 who fell in the 43rd year of his age, 
 
 while bravely supporting the honour 
 
 of the British flag 
 
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 In a daring and successful attempt to break the enemy's 
 
 line near Camperdown, 
 
 on the 11th of October, 1797. 
 
 His skill, coolness, and intrepidity eminently contributed 
 
 to a victory, 
 
 equally advantageous and glorious to his country. 
 
 That grateful country, 
 
 by the unanimous act of the Legislature, 
 
 enrols his name 
 
 high in the list of those heroes, 
 
 who under the blessing of Providence 
 
 have established and maintained her naval superiority, 
 
 and her exalted rank among nations." 
 
 Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich, was killed 
 by the blowing up of his ship, " the Eoyal James," in 
 the second Dutch war, May 28th, 1672, aged 76. His 
 body was found at sea a fortnight afterwards, and the 
 king honoured his remains with a public funeral. His 
 remains were interred in the duke of Albemarle's vault, 
 on the north side of king Henry the seventh's chapel. 
 His epitaph : — 
 
 " Adorn' d with titles, but from virtue great; 
 At sea a Neptune, Nestor in the state ; 
 Alike in council, and in fight, renown'd; 
 In action always, with success still crown' d ; 
 A soldier, sailor, statesman, — Here he lies; 
 No heart more honest, and no head more wise : 
 Though brave, yet gentle ; though sincere, not rude ; 
 Justice in camps, and truth in courts, pursued. 
 Living, he rais'd a deathless, spotless name, 
 And dying, soar'd above the reach of fame. 
 
 Reader, if English, stop the falling tear ! 
 Grief should not wait on him who felt no fear : 
 
 He wants no pity could his ashes speak, 
 
 These generous sounds would from the marble break, 
 ' Go, serve thy country while God spares thee breath ; 
 Live, as I liv'd, and so deserve my death.' " 
 
 Burners Naval Heroes. 
 
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 Inscription 
 St. Paul's :— 
 
 on Lord St. Vnrcran's monument, in 
 
 • • Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 Joh>~, Earl of St. Vnrcmrr, 
 
 as a testimony of his distinguished eminence in the 
 naval service of his country, 
 and as a particular memorial of the glorious and impor- 
 tant victory which he gained over the Spanish fleet, 
 off Cape St. Vincent, on the 14th of Februarv, 1797. 
 He died on the 13th of March, 1823."" 
 
 Monument to the memory of Captain Buteee, the 
 gallant defender of Silistria, and his two brothers. 
 This mural tablet has been erected in the parish church 
 of Thomastown. county Kilkenny. It consists of a 
 groundwork of black marble, containing a scroll in 
 white marble, bearing this inscription : — 
 
 "Sacred to the memory of 
 
 He>~ry Thomas, Chaexes Geoege, 
 
 and James Aemae, 
 
 Beloved and Lamented Sons of Lieut. -General the 
 
 Hon. Henry Edward Butler, and Grandsons of 
 
 Henry Thomas, 2nd Earl of Carrick. 
 
 Hexey Thomas Buteee, 
 
 Captain in the 55th Regiment, 
 
 And Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General, 
 
 Served in the Campaign in China, 
 
 and was killed at the Battle of Inkermann, the 5th Xov., 
 
 1854, whilst gallantly and nobly performing 
 
 his duty, aged 42 years. 
 
 Chaeles Geoege Buteee, 
 
 Captain in the 86th Regiment, 
 
 Died of fever, at Bombay, the 17th December, 1854, 
 
 Aged 31 years. He served in Scinde. 
 
 James Aemae. Buteee, 
 
 Captain in the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, 
 
 Served in Caftreland, and died the 21st June, 1854, at 
 
 Silistria, on the Danube, aged 27 years, 
 
 of wounds he received whilst aiding the Turks 
 
 in their memorable and successful defence of that 
 
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 Fortress. By his prudence, courage, skill, ability, 
 
 and intrepid daring, this young Volunteer, 
 
 Assisted by his gallant friend and brother officer, 
 
 infused into the garrison that spirit of heroic resistance 
 
 which led to its triumphant defence ; 
 
 ( The words of Field-Marshal the Lord Eaglan, 
 
 and of General Viscount Hardinge). 
 
 After having defeated the last effort 
 
 made by a numerous and powerful Russian army 
 
 He was mortally wounded, 
 
 And was mournfully followed to the grave by the 
 
 Brave men whom he had so often led to victory. 
 
 ' They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in 
 
 their death they were not divided.' II Sam. i. 23. 
 ' He calleth His own sheep by name and leadeth them 
 
 out.' John x. 3. 
 ' The righteous hath hope in His death.' Prov xiv. 13." 
 
 The Illustrated London News, April 26, 1856. 
 
 In Fillingham churchyard, in Lincolnshire, is a highly 
 decorated Gothic monument, to Major Dalton, with this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " In memory of Thomas Norcliite Dalton, aged 
 thirty-five (third son of John Dalton, Esq., of Slening- 
 ford Park, Yorkshire, and of Fillingham Castle, Lin- 
 colnshire), late Senior Major of the 49th. 
 
 " Major Dalton served with distinction in India, with 
 the 61st, during the Punjaub campaign of 1848 — 49, 
 taking part in the battles of Sadoolapore, Chillianwallah, 
 and Goozerat, for which he received a medal and two 
 clasps. Following up this career of glory in the Crimea, 
 he fought gallantly at the Alma ; and was killed while 
 heading a charge at Inkermann, Nov. 5th, 1854 — 
 carrying with him the deep regrets of the brave 49th, 
 and of all who knew him. 
 
 " This Monument was erected by the grateful tenantry 
 of John Dalton, Esq." — The Illus. Lon. News, 1855. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Paris, lie buried 
 many of the warriors, the statesmen, the philosophers, 
 and the musicians of France. It was to this cemetery 
 that the body of Marshal 2vey was conveyed after his 
 death, and where, sometime after, a splendid monument 
 was erected to his memory, which was visited by mul- 
 titudes, like the saintly shrines of old, the surrounding 
 spot being always covered with fresh flowers, while 
 garlands adorned the mausoleum, being the tributary 
 offerings of those who came to view the solemn sanctu- 
 ary of the dead. This enthusiasm was, however, soon 
 followed by a different mode of proceeding ; the white 
 marble being incessantly covered over with the most 
 dreadful anathemas and cutting sarcasms against the 
 king and the royal family. In vain were they obliterated, 
 on the ensuing day the marble was found covered afresh, 
 so that in the end, government issued orders that the 
 tomb should be removed, which was accordingly done, 
 nothing now remaining to designate the spot of earth 
 under which moulder the ashes of the "bravest of the 
 brave," but the fond recollection of the sorrowing 
 million. ITpon visiting Pere la Chaise, ask the first 
 stranger you meet for the tomb of Ney, and he will 
 conduct you to the unadorned spot, being a cenotaph 
 more honourable than all the sculptor's art could produce, 
 — a tomb raised on popular affection, whose epitaph is 
 registered on the bleeding heart. Marshal Key's last 
 resting-place is thus described : — " It is in an obscure 
 nook of the cemetery; many of the tombs are very large; 
 in general, too, they are very splendid, and the more so 
 from the Italian marble, of which they are commonly 
 composed, retaining its whiteness to the last. There 
 is a magnificent pyramid above Massena. The tombs 
 of Lefevre and Killer man are not unworthy of those 
 who rest beneath them : but there be others of the 
 foster-babes of fame, that sleep without a head-stone. 
 Although I searched diligently myself, and did not 
 spare enquiries, it was long before I could discover the 
 grave of Marshal Ney. The workmen I asked seemed 
 to dislike the task of pointing it out to me, and would 
 only give me general directions in a low and hesitating 
 tone of voice. At length, however, I found it, near to 
 the grave of Manuel. All around, the sculptors appeared 
 to have ' exhausted the pomp of woe' in recording the 
 
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 death of men unknown to glory ; but the long grass and 
 the four dark cypresses alone mark the resting place of 
 'the bravest of the brave.' " — From various sources. 
 
 Bethtjne, duke of Sully, the constant companion of 
 Henry IV. of France, died Dec. 22nd, 1641, aged 83, 
 and his duchess caused a statue to be erected over his 
 burying-place, with this inscription : — 
 
 "Here lies the body of the most high, most puissant, 
 and most illustrious lord, Maximilian de Bethune, 
 Marquis of Rosni, who shared in all the fortunes of 
 King Henry the Great, among which was that memo- 
 rable battle which gave the crown to the victor, where 
 by his valour, he gained the white standard, and took 
 several prisoners of distinction. He was by that great 
 Monarch, in reward of his many virtues and distin- 
 guished merit, honoured with the dignities of duke, 
 peer, and marshal of France, with the governments of 
 the Upper and Lower Poitou, with the office of grand 
 master of the ordnance, in which, bearing the thunder 
 of his Jupiter, he took the castle of Montmelian, till 
 then believed impregnable, and many other fortresses of 
 Savoy. He was likewise made superintendent of the 
 finances, which office he discharged singly, with a wise 
 and prudent economy, and continued his faithful services 
 till that unfortunate day when the Csesar of the French 
 nation lost his life by the hand of a parricide. After 
 the lamented death of that great King, he retired from 
 public affairs, and past the remainder of his life in ease 
 and tranquility." — Partington's Cyc. of Biog. 
 
 Inscription on the monument to Sir Ralph Aber- 
 cromby, in St Paul's Cathedral : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B. 
 
 Commander-in-Chief of an Expedition directed against 
 
 the French in Egypt ; who having surmounted with 
 
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 consummate ability and valour the obstacles opposed to 
 his landing by local difficulties, and a powerful and 
 
 well-prepared enemy ; 
 
 and having successfully established and maintained 
 
 the successive positions necessary for conducting his 
 
 further operations, resisted, with signal advantage, 
 
 a desperate attack of chosen and veteran troops, 
 
 on the 21st of March, 1801, 
 
 when he received in the engagement a mortal wound, 
 
 but remained on the field, guiding by his direction, 
 
 and animating by his presence, the brave troops under 
 
 his command, until they had achieved the 
 
 brilliant and important victory obtained on that 
 
 memorable day. 
 
 The former actions of a life spent in the service of 
 
 his country, and thus gloriously terminated, 
 
 were distinguished by the same military skill, and by 
 
 equal zeal for the public service, particularly 
 
 during the campaigns in the Netherlands, in 1793 and 94 ; 
 
 in the West Indies in 1796 and 97 ; and in Holland 
 
 in 1799; in the last of which, 
 
 the distinguished gallantry and ability with which 
 
 he effected his landing on the Dutch Coast, 
 
 established his position in the face of a powerful enemy, 
 
 and secured the command of the principal fort 
 
 and arsenal of the Dutch Republic, were acknowledged 
 
 and honoured by the thanks of both Houses of 
 
 Parliament. 
 
 Sir Ealph Abercromby expired on board the Foudroyant, 
 
 the 28th of March, 1801, in his 66th year."* 
 
 Sir John Mooee, has a noble monument in St. Paul's, 
 which cost £4,200. Valour and Victory are represented 
 lowering him into his grave, by entwined laurel, and 
 the Genius of Spain plants her standard over his tomb. 
 Beneath is inscribed : — 
 
 * His body was buried under the walls of the castle of St Elmo, near 
 the town of La Valetta, in Malta. 
 
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 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 Licutenant-General Sir John Moore, K.B. 
 
 who was born at Glasgow, 1761. 
 
 He fought for his Country 
 
 in America, in Corsica, in the West Indies, 
 
 in Holland, Egypt, and Spain ; 
 
 and on the 16th of January, 1809, 
 
 was slain by a cannon ball 
 
 at Corunna." 
 
 Monument to Lord Rodney, in St. Paul's. The group 
 represents History seated, and recording the achieve- 
 ments of the hero, as Fame narrates them, pointing 
 to his statue while she speaks. On the pedestal is 
 written : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense to the memory of 
 
 George Brydges Rodney, K.B. 
 
 Lord Rodney, Vice- Admiral of England, 
 
 as a testimony of the gallant and important services 
 
 which he rendered to his country in many memorable 
 
 engagements, and especially in that of 12th April, 1782, 
 
 when a brilliant and decisive victory was obtained 
 
 over the French fleet, 
 
 and an effectual protection was afforded to the West 
 
 Indian Islands, and to the commercial interests of 
 
 this Kingdom, in the very crisis of the American war. 
 
 Lord Rodney was born in 1718 : — died 24th of May, 
 
 1792." 
 
 At Maidstone, in Kent, is a monument to Captain 
 Nolan, who fell at Balaclava, bearing the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " In memory of 
 
 Lewis Edward Nolan, 
 
 Captain in the 15th, or King's Hussars, 
 
 And A. D. C. to Major- General Airey, 
 
 Quarter- Master General to the Forces 
 
 In the Crimea. 
 
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 He feU at the Head of 
 The Light Cavalry Brigade 
 
 In the Charge at Balaclava, 
 
 On the 25th October, 1854, 
 
 Aged 36. 
 
 General Sir George Berkeley, K.C.B. 
 
 (On whose Staff he Served in India), 
 
 General Airey, 
 
 His brother Officers and Friends, 
 
 Have erected this Tablet 
 
 As a slight Tribute of the Esteem 
 
 And affectionate Regard 
 
 For the Memory of One 
 
 Of the most Gallant, Intelligent, 
 
 And Energetic Officers 
 
 In Her Majesty's Service. " 
 
 The Illustrated London Neivs. 
 
 In St. Paul's is a monument to Maj. -General Hoghton, 
 vrho received a mortal wound in the very moment of 
 victory, and expired on the field. The inscription is : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense, to the memory of 
 
 Major-General Daxiel Hoghtox, 
 who fell gloriously, 16th May, 1811, at Albuera." 
 
 Inscribed on a plain tablet in AYestminster Abbey, 
 erected to Sir Palmes Faieboxes (by John Dryden) : — 
 
 " Sacred to the immortal memory of Sib Palmes 
 Faieboxes, Knight, Governor of Tangier ; in execution 
 of which command he was mortally wounded by a shot 
 from the Moors, then besieging the town, in the forty- 
 sixth year of his age, Oct. 24, 1680. 
 
 "Ye sacred Relics ! which your marble keep 
 Here, undisturb'd by wars, in quiet sleep ; 
 Discharge the trust which, when it was below, 
 Faieboxes' undaunted soul did undergo, 
 And be the town's Palladium from the foe. 
 
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 Alive and dead these walls he will defend ; 
 Great actions, great examples mnst attend. 
 The Candian siege his early valonr knew, 
 "Where Turkish blood did his young hands imbrue : 
 From thence returning with deserved applause, 
 Against the Moors his well-flesh' d sword he draws 
 The same the courage, and the same the cause. 
 His youth and age, his life and death, combine, } 
 As in some great and regular design, > 
 
 All of a piece throughout, and all divine. ) 
 
 Still nearer Heaven his virtues shone more bright, 
 Like rising flames, expanding in their height ; 
 The Martyr's glory crown' d the soldier's fight. 
 More bravely British general never fell, 
 Nor general's death was e'er revenged so well; 
 Which his pleased eyes beheld before their close, 
 Follow' d by thousand victims of his foes. 
 
 To his lamented loss for time to come, 
 His pious widow consecrates this tomb." 
 
 In the village church of Carrisbrook, Isle of Wight, 
 there is a small wooden tablet, hanging against one of 
 the pillars, having an allegorical representation and 
 inscription painted on it, which, however fanciful, has 
 the merit of being just to the profession of the person 
 it commemorates. At the top is the figure of a ship 
 with a man sitting on the deck — a crown of glory 
 suspended over his head — " Fides" is written on the 
 sails — " Verbum Dei" on the compass, and " Spes" on 
 the anchor, &c. ; and under the ship is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 "Here lieth the body of the Right Worthy Wm. 
 Keeling, Esq., Groom of the Chamber to our Sovereign 
 Lord King James. General for the Hon. East India 
 Adventures. Whither he was thrice by them employed, 
 and dying in this Isle at the age of 42, An. 1619, Sept. 
 19 — hath this remembrance here fixed by his loving 
 and sorrowful wife Ann Keeling — 
 
 1 Fortie and two years in this vessel fraile 
 On the rough seas of life did Keeling saile 
 
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 A merchant fortunate — a captain bould, 
 
 A courtier gracious, yet, alas ! not old. 
 
 Such wealth, experience, honour, and high praise, 
 
 Few winne in twice so many years or days, 
 
 For what the world admired, he deem'd but drosse 
 
 For Christ, without Christ all his gains but losse, 
 
 For him and his love with merrie cheere, 
 
 To the holy land his last course he did steer. 
 
 Faith served for sails, the sacred word card, 
 
 Hope was his Anchor, Glorie his reward, 
 
 And thus with gales of grace by happy venter, 
 
 Through straits of death, heav'n's harbour he did enter. 
 
 In St. Paul's is a monument to General Elliot, Lord 
 Heathneld, and the inscription upon it is : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 General Geo. Aug. Elliot, Lord Heathneld, TLB. 
 
 in testimony of the important services which he rendered 
 
 to his country by his brave and gallant defence of 
 
 Gibraltar, of which he was Governor, 
 
 against the combined attack of the French and Spanish 
 
 forces, on the 13th September, 1782. 
 
 He died on the 6th July, 1790." 
 
 In the chapel of Greenwich Hospital is a monument 
 to Sin It. G. Keats, from the chisel of Chantrey. It 
 is hewn out of a block of marble, about 9 feet in height, 
 surmounted by a bust of the deceased. On one side is 
 sculptured a sword, and on the other a trident ; and 
 immediately in front is the following inscription, from 
 the pen of William IV : — 
 
 " This marble is erected by 
 
 King William IV., 
 
 To the memory of 
 
 Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, G.C.B. 
 
 Governor of this Hospital, 
 
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 Who was his Majesty's shipmate aud watchniate on 
 
 board the Prince George, of 110 guns, 
 
 In which the Admiral served as Lieutenant, 
 
 And the King as Midshipman, 
 
 From June 1779, to November 1781. 
 
 In commemorating 
 
 This early period of their respective careers, the 
 
 King desires also to record his esteem for the 
 
 exemplary character of a friend, 
 
 And his grateful sense 
 
 of the valuable services rendered to his country by a 
 
 highly-distinguished and gallant Officer. 
 
 Died April 5th, 1834. Aged 77 years." 
 
 On Captain Wilson, at Rotherhithe : — 
 
 " Captain PIenry Wilson, 
 
 Who died 10th day of May, 1810, 
 
 Aged 70 years, 
 
 Was interred at Coy ton, near Axininstor, Devonshire. 
 
 He commanded the Hon. East India Company's Packet 
 
 the Antelope when Shipwrecked on the Pelew Islands, 
 
 in the month of August, 1783, 
 
 And was wonderfully preserved, together with all 
 
 the ship's company, amongst strangers, 
 
 in a land unfrequented and unknown. 
 
 Reader! 
 Reflect on thy life, and the days that are past, and 
 thou wilt assuredly see cause to acknowledge that there 
 is a God that governs the earth and takes notice of the 
 ways and actions of men, and that thou hast had fre- 
 quent occasion wherein to declare with the patriarch 
 Jacob, ' Surely the Lord is in this place with us.' " 
 
 In Torryburn churchyard, Pifeshire, is part of an 
 epitaph remaining — a part was very absurdly erased by 
 the owner of the burying ground, to make way for the 
 names of some of his kindred. The whole epitaph 
 formerly ran thus : — 
 
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 At Anchor now, in Death's dark road, 
 
 Bides honest Captain Hill, 
 Who served his King, and feared his God, 
 
 With upright heart and will : 
 In social life, sincere and just, 
 
 To vice of no kind given ; 
 So that his better part, we trust, 
 
 Hath made the Port of Heaven." — Mirror. 
 
 Among some indifferent verses sculptured on the tomb 
 of Sir Sydney Smith, at Pere la Chaise, are the fol- 
 lowing : — 
 
 " In warlike France, when great Napoleon rose, 
 The man who checked his conquests finds repose." 
 
 Rambles about Paris. 
 
 On Admiral Richard Kempenfeldt, who was drowned 
 in the Royal George, at Spithead, in 1 782 ( by Wm. 
 Cowper) : — 
 
 " Toll, toll, for the brave- 
 Brave Kempenfeldt is gone ; 
 
 His last sea-fight is fought, 
 His work of glory done. 
 
 His sword was in its sheath, 
 His fingers held the pen, 
 
 When Kempenfeldt went down, 
 With twice four-hundred men." 
 
 In Bath Abbey church : — 
 
 " Here under lyes all that was mortal of Col. Ambrose 
 Norton, worthy and loyal descendant of worthy and 
 loyal ancestors. He served the crowne of England above 
 40 years, in employments both civil and military; in 
 which he ever acquitted himself faithfully, and as a 
 man of honour. He was exceeding gracefull in person 
 and behaviour ; his justice, gentleness, and sweetness of 
 
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 disposition, were equall to his courage ; and he crown' d 
 all his other virtues with a most exemplary piety. He 
 was a branch of the ancient family of the Nortons, of 
 Somersetshire, and cousin-german to Sir George Norton, 
 of Abbot's Leigh, in that county ; a house happily 
 renowned in history for the concealment and preserva- 
 tion of King Charles the Second, after the fatal battle 
 at Worcester. The Lady Norton, having been a widdow 
 three years, first of Sir George Norton ( to whose memory 
 she has erected a marble monument at Abbot's Leigh, 
 of the same form and dimention as this), and since the 
 widdow of Col. Ambrose Norton, has, in her great regard 
 to his memory, erected this monument ; where he desired 
 his body might be interred, expecting a blessed resur- 
 rection. He died in the 77th year of his age, on the 
 10th day of September, in the 10th year of his Majesty 
 King George, his last Royall Master, Anno. Dom. 
 1723."— Brittoris Bath Abbey. 
 
 Inscription on the Tomb of Major S. Thorpe, K.H. 
 in the churchyard of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire : — 
 
 " Major Samuel Thorpe, 
 
 Knight of Hanover, 
 
 Died 19th December, 1852, 
 
 Aged 61 years. 
 
 Highly esteemed 
 
 By his comrades, 
 
 Distinguished by his King 
 
 For gallant service. 
 
 He counted it his chief honour 
 
 To serve in the ranks 
 
 of the redeemed, 
 
 As a Soldier and servant 
 
 Of Jesus Christ. 
 
 His end was perfect peace." 
 
 In St. Paul's is a monument to Sir Andrew Hay. 
 It depicts the brave officer in the arms of Valour, a 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 sentinel is seen in an attitude of grief, and in the back 
 ground is the guard marching its rounds. It bears this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense, to the memory of 
 
 Major- General Andrew Hat, 
 
 He was born in the County of Banff, in Scotland, 
 
 and fell on the 14th of April, in 1814, 
 
 before the fortress of Bayonne, in France, 
 
 in the 52nd year of his age, and the 34th of his services, 
 
 closing a military life marked by 
 
 zeal, prompt decision, and signal intrepidity." 
 
 There is a monument erected in St. Paul's to the 
 memory of Captain Westcott : he is represented falling 
 into Jjhe arms of Victory, in the battle of the Nile. 
 The mscription runs thus : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense, 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 George Blagdon "Westcott, 
 
 Captain of the Majestic ; 
 
 who after 33 years of meritorious service, fell gloriously 
 
 in the victory obtained over the French fleet, off 
 
 Aboukir, the first day of August, in the year 1798, 
 
 in the forty-sixth year of his age." 
 
 On the monument erected in St. Paul's to Generals 
 Craufurd and Maceinnon", a highlander is mourning 
 over their tomb, while Victory crowns their standard 
 with a wreath. The British Lion is represented with 
 his paw upon the fallen Eagle ; and a shield, bearing the 
 arms of Spain, denotes the country where they strug- 
 gled with the French. It is inscribed : — 
 
 " Erected by the Nation 
 
 to Major-General Eobert Craufurd, 
 
 and Major-General Heney Mackinnon, 
 
 who fell at Ciudad Rodrigo, Jan. 18th, 1812." 
 
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 Monumental pillar on Beechy Island, Barrow Strait, 
 in memory of Lieutenant Bellot. 
 
 It will be remembered that this gentleman, a French- 
 man, volunteered his services to aid in searching for the 
 long missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. It will 
 also be remembered that he fell a sacrifice to his 
 humane enterprise. The fate of this young gentleman 
 excited a universal interest, not only in this country, 
 but in the land of his nativity. A tablet was then 
 proposed to be erected on Beechy Island, to his memoiy, 
 and to be taken out by Captain Inglefield, of the 
 Phoenix. This has accordingly been done, and it now 
 stands on that remote shore as a sad memorial of 
 departed worth. The tablet itself has been placed 
 upon a pillar nine feet high, upon the various faces of 
 which are the following inscriptions : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Mons. Bellot, Lieutenant 
 in the French Navy, and Chevalier of the Legion of 
 Honour, who accompanied Mr. Kennedy and Captain 
 Inglefield on their respective visits to the Arctic regions. 
 Whilst attached to H.M.S.V. Phoenix, under Captain 
 Inglefield, he gallantly volunteered to convey dispatches 
 to Captain Sir E. Belcher with a sledge crew from 
 H.M.S. North Star. In a heavy .gale of wind, on 
 the 18th of August, 1853, he was drowned by the 
 disruption of the ice, near Cape Grinnell, much lamented 
 by the Arctic squadron, and all who had the pleasure 
 of knowing his value, and noble spirit." 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of William Cutbush, 
 Private Royal Marine, H.M.S. Assistance, a native of 
 JSTorthiam, Sussex, who died on board, 27th February, 
 1853, after a protracted illness, from disease of the 
 lungs, aged 24 years. He served with credit in his 
 corps for upwards of 16 years and 4 months, gaining 
 by his good conduct two badges of merit, in addition to 
 the Syrian medal. During twelve months of the above 
 period he served in H.M.S. Assistance, gaining the 
 respect of Captain and Officers, and beloved by all who 
 knew him." — The London Journal. 
 
 Another monument at Beechy Island, to Lieutenant 
 Bellot : — 
 
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 "In memory of 
 
 Lieut. Bellot, 
 
 of the French Navy, 
 
 Who lost his life whilst nobly 
 
 aiding in the search for 
 
 Sir John Franklin, 
 
 In the Wellington Channel, 
 
 "Where he was drowned, 
 
 on the 18th of August, 1853. 
 
 This Tablet to record the sad event 
 
 was erected by a Friend, 
 
 A.D. 1854." 
 
 The Illustrated London News. 
 
 To Lieutenant Bellot. — An obelisk of polished Aber- 
 deen granite, has been placed at Greenwich, the quay 
 of our great naval asylum, to the memory of the much- 
 lamented Bellot. The name of " Bellot "is cut in 
 large letters upon the shaft of the obelisk, so as to be 
 visible from the Thames, and a bronze tablet has been 
 affixed to the opposite side of the pedestal, bearing the 
 following inscription, which may be read by all persons 
 passing along the quay : — 
 
 "To the intrepid young 
 
 BELLOT 
 
 of the French navy, 
 
 who in the endeavour to rescue 
 
 FEAXKLrN-, 
 
 shared the fate and glory of that 
 
 illustrious navigator. 
 
 ( From his British admirers,) 
 
 1853." 
 
 Weekly Times, July, 1856. 
 
 Monument in St. Paul's, to Generals Pae^xbam and 
 Gibbs : — 
 
 "Erected at the public expense 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 Major-General the Hon. Sib Edwaed Pakenham, K.B. 
 
 and of Major-General Samuel Gibbs, 
 
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 who fell gloriously on the 8th of January, 1815, 
 
 while leading the troops to an attack 
 of the enemy's works in front of New Orleans." 
 
 At Brighton, on Captain Tattersell, (and his wife) 
 the preserver of the Life of King Charles II. : — 
 
 "P. M. S. 
 
 Captain Nicholas Tattersell, 
 
 Through whose prudence, valour, and loyalty, 
 
 Charles the Second, King of England 
 
 (After he had escaped the sword of his merciless rebels, 
 
 And his forces received a fatal overthrow 
 
 At Worcester, Sep. 3, 1651), 
 
 Was faithfully preserved, and conveyed to France ; 
 
 Departed this life 26th July, 1674. 
 
 Within this marble monument doth lie 
 Approved faith, Honour, and Loyalty ; 
 In this cold clay He has now taken up his Station, 
 Who once preserved the Church, the Crown, and Nation. 
 When Charles the Great was nothing but a Breath, 
 This valiant soul stept in 'twixt him and Death : 
 Usurper's threats, nor tyrant's Eebel frown 
 Could not affright his duty to the Crown ; 
 Which glorious act of his for Church and State, 
 Eight princes in one day did gratulate ; 
 Professing all to him in Debt to be, 
 As all the World are to his Memory. 
 Since Earth could not reward the worth him given 
 He now receives it from the King of Heaven. 
 
 In the same Chest one Jewel more you have, 
 The Partner of his Yirtue, Bed, and Grave." 
 
 Richard Pendrell, one of the brothers of Captain 
 Tattersell, lies buried in the churchyard of St. Giles' s- 
 in-the-Fields, beneath a plain tomb, upon the slab of 
 which is the following : — 
 
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 " The Tomb of 
 
 Richard Pendrell, 
 
 The Preserver of the life of Charles II. 
 
 Hold, passenger, here's shrouded in this hearse, 
 Unparalleled Pendrell through the universe ! 
 Like when the Eastern star from heaven gave light 
 To three lost Kings — so he in such dark night, 
 To Briton's Monarch lost by adverse war, 
 On earth appear' d a second Eastern star, 
 A pole — a stem — in her rebellious main, 
 A Pilot to her Royal Sovereign's name : 
 JNTow to triumph in heaven's eternal sphere, 
 He is advanced for his just steerage here, 
 "Whilst Albion's chronicles with matchless Fame, 
 Embalm the story of great Pendrell' s name ! " 
 
 In St. Paul's is a tabular monument to General 
 Mackenzie and Langwerth. It is briefly inscribed : — 
 
 "National Monument 
 
 To Major-General J. R. Mackenzie, 
 
 and Brigadier -General R. Langwerth, 
 
 who fell at Talavera, July 26, 1809." 
 
 Monument to the Guards, who fell at Alma and 
 Inkermann, in Holy Trinity church, "Windsor : — 
 
 " To the memory of 
 
 Those gallant men, 
 
 The Officers, 
 
 rTon-commissioncd officers, 
 
 And private soldiers 
 
 of 
 
 The Brigade of Guards, 
 
 who fell at 
 
 Alma and Inkermann, 
 
 And to those, 
 
 who, no less brave, 
 
 have endured 
 
 with unshaken fortitude, 
 
 even unto death, 
 
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 The dangers, severities 
 
 and privations 
 
 of a Winter campaign 
 
 Before Sebastopol, 
 
 This Tablet is erected by 
 
 The Clergy of this Church, 
 
 who, in 
 
 more peaceful times, 
 
 Ministered among them. 
 
 Easter, MDCCCLV." 
 
 The Illustrated London News. 
 
 Eobeet Blake, one of the most intrepid and success- 
 ful admirals that have adorned the British Navy, died 
 Aug. 17, 1657, aged 59, and was buried with great 
 pomp in Westminster Abbey, at the public expense. 
 After the Restoration, his body was disinterred, on the an- 
 niversary of the execution of Charles I., together with 
 those of Cromwell, Ireton, Pym, May the Secretary, 
 and others, and thrown into a pit in St. Margaret's 
 churchyard. 
 
 There is a mural tablet erected in Newton Yalence 
 church, near Alton, to the memory of Captain Lem- 
 peieee, inscribed as follows : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 Atjdley Lempeieee, 
 
 Eldest Son of Rear- Admiral G. 0. Lempriere, of Pelham, 
 
 in this parish, 
 
 And Captain in the 77th Regiment, 
 
 Who fell before Sebastopol while gallantly attacking the 
 
 Russian Rifle Pits, 
 
 On the 19th of April, 1855, 
 
 Aged 20 years. 
 
 He was present with his Regiment without intermission 
 
 Erom the commencement of the war ; 
 
 And was engaged in the Battles of Alma and Inkermann, 
 
 In the latter of which especially he rendered 
 
 important service. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 He enjoyed, in a remarkable degree, the confidence of 
 
 those above him in command, 
 
 And the esteem and affection of his brother officers and men; 
 
 And, from the excellence and amiability of his character, 
 
 His loss is deeply lamented by all who knew him." 
 
 The Illus. London News. 
 
 In St. Paul's is a monument to Major-General Le 
 Maechant, which bears this brief inscription : — 
 
 " Erected at the public expense 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 Major-General John Gaspaed Le Maechaht, 
 
 who gloriously fell in the battle of 
 
 Salamanca, July 22nd, 1812." 
 
 In Matlock church, Derbyshire: — 
 
 " To the Memory 
 
 of 
 
 Captain William Cumming, 
 
 of the 83rd British Regiment, 
 
 and 9th Portuguese Cacadores, 
 
 who 
 
 having fought in the battles 
 
 of 
 
 Oporto, Talavera, Buzaco, 
 
 and Fuentes de Onor, 
 
 fell in an attack on the French outposts 
 
 near Bayonne, Oct. 9th, 1813, 
 
 in the 30th year of his age. 
 
 This Tablet was erected by his brothers, 
 
 in whose esteem and affection he had 
 
 that place to which firmness 
 
 of mind, and urbanity of 
 
 manners, justly entitle 
 
 their possessor." 
 
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ARMY & NAVY OFFICERS. 
 
 Chaeles Lee, a Major-General in the American 
 Revolutionary War, died Oct. 2nd, 1782. It was his 
 earnest desire expressed in his will, that he should not 
 be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile 
 of any presbyterian or ana-baptist meeting-house ; and 
 he assigned as his reason, that, since his residence in 
 America, he had kept so much bad company while 
 living, that he wished to avoid it when dead. 
 
 On the tombstone of Colonel Geace, who died at 
 Guildford, in 1812, was engraven the following inscrip- 
 tion, furnished by the widow of the colonel : — 
 
 " Gone ! but whither ? Does he cease ? 
 
 Now his body rots away. 
 "Was his soul a fragile piece 
 
 Of the same but finer clay ? 
 Where's the soul ? Obtained release ; 
 
 That ne'er died, nor ever dies, 
 While his body sleeps in peace, 
 
 Far away his spirit flies, 
 He's to God to hear his doom." 
 
 But the Clergyman objected to it, as doubting the 
 immateriality of the soul, and after some delay, the 
 lady, after a return from Ireland, thought the monument 
 not necessary. The stone-mason, however, had com- 
 pleted it, and he brought an action against the widow, 
 and obtained £31 10s. damages, in 1815. 
 
 On the Field of Alma is a handsome monument of 
 white stone, bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " During the attack on these heights, 20th September, 
 1854, her Britannic Majesty's 23rd Royal Welch 
 Fusiliers lost their commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. H. 
 
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 Chester; Captains, A. W.Whyn, F.Evans, J. Conolly; 
 Lieutenants, P. Radcliffe, Sir "W. Young, Bart., 
 J. Anstruther, and J. Butler, all killed on the field ; 
 also, Lieut. Applethwaite, mortally wounded, who died 
 22nd September, 1854. This stone is erected to their 
 Memory." 
 
 (On the other side.) 
 
 " The regiment also lost . Serjeant J. H. Jones ; 
 Colour-Serjeants, It. Hitchcock, J. F. Edwards ; 1 
 drummer, and 40 privates, killed on the field." 
 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
 
 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
 
 In the churchyard at Yarmouth : — 
 
 "To the memory of Isaac Smith, who died March 24th, 
 1808, and Samuel Bodger, who died April 2nd, 1808, 
 
 both of the Cambridgeshire Militia. 
 The tyrant death did early us arrest, 
 And all the magazines of life possest : 
 No more the blood its circling course did run, 
 But in the veins like icicles it hung ; 
 No more the hearts, now void of quickening heat, 
 The tuneful march of vital motion beat ; 
 Stiffness did into every sinew climb, 
 And a short death crept cold through every limb." 
 
 In St. James's churchyard, Bury St. Edmund's :■ 
 "William Middleditch, 
 late Sergeant-Major of the Grenadier Guards, 
 died Nov. 13, 1834, aged 53 years. 
 
 A husband, father, comrade, friend sincere, 
 A British soldier brave lies buried here. 
 In Spain, and Flushing, and at Waterloo, 
 He fought to guard our country from the foe. 
 His comrades, Britons, who survive him, say, 
 He acted nobly on that glorious day." 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Highland epitaph : — 
 
 Here lies Alexaxdee M'Pheeson, 
 He was a most superior person : 
 He was six feet two, without a shoe, 
 And was slew at Waterloo." 
 
 In the Cathedral churchyard of Winchester, to the 
 memory of Thomas Fletchee : — 
 
 "Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire grenadier, 
 Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer. 
 Soldiers ! take heed from his untimely fall, 
 And when you're hot, drink strong, or none at ail." 
 
 The above memorial being decayed, was restored by 
 the officers of the garrison, a.d. 1781. — A stone with 
 the following inscription was placed by the N orth Hants 
 Militia, 1802, in consequence of the original stone being 
 destroyed : — 
 
 " An honest soldier never is forgot, 
 Whether he die by musket or by pot." 
 
 In the churchyard of Bremhill, Wiltshire, on an 
 old soldier, aged 92 (by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, the 
 Poet):— 
 
 " A poor old soldier shall not lie unknown 
 Without a verse, and this recording stone. 
 'Twas his, in youth, o'er distant lands to stray, 
 Danger and death companions of his way. 
 Here, in his native village, stealing age 
 Clos'd the lone evening of his pilgrimage. 
 Speak of the past — of names of high renown, 
 Or brave commanders long to dust gone down ! 
 His look with instant animation glow'd, 
 Tho' ninety winters on his head had snow'd. 
 His country, while he liv'd, a boon supplied, 
 And faith her shield held o'er him when he died. 
 
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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
 
 Think, Christian, that his spirit lives with God, 
 And pluck the wild weeds from the lowly sod, 
 Where, dust to dust, beneath the chancel shade, 
 Till the last trump, a brave man's bones are laid.' 
 
 At Woodbridge, Suffolk, on — 
 
 "Joseph Spalding, Master and Mariner, 
 who departed this life, Sept. 2, 1796, aged 55. 
 
 Embark' d in Life's Tempestuous Sea, we steer 
 Amidst threatening Billows — Rocks and Shoals, 
 
 But Christ by faith dispels each wavering fear, 
 And safe secures the Anchor of our Souls." 
 
 On a Sailor : — 
 
 Here goes honest Ben to the sharks soon a prey, 
 "Who liv'd like a sailor, good-natured and gay, 
 His rigging well fitted, his sides close and tight, 
 His bread-room well stow'd, and his mainmast aright. 
 Davy Jones, like a pirate built solely for plunder, 
 Thus hail'd the poor lad, in a voice harsh as thunder, 
 ' Drop your peak, my tight fellow, your foresail throw 
 For already too long you'veremaind on that tack.' [back, 
 Ben heard the dread call, and without more ado, 
 His sail flatten'd in, and his bark she broach'd to." 
 
 In the churchyard of Saint Mary Key, Ipswich : 
 
 "John Weight, Master Mariner of this Port, 
 who died June 24, 1843, aged 50. 
 
 Tho' Boreas' blasts and Neptune's waves, 
 
 Have toss'd me to and fro, 
 Yet I at last by God's decree 
 
 Am harbour' d here below. 
 
 While here I at an anchor ride, 
 
 With many of our fleet, 
 Yet once again I shall set sail, 
 
 Our Admiral Christ to meet." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Near Bristol : — 
 
 " I went and listed in the Tenth Hnssars, 
 
 And galloped with them to the bloody wars. 
 1 Die for your sovereign — for your country die ! 
 To earn such glory feeling rather shy, 
 Snug I slipp'd home, but death soon sent me off, 
 After a struggle, with the hooping-cough." 
 
 In Sculcoate churchyard, near Hull : — 
 
 " Here lieth the body of Peteb 
 Wilsoit, master and mariner, who 
 Sail'd round ye World with 
 Lord Anson." 
 
 There is an epitaph in an Ipswich churchyard, to the 
 memory of a drummer. It was placed there by the 
 non-commissioned officers and privates, as a tribute of 
 respect to the tambour's merits and abilities. The 
 epitaph runs : — 
 
 " For kettling, fifing, and drumming, he had no equal. 
 "What Briton e'er heard his drum, whose heart did not 
 beat high for his country's glory ? But here he lies. 
 
 T\ Tien the last trump shall sound to heaven away, 
 May he arise and beat a reveille e." 
 
 In the same cemetery is another monumental inscrip- 
 tion to the memory of a bold dragoon, who is temied 
 " a worthy man," and then comes the verse : — 
 
 " Reader, in time prepare to follow me, 
 As my route was, so thine will surely be, 
 The mandate of my God I did obey, 
 Kings and Dragoons when call'd must march away." 
 
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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
 
 Chkistopher, Columbus, the discoverer of America, 
 died May, 1506, aged 70, and was, after four times 
 removing, finally taken to Havanna, in the island of 
 Cuba. Ferdinand, king of Spain, ordered a monument 
 to be erected to his memory, with this inscription : — ■ 
 
 "Por Castilla y por Leon, 
 ISTeuvo mundo hallo Colon." 
 
 For Castile and Leon, 
 
 A new world found Colon.* 
 
 On a Sailor : — 
 
 " I've weather'd many a stormy sea, 
 But now life's arduous service o'er, 
 I yield my spirit, Lord, to thee, 
 
 And hail with joy a happier shore." 
 
 On a Soldier : — 
 
 "Here lies releas'd from trouble, care, and sin, 
 A soldier, whose chief conquests were within 
 His evil habits were his greatest foes, 
 And long before his death he conquer' d those." 
 
 His Spanish name. 
 
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 UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 In St. Lawrence's churchyard, York : — 
 
 " To the memory of 4 Sons and 2 Daughters of 
 John and Ann Eigg, city of York. These 6 young 
 persons, the eldest of whom was 19, and the youngest 
 6 years of age, being with some others on a party of 
 pleasure, on the River Ouse, were drowned, together 
 with one of their young companions, by the upsetting 
 of the boat, August 19th, 1830, within a short distance 
 from their home. 
 
 Mark the brief story of a summer's day ! 
 
 At noon, Youth, Health, and Beauty launch' d away; 
 
 Ere eve, Death wreck' d the bark, and quench' d their 
 
 Their Parents' home was desolate at night ; [light, 
 
 Each pass'd alone that gulf no eye can see ; 
 
 They met, next moment, in Eternity. 
 
 Friend! kinsman! stranger ! dost thou ask me, Where? 
 
 Seek God's right hand ; and hope to find them, There." 
 
 To the memory of S E , an intelligent and 
 
 miable boy, who was unfortunately drowned while 
 bathing : — 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 " Though gentle as a dove, his soul sublime, 
 For heaven impatient, would not wait for time ; 
 Ere youth had bloom' d his virtues ripe were seen, 
 A man in intellect ! a child in mien ! 
 A hallow' d wave from mercy's fount was pour'd, 
 And, wash'd from clay, to bliss his spirit soar'd." 
 
 On a gravestone in Prince Edward's Island is the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lie the remains of Thomas Lamb, killed by a 
 great big tree falling upon him, slap bang." — JYewsprs. 
 
 In Bronlly's churchyard, Breconshire, on a man who 
 was killed by a fall from a waggon load of hay : — 
 
 " Man's life's a vapour, and 
 
 Pull of woes ; 
 He cuts a caper, and 
 
 Down he goes." 
 
 In Wickham-Market churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Harmond Garrett, died Dec. 21st, 1818, aged 68. 
 My sledge and hammer lie reclined, 
 My bellows too have lost their wind ; 
 My fire's extinct — my forge decay' d, 
 My vice is in the dust all laid. 
 My coal is spent — my iron's gone, 
 My nails are drove — my work is done. 
 My life was lost by being Drowned, 
 Still Christ may please to see me Crowned." 
 
 In Oakham churchyard, Surrey : — 
 
 " The Lord saw good — I was lopping off wood, 
 And down fell from the tree ; 
 I met with a check, and I broke my neck, 
 And so death lopp'd off me." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In a small churchyard near Folkstone is the follow- 
 ing :— 
 
 " This stone is sacread to the memory of poor old 
 Muster Thomas Boxee, who was loste in the goud boate 
 Bouver, just coming home with much fishes, 'got near 
 Torbay, in the year of hour Lord 1 722. 
 
 Prey, goud fishermen stop and drop a tear, 
 For we have lost his company here 
 And where he's gone we cannot tell, 
 But we hope far from the wicked Bell.* 
 
 The Lord be with him." 
 
 In \Yingfield churchyard, Suffolk :- 
 
 " Life how 
 Short. 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 George, 
 
 Son of 
 
 Samuel and Dorothy 
 
 Chaxeeee, 
 
 who died 10th April, 1805, 
 
 Aged 3 years. 
 
 As in the mead where I had often play'd, 
 
 Close by the Pond's gay brink I sportive stray' d, 
 
 With guileless thought I stoop' d to pluck a flower, 
 
 !Nor reck'nd I ought of Death, the chance or power. 
 
 Beneath the fatal Pool I sunk my head, 
 
 And my fond parents weep me early dead. 
 
 But, Parents dear, mourn not your drowned Child, 
 
 His tender heart by sin was ne'er beguil'd ; 
 
 'Twas God's just will, whence all your joys were given; 
 
 Stop Nature's tears and cease to envy Heaven. 
 
 Go, Manly reader ; thy desires control, 
 
 Avoid those dangerous lures that drown the Soul." 
 
 * A public house. 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 In the churchyard of Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Glou- 
 cestershire : — 
 
 " Here lie the bones of Kichakd Lawton, 
 "Whose death, alae ! was strangely brought on ; 
 Trying one day his corns to mow off, 
 The razor slipped, and cut his toe off; 
 His toe, or rather what it grew too, 
 An inflammation quickly flew too, 
 Which took, alas ! to mortifying, 
 And was the cause of Kichard's dying." 
 
 In the churchyard of Christ-church, Hampshire 
 
 "E. N". 
 At the Ester end of this free-stone 
 here doeth ly the Letle Bone 
 of Walter Spurrer, that fine Boy 
 that was his Eriends only Joy. 
 He was Drownd at Melhams Bridg, 
 the 20th of August, 1691." 
 
 In Woodbridge churchyard : — 
 
 " Here lieth the Bodie of 
 
 Beniamin Brinkley, 
 Who though Lustie and 
 
 Strong Was one 
 
 That by Misfortune Shot 
 
 Himself With a Gun 
 
 In the 23rd year of his Age ; 
 
 He departed this Life 
 
 To the Grief of his Parents 
 
 Spectators and Wife 
 
 March the 27th, 1723." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In a churchyard in Sussex is the following :- 
 
 " In Memory of Captain Underwood, 
 who was drowned. 
 
 Here lies free from blood and slaughter, 
 Once Underwood — now Underwater." 
 
 In Prittlewell churchyard, near Southend, Essex : — 
 " On Kobert Dodd, Glazier, who died from the 
 
 mortification of a wound, occasioned by accidentally 
 
 falling amongst broken glass. 
 
 Stranger or friend, whose feet shall haply tread, 
 Above the chambers of the mould' ring dead ; 
 If youth and modest innocence be thine, 
 "Welcome, fair pilgrim, to th' instructive shrine ; 
 Think, by no warning was I ta'en away, 
 Prepare ! prepare ! this might be your last day." 
 
 On an oval stone monument, against the south wall 
 of St. Mary's church, Beverley, Yorkshire, under two 
 swords crossed : — 
 
 " Here two young Danish soldiers lie, 
 The one in quarrel chanc'd to die ; 
 The other's head, by their own law, 
 With sword was severed at one blow. 
 
 December 23rd, 1689." 
 
 In Wickham-Market churchyard : — 
 
 " Charles Eldred, an excise officer, killed Oct. 18, 
 1848, aged 21. 
 
 An accident his youthful life did end, 
 No time allowed His soul to recommend 
 Unto that God who gave him his first breath, 
 So suddenly his eyes were clos'd in death." 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 On a man who choked himself with a bit of new 
 bread : — 
 
 " By many folks it hath been said, 
 The only staff of life is bread. 
 How could it then stop Simon's breath, 
 And be the occasion of his death ? 
 One little morsel prov'd his last 
 Which he devour' d in so much haste, 
 That angry Death in passion swore, 
 He ne'er should swallow one bit more." 
 
 In the churchyard of St. George' s-in-the-East, 
 London : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 to the Memory of 
 
 Me. Timothy Maer, 
 
 aged 24 years. 
 
 Also, Mks. Celia Marr, 
 
 aged 24 years. 
 
 And their son, Timothy Mark, 
 
 aged 3 months. 
 
 All of whom were most inhumanly murdered 
 
 in their dwelling house, 
 
 No. 29, Katcliff Highway, Dec. 8, 1811. 
 
 Stop, Mortal, stop, as you pass by, 
 
 And view this grave wherein do lie 
 
 A father, mother, and a son, 
 
 Whose earthly course was shortly run. 
 
 For, lo ! all in one fatal hour, 
 
 O'ercome were they with ruthless power, 
 
 And murdered in a cruel state, 
 
 Yea, far too horrid to relate. 
 
 They spared not one to tell the tale, 
 
 One for the other could not wail ; 
 
 The other's fate they never sigh'd, 
 
 Loving they liv'd, together died. 
 
 Reflect, Reader, on thy fate, 
 
 And turn from sin before too late ; 
 
 Life is uncertain in this world, 
 
 Oft in a moment we are hurl'd 
 
 To endless bliss, or endless pain, 
 
 So let not sin within you reign." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Yarmouth churchyard : — 
 
 " To the memory of Geoege Griffiths, of the 
 Shropshire Militia, who died Feb. 26th, 1807, in con- 
 sequence of a blow received in a quarrel with his com- 
 rade. 
 
 Time flies away as nature on its wing, 
 I in a battle died (not for my King.) 
 "Words with my brother soldier did take place, 
 Which shameful is, and always bring disgrace. 
 Think not the worse of him who do remain, 
 For he as well as I might have been slain." 
 
 In St. Lawrence's church, Isle of Wight, is an 
 epitaph recording the death of a gentleman from the 
 upsetting of his carriage, while on a visit to the island 
 with his daughter, it is as follows : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 William Joxes, 
 
 of Kensington Gore ; 
 
 W r ho met his untimely death by an accident, 
 
 near this spot, on the 26th of August, 
 
 1826, in the 91st year 
 
 of his age." 
 
 A Highland epitaph : — 
 
 " Here lies interr'd a man of micht, 
 His name is Macom Downie ; 
 He lost his life one market nicht 
 By falling off his pownie." 
 
 At Chigwell, in Essex : — 
 
 " This disease you ne'er heard tell on, 
 I died of eating too much melon. 
 Be careful, then, all ye that feed, — I 
 Suffered because I was too greedy." 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 In the churchyard of Sutton- Coldfield, Warwickshire, 
 lie the remains of Maky Ashford, who was brutally 
 murdered after having attended a ball. Over her pre- 
 mature grave a tomb-stone has been erected, on which 
 was engraven the following pathetic inscription, written, 
 it is believed, by the late Dr. Booker, vicar of Dudley: — 
 
 "Asa warning to female virtue, 
 
 And a humble monument to female chastity, 
 
 This stone marks the grave 
 
 Of Mart Ashford ; 
 
 Who, in the 20th year of her age, having 
 
 Incautiously repaired to a scene of amusement 
 
 Without proper protection, 
 
 Was shamefully ill-used and Murdered, 
 
 On the 27th of May, 1817. 
 
 Lovely and chaste as in the primrose pale, 
 Bifled of sweetness by the passing gale : 
 Mary, the wretch who thee remorseless slew, 
 Avenging death, which sleeps not, will pursue; 
 What though the deeds of blood be veil'd in night, 
 Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ? 
 Fair, blighted flower ! the muse that mourns thy doom, 
 Bears o'er thy murder' d form this warning tomb." 
 
 On Balfour, of Burley : — 
 
 " Gentle reader, I did request of mine honest friend 
 Peter Proudfoot, travelling merchant, known to many 
 of this land for his faithful and just dealings, as well in 
 muslins and cambrics as in small wares, to procure me, 
 on his next peregrinations to that vicinage, a copy of 
 the Epitaph alluded to. And, according to his report, 
 which I see no ground to discredit, it runneth thus : — 
 
 1 Here lyes ane saint to prelates surly, 
 Being John Balfour, sometime of Burley, 
 Who, stirred up to vengeance take, 
 Por Solemn League and Cov'nant's sake, 
 Upon the Magus — Moor, in Pife, 
 Did take James Sharpe the apostate's life ; 
 By Dutchman's hands was hacked and shot, 
 Then drowned in Clyde near this saam spot.'" 
 
 Sir Walter Scott's Works. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On John Adams: — 
 
 " Here lies Johx Adams, who received a thump, 
 Right in the forehead from the parish pump, 
 Which gave him his quietus in the end, 
 Tho' many doctors did his case attend." 
 
 On one who was drowned in the Sea : — 
 
 " Parents and friends weep not for me, 
 Tho' I was drowned in the sea ; 
 It was God's will it should be so — 
 Some way or other all must go-." 
 
 At Penryn, in Cornwall : — 
 
 " Here lies "William Smith, and what is 
 something rarish, 
 He was born, bred, and hang'd in 
 this Parish." 
 
 In St. John's churchyard, Horsleydown, on Captain 
 — , who was drowned at Gravesend : — 
 
 " Friends, cease to grieve that at Gravesend 
 
 My life was clos'd with speed, 
 For when the Saviour shall descend, 
 
 'Twill be graves' end indeed." 
 
 The traitor's epitaph, written about the time of Col. 
 Despard's execution (by the Et. Hon. Geo. Canning) : — 
 " May this dreary abode be for ever unknown, 
 
 For ever by virtue, by pity, untrod ; 
 TJnbreathed be his name, and unhonoured his stone ; 
 
 The foe of his country, his monarch, his God." 
 
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OFORTOATE PERSONS. 
 
 A writer in the Church and State Gazette, in 1850, 
 read the following inscription in a village churchyard, 
 "beneath the shadow of a building, wherein one of 
 the holiest and bravest of our Martyrs spoke in eloquent 
 simplicity" : — 
 
 "Stop traveller: cast an eye, where this ground I 
 under lie, 
 An accident once happened to me, which I hope may 
 never happen to thee." 
 
 In Stanton Harcourt churchyard, Oxfordshire, on two 
 lovers who were killed by lightning (by Pope) : — 
 
 "Near this place lie the bodies of 
 
 John Hewet and Sarah Drew, 
 
 an industrious young man 
 
 and virtuous maiden of this parish ; 
 
 Who, being at harvest work 
 
 (with several others), 
 
 were in one instant killed by lightning, 
 
 the last day of July, 1718. 
 
 Think not, by rig'rous judgment seiz'd, 
 
 A pair so faithful could expire ; 
 Victims so pure heav'n saw well pleas'd, 
 
 And snatched them in celestial fire. 
 Live well, and fear no sudden fate ; 
 
 When God calls virtue to the grave, 
 Alike 'tis justice soon or late, 
 
 Mercy alike to kill or save. 
 Virtue unmov'd can hear the call, 
 
 And face the flash that melts the ball."* 
 
 * John Hewet, was a well-set man of about 25 ; Sarah Drew might be 
 rather called comely than beautiful, and was about the same age. It was 
 that very morning that he had obtained the consent of her parents, and it 
 was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. John was 
 found with one arm about Sarah's neck, and the other held over her, as if 
 to screen her from the lightning. They were struck dead and stiffened in 
 this tender posture. Sarah's left eye-brow was singed, and there appeared 
 a black spot on her breast ; her lover was all over black, but not the least 
 signs of life were found in either. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ET. 
 
 Inscription upon a tablet in the Abbey wall, at Bury 
 St. Edmund's :— 
 
 "LH. S. 
 Here lies interred the Body of 
 
 Haky Haselton, 
 
 A young Maiden of this Town, 
 
 Born of Roman Catholic Parents, 
 
 And virtuously brought up, 
 Who, being in the act of Prayer, 
 
 Repeating her Vespers, 
 
 "Was instantaneously killed by a flash 
 
 of lightning, August, 16, 1785, 
 
 Aged 9 years. 
 
 Not Siloam's ruinous tower the victims slew 
 Because above the many sinn'd the few. 
 Nor here the fated lightning wreak' d its rage, 
 By Vengeance sent, for crimes matur'd by age ; 
 For whilst the Thunder's awful voice was heard, 
 The little suppliant, with its hands uprear'd, 
 Address' d her God in prayers the Priest had taught, 
 His mercy crav'd, and his protection sought. 
 Learn, Reader ! hence that Wisdom to adore 
 Thou canst not scan ; and fear his boundless Power : 
 Safe shalt thou be, if thou perform' st his will, 
 Blest if he spares, and more blest should he kill." 
 
 The San Diego Herald publishes the following, writ- 
 ten upon a young man who was accidentally shot : — 
 
 " here lies the the body of Jeems Htjmbeick 
 
 who was accidentally shot 
 
 on the bank of the pacus river 
 
 by a young man 
 
 he was accidentally shot with one of the large colt's 
 
 revolver with no stopper for the cock to rest on it was 
 
 one of the old fashion kind brass mounted and of such is 
 
 the kingdom of heaven." 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 In Great Yarmouth churchyard, Norfolk : — 
 
 " To the Memory of David Babtleman, 
 
 Master of the Brig Alexander and Mary, 
 
 of North Shields, 
 
 who, on the 31st of January, 1781, on 
 
 the North Coast, 
 
 with only three 3 -pounders and ten men and boys, 
 
 nobly defended himself 
 
 against a cutter carrying eighteen 4-pounders 
 
 and upwards of a hundred men, 
 
 commanded by the notorious English Pirate, Fall, 
 
 and fairly beat him off. 
 
 Two hours after, the enemy came down upon him again ; 
 
 when, totally disabled, 
 
 his mate, Daniel M'Auley, expiring with 
 
 the loss of blood, 
 
 and himself dangerously wounded, 
 
 he was obliged to strike and ransome, 
 
 and brought his shatter' d vessel into Yarmouth, with 
 
 more than the honours of a conqueror, 
 
 and died here in consequence of his wounds, 
 
 on the 14th of February following, 
 
 in the 25th year of his age. 
 
 To commemorate the gallantry of his Son, 
 
 the bravery of his faithful Mate, 
 
 and at the same time mark the infamy of a 
 
 savage pirate, 
 
 his afflicted Father, Alexander Bartleman, 
 
 has order' d this stone to be erected over 
 
 his honourable grave : — 
 
 ' 'Twas great ; his foe, though strong, was infamous, 
 
 The foe of human kind ; 
 
 A manly indignation fired his breast ; 
 
 Thank God my son has done his duty.' " — Cato. 
 
 In Horley churchyard, Surrey : — 
 
 tl Five of us, all and every soul, 
 Was suffocated by sleeping in a close 
 room and burning charcoal." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Westbury churchyard : — 
 
 " The child was drowned that's buried here, 
 Dear reader! stop, and drop a tear ; 
 Not for the babe, but for its mother, 
 Because she is left without another. 
 To the will of God I must resign, 
 In heaven I hope my babe to join." 
 
 In a churchyard in Dorchester : — 
 
 "Fkaxe: from his Betty snatch' d by Fate 
 Shows how uncertain is our state. 
 He smiled at morn — at noon lay dead, 
 Flung from a horse that kick'd his head. 
 But though he's gone — from tears refrain, 
 At Judgment he'll get up again." 
 
 In the cemetery of Coventry, lies Ellen Beight, the 
 " Lion Queen," who was worried by a tiger in Womb- 
 well's Menagerie, at Chatham, Jany. 1st, 1850, aged 17. 
 The following inscription is upon her tombstone : — 
 
 " The tenant of this little grave, 
 Our hope, and joy, and pride, 
 Was snatched away from our embrace, 
 In early youth she died." 
 
 On a Woolcomber, who was hanged for sheep 
 stealing : — 
 
 " Beneath this gallows lies Toji Kesip, 
 Who liv'd by wool and diedhy hemp. 
 The fleece would not suffice the glutton, 
 But with it he must steal the mutton. 
 Had he but work'cl and liv'd uprighter 
 He'd ne'er been hung for a sheep-biter." 
 
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1 UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 At St. Mary's, Lambeth : — 
 
 " Near this place are the remains of 
 
 William Bacon, 
 
 of the Salt Office, London, gent. 
 
 "Who was killed by thunder and lightning, 
 
 at his window, July 12, 1787, 
 
 Aged 34 years. 
 
 By touch ethereal in a moment slain, 
 He felt the power of death, but not the pain ; 
 Swift as the lightning glanced, his spirit flew, 
 And bade the rough tempestuous world adieu. 
 Short was his passage to that peaceful shore, 
 Where storms annoy and dangers threat no more." 
 
 On a Fool, who was shot through the head in a 
 duel : — 
 
 " Here lies poor Tommy ; Nature at his end . 
 Thought 'twas but right for once to stand his friend ; 
 For in the shades below he now can say, 
 'At least there's something in my head to day.' " 
 
 In Norwich, on Jonathan Lewes, who died by a fall 
 from his horse, April 7th, 1704, aged 32 years : — 
 
 " Judge me not, reader, Christ is judge of all, 
 I fell — stand' st thou? take warning by rny fall; 
 Be ready, lest thee sudden death surprise, 
 And hence two witnesses against thee rise. 
 
 From the French. On a man who was hanged in 
 chains, written by his cousin : — 
 
 " My uncle's son lies here below, 
 Who rests in peace — when the wind don't blow." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a man killed on a railroad track, in America : — 
 
 " Here are deposited the bones 
 
 ( The flesh being torn off ) 
 
 of an unknown man, 
 
 who, being deaf, blind, and lame, 
 
 neglected to obey the customary signals, 
 
 and was run over as a punishment 
 
 for his contumacy. 
 
 The engineer promptly stopped the engine 
 
 after it had cut the body in two, 
 
 and, with the most exemplary humanity, 
 
 conveyed the remains to an adjacent wood-shed, 
 
 where all means of resuscitation were tried, 
 
 but, alas ! 
 
 the vital spark had fled. 
 
 For the humanity they displayed, 
 
 The engineer and signal men were presented by the 
 
 Company with a service of plate." 
 
 At Little Stukely, in Huntingdonshire, on the Rev. 
 J. Watekhotjse : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of the 
 Rev. JosnrA Waterhouse, E.D. 
 nearly forty years fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, 
 Chaplain to his Majesty, Rector of this Parish, and of 
 Coton, near Cambridge, who was inhumanly murdered 
 in this Parsonage House, about ten o'clock on the 
 morning of July 3rd, 1827, Aged eighty-one : 
 
 "Beneath this tomb his mangled body's laid, 
 Cut, stabb'd, and murdered by Joshua Slade, 
 His ghastly wounds a horrid sight to see, 
 And hurl'd at once into eternity. 
 
 What faults you've seen in him take care to shun, 
 And look at home, enough there's to be done ; 
 Death does not always warning give, 
 Therefore be careful how you live." 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 In St. Mary's churchyard, York, to the memory of 
 a young maid, who was accidently drowned, Dec. 24th, 
 1696. The inscription is said to be written by her 
 lover : — 
 
 " Nigh to the river Ouse, in York's fair city, 
 Unto this pretty maid Death show'd no pity ; 
 As soon as she'd her pail with water fill'd 
 Came sudden Death, and life like water spill'd." 
 
 In Norwich : — 
 
 "Mr. Bet ant Lewis, 
 
 Who was barbarously murdered upon the Heath near 
 
 Thetford, Sep. 13, 1698. 
 
 Fifteen wide wounds this stone veils from thine eyes, 
 But reader, hark ! their voice doth pierce the skies. 
 Vengeance, cried Abel's blood, against cursed Cain, 
 But better things spake Christ when he was slain. 
 Both, both cries Lewis's 'gainst his barbarous foe, 
 Blood, Lord, for blood, but save his soul from woe." 
 
 Orchard's Epitaphs. 
 
 In Sunbury church, a village on the banks of the 
 Thames : — 
 
 " Under this pwe (pew) on the right hand lyeth the 
 bodye of Richard Billingsley, Gentleman, of the 
 parish of St. Martin's, Westminster, who was unhappily 
 drowned on the 15th of September, 1689." 
 
 At All Saints, Hastings : — 
 
 " To the memory of Geoegc Simpson, master mariner, 
 of Burlington, Yorkshire, died Aug. 24, 1809, aged 26 
 years ; shot by the enemy near Beechy Head. 
 
 I think nothing strange that happens unto all ; 
 
 My lot to day, to-morrow your's may fall. 
 
 I was changed, and in a moment fell, 
 
 I had not time to bid my friends farewell." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Inscription on the monument of the Jeiutys, in 
 ^Vymondham church : — 
 
 " Sear this spot lie the remains of Isaac Jerky, of 
 Stanfield Hall, in this parish, Esq., late Eecorder of 
 Norwich, who died Nov. 28th, 1848, aged 59. 
 
 Also, of Isaac Jekmt Jebitt, Esq., his only son, who 
 died Nov. 28th, 1848, aged 27. 
 
 Also, of Aebebt, infant son of Isaac Jenny Jenny, 
 who died July 24th, 1848, aged 2 days." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral churchyard is the following 
 inscription on a stone : — 
 
 " To the Memory of 
 
 Bexjames" Bbooksox, Junior, aged 21, 
 
 The eldest Son of Mr. Benjamin Brookson, 
 
 of Dolly's Beef Steak House, 
 
 (Paternoster Eow.) 
 
 who was unfortunately drowned near Kew Bridge, 
 
 on the 7th of July, 1816. 
 
 This simple record of his untimely Fate 
 
 was erected hy his afflicted Father, 
 
 as a sacred testimony of his 
 
 Paternal Feelings for the loss of his beloved 
 
 and lamented Son. 
 
 Reader, beneath this tributary stone 
 
 The ashes of a youthful victim lie, 
 
 TVhose early years with virtuous lustre shone, 
 
 "Whose Fate recalls the sympathetic sigh. 
 
 He sought, oppress' d by Summer's sultry sun, 
 The grateful coolness of the crystal wave ; 
 And found where Richmond's rapid currents run, 
 On Thames' deceitful shore, a watery grave. 
 
 Confiding in that Providence above 
 "Which guides the course of man's mysterious doom, 
 O'erwhelm'd with grief, a sonowing Father's love 
 Has rais'd this unadorned and simple tomb." 
 
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UNFORTUNATE PERSONS. 
 
 In Westminster Abbey is a splendid monument to 
 Thomas Thynne, who was shot at the end of the Hay- 
 market, in 1682. It consists of a recumbent figure, 
 with a cherub -pointing upwards — bas-relief represents 
 an attack on a carriage : the assassin is in the act of 
 firing into it. The inscription is : — 
 
 " Thomas Thtnne, 
 
 of Long Leate, in Com, Wilts, Esq. 
 
 who was barbarously murdered on 
 
 Sunday the 12th of February, 1682." 
 
 In the church of Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, is a 
 monument to Robeet Nicholls, of Ampthill Park, 
 governor of Long Island, who being in attendance on 
 the duke of York, was slain on board H.R.H. ship, in 
 1672. A cannon ball, said to be that which caused his 
 death, is fixed within the pediment. On the mouldings 
 is this inscription : — 
 
 " Instrumentum mortis et immortalitatis." 
 The in^ument of mortality and immortality. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 DIVINES 
 
 William Sanceoft, archbishop of Canterbury in 
 1678, was born at Fressingfield, in Suffolk. When 
 James II., as an introduction to popery, issued his decla- 
 ration for liberty of conscience, Sancroft and six other 
 bishops, remonstrating against the king's declaration, 
 were committed to the tower, when, in a few weeks 
 after they were tried and acquitted; and afterwards 
 refusing to acknowledge the prince and princess of 
 Orange as king and queen, he was deprived of his 
 dignity. He retired to Fressingfield, and died there ; 
 he was buried near the chancel of that church, where 
 his tomb is to be seen, with the following inscription 
 upon it, written by himself: — 
 
 ( On a Bmall square marble tablet at the top.) 
 
 " St. Matthew xxiv. 27. For as the lightning 
 cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; 
 so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." 
 
 (At the foot of the tomb.) 
 
 "P. M. S. 
 
 William Sanceoft, born in this Parish, afterwards, 
 by the Providence of God, Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 at last deprived of all which he could not keep with a 
 good conscience, returned hither to end his life where 
 
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 he began it; and professeth here at the foot of his 
 Tomb, that as naked he came forth, so naked he must 
 return ; ' the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, 
 (as the Lord pleases so come things to pass) Blessed be 
 the name of the Lord.' 
 
 He died the 24th day of November, in the year of 
 our Lord 1693, and in the 77th year of his age." 
 
 On Thomas Wilson, D.D., bishop of Sodor and Man. 
 A plain monument in the churchyard of Kirk-Michael, 
 Isle of Man, denotes the spot where the mortal remains 
 of this holy man were deposited, surrounded by the 
 ashes of many who, poor perhaps in this world, but 
 rich in faith, were through his means made heirs of 
 the kingdom which God has promised to them that 
 love him. The following is the inscription : — 
 
 " Sleeping in Jesus, here lieth the body of 
 
 Thomas Wilson, D.D. 
 
 Lord Bishop of this Isle, 
 
 who died March the 7th, 1755, aged 93, 
 
 and in the fifty-eighth year of his consecration. 
 
 This Monument was erected 
 
 by his Son, Thomas Wilson, D.D. native of this parish, 
 
 who, in obedience to the express commands of his 
 
 father, declines giving him the character he so 
 
 justly deserved. 
 
 Let this Island speak the rest." 
 
 Samuel Butter, D.D. Bishop of Sodor and Man, was 
 buried in St. Germains, Isle of Man, with the following 
 inscription over his tomb, written by himself: — 
 
 "In this house which I have borrowed from my 
 brethren, the worms, lie I, Samuel, by divine permis- 
 sion bishop of this Island, in hopes of the resurrection 
 to eternal life. 
 
 Stop, reader ! behold, and smile at the palace of a 
 bishop who died May 30th, 1653." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Archbishop Grindal, desired by his will that he 
 might be buried in the chancel of Croydon church, 
 without pomp. A monument was erected to his memory 
 in Croydon church, and is thus described by Strype : — 
 
 "On the south side of the communion table, against 
 the wall, is his emgy in stone, lying at length, raised a 
 pretty height from the ground, his hands in the posture 
 of praying ; his eyes have a kind of white in the pupil 
 to denote his blindness. A comely face, a long black 
 beard somewhat forked and somewhat curling, vested in 
 his doctor's robes." 
 
 The inscription on the monument is in Latin, and to 
 the following effect : — 
 
 "Edmund Grindal, Cumberland, Doctor of Divinity, 
 eminent for his learning, prudence, and gravity; re- 
 markable for his constancy, justice, and piety, — 
 beloved by his own countrymen and by foreigners — 
 having returned from exile, which he suffered for the 
 cause of the gospel, — and being raised to the summit of 
 dignity by successive steps of honourable advancement, 
 governed first the church of London, then of York, and 
 lastly of Canterbury. And when no higher place 
 remained on earth to which he could ascend, his free 
 and blessed spirit soared aloft to heaven, having escaped 
 from the bondage of mortality, on the 6th of July, 1583, 
 being the 63rd year of his age. Besides many generous 
 actions which he did in life, he at his death consecrated 
 the chief of his possessions to pious uses. In the parish 
 of St. Bees, in which he was born, he provided for the 
 erection of a grammar-school on a handsome scale, and 
 bestowed upon it a liberal endowment. 
 
 He founded a scholarship at Magdalen college, Cam- 
 bridge, where he first was nourished with the milk of 
 that university. To Christ's College, where he prosecu- 
 ted his studies in more mature age, he left an acceptable 
 memorial. He added to the treasury, and to the Library 
 of Pembroke-hall, of which he was once a fellow, and 
 afterwards president, and bequeathed ample stipends to 
 the reader of Greek, one fellow, and two scholars. He 
 enriched Queen's College, Oxford (where preference is 
 shown to men of Cumberland), with money, books, and 
 a considerable revenue. To the City of Canterbury, the 
 seat of his authority, at the time of his death he gave 
 
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 100£ towards the employment of poor persons in some 
 honest works, for ever. The rest of his property he 
 devoted to works of benevolence. Thus alike in life 
 and death, he filled an exalted station in the church, in 
 his country, and in the paths of learning." 
 
 Beneath the figure of the archbishop, on the monu- 
 ment, are lines which may be thus rendered : — 
 
 (On the one side.) 
 
 " The Pastor watchful, moderate and just, 
 Thrice call'd to higher dignity and trust, 
 Well nigh with sickness, cares, and age opprest 
 Lo! welcome death translates to peace and rest." 
 
 Of the inscription on the other side, the following 
 may be admitted as giving the sense : — 
 
 "Here my cold limbs in marble tomb repose, 
 To times remote my name undying flows, 
 For while in grateful strains the muses sing, 
 The classic groves with Grind al's name shall ring." 
 
 And on another part of the monument are more Latin 
 verses, of the following purport : — 
 
 " Grind al, wise, generous, learned, just, and grave, 
 To bear the cross in time of danger brave, 
 In brighter days the church's standard bore 
 Till Christ's sweet summons bade his spirit soar." 
 
 In Exeter Cathedral, on the left hand as you enter 
 the choir, under the organ loft, is this inscription : — 
 
 " Leofricijs, the First Bischoppe of Exceter, lyeth 
 Here." 
 
 In another part of Exeter Cathedral is another in- 
 scription ( less clearly visible, just under the effigy of 
 an old prophet), seemingly copied from this : — 
 
 "Heneicus, the last Bischoppe of Exceter, lyeth 
 Here, and everywhere." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC 
 
 On a tablet in Peterborough Cathedral : — 
 
 " Spencer Madan, D.D. 
 
 Lord Bishop of Peterborough ; 
 
 Translated from the See of Bristol in 1794, 
 
 Died November the 8th, 1813, 
 
 In the 85th year of his age. 
 
 In sacred sleep the pious Bishop lies, 
 
 Say not in Death — a good Man never dies." 
 
 The following inscription is on a mural tablet in 
 Gloucester Cathedral : — 
 
 " To the memory of William Warbtjrton, D.D., 
 for more than 19 years bishop of this See. A prelate 
 of the most sublime genius and exquisite learning. Both 
 which talents he employed through a long life, in the 
 support of what he firmly believed the Christian Eeli- 
 gion, and of what he esteemed the best establishment 
 of it, the Church of England. 
 
 He was born at Newark-upon-Trent, Dec. 24, 1698, 
 and was consecrated bishop of Gloucester, January 20th, 
 1760. Died at his Palace in this City, June 7th, 1779, 
 and was buried near this place." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Thomas Newton, 
 bishop of Bristol, in St. Mary-le-bow, Cheapside. He 
 died a.d. 1782, aged 79 years: — 
 
 " In thee, the fairest bloom of opening youth 
 nourished beneath the guard of Christian truth ; 
 That guiding truth to virtue formed thy mind, 
 And warmed thy heart to feel for all mankind : 
 How sad the change — my widow' d days now prove, 
 Thou soul of friendship and of tender love ; 
 Yet holy faith one soothing hope supplies, 
 That points our future union to the skies." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 On Martin Benson, bishop of Gloucester, in the 
 Cathedral : — 
 
 " Reader, be admonished by this marble to imitate 
 Martin Benson, late bishop of this Diocese. A rational 
 piety raised the views of this excellent man above 
 the world, and formed his whole into a truly christian 
 spirit of resignation. An uncommon warmth of benevo- 
 lence made it the business and pleasure of his life to 
 go about doing good, by instruction in righteousness, 
 and by works of charity. He watched the flock of 
 Christ as a faithful shepherd, from a sense of his own 
 duty, a disinterested concern for their common welfare : 
 and he maintained the dignity of his authority by the 
 meekness with which he exercised it. 
 
 He felt a deep compassion for the vicious, and showed 
 it, even whilst he was exposing the folly and wicked- 
 ness of vice, with a strength and turn of language 
 peculiar to himself. His reproofs being dictated by 
 friendship, qualified by candour, and delivered with a 
 natural delicacy of manners, were sincere without 
 roughness, and endearing without dissimulation. He 
 was by constitution liable to a depression of spirits, but 
 innocence of heart enlivened his mind and his conver- 
 sation with a cheerfulness that created a more affec- 
 tionate regard for his superior worth, by rendering it 
 more familiar and amiable. Under the most acute pain 
 of his last illness he possessed his soul in patience, and 
 with a firm trust in his Redeemer calmly resigned his 
 spirit to the Father of Mercies." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument (by Chan trey) 
 to Bishop Heber. He is represented kneeling, with 
 one hand upon his breast, and the other resting upon a 
 Bible ; on the pedestal, he is confirming two Indian 
 converts. Below is the following inscription : — 
 
 " To the memory of 
 
 Reginald Heber, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta, 
 
 This Monument was erected by those who loved and 
 
 admired him. 
 
 His character exhibited a rare union 
 
 of fervent zeal with universal tolerance, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 of brilliant talent with sober judgment, 
 and was especially distinguished by Christian humility, 
 
 which no applause could disturb, no success abate. 
 
 He cheerfully resigned prospects of eminence at home, 
 
 in order to become 
 
 the chief Missionary of Christianity in the East ; 
 
 and having, in the short space of 3 years, 
 
 visited the greater part of India, 
 
 and conciliated the affections and veneration 
 
 of men of every class of religion, 
 
 he was there summoned to receive the reward of his 
 
 labours, in the 43rd year of his age, 1826. 
 
 Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, 
 Though sorrow and darkness encompass the tomb; 
 
 Thy Saviour has passed the portals before thee, 
 
 And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom. 
 
 Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, 
 Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian and guide ; 
 
 He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee, 
 And Death has no sting, for the Saviour has died." 
 
 FidtfcTs Attekbttry, D.D., bishop of Rochester, was 
 sentenced in 1723, to perpetual exile for a treasonable 
 correspondence, and he died in Paris, Feb. 15, 1731, 
 aged 68, his only daughter having expired in his arms 
 immediately after her arrival in Trance to see him. He 
 was privately buried in Westminster Abbey, and the 
 following epitaph written for him by Pope : — 
 
 " SHE. 
 
 Yes ! we have lived — one pang, and then we part ! 
 May Heaven, dear Father ! now have all thy heart : 
 Yet, ah ! how once we lov'd, remember still, 
 Till you are dust like me. 
 
 HE. 
 
 Dear Shade ! I will : 
 Then mix this dust with thine — spotless ghost ! 
 more than fortune, friends, or country lost ! 
 Is there on earth one care, one wish beside ? 
 Yes — Save my Country, Heav'n ! 
 
 He said, and dy'd." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 Miles Coverdale, bishop of Exeter, who produced 
 the first entire translation of the protestant Bible in the 
 English language, died in February, 1568, aged 81, and 
 was buried in the church of St. Bartholomew, by the 
 Royal Exchange. The present church was built by Sir 
 Christopher Wren, in 1679, on the site of the old one ; 
 but Stow, in describing the ancient structure, records a 
 certain Latin inscription, which he tells us u is on a 
 fair plated stone, on the ground in the chancel." The 
 following is a translation of the Latin inscription : — 
 
 " Epitaph on the Eight Reverend Father in God, 
 
 Miles Coverdale, an Octogenarian. 
 
 This Tomb which at last offers repose, and a 
 
 termination of his labours, holds the 
 
 bones of Coverdale ! 
 
 "Who, as Bishop of Exeter, distinguished himself 
 
 by the exemplary probity of his life. 
 
 He liv'd to the good old age of eighty-one, 
 
 Too long an innocent exile from his native country. 
 
 After undergoing a variety of troubles, 
 
 He is here received into the friendly bosom 
 
 of the grave. 
 
 M." 
 
 There is no account or appearance of any interment 
 in Lambeth Palace Chapel, except of Archbishop Parker," 
 who died in 1575, aged 71, and who desired by his will 
 to be buried there. The spot where his body now rests 
 is marked by the following words, cut on a slab imme- 
 diately in front of the communion rails : — 
 
 " Corpus Mattheei Archiepiscopi, 
 Tandem Hie Quiescit." 
 
 Dr. Joseph Hall, bishop of Norwich, who died there 
 in 1656, aged 82, he being an enemy to burying in 
 churches, directed that his body should be buried in the 
 churchyard. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument to Bishop 
 Middleton. His lordship is represented as confirming 
 two Hindoos. The inscription is : — 
 
 " Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D.D. 
 
 First Protestant Bishop in India, 
 
 Consecrated to the See of Calcutta, May 8th, 1814, 
 
 died July 8th, 1822. 
 
 This monument was erected by the joint 
 
 contribution of Members of the Society for 
 
 Promoting Christian Knowledge, 
 
 and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel." 
 
 Reginald Pole, archbishop of Canterbury, under 
 Queen Mary, died Nov. 18th, 1558, aged 58, and was 
 interred with great pomp on the north side of Thomas 
 a Becket's chapel in Canterbury Cathedral. Over his 
 grave was erected a tomb, on which were inscribed only 
 these three words, as sufficient to his fame : — 
 
 " Depositum Cardinalis Poll" 
 
 The following is inscribed on the tomb of the 
 Eev. Dean Deelincouet, in the Cathedral church of 
 Armagh : — 
 
 . " Such was the second Dkelincoltlt ! a name 
 Victorious over death — and dear to fame. 
 The Christian's praise by different measures won, 
 Successive grac'd the father and the son, 
 To sacred service, one his wealth consigned, 
 And one the living treasures of his mind. 
 'Twere rash to say whose talent did excel, 
 Each was so rich, and each improved so well. 
 Nor was the charity delay' d till death, 
 He chose to give what others did bequeath, 
 Much tho' he gave, and oft, yet more he meant, 
 Had life proportioned to his will been lent ; 
 But to complete a scheme so well design' d, 
 Belongs to her who shar'd his bed and mind : 
 Whose pious sorrows thus to future days, 
 Transmit his image, and extend his praise." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 In St. Mary's churchyard, Gloucester : — 
 
 "John Hooper, D.D. 
 
 Bishop of 
 
 Gloucester and Worcester, 
 
 was burnt on this spot, 
 
 on Saturday, 
 
 February IX, MDLV. 
 
 For his steady adherance 
 
 to the 
 
 Protestant Religion. " 
 
 Over the tomb of Pope Adrian VI., who died in 
 1523, was placed his own exclamation : — 
 
 " Let a man be never so good, how much depends 
 on the times in which he is born." 
 
 In the epitaph on the monument of Dr. Wm. Wynne, 
 in Mold church, in Flintshire, are these words : — 
 
 " In conformity to an ancient usage, 
 
 From a proper regard to decency, 
 
 And a concern for the health 
 
 of his fellow creatures, 
 
 He was moved to give particular directions 
 
 for being buried in the adjoining churchyard 
 
 And not in the church." 
 
 Dr. Samuel Parr, the learned divine and critic, died 
 without pain, Jan. 6th, 1825, aged 80. He was buried 
 in Hatton churchyard, where a monument is erected to 
 his memory, with the following beautiful quotation from 
 the Scriptures, selected by himself : — 
 
 " What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, 
 and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On Dr. Thomas Paexell, the divine and poet, who 
 died at Chester, 1717, aged 48 years ( by Oliver Gold- 
 smith) : — 
 
 "This tomb inscribed to gentle Parnell's name, 
 May speak our gratitude, but not his fame. 
 What heart but feels his sweetly — moral lay, 
 That leads to truth through pleasure's flowery way. 
 Celestial themes confess' d his tuneful aid ; 
 And Heaven, that lent him genius, was repaid. 
 Needless to him the tribute we bestow, 
 The transitory breath of fame below : 
 More lasting rapture from his works shall rise 
 While converts thank their Poet in the skies." 
 
 On Dr. Playfee, Margaret Professor of Divinity, 
 who died about 1607 — 8 : — 
 
 " Who lives with Death, by Death in Death is lying, 
 But he who living dies, best lives by dying : 
 Who life to truth, who death to error gives, 
 In life may die, by death more surely lives. 
 
 My soul in Heaven breathes, in schools my fame, 
 Then on my tomb write nothing but my name." 
 
 On the Rev. Charles Wesley, of London, who died 
 March 29, 1785, and was buried in the churchyard of 
 St. Mary-le-bone. The lines were written by himself, 
 on the death of one of his friends : — 
 
 "With poverty of spirit blest, 
 Rest, happy saint in Jesus, rest ! 
 A sinner sav'd, through grace forgiven, 
 Redeem' d from earth to reign in heaven. 
 Thy labours of unwearied love, 
 By thee forgot — are crown' d above ; 
 Crown' d through the mercy of thy Lord, 
 With a free, full, immense reward." 
 
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Df VINES. 
 
 In St. Patrick's Cathedral, and near to the monument 
 of Dean Swift, is a tablet to the memory of his intimate 
 friend and favourite Mrs. Johnson (Stella). The fol- 
 lowing is the inscription : — 
 
 " Underneath lie interred the 
 
 mortal remains 
 
 of Mrs. Hester Johnson, better 
 
 known to the world by the 
 
 name of Stella, under which 
 
 she is celebrated in the 
 
 writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, 
 
 Dean of this Cathedral. 
 
 She was a person 
 
 of extraordinary endowments 
 
 and accomplishments in body, 
 
 mind, and behaviour; justly 
 
 admired and respected by all who knew 
 
 her, on account of her 
 
 many eminent virtues, 
 
 as well as for her great 
 
 natural and acquired perfection. 
 
 She died January 27th, 1727, 
 
 in the 46th year of her age ; 
 
 and by her will bequeathed 
 
 one thousand pounds towards 
 
 the support of a chaplain 
 
 to the Hospital founded in 
 
 this city by Dr. Stephens." 
 
 At Clare, Suffolk :— 
 
 "In the nave of this Church 
 lie the remains of 
 The Rev. George Wightman, D.D. 
 who departed this life 
 on the 3rd of August, 1854. 
 In affectionate remembrance of one who faithfully 
 laboured amongst them, first as curate and afterwards 
 as vicar for 30 years, the parishioners of Clare have 
 raised this tablet, recording thereon the words he him- 
 self suggested for his epitaph — 
 
 'A sinner saved by grace.' " 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Dean Swift was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, 
 and by way of monument, a slab of black marble was 
 placed against the wall, on which was engraven the 
 following Latin epitaph, written by himself : — 
 
 Hie depositum est corpus 
 
 Jonathan Swift, ST. P. 
 
 Hujus Ecclesiae Cathedralis 
 
 Decani : 
 
 Ubi sseva indignatio 
 
 Ulterius cor lacerare nequit. 
 
 Abi, viator, 
 
 Et imitare, si poteris, 
 
 Strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem. 
 
 Obiit anno (1745) 
 
 Mensis (Octobris) die (19) 
 
 JEtatis anno (78)." 
 
 On the Eev. Mr. Penrose, 32 years vicar of St. Glu- 
 vias, Cornwall (by Hannah More) : — 
 
 " If social manners, if the gentlest mind, 
 If zeal for God, and love for human kind ; 
 If all the charities which life endear 
 May claim affection, or demand a tear, 
 Then over Penrose's venerable urn 
 Domestic love may weep, and friendship mourn. 
 
 The path of duty still, untir'd, he trod, 
 He walk'd in safety, for he walk'd with God ! 
 When past the power of precept and of prayer, 
 Yet still his flock remain' d the shepherd's care ; 
 Their wants still kindly watchful to supply, 
 He taught his best, last lesson, how to die." 
 
 Dr. Fuller, the historian and divine, was very much 
 pleased with the conceit of his epitaph, made by a hon 
 companion : — 
 
 " Here lies Fuller's Earth." 
 
 His epitaph in Westminster Abbey is said to consist of 
 those four words only. He died August, 1661, aged 
 53 years. 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 Tomb of Henry Maetyn, the missionary, who died 
 in Persia a.d. 1812, aged 31 years: — 
 
 " On leaving the Greek Church (at Tocat) we pro- 
 ceeded to the Armenian Cemetery, accompanied by an 
 Armenian Priest, whom we had encountered on the way. 
 He was the individual who had performed the last rites 
 of Christian burial over the remains of the devoted 
 missionary Martyn, who died here, on his way back to 
 his native land, far from his fellow-countrymen, sur- 
 rounded by strangers, and exposed to the brutality of 
 his Tatar, who hurried him on without mercy from 
 stage to stage. The poor Armenians, however, did what 
 they could. They tended his dying pillow, and they 
 consigned his last relics to the dust, accompanied by the 
 solemn, soothing rites of the Christian service. Their 
 simple veneration for him outlasted the tomb, and the 
 hands of the christians of Tocat weed and tend the 
 grave of the stranger from a distant isle. The Arme- 
 nian priest who accompanied us stood for some moments 
 with his turban off, at the head of the grave, engaged 
 in prayer. As we turned to go away, he remarked, 'he 
 was a martyr of Jesus Christ ; may his soul rest in 
 peace ! ' A few wild flowers were growing by his grave ; 
 I plucked one of them, and have regarded it ever since 
 as the memorial of a martyr's resting place." — Notes 
 from Nineveh, and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and 
 Syria (by the Rev. J. P. Fletcher, Philadelphia.) 
 
 In Bristol Cathedral is a monument to Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Deapee, the " Eliza " of Sterne, bearing the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory 
 
 of 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Deapee : 
 
 in whom 
 
 Genius and Benevolence 
 
 were united. 
 
 She died August 3rd, 1778, Aged 35." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a country clergyman : — 
 
 Still like his Saviour known by breaking bread, 
 The rich he entertain' d, the needy fed; 
 Of humour easy, and of life unblam'd, 
 The friend delighted, while the priest reclaim' d : 
 The friend, the father, and the husband gone, 
 The priest still lives in this recording stone ; 
 "Where pious eyes may read his praises o'er 
 And leam each grace his pulpit taught before." 
 
 The Eev. Beexaed Gilpin was originally a Eoman 
 Catholic, but afterwards turned to the Protestant faith. 
 He was presented by Bishop Tunstall to the rectory of 
 Houghton -le- Spring, in Durham, and was afterwards 
 confined by order of Queen Alary, but on his journey to 
 London by accident he broke his leg, and before he could 
 reach London Queen Alary died. He was one of the 
 finest characters of any age ; hospitable and charitable 
 without bounds. He died March, 1583, aged 65, and 
 lies buried in Houghton church. In raised characters 
 is the following inscription : — 
 
 ' ' Beexeed obit Qua 
 
 Gnrix Be ETO DIE. AI 
 
 ctor Hv AETII. AX 
 
 jvs ecclesise DOAL 1585.' 
 
 c >> 
 
 In the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral is the tomb of 
 kelson's brother, on which is placed the following 
 inscription, which notes the titles he obtained through 
 his distinguished brother : — 
 
 " To the memory of the Eight Honourable and 
 Eev. William Xelsox, D.D., Baron Xelson of the 2s"ile, 
 Viscount Xelson and Earl Xelson of Trafalgar, and 
 Duke of Bronte in Sicily, who died on the 28th Feb- 
 ruary, 1835, in the 78th year of his age ; and lies buried 
 here in the same vault with his wife, Saeah, Countess 
 of Xelson : near the remains of his only son, Viscount 
 Trafalgar ; and of his illustrious brother, Horatio, Vis- 
 count Xelson." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 Inscription on the monument of the Rev. George 
 Scott, who became rector of Kentisbeare, in Devon- 
 shire, in 1828, and died there the 9th June, 1830. 
 This epitaph appears on his tomb in the chancel there, 
 and was written by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. : — 
 
 " To youth, to age, alike, this Tablet pale 
 Tells the brief moral of its tragic tale. 
 Art thou a parent ? Eeverence this bier, 
 The parents' fondest hopes lie buried here. 
 Art thou a youth, prepared in life to start, 
 With opening talents and a generous heart, 
 Fair hopes and nattering prospects all thine own ? 
 Lo ! here their end — a monumental stone. 
 But let submission tame each sorrowing thought ; 
 Heaven crown' d its champion ere the fight was fought." 
 
 On the Rev. Mr. Hunter, who received a degree from 
 the University of Oxford for his work against Lord 
 Bolingbroke's Philosophy (by Hannah More) : — 
 
 " Go, happy spirit, seek that blissful land 
 Where zealous Michael leads the glorious band 
 Of those who fought for truth ; blest spirit, go, 
 And perfect all the good begun below ; 
 Go hear applauding Saints delighted tell 
 How vanquished Falsehood at thy bidding fell ! 
 Blest in that heav'n whose paths thy virtue sought ; 
 Blest in that God whose cause thou well hast fought. 
 let thy honour' d shade his care approve, 
 Who this memorial rears of filial love : 
 A son, whose father, living, was his pride ; 
 A son, who mourns that such a father died." 
 
 At Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, is the following 
 epitaph on a former Rector : — 
 
 " Mors mortis morti mortem nise morte dedisset, 
 -ZEternae Vitae Janua clausa foret." 
 The translation is obviously : " Unless the Death of 
 Death (Christ) had given death to Death by his own 
 death, the gate of eternal life had been closed." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At Hackney : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 The Eev. Dayid Geokge Davis, 
 
 of this Parish, 
 
 Who departed this life, Jan. 10, 1812, aged 42 years, 
 
 After a long affliction, which he bore 
 "With manly fortitude and steady faith. 
 
 If dumb too long the drooping mate hath staid, 
 And left her debt of sacred love unpaid ; 
 Blame not her silence, readers, but bemoan, 
 And judge, Oh judge my feelings by your own. 
 To strew fresh laurels let the task be mine, 
 A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine ;" 
 Mine, with true sighs thy absence to bemoan, 
 And 'grave with faithful epitaph the stone : 
 Live here on earth, preparing for the skies, 
 Then at the last great day together rise, 
 For God forbids the virtuous soul to die, 
 Though we awhile may here united lie." 
 
 The celebrated Eev. William Whistos - was buried 
 in Lyndon churchyard, in Rutlandshire; on his tomb 
 is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lies the body of the Eeverend Mr. "William 
 Whistox, M.A., some time professor of the Mathematics 
 in the University of Cambridge : who was born Dec. 9th, 
 1667, and died Aug. 22nd, 1752, in the 85th year of 
 his age. 
 
 Endued with an excellent genius, indefatigable in 
 labour and study, he became learned in divinity, ancient 
 history, chronology, philosophy, and mathematics. 
 
 Fertile in sentiment, copious in language, skilful to 
 convey instruction, he introduced the Xewtonian Philo- 
 sophy, then buried in the deep recesses of geometry, 
 into public knowledge ; and thereby displayed the won- 
 derful works of God. 
 
 More desirous to discover His will, he applied himself 
 chiefly to the examination and study of the Holy Scrip- 
 tures. Eesolved to practise it, he sacrificed great 
 worldly advantages, and greater expectations, that he 
 might preserve the testimony of a good conscience. 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 Firmly persuaded of the truth and importance of 
 revealed religion, he exerted his utmost abilities to 
 enforce the evidence, to explain the doctrine, and to 
 promote the practise of Christianity : worshipping with 
 the most profound submission and adoration, the Su- 
 preme Majesty of one God and Father of all, through 
 the intercession and mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 by the grace and influence of the Holy Spirit, and 
 testifying the sincerity of his profession by the due 
 obedience of an holy life. 
 
 Strictly tenacious of his integrity, equally fervent in 
 piety and charity, ardent to promote the glory of God, 
 and the good of mankind; zealous in the pursuit of 
 truth, and practice of virtue, he persevered with faith 
 and patience, steadfast and unmoveable, always abounding 
 in the work of the Lord, through many trials and much 
 tribulation, to the end of his course, full of days, and 
 ripe for paradise, in a firm assurance of a joyful resur- 
 rection to everlasting life and happiness. 
 
 Remember, reader, whoever thou art, if thou canst 
 not attain to the measure of his learning and knowledge ; 
 that it is in thy power to equal him in piety, probity, 
 holiness and other Christian graces, and that thou 
 mayest thereby obtain, together with him, through the 
 mercies of God, and merits of Christ, an everlasting 
 crown of glory." 
 
 On the Rev. Cheistophee Pitt, the poet, at Bland- 
 ford, in Dorsetshire : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 Che. Pitt, Clerk, M.A. 
 
 very eminent 
 
 for his talents in Poetry: 
 
 and yet more 
 
 For the universal candour of 
 
 his mind, and the primitive 
 
 simplicity of his manners : 
 
 He lived innocent : 
 
 and died beloved, 
 
 Apr. 13, 1748, 
 
 aged 48." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On William Carey, the first missionary at Seram- 
 pore. William Carey arrived at Serampore with the 
 Rev. John Thomas, January, 1800. He was only a 
 village schoolmaster, but before he left England, he used 
 to read a chapter in the Bible every morning, in six 
 different languages ; and for 37 years he laboured at 
 the translation of the Bible, and was the principal means 
 of furnishing many millions of immortal souls with the 
 Bible in their own language. The inscription on his 
 tombstone is simply this, according to his own wish : — 
 
 " "William Caret 
 
 Born 17th of August, 1761, 
 
 Died 9th of June, 1834. 
 
 ' A wretched, poor, and helpless worm 
 On thy kind arms I fall.' " 
 
 The Rev. John Newton, the friend of the poet 
 Cowper, was rector of St. Mary, Woolnoth, London, 28 
 years. He died a.d. 1797, aged 72 years, and a tablet 
 in the church has been erected to his memory, bearing 
 the following inscription, written by himself: — 
 
 " John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine, 
 a servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of 
 our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, 
 pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long 
 laboured to destroy." 
 
 Dr. John Rainolds, the divine, died a d. 1607, aged 
 58, and was interred with great solemnity in the chapel 
 of Corpus Christi college, where a monument was erected 
 to his memory by his successor in the presidentship, Dr. 
 Spencer, with the following inscription : — 
 
 " Yirtuti sacrum. Jo. Rainolds S 
 Theol. D, eruditione, pietate, integritate incomparabile, 
 hujus Coll. Prseses, qui obiit, &c. Jo Spencer auditor, 
 successor, virtutum et sanctitatis admirator HM amoris 
 erga posuit." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 On the Rev. Mr. Love, in Bristol Cathedral (by 
 Hannah More) : — 
 
 " When worthless grandeur fills th' embellished urn, 
 No poignant grief attends the sable bier ; 
 But when distinguish' d excellence we mourn, 
 Deep is the sorrow, genuine is the tear. 
 
 Stranger ! should' st thou approach this awful shrine, 
 The merits of the honoured dead to seek ; 
 
 The friend, the son, the christian, the divine, 
 
 Let those who knew him, those who lov'd him speak. 
 
 let them in some pause of anguish say, 
 
 What zeal inflamed, what faith enlarged his breast ; 
 
 How glad th'unfetter'd spirit wing'd its way 
 
 From earth to heaven, from blessing to be blest !" 
 
 The Rev. George Herbert, whose Poems and Country 
 Parson are well known, died of consumption at Bemer- 
 ton rectory, Wiltshire, a.d. 1635, aged 40, and was 
 buried in Bemerton church. A writer in a periodical 
 in 1854, says — "I entered Bemerton church, I was 
 aware that he was buried near the altar, under a broad 
 flat stone, without any inscription ; yet hoped to have 
 the pleasure of seeing the stone that covered the remains 
 of such an example of goodness, and perhaps finding 
 the initials, a date, or some memorial however slight. 
 But great was my disappointment to find the altar raised 
 by a platform of wood, and the pavement entirely con- 
 cealed. I turned to the clerk, in the hope of finding 
 some lingering tradition, but in vain ; he had not even 
 heard the name of Herbert." 
 
 Dr. Richard Parr died November, 1691, aged 74, 
 and was buried in Camberwell churchyard, where it is 
 inscribed on his monument, that " he was in preaching 
 constant : in life exemplary : in piety and charity most 
 eminent : a lover of peace and hospitality : and, in fine 
 a true disciple of Jesus Christ." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a monument erected in Epsom church, in Surrey, 
 to the memory of the Eev. Joxaihax BorcuEE, is the 
 following : — 
 
 "Wear this place are deposited, 
 
 In the hope of a blessed resurrection to eternal life, 
 
 The remains of the Rev. Joxathax Boechee, M.A, F.A.S. 
 
 Xineteen years Vicar of this Parish : 
 
 He was born at Blencogo, in Cumberland. 12th March, 
 
 173$ ; and died 27th April, 1804. 
 
 A faithful steward of the mysteries of God, he ever 
 
 Maintained and enforced, both by his writings and 
 
 Discourses, that form of sound doctrine delivered 
 Tnto the Saints ; whilst in his opinions and practice 
 
 He exhibited a bright example of Christian Charity. 
 
 Few men possessed a larger store of various knowledge, 
 
 Or greater liberality of communication: 
 
 And the success with which, in the intervals of more 
 
 Important pursuits, he cultivated English Philological 
 
 Antiquities, will excite the regret of all the learned 
 
 For the event which has left his 
 
 Valuable labours unfinished. 
 
 His loyalty to his King remained unshaken, even when 
 
 The madness of the people raged furiously against him : 
 
 And. for conscience sake, he resigned ease and affluence in 
 
 America, to endure hardships and poverty in his native land; 
 
 But the Lord gave him twice as much as he had before, 
 
 And blessed his latter end more than his beginning." 
 
 Dr. Johx Joeetx, a learned divine, and author of 
 many works, died Sep. o, 1770, and was biuied in the 
 new churchyard at Kensington, as he had directed, and 
 had a flat stone laid over him, with this inscription 
 dictated by himself: — 
 
 " Joaxxes Joeiix 
 
 Mortalis esse desiit, 
 
 Anno Salutis 1770, 
 
 ^Etatis 72." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 The Eev. Laurence Sterne, M.A., was buried in 
 the new burying ground belonging to the parish of St. 
 George, Hanover Square, where he has a monument 
 raised by two strangers, on which is inscribed the fol- 
 lowing lines : — 
 
 "Near to this Place 
 
 Lies the Body of 
 
 The Reverend Laurence Sterne, A.M. 
 
 Died September 13th,* 1768, 
 
 Aged 53 years. 
 
 Ah ! molliter ossa quiescant. 
 
 If a sound Head, warm Heart, and Breast humane, 
 Unsullied "Worth, and Soul without a Stain ; 
 If Mental Powers could ever justly claim 
 The well- won Tribute of immortal Fame, 
 Sterne was the Man, who, with gigantic Stride 
 Mow'd down luxuriant Follies far and wide. 
 Yet what tho' keenest Knowledge of Mankind, 
 Unseal' d to him the springs that move the Mind ; 
 What did it cost him ? Ridicul'd, abus'd, 
 By Pools insulted, and by Prudes accus'd ! 
 In his, mild Reader, view thy future fate ; 
 Like him, despise what 'twere a Sin to hate. 
 
 This Monumental Stone was erected by two brother 
 masons ; for, though he did not live to be a member of 
 their society, yet, as his all-incomparable performances 
 evidently prove him to have acted by rule and square, 
 they rejoice in this opportunity of perpetuating his high 
 and irreproachable character to after ages." — W. Sf S. 
 
 On the Rev. Laurence Sterne (by David Garrick) : — 
 
 Shall pride, a heap of sculp tur'd marble raise, 
 Some worthless unmourn'd titled fool to praise ? 
 And shall we not by one poor grave-stone learn, 
 Where genius, wit, and humour, sleep with Sterne." 
 
 He died March 18th. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Another epitaph on Sterne : — 
 
 "How often wrongs our nomenclature, 
 How our names differ from our nature 
 
 'Tis easy to discern : 
 Here lies the quintessence of wit, 
 For mirth and humour none more fit, 
 
 And yet men call him Stern — e." 
 
 The following is on a brass plate in the chancel of 
 Great Billing church, Northamptonshire : — 
 
 " Justinian Brassgirdle underneath this stone, 
 Hath left his pawne of resurrection ; 
 Who four and fifty winters did afforde 
 This flocke the pasture of God's heavenly worde, 
 And all his lifetime did employ his care 
 So to growe rich to make the poore his heyre. 
 Being charityes faithful steward, he imparts 
 Twelve hundred pounds to nourish Oxford artes ; 
 Then if our God to them ope heaven doore, 
 That give but drops of water to the poore, 
 Sure his wise soul laid up a treasure there, 
 That nere shall rust — who now bought heaven sodeare; 
 "When faith and good workes have so long contended, 
 That faith is almost dead, and good workes ended. 
 Obijt Octob. 25, 1625." 
 
 The Bev. Bobert Burton, a celebrated writer of the 
 1 7th century, and author of the ' ' Anatomy of Melan- 
 choly," by Democritus, Junior, died 1640, aged 64, and 
 was buried at Christ Church, with the following epitaph, 
 said to have been his own composition : — 
 
 " Paucis notus, paucioribus ignotus, 
 Hie Jacet Democritus Junior ; 
 Cui vitam pariter et mortem. 
 Dedid Melancholia." 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 In St. Peter's church, Colchester, Essex, is this me- 
 morial to the Kev. Samuel Caee, M.A. : — 
 
 "Phil. iv. 7, 8. In memory of Samuel Caee, M.A. 
 late vicar of this parish, and sometime Fellow of Queen's 
 College, Cambridge, who departed this life, June 17, 
 1854, aged 63. Called in the providence of God to 
 minister in his native town, he held the charge of this 
 parish for 25 years, during which time he faithfully 
 preached the gospel, setting forth Christ as the only 
 refuge for sinners, declaring the whole counsel of God, 
 and showing to all men the gentleness and uncorrupt- 
 ness, gravity and sincerity of the Christian pastor. In 
 grateful and affectionate remembrance of his worth, this 
 monumental stone is erected by his parishioners." 
 
 On a tablet on the outside of the parish church of 
 Brailes, Warwickshire : — 
 
 t 
 
 " Pray for the soul of the 
 
 Eev. John Austin - , 
 
 Many years Pastor to the Catholics 
 
 of Brailes and neighbourhood. 
 
 He died 27th Aug : 1809, aged 68. 
 
 B. I. P. " 
 
 In Trowbridge Church, Wiltshire, is a monument 
 
 (executed by E. H. Baily) to the memory of the Eev. 
 
 Geoege Ceabbe, the poet. The inscription is : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 The Eevd. G. Ceabee, L.L.B. 
 
 who died on the 3rd of Feb., 1832, in the 78th year 
 
 of his age, and the 18th of his Services as Eector of 
 
 this Parish. 
 
 Born in humble life he made himself what he was ; 
 
 Breaking through the obscurity of his birth by the force 
 
 of his Genius ; 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Yet lie never ceased to feel for the less fortunate ; 
 entering as his works can testify into the sorrows and 
 wants of the poorest of his Parishioners, and so discharg- 
 ing the duties of a Pastor and a Magistrate as to endear 
 himself to all around him. " As a writer he cannot be 
 better described than in the words of a great Poet, his 
 contemporary : 
 
 ' Tho' nature's sternest painter, yet her best.' 
 
 This Monument was erected by some of his affectionate 
 Mends and Parishioners." 
 
 The Bev. Edwaed Young, author of the "Night 
 Thoughts," died at Welwyn, in Herts, April, 1765, 
 aged 83. His epitaph is as follows : — 
 
 "M. S. 
 
 Optimi Parentis 
 
 Edwabdi Young, L.L.D. 
 
 Hujus Ecclesise rect. 
 
 Et Elizabeths 
 
 faem prsenob 
 
 Conjugis ejus amantissimse, 
 
 Pio et gratissimo animo 
 
 Hoc marmor posuit 
 
 E. Y. 
 Filius superstes." 
 
 The Eeverend John de Campden, Master of the Hos- 
 pital of the Holy Cross, Canon of Southwell Minster, 
 Eector of Cheriton, and a great benefactor to St. Mary's 
 College, Winchester. His monument lies in the nave 
 of the splendid and interesting church of this hospital, 
 and is inlaid in a slab of Purbeck marble. It was 
 erected by him during his own lifetime ; and as there is 
 no date upon it, the deep-cut lines and other peculiarities 
 show it to have been erected near the end of the 14th 
 century. A surplice reaches to his feet and has long 
 wide sleeves; of his cassock only the ends of the 
 sleeves are visible. Between the uplifted hands are 
 held two scrolls with these words : — 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 " Jesu cum venieris judicare noli me condemnare." 
 " Qui plasmasti me miserere mei." 
 
 i.e., " When thou, Jesus, shalt be come to judge, be 
 unwilling to condemn me." 
 
 " Thou who hast made me have mercy upon me." 
 
 At the foot of the figure is the following legend : 
 
 " Hie jacet Johannes de Campden, quondam custos istius 
 Hospitalis cujus anima3 propicietor deus." 
 
 The Rev. "William Lisle Bowles, the poet, was 
 buried in the Cathedral at Salisbury. A tablet in the 
 florid Gothic style bears this inscription : — 
 
 "The Rev. William Ltsle Bowles; M. A., Canon of 
 this Cathedral, many years Rector of Bremhill, in this 
 County, and Rector of Dumbleton, in the County of 
 Gloucester, a Poet, Critic, and Divine, died on the 7th 
 of April, 1850, in the 88th year of his age. His wife, 
 Magdalene, daughter of the Rev. Charles Wake, D.D., 
 Rector of Knoyle Magna, in this county, died without 
 issue on the 7th of May, 1844. The remains of both are 
 interred near this tablet, erected by their Kindred as a 
 tribute of respect to departed worth, of which the wri- 
 tings of the Poet afford a more interesting and unim- 
 peachable memorial." 
 
 On the Rev. Hugh Moises, M.A., the early instructor 
 of Lord Eldon. His monument in St. Nicholas' Church, 
 Newcastle-on-Tyne, bears an inscription in Latin, by 
 his distinguished pupil, Sir William Scott, of which the 
 following is the translation : — 
 
 " Near this spot rests 
 
 The Reverend Hugh: Moises, M.A. 
 
 Formerly fellow 
 
 of St. Peter's College, ^Cambridge, 
 
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EPITAPH-. ETC. 
 
 Afterwards, for a long series of years 
 
 Master 
 
 Of the Foundation Grammar School in this town, 
 
 And Lecturer on the Divine \Tord 
 
 In the Church of All Saints, there. 
 
 He was a man of elegant and cultivated mind ; 
 
 Highly accomplished in polite letters, 
 
 And indefatigable and felicitous 
 
 In imparting them : 
 
 Exercising a mild, but firm authority 
 
 In directing the minds of youth : 
 
 Of manners most easy, and not without pleasantry, 
 
 But duly chastened 
 
 To the sanctity of his life and office : 
 
 Anxious, ever most kindly, and often successfully, 
 
 To forward in every way the interests 
 
 Of all those the course of whose studies 
 
 He had superintended : 
 
 Of the religion, established by his country's institutions, 
 
 A most devout observer, 
 
 And in his sacred discourses, 
 
 A diligent, learned, and eloquent expounder. 
 
 The affectionate veneration 
 
 Of a numerous body of his pupils 
 
 Hath caused the memory of his name 
 
 To be consecrated by this monument, 
 
 With the countenance and auxiliary contribution 
 
 Of the Corporation of Newcastle, 
 
 \Yho remember with gratitude 
 
 How highly he deserved of ail connected with him. 
 
 He died in the year of grace 1806, 
 
 And in the 8oth of his age, 
 
 Leaving two sons, Hugh and William." 
 
 TuUzs Life of Eldon 
 
 The Reverend Robert Johxsox, the founder of the 
 tree schools and hospitals at Oakham and Uppingham, 
 was buried in Xorth Luffenham church, in Rutland- 
 shire. The following inscription appears on a brass 
 plate fixed on his grave- stone : — 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 " Bobert Jhonson, bachelor of Divinitie, a painfull 
 preacher, parson of North Luffenham. 
 
 Had a godlie care of religion, and a charitable minde 
 to the poore. 
 
 He erected a faire free gramar schoole in Uppingham. 
 
 He appointed to each of his schooles, a schoolemaster 
 and an usher. 
 
 He erected the hospitalle of Christe in Okeham. 
 
 He erected the hospitalle of Christe in Uppingham. 
 
 He procured for them a corporation and a mortmaine 
 of fower hundred markes. 
 
 Whereby well disposed people maie give unto them 
 as God shall move their hartes. 
 
 He bought lands of Queene Elizabeth towardes the 
 maintenance of them. 
 
 He provided place in eache of the hospitalles for 
 XXIIII poore people. 
 
 He recovered, bought, and procured the hospitalle of 
 "William Dalby, in Okeham, and caused it to be renewed, 
 established, and confirmed, which before was found to 
 be confiscate and consealed, wherein divers poore people 
 he relieved. 
 
 He was also beneficiall to the towne of North Luff- 
 enham. 
 
 And also to the towne of Stamford, where he was 
 borne of worshipfull parents. 
 
 It is the grace of God to give a man a wise harte to 
 lay up his treisure in heaven. 
 
 Theis be good fruites and effects of a justifieieng faith, 
 and of a true profession of religion. 
 
 And a good example to all others to be benefactors to 
 theise and such like good workes. 
 
 That so they may glorify God, and leave a blessed 
 remembrance behinde them, to the comfort and profite 
 of all posteritie. 
 
 All the glorie, honor, praise, and thanks, be unto God 
 for ever more, Amen. 
 
 Sic luceat lux vestra. ' Let your light so shine.'" 
 
 There is no mention on the brass plate of the time of 
 his death, but the parish register records that he was 
 buried July 24th, 1625. 
 
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 is a monumeii: 
 Abbey, to th; poet P 
 
 is holding a medallion bu- : poet, on which 
 
 reclines her head; the ped is rnamented with 
 
 written by 
 Bishop Hnrd, and is as follows : — 
 
 •• Optima Vim 
 
 r, A.M. 
 
 Lius 
 pio 
 
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 - a- :i"_. ::.;-:. 
 
 .fit. 72. '• 
 
 — S red be : « silent m -__. WnxiAH 
 ICasov, A.M. A 1 and 
 
 \~ ' .'._ ; I 72. 
 
 the poet, in Rrist 
 
 : — 
 
 Ik . holy earth ! all that my soul holds dear : 
 
 en so late. 
 I - : :.unt lb:: i embling 
 
 faded form : she c 
 lied : Does youth, does read the li 
 
 Does symi at] tfs alarm ? 
 
 ^rain divine; 
 Even fine mthe grave thou shalt have power to charm. 
 
 be innocent, like th. 
 I them in duty's sphere y move ; 
 
 . 1 if so fair, from vanity as fi 
 
 firm in friendship, and as fond in I 
 I thein, though 'tis an awful thi::_ : 
 1" ■ - - - I yet ti 
 
 g portals high, 
 And bids The pure in heart behold their God. 1 " 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 When the Rev. John Cotton, one of the early minis- 
 ters of New England, died, in 1652, one of his friends, 
 a Mr. Woodbridge, wrote the following epitaph, which 
 is supposed to have given rise to the celebrated one 
 written by Dr. Franklin, on himself : — 
 
 " A living breathing bible ; tables where 
 Both covenants at large engraven were ; 
 Gospel and law in heart had each its column, 
 His head an index to the sacred volume. 
 His very name a title-page : and next 
 His life a commentary on the text. 
 Oh, what a monument of glorious worth, 
 When in a new edition he comes forth 
 Without errata, we may think he'll be 
 In leaves and covers of Eternity!" 
 
 At Cork, in Ireland, near to the Cathedral, is buried 
 the Rev. R. Boaedman. Upon the plain slab which 
 covers his dust is the following : — 
 
 " Richard Boaedman, 
 
 Departed this life October 4th, 1 782, 
 
 ^Etatis 44. 
 
 Beneath this stone, the dust of Boaedman lies, 
 His precious soul has soared above the skies ; 
 With eloquence divine, he preach' d the word 
 To multitudes, and turned them to the Lord, 
 His bright example strengthened what he taught, 
 And devils trembled when for Christ he fought. 
 With truly Christian Zeal he nations fired, 
 And all who knew him mourned when he expired." 
 
 Sugee (the abbe), a minister of state, and abbot of 
 St. Dennis, in the 11th century. His reputation stood 
 so high, that after his death it was thought sufficient to 
 write on his tomb : — 
 
 " Cy git l'abbe Suger." 
 
 (Here lies the abbe Suger.) He died in 1152. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 r n Lincoln Cathedral : — 
 
 r ere lieth the body of Michael Hoxeywood, D.D., 
 ) was grandchild, and one of the 367 persons that 
 y,* the wife of Richard Honeywood, Esq., did see 
 ire she died, lawfully descended from her, that is, 
 of her own body, 114 grandchildren, 228 of the 
 ird generation, and 9 of the fourth." 
 
 On the Rev. Ralph Ttkee, Vicar of Kendal, who 
 died a.d. 1627: — 
 
 " London bred me — Westminster fed me, 
 Cambridge sped me — My sister wed me, 
 Study taught me — Living sought me, 
 Learning brought me — Kendal caught me, 
 Labour press' d me — Sickness distressed me, 
 Death oppressed me — The Grave possessed me, 
 God first gave me — Christ did save me, 
 Earth did crave me — And heaven would have me." 
 
 In "Westminster Abbey is a monument to Dr. Isaac 
 Watts (by Banks). It consists of a fine bust ; under- 
 neath, the doctor at his studies. It bears only this 
 inscription : — 
 
 "Isaac Watts, D.D. 
 
 BornJulvl7,1674, 
 
 Dved Xov. *25th, 1748." 
 
 On Martin Lethee. The University of Wittenberg 
 directed the following inscription to be put upon Luther's 
 tomb : — 
 
 " In this place lies buried the body of Hasten- Letheb, 
 Doctor of Divinity, who died at Isleben, his birth-place, 
 on the twelfth of the Calends of March, in the year 
 1546, where he had lived sixty-three years, three 
 months, and ten days." 
 
 * The Lady, Mary Honeywood, mentioned above, died at Markshall, in 
 Essex, in 1620, aged 92 years, and in the 44th of her widowhood. 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 On Dr. Isaac Watts, in Bunhill-Field's burying- 
 ground : — 
 
 " To real merit due, this humble song, 
 WATTS (now no more) to thee be sacred long. 
 Sweet were thy numbers, as thy soul was great ; 
 In virtue rich, with piety replete : 
 In vain, to thee vice sounds her soft alarms, 
 In vain she spreads her gay alluring charms : 
 Thy steady zeal the wily foe o'erthrew, 
 And gave her veil'd deformity to view. 
 For thee our youths enlarg'd their op'ning views, 
 Learn'd heav'nly truths, and reason's proper use : 
 "With vary'd beauties grac'd, thy tuneful lyre, 
 To charm, deter, correct, improve, inspire ; 
 From tort' ring fears the soul depress'd to free, 
 E'en David's strains receiv'd new charms from thee. 
 In haste to aid, but in resentment slow, 
 An ardent friend, and quick forgiving foe : 
 Oh ! may thy soul ! now loos' d from mortal clay, 
 Wing its swift flight to realms of endless day ; 
 There all its glories, all its joys improve, 
 In scenes of perfect purity and love." 
 
 In Bala churchyard, Merionethshire : — 
 
 " Sacred to the Memory of Evan Lloyd, A.M., Clerk 
 of this Parish. Born May 2, 1734; Died Jan. 26, 
 1776: aged 42. 
 
 Oh! pleasing poet, friend for ever dear, 
 Thy memory claims the tribute of a tear : 
 In thee was join'd whate'er mankind admire, 
 Keen wit, strong sense, the poet's, patriot's fire. 
 Tempered with gentleness, such gifts were thine, 
 Such gifts with heart -felt anguish we resign." 
 
 In Lichfield Cathedral, at the back of the splendid 
 monument by Chantrey, is a plain monument, in black 
 marble, to the memory of the Be v. William Kobinson, 
 the departed parent of the reposing innocents, bearing 
 the following inscription : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " The Reverend 
 
 William Robinson, B.C.L. 
 
 Prebendary of this Cathedral, 
 
 Rector of Swinnerton, and Stoke on Trent, 
 
 A pious and excellent man ; 
 
 An able and successful Minister 
 
 In the Church of Christ ; 
 
 Departed this Life, March 21, 1812, 
 
 Aged 35. 
 
 He married Ellen Jane 
 
 Daughter of the very Reverend 
 
 Dr. Woodhouse, Dean of this Cathedral ; 
 
 • Who, with two Infant Daughters, 
 
 Ellen Jane and Marianne 
 
 Survived him." 
 
 Close to this monument is the beautiful and affecting 
 piece of statuary, which was allowed by Canova, when 
 in England, to be the masterpiece of modern Europe. 
 It is by F. Chantrey, Esq., R.A., and is to the memory 
 of the two daughters of the Rev. Wm. Robinson, who 
 met with premature deaths. It represents the two little 
 girls lying on a couch in each others arms, asleep. There 
 is an exquisite feeling of life in the figures, equal to the 
 finest productions of the ancient masters of the art; 
 and the indentions on the pillows of the couch, are 
 elasticity itself. In a late critique on this ornament to 
 our country, it is truly said to be " the beauty of pure 
 nature viewed by the eye, and transferred to marble by 
 the hand of refined art." The figures repose on the 
 representation of a mattress, with a pillow at the head, 
 supported on a plain monument — the whole cut from 
 a block of fine white marble. On the entablature of 
 the monument is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 Ellen Jane and Marianne, 
 
 Only children 
 
 Of the late Rev. Wm. Robinson 
 
 And Ellen Jane his Wife. 
 
 Their Affectionate Mother, 
 
 In fond Remembrance of their 'Heaven-loved Innocence/ 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 Consigns their "Resemblances to this Sanctuary, 
 
 In humble Gratitude 
 
 For the glorious assurance that 
 
 1 Of such is the Kingdom of God.' " 
 
 On Dr. Rowland Taylor, vicar of Hadleigh, in 
 Suffolk, who suffered martyrdom in the reign of queen 
 Mary. On a small tablet of brass, affixed to a pillar in 
 Hadleigh church, is the following inscription in old 
 English letters : — 
 
 " ' Gloria in Altissimis Deo.' 
 
 Of Rowland Taillor's fame I she we 
 
 An Excellent Devine 
 And Docter of the Civell Law 
 
 A Preacher rare and fyne. 
 
 King Henry and King Edward's dayes 
 
 Preacher and Parson here, 
 That gave to God continuall prayse 
 
 And keept his nocke in feare. 
 
 And for the truth condemned to dye 
 
 He was in fiery flame 
 "When he received patientlie 
 
 The torment of the same. 
 
 And thoughe he suffered to the ende 
 
 "Which made the standers by 
 Rejoice in God to see their friende 
 
 And Pastor so to dye. 
 
 Taillor were thy mightye fame 
 
 Uprightly here enroulde 
 Thy deeds deserve that thy goode name 
 
 Were ciphered here in gold. 
 
 Obiit Anno Dmn. 1555." 
 
 At the place of his execution was erected a stone 
 with the following inscription : — 
 
 "Armo 1555. 
 Dr. Taylor for defending what was God 
 In this place shed his Blod." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 This was the only monumental stone prior to 1819, and 
 was encircled by a rude iron railing, when several indi- 
 viduals undertook to erect a monument by subscription, 
 which was completed and placed upon the same spot, in 
 1819, and the martyr's stone lies at the base of the 
 newly erected monument. The following lines are 
 inscribed upon the new monument, and were written 
 by Dr. Drake, Al.D., of Hadleigh :— 
 
 Mark this rude stone where Tayloe- dauntless stood, 
 AVhere Zeal infuriate drank the Alartyr's blood. 
 Hadleigh ! That day how many a tearful eye 
 Saw thy lov'd Pastor dragg'd a Victim by; 
 Still scattering gifts and blessings as he past ; 
 To the Blind Pair, his farewell alms were cast ; 
 His clinging Flock e'en here around him pray'd 
 " As thou hast aided us — be God thine Aid." 
 2s"or taunts, nor bribes of mitred rank, nor stake, 
 Xor blows, nor flames, his heart of firmness shake. 
 Serene — his folded hands, his upward eyes, 
 Like Holy Stephen's seek the opening Skies ; 
 There fixed in rapture, his prophetic sight 
 Views Truth dawn clear on England's Bigot night. 
 Triumphant Saint ! — He bow'd and kiss'd the rod, 
 And soar'd on Seraph wings to meet his God." 
 
 Inscribed on a stone in the burving-ground, City 
 Eoad :— 
 
 " To the ATemory of 
 
 The venerable .Joeot Wesley, A. AT. 
 
 Late Fellov; of Lincoln College, Oxford. 
 
 This great light arose. 
 
 By the singular providence of God, 
 
 To enlighten these nations, 
 
 And to revive, enforce, and defend 
 
 The pure apostolical doctrine and practice of 
 
 The primitive church, 
 
 AVhich he continued to defend, both by his 
 
 Labours and his writings, 
 
 For more than half a century ; 
 
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DIVINES. 
 
 And who, to his inexpressible joy, 
 
 Not only beheld their influence extending, 
 
 And their efficacy witnessed, 
 
 In the hearts and lives of many thousands, 
 
 As well in the western world as in these kingdoms, 
 
 But also, far above all human power or expectation, 
 
 Lived to see provision made by the singular 
 
 Grace of God, 
 
 For their continuance and establishment, 
 
 To the joy of the future generations. 
 
 Eeader, if thou art constrained to bless the instrument, 
 
 Give God the Glory. 
 
 After having languished a few days, 
 
 He at length finished 
 
 His course and life together, 
 
 Gloriously triumphing over death, 
 
 March 2nd, Anno Domini 1791, 
 
 In the 88th year of his age." 
 
 In Lincoln Cathedral, on the Rev. William Cole, 
 who died 1600:— 
 
 " Reader, behold the pious pattern here, 
 Of true devotion and of holy fear : 
 He sought God's glory, and the church's good, 
 Idle idol worship firmly he withstood. 
 Yet died in peace, whose body here doth lie, 
 In expectation of eternity, 
 And when the latter trump of heaven shall blow, 
 Cole now ratid up in ashes then shall glow" 
 
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 IXFAXTS AND CHILDEEX. 
 
 On an infant : — 
 
 "' Liv'd to wake each tender passion, 
 And delightful hopes inspire : 
 Died to tiy our resignation. 
 And direct our wishes higher. 
 
 Rest, sweet babe ! in gentle slumbers, 
 Till the resurrection morn : 
 
 Then arise, to join the numbers, 
 That its triumphs shall adorn. 
 
 Though thy presence so endear: 
 ^Ve thy absence now deplore ; 
 
 At the Saviour's bright appearing, 
 ^e shall meet to part no more. 
 
 Thus to thee, Lord ! submitting, 
 ^Ve the tender p] ign, 
 
 And our mercies ne'er forgetting, 
 Own that all we have is thine.'' 
 
 On an infant : — 
 
 Thou lovely babe. Christ is thy rest, 
 Thy Saviour called thee to be blest. 
 Thou favour' d child, thy toils are c 
 Thy soul's with Christ to part no more/' 
 
 140 
 
INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 On an infant, copied from a tombstone, in the church- 
 yard of a village in Shropshire : — 
 
 "Here sweetly sleep awhile, blest babe ; thy sun 
 In haste hath set, thy race of suffering done : 
 A stranger to thy great Creator's name — 
 Unknown to thee thy glorious Saviour's fame. 
 Nor faith, nor hope, nor love, nor other grace 
 Within thy infant bosom held their place. 
 N o power hadst thou to shed one contrite tear, 
 One duteous act perform, or lisp one prayer. 
 But not in vain thy life ! Thou hast not sown, 
 Yet the rich harvest reapest as thy own : 
 Thou hast not fought, but thou hast won the prize, 
 Hast never borne the cross, yet gain'd the skies. 
 E'en guilt was thine, as Adam's guilty race ; 
 Yet such the Father's love — the Saviour's grace, 
 That Father's love hath turned thy night to day, 
 That Saviour's blood hath wash'd thy guilt away; 
 Cloth' d in his robe of righteousness divine, 
 Peace, pardon, life, and endless joys are thine. " 
 
 On a monument in Willesden churchyard, near the 
 Harrow road, Middlesex. This inscription contains 
 such natural, moral and pathetic sentiments, expressing 
 so strong a parental affection, and at the same time 
 such a pious resignation to the will of Heaven, under 
 one of the most affecting of human calamities, the loss 
 of children, that it cannot fail to be acceptable to the 
 reader : — 
 
 " William Robinson, aged 2, 
 And 
 Sally Robinson, aged 4, 
 Children of 
 William Robinson of the Inner Tem- 
 ple, London, Gt. 
 And Anne, his wife, 
 Anno Dom. 1750, 
 Fled from scenes of guilt and misery, 
 Without partaking of them ; 
 And their bodies sleep in this monument, 
 
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EPITAPHS. IIC. 
 
 United by mutual tenderness. 
 
 Their sympathizing souls, impatient 
 
 of a separation, 
 
 And eager to rejoin their kindred angels, 
 \Tith a smile took leave of their 
 weeping parents here, 
 And together ascended to their im- 
 mortal Sire above, 
 To sit at his right hand, 
 To be cherished in his paternal bosom, 
 To enjoy ineffable happiness, 
 And part no more ; 
 These reflections inspired by heaven, 
 Have taught their otherwise inconso- 
 lable parents to dry up their tears, 
 And yield a perfect resignation to the 
 
 divine will, 
 
 Insomuch that they congratulate the 
 
 dear deceased 
 
 on their timely departure, 
 
 And mourn only for the living." 
 
 In the middle of the uppermost part of the tomb- 
 stone is placed an urn, with a flame ascending ; on one 
 side whereof the boy stands, with a scroll in one hand, 
 containing this motto, "' In celo Quies " : on the other, 
 the girl with a like scroll, with this motto, " Angeli 
 suinus ' ' : both habited like angels, with wings at their 
 backs. — Ttie Grand Magazine of Magazines, for 1750. 
 
 In Wortham churehvard. Suffolk, bv the Rev. R. 
 Cobbold:— 
 
 (i To the memoiy of a first grandchild, 
 !Maej:ox Edith Cobbold, Jan. 15, 1851. 
 
 She livd a treasure dearly prized, 
 In Jesus' name she was baptized. 
 
 "VThen Jesus shall to judgment come 
 \Ye all shall rind our heaven! v home." 
 
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INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 In the churchyard of "Western-Underwood, in Bucks, 
 the following lines are written on a gravestone, placed 
 over the grave of James and Harriet SwajStnell, who 
 died on the same day. James aged 7, and Harriet aged 
 2 years : — 
 
 * lt I take these little lambs' — said he, 
 * And lay them on my breast : 
 Protection they shall find in me, 
 In me be ever blest. 
 
 Death can the bonds of life unclose 
 
 But not dissolve my love : 
 Millions of infant souls compose 
 
 The family above.' " 
 
 On one who died Sep. 23rd, 1833, aged 22 months 
 
 " Fair flower : 0, Dear, no sooner came 
 Thy early days in beauteous bloom, 
 But death did crop the tender bud, 
 And laid thee in the mournful tomb." 
 
 On two infants (from Montgomery's grave) :- 
 
 " The storm that sweeps the wintry sky 
 No more disturbs their deep repose 
 Than summer evening's latest sigh 
 That shuts the rose." 
 
 In Pancras churchyard : — 
 
 " Here innocence and beauty lie, whose breath 
 "Was snatch' d by early, not untimely death. 
 Hence she did go, just as she did begin, 
 Sorrow to know, before she knew to sin. 
 Death, that does sin and sorrow thus prevent, 
 Is the next blessing to a life well spent." 
 
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EPITAPHS, . 
 
 On a child : — 
 
 " Short, yet how pleasing -was her visit here, 
 She's nowjremov'd to grace a nobler sphere ; 
 Cease then frail nature to lament in vain, 
 Reason forbids, to wish her back again."' 
 
 On an onely and muche lamentede childe :- 
 
 Noe wonder that his moder wepte 
 
 No wonder that she sighede, 
 He never drewe from her eyne a tear, 
 Till the daie on whiche hee dved." 
 
 In the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, on the tomb of a 
 child 28 months old : — 
 
 " My Father, weep not ; Go, 'console my mother. 
 Tell her that I am soaring to the mansions of the blessed. 
 
 Comfort her in her sorrow ; listen to my entreaty. 
 In the bosom of the Lord I await vou both." 
 
 How different is this from the above. This is a 
 fatalist lamenting the loss of his child : — 
 
 " Beloved parents, who lov'd me so dearly, 
 Be comforted, it was mv destinv." 
 
 There is also, in the same cemetery, a low wooden rail- 
 ing, some three feet square, within which was placed a 
 box, with glass doors, containing the dolls, teacups, 
 little basket, ball, and toy-watch, of a little girl three 
 years old. It bore the following inscription : — 
 
 " She lived as long as roses live — the space of a 
 morning." — Ramlles clout Paris. 
 
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INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 In the cemetiere de Vaugirard, in Paris, is a grave 
 marked by a plain stone, which contains the ashes of a 
 son of Madame de Lay alette, who was born Sep. 17th, 
 1815, and died Nov. 13th following. Those who 
 recollect that this courageous woman was visited with 
 the bereavement at the moment when she meditated 
 the project of exposing her own life to save her hus- 
 band's, will not read the following inscription wihout 
 interest : — 
 
 " II a ete 
 
 Frappe par le malheur, 
 
 Dans le sein de sa tendre mere." 
 
 In St. Edmund's churchyard, Salisbury, in memory 
 of 3 children of Joseph & Arabella Maton, who all 
 died in their infancy, 1770 : — 
 
 " Innocence Embellishes Divinely Compleat 
 To Prescience Coegent Now Sublimely Great 
 To the Benign, Perfecting, Vivifying State. 
 
 2 
 So Heavenly Guardian Occupy the Skies 
 The Pre-existent God, Omnipotent, Allwise 
 He can Surpassingly Immortalize thy Theme, 
 And Permanent thy Soul Celestial Supreme. 
 
 3 
 When Gracious Eefulgence, bids the Grave Resign 
 The Creator's Nursing Protection be Thine 
 Thus each Perspiring JEther will Joyfully Rise 
 Transcendently Good, Supereminently Wise." 
 
 In Camberwell churchyard, on 2 children :- 
 
 " Their ashes and this little dust 
 Theii father's care shall keep, 
 Till the last angel rise and break 
 Their long and dreary sleep." 
 
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EPITAPHS, PTC. 
 
 A mother who had lost an infant, received much 
 consolation from the following epitaph on 4 infants, 
 written by the late Bev. B. Bobinson, of Cambridge : — 
 
 "Bold infidelity, turn pale and die ; 
 Beneath this stone four hapless infants lie ; 
 
 Say, are they lost or saved ? 
 If death's by sin, they sinned, for they lie here ; 
 If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't appear : 
 
 Ah ! reason how depraved ! 
 Bevere the sacred page, in it the knot's untied, 
 They died for Adam sinn'd, they live for Jesus died." 
 
 In Brandcston churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Sophia Olive Pickerixg died March 25, 1816. 
 
 Lov'd infant, on this hill you rest 
 Till rising higher to be blest. 
 Oh ! angel sweet — thy spirit's flown, 
 Invited to thy Maker's throne. 
 Escap'd the bitter ills below, 
 Secure from pain and mortal woe, 
 Thy gentle soul celestial lives ; — 
 In seraph strain now grateful gives 
 Eternal praise to^God on high, 
 "Who rules alike the earth and sky ; 
 Remov'd from keen affliction's rod, 
 Thy biding place the breast of God. 
 
 This Tablet her father erects to her dear Memory. 
 
 In Swallowfield churchyard (Swallowfield is in three 
 counties, viz., Berks, Wilts, and Hants) : — 
 
 " Here lies a fair blossom mould'ring to dust, 
 Ascending to heaven, to dwell with the just." 
 
 Notes and Queries, March 31, 1855. 
 
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I INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 In Brenihill churchyard, on a dutiful daughter, who 
 died 2 years after her father, but in the same week of 
 the year, and was buried in the same grave (by the 
 Eev. W. L. Bowles) :— 
 
 " ' Oh, Mother, I will rise and pray/ 
 "With feeble voice she cried, 
 ' For this, dear Mother, is the day 
 On which poor father died.' 
 
 Faintly she spoke — she knelt — she pray'd, 
 Her eyes with weeping dim, — 
 And ere seven days had pass'd, was laid 
 In the same grave with him. 
 
 Oh ! when all worlds, before their God, 
 In trembling hope shall stand, 
 She shall awake from the same sod, 
 And smile at his right hand." 
 
 On an infant : — 
 
 " Here lies a spotless child — profane one smile 
 For him — but for yourself let sorrow flow, 
 For had he liv'd he might have been as vile, 
 He might have been as profligate as you." 
 
 In Hove churchyard, near Brighton : — 
 
 " Yes ; thou art fled, and saints a welcome sing, 
 Thine angel spirit soar'd on angel wing ; 
 Our blind affection might have asked thy stay ; 
 The voice of God hath call'd his child away. 
 Like Samuel, early in the temple found, 
 Sweet Bose of Sharon, plant of heavenly ground. 
 Oh! more than Samuel bless' d, to thee was given, 
 The God he served on earth, to serve in heaven." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a child : — 
 
 " As some fair flower, that, hid in leafy green, 
 Imbibes the dew of heaven and blooms unseen ; 
 Till fragrance strange unto the passer by 
 Reveal the secret of its birth-place nigh ; 
 So Catherine liv'd and sought the Lord alone, 
 Her griefs peculiar, and her joys unknown. 
 A change divine soon met the wondering eye, 
 And told the employment of her privacy. 
 Fain would we long have gazed — but God remov'd 
 To holier, happier scenes the child he lov'd." 
 
 At Xewington, in Surrey : — 
 
 "Matilda Bowex died 12th July, 1799, aged 5 years 
 and 8 months. 
 
 Here rests in peace the body of a child, 
 Who was in temper lovely, meek, and mild, 
 In whom her parents greatly did delight, 
 And she was precious in the Saviour's sight. 
 As Death approached, she anxious was to fly 
 To Jesus' breast, to dwell with him on high : 
 With outstretch' d arms, her father she addressed, 
 'What is't o'clock ?' she said with lab'ring breast, 
 ' Take me, take me, that I may be at rest,' 
 These were the last sweet words that she expressed. 
 The Saviour heard, and caught her to the skies, 
 And now she chaunts his praises in eternal joys." 
 
 On a child, in a churchyard in Berkshire : — 
 
 " What, is the lovely shadow fled r 
 Yet stop those falling tears ; 
 She from a thousand pangs is freed, 
 You from ten thousand fears." 
 
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INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 In the chancel of Stanford Church, Nottinghamshire: — 
 
 "Here lies the body of Mr. Ffrancts, the son of 
 
 Mr. Ffrancis Thwaits, Eector of Stanford, and of Ann 
 
 his Wife, who dyed the 4th September, in the 2nd year 
 
 of his age, 1700: 
 
 As careful nurses 
 To their bed doe lay, 
 Their children which too 
 Long would wantons play ; 
 So to prevent all my 
 Ivening crimes, 
 Nature, my nurse, laid 
 Me to bed betimes." 
 
 Notes and Queries, March 10, 1855. 
 
 On an infant (by Win. Cowper) : — 
 
 " Bewail not much my parents ! me, the prey 
 Of ruthless odes, and sepulchred here, 
 An infant, in my fifth scarce finished year. 
 He found all sportive, innocent, and gay, 
 Your young Callimachus; and if I knew 
 Not many joys, my griefs were also few." 
 
 In Wickham-Market churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Sarah Cullam died May 3rd, 1805, aged 6 years. 
 
 And now the lamp of life will burn no more, 
 Her pitying neighbour does her loss deplore. 
 Her parents' pride, now mourning o'er her bier, 
 In fond regret they shed the heart-felt tear. 
 They feel the loss yet own the chast'ning rod, 
 And yield in grief their Daughter to her God." 
 
 At Cheltenham, on a child who died at the age of 
 three weeks : — 
 
 " It is so soon that I am done for, 
 I Wonder what I was begun for." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At Hackney, on Mira Hodgkins, who died Oct. 3. 
 1803, aged 9 years : — 
 
 " Dearer than daughter, paralleled by few, 
 
 In sweetness, patience, suffering, adieu ! 
 
 Adieu ! my Mira, till that day more blest, 
 When, if deserving, I with thee shall rest. 
 Come, then thy sire will cry in joyful strain, — 
 Oh ! come to my paternal arms again." 
 
 In Wirks worth churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " Richard Fairweather Eatoist, son of James and 
 Elizabeth Eaton, died Nov. 30th, 1850, aged 7 years 
 and 10 months. 
 
 Step soft, ye youth ; on hallow' d ground ye tread, 
 And not disturb the mansions of the dead. 
 A youth lies here seclus'd in peaceful dust, 
 Whose steps were virtue, and his actions just. 
 By all esteem' d ! yea, and by all approved, 
 He died lamented, as he liv'd beloved." 
 
 On an infant (by Coleridge) : — 
 
 " Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, 
 Death came with friendly care, 
 The opening bud to heaven conveyed, 
 And bade it blossom there." 
 
 At Laxneld, Suffolk, on a boy aged 10 years : — 
 
 " Sweet innocency's form lies here 
 Lamented by its parents dear. 
 They hope again in endless joy 
 To meet again their lovely boy." 
 
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INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
 
 In Ashbourne church, Derbyshire, is a, monument of 
 superlative interest (from the chisel of Banks) to the 
 memory of the only daughter of Sir Brook Boothby. 
 The figure of this beautiful child, executed in the most 
 exquisite style, and in the purest statuary marble, is 
 represented lying on her side, reposing as it were on a 
 mattress, placed on a suitable pedestal, with the follow- 
 ing inscription round it, in four different languages — 
 English, Latin, Italian, and French : — 
 
 " 'I was not in safety, neither had I rest, and the 
 
 trouble came.' 
 
 To PENELOPE, 
 
 Only child of Sir Brook Boothby, and Dame Susannah 
 
 Boothby. 
 
 Born April 11th, 1785, died March 13th, 1791. 
 
 'She was in form and intellect most exquisite. The 
 
 unfortunate parents ventured their all in this 
 
 frail bark, and the wreck was total.' " 
 
 Adams's Gem of the Peak. 
 
 In Bexhill churchyard, on a child aged three years : — 
 
 " I lay me down to rest me, 
 And pray to God to bless me, 
 And if I sleep and never wake 
 I pray to God my soul to take 
 This night for evermore.*' 
 
 In the Broadway churchyard, Westminster, on three 
 children, who all died very early, the eldest being three 
 years old : — 
 
 " Three children, not dead, but sleeping lies, 
 "With Christ they live above the skies. 
 Wash'd in his blood, and for their dress, 
 Christ's glorious robe of righteousness, 
 In which they shine more bright by far 
 Than sun, or moon, or glorious star ; 
 In Paradise they wing their way, 
 Blooming in one eternal day." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a child (from the German of Mathisson) : — 
 
 " The vernal grass and flowrets wave, 
 In evening's breath, where o'er thy grave 
 
 Weeps sorrow wan and faded : 
 Oh ! ne'er till death hath set us free 
 From earth, can thy sweet image he 
 
 By dim oblivion shaded. 
 
 Thou'rt blest, tho' short thy opening bloom : 
 From worldly joys, from pride, from gloom, 
 
 From sense delusive parted : 
 Thou sleep' st in peace : in care and strife 
 We wav'ring tread the maze of life 
 
 Too rarely tranquil-hearted." 
 
 The Dublin University Magazine. 
 
 In Ely Cathedral churchyard : — 
 
 " Maria Scott died April, 1836, aged 7. 
 
 The cup of life just with her lips she prest, 
 Found the taste bitter, and declin'd the rest. 
 Averse : then turning from the face of day, 
 She softly sighed her little soul away." 
 
 On an infant : — 
 
 " Since God to take my child thought fit, 
 I'll be content to part with it ; 
 Because I know his heavenly grace 
 Will fit it for a better place." 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 YOUNG PEKSONS. 
 
 In Otley churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Emma Kieby died Dec. 1846, aged 23. 
 Dear sleeping form ! could but thy lips unseal 
 The hidden cause, the mystery reveal 
 "Why Husband, Parents, Babe, are left to mourn 
 Por one so loved, so early from them torn ! 
 But faith, with soothing voice, cries ' Peace be still/ 
 And bow submissive, ' Tis thy "Father's will.' 
 The happy spirit has ascended high, 
 Its rest to find, its God to glorify ; 
 And e'en the captive dust waits to be free, 
 For 'tis the germ of immortality." 
 
 In St. Mary-at-Stoke churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 " John Mulley died April, 1815, aged 19. 
 
 Death like an ever-flowing Stream 
 Sweeps us away — our Life's a Dream, 
 An Evening Tale — a Morning Flower, 
 Cut down and wither' d in an hour." 
 
 In Bake well churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " Here for a time this heavenly plant fairly grew up and 
 
 thrived, 
 Diffused its sweetness all around, and all in sweetness 
 
 lived. 
 But envious frosts and furious storms so long so fiercely 
 
 chide, 
 This tender plant at length bow'd down its bruised head 
 
 and died." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Bremhill churchyard, on a young woman who 
 died of consumption (by the Rev. W. L. Bowles) : — 
 
 " Our Pastor placed this humble stone : beneath 
 Lies one more victim of Tin timely death : 
 Stranger, approach and read — it tells the tale 
 Of silent duty in life's lowly vale, 
 Of one, her aged parents' only care, 
 Never beheld without a parent's prayer ! 
 
 Her, pale consumption smote in youth's fair bloom; 
 
 How wept the few who follow' d to the tomb, 
 
 Her mother most, and husband, for she left 
 
 An infant and a husband both bereft ; 
 
 He, as it smiles, that infant shall behold, 
 
 And weep the more for Her who here lies cold." 
 
 On twin sisters : — 
 
 "Fair marble, tell to future days. 
 That here two virgin sisters lie ; 
 "Whose life employ'd each tongue in praise, 
 Whose death gave tears to every eye. 
 
 In stature, beauty, years, and fame, 
 Together as they grew, they shone ; 
 
 So much alike, so much the same, 
 
 That death mistook them both for one." 
 
 At Northampton : — 
 
 "Here lies the corpse of Susajt Let., 
 Who died of heartfelt pain, 
 Because she loved a faithless he 
 Who loved not her again." 
 
 In Horwenstow churchyard, on a child : — 
 
 " Those whom God loves die young ! 
 They see no evil days ; 
 No falsehood taints their tongue, 
 Xo wickedness their ways. 
 
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YOOG PERSONS. 
 
 Baptized, and so made sure 
 To win their blest abode, 
 
 What shall we pray for more ? 
 They die, and are with God." 
 
 In Cretingham churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 "William Ftjlchek Jtjby, 
 
 who died November 12, 1849, 
 
 aged 4 years. 
 
 Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, 
 In pity for my little child, 
 Thou hast called him away 
 To dwell with thee in endless day. 
 
 Presented by his Grandfather, 
 Kobert Fulcher." 
 
 In St. Margaret's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 " James Aneeeavs died March 18th, 1806. 
 
 Beneath this stone here lies entomb'd 
 A blossom cropt just as it bloom' d. 
 At 16 years his fate he met, 
 His sun did in the morning set. 
 So soon these earthly things decay, 
 Fine flowers soonest fade away." 
 
 On a young woman, named Ann Bacon (written by 
 herself) : — 
 
 " Reader ! whilst 'heart and flesh fail,' 
 
 I desire that the marble which shall cover my remains 
 
 be inscribed not as a memorial to myself, 
 
 but of the free grace and mercy of my 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
 
 by which alone 
 
 I was brought to a knowledge of divine truth, 
 
 Preserved from the evil of this world, 
 
 And can now say, 
 
 Not any thing has failed of what the Lord promised. 
 
 If thou, reader, art a seeker of the kingdom of heaven, 
 
 Receive for thine encouragement this dying tribute 
 
 From thy Sister, in the name of the Redeemer, 
 
 Ann Bacon." 
 
 In Matlock churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " To the memory of Hannah Ltjdlam, aged 20 years. 
 
 On earth thou wast a parent's care 
 
 And joy and hope with thee were given ; 
 
 But now it is a parent's prayer, 
 
 To meet thee at the gate of heaven." 
 
 On the Honourable Robeet Digby and his Sister 
 Mary, buried in 1726, in Sherborne church, Dorset- 
 shire, and inscribed on a monument in that church, 
 erected by their father, and written by Alexander 
 Pope : — 
 
 " Go : fair example of untainted youth, 
 Of modest wisdom, and pacific truth : 
 Compos' d in sufT' rings, and in joy sedate, 
 Good without noise, without pretension great : 
 Just of thy word, in every thought sincere, 
 "Who knew no wish, but what the world might hear : 
 Of softest manners, unaffected mind, 
 Lover of peace, and friend of human kind : 
 Go live ! for heaven's eternal year is thine, 
 Go, and exalt thy moral to divine. 
 
 And thou blest Maid ! attendant on his doom, 
 Pensive hast follow' d to the silent tomb, 
 Steer' d the same course to the same quiet shore, 
 
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YOUNG PEKSONS. 
 
 On Edmund, duke of Buckingham, who died a.d. 1735, 
 in the 19th year of his age (by Pope) : — 
 
 " If modest youth, with cool reflection crown' d, 
 And every opening virtue blooming round, 
 Could save a parent's justest pride from Fate, 
 Or add one patriot to a sinking state ; 
 This weeping marble had not ask'd thy tear, 
 Or sadly told, how many hopes lie here ! 
 The living virtue now had shone approv'd, 
 The Senate heard him, and his country lov'd. 
 Ye softer honours, and less noisy fame, 
 Attend the shade of gentle Buckingham : 
 In whom a race for courage fam'd and art, 
 Ends in the milder merit of the heart ; 
 And chiefs or sages long to Britain given 
 Pays the last tribute of a saint to heaven." 
 
 On the tombstone of a youth : — 
 
 " Is happiness thy aim or death thy fear, 
 Learn how the paths of glory may be trod, 
 From that lamented youth who slumbers here, 
 Who gave the flower of his clay to God." 
 
 On a young man, aged 23. This young man chose 
 the following lines for his own epitaph six weeks before 
 he died ; he had them printed up over the chimney 
 piece in his bed-room, and would often read them with 
 great feeling, seriousness, and gratitude : — 
 
 "Farewell, but not for ever. 
 
 In youth's gay prime, for earthly joys I sought, 
 
 But heaven and my immortal soul forgot. 
 
 In riper days, affliction's smarting rod, 
 
 By Grace divine taught me to know my God. 
 
 The change I bless' d with my expiring breath, 
 
 Ascribing life to that which caused my death : 
 
 Farewell, vain world ! my soul exult and sing 
 
 ' Grave ! where' s thy victory now ? Death, where' s 
 
 thy sting 
 
 > " 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On Miss Thickness, placed by Mr. Thickness on the 
 grave of his daughter, who lies buried in his garden, at 
 St. Catherine's Hermitage, near Bath. At the lady's 
 head is a beautiful monument with the following inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 "What tho' no sacred earth afford thee room, 
 Nor hallow' d dirge be mutter' d o'er thy tomb ; 
 Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, 
 And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : 
 Here shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, 
 Here the first roses of the year shall blow, 
 "While angels with their silver wings o'ershade 
 The ground now sacred by thy relics made." 
 
 (At the lady's feet.) 
 
 " Reader ! if Youth should sparkle in thine eye — 
 If on thy cheek the flower of beauty blows, 
 Here shed the tear, and heave the pensive sigh 
 Where Beauty, Youth, and Innocence repose. 
 
 Doth Wit adorn thy mind : — doth science pour 
 Its ripen' d bounties on thy vernal year ? 
 
 Behold where Death has cropp'd the plenteous store, 
 And heave the sigh, and shed the pensive tear. 
 
 Does Music's dulcet notes dwell on thy tongue, 
 And do thy fingers sweep the sounding lyre ? 
 
 Behold ! where low she lies who sweetly sung, 
 The melting strains, a cherub might inspire. 
 
 Of Youth, of Beauty — then, be vain no more — 
 Of Music's power — of Wit and Learning's prize, 
 
 For while you read, those charms may all be o'er, 
 And ask to share the grave where Anna lies." 
 
 Lady's Magazine, 1812. 
 
 On an only son : — 
 
 " Away with the sigh and the tear, 
 
 Though he's gone and for ever away ; 
 For he ne'er caus'd a sigh to us here, 
 He ne'er from his God went astray." 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 On a young Greek, buried in Tottenham church- 
 yard :— 
 
 " Par from his native Greece, the mortal part 
 Of Constantine Sotieis here was iaid. 
 Almost ere childhood melted into youth, 
 Bold, wild, and free, the little Suliote came 
 To England's shores, a student : — and his soul 
 All knowledge, save of ill, with eager joy 
 Received. But chiefly, with a spirit's thirst 
 He drank the waters of immortal life. 
 Meek, holy, calm, the little Suliote died, 
 His last breath murmured, in his country's tongue, 
 The name of 'Mother.' — 'Twas a father's death 
 (Sad tidings told him in this foreign land) 
 First bade him droop : — no hand of relative 
 Closed his sad eyes ; yet left he here 
 True friends, whom his sweet gentleness had found, 
 And one of these inscribes this humble stone. 
 
 Obiit Aprilis 17—1827, 
 Circiter getatis 13." 
 
 In Aldborough churchyard : — 
 
 " Robert Harvey died in a decline Dec, 1823, 
 aged 16. 
 
 Here lies consign' d to nature dust, a youth 
 Of purest manners and unblemished truth ; 
 "Who knew no vice, no wayward courses run ; 
 His friends' delight — his parents' duteous Son ; 
 Pious, sincere, in all his works appro v'd ; 
 But, ah ! too early from our hopes remov'd." 
 
 In Sudbury church, Derbyshire, is a neat mural 
 monument, raised in commemoration of Catherine, 
 daughter of the late Lord Vernon, who died at the age 
 of 25, bearing this inscription, written by William 
 Whitehead, poet-laureate : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " ICild as the opening morn's serenest ray, 
 Mild as the close of Summer's softest day : 
 Her form, her virtues (form'd alike to please 
 With artless charms and unassuming ease) 
 On every breast their mingling influence stole. 
 And in sweet union breath' d one beauteous whole. 
 This fair example to the world was lent 
 As the short lesson of a life well spent : 
 Alas ! too short ! — but bounteous Heaven best knows 
 When to reclaim the blessings it bestows." 
 
 In Bideford churchyard, Devonshire : — 
 
 " The wedding day appointed was, 
 And wedding clothes provided, 
 But when the day arrived did 
 She sicken' d, and she die did." 
 
 In Brandeston churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Taught in my early youth to dread 
 ' The grave as little as my bed,' 
 Alike in life or death my trust 
 I made my pillow down or dust." 
 
 At Lutterworth, on Geoege "White, who died 1712: — 
 
 " Behold and see what God has done, 
 Here lies his father's only son, 
 A man — but words are wanting to say what, 
 Say all that's just and good, and he was that." 
 
 In Bishangles churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Susaknah Caxhaai died Jan. 1855, aged 15 years. 
 
 He wept that we might weep, 
 
 Each sin demands a tear ; 
 In Heaven alone no sin is found, 
 
 And there's no weeping there." 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 On a young woman : — 
 
 " Stay, Christian, stay; let not thy haste profane 
 This humble stone, that tells thee life is vain. 
 Here beauty lies, in mould' ring ruins lost, 
 A blossom nipt by death's untimely frost, 
 Unwarn'd, yet unsurprized : found on her guard, 
 Like a wise virgin, waiting for her Lord." 
 
 On a youth of seventeen : — 
 " A youth of real worth lies buried here, 
 
 Who had but just attain'd his 17th year, 
 Yet in that time such wisdom had he shown, 
 
 That death mistook 17 for 71." 
 
 In Burgate churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Eliza Cook, died June 4th, 1825, aged 15. 
 
 Ah ! why so soon, just as the flower appears, 
 Strays the brief blossom from the vale of tears, 
 Death view'd the treasure to the desert given, 
 Claim' d the fair flower, and planted it in Heaven." 
 
 At Leir, Leicestershire : — 
 
 "This youngest son, whom we did early prize, 
 Soonest was taken from our eyes ; 
 Edward Mason, his years were few, 
 His age was twenty- two." 
 
 On a young man : — 
 
 " Mourn not, this hopeful youth so soon is dead, 
 But know, he trebles favours on his head, 
 Who, for a morning's work, gives equal pay 
 With those who have endured the heat o'th day. 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 In TToodbridge elrarchyard : — 
 ••In Memory of 
 
 AYlLLIAZiI hkUBXHCK* 
 
 who died 4th August, 1827, 
 
 J 24. 
 
 Insidious Death ! when his strong hand am 
 
 So composition sets the 
 
 Eternity's inexorable chain 
 
 Fast binds, and vengeance claims the faV. arrear. 
 
 ' But now I pay thee with eternity/ " — Young. 
 
 On Am* Rowkli : — 
 
 ■• In Memory 
 
 Airar, the daughter of 
 Thomas and Mary Rowkll, 
 
 departed this life 
 Aged 14 years. 
 
 In early li 
 
 And with ; :on bore ~:ening re 
 
 Taught by his S ver'd. 
 
 While faith in Chi g cheer'd. 
 
 Thus blest with grace., which heaven alone could ° 
 She learnt to die. ere thousan to live." 
 
 In Thomhani churchyard, Suffolk, on Haeejeii and 
 Maet Hr>"i : — 
 
 " Haeeieii died July 22nd. 1807, in the 20th year 
 of her i 
 
 Saeah died December 2nd. 17 2 years. 
 
 Ripe for Heaven the:: og new, 
 
 And early lade this sinful lieu: 
 
 Short was thei 
 
 In the eternal mac blest." 
 
 - tmg man died in i : ifined for debt. 
 
YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 On one who died at the age of 25 : — 
 
 " If drugs and physic could but save 
 Us mortals from the dreary grave, 
 'Tis known that I took full enough 
 Of the Apothecary's stuff, 
 To have prolong' d life's busy feast 
 To a full century at least ; 
 But spite of all the doctor's skill, 
 Of daily draught and nightly pill, 
 Reader, as sure as you're alive, 
 I was sent here at twenty-five." 
 
 In the churchyard of Woodhurst, about two miles 
 from St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, are the graves of 
 two lovers, named John Hill, and Saeah Roystojst, 
 who both died of consumption. He died in 1792, in 
 the 20th year of his age. She died in 1793, in the 
 23rd year of her age. The inscription on the tomb of 
 John Hill is : — 
 
 " A youth is laid beneath this stone : 
 Death nipp'd the bud, the blossom's gone. 
 Be still each parent's sighing heart, 
 Time is but short that we shall part, 
 When we again in glory meet 
 'Twill turn past bitters all to sweet." 
 
 The Inscription on the stone of Saeah Eotston, 
 consists of those four lines, beginning " A pale consump- 
 tion," and which are to be found on half a dozen stones 
 in most churchyards. 
 
 On a young man :-— 
 
 " Reader ! 
 If thou art faithful, diligent, and young, 
 If much esteem' d respected friends among, 
 If life's fair scenes thy fond attention gain, 
 If business urge thee, pleasure call in vain, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Here pause : this sad memorial tells of one, 
 
 Once actively employed — esteem' d — now gone ! 
 Taught by affliction, earth's best schemes to see, 
 Uncertain, short, and mark'd with vanity ; 
 Then, whether young or old, ere strength decline, 
 May his Redeemer, and his hope be thine." 
 
 In Bradford churchyard, on Henrietta Maria Percy, 
 aged 16 : — 
 
 " See from the earth the fading lily rise ; 
 It springs, it grows, it flourishes, it dies : 
 So this fair flow'r scarce blossom' d for a day ; 
 Short was the bloom, and speedy the decay." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey is a monument to Francis 
 Hollis (son of John earl of Clare), who died in 1622. 
 The monument represents a youth in Grecian armour, 
 seated on a Greek altar. It bears this inscription : — 
 
 " What so Thou Hast of nature or of Arts, 
 Yovth, Beavte, Strength, or what excelling parts, 
 Of mynd and boddie, Letters, Arms and Worth, 
 His eighteene yeares, beyond his yeares, brought forth, 
 Then stand and read thyself within this glass, 
 How soone theise perish, and thyselfe may pas. 
 
 Man's life is measuvred by the worth, not dayes : 
 No aged sloth, but active youth hathprayse." 
 
 In Bonsall churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 "Henry Gregory died Aug. 6th, 1823, aged 29. 
 
 Why flows the mournful muse's tear 
 For thee, cut down in life's full prime ; 
 Why sighs for thee the parent dear ! 
 Cropt by .the scythe of hoary time." 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 On a maid that died the day she was married : — 
 
 " That morne which saw me made a bride, 
 The ev'ning witnest that I dy'd. 
 Those holy lights wherewith they guide 
 Unto the bed the bashful bride, 
 Servd but as tapers for to burne 
 And light my reliques to their urne. 
 This epitaph which here you see 
 Supplied the epithalamie." — HerricV sHesperide 
 
 In St. Mary Kay churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 "Here lyeth the body of Mary Linnelt, who 
 departed this life 1750, aged 23. 
 
 Death cut me of 
 
 When I was young and green, 
 
 As on this stone 
 
 Is plainly to be seen. 
 
 I taken was 
 
 All in the prime of youth, 
 
 I scarce had time 
 
 To tread the paths of truth. 
 
 All you that read these lines, 
 
 Pray think on me, 
 
 And serve your God 
 
 In prayer most fervently." 
 
 In Darley churchyard, Derbyshire, to the memory of 
 four sisters, who died shortly after each other, the eldest 
 being 20, the youngest 19 : — 
 
 "Ye thoughtless Youth, who now so gaily tread 
 O'er the dark mansions of the solemn dead, 
 Pause here awhile beneath this awful tomb, 
 Here lieth four, cut off in beauty's bloom, 
 Who once like you possessed each winning grace, 
 Each sweet attraction both of mind and face ; 
 Scarcely attain' d to life's fair smiling day, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Ere the dread fiat summon' d them away. 
 Like some fair flower, who native charms adorn, 
 And give fresh verdure to the verdant morn, 
 Blooms for a while, till cold inclement skies, 
 Nips the fair plant, it sickens, droops, and dies." 
 
 On a young gentleman, who died for love : — 
 
 Free from this dream of life, this maze of care, 
 Here rests the lover and the friend sincere ; 
 Alive respected, loved by all but one, 
 To him the same as though belov'd by none. 
 This dearer one by cruel slander strove 
 To wrong his fame, as she had wrong' d his love. 
 From her, unkind reproaches wounded more 
 Than all the giddy turns of chance before. 
 Those arrows piercing in a well-known part, 
 Fresh wounds inflicted on a breaking heart. 
 Death saw what love, his faithful slave, had done, 
 And kindly finished what the boy begun." 
 
 On Mr. TV. F. of Radcliffe :— 
 
 Had Heaven been pleased thy wish'd for life to spare, 
 (Thy friends' delight, thy father's chiefest care) 
 Fair was the prospect, from such sense refin'd 
 Thy life for future good was sure design' d : 
 But that wise Power, whose secrets none can tell, 
 Saw fit to take thee hence with him to dwell. 
 Leaving us to mourn thy much-lamented flight, 
 Yet think with thee ' TYhatever is, is right.' "* 
 
 In Kenton churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Ann Whiten died ATarch 31, 1733, aged 26. 
 
 Stay, Reader, Stay and Shed a Teare, 
 & think on me who now lye here ; 
 & while you read the State of me 
 think on ye Glass that Bun for thee." 
 
 * A line frequently used by the deceased. 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, only son of the Lord 
 Chancellor Harcourt, who died a.d. 1720, and inscribed 
 on a monument in Stanton Harcourt church, in Oxford- 
 shire (written by Alexander Pope) : — 
 " To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art, draw near, 
 Here lies the friend most lov'd — the Son most dear! 
 Who ne'er knew joy, but friendship might divide, 
 Or gave his father grief but when he died. 
 
 How vain is Reason, Eloquence how weak ! 
 If Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak, 
 Oh, let thy once-lov'd friend inscribe thy stone, 
 And, with a father's sorrows, mix his own." 
 
 On a young man : — 
 
 " Underneath this stone — lies a youth 
 
 Renown' d for probity and truth, 
 
 Sober he was, wise, temperate ; 
 
 Contented with a small estate, 
 
 Which no foul av'rice did increase, 
 
 Nor wanton luxury make less. 
 
 While yet but young, his father died, 
 
 And left him to a happy guide : 
 
 Not Lemuel's mother with more care 
 
 Did counsel or instruct her heir ; 
 
 Or teach with more success her son 
 
 The vices of the time to shun. 
 
 And he just gratitude did show, 
 
 To one who had obliged him so : 
 
 Nothing too much for her he thought, 
 
 By whom he was so bred and taught ; 
 
 So early made that path to tread, 
 
 Which did his youth to honour lead. 
 
 His short life did a pattern give, 
 
 How neighbours, husbands, sons should live. 
 Appro v'd by all, and lov'd so well, 
 Though young, like fruit that's ripe, he fell." 
 
 In Stepney churchyard, Middlesex : — 
 
 Here Thomas Saffin lies interr'd, Ah, why ? 
 Born in New England, did in London die ; 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 "Was the third son of right, begot upon 
 His mother Martha, by his favour' d John ; 
 Much favour' d by his Prince he 'gan to be, 
 But nipt by death at the age of twenty-three. 
 Fatal to him was that we small-pox name, 
 By which his mother and two brethren came 
 Also to breathe their last, nine years before, 
 And now have left their father to deplore 
 The loss of all his children, with his wife, 
 Who, was the joy and comfort of his life. 
 
 Deceased June the 18th, 1687."* 
 
 On a beloved daughter of the Rev. L. Sterne : — 
 
 Columns and labour' d urns but vainly shew, 
 An idle scene of decorated woe ; 
 The sweet companion and the friend sincere, 
 Need no mechanic help to force the tear ; 
 For heart-felt numbers never meant to shine, 
 'Twill flow eternal o'er a hearse like thine ; 
 'Twill flow whilst gentle goodness has one friend, 
 Or kindred tempers have a tear to lend." 
 
 In Worlingworth church : — 
 
 " Memorise Sacrum 
 Elizabeth, the Only Child of John and Hester Cordy, 
 
 of Woodbridge (late of this Parish), who 
 
 on the 6th December, 1824, was suddenly snatched away 
 
 by Death, in the eleventh Year of her age. 
 
 " As the sweet flower that scents the morn 
 But withers in the rising day : 
 Thus lovely was our cherub's dawn : 
 Thus swiftly fled her life away. 
 
 This, the blest theme that cheers our voice, 
 The grave is not our darling's prison, 
 
 The stone that cover' d all our joys 
 Is roll'd away, and ' she is risen.' 
 
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 * Saffin's tomb was restored by his countrymen in 1750. 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 On a young person : — 
 
 "We all shall like a fleeting shadow pass, 
 
 We all shall melt away, like thawing snow, 
 "We all shall wither, like the new mow'd grass, 
 "We all like froth, shall into vapours go." 
 
 In Bath Abbey church :— 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of William Clements, Esq. 
 a youth distinguished by the sweetness of his manners, 
 and the excellence of his heart. Generous, humane, 
 affectionate, his life was a source of happiness to others; 
 his death, it is hoped, was the commencement of his own. 
 
 Look down, blest soul, and from the realms above 
 Accept this last sad tribute of our love : 
 The last — ev'n now our sorrows we resign, 
 And lose our feelings to rejoice in thine." 
 
 On a youth : — 
 
 " Blest with love of truth and learning, 
 
 Lib'ral heart, and noble aim ; 
 Here, behold a youth returning 
 
 To the dust from whence all came. 
 Vice by him was much detested, 
 
 Virtue was his chief delight ; 
 Hence when death the youth arrested, 
 
 Heavenly prospects cheer'd his sight. 
 BAch in grace, and gifts so ample, 
 
 Candidates for heavenly joy; 
 Vou may learn by his example, 
 
 How to live, and how to die." 
 
 In St. Giles-in-the-Field's churchyard, London : — 
 
 " Mary Quinlivan died Nov. 11th, 1818, aged 23. 
 
 21 years a Maid, 
 16 months a Wife, 
 4 days a Mother, 
 And then ended life." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Clapton churchyard, on a female, aged 15, who 
 died in childbed : — 
 
 "Fourteen years I was a maid, 
 Twelve months I was a wife, 
 One day I was a mother, 
 And so I end my life." 
 
 At Xewington, in Surrey, on a female, aged 21, who 
 died in childbed : — 
 
 " Mary Axx Kixgsley, died April 3, 1810, aged 
 21 years. 
 
 Relentless death ! and could no effort save, 
 Grace, beauty, virtue, from an early grave ? 
 And did our infant cherub but appear, 
 To guide its parent to the celestial sphere, 
 And teach my doting heart so soon to know 
 The husband's and the father's keenest woe ? 
 But cease my murmurs ; Faith discovers skies, 
 Where truth and loveliness immortal rise, 
 And where no pain nor sickness can destroy 
 The cherub's bliss, the angel's spotless joy." 
 
 In Blakemore churchyard, Herefordshire : — 
 
 26 years I lived single, 
 
 5 a married life : 
 Long time I was afflicted, 
 
 And then I lost my life." 
 
 On the Marchtoxess of Winchester, the wife of 
 John, marquis of AYinchester, and mother of George, 
 first duke of Bolton. She died in childbed of a second 
 son, in the 23rd year of her age (written by John 
 Milton) :— 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 " This rich marble doth inter 
 The honour' d wife of Winchestee, 
 A Viscount's daughter, an Earl's heir, 
 Besides what her virtues fair 
 Added to her noble birth, 
 More than she could own from earth. 
 Summers three times eight, save one, 
 She had told, alas ! too soon, 
 After so short time of breath, 
 To house with darkness, and with death. 
 Yet had the number of her days 
 Been as complete as was her praise, 
 Nature and Fate had had no strife 
 In giving limit to her life. 
 
 Her high birth, and her graces sweet 
 Quickly found a lover meet ; 
 The virgin quire for her request 
 The god that sits at marriage feast ; 
 He at their invoking came 
 But with a scarce well-lighted flame, 
 And in his garland, as he stood, 
 Ye might discern a cypress bud. 
 Once had the early matrons run 
 To greet her of a lovely son, 
 And now with second hope she goes, 
 And calls Lucina to her throes ; 
 But whether by mischance or blame, 
 Atropos for Lucina came, 
 And with remorseless cruelty, 
 Spoil' d at once both fruit and tree : 
 The hapless babe, before his birth, 
 Had burial, yet not laid in earth ; 
 And the languish'd mother's womb 
 
 Was not long a living tomb. 
 
 So have I seen some slender slip, 
 Sav'd with care from winter's nip ; 
 The pride of her carnation train 
 Pluck' d up by some unheedy swain, 
 Who only thought to crop the flower 
 New shot up from vernal shower ; 
 But the fair blossom hangs the head 
 Side-ways as on a dying bed. 
 And those pearls of dew she wears, 
 Prove to be presaging tears, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 "Which the sad morn had let fall 
 Ou her hast ning funeral. 
 
 Gentle Lady, may thy grave 
 Peace and quiet, ever have ; 
 After this thy travail sore 
 Sweet rest seize thee evermore, 
 That to give the world increase 
 Shorten' d hast thy own life's lease. 
 Here, besides the sorrowing, 
 That thy noble house doth bring, 
 Here be tears of perfect moan 
 Wept for thee in Helicon ; 
 And some flowers, and some bays, 
 For thy hearse, to strew the ways, 
 Sent thee from the banks of Came, 
 Devoted to thy virtuous name ; 
 Whilst thou, bright Saint, high sitt'st in glory 
 Xext her, much like to thee in story. 
 That fair Syruin shepherdess, 
 "Who, after years of barrenness, 
 That highly favoured Joseph bore 
 To him that serv'd for her before, 
 And at her next birth much like thee, 
 Through pangs fled to felicity. 
 Far within the bosom bright 
 Of blazing Majesty and Light : 
 There with thee, new welcome Saint, 
 Like fortunes may her soul acquaint, 
 With thee there clad in radiant sheen, 
 ZS"o ^Marchioness, but now a Queen." 
 
 In Chelsea church is a monument with a Latin epi- 
 taph, the translation of which is as follows: — 
 
 " In an adjoining vault lies Axxe, only daughter of 
 Edward Ch.oibeeiayxe, Docter of Laws, bom in London 
 the 20th January, 1667 : who, having long declined 
 marriage, and aspiring to great achievements unusual to 
 her sex and age. On the 30th of June, 1690, on board 
 a fire-ship, in man's clothing, as a second Pallas, chaste 
 and fearless, fought valiantly six hours against the 
 
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YOUNG PERSONS. 
 
 French, under the command of her brother. Snatch' d, 
 alas ! how soon by sudden death, unhonoured by a 
 progeny, like herself, worthy to rule the main ! Returned 
 from the engagement, and after some months married 
 to John Spragg, Esq. with whom she lived most amiably 
 happy. At length, in childbed of a daughter, she 
 encountered death, 30th October, 1691. 
 
 This monument for a Consort most virtuous and 
 dearly beloved, was erected by her husband." 
 
 On a monument in Rauceby church : — 
 
 " Near this place are interred the Wives of Richard 
 Jessop, viz: — Alice, on Sept. 27, 1716, aged 25, and 
 Joanna, on Aug. 31, 1720, aged 29. 
 
 How soon ye objects of my love 
 By death were snatcht from me ; 
 
 Two loving matrons they did prove, 
 No better could there be. 
 
 One child the first left to my care, 
 The other left me three. 
 
 Joanna was beyond compare, 
 
 A Phenix rare was she : 
 Heaven thought her sure too good to stay 
 
 A longer time on earth, 
 In childbed therefore as she lay, 
 
 To God resign'd her breath." 
 
 On a tombstone in the burying-ground of Church 
 Crettow, in Shropshire, is this epitaph : — 
 
 "Ona Thursday she was born, 
 On a Thursday made a bride, 
 On a Thursday put to bed, 
 On a Thursday broke her leg, and 
 On a Thursday died." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At Bramfield, Suffolk :— 
 
 "Between the remains of her brother Edward 
 
 And of her husband Arthur, 
 
 Here lies the body of Beidgett Applewhaite, 
 
 Once Bridgett Nelson. 
 
 After the fatigues of a married life 
 
 Borne by her with incredible patience 
 
 For four years and three quarters, bating 3 weeks, 
 
 And after the enjoiment of the glorious freedom 
 
 Of an easy and unblemished widowhood 
 
 For four years and upwards, 
 
 She resolved to run the risk of a second marriage bed, 
 
 But death forbad the banns : — 
 
 And having with an apoplectick dart 
 
 (The same instrument with which he had formerly 
 
 Dispatched her mother,) 
 
 Toucht the most vital part of her brain, 
 
 She must have fallen directly to the ground, 
 
 (as one thunder-struck) 
 
 If she had not been catched and supported 
 
 by her intended husband, 
 
 of which invisible bruise 
 
 After a struggle for above sixty hours 
 
 "With that grand enemy and life 
 
 (But the certain and merciful friend to old age) 
 
 In terrible convulsions, plaintive groans, 
 
 or stupifying sleep, 
 
 "Without recovery of her speech or senses, 
 
 She died on 12th day of Sept., in the year 
 
 of our Lord 1737, 
 
 And of her own age 44." 
 
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FRIENDS. 
 
 FRIENDS 
 
 On a friend (by Lord Byron, 1803) :— 
 
 : Oh ! Friend ! for ever loved, for ever dear, 
 What fruitless tears have bath'd thy crystal bier, 
 "What sighs re-echo' d to thy parting breath, 
 Whilst thon was struggling in the pangs of death. 
 Could tears retard the tyrant in his course: 
 Could sighs avert his dart's relentless force ; 
 Could youth and virtue claim a short delay, 
 Or beauty charm the spectre from his prey ; 
 Thou still hadst lived to bless my aching sight, 
 Thy comrade's honour, and thy friend's delight. 
 If yet, thy gentle spirit hover nigh 
 The spot, where now thy mouldering ashes lie, 
 Here wilt thou read, recorded on my heart, 
 A grief too deep to trust the sculptor's art. 
 No marble marks thy couch of lowly sleep, 
 But living statues there are seen to weep ; 
 Affliction's semblance bends not o'er thy tomb, 
 Affliction's self deplores thy youthful doom. 
 What though thy sire lament his failing line, 
 A father's sorrows cannot equal mine ! 
 Though none like thee his dying hour will cheer, 
 Yet other offspring- soothe his anguish here : 
 But who with me shall hold thy former place ? 
 Thine image, what new friendship can efface ? 
 Ah ! none : a father's tears will cease to flow, 
 Time will assuage an infant brother's woe ; 
 To all, save one, is consolation known, 
 While solitary friendship sighs alone." 
 
 On a friend (by Eobert Burns) : — 
 " An honest man here lies at rest 
 As e'er God with his image blest ; 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 The friend of man, the friend of truth : 
 The friend of age — and guide of youth ; 
 Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, 
 Few heads with knowledge so inform' d : 
 If there's another world, he lives in bliss; 
 If there is none, he made the most of this.' 
 
 Inscription on a cenotaph in a garden, erected to a 
 deceased friend (by Hannah More): — 
 
 " Ye lib'ral shades who rev'rence Friendship's name, 
 Who boast her blessings, and who feel her flame ; 
 Oh ! if from early youth one friend you've lov'd, 
 "Whom warm affection chose, and taste approv'd ; 
 If you have known what anguish rends the heart, 
 When such, so known, so lov'd, for ever part ; 
 Approach ! For you the Mourner rears this stone, 
 To soothe your sorrows, and record his own." 
 
 LAWYEES 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of a lawyer, in St. Pancras 
 churchyard, Middlesex. There is a flat stone, which 
 some years since lay even with the ground, but was, 
 about 1815, raised on a few tiers of bricks (to prevent 
 obliteration by footsteps), by order of the churchwar- 
 dens : the situation of the tomb is not far from the east 
 corner of the church, a little beyond a lofty tomb with 
 a monument. I saw it in 1817, and took a copy as 
 under : — 
 
 " This stone is inscribed to the Memory of Mr. 
 Thomas Abbott; of Swaffham, in the county of Norfolk, 
 
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LAWYERS. 
 
 attorney- at-law, who died lamented by his friends, 
 (enemies he had none) after a painful and tedious illness, 
 which he bore with patience, resignation, and fortitude 
 becoming a man. Departed this life August the 16th, 
 Anno Domini 1762, aged 48. 
 
 Here lieth one believe it if you can, 
 Who, though an attorney was an honest man, 
 The gates of heaven for him shall open wide, 
 But will be shut 'gainst all the tribe beside." 
 
 Correspondent to the Mirror, 1829. 
 
 On John Shaw : — 
 
 "Here lies John Shaw 
 Attorney-at-law, 
 
 And when he died 
 
 The Devil cried 
 
 Give us your paw 
 
 John Shaw, 
 
 Attorney-at-Law." — Moore's Memoirs. 
 
 On a tablet placed outside of Wirks worth church : — 
 
 " Near this place lies the body of 
 Philip Shall Cross, 
 Once an eminent quill-driver to the attorneys 
 in this town, he died the 17th November, 1787, aged 67. 
 Viewing Philip in a moral light, the most prominent and 
 remarkable features in his Character were his real and 
 invincible attachment to dogs and cats, and his un- 
 bounded benevolence towards them, as well as towards 
 his fellow creatures. 
 
 To the Ceitic. 
 
 Seek not to shun the devious path Phil trode, 
 
 Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, 
 
 In modest sculpture let this tombstone tell, 
 
 That much esteemed he lived, and much regretted fell." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Castle ton church, Derbyshire. On Micah Hall, 
 gent, attorney-at- law, who left an inscription to be put 
 on his monument, remarkable for its rude, unfeeling, 
 and independent nature. It exists in Latin, and is thus 
 translated : — 
 
 ""Wliat I was you know not — 
 What I am you know not — 
 Whither I am gone you know not — 
 
 Go about your business." — Gem of the Peak. 
 
 In Elmsett church, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Here lyeth the Body of Edward Sueeland, of 
 Grayes Inn, Esquire, descended from the ancient family 
 of the Sherlands, in the Isle of Sheppy, in Kent, who 
 lived his whole life a single man, and dyed in this parish 
 the 13th of May, 1609. 
 
 " Tombs have no vse, unlesse it be to showe 
 The due respecte which friend to friend doth owe. 
 'Tis not a Mausolean Monument 
 Or hireling epitaph that can prevent 
 The ilux of fame : A painted sepulchre 
 Is but a rotten trustlesse treasurer, 
 A fair Gate built to oblivion. 
 But he whose life, whose ever(ie) action, 
 Like well- wrought stones and pyramides erect 
 A monument to honour and respect, 
 As this man did, he needs no other herse, 
 Yet hath but due, having both tombe and verse ! " 
 
 On an attorney at law : — 
 
 "A tender husband, and a friend sincere, 
 Consign' cl to earth, implores the silent tear; 
 Learn' d in the laws, he never warp'd their sense, 
 To shelter vice, or injure innocence ; 
 But firm to truth, by no mean interest mov'd, 
 
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PHYSICIANS. 
 
 To all dispcns'd that justice which he lov'd ; 
 Virtue oppress' d he taught her rights to know, 
 And guilt detected, fear'd the coming blow ; 
 Thus humbly useful, and without offence, 
 He fill'd the circle mark'd by Providence ; 
 In age completing what his youth began, 
 ' The noblest work of God, an Honest Man.'' " 
 
 At St. Bartholomew, London : — 
 
 " Here lies William Shaw. 
 An attorney at-law ; 
 If he is not blest, 
 What will become of all the rest ? 
 
 PHYSICIANS 
 
 On Sir Thomas Browne, M.D., author of "Religio 
 Medici,'' in the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Nor- 
 wich : — 
 
 "M. S. 
 
 Hie situs est Thomas Biiowne, M.D. 
 
 Et Miles. 
 
 Anno 1605, Londini natus; 
 
 Generosa familia apud Upton 
 
 In agro Cestricnsi oriundus. 
 
 Schola primum Wintoniensi, postea 
 
 In Coll. Pcmbr. 
 
 Apud Oxonienscs bonis Uteris 
 
 Haud leviter imbutus ; 
 
 In urbe hac Nordovicensi medicinam 
 
 Arte cgrcgia, et felici successu professus ; 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Scriptis quibus tituli, Religio Medici 
 
 Et Psettdodoxia Epidemica, aliisque 
 
 Per orbem notissimus. 
 
 Vir prudentissimus, integerrinius, doctissimus ; 
 
 Obiit Octob. 19. 1682. 
 
 Pie posuit moestissima conjux 
 
 Da. Doroth. Br. 
 
 Near the foot of this pillar 
 
 Lies Sir Thomas Browne, Knt. and doctor in physic, 
 
 Author of Religio Medici, and other learned books, 
 
 Who practised physic in this city 46 years, 
 
 And died Oct. 1682, in the 77th year of his age. 
 
 In memory of whom 
 
 Dame Dorothy Browne, who had been his affectionate 
 
 Wife 47 years, caused this monument to be 
 
 Erected." 
 
 On the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, Bart. M.D., who 
 died at Bristol Hotwells, Dec. 8th, 1795, in his 80th 
 year (by Hannah More) :— 
 
 "Here rests awhile, in happier climes to shine, 
 The Orator, Physician, and Divine : 
 'Twas his, like Luke, the double task to fill, 
 To heal the nat'ral and the moral ill. 
 
 You whose awaken' d hearts his labours bless' d, 
 "Where every touch by every grace was dress' d ; 
 let your lives evince, that still you feel 
 The effective influence of his fervent zeal. 
 
 One spirit rescued from eternal woe, 
 Were nobler fame than marble can bestow ; 
 That lasting monument will mock decay, 
 And stand triumphant at the final day." 
 
 On Mrs. Sarah Stonhouse, second wife of the Rev. 
 Sir James Stonhouse, Bart, (by Hannah More) : — 
 
 "Come, Resignation ! wipe the human tear 
 Domestic anguish drops o'er virtue's bier ; 
 
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PHYSICIANS. 
 
 Bid selfish sorrow hush the fond complaint, 
 
 Nor, from the God she lov'd, detain the saint. 
 
 Truth, meekness, patience, honour' d shade! were thine; 
 
 And holy hope and charity divine : 
 
 Tho' these thy forfeit being could not save, 
 
 Thy faith subdued the terrors of the grave. 
 
 Oh ! if thy living excellence could teach, 
 
 Death has a loftier emphasis of speech : 
 
 Let death thy strongest lesson then impart, 
 
 And write, prepare to die, on every heart." 
 
 In Hendon churchyard, on Tom Crosfield, M.D., 
 (written by himself) : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 Robert Thomas Crosfield, M.D. 
 
 Who died 8th Nov. 1802, 
 
 Aged 44 years. 
 
 Beneath this stone Tom Crosfield lies, 
 Who cares not now who laughs or cries ; 
 He laughed when sober, and when mellow, 
 Was a harum scarum heedless fellow. 
 He gave to none design' d offence, 
 So ' Honi soit qui mat y pense? " 
 
 At Chelsea, on Sir Hans Sloane, the eminent Natu- 
 ralist and Physician : — 
 
 " To the Memory of 
 
 Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. 
 
 President of the Royal Society, and the 
 
 College of Physicians, 
 
 Who in the year of our Lord 1753, 
 
 the 92nd year of his age, 
 
 Without the least pain of body, and with a 
 
 conscious serenity of mind, 
 
 ended a virtuous and beneficent life. 
 
 This Monument was erected by his two daughters 
 Elizabeth Cadogan, and Sarah Stanley." 
 
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EPITAPHS. ITC. 
 
 On Dr. Statfoed, the fat physician : — 
 
 • ■ T ike heed, good Traveller, and do not tread hard, 
 For here lies Dr. Stafford, in all this church;: 
 
 On Boyle Godfrey, chemist and doctor of medi- 
 cine : — 
 
 "Here lieth to digest rate and amalgamate with 
 
 ( hn super stratum. 
 
 The residuum, terra damnata, and caput mortuum 
 
 of Boyle Godfrey, Chemist 
 
 and Doctor of Medicine. 
 
 A man. who in this earthly laboratory, pursued all the 
 
 various processes to obtain arcanum vita, or the art of 
 
 na, rather than making gold. Alch.ymist like, all 
 his labour and pr . in ihe fire, evapo- 
 
 rated in fume. \Vhen he dissolved to his first principles, 
 he departed as pure as the last d : an alembic!:, for 
 
 riches are not poured on adepts of this world. 
 
 Though fond of news, he carefully avoided the fer- 
 mentation . this life. 
 Full seventy y - metically 
 1 in its t. •. But the ra i 
 
 ted, the «& i \ :.:. and exsiccated to 
 
 a cuticle, he could not suspend longer in his vehicle, 
 but precipitated gradatum. per tampanum to its original 
 dust. May that light brighter, that Bolognian phospho- 
 rus, preserve him from the athanor. ma, and 
 reverberatory furnace of the other world, depurate him 
 from the this, highly rectify and 
 volatilize his ethereal spirit, place him over the helm of 
 the retort of this globe, place him in a proper recipient, 
 or crystalline orb. among the elect of th - )f Benja- 
 min : never to be saturated, till the general a turn, 
 jration. calcination, and sublimation of all things." 
 
 Opposite to the monument of Sir Ralph Abercrombv, 
 in St. Paul's Cathedral, is a statue of Dr. Badengiox, 
 
 in his professional robes, with the inscription : — 
 
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PHYSICIANS. 
 
 " William Babington, M.D., F.B.S., 
 
 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 
 bom May 21st, 1756, died April 29th, 1833. 
 
 Eminently distinguished for science ; 
 
 beloved for the simplicity of his manners, 
 
 and the benevolence of his heart ; 
 
 respected for his inflexible integrity, and his pure 
 
 and unaffected piety. 
 
 In all relations of his professional life 
 
 he was sagacious, candid, diligent and humane, 
 
 firm in purpose, gentle in execution ; 
 
 justly confident in his own judgment ; 
 
 yet generously open to the opinion of others ; 
 
 liberal and indulgent to his brethren, 
 but ever mindful of his duty to the public. 
 
 To record the admiration of so rare a union of intellectual 
 
 excellence and moral worth, and to extend to future 
 
 generations the salutary influence which his living 
 
 example can no longer diffuse, 
 
 this monument has been erected by the public 
 
 subscription of his contemporaries, 
 
 a.d. 1837." 
 
 Br. John Caius, the eminent English physician, and 
 from whom Caius college takes its name, died July 29th, 
 1573, aged 62, and was buried in the college chapel, 
 with the following short epitaph : — 
 
 " Fui Caius. Vivit post funcra virtus." 
 
 In Morton college, Oxford, on Thomas "West, M.D., 
 who died 17th August, 1738, aged 70 : — 
 
 " Without a pang translated straight to Heaven, 
 And scarcely feeling when the stroke was given ; 
 As if, well skill' d in every lenient art, 
 Thyself hadst smooth' d Destruction's painful dart ; 
 Didst thou discover where this transient span 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 "Was ended, where immortal life began ? 
 
 But soon the wondrous change thou shalt perceive, 
 
 Xo longer call'd the wretched to relieve, 
 
 Thy science useless, and thy worth approv'd, 
 
 Shall tell thee that from earth thou art removed." 
 
 Inscription on the monument at Musselburgh (on the 
 right bank of the Esk), to Dr. Mora, the celebrated 
 " Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine : — 
 
 " In Memory of David Macbeth Mora, 
 
 Beloved as a Man ; Honoured as a Citizen ; Esteemed 
 
 as a Physician ; and celebrated as a Poet. 
 
 Born 5th January, 1798. Died 6th July, 1851." 
 
 This statue is the work of Mr. Ritchie ; the figure is in 
 an erect posture, and represents the poet perusing a 
 scroll ; the costume is a flowing robe. The pedestal is 
 a plain square pillar, exhibiting near the top the letter 
 " Delta," the nom de plume of the poet, encircled by a 
 wreath. At the base is the above inscription. 
 
 On Peter Perkins, at a village in Hampshire : — 
 
 " Here lays Mr. Peter Perkins : 
 He was a man without guile 
 And an apothecary without ostentation" 
 
 On Mrs. Mart Clarke, wife of Dr. Clarke, physician 
 at Epsom, died April 27th, 1757, and is buried in the 
 church at Beckenham, Kent (by Thomas Gray, the 
 poet) : — 
 
 "Lo! where this silent marble weeps, 
 A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps ; 
 A heart within whose sacred cell 
 The peaceful virtues loved to dwell : 
 
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PHYSICIANS. 
 
 Affection warm and faith sincere 
 
 And soft humanity were there. 
 
 In agony, in death resigned, 
 
 She felt the wounds she left behind. 
 
 Her infant image here below, 
 
 Sits smiling on a father's wo, 
 
 Whom what awaits while yet he strays 
 
 Along the lonely vale of days ? 
 
 A pang, to secret sorrow dear, 
 
 A sigh, an unavailing tear, 
 
 Till time shall every grief remove 
 
 With life, with memory, and with love." 
 
 At St. Martin' s-in-the -Fields, London : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory of John Irving, Esq. 
 
 of Sligo, Ireland, 
 
 Surgeon to his Majesty's Forces, 
 
 Who died on the 22nd of April, 1810, 
 
 Aged 33 years ; 
 
 A victim, like thousands of our 
 
 Gallant Countrymen, 
 
 To the fatal consequences of the 
 
 Unfortunate Expedition to the Schelt, 
 
 Commanded by John, Earl of Chatham." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument erected to the 
 memory of that eminent and amiable surgeon, Sir 
 Astlet Cooper.* It bears an inscription as follows : — 
 
 " Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart., 
 K.C.H., F.E.S., D.C.L., 
 
 Member of the National Institute of France. 
 Serjeant Surgeon to their late Majesties 
 
 He was interred by his own desire beneath the chapel of Guy's Hospital. 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 George IT. William IT. 
 
 to her present Majesty Queen Tictoria, 
 
 and for a period of 42 years 
 
 Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. 
 
 Horn 1768, Died 1842. 
 
 Animated by a fervent attachment 
 
 to the science and practice of his profession, 
 
 It was the study of his life to augment and exemplify 
 
 the resources of Surgery, 
 
 and by a most assiduous, benevolent, and successful 
 
 application of his time and talents 
 
 to this noble department of the healing art, 
 
 not his country alone, but the world, 
 
 became indebted to his exertions 
 
 and familiar with his Fame. 
 
 As a Memorial of his excellence and their admiration, 
 
 his contemporaries and pupils 
 
 have erected this Monument to perpetuate 
 
 his name and his example."' 
 
 Edward Jexxee, M.D., died Jan. 26, 1823, aged 74, 
 and the following is inscribed upon his tomb, at Berke- 
 ley, in Gloucestershire : — 
 
 "Within this tomb hath found a resting place, 
 The great Physician of the human race, — 
 Immortal Jexxee ! whose gigantic mind 
 
 Brought life and health to more than half mankind. 
 
 Let rescued infancy his worth proclaim, 
 
 And lisp out blessings on his honour' d name ; 
 
 And radiant beauty drop one grateful tear. 
 
 For beauty's truest friend lies buried here." 
 
 Dr. Caleb Hilliee Pasry was buried in the Abbey 
 Church at Bath. Amarble slab is laid over the place of 
 his interment, by his widow and children, inscribed as 
 follows : — 
 
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PHYSICIANS. 
 
 "Underneath 
 
 Are deposited the remains of 
 
 Caleb Hilliee Pabey, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 
 
 Who, after a painful and complicated illness 
 
 Of nearly six years, 
 
 Which he bore with exemplary resignation, 
 
 Quitted this mortal scene, March 9, 1822, 
 
 Aged 66 years. 
 
 The esteem of his professional brethren 
 
 Has, on a monument in the Choir of this Church, 
 
 Eecorded some of his virtues ; 
 
 The love and regret of his Widow and 
 
 Six surviving Children 
 
 Place this Stone to his Memory. 
 
 Thou silent Door of our sepulchral sleep ! 
 Sickness and pain, debility and woes, 
 All the dire train of ills Existence knows, 
 Thou shuttcst out for ever ! Why then weep 
 This fixed tranquility, so long so deep, 
 
 For a dear J -^ ,, , ^ j faded form, where rose 
 
 ISTo energy enlivening health bestows, 
 
 Through many a tedious year that used to creep 
 
 In languid deprivation, while the Flame 
 
 Of Intellect, resplendent once confessed, 
 
 Dark and more dark each passing day became ! 
 
 Now that angelic lights the Soul invest, 
 
 Calm let us yield to thee a joyless Frame, 
 
 Thou Silent Door of everlasting llest !" 
 
 In St. John the Baptist Church, Savoy, London, is a 
 handsome monument (by Watson) erected in 1846, to 
 the memory of Dr. Cameeox, the last person who was 
 executed on account of the liebellion of 1 745, with the 
 following inscription engraved upon it : — 
 
 "To the Memory of Dr. Archibald Cameeojnt, whose 
 
 remains after his Execution were deposited in 
 
 the Vault beneath. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 This Monument with the Gracious Permission of 
 
 Her Majesty the Queen Victoria 
 
 is erected by his Great-Grandson, a.d. 1846. 
 
 One hundred years after the battle of Culloden. 
 
 To soothe the Sufferer then was all thy thought, 
 Whate'er the banner under which he fought. 
 
 Thy hand would staunch the blood of him who bled, 
 "Were it for Brunswick, or for Stuart shed." 
 
 In York Minster : — 
 
 " To the Memory of John Dealtry, M.D. 
 
 Whose skill in his profession was only equalled 
 
 By the humanity of his practice ; 
 
 Elizaleth his afflicted widow dedicates this Monument. 
 
 He died March 25th, 1773, aged 65. 
 
 Here o'er the tomb where Dealtby's ashes sleep, 
 
 See health in emblematic anguish weep ; 
 
 She drops her faded wreath, ' Xo more,' she cries, 
 
 ' Let languid mortals, with beseeching eyes 
 
 1 Implore my feeble aid : — it failed to save 
 
 'My own and nature's guardian from the grave.' " 
 
 At Enfield, in Middlesex, on John Abebnethy, the 
 celebrated surgeon : — 
 
 "H. S. E. 
 
 Johannes Abernethy, R.S.S. 
 
 Regii chirurgorum Collegii quondam praeses, 
 
 Qui ingenio, probitate, benignitate, 
 
 Eximie proeditus, 
 
 Artem Medicam per annos plurimos, 
 
 Summa cum diligentia, solertia, felicitate, 
 
 Colvit, Exercuit, docuit, auxit, 
 
 Et, scriptis hoc marmore perennioribus, 
 
 Posteritati Tradidit. 
 
 Morbo demum gravissinio confectus, 
 
 Cuju's angores baud aliter domandos. 
 
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PAINTEltS. 
 
 Pio et Constanti animo subegit, 
 
 Conjugi, liberis, amicis, discipulis, 
 
 Humano Generi, cui tantopere succurrerat, 
 
 Flebilis, 
 
 Aprilis die 20, a.d. 1831. JEt. suse 67. 
 
 Placide in Christo obdormivit." 
 
 PAINTEES. 
 
 William Hogarth, the celebrated painter, died Oct. 
 26, 1764, aged 66, and was buried in Chiswick church- 
 yard. On his monument there, which is ornamented 
 with a mask, a laurel wreath, a palette, pencils, and a 
 book inscribed " Analysis of Beauty," are the following 
 lines written (by David Garrick) : — 
 
 " Farewell great painter of mankind, 
 Who reached the noblest point of art, 
 Whose pictured morals charm the mind, 
 And, thro' the eye, correct the heart. 
 
 If genius fire thee, reader, stay, 
 
 If nature move thee, drop a tear ; 
 
 If neither touch thee, pass away, 
 
 For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here." 
 
 For William Hogarth (by Dr. Johnson) : — 
 
 " The hand of him here torpid lies, 
 
 That drew th' essential form of grace : 
 Here closed in death th' attentive eyes, 
 That saw the manners in the face." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In St. Paul's churchyard, London, is buried James 
 Worsdale, the painter and dramatic writer, a pupil of 
 Sir Godfrey Knell er's, who died in 1767. He carried 
 Pope's letters to Curll ; and was buried in the church- 
 yard, with an inscription of his own composing : — 
 
 " Eager to get, but not to keep the pelf — 
 A friend to all mankind, except himself." 
 
 Sir GoDFBEr Kneller died 1723, aged 75 years, and 
 was buried at Twickenham,* where the only mention 
 of his name is on a stone let into the churchyard wall, 
 and is as follows : — 
 
 " 1585 Superficial feet of ground was granted to this 
 Parish, by his Grace Charles, Duke of Somerset, for the 
 enlargement of this churchyard, 1713. Sir Godfrey 
 Kneller and Thomas Yernon being Churchwardens." 
 
 There is a splendid monument to his memory ( by 
 Rysbrack) in Westminster Abbey. It consists of a 
 bust under a canopy, cupid holding the medallion pro- 
 file of a lady. Beneath is this inscription ( written by 
 Pope) :— 
 
 " Kneller ! by Heaven, and not a master taught, 
 "Whose Art was Nature, and whose Picture thought ; 
 Now for two ages having snatch' d from Fate 
 "Whate'er was beauteous, or whate'er w r as great, 
 Lies crown' d with princes' honours, poets' lays, 
 Due to his merit and brave thirst of praise. 
 
 Living, great Nature fear'd he might outvie 
 Her works; and, dying, fears herself may die." 
 
 * " Sir Godfrey sent to me just before lie died. He began by telling me 
 he was now convinced be could not live, and fell into a passion of tears. I 
 said I hoped he might, but that if not he knew it was the will of God. He 
 answered, ' No, no, no, it is the Evil Spirit.' The next word he said was 
 this : ' Bv God, I will not be buried in Westminster.' I asked him why ? 
 He answered, 'Thev do burv fools there.' Then he said to me, 'My good 
 friend, where will vou be buried 1 ' I said, « Wherever I drop : very likely 
 Twitnam.' He replied, ' So will I : ' then proceeded to desire I would write 
 his epitaph which I promised him,"— Pope to Lord Strafford. 
 
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PAINTERS. 
 
 Inscription over the remains of Titian. Beneath a 
 plain sepulchral stone, in the chnrch of Santa Maria de 
 Frari, at Venice, rest the ashes of Titian, the prince of 
 the Venetian school of painters; he died in 1576, 
 99:— 
 
 " Qvi Giace il gran Tiziano de vecelli 
 Emulator de Zeusi e degli Apelli." 
 
 Anthony Vandyck, the celebrated painter, died Dec. 
 9, 1641, aged 43, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathe- 
 dral. The following is his epitaph (written by A. Cow- 
 ley, the poet) : — 
 
 "His pieces so with their live objects strive 
 That both or pictures seem, or both alive ; 
 Nature, herself amazed, does doubting stand 
 Which is her own, and which the Painter's hand." 
 
 On Quintin Matsys, the blacksmith of Antwerp: — 
 " When in his 20th year he became enamoured of a 
 young woman, the daughter of a painter, whose father 
 had made a vow that none but a painter should marry 
 his daughter. — He instantly resolved to abandon the 
 hammer for the brush, and applied himself with so much 
 assiduity that he soon produced pictures which gave 
 promise of high excellence. He gained for his reward 
 the fair hand for which he sighed, and rose to a high 
 rank in his profession. He died in 1529." On a Monu- 
 ment erected, a century afterwards, to his memory, in 
 the Cathedral of JSTotre Dame, at Antwerp, the inscrip- 
 tion thus records the singular story of his life : — 
 
 "All conquering love had made an Apelles 
 of a blacksmith." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral is a statue (by Flaxman) of 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, in his robes of office, as a doctor 
 of laws, holding his lectures in his right hand, his left 
 resting on a pedestal, exhibiting a head of Michael 
 Angelo. The inscription is in Latin, and is thus trans- 
 lated :— 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " To Joshua Reynolds, 
 
 Prince of the Painters of his age, 
 
 and in the splendour and harmony of his colouring, 
 
 bringing forth in turn the varieties of light and shade, 
 
 scarcely second to any of the ancient Masters: 
 
 who, while invested with the highest glories of his art, 
 
 became yet more honourable by suavity of manners, 
 
 and urbanity of life ; 
 
 who found his art languishing and decaying over the earth, 
 
 and revived it by the force of his admirable example, 
 
 illustrated it by rules exquisitely framed 
 
 and delivered it to the hands of posterity corrected and 
 
 polished. 
 
 The friends and guardians of his fame 
 
 placed this statue, in the year of salvation, 1813. 
 
 He was born July 16, 1723 ; 
 
 Died, February 23, 1792." 
 
 The body of Raphael, a sublime painter, who died 
 1520, aged 37, was consigned with great pomp to the 
 church of Sta Maria Rotonda, at Rome, which was 
 formerly the Pantheon, where his bones still rest, with 
 the exception of his skull, which was afterwards placed 
 in the academy of St. Luke. His tomb is indicated by 
 his bust (executed by Naldini, and placed there by 
 Carlo Maratti), and by the following ejritaph ( by Car- 
 dinal Bembo) : — 
 
 " Ille hie est Raphael, timuit quo Sospite vinci 
 Rerum magna parens, et moriente mori." 
 
 Edward Bird, R.A., painter to the princess Charlotte, 
 was buried in the cloisters of Bristol Cathedral, where 
 there is a flat stone with the following inscription upon 
 it:— 
 
 " Beneath this Stone 
 
 are deposited the remains 
 
 of Edward Bird, Esq. R.A. 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 November 2nd, 1819, Aged 45. 
 
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PAINTEBS. 
 
 And of Martha his widow, 
 Who died May 25th, 1846, 
 
 Aged 66. 
 
 Their Children caused this stone to be placed as a 
 
 tribute of affection 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Their Beloved Parents." 
 
 In Hampton church : — 
 
 "Here lyeth the body of Huntingdon Shaw, of 
 Nottingham, who died at Hampton Court, on the 20th 
 of October, 1710. He was an artist in his way. He 
 designed and executed the ornamental ironwork at 
 Hampton Court Palace." 
 
 " Sir Dayid Wilkie, the celebrated painter, was at 
 Alexandria, in April, 1841, where he commenced a 
 portrait of Mehemet Ali. He embarked for England, 
 May 21, was taken ill on the voyage, and died June 1st, 
 1841, off Gibraltar. In the evening of the same day 
 his body was committed to the deep." 
 
 On William Woollett, the celebrated engraver : — 
 
 " Engrav'd by genius on the human heart 
 Woollett thy works shall stand without a stain ; 
 
 And though the great original is gone 
 The first impression ever shall remain." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 ACTOES. 
 
 David Gaeeick was buried in Poets' Comer, "West- 
 minster Abbey, under a large blue marble flag stone, 
 which bears the following inscription in gold letters: — 
 
 " David Gaeeick, 
 
 Born 20th February, 1716, 
 
 Died 20th January, 1779. 
 
 Eva Maeia Gaeeick, 
 Born 29th February, 1724, 
 Died 16th October, 1822." 
 
 Some years after his death, a monument was erected 
 to his memory, at the expense of Mr. Albany Wallis, 
 It consists of a full length figure, leaning forward, and 
 throwing aside a curtain, which discovers a medallion 
 of Shakspeare. Tragedy and Comedy are seated beneath. 
 The monument bears this inscription : — 
 
 " To the Memory of 
 
 David Gaeeick, 
 
 "Who died in the year 1779, 
 
 at the age of 63. 
 
 To paint fair Xature, by divine command, 
 Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, 
 A Shakespeare rose — then, to expand his fame, 
 Wide o'er this ' breathing world ' a Gaeeick came. 
 Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, 
 The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew ; 
 Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, 
 Immortal Gaeeick call'd them back to day : 
 And till eternity, with power sublime, 
 Shall mark the mortal hour of hoary Time, 
 Shakespeare and Garrick like twin stars shall shine, 
 And earth irradiate with a beam divine. — Pratt. 
 
 This Monument, the Tribute of a Friend, 
 was erected in 1797." 
 
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ACTOBS. 
 
 Inscription on the monument of David Gaeeick, in 
 Litchfield Cathedral : — 
 
 " Eva Maria, 
 
 Relict of David Gaeeicx, Esq. 
 
 Caused this Monument to be erected 
 
 To the memory of her beloved husband, 
 
 Who died the 20th of January, 1779, aged 63 years. 
 
 He had not only the amiable qualities of private life, 
 
 But such astonishing Dramatic talents, 
 
 As too well verified the observation of his friend : 
 
 1 His death eclipsed the gaiety of nations, 3 
 
 And impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.' " 
 
 On Samuel Foote, the comedian, who died in 1777, 
 aged about 55, and was buried in Westminster 
 Abbey : — 
 
 "Here lies one Foote, whose death may thousands save, 
 For death has now one Foote within the grave." 
 
 On Mr. Death, the actor : — 
 
 " Death levels all, both high and low 
 
 Without regard to stations ; 
 
 Yet why complain 
 
 If we are slain ? 
 
 For here lies one, at least, to show 
 
 He kills his own relations." 
 
 Inscription in the cemetery at St. Cloud, in France, 
 over the remains of Mrs. Joedast. William IV., at his 
 accession, ordered Chantrey to prepare a statue to be 
 placed over her remains : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Memoriae Sacrum 
 
 Dorothea Joedax, 
 
 Qua? per multos annos Londini, 
 
 Inque aliis Britanniae urbibus, 
 
 Scenam egregie omavit. 
 
 Lepore comico, vocis suavitate, 
 
 Puellarum hilarium alteriusque sexus 
 
 Moribus habihi imitandis nulla secunda : 
 
 Ad exercendam eamque 
 
 Dum feliciter versata est artem, 
 
 Ut res egenorum ad versa s sublevarit 
 
 Nemo promptior, 
 
 Evita exiit 3° nonas Julii, 1816, 
 
 Annos nata 50 ; 
 
 Menientote, Lugete." 
 
 Mrs. Jordan s Life. 
 
 On Johx Palmee, an eminent English Actor. Pal- 
 mer's last engagement was at Liverpool. On 2nd 
 August, 1790, he appeared in the character of "The 
 Stranger," and in the 3rd Act, the hand of death 
 arrested his progress, and he instantly fell upon his 
 back, heaved a convulsive sigh, and expired without 
 a groan. He was 48 years old. A stone was placed at 
 the head of the grave with the following lines inscribed, 
 which were the last words he uttered, in the character of 
 11 the Stranger': — 
 
 "Oh! God! God! 
 There is another and a better world !" 
 
 The following is the inscription on Mrs. Peitchard's 
 monument, put up in 1772, at the east end of West- 
 minster Abbey, next to Shakspeare, and opposite to Han- 
 del's monument : — 
 
 "To the memory of Mrs. Peitchabd, 
 
 This Tablet is here placed by a voluntary subscription 
 
 of those who admired and esteemed her. 
 
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ACTOBS. 
 
 She retired from the stage of which she had long been the 
 
 Ornament, in the Month of April, 1768 ; and 
 
 Dyed at Bath in the Month of August following, in the 
 
 57th year oi her age. 
 
 Her comic vein had every charm to please, 
 'Twas Nature's dictates breath' d with Nature's ease, 
 E'en when the powers sustain'd the tragic load, 
 Pull, clear, and just, the harmonious accents now'd ; 
 And the big passions of her feeling heart 
 Burst freely forth, and sham'd the mimic art. 
 Oft, on the scene, with colours not her own, 
 She painted vice, and taught us what to shun ; 
 One virtuous track her real life pursued, 
 That nobler part was uniformly good. 
 Each duty there to such perfection wrought, 
 That, if the precepts fail'd, the example taught." 
 
 W. Whitehead, P.L. 
 
 On Dominique, harlequin of the Italian comedy ( by 
 John Baptiste Santeuil) : — 
 
 " Castigat ridendo Mores." 
 
 On William Powell, of Covent Garden Theatre, 
 inscribed on a monument in Bristol Cathedral : — 
 
 "William Powell, 
 
 One of the Patentees 
 
 of the 
 
 Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 
 
 died the 3rd of July, 1 769, 
 
 Aged 33 years. 
 
 His Widow caused this Monument 
 
 to be erected 
 
 as well to perpetuate 
 
 his Memory 
 
 as her own irretrievable loss, 
 
 the best of Husbands, Fathers, Friends. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Bristol ! to worth and genius ever just, 
 To thee our Powell's dear remains we trust, 
 Soft as the Stream thy sacred Springs impart, 
 The milk of human kindness warm'd his heart. 
 That heart which every tender feeling knew, 
 The soil where pity, love, and friendship grew. 
 Oh let a faithful friend, with grief sincere, 
 Inscribe his tomb, and drop the heart -felt tear. 
 Here rest his praise, here sound his noblest fame, 
 All else a bubble, or an empty name." 
 
 G. Colman. 
 
 "In the year 1811, this monument was repaired and 
 beautified by the direction of Ann ATartindale, youngest 
 daughter of the deceased William Powell, from the 
 great duty, respect, and veneration in which she holds 
 the memory of her departed Father." 
 
 Another epitaph on William Powell : — 
 
 Whoe'er thou art that tread' st this awful dome, 
 Oh ! pass not heedless by this sacred tomb ; 
 Wit, art, and grace, the pleasure of the age, 
 The pride and sorrow of the British stage, 
 (Read this — and reading drop the tender tear) 
 All lie interr'd with gentle Powell here." 
 
 On John Hippsley, the actor, who died at Bristol, 
 1748:— 
 
 " Here lies John Hippsley, a lad in truth, 
 Who oft in jest, died in his youth ; 
 Preferr'd from candle snuffing art, 
 He with applause play'd many a part : 
 The Collier first advanced him higher ; 
 Next Gomez, plagu'd with wife and friar; 
 Fani'd in Plewellin, Pistol's Hector; 
 Then was of playhouses projector, 
 
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ACTORS. 
 
 And author too, and wrote a farce ; 
 But there, all say he show'd an ass. 
 If acting well a soul will save, 
 He sure a place in Heav'n will have 
 And yet to speak the truth, I ween, 
 As great a scrub as e'er was seen." 
 
 At Lee, in Kent, is buried Willtam Parsons, Esq., 
 the celebrated actor, with the following inscription on 
 his tomb : — 
 
 " William Parsons died Feb. 1795, aged 59. 
 
 Here Parsons lies ! — oft on life's busy stage, 
 With Nature, reader, hast thou seen him vie ; 
 He science knew — knew manners, knew the age, 
 Eespected knew to live — lamented die." 
 
 Mrs. Sheridan, the first wife of Richard Brinsley 
 Sheridan, died in 1792, at Bristol Hotwells, of a deep 
 decline, and was interred in Wells Cathedral, where 
 there is a Latin inscription to her memory (written by 
 Dr. Harrington), of which the following is the trans- 
 lation : — 
 
 " Sure every beauty, every grace 
 
 Which other females share, 
 Adorn' d thy mind, thy voice, thy face, 
 
 Thou fairest of the fair ! 
 Amidst the general distress, 
 let a friend his grief express ! 
 
 Mourn, mourn your loss, ye mortals, mourn — 
 
 Rejoice, ye Heavenly quire ! 
 To your embraces see return 
 
 A sister, with her social lyre ; 
 Eliza now resumes her seat, 
 And makes your harmony complete." 
 
 Mrs. Jordan's Life. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Richard B rinsley Sheridan died July, 1816, aged 
 65, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, near Addi- 
 son's statue, with Garrick's monument on the right wall, 
 Mrs. Oldfield's on the left, and Goldsmith's oppo- 
 site. Cumberland is also near him. He has a plain 
 black stone placed over him by the friendship of Mr. 
 Peter Moore. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Robinson was born Nov. 27, 1750. Her 
 father was very rich, but, when she was 9 years old, he 
 embarked all his property to establish a whale fishery 
 on the coast of Labrador, which failed. While her father 
 was in America, she married Mr. Eobinson, then a stu- 
 dent of the law ; a short time after their marriage, he 
 was imprisoned for debt, where he remained for fifteen 
 months : when he was released they had nothing to 
 take to, he being prevented practising as an attorney, 
 not having completed the articles of his clerkship. In 
 this dilemma, she turned her thoughts to the stage, which 
 she tried with very much proficiency, eliciting great 
 praise from Mr. Garrick, Mr. Sheridan, and others. In 
 this capacity she remained for two seasons, and won 
 universal admiration, by the uncommon beauty of her 
 person, and the grace and elegance of her actions and 
 manners. In this capacity she attracted the notice of 
 the prince of Wales (afterwards George IV.), and after 
 several letters they had an interview, which led to many 
 more interviews. He told her to leave her situation, and 
 promised to give her 20,000/ the day he came of age. 
 But a short time before he came of age, she received a 
 letter from him, informing her they must meet no more. 
 She wrote to him several times, but received no answer. 
 After this he invited her to his birth-night ball, and he 
 took much notice of her, but that was the last time. 
 Her debts were now nearly 7,000/ ; she at length applied 
 to Mr. Fox, and showed him the letter of the prince's 
 promise, and Mr. Fox settled an annuity of 500/. a year 
 on her, as equivalent to the prince's promise. She now 
 turned her attention to poetry, and wrote several good 
 pieces — " The Haunted Beach," "The Maniac," &c. &o. 
 At last a consumption earned her off on the 26th Decem- 
 ber, 1800. She' was buried in the churchyard of Old 
 
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 Windsor, and a simple monument, on which is engraven 
 the following, serves as a memorial to her genius, her 
 beauty, and her misfortunes : — 
 
 " Of Beauty's Isle, her daughters must declare 
 She who sleeps here was fairest of the fair ; 
 But, ah ! while Nature to her favourite smil'd, 
 And Genius claim' d her share in Beauty's child : 
 E'en as they wove a garland for her brow, 
 Sorrow prepared a willowy wreath of woe ; 
 Mix'd lurid nightshade with the buds of May; 
 And twin'd her darkest cypress with the bay : 
 In mildew tears steep' d every opening flower, 
 Prey'd on the sweets, and gave the canker power. 
 Yet, Oh ! may Pity's angel, from the grave 
 This early victim of misfortune save : 
 And as she springs to everlasting morn, 
 May Glory's fadeless crown her soul adorn." 
 
 Abridged from Universal Biography. 
 
 On Shutek, the actor : — 
 
 " Alas ! poor Ned ! 
 He's now in bed, 
 
 Who seldom was before ; 
 The revel rout, 
 The midnight shout, 
 
 Shall never know him more. 
 
 Entomb' d in clay 
 
 Here let him lay, 
 And silence every jest ; 
 
 For life's poor play 
 
 Has past away, 
 And here he sleeps in rest." 
 
 Mrs. Clive, or Kitty Clive, the fascinating actress, 
 after long being an ornament to the stage, retired to 
 " Little Strawberry Hill" an elegant cottage facing the 
 Thames, on the western extremity of the parish of 
 Twickenham, where for many j^ears she " drank the 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 pleasures of rural life." Her neighbour, Horace \Yal- 
 pole, as well as many other persons of rank and emi- 
 nence, was attracted by her wit and drollery. The 
 following inscription was written by Dr. \Yoolcot, for 
 an urn to the memory of Mrs. Clite, which is placed in 
 the garden : — 
 
 " Ye smiles and jests, still hover round ; 
 This is Mirth's consecrated ground : 
 Here liv'd the laughter loving dame, 
 A matchless actress, Clive her name. 
 The comic muse with her retired, 
 And shed a tear when she expired." 
 
 Mrs. Clive was buried at Twickenham, where there 
 is a tablet with the following inscription, (written by 
 Miss Pope) : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Catherine Clive, 
 "Who died December the 7th, 1785, aged 75 years. 
 
 " Clive' s blameless life this Tablet shall proclaim, 
 Her moral virtues, and her well earn'd fame. 
 In Comic scenes, the stage she often trod, 
 ' jSov sought the Critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod,' 
 In real life was equal praise her due, 
 Open to pity and to friendship true ; 
 In wit still pleasing, as in converse free 
 From aught that could afflict humanity : 
 Her generous heart to all her friends was known, 
 And e'en the stranger's sorrows were her own. 
 Content with fame, e'en affluence she wav'd 
 To share with others what by toil she sav'd ; 
 And nobly bounteous from her slender store 
 She bade two dear relations not be poor. 
 Such deeds on life's short scenes true glory shed, 
 And heavenly plaudits hail the virtuous dead." 
 
 Louis XI Y., king of France, was presented with an 
 epitaph by an indifferent poet, on the celebrated actor 
 Moliere, who died Feb. 17, 1673. " I would to God" 
 said he " that Moliere had brought me yours." 
 
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ACTORS. 
 
 Chaeles Matthews, the comedian, was interred in a 
 vault, situate in the western vestibule of St. Andrew's 
 church, Plymouth, where a stone slab announces with 
 admirable simplicity : — 
 
 " Chaeles Mattheavs, Comedian, born 28th June, 1776 ; 
 died 28th June, 1835." 
 
 Comcedia lugit, scena est deserta." 
 
 Alas ! Pooe Yoeick ! " 
 
 On the stone which covers the remains of Quin, in 
 the Abbey church, Bath : — 
 
 " Here lies the body of 
 Mr. James Qljin. 
 
 The scene is chang'd — I am no more, 
 Death's the last act — now all is o'er." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Quin, in Bath Abbey 
 church : — 
 
 " That tongue which set the table in a roar, 
 
 And charm' d the public ear, is heard no more ; 
 
 Clos'd are those eyes, the harbingers of wit, 
 
 "Which spake, before the tongue, what Shakespear writ ; 
 
 Cold is that hand which, living, was stretch' d forth, 
 
 At friendship's call, to succour modest worth. 
 
 Here lies James Qljtn ! — Deign, reader, to be taught, 
 
 Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, 
 
 In Nature's happiest mould however cast, 
 
 ' To this complexion thou must come at last.' " 
 
 D. Garrick. 
 
 Ob. MDCCLXVI. ^tatis, LXXIII. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On Mr. Ha.va.bd, Comedian (by David Garrick) :- 
 
 "An honest man's the noblest work of God ! " 
 Havard from sorrow rests beneath this stone : 
 An honest man, — belov'd as soon as known ; 
 Howe'er defective in the mimic art, 
 In real life he justly play'd his part ! 
 The noblest character he acted well, 
 And heaven applauded — when the curtain fell." 
 
 In St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London : — 
 
 "Here lies the body of 
 Mr. John Edwix, Comedian, 
 "Who departed this life October 31,1 790, aged 42 years. 
 
 Each social meed which honours human kind, 
 
 The dust beneath this frail memorial bore ; 
 If pride of excellence uplift thy mind, 
 
 Subdue thy weakness, and be vain no more. 
 A nation's mirth was subject to his art, 
 
 Ere icy death had smote this child of glee ; 
 And care resnm'd his empire o'er the heart, 
 
 "When heaven issued Edwin should not be." 
 
 This stone was erected by Mr. Redhead, as a tribute 
 of friendship to the memory of the deceased. 
 
 On Joe Miller, in St. Clement Danes burying 
 ground : — 
 
 "Here lie the remains of 
 
 Honest Joe Millee, 
 
 "Who was a tender husband, 
 
 A sincere friend, 
 
 A facetious companion, 
 
 And an excellent comedian. 
 
 He departed this life the 15th day of August, 1738, 
 
 Aged 54 years. 
 
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ACTORS. 
 
 If humour, wit, and honesty, could save 
 The humourous, witty, honest, from the grave, 
 The grave had not so soon this tenant found, 
 Whom honesty, wit, and humour crown' d. 
 
 Or could esteem and love preserve our breath, 
 And guard us longer from the stroke of death ; 
 1 ne stroke of death on him had later fell, 
 Whom all mankind esteem' d and lov'd so well. 
 
 On John Beard, late of Covent Garden theatre, who 
 died Feb. 5th, 1791, aged 75 years (by Dr. Cousins): — 
 
 " Satire, be dumb ! nor dream the scenic art 
 Must spoil the morals and corrupt the heart. 
 Here lies John Beard : 
 
 Confess with pensive pause, 
 His modesty was great as our applause. 
 Whence had that voice such magic to controul? 
 'Twas but the echo of a well- tun' d soul : 
 Through life, his morals and his music ran 
 In symphony, and spoke the virtuous man. 
 Go, gentle harmonist, our hopes approve, 
 To meet and hear thy sacred songs above ; 
 When taught by thee, the stage of life well trod, 
 We rise to raptures round the throne of God.." 
 
 MUSICAL PROFESSORS. 
 
 Jean Baptiste Lulli, who was made professor of 
 the royal academy of music, by Louis XIV. rose from 
 obscurity. He hurt his foot severely in beating time to 
 a Te Deum performed on the recovery of his majesty 
 from a severe illness — mortification ensued ; as he lay 
 
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 on his death bed. he composed a hymn — " Sinner, thon 
 inns: ng it with mnlous voice. 
 
 He died a. d. 1 •". g 152 years. His widow erected 
 a magnifleont monument to his memory in the church 
 of Petits Peres, where he wished to be interred B .- 
 teuil composed his epitaph in six I the 
 
 substance of which, trans! is ;s follows : — 
 
 th ! we knew that thou wert blind, but in 
 -ing LrxiJ. thou hast taught us that thou art deaf 
 
 ' — C 
 
 On the Abbey wall at Bury St Edmund's : — 
 
 •'■ Harriot Hague, Profese i : Music, in the 
 
 TTniv:: Cambridge, died Peb. 6, 1S1 
 
 too fleeting seem'd the Strain 
 Stall as " 
 Now, Harriot. :. . :>um in vain 
 
 Born thus to charm, and to ex] ire. 
 
 But Temj i - t, 1 it us] 
 
 And Piety to thee were given ; 
 
 - k thy blissful Se 
 And join the immortal Song of H 
 
 On Clatt'Its PiiTLirps. at "Wolverhampton. On a 
 stone in a porch at the southern entrance of the col- 
 legiate church, is the following epitaph : — 
 
 •• Near this place li- iua Pmuu -:■ abso- 
 
 lute and ininiitaK 
 
 . made him the admiration of all who knew 
 him. He was bom in 1 -de the tour of Em 
 
 and after the experience of both kinds of fortune died 
 in 1733." 
 
 2 
 
MUSICIANS. 
 
 For Claudius Phillips (by Dr. Johnson*) : — 
 
 Phillips ! whose touch harmonious could remove 
 The pangs of guilty power, and hapless love, 
 Rest here, distress' d by poverty no more, 
 Find here that calm thou gav'st so oft before ; 
 Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, 
 Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.' 
 
 William Lawes, the musical composer, entered the 
 royalist army, held the rank of captain, and was killed 
 by the roundheads at the siege of Chester in 1645. The 
 following punning epitaph was written for him : — 
 
 " Concord is conquer' d ! In his urn there lies, 
 The Master of great Music's mysteries : 
 And in it is a riddle, like the cause, 
 "Will Lawes was slain by men whose Wills were Laws." 
 
 Beloe's Anecdotes. 
 
 Geegoeio Allegei, a celebrated musician, was born 
 at Rome, died in 1652, and was buried in the chapel of 
 Santo Filippo Neri, in the Chiesa Nova, at Rome. This 
 is now the common place of interment for the singers of 
 the pontifical chapel, and at the suggestion of Allegri, 
 a Latin inscription was placed on the door of the mau- 
 soleum. It may be thus translated : — 
 
 " The Pontifical Singers, 
 
 Anxious that those 
 
 Whom harmony united in Life 
 
 Should not be separated in Death, 
 
 Wished this as their burial place." 
 
 * " These lines are among Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies ; they are never- 
 theless recognised as Johnson's in a memorandum of his handwriting, and 
 were probably written at her request. " — Johnson's Works. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Westminster Abbey, on a Roman tablet, is this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Here lyes Henry Puecell, Esq., who left this life, 
 and is gone to that blessed place where only his harmony 
 can be excelled.* He died 21st day of November, 1695, 
 in the 37th year of his age." 
 
 On that once celebrated British minstrel Chaeles 
 Incledon, Esq., in imitation of Gray's epitaph : — 
 
 "Here rests from song, and bacchanalian mirth, 
 A wag to music, glee, and song well known ; 
 Apollo frown' d not on his humble birth, 
 And rosy Bacchus mark'd him for his own. 
 
 True to that God, sincere as to his lass, 
 
 The god an ample recompense did send ; — 
 
 He gave the minstrel all he had — a glass ; 
 
 'Twas all he wish'd — 'twas dearer than & friend. 
 
 But of his failings here no more disclose, 
 He had his virtues, let them step between 
 
 And say ' Poor Charley ! sleep in soft repose, 
 
 Till Nature's God shall change the gloomy scene.' " 
 
 Geoege Frederick Handel, the celebrated musical 
 composer, was buried in Westminster Abbey. Over the 
 place of his interment is a monument executed by 
 Roubilliac, representing him at full length in an erect 
 posture, with a music paper in his hand, inscribed 
 
 " I know that my Redeemer liveth," 
 
 with the notes to which those words are so admirably 
 set in his " Messiah." The inscription beneath is : — 
 
 " George Frederick Handel, Esq. 
 
 Born February 23, 1684, 
 
 Died April 14, 1759." 
 
 * This epitaph so pleased the widow of a celebrated pyrotechnician, that 
 she adopted it for her .husband, and wrote accordingly, that " He was gone 
 to that blessed place where only his fireworks could be excelled." 
 
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MUSICIANS. 
 
 On an assistant musician, in Llanfilantwthyl church- 
 yard, in Wales : — 
 
 "Under this stone lies Meredith Morgan, 
 "Who blew the bellows of our church organ; 
 Tobacco he hated, to smoke most unwilling, 
 Yet never so pleased as when pipes he was filling; 
 No reflection on him for rude speech could be cast, 
 Tho' he gave our old Organist many a blast. 
 
 JSTo puffer was he, 
 
 Tho' a capital blower ; 
 
 He could fill double G, 
 
 And now lies a note lower." 
 
 On Little Stephen, a noted fiddler in Suffolk :- 
 
 " Stephen and Time 
 Are both now even ; 
 Stephen beat Time 
 
 Now Time beats Stephen." 
 
 SERVANTS BY THEIR EMPLOYERS. 
 
 The cloisters in St. George's college, Windsor, are 
 entered from the lower ward by an archway leading to 
 the tomb-house. On the left as you enter, is a tablet 
 with the following inscription (from the pen of George 
 III.) :- 
 
 "King George III. 
 
 Caused to be interred 
 
 Near this place, the body of 
 
 Mary Gaskoin, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Servant to the late Princess Amelia : 
 
 and this Tablet to be erected 
 
 In testimony of 
 
 His grateful sense of 
 
 The faithful service 
 
 and attachment of 
 
 An amiable young woman 
 
 To his beloved daughter, 
 
 "Whom she survived only three months. 
 
 She died the*19th of February, 1811, 
 
 Aged 31 years." 
 
 In the beautiful cemetery of Rose Bank, Scotland, is 
 a handsome monument of Aberdeen granite, bearing the 
 following inscription in letters of gold : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Miss Ida Bananohi, the 
 faithful and highly esteemed dresser of Queen Victoria, 
 who departed this life Oct. 15, 1854, in the thirty- 
 seventh year of her age, beloved and respected by all 
 who knew her. This stone has been placed by Queen 
 Victoria as a mark of her regard." 
 
 In Alnwick churchyard, Northumberland, on Mary 
 Atkinson, whose parents perished in the snow (written 
 by the Duchess of Northumberland) : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Mary Atkinson, 
 
 Born August 12th, 1822. Died July 6th, 1842. 
 
 Where she has sported as a child 
 
 There is she^laid to rest ; 
 As the tired infant finds repose 
 
 Upon its Mother's Breast. 
 JNo Sculptor's Art proclaims her rank, 
 
 Or tells from whence she came ; 
 
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SERVANTS. 
 
 Her honours were a blameless life, 
 Her wreath a spotless Name. 
 
 Go, Labourer, Go ! and sow thy seed, 
 And till the barren ground ; 
 
 That when the harvest Lord shall come, 
 Thou may'st like her be found." 
 
 At Kirkmichael, in the Isle of Man, close by the last 
 resting place of the sainted Bishop Wilson, is the head- 
 stone of his faithful servant, bearing the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " John Keddyard died at Bishopscourt, 
 April 21st, 1738, aged 47, whose master hath here given 
 this testimony of his integrity, that in twenty years' 
 service he never found cause to charge him with eye- 
 service, fraud, or injustice." 
 
 In Twickenham churchyard is an inscription on a 
 tombstone to the memory of the old woman who nursed 
 Alexander Pope, the poet, with the following inscription 
 engraven upon it : — 
 
 " To the Memory 
 
 of 
 
 Mary Beach, 
 
 Who died November 5th, 1725, aged 78. 
 
 Alexander Pope, whom she nursed in his Infancy and 
 
 whom she affectionately attended for 
 
 Twenty-eight years, 
 
 In gratitude for such a faithful old Servant, 
 
 Erected this Stone."* 
 
 It was to this epitaph that Lady Wortley Montague alluded (when she 
 quarrelled with Pope) in the following sarcastic lines : — 
 
 " No wonder our poet's so stout, and so strong, 
 Since he lugg'd, and he tugg'd at the bubby so long." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In St. Mary's church, Warwick, on a tablet of white 
 marble, is the following inscription : — 
 
 " If a faithful discharge of duty, 
 
 And the most honest, diligent, and attached conduct 
 
 For a long course of years, 
 
 Ever claimed the expression of gratitude, 
 
 It is due to the memory of John Batley : 
 
 "Who departed this life on the 15th day of September, 
 
 1792, aged 65 years; 
 
 And lies interred near this place. 
 
 As a memorial of his regard 
 
 For an excellent servant, and a worthy man, 
 
 Whose loss he much laments ; 
 
 This stone was erected 
 
 By George, Earl of Warwick, 
 
 1793." 
 
 Dean Swift had a servant well-known to all his 
 friends by the name of Saunders ; an appellation given 
 him by the Dean. He was remarkably kind to him 
 during a course of several years spent in his service : 
 but more particularly throughout a long illness under 
 which he laboured for many months before he died. 
 He had him buried in the south aisle of his cathedral, 
 where he erected a monument to him in a small piece 
 of statuary marble, with this inscription : — 
 
 " Here lieth the Body of 
 
 Alexander Magee, Servant to Doctor 
 
 Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's. 
 
 His grateful Master caused this Monument to be 
 
 erected in Memory of his Discretion, Fidelity, 
 
 and Diligence in that humble Station. 
 
 Ob Mar 24, 1721, JEtat 29." 
 
 Sheridan's Life of Swift. 
 
 In Easton churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 John Owen 
 
 Who died March 20th, 1821, 
 
 In the 63rd year of his age. 
 
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SERVANTS. 
 
 He lived in this Parish 
 
 During the term of 24 years 
 
 An honest and diligent Servant 
 
 To the Earl of Rochford. 
 
 His Master found him faithful whilst on Earth, 
 And placed this stone in justice to his worth." 
 
 In Trevethin churchyard, Monmouthshire, is a monu- 
 ment, bearing the following inscription (from the pen 
 of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, on a faithful servant 
 of his father's) : — 
 
 " To the Memory of 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cooke, 
 
 Agent of the iron-works 
 
 To John Hanbury, Esq. 
 
 of Pontypool ; 
 
 Who died, August 1st, 
 
 1739: aged 66 years. 
 
 With most religious truth it may be said, 
 Beneath this stone an honest man lies dead. 
 "Vice he abhorr'd, in virtue's path he trod; 
 Just to his Master, humble to his God : 
 Useful he lived, and void of all offence ; 
 By nature sensible, well bred by sense. 
 His master's int'rest was his constant end : 
 (The faithful' st servant and the truest friend.) 
 For him his heart and hand were always join'd; 
 And love with duty strictly was combin'd. 
 Together through this vale of life they pass'd : 
 And in this church together sleep at last ; 
 For when the master's fatal hour was come, 
 The servant sigh'd, and follow' d to the tomb. 
 And when at the last day he shall appear, 
 Thus shall his Saviour speak and scatter fear : 
 
 ' Well done, thou faithful servant, good and just, 
 Receive thy well deserv'd reward of trust ; 
 Come where no time can happiness destroy, 
 Into the fulness of thy Master's Joy.' " 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In South Audley street chapel, Grosvenor- square, is 
 the following inscription on a stone (by Win. Gifford, 
 Esq.) :- 
 
 " Here lies the body 
 
 of Ann Daytes, 
 
 for more than twenty years 
 
 Servant to William Gifford. 
 
 She died Feb. 6th, 1815, 
 
 in the forty-third year of her age, 
 
 of a tedious and painful malady, 
 
 which she bore 
 
 with exemplary patience and resignation. 
 
 Her deeply afflicted Master 
 
 erected this stone to her memory, 
 
 as a faithful testimony 
 
 of her uncommon worth, 
 
 and of his perpetual gratitude, 
 
 respect and affection, 
 
 for her long and meritoiious services. 
 
 Though here unknown, dear Ann, thy ashes rest, 
 Still lives thy memory in one grateful breast, 
 That traced thy course through many a painful year, 
 And marked thy humble hope, thy pious fear. 
 ! when this frame, which yet, while life remained, 
 Thy duteous love, with trembling hand, sustained, 
 Dissolves (as soon it must) may that Bless'd Pow'r 
 Who beam'd on thine, illume my parting hour ! 
 So shall I greet thee, where no ills annoy, 
 And what was sown in grief, is reap'd in joy ; 
 Where worth, obscured below, bursts into day, 
 And those are paid, whom earth could never pay." 
 
 From a tombstone in a churchyard in Warwick- 
 shire : — 
 
 "Here lieth the body of Joseph Batte, confidential 
 servant to George Birch, Esq., of Hampstead Hall. 
 His grateful friend and master caused this inscription to 
 be written in memory of his discretion, fidelity, dili- 
 gence, and continence. He died (a bachelor) aged 84, 
 having lived 44 years in the same family." 
 
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SERVANTS. 
 
 From a tombstone in Eltham churchyard : — 
 
 "Here lie the remains of Mr. James Tappt, who 
 
 departed this life on the 8th of September, 1818, aged 
 
 84, after a faithful service of 60 j^ears in one family ; 
 
 by each individual of which he lived respected, and 
 
 died lamented by the sole survivor."* 
 
 In Boreham churchyard, in Essex, is a stone raised 
 by the Honourable Elizabeth Olmius, to the memory of 
 Ann Gaednee, who died at New Hall, after a faithful 
 service of 40 years, with the following inscription upon 
 it (by Charlotte Smith) : — 
 
 ""WTiate'er of praise, and of regret attend 
 The grateful servant, and the humble friend, 
 "Where strict integrity and worth unite 
 To raise the lowly in their Maker's sight, 
 Are hers ; whose faithful service, long approved 
 Wept by the mistress whom through life she loved, 
 Here ends her earthly task ; in joyful trust 
 To share the eternal triumph of the just." 
 
 In the churchyard of Croydon, Surrey : — 
 
 " In Memory of Uestjla Swinbotjen, 
 
 Who after fulfilling her duty, 
 
 In that station of life which her Creator had allotted her ; 
 
 And by her faithful and affectionate conduct, 
 
 In a series of thirty-five years, 
 
 * "Few monuments, even of the illustrious, have given me the glow 
 about the heart that I felt while copying this honest epitaph in the church- 
 yard of Eltham. I sympathized with this ' sole survivor ' of a family 
 mourning over the grave of the faithful follower of his race, who had been, 
 no doubt, a living memento of times and friends that had passed away ; and 
 in considering this record of long and devoted service, I called to mind the 
 touching speech of Old Adam, in As you like it, when tottering after 
 the youthful son of his ancient master : — 
 
 Master, go on, and I will follow thee 
 To the last gasp, with love and loyalty. " 
 
 Bracebridge Hall, by Washington Irving. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Rendering herself respected and beloved, 
 
 And her loss sincerely regretted 
 
 By the family she lived with ; 
 
 Departed this life the 5th of January 1781 : aged 55. 
 
 Header ! 
 
 Let not her station in life 
 
 Prevent thy regarding her example ; 
 
 But remember, 
 
 According to the number of talents given 
 
 Will the increase be expected." 
 
 In St. Saviour's church, Southwark, among the ancient 
 monuments, is one to John Trehearne, gentleman 
 porter to King James I. It consists of a niche formed 
 of two square columns, and a Corinthian entablature, 
 surmounted by a death's head, within which are two 
 demi-statues of Trehearne and his wife, bearing a black 
 marble tablet inscribed with the subjoined tribute, 
 perhaps penned by his royal master : — 
 
 "Had Kings a power to lend their subjects breath, 
 Trehearne, thou should' st not now be cast down by Death; 
 Thy royal Master still would keep thee then, 
 But length of days are beyond the reach of men. 
 Nor wealth, nor strength, nor great men's love can ease 
 The wound Death's arrows make, for thou hadst these. 
 In thy King's Court good place to thee is given, 
 Whence thou shalt go to the King's Court in Heaven." 
 
 The following epitaph was written by Philip Melanc- 
 thon, the reformer, and friend of Luther, upon his 
 servant, who had lived in his house nearly 34 years. 
 He died in 1553 :— 
 
 "Here at a distance from his native land 
 Came faithful John, at Philip's first command; 
 Companion of his exile, doubly dear, 
 Who in a servant found a friend sincere. — 
 
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SERVANTS. 
 
 And more than friend, a man of faith and prayer, 
 A constant soother of his master's care; — 
 Here to the worms his lifeless body's given, 
 But his immortal soul sees God in heaven." 
 
 In Camerton churchyard, a village in the neighbour- 
 hood of Bath : — 
 
 " This stone is erected to the memory of Thomas 
 Dilly, by his (sorrowing) mistress, Anne Jarrett, of 
 Camerton House ; in whose family he lived for the space 
 of twenty-nine years, being by them all as much re- 
 spected during life, as he was regretted at the period of 
 his quitting it, which happened on the 7th day of June, 
 An Dom. 1830, in the fifty-first year of his age. 
 
 Hath not the Judge of all men said 
 That faithful service is repaid 
 To those, who use the talents given 
 "With care on earth, by bliss in heaven ? 
 Hope then we may that he who lies 
 Beneath this tomb will greet the skies ; 
 Since he was true unto his trust, 
 And in his several callings just ; 
 As son, as father, husband, friend, 
 And Christian where all duties blend ; 
 Eelying on this sacred word, 
 He waits the welcome of his Lord ; 
 
 'Well done — life's service duly paid, 
 Enter on joys which never fade ! ' " 
 
 In Chelmsford church is a marble tablet, with the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " To the memory of Susan Cook, a faithfully attached 
 servant for 35 years, in the family of Mr. J. Golding, of 
 this Parish, who died March 5th, 1826, aged 81 years. 
 This Tablet of regard is inscribed by the members of 
 the family, whom she nursed in their infancy, to record 
 their grateful sense of her worth, and to testify that 
 however humble may be the station assigned by Provi- 
 dence, diligence and integrity render their possession in 
 life respected, and in death lamented" 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At Highgate cemetery : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Saeah Baexaby, 
 who died September, 1847, aged 65. By those over 
 whose earliest infancy she watched, and to whom, during 
 a period of twenty-six years, she remained the constant 
 and devoted friend, this Monument is erected in grate- 
 ful remembrance of a beloved and faithful nurse." 
 
 In Stonleigh church, \Yarwickshire : — 
 
 " To the memorv of Hoiphkey How, porter to the 
 Bt. Honble. Lord Leigh, ob 6 Feb. AnD 1688 ^Etat 63. 
 
 Here lies a faithful Friend unto the Poore, 
 
 \Tho dealt large Almes out of His Lordship's Store, 
 
 \Yeep not poor People tho' ye Servant's dead, 
 
 The Lord himselfe will Give you dayly bread. 
 
 If Market's Bise, Baile Not A Gainst theire Bates 
 
 The Price is still ye same at Stonleigh Gates." 
 
 In the churchyard of King's Swinford, Staffordshire, 
 is a plain stone (erected by Joseph Scott, Esq.) in 
 memory of Elizabeth Haebisox, who had been a faithful 
 servant for 30 years, bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " "While flattering praises from oblivion save, 
 The rich, and splendour decorates the grave, 
 Let this plain stone, Haebisox, proclaim 
 Thy humble fortune and thy honest fame. 
 In work unwearied, labour knew no end — 
 In all things faithful, everywhere a friend ; 
 Herself forgot, she toil'd with generous zeal ; 
 And knew no interest but her master's weal. 
 Midst the rude storms that shook his ev'ning day 
 Xo wealth could bribe her, and no power dismay ; 
 Her patrons' love she dwelt on e'en in death, 
 And dying, blest them with her latest breath. 
 
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SERVANTS. 
 
 She departed this life June 1.9, 1797. Aged 50 years. 
 
 Farewell, thou best of servants — may the tear 
 That sorrow trickled o'er thy parting bier, 
 Prove to thy happy shade our fond regard, 
 And all thy virtues find their full reward." 
 
 On a tablet in Westminster Abbey : — 
 
 "With diligence and trust most exemplary, 
 Did William Laweence serve a Prebendary j 
 And for his Paines now past, before not lost, 
 Gain'd this Remembrance at his Master's cost. 
 
 read these Lines againe : you seldome find 
 A Servant faithfull, and a Master kind. 
 
 Short-Hand he wrote : his Floure in prime did fade, 
 And hasty Death Short Hand of him hath made. 
 Well couth he Nu'bers, and well mesur'd Land ; 
 Thus doth he now that Ground where on you stand 
 Wherein he lyes so Geometricall : 
 Art maketh some, but thus will Nature all. 
 
 Obijt Decern 28, 1621. ^Itatis suae 29. 
 
 GOOD WIVES 
 
 On a tombstone in Kingsbury churchyard 
 
 "Ah ! here doth lie bereav'd of life 
 Anchoeet Hoeset, a frugal wife. 
 Religious, her name doth signify 
 And so was she in all sincerity. 
 1719 the 9th September 
 
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EPITAPHS 
 
 BEcat = :v.I ante G xl she did meekly surrender. 
 At 74 - Los'din th rth, 
 
 And g sorrow oaus'd by her Death. 
 
 I made — on dust I fed 
 Dust was nv teat — ad dust is mv bed 
 
 In GIouc : 3tei C thedral : — 
 
 • Stay traveller, and learn from me now rain are the 
 hopes, how fluctuating the joys of mankind. Here lies, 
 . '. as ! my Cathzetst lies, 1 ad the best of 
 
 wives : so m 1 st, g imaste, £ pious, that nothing 
 could surpass it. If youth, beauty, if the endowments 
 of body or mind, be fit subj - I lamentation, grief 
 
 unbounded William Pkmbbuge p] 
 this marble in memory of a most beloved wife, who 
 died June loth 1690. aged 26 yeai 
 
 Also, in the s: hedral : — 
 
 •• To the virtu : A>~>~e. the most entirely 
 
 loving, and beloved wife of John Hxexoh, Clerk. Vsher 
 of th "_:ool, who died Februarv 26, 169 J, 
 
 aged 30. 
 
 Meek was her temper, m: I :: life, 
 
 A chaste and humble virgin, loyal wife. 
 
 Her mann 3tb gi gaant was her wit, 
 
 Her nature amiable, her behaviour s~ 
 
 Her soul adorned with dovelike innocence. 
 
 T : gain a heavenly mansion hasted hence, 
 
 And bid surviving walkers o'er her grave, 
 
 L : •-. the w : rid let ive their souls to save." 
 
 In Hove churchyard, near ] -ex, is the 
 
 following inscription on a marble slab : — 
 
 •• Sacred : the beloved Memory of 
 
 Margaret 
 
 TTife of Charles B-LDHjor, M.D. F.R.S. 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 In her, not any virtue was wanting which conduces 
 to the perfection of the female character, nor any grace 
 that can recommend, adorn, and endear it ; the bounty 
 of nature had added to the most impressive beauty, all 
 that is excellent in mind, and all that is engaging in 
 manners. 
 
 Undismayed by the rapid approach of a disease full 
 of suffering, she calmly witnessed from her chamber in 
 the adjacent cottage the signs of an advancing summer, 
 of which, even her own delightful buoyancy of temper 
 forbad her to expect the end : the green corn changed 
 under her eye ; she witnessed the decay of the last rose 
 at her window ; yet did no momentary expression of 
 impatience disturb that serene disposition, for which, 
 though life had many sources of endearment, death could 
 be no object of alarm. With the courage which piety 
 and innnocence inspire, she awaited the will of God ; 
 and on the first clay of harvest, at the hour when the 
 doubtful light of morning summoned the reapers to the 
 field, her sufferings were gently terminated, and her 
 meek spirit had arrived at the assured mansions of eter- 
 nal rest ; leaving to her afflicted husband the most 
 hopeless of human griefs, together with six children of 
 her love to witness, rather than share it." 
 
 An inscription for a monument to be erected by a 
 Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady (by James Beat- 
 tie, L.L.D.): — 
 
 "Farewell, my best beloved ; whose heavenly mind 
 Genius with virtue, strength with soitness join'd ; 
 Devotion, undebased by pride or art, 
 With meek simplicity, and joy of heart. 
 
 Though sprightly, gentle ; though polite, sincere ; 
 And only of thyself a judge severe ; 
 Unblamed, unequalled in each sphere of life, 
 The tenderest Daughter, Sister, Parent, Wife, 
 In thee, their Patroness, th' afflicted lost ; 
 Thy friends, their pattern, ornament and boast ; 
 And I — but ah, can words my loss declare, 
 Or paint th' extremes of transport and despair ! 
 Thou, beyond what verse or speech can tell, 
 My guide, my friend, my best beloved, farewell !" 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a beloved wife : — 
 
 " A tender plant, borne from the fostering gales 
 That breathe on Avon's margin, droop' d and died. 
 Yet time shall be, sweet plant, a gale divine 
 Shall thee restore. And thon in health and youth 
 By the pure streams of peace shall ever live, 
 And nourish in the Paradise of God." 
 
 At Eltham, in Kent : — 
 
 " My wife lies here beneath, 
 Alas ! from me she's flown, 
 She was so good that Death 
 Would have her for his own." 
 
 At Great Yarmouth : — 
 
 " To the memory of Maky, wife of Thomas Bammant, 
 who died September 6th, 1821, aged seventy six years. 
 
 Here lies an honest woman ; to say more is unneces- 
 sary — less would be ungrateful." 
 
 On a good wife (written by her husband) : — 
 
 " Here lies my poor wife, much lamented, 
 She's happy and I'm contented." 
 
 At Lewesham, in Kent, on the south wall of the 
 church, is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Elizabeth, wife of Major General Hamilton, who 
 was married near forty-seven years, and never did one 
 thing to displease her husband." 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 In St. Peter's church, near Margate, in Kent : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory 
 
 of 
 
 Annabella Btjnbttry, 
 
 daughter of 
 
 Sir William Bunbury, Bart. 
 
 and wife of 
 
 George Boscawen, Esq. 
 
 born February the 14th, 1746, 
 
 obit September 4th, 1818. 
 
 There was a time when Beauty's brightest bloom 
 
 Adorned the slumberer in yon darksome tomb — 
 
 "When numbers, emulous her fame to share, 
 
 In secret sighed, and wished themselves as fair : 
 
 And numbers more, when wakened to survey 
 
 The dawn of retribution's certain day — 
 
 When all her works of mercy, done below, 
 
 And deeds beneficent, the world shall know, 
 
 When worth like hers is fully understood, 
 
 May wish too late they had but been as good." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey : — 
 
 " Grace Scott died in 1644. 
 
 He that will give my Grace but what is Hers, 
 Must say her Death has not 
 Made only her dear Scott, 
 
 But Virtue, Worth, and Sweetness Widowers.' 
 
 On Lady Whitmore (by John Dryden) : — 
 
 "Pair, kind, and true, a treasure each, alone, 
 A wife, a mistress, and a friend, in one, 
 Rest in this tomb, raised at thy husband's cost, 
 Here sadly summing what he had and lost. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Come, Virgins ! ere in equal bands ye join, 
 Come first and offer at her sacred shrine ; 
 Pray bnt for half the virtues of this wife, 
 Compound for all the rest with longer life, 
 And wish your vows, like hers, may be return' d, 
 So loved when living, and when dead so mourn' d.' ! 
 
 In St. Peter's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 " Elizabeth Worby, died Dec, 1854, aged 53. 
 
 If e'er perfection was in woman found, 
 
 In her who sleeps beneath, it did abound. 
 
 In every duty strict she pass'd through life, 
 
 As friend, companion, and beloved wife. 
 
 To all endearing, and by all ador'd, 
 
 As she respected liv'd, she died deplor'd." 
 
 Prom the AVesleyan chapel, 'Wakefield : — 
 
 " Her manners mild, her temper such : 
 Her language good, and not too much.' 
 
 In St. Margaret's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 iC Sacred to the memory of 
 
 Jaxe, the second wife of 
 
 Samuel Pobemak, 
 
 who died 
 
 October 21, 1839, 
 
 aged 46. 
 
 Here lies interred beneath this dreary grave 
 A worthy woman, but she was no slave ; 
 As good a wife as ever need to be, 
 Conducting things with much propriety. 
 Step-mother too 'tis known she was quite well, 
 And in that place but few did her excel. 
 She did whate'er she could for her poor Mends, 
 And never thought the least for an amends." 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 In Otley church, on Helen, wife of Thomas, Lord 
 Fairfax : — 
 
 " Here Leah's fruitfulness, here Rachel's beauty, 
 Here lyeth Rebecca's faith, here Sarah's duty." 
 
 In Brandeston churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Eleanor, the wife of Elisha Boon, died Nov. 8th, 
 1848, aged 59. 
 
 Virtuous — courteous — meek and lowly, 
 Wise and prudent — just and holy, 
 Tree from malice — free from pride, 
 A sudden change, and thus she died." 
 
 In a village in Suffolk is to be found a curious epitaph 
 to the memory of Mrs. Greenwood, the wife of a Doctor 
 of Divinity, and purports to have been written by her 
 devoted spouse : — 
 
 "Here lies the fairest Greenwood in our town, 
 By Death — by very cruel Death cut down : 
 Her virtue, and her moderation, were such, 
 That she ought to have been married to a Judge. 
 But she put up with me 
 A poor Doctor of Divinity." 
 
 On a good wife : — 
 
 ; The Dame that takes her rest within this tomb, 
 Had Rachel's face, and Leah's fruitful womb, 
 Abigail's wisdom, Lydia's faithful heart, 
 Martha's just care, and Mary's better part." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Eressingfield churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Jane Cock died 1835, aged 52. 
 Dear Jane ! how few thy excellence transcend 
 In three most honour' d names, Wife, Mother, Friend, 
 jtfow may'st thou glory in thy Saviour's sight, 
 Whose word was here thy Guide and thy Delight." 
 
 Lady Lyttleton died in 1746, aged 28, and her 
 remains were interred at Over Arley, in Worcestershire : 
 a monument was erected to her memory in the church 
 at Hagley, which bears the following inscription ( writ- 
 ten by her husband, Lord George Lyttleton) : — 
 
 "Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes ; 
 Though meek, magnanimous ; though witty, wise ; 
 Polite, as all her life in courts had been, 
 Yet good, as she the world had never seen ; 
 The noble fire of an exalted mind 
 With gentlest female tenderness combined. 
 Her speech was the melodious voice of Love ; 
 Her song the warbling of the vernal grove, 
 Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, 
 Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong ; 
 Her form each beauty of her mind expres'd; 
 Her mind was virtue by the Graces dress' d. 
 
 ( The following inscription is cut on the side of the 
 monument ) : — 
 
 This unadorned stone was placed here 
 By the particular desire and express 
 Directions of the Right Honourable 
 George, Lord Lyttleton, 
 Who died August 22, 1773, aged 64." 
 
 In St. Helen's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 "Elizabeth Hekeiott died October 25, 1813, 
 aged 32 years. 
 
 Adieu ! my Eliza, the last struggle's o'er, 
 And thy pure soul hath wing'd its rapturous flight 
 
 On Seraph's pinions to that blissful shore 
 Where reigns pure pleasures permanent delight." 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 In Worlingworth church is a flat stone, partly- 
 covered by a pew, the date is 1622, and bears the fol- 
 lowing inscription : — 
 
 " Her rest gives me a restless life, 
 Because she was a virtuous wife, 
 But yet I rest in hope to see, 
 
 That daye of Christ, and then see thee." 
 
 In Bedingfield churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Maby Williams, died April, 1820, aged 78. 
 
 Adieu ! blest woman, partner of my life, 
 A tender mother, and a faithful wife. 
 From scandal free, most ready to commend, 
 Most loath to hurt, most proud to be a friend. 
 Her partner's comfort, and his life's relief, 
 Once his chief joy, but now his greatest grief. 
 Her God has call'd her, where she's sure to have, 
 Blessings more solid, than herself once gave." 
 
 In Saxted churchyard, Suffolk, on Chaelotte 
 Meadows, died March, 1833, aged 33 : — 
 
 " Meek was her temper, virtuous was her life, 
 A tender mother, and a loving wife, 
 Alas ! she's gone, dear object of our love, 
 T' increase the number of the saints above. 
 Her sufferings Lord, to thee alone were known, 
 Thou knew her grief, and claim' d her for thine own." 
 
 In St. Mary-le-Tower churchyard, Suffolk :- — 
 "Rebecca Beansby died January, 1811, aged 46. 
 
 Just Heaven rewards the virtuous and sincere, 
 The faithful friend, and mother, wife most dear, 
 Above, thy shade, Rebecca, now does rest, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Xo pains torment thy frame, no cares thy breast. 
 If conscious of this rather world of strife, 
 As thou enjoy' st the realms of happier life, 
 Surviving relatives thy spirit view 
 Who long to bid like thee this world adieu, 
 Direct their steps in paths the just have trod, 
 To join thy soul in presence of thy God." 
 
 On a good wife : — 
 
 " Encomiums is but flattery, she was a good wife 
 and pray God bless her soul." 
 
 In Tenby church, on Jaxe, the wife of Thomas 
 Griffith, mariner : — 
 
 ""When faithful fiiends descend into the dust, 
 Griefs but a debt, and sorrows are but just. 
 Such cause had he to weep, who freely pays 
 This last sad tribute of his love and praise : 
 Who mourns the best of wives, and best of friends, 
 Where with affection, diligence was join'd ; 
 Mourns, but not murmurs ; sighs, but not despairs ; 
 Feels as a Man, but as a Christian bears. " 
 
 In Kensington churchyard : — 
 
 " Here are deposited the remains of Mrs. Ajts Floyee, 
 the beloved wife of Mr. Richard Floyer, of Thistle 
 Grove, in this parish, died on Thursday the 8th of 
 May, 1823. 
 God hath chosen her as a pattern for the other Angels" 
 
 Inscription, placed by Curran, on the tomb of his 
 mother : — 
 
 "Here lies the body of Saeah Cueeax; she was 
 marked by many years, many virtues, few failings, no 
 crimes. This frail memorial was placed here by a son 
 whom she loved." 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 Mrs. Cowper, the mother of the poet, has a monu- 
 ment in the chancel of Berkhampstead church, erected 
 by her husband, and the lines upon it were written by 
 her niece, the late Lady Walsingham : — 
 
 "Here lies, in early years, bereft of life, 
 The best of mothers, and the kindest wife, 
 "Who neither knew nor practis'd any art, 
 Secure in all she wish'd — her husband's heart. 
 Her love to him still prevalent in death, 
 Pray'd Heaven to bless him with her latest breath. 
 
 Still was she studious never to offend, 
 And glad of an occasion to commend : 
 With ease would pardon injuries receiv'd, 
 Nor e'er was cheerful when another griev'd ; 
 Despising state, with her own lot content 
 Enjoy'd the comforts of a life well spent ; 
 Resign' d when Heaven demanded back her breath, 
 Her mind heroic 'midst the pangs of death. 
 
 "Whoe'er thou art that dost this tomb draw near, 
 stay awhile, and shed a friendly tear ; 
 These lines, though weak, are as herself sincere." 
 
 In St. Margaret's church, Ipswich, on a tablet which 
 bears the date of 1634, after a short Latin inscription 
 are these lines : — 
 
 " If helpful hands do cheerful minds express, 
 If good report of goodness be the dress, 
 First wife, then widow, she was worthy known 
 To give to both a pattern of her own. 
 
 To us her guests her house did seem to say, 
 This world is but your Inn upon the way, 
 "Wherein a little breath on use ye borrow, 
 Lo ! here ye are to day — and gone to-morrow. 
 Your time is short — your course soon overpast, 
 The fleetest grey-hound runs not half so fast." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Hambleden parish church, Buckinghamshire, is a 
 handsome alabaster monument to Sir Cope Doyley, who 
 died 1633, and his wife Martha, who died in 1618, and 
 ten children : underneath that of the lady is inscri- 
 bed*:— 
 
 " Would' st thou, reader! draw to life 
 The perfect copy of a wife, 
 Read on ; and then from shame redeem 
 That lost but honourable name. 
 
 his was once in spirit a Jael, 
 Rebecca in grace, in heart an Abigail : 
 In works a Dorcas, to the Church a Hannah, 
 And to her spouse Susanna ; 
 Prudently simple, providently wary ; 
 To the world a Martha, to heaven a Mary. 
 
 (Beneath the figure of the knight) 
 
 Aske not of me who's buried here ! 
 
 Goe ask the commons, ask the shire ; 
 
 Goe ask the church, they'll tell you who, 
 
 As well as blubber' d eyes can do. 
 
 Goe ask the heralds, ask the poor, 
 
 Thine eares shall hear enough to ask no more. 
 
 Then, if thine eyes bedew this sacred urne, 
 
 Each drop into a pearl will turn, 
 
 T' adorn his tomb ; or if thou canst not vent, 
 
 Thou bring' st more marble to his monument." 
 
 In Bath Abbey church : — 
 
 "In memory of Rebecca Leyborne, 
 Interred at the foot of this pillar. 
 Born June the 4th, 1698. 
 Deceased February 18, 1756. 
 A wife more than twenty-three years to Robert Ley- 
 borne, D.D. 
 ( Rector of the Churches of St. Dunstan, Stepney, 
 and of St. Ann's, Middlesex, near London ; 
 and Principal of Alban-Hall, in Oxford,) 
 
 * " Supposed to be written by Francis Quarles, as she was an elder sister 
 of tbe Poet."— Athen^um Mao., 1856. 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 Who never saw her once ruffled with anger, 
 
 Or heard her utter even a peevish word ; 
 
 "Whether pain'd, or injur' d, the same good woman, 
 
 In whose mouth, as in whose character, 
 
 Was no contradiction : 
 
 Resign' d, gentle, courteous, affable ; 
 
 Without passion, though not without sense, 
 
 She took offence as little as she gave it ; 
 
 She never was, or made an enemy ; 
 
 To servants mild ; to relations kind ; 
 
 To the poor a friend ; to the stranger hospitable ; 
 
 Always caring how to please her husband, 
 
 Yet not less attentive to the one thing needful. 
 
 How few will be able to equal, 
 
 What all should endeavour to imitate ! " 
 
 In Bath Abbey church : — 
 
 " Elizabeth Honeywood, 
 Died Feb. 9, 1812. 
 
 Mild, patient, pious, charitable, just, 
 
 Go rest in peace beside thy husband's dust. 
 
 Whilst all to whom thy memory is dear, 
 
 Bend o'er thine ashes with a silent tear. 
 
 A few short years these pensive lines they trace, 
 
 Then follow to Earth's common resting-place ; 
 
 Blest, if, like thee, to the last hour approv'd, 
 
 They live as blameless as they die belov'd." 
 
 W. Z. Bowles. 
 
 In Bath Abbey church : — 
 
 " To the deare memory of the right vertuous and 
 worthy lady, Jane, Lady Waller, sole daughter and 
 heir to Sir Richard Reynell, wife to Sir Wm. Waller, 
 Knight. 
 
 Sole issue of a matchless paire, 
 
 Both of their state and vertues heyre ; 
 
 In graces great, in stature small, 
 
 As full of spirit as voyd of gall : 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Cheerfully brave, bounteously close, 
 Holy without vain-glorious showes ; 
 Happy, and yet from envy free, 
 
 Learn' d without pride, witty, yet wise — 
 Reader, this riddle read with mee, 
 
 Here the good Lady Waller lyes." 
 
 Brittorts Bath Alley. 
 
 On the wife of Aaron Hill, Esq., who died 1731 : — 
 
 Enough, cold stone ! — Suffice her long lov'd name : 
 "Words are too weak to pay her virtue's claim. — 
 Temples, and tombs, and tongues shall waste away ; 
 And pow'rs vain pomp in mould' ring dust decay ; 
 But e'er mankind a wife more perfect see, 
 Eternity, time ! shall bury thee." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey, on a plain slab, is the follow- 
 ing inscription : — 
 
 " Mrs. Mary Hope died June 25th, 1767, aged 25 years. 
 
 Though low in earth her beauteous form decay' d, 
 My faithful Wife, my lov'd Maria's laid, 
 In sad remembrance the afflicted raise 
 ~No pompous Tomb, inscribed with venal praise. 
 To Statesmen — Warriors, and to Kings belong 
 The trophied Sculpture and the Poet's Song. 
 And these the proud, expiring, often claim, 
 Their wealth bequeathing to record their name. 
 But humble Virtue, stealing to the Dust 
 Heeds not our Lays or Monumental Bust. 
 To name her virtues ill befit my grief, 
 What was my bliss can give me no relief ; 
 A husband mourns — the rest let friendship tell, 
 Eame spread, her worth — a Husband knew it well." 
 
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GOOD WIVES. 
 
 In the church of St. Giles' s-in -the-Fields : — 
 
 "Mattz Wolff died 11th May, 1828. 
 
 God's will is done — the husband is alone, 
 
 And his young orphans mourn their Mother gone. 
 
 Her virtues — tell them not upon the tomb, 
 
 They lov'd the shade of her once happy home. 
 
 There, still in memory's fond dream, survives 
 
 The best of Mothers, and the best of Wives. 
 
 And there, through sorrow's desolating storm, 
 
 A gentle voice is heard — a voice without a form, 
 
 ' Oh weep not — nor arraign high Heaven's decree, 
 
 I cannot — it is past — return to thee ; 
 
 And thou must tarry — thou our babes must rear 
 
 In love to man, and in God's holy fear. 
 
 Must teach their little lips with thine to pray, 
 
 And guide their steps along the narrow way, 
 
 So may we meet — renew' d — redeem' d — forgiven, — 
 
 USTo Wanderer lost — a Family in Heaven.' " 
 
 In Walbach churchyard was formerly a monument 
 which bore this epitaph : — 
 
 " During three years of marriage 
 
 Maegaeet Salome, wife of G. Stotjbee, 
 
 Minister of this Parish, 
 
 Found at the Ban de la Eoche, in the simplicity 
 
 of a peaceable and useful life, 
 
 The delight of her benevolent heart ; and in her 
 
 first confinement, 
 
 The grave of her youth and beauty, 
 
 She died, August 9, 1764, aged 20 years. 
 
 Near this spot 
 
 Her husband has sown for immortality all that was 
 
 mortal ; uncertain whether he is more sensible 
 
 of the grief of having lost, 
 
 Or the glory of having possessed her." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 BAD WIVES. 
 
 On a bad wife : — 
 
 "Here rests my spouse, no pair through life, 
 So equal liv'd as we did; 
 Alike we shared perpetual strife, 
 Nor knew I rest till she did." 
 
 On ATr. James's wife, whose maiden name was \Yild : — 
 
 " Entombed here lies my dearest dame, 
 I woo'd her wild and made her tame, 
 So here she lies without bed or blanket, 
 Dead as a door nail, God be thanked." 
 
 In Hadleigh church, Suffolk : — 
 
 " To free me from domestic strife 
 Heath call'd at my house, but he spoke with my wife. 
 SrsAx, wife of David Pattisox, lies buried here. 
 Oct. 19, 1706. 
 Stop, reader, and if not in a hurry, shed a tear." 
 
 "Here lies my wife, 
 Poor Molly, let her lie; 
 She finds repose at last, 
 And so do 7." 
 
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BAD WIVES. 
 
 On a scold (from the French) : — 
 
 " Here lies my wife ; and heaven knows, 
 Not less for mine than her repose." 
 
 Another (from the French) : — 
 
 "Here lies my wife, 
 
 A fact that must tell, 
 
 For her repose 
 
 And for mine as well." 
 
 Here lies, thank God, a woman, who 
 Quarrell'd and storm' d her whole life through ; 
 Tread gently o'er her mouldering form, 
 Or else you'll rouse another storm." 
 
 "Beneath lies my wife, 
 Whose death is my life." 
 
 In Horsleydown church, Cumberland : — 
 
 "Here lie the bodies 
 Of Thomas Bond, and Mary his wife. 
 
 She was temperate chaste, and charitable ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 she was proud, peevish, and passionate. 
 She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 her husband and child, whom she loved, 
 
 seldom saw her countenance without a disgusting frown, 
 
 whilst she received visitors, whom she despised, 
 
 with an endearing smile. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Her behaviour was discreet towards strangers ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 imprudent in her family. 
 Abroad, her conduct was influenced by good breeding ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 at home, by ill temper. 
 
 She was a professed enemy to flattery, 
 And was seldom known to praise or commend ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 The talents in which she principally 
 excelled, 
 were difference of opinion, and discover- 
 ing flaws and imperfections. 
 
 She was an admirable economist, 
 
 and without prodigality, 
 
 dispensed plenty to every person in her family ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle. 
 
 She sometimes made her husband happy 
 with her good qualities ; 
 
 BUT, 
 
 much more frequently miserable with 
 her many failings ; 
 insomuch, that in thirty years cohabita- 
 tion, he often lamented, 
 that, maugre all her virtues, 
 he had not, in the whole, eD joyed two 
 years of matrimonial comfort. 
 
 AT LENGTH, 
 
 finding she had lost the affection of her 
 
 husband, as well as the regard of her neighbours, 
 
 family disputes having been divulged by servants, 
 
 she died of vexation, July 20, 1768, 
 
 aged 48 years. 
 
 Her worn-out husband survived her four 
 
 months and two days, 
 
 and departed this life, Nov. 28th, 1768, 
 
 in the 54th year of his age. 
 
 William Bond, brother to the deceased, 
 
 erected this stone, 
 
 as a weekly monitor to the surviving 
 
 wives of this parish, 
 
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BAD WIVES. 
 
 that they may avoid the infamy 
 
 of having their memories handed down to 
 
 posterity 
 
 with a patch- work character." 
 
 In Sonth Petherwin churchyard, in Cornwall :— 
 
 " Beneath this stone lies Huhpheey and Joan, 
 Who together rest in peace, 
 
 Living indeed 
 
 They disagreed, 
 But now all quarrels cease." 
 
 Here lies Thomas — and his Wife 
 
 Who led a pretty jarring life, 
 
 But all is ended — do you see, 
 
 He holds his tongue — and so does she." 
 
 On a scold : — 
 
 How apt are men to lye ! how dare they say, 
 When life is gone, all learning fleets away ? 
 Since this glad grave holds Chloe fair and young, 
 Who where she is, first learnt to hold her tongue." 
 
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EPITAPHS ETC. 
 
 LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 At Dunstan, in Xorfolk : — 
 
 " Here lies a noble pair, who were in name, 
 In heart and mind and sentiments the same 
 The arithmetic rule then can't be trne, 
 For one and one did never here make two." 
 
 In Eotherham chnrchyard : — 
 
 " "We joined was in mutual love, 
 And so we did remain, 
 Till parted was by God above, 
 In hopes to meet again." 
 
 In Ashbourne church, Derbyshire, is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " To the Memory of Sir Brook Boothby, Bart, 
 and Dame Phebe his wife, he died 1789, and she 1788. 
 
 "Here, blameless pair, with mild affections blest, 
 Belov'd, respected, much lamented, rest. 
 Life's shelter' d vale secure in peace ye trod, 
 Your practice, virtue ; your reliance, God. 
 Long days, long loves, indulgent Heaven bestow' d 
 And sweet content to gild your calm abode : 
 Friends, who through life their faith unalter'd kept ; 
 Children, who lov'd, who honoured, and who wept. 
 Heroes, and kings, life's little pageant o'er, 
 Might wish their trophied marbles were no more." 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 In Worling worth churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 William Ling died Aug. 15th, 1827, aged 26 years. 
 Sarah Ling died May 22nd, 1828, aged 24 years. 
 
 If truth and innocence deserve a tear, 
 
 Stop, gentle passenger, and drop it here : 
 
 Here sweetly sleeps a pair snatch' d soon from life, 
 
 A pattern fair for man, for maid, for wife. 
 
 May weeping friends, that shall approach this grave 
 
 Those virtues imitate — tears could not save." 
 
 In Wickham Market churchyard : — 
 
 "James Chuechyaed died March 5, 1851, aged 60. 
 Sophia Chuechyaed, his wife, died June 27, 1851 ; 
 aged 59. 
 In this cold bed, here consummated are, 
 The second nuptials of a happy pair, 
 "Whom envious death once parted, but in vain, 
 For now himself hath made them one again 
 Here wedded in the grave ; and 'tis but just 
 That they that were one flesh, should be one dust." 
 
 At Hackney, on a loving pair, named Loste; he died 
 Nov., 1811, aged 85 years: — 
 
 " These were a pair too scarce in modern life — 
 A husband fond, an ever faithful wife : 
 Together four and fifty years they trod 
 The path of rectitude that leads to God ; 
 Almost together down they sank to rest, 
 And rise to life immortal with the blest." 
 
 The following inscription is copied from a churchyard 
 in Essex : — 
 
 " Here lies the man Eichaed 
 And Maey his wife : 
 Their surname was Peitchaed, 
 They liv'd without strife. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 And the reason was plain, 
 
 They abounded in riches ; 
 They had no care or pain, 
 
 And the wife wore the breeches/' 
 
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 On sauntering Jack and idle Joan ( by Matthew 
 Prior) : — 
 
 "Interr'd beneath this marble stone 
 Lie sauntering Jack and idle Joan. 
 While rolling threescore years and one 
 Did round this globe their courses run : 
 If human things went ill or well, 
 If changing empires rose or fell, 
 The morning past, the evening came, 
 And found this couple still the same. 
 They walk'd, and ate, good folks ; what then ? 
 Why, then they walk'd and ate again. 
 They soundly slept the night away, 
 They did just nothing all the day ; 
 And having buried children four, 
 Would not take pains to try for more. 
 Nor sister either had, nor brother ; 
 They seem'd just tally'd for each other. 
 
 Their moral and economy 
 Most perfectly they made agree ; 
 Each virtue kept its proper bound, 
 Nor trespass'd on the other's ground. 
 Nor fame, nor censure they regarded ; 
 They neither punish' d nor rewarded. 
 He cared not what the footman did ; 
 Her maids she neither prais'd nor chid; 
 So every servant took his course, 
 And bad at first they all grew worse. 
 Slothful disorder fill'd his stable, 
 And sluttish plenty deck'd her table. 
 Their Beer was strong ; their wine was Port ; 
 Their meal was large ; their grace was short. 
 They gave the poor the remnant meat, 
 Just when it grew not fit to eat. 
 
 They paid the church and parish rate, 
 And took, but read not the receipt ; 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 For which they claim' d their Sunday's due, 
 Of slumbering in an upper pew. 
 
 No man's defects sought they to know, 
 So never made themselves a foe : 
 No man's good deeds did they commend, 
 So never rais'd themselves a friend. 
 Nor cherish' d they relations poor ; 
 That might decrease their present store : 
 Nor barn nor house did they repair ; 
 That might oblige their future heir. 
 
 They neither added nor confounded ; 
 They neither wanted, nor abounded. 
 Each Christmas they accounts did clear, 
 And wound their bottom round the year. 
 Nor smile nor tear did they employ 
 At news of public grief or joy. 
 When bells were rung, and bonfires made, 
 If ask'd, they ne'er denied their aid : 
 Their jug was to the ringers carried, 
 Whoever either died or married : 
 Their billet at the fire was found, 
 Whoever was deposed or crown' d. 
 
 Nor good, nor bad, nor fools, nor wise, 
 They would not learn, nor could advise : 
 Without love, hatred, joy, or fear, 
 
 They led a kind of as it were : 
 
 Nor wish'd, nor cared, nor laugh' d nor cried 
 And so they lived, and so they died." 
 
 In Rushden church, Northamptonshire, is a finely 
 sculptured marble monument to the memory of Robert 
 Pemberton, Esq., and his lady : — 
 
 " She died 30th July in the yeare of grace 1608, 
 he — 18th April 1609. 
 
 What man and wife were, or may after be, 
 Onnto the other, (even such two were we ;) 
 Eull forty years we husband were and wife, 
 All which faire time we lived without a strife ; 
 And on our deathbeds it was hardly geste, 
 Which had to other greater love exprest : 
 I kind and loving to her, to me thus 
 She tender-hearted, myld, and vertuous ; 
 
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 "We had eight children to augment our joyes, — 
 For her four daughters, and for me four boyes ; 
 By God's grace we soe evenly were payrd, 
 As that in sexes equally we shar'd : 
 Not a year after that to heaven she went, 
 But me my Maker thether to her sent." 
 
 In Saint Michael's churchyard, Norwich, on John- 
 Baker and Priscilla his wife, and 10 of their children 
 who died in their infancy : — 
 
 " He died February 10th, 1827. 
 
 She first deceased, he for a little tried 
 
 To live without her liked it not — and died." 
 
 In the parish church of Colmworth, Bedfordshire, is 
 a very magnificent monument, erected in 1641, by Lady 
 Dyer, in memory of her deceased husband, Sir ¥m. 
 Dyer, Knight, upon which are inscribed the following 
 lines : — 
 
 " My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day 
 Afford thy drowsy patience leave to stay 
 One hour longer, so that we might either 
 Have sat up or gone to bed together ? 
 But since thy finished labour hath possessed 
 Thy weary limbs with early rest, 
 Enjoy it sweetly and thy widow bride 
 Shall soon repose her by thy slumbering side ; 
 Whose business now is only to prepare 
 My nightly dress, and call to prayer. 
 Mine eyes wax heavy, and the day grows old ; — 
 The dew fails thick ; my blood grows cold. — 
 Draw, draw the closed curtains, and make room, 
 My dear, my dearest dust, I come, I come !" 
 
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 On Stephen and Mary his wife : — 
 
 " Here lies honest Stephen with Mart his bride, 
 Who merrily lived, and cheerfully died ; [able, 
 
 They laughed and they loved, and drank while they were 
 But now they are forced to knock under the table. 
 This marble which formerly served them to drink on, 
 Kow covers their bodies — a sad thing to think on, 
 That do what one can to moisten our clay, 
 'Twill one day be ashes, and moulder away." 
 
 In Chatham churchyard a man had buried two wives ; 
 after stating the name and age of the first, he added : — 
 
 " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, 
 blessed be the name of* the Lord." 
 
 ( In a few years his second wife died : and following 
 her name and age, is ) : — 
 
 " I called upon the Lord, and he heard me, and 
 delivered me out of all my troubles." 
 
 In Bremhill churchyard, Wiltshire, on an old man 
 and his wife (by the Rev. W. L. Bowles, the poet, vicar 
 of Bremhill ) : — 
 
 "My Father — my poor Mother — both are gone — 
 And o'er your cold remains I place this stone. 
 In memory of your virtues. May it tell 
 How long one parent lived ; * and loth how well. 
 And of my Mother A memorial be, 
 Of all I owe in this sad world to thee : 
 How poor, alas ! this tribute to thy love 
 Whose best and brightest Record is above." 
 
 The father lived to be 87. 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 By a widow, on her husband : — 
 
 " Thou wast too good to live on earth with me, 
 And I not good enough to die with thee." 
 
 On Sir Arthur Hesilrige, Bart., and his 2 wives. 
 In the chancel of Noseley church, Leicestershire, is a 
 tombstone of black and white marble, with the effigies 
 of three persons — a man in armour, and two women. 
 On the pedestal are the figures of twelve persons kneel- 
 ing, the children of Sir Arthur Hesilrige, by his two 
 wives, as described in the following inscription : — 
 
 "Here lyes Sir Arthur Hesilrige, Baronet, who 
 enjoyed his portion of this life in ye time of greatest 
 civill troubles yt ever this nation had. He was a lover 
 of liberty, and faithful to his country. He delighted 
 in sober company ; and departed this life 7th of January, 
 in England's peaceable year Anno. Dom. 1660. 
 
 Here lyes Dame Prances Hesilrige, daughter of 
 Thomas Elmes, of Lilford, in ye county of Northampton, 
 Esq. She was charitable, prudent, virtuous, and a loving 
 wife. Sir Arthur Hesilrige had by her 2 sons and 2 
 daughters. She dyed in the year 1632. — 
 
 Here lyes Dame Dorothea Hesilrige, sister to 
 Robert Greevil, Lord Brooke, and Baron of Beauchamps 
 Court. God gave to her true and great wisdome, and 
 a large and just heart : she did much good in her gene- 
 ration. Sir Arthur Hesilrige had by her three sons and 
 five daughters. She left this life ye 28 of January, 
 1650." — Cooke's Tocography of Leicestershire. 
 
 In a churchyard near Newmarket, are buried by the 
 side of each other, the two wives of Tom Sexton, who 
 had placed on the tombstone of one of them this epi- 
 taph : — 
 
 " Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton, 
 She was a good soul, and never vex'd one ; 
 But I can't say as much of her at the next stone." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a loving couple, in the churchyard of Great Glem- 
 ham, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Entomb' d in earth, beneath this humble shrine, 
 Lies all that's mortal, nothing that's divine. 
 Virtue's pursuits, were all their gen'rous ends, 
 The best of parents, and the best of friends. 
 Like corn they're sown upon the dreary plain, 
 Which lives to die, and dies to live again." 
 
 At Loch Rausa :- 
 
 Here lies Donald and his Wife, 
 Janet Mac-Fee, 
 Aged 40 hee 
 Aged 30 shee." 
 
 In the churchyard of Great Yarmouth : — 
 
 "Henry Geoege died May 15th, 1849, aged 24. 
 Here, — in awful stillness of the tomb, 
 Rests a loved husband who perish' d in his bloom. 
 Belov'd and mourn' d, no art could save : — 
 The will of Heaven appoints this early grave. 
 Ah ! dear Husband, could my pen reveal 
 Your worth, your virtues, and the loss I feel. 
 But words are vain, my heart alone can bear 
 The lov'd impression of jout image there." 
 
 In the churchyard of St. Giles's-in- the -Fields, Lon- 
 don, on the tomb of Mrs. Susannah Barly and her 
 husband : — 
 
 Hope, stranger ! hope- 
 Still let us hope. " 
 
 -though the heart breaks, 
 
 
LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 In St. Mary's churchyard, Bury St. Edmunds, on 
 Elizabeth and Thomas Neave, and five of their chil- 
 dren : — 
 
 " Earth walks on earth, like glittering gold, 
 Earth says to earth — we are but mould, 
 Earth builds on earth — Castles and towers, 
 Earth says to earth, all shall be ours.* 
 
 Their ends were full of 
 
 Peaceful tranquility in 
 
 the hopes of a joyful 
 
 Resurrection." 
 
 In East Grinstead churchyard, Sussex : — 
 
 " In Memory of Russell Hall 
 
 And Mary his Wife. 
 
 He died March 25, 1816, 
 
 Aged 79 years. 
 
 She died August 22, 1809, 
 
 Aged 58 years. 
 
 The Ritual stone thy children lay 
 
 O'er thy respected dust, 
 Only proclaims the mournful day 
 
 "When we our parents lost. 
 
 To copy thee in life we'll strive, 
 And when we that resign, 
 
 May some good-natured friend survive 
 To lay our bones by thine." 
 
 In St. Nicholas churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 "¥i. Pouter died October, 1834, aged 62. 
 
 Wife, children, friends, will drop affliction's tear, 
 And bless his memory that resteth here : 
 The husband, father, friend, sincere was he, 
 In deed and word, he was what these should be. 
 
 * There is a similar one in Melrose Abbey, on James Ramsay, said to be 
 the Architect who planned the Abbey. The date is 1751. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Such was his private and his public life — 
 Was mild, but firm ; was just, but free from strife. 
 He's gone to happier realms ; we bow content 
 Tho' such domestic loss we must lament. 
 Death wing'd the shaft, behold the victim slain, 
 He felt the blow a blessing ; we, a pain." 
 
 Also, in the above churchyard : — 
 
 " Geoege Geoom died August 29, 1849, aged 27. 
 
 Prepare thee, partner of my joys and woes 
 To follow and partake of my repose. 
 As thou hast shar'd my gladness and my gloom/ 
 So must thou share with me the silent tomb. 
 
 I yet shall rise, and wing my way with thee, 
 Through the bright realms of immortality : — 
 And say, when I before my God appear, 
 ' The woman that thou gavest me is here.' " 
 
 In Bewdly churchyard, "Worcestershire : — 
 
 "Low beneath the greensward, oh ! 
 Lies the wife of Thomas Eowe ; 
 Her body's here, her soul's in heaven, 
 17 hundred 67." 
 
 In Bakewell church, Derbyshire, at the west end, on 
 a table monument, this inscription occurs : — 
 
 " An old man and his two wives occupy this tomb, 
 where, undisturbed by the jealous cares of life, they 
 sleep together lovingly ( so says the inscription which 
 covers nearly one side of the tomb). 
 
 Know, posterity, that on the 8th of April, in the year 
 of grace, 1757, the rambling remains of the above said 
 
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 John Dale, were, in the 86 th year of his pilgrimage, 
 laid upon his two wives. — 
 
 This thing in life might cause some jealousy, 
 
 Here all three sleep together lovingly, 
 
 Here Sarah's chiding John no longer hears, 
 
 And old John's rambling, Sarah no more fears : 
 
 A period's come to all their toilsome lives, 
 
 The good man's quiet still are both his wives." 
 
 In a small churchyard, near Folkstone, in Kent : — 
 
 " To the memory of my four wives, who all died 
 within the space of ten years, but more pertwlcler to the 
 last Mrs. Sally Horne, who has left me and four dear 
 children ; she was a good, sober, and clean soul, and may 
 i soon go to her. a.d. 1732. 
 
 Dear wives, if you and i shall all go to heaven, 
 The Lord be blest, for then we shall be even. 
 
 William Joy Horne, Carpenter." 
 
 In Crich churchyard, Derbyshire, on Mrs. Wheat- 
 croft: — 
 
 " Behold where she a saint doth lie 
 From all affliction freed, 
 She liv'd an heavenly life below 
 An Israelite indeed." 
 
 In America: the following epitaph, copied from a 
 tombstone in the village of Fulton, Oswego county, 
 United States, is a curiosity, and shows the progress of 
 the age in which we live : — 
 
 " In Memory of the Earthly House or Tabernacle of 
 Sarah A. which fell September 6th, 1847, which had 
 been standing 37 years and 5 months. Her Psychology, 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 was the wife of Henry C. Hibbard, and daughter of 
 Thomas and Mary Foster. John xi. v. 26. And who- 
 soever liveth and belie veth in me shall never die. 
 Believest thou this ? Yes,[SARAH lives." 
 
 In Matlock churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " To the memory of Sakah, wife of George Smith, 
 who departed this life Oct. 25, 1831, in the 57th year 
 of her age. 
 
 Short was her time in single life, 
 Six times seven years she was a wife. 
 Death did but little warning give, 
 Her faith was such, she died to live." 
 
 In Old St. Paul's Cathedral, on William Lambe and 
 his three wives. The following inscription was found 
 upon a monument fixed to a pillar in Old St. Paul's, 
 and is taken from a MS of the 17th century : — 
 
 " William Lambe, so sometime was my name, 
 "Who whiles alive did runne my mortal race, 
 Serving a Prince of most immortal fame, 
 Henry the Eighth, who of his princely grace, 
 In his Chapell allowed me a place. 
 By whose favoure, from Gentleman to Esquire, 
 I was preferred, with worship for my hire. 
 "With wives three I did joyne in Wedlock's band, 
 Which all, alive, true Lovers were to me, 
 Jo ax, Alice, and Jo ax ; for so they came to hand, 
 What needeth prayse regarding their degree ; 
 In wively truth none stedfast more could be, 
 Who, though in Earth, death's force did once dissever, 
 Heaven yet, I trust, shall join us all together. 
 Lambe of God, which smne did take away, 
 And as a Lambe, was offered up for sinne, 
 Where I, (poore Lambe) went from thy flock astray, 
 Yet thou, good Lord, vouchsafe thy Lambe to winne 
 Home to thy folde, and hold thy Lambe therein ; 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 That, at the day, when Lambes and Goats shall sever, 
 Of thy choice Lambes, Lambe may be one for ever. 
 
 (At the foot of the monument was the following couplet) : 
 
 I pray you all that receive bread and pence, 
 To say the Lord's prayer before you goe hence." 
 
 Tim Bobbin's grave. It is not generally known that 
 the following is inscribed on the stone covering Tim 
 Bobbin's grave in the parish churchyard at Rochdale, in 
 Lancashire : — 
 
 " Here lies John and with him Mary, 
 Cheek by jowl and never vary ; 
 No wonder they so well agree, 
 Tim wants no punch, and Moll no tea." 
 
 Notes and Queries, March 10, 1855. 
 
 At Newington, in Surrey : — 
 
 "Ann Eoscoe died 31st August, 1802, aged 40. 
 She mourn' d the absence of her husband dear, 
 She sigh'd, and pin'd, and shed the silent tear, 
 That nought could save her health's decay, 
 "While her fond partner was so far away ; 
 Tho' fame ofttimes proclaim' d the warrior's name, 
 Yet his long absence still increas'd her pain ; 
 And the wish'd day he hail'd his native shore, 
 "Was the sad day his consort was no more." 
 
 In "Westbury churchyard : — 
 
 "I'll visit oft this dark abode 
 And drop a tear upon the sod 
 Where now her wearied limbs are blest 
 "With sweet repose and sacred rest. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Yes ! to my heart this dust is dear, 
 
 To know my mother moulders here. 
 
 Doom'd to drink deep the stream -which flows 
 
 To all, and shunn'd by none in vain, 
 
 God pitied all thy future woes 
 
 And took thee back again." 
 
 At Newington, in Surrey : — 
 " Susannah Eobixson, died Aug. 27, 1799, aged 53. 
 
 Weep not for me, my husband dear, 
 
 For I am gone to rest ; 
 The Lord thought fit me to afflict 
 
 With a cancer in my breast. 
 
 I many months did torture bear 
 
 With fortitude and pain ; 
 My Doctor tried his best of skill : 
 
 And though it proved in vain, 
 
 Farewell, my dear ! pray dont you fear, 
 
 The Lord he will you bless : 
 I hope to meet you once again, 
 
 In happiness and bliss." 
 
 At Cheltenham, on a woman and her three daughters : — 
 
 " Here lie I and my three daughters, 
 All from drinking the Cheltenham waters. 
 "While if we had kept to the Epsom salts, 
 We should not now be in these here vaults." 
 
 Inscription on Mrs. Fitzgerald's tablet, in B 
 
 church : — 
 
 " By the free mercy of God in Christ Jesus, she was 
 called out of nature's darkness into the true knowledge 
 of the Saviour, • as her Atonement, Sanctiner, and Ex- 
 ample. (Col 1. 13; 1 Cor 1. 13.) 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 Prom the year 1828, when her conversion began, 
 (John 3. 3) to the time of her departure, her path shone 
 more and more brightly (Prov 4. 10) as Jesus the Sun 
 of Eighteousness arose in his glory upon her soul. (Mai 
 4. 2.) It was, however, during a wasting consumption 
 of two years and three months duration, that the Holy 
 Spirit was seen perfecting the work which he had begun 
 (Phil 1. 6), Irving in frequent communion with her hea- 
 venly Father, through his Son (1 John 1.3) and search- 
 ing his Scriptures with daily earnestness, (John 5. 39) 
 her deportment became serene, exalted, heavenly. (Phil 
 2. 20.) The character of her piety was deep and modest; 
 it was less in word than in deed. (1 John 3. 18.) She 
 esteemed herself lowest in the kingdom of Christ. 
 (Ephes 3. 8.) She said ' I go into heaven as a penitent 
 sinner, with the dying thief.' — Meek devotion sat even 
 in her countenance ; pervaded her whole conduct, and 
 stole on her heart by its gentle influence. (1 Peter 3. 24) 
 She was truly a lamb in the Eedeemer's flock : * Gathered 
 in his arm, carried in his bosom.' (Is 40. 11.) During 
 the last winter of her earthly pilgrimage, we beheld her 
 gradually adorned with Christ's image, and prepared for 
 his more immediate presence ; ' clothed with fine linen, 
 clean and white ; which is the righteousness of saints.' 
 (Eev 19. 7). 
 
 The things of this world sank into insignificance, 
 while she gazed on her God, crucified for sinners, and 
 panted to depart and be with Christ. (Phil 1. 23) It 
 pleased God to give her such foretastes of coming blessed- 
 ness as few enjoy. A week before her departure, 
 heaven seemed open to her ; like Stephen, she ' saw the 
 glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of 
 God.' ( Acts 7. 55.) Triumphing gloriously in her 
 beloved Saviour, she said, ' Surely this cannot be death ! 
 Jesus is with me in the dark valley ; he has blotted out 
 all my sins as a thick cloud. Come, Lord Jesus ; come 
 quickly.' ( 1 Cor 15. 35. Ps 23. 4 ; Is 43. 25; Eev 
 22. 20.) Her last words were these 'I shall now fall 
 asleep in Jesus ; and under me are the everlasting arms, 
 and over me his banner is love.' ( 1 Thes 4. 15 : Deut 
 33. 27;) 
 
 Eeader ! would you die her death, you must live her 
 life. To her to live was Christ. (Phil 1. 21.)" 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Inscription on a monument in ono of the old parish 
 churches, Sculcoates, near Hull : — 
 
 "In a vault 
 
 Behind this stone, lies the body of Mrs. Jane Delamotte, 
 
 who departed this life, January the tenth, 1761. 
 
 She was a poor sinner, but not wicked ; 
 
 ungodly, but not unrighteous ; 
 
 without holiness proceeding from good works ; 
 
 and departed in the faith of the Catholic Church, 
 
 in full assurance of eternal happiness, 
 
 by the agony and bloody sweat, 
 
 by the cross and passion, by the precious death and burial, 
 
 by the glorious resurrection and ascension, of our 
 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey is a monument to lady Cathe- 
 rine Walpole, who died in 1 736. It bears this inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " To the memory of Catherine, Lady Walpole, 
 eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esq. of Rybrook, in 
 Kent, and first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards 
 Earl of Orford. 
 
 Horace, her youngest son, consecrates this monument. 
 She had beauty and wit, without vice or vanity, and 
 cultivated the arts without affectation. She was devout, 
 without bigotry to any sect ; and was without prejudice 
 to any party, though the wife of a Minister, whose 
 power she esteemed but when she could employ it to 
 benefit the miserable, or to reward the meritorious. She 
 loved a private life, though born to shine in public ; 
 and was an ornament to courts, untainted by them." 
 
 In the churchyard of Christ church, Hants : — 
 
 "James Welshman departed this life June 21st, 1714, 
 Who lived to be a Joyful Father of Seven Sons and 
 Four Daughters by his wife Elizabeth. 
 
 The better part of me is gone 
 
 My sun is set, my turtle flown." 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 In the cemetery of Pere la Chaise are two tombstones 
 standing together, which emit two hands, that join 
 affectionately. One tombstone records the husband's 
 death, — the other the names of the surviving wife : on 
 the husband's stone is written : — 
 
 " I await my wife. 
 
 Another French epitaph, written by a surviving 
 love : — 
 
 " Hast thou found the Heaven 
 That I have lost ?" 
 
 Epitaph : — 
 
 " Freed from this maze, this dream of life, 
 Interr'd here lies a mother and a wife. 
 With Christ her Lord, she now enjoys above, 
 The fruits of patience, faith, and heavenly love." 
 
 On Mika: — 
 
 "Here Mira lies, though no stone marks the place 
 With long detail of her illustrious race ; 
 No venal bard, in elcgiack rhymes, 
 Records her virtue to succeeding times. 
 Yet she shall live, when fun'ral trophies fade, 
 And the pale bust stands mould' ring in the shade ; 
 Secur'd by friendship, blazon' d on each heart, 
 Her name, like Myrrh, will fragrancy impart ! 
 Yirtue and nature lent her every charm 
 That could the judgment please, or passions warm ; 
 Death, tho' a tyrant, sigh'd to give the blow, 
 And own'd perfection was no more below." 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 " I visited Greenwood cemetery a few days ago, and 
 found many new monuments, one of which interested 
 me particularly, from the cheerful simplicity of its Epi- 
 taph — The body of a mother and child rested beneath 
 the marble, and on it was inscribed the words : — 
 
 1 Is it well with thee ? Is it well with the child ? 
 And she answered, It is well. 2 Kings iv. 26.' 
 
 This gives pleasant indication of real faith in immor- 
 tality : like the Moravians who never inscribe on their 
 tombs the day when a man was born, and when he died, 
 but simply ' the day he came hither, and the day he 
 went home.' Why christians should have chosen a 
 skull and cross-bones for their emblem of death, seems 
 incomprehensible. The Greeks, notwithstanding their 
 shadowy faith in a future existence, represented death 
 as a gentle and beautiful youth : sometimes as a sleep- 
 ing winged child, with an inverted torch resting on a 
 wreath of flowers." — Mrs. Child 's Letters from New York. 
 
 In Worlingworth churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Maey Ling died Oct, 10th, 1833, aged 59. 
 
 M ercy good Lord, is all we can desire, 
 A mazing is thy greatness and thy power. 
 K ejoice ye Angels in his bright abode, 
 Y onder's the throne of your Eternal God. 
 
 L inger not my soul about this mortal clay, 
 
 I ndulge no vain desire thyself to stay. 
 
 IN" o real blessing can this world afford ; 
 
 G o claim the realms of bliss : rest near thy God. 
 
 The above Acrostic was composed 
 by the Deceased." 
 
 On a woman in Silton churchyard, Devonshire :■ 
 
 " Here lies a piece of Christ, 
 
 A star in dust. 
 
 A vein in gold - - - a china dish, 
 
 That must 
 
 Be used in Heaven when God 
 
 Shall feast the just." 
 
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LOVING COUPLES. 
 
 In INTewington churchyard, and in St. Mary's church- 
 yard, Lambeth: — 
 
 " God takes the good, too good to stay ; 
 The had he leaves, too bad to take away." 
 
 On Mrs. Little, inscribed on a monument in Eed- 
 cliffe church, Bristol (by Hannah More) : — 
 
 " could this verse her. fair example spread, 
 And teach the living while it prais'd the dead ! 
 Then, Reader, should it speak her hope divine, 
 ]STot to record her faith, but strengthen thine; 
 Then should her every virtue stand confest, 
 Till every virtue kindl'd in thy breast. 
 But if thou slight the monitory strain, 
 And she has liv'd, to thee, at least, in vain ; 
 Yet let her death an awful lesson give, 
 The dying Christian speaks to all that live. 
 Enough for her that here her ashes rest, 
 Till God's own plaudit shall her worth attest." 
 
 On Mrs. Blandford (by Hannah More) : — 
 
 Meek shade, farewell ! go seek that quiet shore 
 Where sin shall vex, and sorrow wound no more ; 
 Thy lowly worth obtains that final bliss, 
 "Which pride disdains to seek, and wit may miss, 
 That path thou'st found, which science cannot teach, 
 But faith and goodness never fail to reach ; 
 Then share the joy the words of life impart, 
 The Yision promis'd to the pure in heart." 
 
 On Mrs. Margaret Paston, of Burningham, in Nor- 
 folk (by John Dry den) : — 
 
 " So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet, 
 So ripe a judgment, and so rare a wit, 
 Require at least an age in one to meet. 
 
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 In her they met ; but long they could not stay, 
 'Twas gold too fine to mix without allay. 
 Heaven's image was in her so well express' d, 
 Her very sight upbraided all the rest ; 
 Too justly ravish' d from an age like this, 
 Now she is gone, the world is of a piece." 
 
 Mary Sidney, afterwards the amiable and accom- 
 plished countess of Pembroke, and sister of Sir Philip 
 Sidney, died Sep. 25, 1621, at an advanced age, and 
 was buried in the vaults of the Pembrokes' in the 
 Cathedral church of Salisbury ; and though no monu- 
 ment to her memory has ever been erected on the spot, 
 she has been honoured with an epitaph by Ben Jonson,* 
 perhaps better known than any other which has graced 
 the annals of the dead, and which cannot fail to perpet- 
 uate in colours durable as the language in which it 
 is written, her beauty, virtue, and mental endowments: — 
 
 "Underneath this sable hearse 
 Lies the subject of all verse : 
 Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother — 
 Death, ere thou hast kill'd another, 
 Fair, and learned, good as she, 
 Time shall throw his dart at thee." 
 
 In St. Saviour's church, London. A large tomb, 
 under a gilded arch, bears the figures of Kichard 
 Humble, alderman of London, and his two wives. On 
 the face of the tomb is inscribed a version of the 
 beautiful lines u on Man's Mortality," written by Simon 
 Wastell, (a native of Westmoreland, born about 1552, a 
 student of Oxford, and master of the free school of 
 Northampton,) but commonly attributed to Francis 
 Quarles : — 
 
 * In the Spectator, for March 26, 1712, it is said " this epitaph was writ- 
 ten by an uncertain author," but we have many times seen it attributed 
 to Ben Jonson. 
 
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 : Like to the damask rose you see, 
 Or to the blossom on the tree, 
 Or like the dainty flower of May, 
 Or like the morning of the day, 
 Or like the sun, or like the shade, 
 Or like the gourd which Jonas had ; 
 Even so is man, whose thread is spun, 
 Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. 
 The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, 
 The flower fades, the morning hasteth ; 
 The sun sets, the shadow flies, 
 The gourd consumes, and man he dies." 
 
 " Here Lieth 
 
 . The Ilight Honourable Lady Grisell Ballie, 
 
 wife of George Bailie, of Jerviswood, Esq. 
 
 eldest daughter 
 
 of the Right Honourable Patrick, Earl of Marchmont ; 
 
 a pattern to her sex, and an honour to her country. 
 
 She excelled in the character of a daughter, a wife, a 
 
 mother. 
 
 While an Infant, 
 
 at the hazard of her own, she preserved her father's life, 
 
 who, under the rigorous prosecution of arbitrary power, 
 
 sought refuge in the close confinement of a tomb, 
 
 where he was nightly supplied with necessaries, convej^ed 
 
 by her, with a caution far above her years, 
 
 a courage almost above her sex ; 
 
 a real instance of the so much celebrated lloman charity. 
 
 She was a shining example of conjugal affection, 
 
 that knew no dissension, felt no decline, 
 
 during almost a fifty year's union; 
 
 the dissolution of which she survived from duty, not 
 
 from choice. 
 
 Her conduct as a parent 
 
 was amiable, exemplary, successful, 
 
 to a degree which will not be expressed, 
 
 without mixing the praises of the dead with those of 
 
 the living, who desire that all praise, but of her, 
 
 should be silent. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At different times she managed the affairs of her father, 
 
 her husband, her family, her relations, with 
 
 unwearied application, with happy economy, 
 
 as distant from avarice as from prodigality. 
 
 Christian piety, love of her country, 
 
 zeal for her friends, compassion for her enemies, 
 
 cheerfulness of spirit, pleasantness of conversation, 
 
 dignity of mind, 
 
 good breeding, good humour, good sense, 
 
 were the daily ornaments of an useful life, 
 
 protracted by Providence to an uncommon length, 
 
 for the benefit of all who fell within the sphere of her 
 
 beneficence. 
 
 Full of years and of good works, 
 
 she died on the 6th day of December, 1746, 
 
 near the end of her 81st year, 
 
 and was buried on her birth-day, the 25th of that month." 
 
 In Darley churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 To the Memory of 
 
 JOHX LlTTLEW001>, 
 
 Coach Proprietor, late of Kew, 
 
 in the County of Surrey, 
 
 who departed this life on the 
 
 23rd of September, 1840, 
 
 aged 41 years. 
 
 Blow soft ye winds, ye wintry snows 
 
 Fly lightly o'er this tomb. 
 
 Here rests my love in calm repose 
 
 Till nature's general doom : 
 
 Oh, yet a little, then I too shall come, 
 
 And join my partner in this silent tomb ; 
 
 This only spot of all the world is mine, 
 
 And soon my dust, sweet saint, shall mix with thine 
 
 Here we shall lie in silence, free from care, 
 
 Till Jesus bids us meet him in the ah*." 
 
 On Mrs. Coebet, in St. Margaret's church, West- 
 minster. Mrs. Coebet died of a cancer in her breast, 
 
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 and was buried in the above church, in which is the 
 following inscription to her memory (written by A. 
 Pope) :— 
 
 "Here rests a woman, good without pretence, 
 Blest with plain reason, and with sober sense : 
 No conquests she, but o'er herself desired, 
 No arts essay' d, but not to be admired. 
 Passion and pride, were to her soul unknown, 
 Con vine' d that virtue only is our own. 
 So unaffected, so composed a mind ; 
 So firm, yet soft ; so strong, yet so refined : 
 Heav'n, as its purest gold, by torture, tried, 
 The saint sustain' d it, but the woman died." 
 
 In Bonsall churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " To the memory of Maey, the wife of James White, 
 of Matlock Bath, who died July 18th, 1851, aged 51 years. 
 
 'Let nothing keep you back from coming to Christ.'* 
 
 Her Faith and Patience, Love and Zeal, 
 
 Should make her memory dear ; 
 Lord, do thou our prayers fulfil 
 
 She offered for us here." 
 
 At Wester-ham, Kent : — 
 
 ' When at the judgment seat at the last day I shall stand, 
 With my two innocent sons one in each hand." 
 
 In Henbury churchyard : — 
 
 " A husband kind, and father dear, 
 Is freed from pain and worldly care, 
 
 * These words, we believe, were the last she ever uttered. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 His body moulders 'neath this sod, 
 His spirit hopes to meet his God, 
 In that blest place, where, with delight 
 He'll join in praises day and night. 
 And with his kindred spirits sing 
 Glory to the Eternal King." 
 
 Epitaph : — 
 
 " To the Memory of Eather, Mother, and I, 
 Who all of us died in one year ; 
 Eather lies at Salisbury, 
 
 And Mother and I lies here." 
 
 In St. Margaret's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 " My dear husband is gone, and soon I shall go, 
 To sleep in his arms with Jesus also." 
 
 POETS AND AUTHOBS.* 
 
 Shakspeare's monument at Stratford-upon-Avon. — 
 William Shakspeare lies buried in the chancel of the 
 parish church. The place is solemn and sepulchral ; tall 
 elms wave before the pointed windows ; and the Avon, 
 which runs at a short distance from the walls, keeps up 
 a low perpetual murmur. A flat stone marks the spot 
 where the bard is buried ; there are four lines inscribed 
 on it, said to have been written by himself, and which 
 have in them something very awful ; they are as fol- 
 low : — 
 
 * Epitaphs on several " Divines" will be found under this heading. 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 " Good Erend, for Jesus SAKE forbeare 
 To digg T-E dust EucloAsed HERE. 
 Blest be T-E mau YT spares TEs stones 
 And curst be he YT moves my bones." 
 
 Just over the grave, in a niche of the wall, is a bust 
 of Shakspeaeje, put up shortly after his death, and 
 considered as a resemblance. He is represented under 
 an arch, in a sitting posture, a cushion spread before 
 him, with a pen in his right hand, and his left rested on 
 a scroll of paper : the following Latin distich is engra- 
 ven under the cushion : — 
 
 " Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, 
 Terra tegit, populus moeret Olympus habet." 
 
 There are also the following lines on his monument : — 
 " Stay, passenger, why dost thou go so fast r 
 Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath placed 
 Within this monument ; Shakspeare, with whom 
 Quick nature died ; whose name doth deck the tomb 
 Ear more than cost ; since all that he hath writ 
 Leaves living art but page to serve his wit. 
 
 Obiit Ano. Dni 1616. 
 Mt 53. die 23 Apri." 
 
 Suakspe are's monument in Westminster Abbey. — In 
 1 740, a very noble and beautiful monument was raised at 
 the public expense in Westminster Abbey, an ample con- 
 tribution for this purpose being made upon acting his 
 tragedy of Jul his Ccesar, April 28th, 1738. The monu- 
 ment stands near the south door of the Abbey. The 
 poet is represented at full length, in the dress of his 
 time, leaning a little on his right arm, which is sup- 
 ported by a pedestal decorated with the crowned heads 
 of Henry V., Richard II., and Queen Elizabeth. At 
 the bottom of the pedestal hangs a scroll inscribed 
 with the following beautiful passage from " The Tem- 
 pest," his left hand pointing to it : — 
 
 " The cloud capp'd towers — the gorgeous palaces — 
 The solemn temples — the great globe itself, — 
 Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; 
 And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, 
 Leave not a wreck behind." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Immediately over the poet's head, in a recess of a 
 square niche, which forms the back-ground, and is sur- 
 mounted by an angular pediment, supported on brackets, 
 is the following inscription in metal figures, on a small 
 tablet of rich marble : — 
 
 " Gttltelmo Shakspeaee 
 
 Anno post mortem CXXIV 
 
 Amor Publicus Posuit." 
 
 Epitaph on Shakspeaee, written by John Milton in 
 1630, when Milton was in his 22nd year : — 
 
 "What neede my Shaespeare for his honoured Bones, 
 The Labour of an Age, in piled Stones ? 
 Or that his hallow' d Beliques should be hid 
 Under a starr-y pointing Pyramid ? 
 Deare Sonne of Memory, great Heire of Fame, 
 "What need'st thou such dull \Yitnesse of thy name? 
 Thou, in our Wonder and Astonishment, 
 Hast built thyself a live-long Monument ! 
 For whilst to th' shame of slow-endevouring Art 
 Thy easie Xumbers flow, and that each Heart, 
 Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued Booke, 
 Those Delphicke Lines, such deep Impression tooke : 
 Then, thou, our Fancy of herselfe bereaving, 
 Dost make us Marble with too much conceiving : 
 And, so sepulcher'd, in such Pomp dost lie, 
 That Kings for such a Tombe would wish to die." 
 
 The wife of Shakspeare is buried at Stratford, between 
 the grave of her husband and the north wall. The inscrip- 
 tion, engraved on a brass plate fixed to the stone, is as 
 follows : — 
 
 "Heere lyeth interred the bodye 
 
 of Aiote, wife of 
 
 Mr. William Shakspeaee, who 
 
 Departed this life the 6th 
 
 Day of August, 1623, being of the 
 
 age of 67 years. 
 
 libera, tv mater, tv lac vitaniq dedisti, 
 Yae mihi ; protanto mvnere saxa dabo : 
 
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 Qvam mallem, amoueat lapidem bonvs angel ore, 
 
 Exeat vt christi corpvs, imago tva 
 Sed nil vota valent, yenias cito christe, resurget, 
 
 Clavsa licet tvmvlo mater, et astra petet." 
 
 John Fox, the Martyrologist, was buried in the church 
 of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, where a monument was 
 erected to his memory, with a Latin inscription, thus 
 translated : — 
 
 "John Fox, 
 
 The faithful martyrologian of our English Church; 
 
 A most discreet searcher into the antiquities of histories; 
 
 A most stiff bulwark and fighter for the evangelical truth ; 
 
 Which hath revived the martyrs as so many 
 
 Phoenixes from the dust of oblivion ; 
 
 Died the 18th of April, 1587, 
 
 in the 70th year of his age. 
 
 To whose pious memory 
 
 This Monument is erected by his lamenting son, 
 
 Samuel Fox." 
 
 In the churchyard of St. John's, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
 is a tombstone erected to the memory of the poet 
 Cunningham, with this inscription : — 
 
 "Here lie the remains of John Cunningham. 
 
 Of his excellence as a Pastoral Poet, 
 
 His works will remain a Monument for Ages 
 
 Afterthis temporary Tribute of EsteemisinDustforgotten. 
 
 He died in Newcastle, Sept. 18, 1773, aged 44. 
 
 Also of his Friend and Associate, Robert Care,, Printer. 
 He died June 4, 1783, aged 45. 
 
 (At the foot of the grave is the following) 
 
 He gathered the Essence of Simplicity 
 And Raing'd it in Pastoral Verse." 
 
 James Thomson, the author of " The Seasons," &c, 
 was buried in Richmond church, where, at the west end 
 
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 of the north aisle, is a brass tal . tains the 
 
 following: — 
 
 " In the earth below thj 
 
 are the remains of 
 
 James Thome 
 
 Author of the beautiful poems, entitled 
 
 The Castle of Indolence, fyc. tifc. 
 
 Who died at Richmond on the 27th day of August, 
 
 and was buried here on the 29th, old style, 1748. 
 
 The Earl of Buchan, unwilling that so good a man 
 
 and sweet a poet should be without a memorial, 
 
 of his interment 
 
 for the satisfaction of his admirers 
 
 in the year of our Lord 1792. 
 
 Father of light and life : Thou good Supreme ! 
 teach me what is good : teach me Thyself! 
 Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 
 From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul 
 With knowled ions peace, and virtue pure; 
 
 Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss." — Winter. 
 
 nument to James Thomson, in Westminster 
 
 ' : — 
 
 On May 11th. 1762, a monument in the above place 
 was opened, erected to the memory of Thomson. It is 
 situated 1 I hakspeare's and Eowe's. There 
 
 figure of Ti: itting, who leans his left arm 
 
 on a pedestal, and holds a book with the cap of liberty 
 in his right hand. Upon the pedestal is carved a bas- 
 relief of " the which a boy points, offering 
 him a laurel crown as the reward of his genius. At the 
 feet of the figure is the ancient harp. 
 The whole is supported by a projecting pedestal ; and 
 on a panel is tl :ion : — 
 
 " James Thom- 
 MatiB 48. -7 August, 1748. 
 
 
POETS AND AUTHORS 
 
 Tutor' d by thee, sweet poetry exalts 
 Her voice to ages ; and informs the page 
 With music, image, sentiment, and thoughts 
 Never to die : 
 
 This Monument was erected in 1762." 
 
 Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, 
 has an ancient altar-tomb, with a gothic canopy, in 
 Westminster Abbey ; the inscription, in Latin, is very 
 nearly obliterated. It is thus translated : — 
 
 " Of English bards, who sung the sweetest strains, 
 Old Geoffrey Chaucer now this tomb contains : 
 For his death's date if reader thou should' st call, 
 Look but beneath, and, it will tell thee all. 
 
 25th October, 1400. 
 
 N. Brigham placed these in the name of the Muses, 
 at his own expense, 1556. 
 
 (And on a brass ledge, no longer here, were the fol- 
 lowing lines) : — 
 
 If who I was you ask, Fame shall declare ; 
 
 If Fame denies, since frail all glories are, 
 
 These stones shall speak, inscribed with pious care." 
 
 Edmund Spenser, author of "the Faerie Queen," has 
 a plain tablet, in Westminster Abbey, bearing this in- 
 scription : — 
 
 " Here lyes ( expecting the second comminge of our 
 Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of Edmund Spenser, 
 the Prince of Poets in his tyme, whose Divine spirrit 
 needs noe other witness than the works which he left 
 behinde him. He was born in London in the yeare 1553, 
 and died in the yeare 1598. 
 
 Eestored by private subscription, 1778." * 
 
 * The Countess of Dorset, 20 years after his death, erected a monument 
 to his memory, and inscribed upon it that short but beautiful inscription, 
 which the Poet Mason transferred in 1778 from Purbeck stone to statuary 
 marble, and which remains an exact imitation of the original. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Michael Drayton, poet-laureate in 1662, died in 
 1631, and in the Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, is 
 a bust of the poet, over a slab of white marble, erected 
 by the countess of Dorset, who set up Spenser's monu- 
 ment. It bears the following inscription : — 
 
 " Michael Drayton, Esq., a memorable poet of his 
 age, exchanged his laurel for a crown of glory, Anno, 1631. 
 
 Do, pious marble, let thy readers know 
 
 What they, and what their children, owe 
 
 To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust 
 
 We recommend unto thy trust. 
 
 Protect his memory, and preserve his story, 
 
 Remain a lasting monument of his glory. 
 
 And when thy ruins shall disclaim 
 
 To be the treasurer of his name, 
 
 His name, that cannot fade, shall be 
 
 An everlasting monument to thee." * 
 
 The tomb of John Gower, the poet, in St. Saviour's 
 church, Southwark, London. 
 
 " The first of our authors," according to Dr. Johnson, 
 "who may be said to have written English," and the 
 contemporary and friend of Chaucer. This tomb is among 
 the most interesting monuments of this country. It 
 consists of a canopy of three ogee arches ; within the 
 canopy four corbeils support a fan roof; and on the 
 wall at the back, under the arches, were painted three 
 female figures wearing coronets, Avith scrolls and super- 
 scriptions — now obliterated. The • first was named 
 Charity, with a couplet in black letters upon a scroll, 
 •n old French, — translated as follows : — 
 
 " In thee, who art the Son of God the Father, 
 Be he saved, that lies under this stone ! " 
 
 * In the Lives of Sacred Poets, in the reigns of James and Charles the 
 First, by R. A. Willmott, Esq. he says :— "In the folio edition of Drayton's 
 works, 1748, these verses are attributed to Ben Jonson, but they are here 
 given to Francis Quarles, upon the authority of his intimate friend, Mar- 
 shall, the ' stone-cutter of Fetter Lane,' who erected the monument, and 
 told Aubrey that Quarles was the author." 
 
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POETS AND AFTffOKS. 
 
 The second named Mercy, with the couplet : — 
 
 " good Jesu show thy mercy 
 To the soul whose hody lies here." 
 
 The third named Pity, and the couplet : — 
 
 " For thy pity, Jesu have regard, 
 And put this soul in safe keeping." 
 
 Beneath the figures was a Latin epitaph, thus trans- 
 lated : — 
 
 " His shield henceforth is useless grown, 
 To pay death's tribute slain ; 
 His soul's with joyous freedom flown, 
 Where spotless spirits reign." 
 
 Upon an altar tomb, beneath the canopy, is the recum- 
 bent effigy of " The Father of English Poetry." The 
 head rests upon three volumes, representing his writings, 
 being inscribed with the respective titles — " Yox Cla- 
 mantis," — " Speculum Meditantis," — and " Confessio 
 Amantis." On the leger of the tomb is a Latin inscrip- 
 tion, translated as follows : — 
 
 " Here lies John Gowee, Esq., a celebrated English 
 poet, also a benefactor to this sacred edifice, in the time 
 of Edward III.— and Eiohard II." 
 
 Translation of the Latin inscription on the monument 
 in "Westminster Abbey to Abraham Cowley ; he died 
 in July, 1667, in his 49th year : — 
 
 " Near this place lies Abraham Cowley, the Pindar, 
 Horace, and Yirgil of England, and the delight, orna- 
 ment, and admiration of his age : — 
 
 While, sacred bard, far worlds thy works proclaim, 
 And you survive in an immortal fame, 
 Here may you, blessed in pleasing quiet, lie ; 
 To guard thy urn may hoary Faith stand by ; 
 And all thy fav'rite tuneful Nine repair 
 To watch thy dust with a perpetual care. 
 Sacred for ever may this place be made, 
 And may no desp'rate hand presume t' invade, 
 With touch unhallow'd, this religious room, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Or dare affront thy venerable tomb : 
 Unmov'd and undisturb'd, till Time shall end, 
 May Cowley's dust this marble shrine defend. 
 
 So Irishes, and desires that wish may be sacred to 
 posterity, George, Duke of Buckingham, who erected 
 this monument to that incomparable man." 
 
 Epitaph on !Mr. Cowley (written by himself). The 
 following is a translation of that excellent epitaph, 
 wherein, with a kind of grave and philosophic humour, 
 he very beautifully speaks of himself (withdrawn from 
 the world and dead to all its interests) as of a man 
 really deceased : — 
 
 " The Livixg Author's Epitaph. 
 
 From life's superfluous cares enlarg'd, 
 
 His debt of human toil discharg'd, 
 
 Here Cowley lies, beneath this shed, 
 
 To ev'ry worldly interest dead : 
 
 \Vith decent poverty content ; 
 
 His hours of ease not idly spent ; 
 
 To fortune's goods a foe profess' d, 
 
 And hating wealth, by all caress' d. 
 
 'Tis sure he's dead; for lo ! how small 
 
 A spot of earth is now his all ! 
 
 ! wish that earth may lightly lay, 
 
 And ev'ry care be far away ! 
 
 Bring flowers, the short liv'd roses bring, 
 
 To life deceased fit offering ! 
 
 And sweets around the poet strow, 
 
 "Whilst yet with life his ashes glow." 
 
 Spectator. 
 
 Robert Dodsley, a poet and dramatic writer, died 
 of the gout, at the house of his friend Mr. Spence, 
 at Durham ; he was buried in the Cathedral church- 
 yard at that place, where an altar tomb is erected 
 to his memory, with the following inscription composed 
 by his friend, Mr. Spence : — 
 
POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 " If you have any respect 
 
 For uncommon Industry and Merit, 
 
 Regard this place ; 
 
 In which are interred the Remains 
 
 of 
 
 Ma. Robert Dodsley ; 
 
 Who, as an author raised himself 
 
 Much above what could have been expected 
 
 From one in his Rank of Life, 
 
 And without a learned Education : 
 
 And who, as a man, was scarcely 
 
 Exceeded by any, in Integrity of Heart, 
 
 And Purity of Manners and Conversation. 
 
 He left this life for a better, 
 
 September 23rd, 1764, in the 61 Year of his Age. 
 
 Samuel Butler, the author of " Hudibras, " died 
 1680, and Mr. Longueville, having unsuccessfully soli- 
 cited a subscription for his interment in Westminster 
 Abbey, buried him, at his own cost, in the churchyard 
 of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, in an unmarked grave ; 
 but about 40 years afterwards, Mr. Barber, a printer, 
 mayor of London, and a friend to Butler's principles, 
 bestowed on him a monument in Westminster Abbey. 
 It appears in Latin, and is thus translated : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Samuel Butlee, who was 
 born at Strensham, in Worcestershire, 1612, and died 
 at London, 1680 ; a man of extraordinary learning, wit, 
 and integrity : peculiar^ happy in his writings, — not 
 so in the encouragement of them. The curious inventor 
 of a land of satire amongst us, by which he plucked tho 
 mask from pious hypocrisy, and plentifully exposed the 
 villiany of rebels. The first and last of writers in his 
 way. Lest he, who (when alive) was destitute of all 
 things, should (when dead) want likewise a monument, 
 John Barber, eitizen of London, hath taken care, by 
 placing this stone over him, 1721." 
 
 Epitaph on Butler's monument, perhaps by Pope, 
 who showed his contempt for Barber, who raised 
 Butler's monument : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Eespect to Dry den, Sheffield justly paid ; 
 And noble Yillers honour' d Cowley's shade : 
 But whence this Barber ? that a name so mean 
 Should, joined with Butler's, on a tomb be seen; 
 This pyramid would better far proclaim 
 To future ages humbler Settle's* name : 
 Poet and patron then had been well pair'd — 
 The city printer, and the city bard." 
 
 Nicholas Rowe, poet-laureate and dramatist, died 
 December 6th, 1718, aged 44, and was buried in West- 
 minster Abbey, in the aisle where many of our English 
 poets are interred, over against Chaucer. He has a 
 monument in the Abbey, on which is represented the 
 genius of poetry seated, holding a book, and leaning in 
 a mournful attitude on a pedestal, on which is placed a 
 bust. The monument was erected by his wife (sculp- 
 tured by Rysbrack), and the epitaph written by Pope : — 
 
 " Thy reliques, Rowe, to this sad shrine we trust, 
 And near thy Shakspeare place thy honour' d bust. 
 Oh ! next him skilled to draw the tender tear ; 
 For never heart felt passion more sincere ; 
 To nobler sentiment to fire the brave, 
 For never Briton more disdained a slave. 
 Peace to thy gentle shade and endless rest ; 
 Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest ; 
 And blest, that timely from our scene remov'd, 
 Thy soul enjoys that liberty it lov'd." 
 
 " To these, so mourn' d in death, so lov'd in life, 
 The childless parent and the widow' d wife, 
 With tears inscribes this monumental stone, 
 That holds their ashes and expects her own." 
 
 * Settle was poet to the city of London. His office was to compose yearly 
 panegyrics upon the Lord Mayor, and versos to be spoken in the pageants. 
 The employment of city poet ceased at his death. 
 
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POETS AND AUTH011S. 
 
 Intended for Nicholas Howe (by Pope). It is neces- 
 sary to give the epitaph originally intended for Howe's 
 monument, as upon the hint expressed in the third 
 line, Dryden's monument was erected, by John Sheffield, 
 Duke of Buckingham : — 
 "Thy reliques, Bo we, to this fair urn we trust, 
 And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust : 
 Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, 
 To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. 
 Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest ! 
 Bless' d in thy genius, in thy love too blest ! 
 One grateful woman to thy name supplies, 
 What a whole thankless land to his denies." 
 
 The third line, as before stated, caused the Duke of 
 Buckingham to erect a tomb for Dryden ; for which was 
 originally intended this epitaph : — 
 
 " This Sheffield rais'd. The sacred dust below 
 "Was Dryden once: the rest who does not know?" 
 
 Which the author since changed into the plain in- 
 scription now upon it : — 
 
 "J. Dryden 
 
 Natus Aug. 9th, 1631. Mortuus Maii 1, 1701. 
 
 Johannes Sheffield, Dux Buckinghamiensis posuit." 
 
 The tomb of Henry Fielding, the novelist, at Lisbon, 
 in Portugal, who died in 1754, aged 47 years : — 
 
 " Sad and strange it seems that not a foot of English 
 ground should have been vouchsafed to cover his r - 
 mains ; and strange, also, that after his body was 
 mitted to the grave, the first attempt to pay a tribute to 
 his memory, and to mark his last resting place with ; 
 fitting memorial, proceeded from a foreigner ! The 
 Chevalier de Meyrionnet, French Consul at Lisbon, wrote 
 an epitaph on Fielding soon after his death, in the 
 French language, and proposed at his own expense to 
 erect a monument to him. Such a proposal from a 
 foreigner naturally excited a spirit of emulation amongs I 
 the numerous countrymen of the novelist residing ai 
 
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 Lisbon. A monument was accordingly placed at the 
 cost of the English factory, over the spot where all that 
 was mortal of the author of so many imperishable crea- 
 tions, has long since crumbled into dust. This tomb 
 having fallen into decay, was replaced in 1830 by a 
 more appropriate memorial, which bears the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Henricus Fielding ; luget Britannia gremio non 
 datum fcere natum." — Lawrence's Life of Fielding. 
 
 John Milton, the poet, died Nov. 8th, 1674, aged 
 66 years, and was buried in the chancel of St. Giles's 
 church, Cripplegate. There is a monument (by Ttys- 
 brack) erected to his memory in Westminster Abbey, 
 bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " In the year of our Lord Christ, 
 
 One thousand seven hundred, thirty and seven, 
 
 This Bust 
 
 of the Author of " Paradise Lost," 
 
 was placed here by "William Benson, Esquire, 
 
 one of the two Auditors of the Imprest 
 
 to His Majesty King George the Second : 
 
 formerly 
 
 Surveyor- General of the Work 
 
 to His Majesty King George the Eirst. 
 
 Rysbrack 
 was the Statuary who cut it." 
 
 In St. Giles's, Cripplegate : — 
 
 " John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, Born Dec, 
 1608, Died Nov. 1674. His father, John Milton, died 
 March, 1646. They were both interred in this church. 
 Samuel Whitbread, Posuit, 1793." 
 
 On Dr. Walker. — Dr. Walker wrote a work on the 
 English Particles, which obtained for him the short and 
 pithy epitaph — 
 
 " Here lie Walker's Particles." 
 
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 William Shenstone, the poet, died Feb. 11th, 1763, 
 aged 49, and was buried in the churchyard of Hales 
 Owen, Shropshire. A pillar is erected to his memory 
 within the church, on which is the following : — 
 
 " "Whoe'er thou art, with reverence tread, 
 These sacred mansions of the dead. 
 Not that the monumental bust 
 Or sumptuous tomb here guards the dust ! 
 Of rich, or great (let wealth, rank, birth, 
 Sleep un distinguish' d in the earth) ; — - 
 This simple urn records a name 
 That shines with more exalted fame. 
 Reader ! if genius, taste refin'd, 
 A native elegance of mind : 
 If virtue, science, manly sense, 
 If wit that never gave offence ; 
 The clearest head, the tend'rest heart, 
 In thy esteem e'er claim'd a part; 
 Ah ! smite thy breast, and drop a tear 
 For know, thy Shenstone's dust lies here." 
 
 At the Leasowes, where the poet Shenstone lived, is 
 an ornamental urn, inscribed to Miss Dolman (a beau- 
 tiful and amiable relation of Mr. Shenstone' s, who died 
 of the small-pox, about 21 years of age), in the follow- 
 ing words on one side, and is thus translated : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 a most amiable kinswoman. 
 
 Ah! Maeia! 
 
 most elegant of nymphs ! 
 
 snatch' d from us 
 
 in thy bloom of beauty, 
 
 ah ! farewell : 
 
 How much inferior 
 
 is the living conversation 
 
 of others 
 
 to the bare remembrance 
 
 of thee!" 
 
 John Gat, the poet, died Dec. 4th, 1732, aged 44, 
 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monu- 
 ment, bearing the following inscription, is erected : — 
 
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 " Life is a jest, and all things show it ; 
 I thought so once ; but now I know it. 
 
 Gay, 
 
 Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; 
 
 In wit a man ; simplicity a child : 
 
 With native humour tempering virtue's rage : 
 
 Form'd to delight at once, and lash the age : 
 
 Above temptation in a low estate, 
 
 And uncorrupted, ev'n among the great : 
 
 A safe companion, and an easy friend, 
 
 TInblam'd through life, lamented in thy end. 
 
 These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust 
 
 Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; 
 
 But that the worthy and the good shall say, 
 
 Striking their pensive bosoms Here lies Gay." 
 
 A. Pope. 
 
 "Here lye the ashes of John Gay, 
 
 The warmest friend, the gentlest companion, the most 
 benevolent man ; who maintained Independency in 
 low circumstances of Fortune; Integrity, in the midst 
 of a corrupt age ; and that equal serenity of mind which 
 conscious goodness alone can give, through the whole 
 course of his life. Favourite of the Muses, He was led 
 by them to every Elegant Art, Refined in Taste, and 
 fraught with Graces all his own. In various kinds of 
 Poetry, Superior to many, Inferior to none. His works 
 continue to inspire what his example taught, Contempt 
 of Folly, however adorned ; Detestation of Yice, how- 
 ever dignified ; Reverence for virtue, however disgraced. 
 Charles and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Queens- 
 bury, who loved this excellent person living, and regret 
 him dead, have caused this monument to be erected to 
 his memory." 
 
 Another on Gay, the poet (by Pope) : — 
 
 " Well then ! poor Gay lies under ground, 
 So there's an end of honest Jack : 
 So little justice here he found, 
 
 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back." 
 
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 Thomas Hearne, the antiquary, died June 10, 1735, 
 aged 57, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's 
 in the East, Oxford, He directed that upon his tomb- 
 stone * these two passages from Holy Writ, should be 
 engraved : — 
 
 " Remember the days of old. Consider the years of 
 many generations ; ask thy father, and he will show 
 thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee. Deu. xxxii. 7." 
 
 "For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and 
 prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : For we 
 are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our 
 days upon earth are a shadow. Shall not they teach 
 thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart ? 
 Job viii. 8-10." 
 
 Dr. Katerfelto, the conjuror, died at an Inn at 
 Bedale, in Yorkshire, when on his travels with his black 
 cat. He was buried in the church there, nearly facing 
 the altar rails ; and over his remains is a stone with this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Here Lye the Eemains 
 
 of Dr. Katerfelto, 
 
 Philosopher, 
 
 Who died November loth, 1799, 
 
 Aged 56 years." 
 
 Thomas Day, author of " Sandford and Merlon," lost 
 his life by a fall from his horse, as he was riding from 
 his house in Surrey, to his mother's at Bear Hill, in the 
 parish of Wargrave, Berkshire. He was buried in the 
 church at Wargrave, and on a handsome monument is 
 inscribed this epitaph : — 
 
 " In Memory of Thomas Day, Esq. who died Sep- 
 tember 23rd, 1789, aged 41 years, after having promo- 
 ted by the energy of his writings, and encouraged by 
 the uniformity of his example, the unremitted exercise 
 of every public and private virtue. 
 
 * His stone was repaired in 1754, by Dr. Rawlinson. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Beyond the reach of time or fortune's power : 
 Remain, cold stone, remain, and mark the hour 
 When all the noblest gifts which Heaven e'er gave, 
 Were centred in a dark, untimely grave. 
 Oh ! taught on reason's boldest wings to rise, 
 And catch each glimmering of the opening skies : 
 Oh ! gentle bosom : oh, unsullied mind ! 
 Oh, friend to truth, to virtue, to mankind : 
 Thy dear remains we trust to this sad shrine, 
 Secure to feel no second loss like thine." * 
 
 "William Cowper, the poet, was buried in East Dere- 
 ham church, Norfolk. On a monument erected by Lady 
 Hesketh, who was his administratrix, are the following 
 lines (by Hayley) : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 William Cowper, Esq. 
 
 Born in Hertfordshire, 1731, 
 
 Buried in this Church, 1800. 
 
 Ye who with warmth the public triumph feel 
 
 Of Talents, dignified by sacred zeal, 
 
 Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just, 
 
 Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper' s dust. 
 
 England, exulting in his spotless fame, 
 
 Ranks with her dearest sons his favourite name. 
 
 Sense, fancy, wit, suffice not all to raise 
 
 So clear a title to affection's praise. 
 
 His highest honours to the heart belong ; 
 
 His virtues form'd the magic of his song." 
 
 Inscription upon the monument of Lady Hesketh 
 (mentioned above), in Bristol Cathedral : — 
 
 * These verses were ■written by himself on some other occasion, and 
 placed here by his Widow, who thought them peculiarly applicable to his 
 character. 
 
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POETS AND AUTHOHS. 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the memory of 
 
 Dame Harriot, relict of Sir Thomas Hesketh, 
 
 of RufFord, in the county of Lancaster, Baronet, 
 
 who departed this life on the 15th day of Jan., 1807, 
 
 in the 72nd year of her age. 
 
 Her virtues endeared her to all who knew her, 
 
 And her Benevolence and Piety were too well known 
 
 to require Eulogium. 
 
 She was the near relative, and valued friend 
 
 of our great Moral Poet, Cowper. 
 
 And was as much distinguished by the cultivation of her 
 
 mind and the Elegance of her Manners 
 
 as by the Beneficence of her Heart. 
 
 In affectionate Respect to her Memory, 
 
 This Tablet was erected by her Great Nephew, 
 
 Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, Baronet." 
 
 In Dereham church, Norfolk : — 
 
 " In Memory of Mary, 
 
 (Widow of the Rev. Morley Unwin, and mother of the 
 
 Rev. William Cawthorne Unwin), born at Ely, 1724. 
 
 Buried in this Church, 1796. 
 
 Trusting in God, with all her heart and mind, 
 
 This woman proved magnanimously kind ; 
 
 Endur'd affliction's desolating hail, 
 
 And watch' d a poet thro' misfortune's vale. 
 
 Her spotless dust, angelic guards, defend ! 
 
 It is the dust of Unwin, Cowper' s friend ! 
 
 That single title in itself is fame, 
 
 For all who read his verse, revere her name." 
 
 William Somerville, the poet, died, aged 51, and 
 was buried at Wotton, near Henley-in-Arden, Warwick- 
 shire ; the following is on his tomb : — 
 "H. S. E. 
 Gulielmus Somerville, Arm. 
 Obiit 17th July, 1742. 
 
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 Si quid in me Boni compertum habeas imitare. 
 Si quid mali totis viribus evita Christo confide. 
 Et scias te quoque fragilem Egse etmortalem." 
 
 George Withers, the poet, died May 2nd, 1667, 
 aged 79, and was buried between the east door and 
 south end of the church, belonging to the Savoy Hos- 
 pital in the Strand. Part of the inscription, written 
 by himself is as follows : — 
 
 " Beside the issue of my brain 
 I had six children, whereof twain 
 Did live, when we divided were." 
 
 Lives of Sacred Poets. 
 
 David Hume, the celebrated historian and philo- 
 sopher, lies buried in the Calton Hill, Edinburgh, in a 
 circular tomb. The following jeu-aV esprit has been 
 written upon it : — 
 
 "Within this circular idea, 
 
 Call'd vulgarly — a tomb, 
 The ideas and impressions lie 
 
 That constituted Hume. 
 
 He died Aug. 25, 1776, aged 65 years." 
 
 The grave of Charles Churchill, the poet, in St. 
 Martin' s churchyard, Dover. "The burial place, though 
 but recently disused, had the most melancholy appear- 
 ance of desertion. Heaps of broken crockery and other 
 refuse from the adjoining houses lay at one end. Scarcely 
 a daisy would in spring look up to the sky from that 
 mould, and now not a robin was there to chant a requiem 
 for the departed summer. The graves were wet with the 
 late rains, but neither rain nor sunshine brought green- 
 ness to the sods-, for there was little grass in that dreary 
 
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 churchyard. We "wandered on amid the gloom, search- 
 ing for the spot where the last remains of the poet 
 Charles Churchill found their last resting place in 
 1764. It was long ere we could discover the lowly 
 grave ; but at length an old headstone, green with slimy 
 moss, was found, bearing the Poet's name and time of 
 decease, with the epitaph from his own poem of ' The 
 Candidate : — 
 
 ' 1764. 
 
 Here lie the remains 
 
 of the celebrated 
 
 C. Churchill. 
 
 Life to the last enjoyed 
 Here Churchill lies. 
 
 Candidate.'' 
 
 One could have wished, certainly, that that life and 
 its enjoyments had been more in accordance with the 
 dictates of virtue and religion ; for it was impossible to 
 look without sorrow on these last memorials of a man 
 of genius. But neglected as was the poet's grave now, 
 it had not been so always ; there had been an interval 
 when the last resting place of genius had been honoured, 
 and when the poet's own wish had in part been ful- 
 filled :— 
 
 ' Let one poor sprig of bay around my head 
 Bloom whilst I live, and point me out as dead ; 
 Let it — may Heaven indulgent grant my prayer ! 
 Be planted on my grave nor wither there : 
 And when on travel bound, some rhyming guest 
 Roams through the churchyard while his dinner's drest, 
 Let it hold out this comment to his eyes, 
 ' Life to the last enjoyed, here Churchill lies. ' ' 
 
 • Between 30 and 40 years since, a bay was planted 
 and for some time carefully tended on the spot. A pilot 
 from the neighbouring town of Deal, named Mowll 
 planted it there. Few who looked on the weather- 
 beaten exterior of the brave sailor, would have guessed 
 that he should have been the only one to fulfil a poet's 
 wish ; but the brave are often the gentle too, and he 
 who had many times dared the raging ocean, had a 
 thought of pity for neglected genius. Honoured be his 
 name for this touching expression of sympathy ! But 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 the bay tree did not thrive on the grave ; evergreens 
 are said not to nourish well on the soils of Dover : and 
 the sheep browsed on its young loaves, and thoughtless 
 persons broke away its shoots : and all the care of 
 the planter could not save it. Those who looked upon 
 it, tell how it always seemed drooping. Long since it 
 disappeared altogether, and when we stooped to the 
 grave to gather a blade of grass to carry off as a remem- 
 brance of Chuechill, nothing was there but a small 
 nettle ; and no raised sod marked a tomb, for the ground 
 
 was trodden to a perfect level. Lord Byron, while 
 
 his dinner was preparing at a neighbouring Inn, in 1816, 
 
 literally fulfilled the Poet's wish by visiting his grave." 
 
 Abridged from a Journal, 1854. 
 
 In Eton College chapel, the stone covering the grave 
 of Sir Heniiy "Wotton, who died Dec, 1639, aged 71, 
 preserves the following remarkable inscription, which 
 is thus translated into English : — 
 
 " Here lies the first author of this sentence, 
 
 ' May an itching for dispute be the scab (or tetter) of 
 
 the Church.' 
 
 Seek his name elsewhere." * 
 
 Ben Jonson died 1637, aged 63, and was buried in 
 the north aisle of Westminster Abbey. Over his grave 
 is cut in a stone about 14 in. square, this inscription : — 
 
 " Eare Ben Jon son." f 
 
 * Another writer pays he ordered this sentence to be inscribed on his 
 tomb, — " The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the church." 
 
 + Aubrey says, that it "-was done at the charge of Jack Young, after- 
 wards knighted, who walking there when the grave was covering, gave the 
 fellow eighteen-pence to cut it." 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 He has a monument in Poet's Corner, consisting 
 of a bust, with the buttons on the wrong side of his 
 coat ; * beneath are masks of Comedy and Tragedy ; 
 underneath the bust is the inscription — 
 
 " Rare Ben Jonson." 
 
 " "Woodstock, near Kilkenny, in Ireland, was the last 
 residence of the author of 'Psyche' (Mrs. Tighe). 
 Her grave is one of many in the churchyard of the 
 village. The river runs smoothly by ; the ruins of an 
 ancient abbey, that have been partially converted into a 
 church, reverently throw their mantle of tender shadow 
 over it." — Tales by the O'JIara Family. 
 
 Philip Massingee, the dramatic poet, died March, 
 1640, aged 56. John Fletcher, died 1625, aged 49, 
 and Francis Beaumont, 1615, aged 29; and were buried, 
 the two former in the churchyard of St. Saviour, South- 
 wark, and the latter at the entrance of St. Benedict's 
 chapel, "Westminster Abbey, without any inscription. 
 
 Elijah Fenton, the poet, who assisted Pope in the 
 translation of the " Odyssey," died 1730, aged 47, and 
 was buried in Easthampstead church, in Berkshire, 
 where a monument appears to his memory; the inscrip- 
 tion was written by Pope, and is as follows : — 
 
 * Which occasioned the following lines (by the Rev. Samuel Wesley) :- 
 " O rare Ben Jonson. — What a turn -coat grown : 
 Thou ne'er wert such, till thou wert clad in stone. 
 When time thy coat, thy only coat impairs 
 Thou'it find a patron in a hundred years. 
 Then let not this mistake disturb thy sprite, 
 Another age shall set thy buttons right." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 : This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, 
 May truly say — 'Here lies an honest man.' 
 A Poet bless' d beyond the Poet's fate, 
 Whom heaven kept sacred from the proud and great : 
 Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, 
 Content with science in the vale of peace. 
 Calmly he look'd on either life, and here 
 Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; 
 Prom Nature's temp' rate feast rose satisfied, 
 Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he dy'd." 
 
 Joh^ - Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire, died 
 Peb. 24, 1720 — 1, and was buried under a sumptuous 
 monument, in Westminster Abbey, erected by his widow. 
 Their effigies may be seen in the Abbey, in a half-raised 
 posture. A figure of Time is holding several busts in 
 relievo, being portraits of their Graces' children. The 
 following is on the tomb : — 
 
 "I lived doubtful not dissolute, 
 I die unresolved not unresigned. 
 Ignorance and error are incident to human nature. 
 I trust in an Almighty and all-good God, 
 Thou King of Kings have mercy upon me. 
 
 (Underneath) : — 
 For my King often : for my country ever." 
 
 William Falcoxer, author of "The Shipwreck," a 
 "Nautical Dictionary," and some minor poems, was lost 
 in the " Aurora Frigate" during the outward voyage to 
 India, after leaving the Cape of Good Hope, in the 
 winter of 1769, aged about 39. 
 
 In Kcnsall Green cemetery, is a monument erected to 
 the memory of Tho^ias Hood. It consists of a bronze 
 bust, elevated on a lofty pedestal of polished red granite ; 
 in front of the bust, wreaths in bronze, formed of the 
 
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 laurel, the myrtle, and the immortelle ; and on a slab 
 beneath, that well-known line of the poet, which he 
 desired should be used as his epitaph : — 
 
 "He sang the song of the shirt." 
 
 Upon the front of the pedestal is carved this inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " In Memory of Thomas Hood, born 23rd of May, 
 1798, died 3rd May, 1845. Erected by public sub- 
 scription." 
 
 At the base of the pedestal, a lyre and comic mask, 
 in bronze, are thrown together, suggesting the mingled 
 character of Hood's writings : on the sides of the pedes- 
 tal are bronze medallions, illustrating the poems of "The 
 Bridge of Sighs," and " The Dream of Eugene Aram." 
 
 Macgillivray. — " No cenotaph, no marble urn, no 
 chiselled bust, no fulsome epitaph in letters of gold, 
 mark his remains ; but a slight heave of the turf, in a 
 quiet churchyard, beside the banks of the Don, over- 
 grown with grass and wild flowers, which in life he so 
 frequently described, tells the inquisitive stranger that 
 the ashes of the author of ' British Birds, Indigenous 
 and Migratory,' repose there." — James Harley. 
 
 William Hutton, author of " The Histories of Der- 
 by and Birmingham," and many other works, and one 
 of the most remarkable characters this country ever 
 produced, died and was buried at Aston, near Birming- 
 ham, by the side of his wife ; with these simple inscrip- 
 tions placed over their tomb : — 
 
 " Here lyeth the Body of 
 
 Sarah, Wife of William Huttost, 
 
 Who died, Jan. 23rd, 1796, 
 
 aged 65. 
 
 Also, 
 
 William Hutton, who died 
 
 Sep. 20th, 1815, 
 
 aged 92 vears." 
 
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EPITAHIS, ETC. 
 
 In "Westminster Abbey is a half-length figure, with 
 dramatic devices of William Concrete, the dramatist, 
 inscribed as follows : — 
 
 " Mr. William Congreve, 
 Dyed Jan. 19, 1728, aged 56, and was buried near 
 this place : to whose most valiant Memory this Monu- 
 ment is sett up by Henrietta, Dutchess of Marlborough, 
 as a mark how dearly she remembered the happiness 
 and honour she enjoyed in the sincere Friendshipp of so 
 worthy and Honest a Man. Whose Virtue, Candour, 
 and Witt gained him the love and Esteem of the present 
 Age, and whose writings will be the admiration of the 
 Future." 
 
 George Stepney, the poet, died 1707, aged 44, and 
 was buried in Westminster Abbey, where there is a 
 monument to his memory, consisting of a sarcophagus, 
 with bust on pedestal, angels weeping, and family arms. 
 The monument contains a long inscription in Latin, 
 which may be seen in "Johnson's Life of Stepney." 
 
 On Dr. Thomas Sheridan, who died a.d. 1738, 
 aged 54 : — 
 
 " Beneath this marble stone here lies 
 Poor Tom, more merry much than wise ; 
 Who only liv'd for two great ends, 
 To spend his cash and lose his friends ; " 
 His darling wife, of him bereft, 
 Is only griev'd there's nothing left." 
 
 Bernard Barton, the sweet poet of Woodbridge, 
 lies buried in an humble and unmarked grave, in the 
 burying-ground belonging to the Quakers, at the above 
 place. 
 
 288 
 
Clara Reeve, authoress of " The Old English Baron" 
 and many other works, died Dec., 1803, aged 78, and 
 was buried in St. Stephen's churchyard, Ipswich, near 
 to the grave of her friend the Rev. Mr. Derby, whoso 
 tomb has a Latin inscription, now almost obliterated ; 
 but all trace of the exact burying place of Clara Reeve 
 has long since disappeared. 
 
 Aphra Behn, the authoress of 17 plays, besides 
 poems, tales, love-letters, and translations both in prose 
 and verse, died in 1689, and was buried in the cloisters 
 of Westminster Abbey, where this inscription appeared 
 
 on her gravestone : — 
 
 Here lies a proof that wit can never be 
 Defence enough against mortality." 
 
 Inscription on the stone over the grave of the Rev. 
 James Hervey, the popular author of "Meditations," 
 &c, in the churchyard of Wcston-Favell, Northampton- 
 shire : — 
 
 " Here lie the Remains 
 
 of the Rev. James Hervey, M.A. 
 
 late Rector of this Parish, 
 
 that very pious man 
 And much admired Author, 
 Who died Dec. 25th, 1758, 
 In the 45th year of his age. 
 
 Reader, expect no more to make him known, 
 Vain the fond elegy and figur'd stone ; 
 A name more lasting shall his writings give, 
 There view displayed his heavenly soul, and live." 
 
 Edmund Waller, the poet, and nephew of the great 
 Hampden, was buried in Beaconsfield churchyard, where 
 there is a monument erected to his memory, containing 
 a long inscription in Latin on each of the four sides. 
 That on the east side is thus translated : — 
 
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EHTArHS, ETC. 
 
 " Edmund "Waller, to whom this marble is sacred, 
 was a native of Colcshill, and a student at Cambridge, 
 his father was Robert ; his mother of the Hampden 
 family, he was born the 30th of March, 1605. His 
 first wife was Anne, only daughter and heiress of 
 Edward Banks. Twice made a father by his first wife, 
 and 13 times by his second, whom he survived 8 years; 
 he died the 21st of October, 1687." 
 
 Thomas Tickell, an English poet, died in 1 740, aged 
 54 ; and the following is inscribed on a monument at 
 Gasnevin, in Ireland (by Dr. Clancy) : — 
 
 "Read Tickell' s name, and gently tread the clay 
 Where lie his sole remains that could decay : 
 Then pensive sigh, and through fair science trace 
 His mind, adorn' d with every pleasing grace, — 
 "Worth, such as Rome would have confess' d her own ; 
 Wit, such as Athens would have proudly shown. 
 Substance to thought, and weight to fancy join'dj 
 A judgment perfect, and a taste refin'd. 
 Admired by Gay, by Addison belov'd ; 
 Esteemed by Swift, by Pope himself appro v'd ; 
 His spirit, rais'd by that sublime he knew, 
 Hence to the seat of bright perfection flew ; 
 Leaving, to sorrowful Cletilda here, 
 A mournful heart, and never ceasing tear." 
 
 The tomb of Thomas Paute, the infidel, who died June 
 8th, 1809, aged 72:— 
 
 "Xot far from Xew Rochelle, is the property which 
 the government of the United States, presented to Tom 
 Palne after his return to the United States, subsequent 
 to the French Revolution. W^e frequently passed Iris 
 tomb on the road-side, inclosed within a bit of circular 
 stone wall. The surface of the interior looks very much 
 as if Mr. Cobbett had actually earned off Mr. Paine's 
 bones ; for it is in an uneven and disordered state, though 
 now producing very beautiful wild flowers. It happens 
 strangely that, on the part of the high-road immediately 
 opposite to this burying-ground, there is a Methodist 
 meeting-house'." — Abridged from Stuarfs N. America. 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 William Collins, the poet, died in 1756, aged 36, 
 and was buried in St. Andrew's, Chichester. Dr. John- 
 son says in his "Lives of the Poets," that while 
 Collins studied to live, he felt no evil but poverty ; and 
 that he no sooner lived to study, than his life was assailed 
 by more dreadful calamities, disease and insanity. The 
 following is inscribed on a monument ( by, Plaxman) 
 erected to his memory in Chichester Cathedral, and 
 written by Mr. Hayley : — 
 
 " Ye who the merits of the dead revere, 
 Who hold misfortune sacred, genius dear, 
 Eegard this tomb, where Collins' hapless name ! 
 Solicits kindness with a double claim. 
 Though nature gave him, and though science taught 
 The fire of fancy, and the reach of thought ; 
 Severely doom'd to penury's extreme, 
 He pass'd in maddening pains life's feverish dream; 
 While rays of genius only serv'd to show 
 The thickening horror, and exalt his woe. 
 Ye walls that echoed to his frantic moan, 
 Guard the due record of this grateful stone. 
 Strangers to him, enamour' d of his lays, 
 This fond memorial to his talents raise ; 
 For this the ashes of a bard require, 
 Who touch' d the tenderest notes of Pity's lyre, 
 Who join'd pure faith to strong poetic powers, 
 Who, in reviving reason's lucid hours, 
 Sought on one book* his troubled mind to rest, 
 And rightly deem'd the book of God the best." 
 
 On a Grecian tablet of white marble, in the chancel 
 of Hucknall church, is the following inscription to the 
 memory of Lord Byron : — 
 
 " In the vault beneath 
 
 Where many of his ancestors and his mother are buried, 
 
 Lie the remains of 
 
 * The English Testament. Dr. Johnson visited him, and found him with 
 it. "I have but one book " said Collins, " but that is the best." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 George Gordon Noel Byron, 
 
 Lord Byron of Kochdale, 
 
 In the County of Lancaster : 
 
 The Author of < Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.' 
 
 He was born in London, on the 
 
 22nd of January, 1788; 
 
 He died at Missolonghi, in Western Greece, 
 
 On the 19th of April, 1824, 
 
 Engaged in the glorious attempt to restore that 
 
 country to her ancient freedom and renown. 
 
 His sister, the Honourable 
 
 Augusta Mary Leigh, 
 
 Placed this Tablet to his Memory." 
 
 My epitaph. Made when ill, in 1810 (by Lord 
 Byron) : — 
 
 " Youth, Nature, and relenting Jove, 
 To keep my lamp in, strongly strove ; 
 But Bomanelli was so stout, 
 He beat all three — and blew it out." 
 
 "Lord Byron's wishes respecting his epitaph. — In Lord 
 Byron's will, drawn up in 1811, he directed that 'no 
 inscription, save his name and age, should be written on 
 his Tomb ; ' and in 1819, he wrote thus to Mr. Murray, 
 ' Some of the Epitaphs at the Certosa Cemetery, at 
 Ferrara, pleased me more than the more splendid monu- 
 ments at Bologna, for instance, — 
 
 'Martini Luigi 
 
 Implora pace.' 
 
 Can any thing be more full of pathos ? I hope whoever 
 may survive me, will sec those two words, and no more 
 put over me.' " — Byron's Life, ly Moore, Jeffrey, Scott, 8fc. 
 
 On the monument of Bichard, the second Lord Byron, 
 who lies buried in the chancel of Hucknall-Torkard 
 church, Nottinghamshire, is the following inscription: — 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 " Beneath, in a vault, is interred the body of Bichaed, 
 Lord Byron, who, with the rest of his family, being 
 seven brothers, faithfully served King Charles the First, 
 in the civil wars, who suffered much for their loyalty, 
 and lost all their present fortunes ; yet it pleased God 
 so to bless the humble endeavours of the said Richard, 
 Lord Byron, that he re-purchased part of their ancient 
 inheritance, which he left to his posterity, with a 
 laudable memory for his great piety and charity." 
 
 The grave of Chatterton, the poet, who died by 
 poison, Aug., 1770, in his 18th year. — A correspondent 
 of the " Bristol Mercury" whose friend visited Shoe 
 Lane "Workhouse to ascertain, if possible, the precise 
 spot that covers the remains of this our much-lamented 
 bard, gives the following as the result : — 
 
 " I have paid a visit to Shoe- Lane Workhouse : but 
 all endeavours to trace which had been the resting-place 
 of that unfortunate and ill-treated youth, would be 
 useless. A stone in the wall informs you, that in Anno 
 Domini 18 — the bones of all the inmates of that bury- 
 ing-ground were collected, and thrown into one huge 
 grave, which is in the centre of the ground. There, 
 therefore, moulder his bones, undistinguishable from 
 the many." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of John Locke, the 
 
 celebrated philosopher, at Stow, Buckinghamshire : — 
 
 "John Locke, 
 
 Who best of all philosophers 
 
 Understood the power of the human mind ; 
 
 The nature, end, and bound of civil government ; 
 
 And with equal courage and sagacity, refuted 
 
 the slavish system of usurp'd authority 
 
 over the rights, the consciences, 
 
 or the reason of mankind. 
 Born 1632, and died 1704." 
 
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 In the Abbey church, Bath, Somersetshire : — 
 
 " In this City lived and died Sarah, second daughter 
 of General Henry Fielding ; by his first wife, daughter 
 of Judge Gould. 
 
 Whose writings will be known 
 As incentives to virtue and honour to her sex, 
 
 When this marble shall be dust. 
 
 She was born MDCCXIY, and died April, 
 
 MDCCLXVIII. 
 
 Her unaffected manners, candid mind, 
 
 Her heart benevolent and soul resign' d, 
 
 Were more her praise than all she knew or thought, 
 
 Though Athens' wisdom to her sex she taught. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Hoadley, her Friend, for the honour of the 
 Dead, and emulation of the Living, inscribes this deficient 
 Memorial of her virtues and accomplishments" 
 
 Copied from the preface of the Eton Greek Grammar, 
 prepared for the press by Wir. Boswoeth, of Queen's 
 College, Cambridge (who died June 19, 1825, aged 25 
 years), and published by his brother the Rev. Dr. Bos- 
 worth,' F.R.S., 1826:— 
 
 " A constant attention to the expansion of the mental 
 powers, and an anxious care to provide for the physical 
 wants, from early years, naturally add to a brotherly, a 
 paternal feeling. Those who have been placed in a 
 similar position, will scarcely blame the introduction of 
 the following lines, composed by a pupil of the editor's 
 (The Rev. Dr. Bosworth) lamented Brother, and now 
 engraved on his monument, in Etwall Churchyard, 
 Derbyshire : — 
 
 1 Taste, virtue, talent, industry, combined, 
 At once ennobled, and adorned his mind ; 
 And though, with tender care, a brother's hand 
 Had caused the buds of genius to expand ; 
 Though Heaven its dews and genial warmth supplied, 
 The tree, alas ! scarce blossom'd ere it died. 
 But not for ever ! — Faith ev'n now can see 
 Its branches flourish in Eternity.' " 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 Matthew Prior died at Wimpolc, and was buried 
 in Westminster Abbey. He left £500 for a monument 
 to be erected to his memory in the Abbey, which was 
 accordingly done ; it consists of a bust resting on a 
 sarcophagus, supported by Thalia and History ; at the 
 top are two infants. On the monument is a long in- 
 scription in Latin, giving a detail of the principal 
 events of his life, which is thus translated : — 
 
 " Whilst he was planning a history of his own times, 
 a slow fever put an end to his life, Sep. 18, 1721, in 
 the 57th year of his age. The accomplished person 
 who is here interred, was Secretary to King William 
 and Queen Mary, at the Congress of the Confederates 
 held at the Hague, 1690, to the British Embassy at the 
 peace of Ryswick, 1697, to that of France the year 
 following, and likewise the same year, in 1698, in 
 Ireland. In 1700 he was appointed a commissioner of 
 Trade and Plantations, and in 1711, of the Customs. 
 In 1 7 1 1 he was sent by Queen Anne (of glorious memory) 
 as Plenipotentiary to Louis 14th, King of France, 
 for confirming that Peace which still continues, and of 
 which all good men wish the continuation. Matthew 
 Prior, Esq., whose learning, wit, and humanity, did 
 him more honour than all the posts which he filled with 
 so much applause. His natural inclination to learning 
 received its polish in the school near this Abbey : the 
 superior sciences he studied, with distinguished success, 
 at St. John's College, in Cambridge ; and these advan- 
 tages were completed by the conversation of eminent 
 persons. With such a genius and education, he perse- 
 vered in cultivating the Muses ; and after the seriousness 
 of politics, used to relax his mind in the amenities of 
 polite literature. Happy in all kinds of Poetry, in tales 
 unequalled ; and these were rather easy entertainments 
 than laboured compositions. This appeared more con- 
 spicuous to his acquaintance, from his facility, copious- 
 ness, and elegance in conversation, which was neither 
 stiff or forced ; but all seemed to flow from an exuberant 
 natural source ; which has left it a question, whether 
 he was a better poet or companion." 
 
 " For my own Monument (by Matthew Prior) : — 
 As doctors give physic by way of prevention, 
 Matt, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care ; 
 
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 For delays are unsafe, and his pious intention 
 May haply be never fulfilled by his heir. 
 
 Then take Matt's word for it, the sculptor is paid : 
 That the figure is fine * pray believe your own eye, 
 Yet credit but lightly what more may be said, 
 For we flatter ourselves, and teach marble to lie. 
 
 Yet counting as far as to fifty his years, 
 
 His virtues and vices were as other men's are ; 
 
 High hopes he conceived, and he smother' d great fears, 
 
 In a life partly colour' d, half pleasure, half care. 
 
 ISFot to business a drudge, not to faction a slave, 
 He strove to make interest and freedom agree ; 
 In public employments industrious and grave, 
 And alone with his friends, lord, how merry was he. 
 
 Now in equipage stately, now humbly on foot, 
 Both fortunes he tried, but to neither would trust; 
 And whirl' d in the round as the wheel tum'd about, 
 He found riches had wings, and knew man was but dust. 
 
 His verse little polish' d, though mighty sincere, 
 Sets neither his titles nor merits to view ; 
 It says that his relics collected lie here, 
 And no mortal yet knows if this may be true. 
 
 Fierce robbers there are that infest the highway, 
 So Matt may be kill'd and his bones never found ; 
 False witness at court, and fierce tempests at sea, 
 So Matt may yet chance to be hang'd or be drown'd. 
 
 If his bones lie in earth, roll in sea, fly in air, 
 To Fate we must yield, and the thing is the same ; 
 And if passing thou giv'st him a smile or a tear, 
 He cares not — yet pr'ythee be kind to his fame." 
 
 For my own tombstone (by Matthew Prior.) — Dean 
 Atterbury refused to have this inscribed on his monu- 
 ment : — 
 
 " To me 'twas given to die ; to thee 'tis given 
 To live : alas ! one moment sets us even. 
 Mark! how impartial is the will of Heaven." 
 
 * Alluding to the busto, carved by the famous Coriveaux, at Paris, on his 
 monument in Westminster Abbcv. 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 ' Extempore epitaph (by Matt Prior) : — 
 
 " Nobles and Heralds, by your leave, 
 Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, 
 The son of Adam and of Eve, 
 Can Stuart or Nassau claim higher " ? * 
 
 It is supposed Prior borrowed the extempore epitaph 
 from a very ancient one inscribed on a tombstone in 
 Scotland, to Johnie Carnagie : — 
 
 " Johnie Carnagie lyes here, 
 Descended of Adam and Eve 
 If any can gang higher 
 
 He willingly gives him leave." 
 
 On Henry Kjrke "White, the poet :— 
 
 " Inscription 
 
 By William Smyth, Esq. 
 
 Professor of Modern History, Cambridge, 
 
 On a Monumental Tablet, 
 
 With a Medallion by Chantrey, 
 
 Erected in All Saints' Church, Cambridge, 
 
 at the expense of Erancis Pott, Esq. 
 
 Of Boston, United States. 
 
 Henry Kirke White 
 Born March 21st, 1785 ; Died October 10th, 1806. 
 
 Warm with fond hope, and learning's sacred flame 
 To Granta's bowers the youthful Poet came ; 
 Unconquer'd powers, th'immortal mind display' d, 
 But worn with anxious thought the frame decay 'd: 
 Pale o'er his lamp, and in his cell retir'd, 
 
 The publication of which, produced the following epigram 
 
 "Hold, hold, friend Matthew, by your leave, 
 Your epitaph is somewhat odd ; 
 Stuart and you are sons of Eve 
 But Nassau is— a son of God." 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 The Martyr student faded and expir'd. 
 Genius, Taste, and Piety sincere, 
 Too early lost, midst duties too severe ; 
 Foremost to mourn was generous Southey seen, 
 He told the tale, and show'd what White had been, 
 Nor told in vain — far o'er the Atlantic wave, 
 A "Wanderer came and sought the Poet's grave, 
 On yon low stone he saw his lonely name, 
 And raised this fond memorial to his fame. 
 
 W. S." 
 
 A literary epitaph. — A literary gentleman, lately 
 deceased, ordered the following short, but emphatic 
 epitaph to be engraven on his tombstone : — 
 
 "FINIS." 
 
 Oliver Goldsmith was buried in St. Mary's church, 
 Inner Temple. A monument is erected to his memory 
 in "Westminster Abbey, with a Latin inscription (by Dr. 
 Johnson), of which the following is a translation : — 
 
 " By the love of his associates, 
 
 The fidelity of his friends 
 
 And the veneration of his readers, 
 
 This monument is raised 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Oliver Goldsmith, 
 
 A poet, a natural philosopher, and an historian. 
 
 Who left no species of writing untouched by 
 
 his pen ; 
 
 Nor touched any that he did not adorn ; 
 
 Whether smiles or tears were to be excited, 
 
 He was a powerful yet gentle master 
 
 Over the affections ; 
 
 Of a genius at once sublime, lively, and 
 
 equal to every subject ; 
 
 In expression at once lofty, elegant, and graceful. 
 
 He was born in the kingdom of Ireland, 
 
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 At a place called Pallas, in the parish of Forney, 
 
 And county of Longford 
 
 29th November, 1731* 
 
 Educated at Dublin, 
 
 and died in London 
 
 4th April, 1774." 
 
 Izaak Walton, the celebrated author of the " Com- 
 plete Angler," &c, died, aged 93, and was buried 
 in Winchester Cathedral, where, upon the stone that 
 covers his body, is inscribed the following : — 
 
 " Here resteth the body of Mr. Isaac Walton, who 
 died the 15th Dec, 1683. 
 
 Alas ! he's gone before, 
 Gone to return no more. 
 Our panting breasts aspire 
 After their aged sire, 
 Whose well-spent life did last 
 Full ninety years and past, 
 But now he hath begun 
 That which will ne'er be done ; 
 Crowned in th' eternal bliss 
 We wish our souls with his. 
 
 Votis modestis sic florunt liberi." 
 
 On a tablet in the Lady chapel of Worcester Cathedral 
 is the following inscription, on Anne, the wife of Izaac 
 Walton : — 
 
 "Here lyeth buried, soe much as could die, of Anne, 
 wife of Izaac Walton, who was a woman of remarkable 
 prudence, and of the primitive piety : her great and 
 general knowledge, being adorned with soe much true 
 humility, and blest with soe much Christian mccknesse, 
 as made her worthy of a more memorable monument. 
 
 • Johnson had been misinformed in these particulars ; it has since been 
 ascertained that he was born at Elphin, in the county of Roscommon, 
 Nov. 29th, 1728. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 She died (alas, that she is dead ! ) the 1 7th of 
 April, 1662, aged 52. 
 
 Study to be like her." 
 
 The last days of Robert Eergusson, the poet, were 
 passed in a madhouse. He was buried in Canongate 
 churchyard, where a monument is erected to his memory. 
 It consists of a simple stone, placed perpendicularly. 
 On one side of it is inscribed : — 
 
 ".By special grant of the managers to Robert Burns, 
 who erected this stone, this burial place is to remain for 
 ever sacred to the memory of Robert Eergusson." 
 
 On the other side is the following inscription ( by 
 Robert Bums) : — 
 
 "Here Lies 
 
 Robert Eergusson, Poet, 
 
 Born September 5th, 1751. Died 16th October, 1774. 
 
 No sculp tur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, 
 ' No storied urn nor animated bust.' 
 
 This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way 
 To pour her sorrows o'er her poet's dust." 
 
 Over the monument of Eergusson has been placed a 
 tribute to Burns himself, with this inscription : — 
 
 " To the memory of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire bard. 
 
 0, Robbie Burns ! the man, the brithcr ! — 
 And art thou gone, and gone for ever ? 
 And hast thou cross' d that unknown river 
 
 Life's dreary bound? 
 Like thee, where shall we find anithcr, 
 
 The world around ? 
 
 Go to your sculp tur'd tombs ye great, 
 In a' the tinsel trash of state ! 
 But by the honest turf I'll wait, 
 
 Thou man of worth ! 
 And weep the sweetest poet's fate 
 
 E'er lived on earth." 
 
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 On Robert Burns' father (by the poet) : — 
 
 0, ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, 
 
 Draw near with pious reverence and attend : 
 Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, 
 
 The tender father and the generous friend ; 
 The pitying heart that felt for human woe, 
 
 The dauntless heart that feared no human pride ; 
 The friend of man, to vice alone a foe ; 
 
 ' For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.' " * 
 
 On the good John Evelyn, Esq. — John Evelyn was 
 born in 1620; he was the author of several works on 
 " Forest Trees," " Gardening," &c, and a very pious 
 man. "When Peter the Great of Eussia came to Dept- 
 ford, to study the art of ship -building, he hired Evelyn's 
 house, and made it his court and palace. In 1695 he 
 (Evelyn) laid the foundation stone of Greenwich Hos- 
 pital. He died on the 27th of February, 1706, in full 
 hope of a glorious resurrection, through faith in Jesus 
 Christ, and was buried at Wotton ; on his monument, 
 after a brief sketch of his life, are these words : — 
 
 " Living in an age of extraordinary 
 events and revolutions, he learnt 
 
 (as himself asserted) this Truth, 
 
 which pursuant to his intention 
 
 is here declared, — 
 
 That all is vanity which is not honest, 
 
 and that there is no solid wisdom, 
 
 but in real piety." 
 
 Mrs. Evelyn's remains were deposited near those of 
 her husband in the family dormitory, adjoining Wotton 
 church, in Surrey. A white marble tablet records her 
 character, by the following inscription : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Mary Evelyn - , the best daughter, wife, and mother ; 
 the most accomplished of women, beloved, esteemed, 
 admired, and regretted by all who knew her, is depo- 
 sited in this stone coffin, according to her own desire, 
 as near as could be to her dear husband, John Evelyn, 
 with whom she lived almost three-score years, and sur- 
 vived not quite three, dying at London, the 9th of Feb., 
 1708-9, in the 74th year of her age." 
 
 John Gabriel Stedman, the author of the interesting 
 " Narrative of an Expedition against the Revolted 
 Negroes of Surinam," died at Tiverton, in 1797, aged 
 52. He was buried at Bickley, in Devonshire, with 
 this epitaph (written by himself) over his tomb : — 
 
 " This Stedman leaves to you, 
 ' As you'd be done by, do ;' 
 The rest, memento mori 
 
 Here ends poor Stedman' s story." 
 
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet, died July 25th, 
 1834, aged 61, and was interred in the new church, at 
 Highgate; in which place an excellent marble tablet 
 has been placed to his memory. Shortly before his 
 death he composed the following epitaph for himself : — 
 
 "Stop, Christian passer-by; stop, child of God, 
 And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod 
 A poet lies, or that which once seemed he ; — 
 0, lift a prayer in thought for S. T. C. ! 
 That he who many a year with toil of breath, 
 Found death in life, — may here find life in death ! 
 Mercy for praise, — to^be forgiven, for fame 
 
 He asked, and hoped through Christ. Do thou the same.'' 
 
 Monument to Thomas Croeton Croker, Esq., F.S.A. 
 — Kirby Wharf church, near Tadcaster, in Yorkshire, 
 stands at the corner of Grimston Park, and is the place 
 of family worship of Lord Londesborough. The monu- 
 
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 mcnt is placed on the wall, exactly opposite his lord- 
 ship's pew ; it is chaste and simple in design, its only 
 ornament being a palm branch : — 
 " In Memory of 
 Thomas Crofton Choker, Esq., 
 The amiable and accomplished 
 Author of the ' Fairy Legends of Ireland,' 
 And other works, 
 Literary and Antiquarian, 
 This Tablet is erected by his Friend 
 Lord Londesborough. 
 1855" 
 
 Epitaph designed for a monument, in Lichfield cathe- 
 dral, at the burial-place of Miss Seward, a talented 
 English authoress, who died at the Episcopal Palace, at 
 Lichfield, in 1809, aged 62 (by Sir "Walter Scott) :— 
 
 " Amid these aisles, where once his precepts showed 
 The Heavenward pathway which in life he trod, 
 This simple tablet marks a Father's bier, 
 And those he lov'd in life, in death are near ; 
 For him, for them, a Daughter bade it rise, 
 Memorial of domestic charities. 
 Still would' st thou know why o'er the marble spread, 
 In female grace the willow droops her head ; 
 Why on her branches, silent and unstrung, 
 The minstrel harp is emblematic hung ; 
 What poet's voice is smothered here in dust 
 Till waked to join the chorus of the just, — 
 Lo ! one brief line an answer sad supplies, 
 Honour' d, belov'd, and mourn' d, here Seward lies ! 
 Her worth, her warmth of heart, let friendship say, — 
 Go seek her genius in her living lay." 
 
 On Miss Hannah More and her four sisters, at 
 Wrington, Somersetshire : — ■ 
 
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EPlTAniS, ETC. 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Hannah More ; 
 
 She was born in the Parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, 
 
 A.D., 1745; 
 
 And died at Clifton, September 7th, A.D., 1833. 
 
 Endowed with great intellectual powers, 
 
 And Early Distinguished by the Success 
 
 of her Literary Labours, 
 
 She entered the world under circumstances 
 
 Tending to fix Her affections on its vanities; 
 
 But, Instructed in the School of Christ 
 
 To Form a just Estimate of the real end of Human 
 
 Existence, She Chose the Better Part, 
 
 And Consecrated Her Time and Talents 
 
 To the Glory of God and the Good of Her "Fellow 
 
 Creatures, in a Life of Practical Piety, 
 
 And Diffusive Beneficence. 
 
 Her Numerous "Writings in Support of Religion & Order, 
 
 At a Crisis when both were Rudely Assailed, 
 
 "Were equally Edifying To Readers of all Classes, 
 
 At Once Delighting The "Wise 
 
 And Instructing the Ignorant and Simple. 
 
 In the eighty-ninth year of Her Age, 
 
 Beloved By Her Friends, And Venerated by the Public, 
 
 She Closed Her Career of Usefulness 
 
 In Humble Reliance On the Mercies of God, 
 
 Through Faith in the Merits of Her Redeemer. 
 
 Her Mortal Remains are Deposited in a Vault in This 
 
 Churchyard, which also Contains those of Her Four 
 
 Sisters, "Who Resided with Her, at Barley "Wood, in this 
 
 Parish, Her Favourite Abode, And who Actively 
 
 Co-operated in Her unwearied Acts of 
 
 Christian Benevolence. 
 
 Mart More died 18th April, 1813, Aged 75 years. 
 Elizabeth More died 16th June, 1816, Aged 76 years. 
 Sarah More died 17th May, 1817, Aged 74 years. 
 Martha More died 16th Sept., 1819, Aged 60 years. 
 
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 This Monument is Erected out of a Subscription 
 
 For a Public Memorial to Hannah More, 
 
 Of which the Greater Part is Devoted to the Erection of 
 
 A School in the Populous And Destitute Out Parish 
 
 Of St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol. 
 
 To the Better Endowment of whose District Church 
 She Bequeathed the Residue of Her Property." 
 
 On Ralph Brooke, the antiquarian, in Reculver 
 church. In the choir of the church is an epitaph to 
 Ralph Brooke, an English antiquarian. He became 
 York -herald, and having discovered several errors in 
 Camden's Britannioa, he politely sent them to him in a 
 letter, but the other treating him rather rudely for his 
 kindness, he published them. The following is the 
 epitaph : — 
 
 "Here under, quit -of worldly miseries, 
 Ralph Brooke, Esquire, late Yorke-herald lies, 
 Fifteenth of October he was last alive, 
 One thousande sixe hundred twenty five : 
 Seventy- three ycares bore he fortune's harmes, 
 And forty-five an officer of armes : 
 He married Thomasin, daughter of Michael Cob, of Kent, 
 Sergiant of armes, by whom two daughters he was lent ; 
 Surviving Mary, William Dicken's wife, 
 Thomasin, John Ectons ; happy be their life." 
 
 John Wickltffe, the morning star of the Reforma- 
 tion, died in 1384, and was buried in Lutterworth church, 
 in Leicestershire, but after he had slept peacefully in his 
 grave for 44 years, his bones were disinterred, publicly 
 burnt, and the ashes thrown into the neighbouring river, 
 Swift. 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Ely Bates, the well 
 known author of " Rural Philosophy" and other works 
 of a religious and moral tendency, in Bath Abbey 
 church : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 "Ask not who ended here his span; 
 His name, reproach, and praise, was Man ! 
 Did no great deeds adorn his course, 
 No deeds to swell the poet's verse ? 
 To courts and camps alike unknown, \ 
 To senates, or the bustling town : j 
 Retirement claim' d him for her own. J 
 Warn'd by Heaven's kind though secret voice, 
 His steps, averse from pomp and noise, 
 In peaceful solitude he bent, 
 On contemplation still intent. 
 Each topic drew his active mind, 
 Nor least the world he left behind. 
 Oft he survey' d its busy stage : 
 Mark'd the great actors of the age, 
 After a fretful hour's debate, 
 Passing to their eternal state. 
 Thus, while he view' d the fleeting train, 
 Life appear' d sacred all 7 and vain : 
 
 ' Sacred how high, and vain how low, 
 He knew not here — but died to know ! ' 
 
 The above lines are said to have been found in his 
 own handwriting, after his decease, in 1814," — Britton's 
 Bath Alley. 
 
 Thomas Clarkson, immortalized in the noble lines of 
 Wordsworth, and one of the most distinguished of the 
 labourers for the abolition of Negro Slavery, died and 
 was buried at Play ford, near Ipswich. The inscription 
 on his tomb is simply — 
 
 " Thomas Clarkson, 
 Born, March twenty- eight, 
 
 1760, 
 
 Died September twenty- six, 
 
 1846." 
 
 On Sir "Walter Raleigh, who was beheaded, aged 
 66 years. At the extremity of one of the side aisles in 
 St. Margaret's church, Westminster, is a tablet with the 
 following inscription : — 
 
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PORTS ANT) AUTHORS. 
 
 " Within the walls of this church was deposited the 
 body of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt., on the day he was 
 beheaded in the old Palace Yard, Westminster, Oct. 18, 
 a.d. 1818. 
 
 Reader, should you reflect on his errors, 
 Remember his many virtues 
 And that he was a mortal. " * 
 
 The following epitaph is said to have been written 
 by Sir Walter Raleigh, the night before his execu- 
 tion : — 
 
 "Ev'n such is time which takes on trust, 
 Our youth and joys, and all we have 
 And pays us but with age and dust ; 
 Which in the dark and silent grave, 
 When we have wandered all our ways, 
 Shuts up the story of our days ; 
 And from which earth, and grave and dust, 
 The Lord shall raise me up, I trust." 
 
 On Sir Walter Raleigh, at Stow, Bucks : — 
 
 " A valiant soldier, and an able statesman, 
 
 Who, endeavouring to rouse the spirit of his master, 
 
 For the honour of his country, 
 
 Against the ambition of Spain ; 
 
 Fell a sacrifice to the influence of that court, 
 
 Whose arms he had vanquished, 
 
 And whose designs he opposed." 
 
 Ned Purdon, the translator of Voltaire's Henriade, 
 was educated at Trinity college, Dublin : but having 
 wasted his patrimony, he enlisted as a foot- soldier. 
 
 * His head was preserved in a case by his widow, who survived him 29 
 years, and after his death, by his son Carew, with whom it is said to have 
 been buried at West Horsley, in Surrey. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Growing tired of that employment, he obtained his dis- 
 charge, and became a scribbler in the newspapers. The 
 following is his epitaph (written by Oliver Goldsmith) : — 
 
 "Here lies poor Ned Ptjkdon, from misery freed, 
 Who long was a bookseller's hack ; 
 He led such a damnable life in this world, 
 I don't think he'll wish to come back." 
 
 William Camden, the celebrated antiquarian, was 
 buried in Westminster Abbey, and the inscription on 
 his monument is translated thus : — 
 
 " Here lies, in certain hope of a resurrection inlChrtst, 
 
 William Camden, 
 
 By Queen Elizabeth created Clarenceux, king at arms. 
 
 An indefatigable, judicious, and impartial researcher 
 
 Into the British antiquities. 
 
 In whom, variety of learning, vivacity of parts, 
 
 And the most candid simplicity, were united. 
 
 He died on the 9th of November, 1623, 
 
 In the 73rd* year of his age. " 
 
 Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent botanist, who accom- 
 panied Captain Cook in his first voyage round the world, 
 died June 19th, 1820, aged 77 years, and was buried in 
 a vault towards the east end of Heston church, in 
 Middlesex, but at the time we write (Sep., 1856) no 
 monument or even tablet of any kind has been erected 
 to his memory, and we have been most respectfully 
 informed that Sir Joseph himself wished no monument 
 to be erected. 
 
 Jane Austen, the authoress of six novels, lies buried 
 in Winchester Cathedral, Avith this inscription on the 
 tomb : — 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 " In Memory of Jane Austen, 
 Youngest daughter of the late Rev. Geo. Austen, 
 formerly Hector of Stevcnton, in this county. She 
 departed this life on the 18th July, 1817, aged 41, after 
 a long illness supported with patience and the hopes of 
 a christian ; the benevolence of her heart, the sweetness 
 of her temper, and the extraordinary endowments of 
 her mind, obtained the regard of all who knew her, and 
 the warmest love of her intimate connections. 
 
 Their grief is in proportion to their affections, they 
 know their loss to be irreparable, but in the deepest 
 affliction they are consoled, by a firm though humble 
 hope, that her charity, devotion, faith, and purity, have 
 rendered her *soul acceptable in the sight of her 
 Redeemer." 
 
 Inscription upon the monument of Alexander Pope, 
 at Twickenham : — 
 
 "Alexandro Pope, 
 
 Gulielmus Episcopus Glocestriensis 
 
 Amicitiso Causa Fac Cur 1761, 
 
 Poeta Loquitur. 
 
 For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 Heroes and Kings your distance keep, 
 In peace let one poor poet sleep, 
 Who never flattered folks like you, 
 Let Horace blush and Virgil too." 
 
 Another epitaph by Pope, on himself : — - 
 
 Under this marble, or under this sill, 
 Or under this turf, or e'en what they will ; 
 Whatever an heir, or a friend in his stead, 
 Or any good creature shall lay o'er my head, 
 Lies one who ne'er cared, and still cares not a pin 
 What they said, or may say of the mortal within : 
 But who, living and dying, serene, still and free, 
 Trusts in God, that as well as he was, he shall be." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Alexander Pope erected a column to the memory of 
 his mother, which bore the following beautiful and 
 affecting inscription : — 
 
 " Teach me like thee to think ; and give, oh give, 
 That harder, happier task, like thee to live. 
 
 Ah ! Editha ! 
 
 Parentum Optima ! 
 
 Mulierum Amantissima ! 
 
 Yale ! " 
 
 A punning epitaph. — Cecil Clay, the counsellor of 
 Chesterfield, caused this whimsical allusion, or pun upon 
 his name to be put upon his gravestone ; two cyphers 
 of " C. C." and underneath — 
 
 " Sum quod fui." — (I am what I was.) 
 
 The tomb of the poet Gray's mother and aunt. — In 
 Stoke churchyard, on a plain slab covering their tomb, 
 is the following epitaph (written by Thomas Gray ): — 
 
 " In the vault beneath 
 
 are deposited, 
 
 in hope of a joyful resurrection, 
 
 The remains of 
 
 Mary Antrobtjs; 
 
 she died unmarried, 
 
 Nov. 5, 1749, aged 66. 
 
 In the same pious confidence 
 
 Beside her friend and sister, 
 
 Here sleep the remains of 
 
 Dorothy Gray, 
 
 Widow : the careful, tender mother 
 
 of Many children ; one of whom alone 
 
 Had' the misfortune to survive her. 
 
 She died March 11, 1753, 
 
 aged sixty-seven." 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 Gray is buried in this tomb, but it bears no mention 
 of his name. Mr. Penn has caused a neat monument 
 to be erected in his grounds near the church, to the 
 memory of Gray : it was raised in 1799 — twenty-eight 
 years after the poet's death. The monument is com- 
 posed of stone, and consists of a large sarcophagus, 
 supported on a square pedestal, with inscriptions on each 
 side. Three of them are selected from the " Ode to Eton 
 College" and the " Elegy written in a Country Church- 
 yard ; " the fourth is as follows : — 
 
 "This Monument, in honour of 
 
 Thomas Gray, 
 
 Was erected a.d. 1799, 
 
 Among the scenery 
 
 Celebrated by that great Lyric and 
 
 Elegiac Poet. 
 
 He died in 1771, 
 
 And lies unnoticed in the adjoining churchyard ; 
 
 Under the Tombstone 
 
 On which he piously and pathetically 
 
 Recorded the interment 
 Of his Aunt and lamented Mother." 
 
 Gray has also a monument in Westminster Abbey, 
 erected at the joint expense of Dr. Brown, Richard 
 Stonehewer, auditor of the exchequer, and the Be v. 
 Wm. Mason. It consists of a medallion profile, which 
 the Lyric Muse is holding, on which is inscribed the 
 name, "Thomas Gray;" the inscription was written 
 by the Rev. William Mason, and is as follows : — 
 
 " Died July 30, 1771, aged 54. 
 No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns : 
 
 To Britain let the nations homage pay : 
 She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, 
 
 A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray." 
 
 In the churchyard of St. Giles' s-in- the -Fields, London, 
 is a monument erected to George Chapman, the earliest 
 English translator of Homer. It bears this inscription : — 
 
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EHTAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Georgius Chapman, 
 
 Poeta 
 
 MDCXX, 
 
 Ignatius Jones 
 
 Architectus Regius 
 
 Ob konorem 
 
 Bonarum literarum 
 
 Familiari 
 
 Suo hoc mon, 
 
 D. S. P. F. C." 
 
 William Maginn, L.L.D., died August 20th, 1842, 
 aged 48, and was buried in the churchyard of Walton- 
 on-the-Thames. The following epitaph was written for 
 him by Mr. Lockhart : — 
 
 " Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn, 
 Who, with genius, wit, learning, Life's trophies to win, 
 Had neither great Lord nor rich cit of his kin, 
 Xor discretion to set himself up as to tin ; 
 So his portion soon spent (like the poor heir of Lynn) 
 He turn'd author, ere yet there was beard on his chin — 
 And, whoever was out, or whoever was in, 
 For your Tories his fine Irish brains he would spin, 
 "Who received prose and rhyme with a promising grin — 
 1 Go ahead, you queer fish, and more power to your fin,' 
 But to save from starvation stirred never a pin. 
 Light for long washis heart, though his breeches were thin, 
 Else his acting for certain, was equal to Quin ; 
 But at last he was beat, and sought help of the bin 
 (All the same to the Doctor from claret to gin), 
 Which led swiftly to gaol, and consumption therein. 
 It was much, when the bones rattled loose in the skin, 
 He got leave to die here — out of Babylon's din. 
 Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin : — 
 Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Magixn." 
 
 The following epitaph was written upon John Taylor, 
 the water-poet, who died in 1654, aged 74 years : — 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 Here lies the Water-poet, honest John, 
 Who rowed on the streams of Helicon ; 
 Where having many rocks and dangers past, 
 He, at the haven of heaven arrived at last. 
 
 William Wordsworth, the poet, died April 23rd, 
 1850, aged 80, and was buried in the churchyard of 
 Grasmere. Shortly after his death, a subscription was 
 commenced for placing his statue in Westminster Abbey. 
 The statue has been ably executed by Mr. Thrupp ; it 
 represents the thoughtful poet seated ; the only accesso- 
 ries being, the flowers of which he loved to sing. The 
 statue stands in the baptistry, and the folloAving lines 
 on baptism, from the poet's " Ecclesiastical Sonnets" 
 are placed near it, as appropriate to the site : — 
 
 " Blest be the Church, that watching o'er the needs 
 
 Of infancy, provides a timely shower, 
 
 Whose virtue changes to a Christian flower. 
 
 A growth from sinful Nature's bed of weeds ! 
 
 Fitlicst beneath the sacred roof proceeds 
 
 The ministration : while parental love 
 
 Looks on, and grace descendeth from above. 
 
 As the high service pledges now, now pleads, 
 
 There should vain thoughts outspread their wings and fly 
 
 To meet the coming hours of festal mirth, 
 
 The tombs which hear and answer that brief cry, 
 
 The infant's notice of his second birth, 
 
 Recall the wandering soul to sympathy 
 
 With what man hopes from Heaven, yet fears from Earth." 
 
 " The final resting place of the great Christopher 
 North, who died in 1854, is in a very fine and promi- 
 nent situation of the most picturesque of our modern 
 cemeteries. It exactly faces the tomb of Francis Jeffrey ; 
 so that, slightly to alter the words of Sir Walter Scott, 
 with reference to the tombs of Pitt and Fox — 
 
 ' Drop upon Jeffrey's tomb the tear — 
 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier.' " 
 
 North British Mail. 
 
 31i 
 
EPTTAPTTS, ETC. 
 
 On the monument of Joseph Cave, the father of 
 Edward Cave, the originator of " The Gentleman's 
 Magazine." Joseph Cave was buried in St. James's 
 church, Clerkenwell, without an epitaph, and the follow- 
 ing is an inscription at Kugby, in Warwickshire, from 
 the pen of Dr. Hawkesworth : — 
 
 " Near this place lies 
 
 The body of 
 
 Joseph Cave, 
 
 Late of this Parish : 
 
 Who departed this life Nov. 18th, 1747, 
 
 Aged 79 years. 
 
 He was placed by Providence in an humble station, 
 
 But 
 
 Industry abundantly supplied the wants of Nature, 
 
 And 
 
 Temperance blest him with 
 
 Content and Wealth. 
 
 As he was an affectionate Father, 
 
 He was made happy in the decline of life 
 
 By the deserved eminence of his eldest Son, 
 
 Edward Cave, 
 
 Who without interest, fortune or connection, 
 
 By the native force of his own genius, 
 
 Assisted only by a classical education, 
 
 Which he received at the Grammar-school 
 
 Of this Town, 
 
 Planned, executed, and established 
 
 A literary work, called 
 
 The 
 
 Gentleman's Magazine, 
 
 Whereby he acquired an ample fortune, 
 
 The whole of which he devoted to his family. 
 
 Here also lies 
 
 The body of William Cave, 
 
 Second Son of the said Joseph Cave. 
 
 Who died, May 2nd, 1757; aged 62 years; 
 
 And who, having survived his eldest brother, 
 
 Edward Cave, 
 
 Inherited from him a competent estate ; 
 
 And, in gratitude to his benefactor, 
 
 Ordered this monument to perpetuate his memory. 
 
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POETS ANT) AUTHORS. 
 
 He lived a patriarch in his numerous race, 
 And show'd in charity a Christian's grace : 
 Whate'er a friend or parent feels he knew ; 
 His hand was open, and his heart was true ; 
 In what he gain'd and gave, he taught mankind, 
 A grateful always is a generous mind. 
 Here rest his clay, his soul must ever rest, 
 "Who bless'd when living, dying must be blest.' 
 
 Translation of the Latin epitaph on Jacob Tonson : — 
 
 " The rolling course of life, being finished, 
 
 This is the end of Jacob Tonson ; 
 
 A man of eminence in his profession : 
 
 Who, as Accoucheur to the Muses, 
 
 Ushered into Life 
 
 The happy productions of Genius. 
 
 Mourn ! ye choir of writers, and break your tuneful reeds, 
 
 He, your assistant, is no more : 
 
 But this last inscription is engraven 
 
 On this first page of mortality, 
 
 Lest, being committed to the press of the grave, 
 
 The Editor himself should be without a title. 
 
 Here lies a Bookseller 
 (The leaves of life having gone to decay) 
 "Waiting for a New Edition 
 Much increased and amended." — Mirror. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Johnson, was buried in Westminster 
 Abbey, near the foot of Shakspeare's monument, and 
 close to the late Mr. Garrick, agreeable to his own request, 
 a large blue flagstone was placed over his grave, with 
 this inscription : — 
 
 " Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. 
 
 Obiit XIII die Decembris, 
 
 Anno Domini 
 
 MDCCLXXXIV. 
 
 ^Etatis sua3 LXXV." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 There is a statue erected to his memory in St. Paul's 
 Cathedral (by Bacon). The Dr. is represented with a 
 scroll in his hands, and in the attitude of profound 
 thought. The following inscription on the pedestal was 
 written by Dr. Parr : — 
 
 "a P n 
 
 X 
 
 Samueli Jonxsox, 
 
 Grammatico. et. critico. 
 
 Scriptorum. anglicorum. littcratc. perito 
 
 PoetoB. luminibus. sententiarum 
 
 et. ponderibus. verborum. admirabili 
 
 magistro. virtutis. gravissimo 
 
 homini. optimo. et. singularis. exempli 
 
 qui. vixit. ann. lxxt. mens. il. dieb. xnil. 
 
 decessit. idib. decembr. ann. Christ, clo. iocc. lxxxiiiI 
 
 sepult. in red. sanct. Petr. Westmonasteriens 
 
 xnl. kal. Januar. ann. Christ cb. iocc. lxxxit. 
 
 amici. et. sodalcs. litterarii 
 
 pecunia. conlata 
 H. M. Faciund, Curaver." 
 
 On another side of the monument : — 
 
 " Faciebat Johannes Bacon. Sculptor. Ann. Christ. 
 M.DCC.LXXXXV." 
 
 Epitaph on Dr. Jonxsox (by Wm. Cowper) : — 
 
 Here Jonxsox lies — a sage by all allow' d, 
 
 Whom to have bred may well make England proud, 
 
 "Whose prose was eloquence, by wisdom taught, 
 
 The graceful vehicle of virtuous thought, 
 
 Whose verse may claim — grave, masculine and strong, 
 
 Superior praise to the mere poet's song; 
 
 Who many a noble gift from heaven possessed, 
 
 And faith, at last, alone worth all the rest. 
 
 man immortal by a double prize, 
 
 By fame on earth — by glory in the skies! " 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 Epitaph on Dr. Johnson (by Soamc Jenyns, Esq.) : — 
 
 " Here lies poor Johnson ! — Beader, have a care, 
 Tread lightly, lest you rouse a slumbering bear. 
 Eeligious, moral, generous, and humane 
 He was — but sell- sufficient, rude, and vain : 
 111 bred, and overbearing in dispute. 
 A scholar, and a Christian — yet a brute. 
 Would you know all his wisdom and his folly, 
 His actions — sayings — mirth, and melancholy, 
 Boswell and Thrale — retailers of his wit, 
 Will tell you how he wrote — and talk'd — and cough' d — 
 
 [and spit." 
 
 The churchwardens of St. Clement Danes, having 
 satisfactorily ascertained that a seat in the pew num- 
 bered 18, in the north gallery of that church, was 
 regularly occupied for many years by Dr. Johnson, have 
 caused a neat brass tablet recording the fact to be affixed 
 in a conspicious position to the pillar against which the 
 Doctor must often have reclined. The inscription on 
 the tablet is from the pen of Dr. Croly, rector of St. 
 Stephen's, Walbrook, and is as follows : — 
 
 " In this pew, and beside this altar, for many years 
 attended divine service, the celebrated Dr. Samuel 
 Johnson, the philosopher, the poet, the great lexicogra- 
 pher, the profound moralist, and chief writer of his time. 
 Born 1 709 ; died 1784. In the remembrance and honour 
 of noble faculties, nobly employed, some inhabitants of 
 the parish of St. Clement Danes have placed this slight 
 memorial, A.i). 1851." 
 
 At West Wycombe, Bucks., on the heart of P. White- 
 head, the poet and satirist : — 
 
 " Paul Whitehead, Esq., of Twickenham, 
 Died December 20, 1774, aged 64. 
 
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EHTAPJIS, ETC. 
 
 Unhallow'd hands, this Urn forbear : 
 No gems, nor orient spoil, 
 Lies here conceal' d, — but, what's more rare, 
 A heart that knew no guile." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey. Charles Denis de St. 
 Evremond ; was of a noble family in Normandy ; and, 
 betaking himself very early to a military life, served 
 with so much courage and honour, under Marshal 
 Turenne, the Prince of Conde, and other Captains, that 
 he was gradually promoted to the rank of a Major- 
 General. Upon leaving his country, he went to Holland, 
 from whence Cha/rles the Second invited him into 
 England. He was uo less a physiologist than humourist, 
 and a most elegant writer, both in verse and prose, in 
 the French language ; which he considerably polished and 
 enriched. Several Kings of England honoured him 
 with their favours : he was the delight of the nobility, 
 and the esteem of all persons. After a life of above 
 90 years, he died the 9th of September, 1703. To this 
 celebrated personage, who may be justly ranked among 
 the best writers of his time, his friends have erected 
 this monument." 
 
 John Weever, the antiquary, died in the year 1632, 
 aged 56, and was buried in St. James's, Clerkenwell, 
 where there is a monument erected to his memory, at 
 the cost of John Skillicorn, Esq., his executor. The 
 inscription concludes thus : — 
 
 " Lancashire gave me breath, 
 And Cambridge education, 
 Middlesex gave me death, 
 And this church my humation, 
 And Christ to me hath given, 
 A place with him in heaven. " 
 
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ruETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 The Tomb of Gilbeet White, the naturalist, at Sol- 
 borne. He died June 20, 1793, in his 73rd year : — 
 
 " From the place where "White drew his first breath, 
 and where, with short and unfrcquent interruptions, he 
 spent a long and happy life, a few paces brought us to 
 his grave. He lies undistinguished in the village 
 churchyard. There are, on the south side of the chancel, 
 five lowly tenements of the dead, the fifth from the 
 chancel is that of Gilbeet White ; his grave is, like 
 his life, lowly and peaceful. I was glad that he was 
 laid here ; nor could I help thinking that the grass was 
 more green, and the moss more richly verdant on that 
 grave. He lies tranquilly in the lap of his mother 
 earth ; and even in death, within the influence of that 
 nature, he living loved so well. He lies nobly — the 
 world is his tomb, the heavens his canopy, the dew of 
 evening scatters with diamonds the spot where his ashes 
 repose, his requiem is chanted by the warbling choristers 
 of spring, and starry lamps that never die illumine his 
 sepulchre." — Blackwood's Mag. for Sep., 1840. 
 
 The tombs of John Keats and Peecy Bysshe 
 Shelley. John Keats, the poet, died at Rome, in his 
 24th year, of a consumption, completely worn out and 
 exhausted, longing for release. A little before he died, 
 he said respecting his epitaph (if any were put over 
 him) that he wished it to be written — 
 
 " Here lies one whose name was writ in water" 
 
 so little thought he, of the more than promise he had 
 given, of the fine and lasting things he had added to the 
 stock of English Poetry. — Shelley says in his preface to 
 ' Adonais,' an elegy on the Death of John Keats : 'John 
 Keats died at Home, of a consumption, and was buried 
 in the Cemetery of the Protestants in that city. The 
 cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in 
 winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in 
 love with death, to think that one should be buried in so 
 stveet a place.'' 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Header ! carry these accents in your ear, and accom- 
 pany us to Leghorn. A few months only have elapsed. 
 ►Shelley is on the shore. Keats no longer lives, but you 
 will see that Shelley had not forgotten him. He sets 
 sail for the gulf of Lerici, where he has his temporary 
 home ; he never reaches it. A body is washed ashore 
 at Via Eeggio. If the features are not to be recognised, 
 there can be no doubt of the man who carries in his 
 bosom the volume containing 'Lamia and Hyperion? 
 It is Shelley. His body is burned by Lord Byron, but 
 the remains are carried — whither ? you will know by 
 the description. — ' The cemetery is an open space among 
 the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It 
 might make one in love with death to think that one should 
 be buried in so sweet a place. ,' There lies poor Shelley, 
 Keats and he — the mourner and the mourned, almost 
 touch." 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of Robert Bloomfield, the 
 poet, in Camp ton churchyard, Bedfordshire : — 
 
 "Here lie 
 
 The remains of 
 
 Robert Bloomfield. 
 
 He was born at Honington, 
 
 in Suffolk, 
 
 December III. MDCCLXVI, 
 
 And died at Shefford, 
 
 August XIX. MDCCCXXIII. 
 
 Let his wild native woodnotes tell 
 the rest. 
 
 This stone was erected at the expense of Henry Kaye 
 Bonney, D.D., late Archdeacon of Bedford, who also 
 composed the inscription." 
 
 In Westminster Abbey is a fine full-length statue of 
 Thomas Campbell, the poet ; on the pedestal is the 
 following inscription : — 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 " Thomas Campbell, 
 
 Bom July 27th, 1777. 
 
 Died June 15th, 1844. 
 
 This spirit shall return to Him 
 
 Who gave its heavenly spark ; 
 Yet, think not, sun, it shall be dim 
 
 When thou thyself art dark ! 
 No ! it shall live again and shine 
 In bliss unknown to beams of thine, 
 
 By Him recall' d to breath, 
 Who captive led captivity, 
 Who robb'd the grave of victory, 
 
 And took the sting from death ! " 
 
 T. Campbell. 
 
 Robert Southey, poet-laureate, died March 21st, 
 1843, aged 69, and was buried in Crossthwaite church, 
 near Keswick, on whose tomb is the following inscrip- 
 tion (by William Wordsworth) : — 
 
 " Ye vales and hills, whose beauty hither drew 
 The Poet's steps, and fix'd him here; on you 
 His eyes have closed ; and ye loved book, no more 
 Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore, 
 To works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown 
 
 Adding immortal labours of his own. 
 
 Whether he traced historic truth with zeal, 
 For the state's guidance, or the church's weal, 
 Or fancy disciplined by curious art 
 Informed his pen, or wisdom of the heart, 
 Or judgments sanctioned in the patriot's mind 
 By reverence for the rights of all mankind. 
 Wide were his aims, yet in no human breast 
 Could private feelings meet in holier rest. 
 His joys — his griefs — have vanished like a cloud 
 From Skiddaw's top ; but he to Heaven was vowed, 
 Through a life long and pure, and steadfast faith 
 Calm'd in his soul the fear of change and death." 
 
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EPIL 
 
 In ^ nd on 
 
 tablet underneath is this inscription : — 
 
 riHET. 
 
 Born 1774. Died 1843." 
 
 Samuel I author of " Pleasures of 
 
 . died Dee. IS, 1855, aged 93 years, and 
 was buried in Hornsey churchyard. In the "'Illus- 
 trated Tii -Vug. 2, 1 .the following 
 .lied — " 1 . — 
 
 •• July 29, 1856. The pleasant article in the •' Edin- 
 burgh R : induced me to go this 
 morning to see his burial-place at Homsey ; so I went 
 by the 10 a.m. train to th illage near London, 
 
 so much, perhaps, for a pilgrimage as for a d 
 1 loafing.' But no where could I find his tomb; so at 
 ,;n old man who was weeding the 
 churchyard paths, and asked him if he knew whether 
 Mr. Rogers was buried there ? ' Oh yes, sir, suie-ly ! 
 I knew Mr. Rogers well, and my daughter was servant 
 to him.' g that I v tain a portrait 
 
 - amuel R( n from the scullery, I said, by 
 
 way of a i Mr. R 
 
 1 Not so . ' Mr. Re 
 
 wasn't so werr :-ome 
 
 of th oi 
 
 re of him 
 who wrote tJ 
 as this have to pay the penalty of oblivioi 
 
 Dunwich, lits buried, with his two wives, lies on 
 
 eue, in :; 
 scription on his grave-stone is as fellows : — 
 
 ■ ' Between Hoxoe and Vibtdb, here cloth lie 
 The rems ity." 
 
 
POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 The Rev. John Gregory Pike, the popular author 
 of the " Persuasives to Early Piety," and many other 
 works relating to personal religion and practical godli- 
 ness, died very suddenly at Derby : his daughter entered 
 his study, and found him sitting in his chair, pen in 
 hand, with his forehead on his desk, senseless and life- 
 less. The inhabitants of Derby are about to erect a 
 marble tablet to his memory, in the baptist chapel, 
 St. Mary's gate, upon which it is intended to inscribe 
 the following : — 
 
 " To the Memory of the 
 Rev. John Gregory Pike, 
 Eorty-four years Pastor of this Church ; founder, and 
 till his decease, the devoted Secretary of the General 
 Baptist Missionary Society, and Author of various excel- 
 lent "Writings, chiefly designed to promote Early Piety, 
 which have been rendered a blessing to multitudes ; this 
 Monument is erected as a record of the affection, vene- 
 ration, and regret of his ever grateful flock. He was a 
 man of Eminent piety and untiring zeal. The Cross of 
 Christ was the foundation of his hope, the object of his 
 glorying, and the grand theme of his ministry. After 
 a life consecrated to the furtherance of the Gospel 
 ' He was not for God took him.' 
 
 He was born April 6th, 1784, 
 and died suddenly, September 4th, 1854." 
 
 Lord Byron's translation of the epitaph on Virgil 
 and Tibttllus (by Domitius Marsus) : — 
 
 "He, who sublime in epic numbers roll'd, 
 And he who struck the softer lyre of love, 
 By death's* unequal hand alike controll'd, 
 Fit comrades in Elysian regions move." 
 
 * The hand of death is said to be unjust, or unequal, as Virgil was con- 
 siderably older than Tibullus at tbe tune of his death. Virgil died b.c. 19, 
 aged 51, and Tibullus b.c. 17, aged about 29. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Yibgil, the prince of Latin poets, died at Brundu- 
 sium with the greatest tranquility ; and his remains were 
 interred, according to his wish, on the Via Puteolana, 
 at the second mile- stone from Naples, where his monu- 
 ment is still shown, with the following inscription, said 
 to have "been dictated by him on his death bed : — 
 
 "Mantua me genuit : Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc 
 Parthenope : cecini Pascua, Rura, Duces." 
 
 Anaceeon, a Greek lyric poet, was born about 560 
 B.C., and lost his life by being choked by a grape-stone, 
 while drinking. The following lines were paraphrased 
 for his tomb (by Thomas Moore, the poet) : — 
 
 " stranger, if Anacreon's shell 
 Has ever taught thy heart to swell 
 With passion's throb, or pleasure's sigh, 
 In pity turn, as wandering nigh, 
 And drop thy goblet's richest tear 
 In exquisite libation here." 
 
 Inscription to the memory of Demosthenes, the orator. 
 — Demosthenes was born b.c 377, and died b.c 317. 
 Antipater, Alexander's successor, ordered all the orators 
 to be delivered up to him, when Demosthenes tied, and 
 to prevent his falling into the hands of a tyrant, he 
 swallowed poison, which he always carried about him, 
 and which soon produced its effect. The Athenians, 
 soon after his death, erected a statue of brass to his 
 memory, as a testimonial of their gratitude and esteem ; 
 and at the foot of the statue they engraved this inscrip- 
 tion, which was couched in two elegiac verses : — 
 
 r- J 
 
 " Demosthenes, if thy power had been equal to thy 
 wisdom, the Macedonian Mars would never have 
 triumphed over Greece." 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 On the philosopher Plato. — The illustrious philoso- 
 pher Plato, died b.c. 48, aged 81 ; he was sumptuously- 
 buried by the Athenians, and on his tomb they inscribed 
 the following epitaph : — 
 
 " Pseon and Plato from Apollo sprung, 
 The body's saviour this, and that the soul's." 
 
 Epictettjs, an ancient stoic philosopher, who lived in 
 the time of Nero, had the following inscription on his 
 tomb: — 
 
 " Epictettjs, who lies here, was a slave and a cripple, 
 poor as the beggar in the proverb, and the favourite of 
 Heaven." 
 
 ^Eschyltjs, the tragic poet, flourished about 500 years 
 b.c, and died at Gela (aged 68), we are told, of a fracture 
 of his skull, caused by an eagle letting fall a tortoise on 
 his head. The manner of his death is said to have been 
 predicted by an oracle, which had foretold that he should 
 die by something from the heavens. He had the honour 
 of a magnificent funeral from the Sicilians, who buried 
 him near the river Gela, and on his tomb was inscribed 
 the following epitaph : — 
 
 " iEscHYLUS, Euphorion's son, whom Athens bore, 
 Lies here interred, on Gela's fruitful shore. 
 The plains of Marathon his worth record, 
 And piles of Medes that fell beneath his sword." 
 
 Plutaech, a learned Greek writer, died a.d. 150, aged 
 90. Among the many eulogiums bestowed on him, this 
 epigram deserves to be noticed, which is supposed to be 
 inscribed on a statue erected by the Eomans to his 
 memory : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Celeroxeax Plutarch, to thy deathless praise 
 Does martial Rome this grateful statue raise : 
 Because both Greece and she thy fame hath shared, 
 Their heroes written, and their lives compared. 
 But thou thyself could' st never write thy own; 
 Their lives have parallels ; but thine has none." 
 
 Ovid, an elegant Latin poet, died a.d. 17, aged 59, 
 and in the tenth year of his banishment, at Tamos, a 
 city of Pontus, upon the Euxine sea, near the mouths 
 of the Danube. He had desired, in case he died in the 
 country of the Getae, that his ashes might be earned to 
 Rome, in order that he might not continue an exile after 
 his death, and that the following epitaph might be 
 inscribed on his tomb : — 
 
 "Here Naso lies, who sung of soft desire, 
 Victim of too much wit, and too much fire. 
 Say, who have lov'd, whene'er you pass these stones, 
 Light lie the earth on hapless Paso's bones." 
 
 Euripides, the celebrated Grecian tragic poet, lost his 
 life in a shocking manner, b.c 406, aged 74, he was 
 walking in a wood, in a pensive manner, when he was 
 attacked by the king's hounds, and torn to pieces : he 
 was buried at Pella, where Archelaus, king of Macedon, 
 honoured him with a sumptuous funeral, and afterwards 
 with a splendid monument, with this inscription : — 
 
 " Thy memory, Euripides, will never perish." 
 
 But the inscription on the cenotaph at Athens, was still 
 more honourable : — 
 
 " All Greece is the monument of Euripides ; 
 The Macedonian earth covers only his bones." 
 
 Titus Livy, the Roman historian, died a.d. 17, aged 
 about 70. A monument was erected to him in the 
 temple of Juno, where was afterwards founded the 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 monastery of St. Justina. There, in 1413, was dis- 
 covered a Latin epitaph to Livy, the translation of 
 which is as follows : — 
 
 "The bones of Titus Livrus, of Patavium, a man 
 worthy to be approved by all mankind ; by whose almost 
 invincible pen the acts and exploits of the invincible 
 Romans were written." 
 
 PoLYBrus, a Greek historian, died, in"^ consequence of 
 a fall from his horse, b.c. 121, aged 82. The people of 
 Achaia erected statues to him, one of which had this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " To the Memory of Polybius, whose counsel, had it 
 been followed, would have saved Achaia, and who con- 
 soled it in its adversity." 
 
 Monument to Charles Theodore Kcerner, the German 
 poet, and his sister. They lie buried at the village of 
 Wobbelin, in Mecklenburgh, under a beautiful oak, in 
 a recess of which he had frequently deposited verses, 
 composed by him while campaigning in its vicinity. The 
 monument erected to his memory is of cast iron, and 
 the upper part is wrought into a lyre and sword, a 
 favourite emblem of Kcerker's, from which one of his 
 works had been entitled. Over the gate of the cemetery 
 is engraved one of his own lines : — 
 
 " Vergiss die treuen Todten nicht." 
 (Forget not the faithful dead.) 
 
 On the front of the monument is the following inscrip- 
 tion in German, which is here translated : — 
 
 " Charles Theodore Earner was here consigned 
 to the earth by his comrades in arms, with reverence 
 and love." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On the opposite side : — 
 
 " Charles Theodore Kcerner, born at Dresden, the 
 23rd of September, 1791, devoted himself first to mining, 
 next to poetry, finally to warfare, for the deliverance of 
 Germany. To this vocation he consecrated sword and 
 lyre, and sacrificed to it the fairest joys and hopes of 
 happy youth. While Lieutenant and adjutant in 
 Liitrow's free corps, he was suddenly killed by a hostile 
 ball, on the 26th of August, 1813, in an engagement 
 which took place between Schwerin and Gadebush." 
 
 On the right : — 
 
 "Fatherland ! for thee will we die, as thy mighty 
 words command. Our beloved may inherit what we 
 have redeemed with our blood. Grow, thou liberty of 
 the German Oaks — grow up above our corses." 
 
 Th. Kcerner. 
 
 On the left :— 
 
 " Hail to the Minstrel — if he only achieve for himself 
 with the sword a sepulchre in a land of freedom." 
 
 On a tombstone laid horizontally upon the grave of 
 the poet's sister, who died of grief for his loss, in the 
 second year after he was killed, the following epitaph is 
 cut: — 
 
 " Among the survivors of Theodore Koerner, his sym- 
 pathizing sister, Emma. Sophia Louisa was the first that 
 followed him. She was born at Dresden, the 19th of 
 April, 1788. By character, genius, and talents, she 
 adorned the days of her friends, and gladdened all that 
 approached her. She mourned her beloved brother as 
 became a German maid : but while she elevated her 
 soul to him, her body became gradually enfeebled. A 
 nervous fever terminated her earthly existence at Dres- 
 den, the 15th May, 1815. 
 
 This spot was due to her as a place of rest." 
 
 From Mrs. Hemans's Records of Woman, and the 
 Rev. Mr. Downes's Letters from the Continent. 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 Bernardo Tasso, a distinguished epic and lyric poet, 
 died in 1569, aged 76. His remains were interred at 
 Mantua, under a handsome monument, erected by the 
 duke, with this inscription : — 
 
 " Ossa Bernardi Tassi." 
 Torquato, his son, afterwards removed them to Ferrara. 
 
 Torqtjato Tasso, an illustrious Italian poet, died in 
 April, 1595, aged 51, and was buried in the church of 
 St. Onofrio, with a plain slab over his tomb, which bears 
 this inscription : — 
 
 "Torqtjati Tassi 
 Ossa hie jacent. 
 Hoc, ne nescius esset hospes, 
 Fratres hujus ecclesise posuerunt." 
 
 Lettres sur Vltalie. 
 
 On Samsoe, a celebrated dramatic writer, of Denmark. 
 — Samsoe' s best production was the play of By v eke, 
 produced a few days after his death. Such was the 
 enthusiasm it excited, that the following epitaph was 
 proposed to be inscribed on his tomb, in the public 
 cemetery of Copenhagen : — 
 
 " Here lies Samsoe ; 
 He wrote Dyveke and died." 
 
 On Peter Aretine, the " scourge of princes." — In 
 Aretine's Life, by M. Boispreaux, he says — "Aretine 
 died in a very singular manner. Hearing the story told 
 of a trick one of his sisters had played her galant, he 
 burst into such a fit of laughter, that falling from his 
 seat, he beat out his brains." This happened in 1557, 
 and in the 65th year of his age. He was buried in 
 St. Luke's church, Venice, and an epitaph was written 
 in Latin for his tomb ( by Maynard), and is thus trans- 
 lated in an old Paris Advertiser : — 
 
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POETS AND AITHORS. 
 
 " Time, the destroyer, hath, under these stones, 
 Mingled with dust old Aretine's bones, 
 Who, when in life, with his infamous pen, 
 Stain' d all that was noble and great among men ; 
 Darkened the memory of princes, whose story 
 Would have thrown on their graves an aureole of glory ; 
 And if, on the Eternal, h'has no blasphemy thrown, 
 It is only because he was to him unknown." 
 
 John Picus,"earl of Mirandola, a celebrated Italian 
 genius, died 1494, aged 31. The following epitaph was 
 inscribed on his tomb : — * 
 
 " Hie situs est Picus Mirandola, cgetera norunt 
 Et Tagus et Ganges, forsan et Antipodes." 
 
 Eeancis Peteaech, a celebrated Italian scholar, died 
 at Arqua, in Italy, in 1374, aged 70 years j the follow- 
 ing epitaph was engraven on his tombstone : — 
 
 1 'This stone doth cover the cold bon es of Feancis Peteaech : 
 Thou Virgin Mother take his soul ; thou Christ pardon 
 
 grant, 
 Now weary of the Earth, he rests in Heaven's Arke." 
 
 A writer says, " We went to see Peteaech' s tomb, 
 which is honourable 'without being ostentatious : a plain 
 stone sarcophagus, j_re sting on four pillars, and sur- 
 mounted by a bust ; suited to the quiet of his life, his 
 home, and his resting place." The best description of 
 Peteaech' s tomb is given in the following lines by Lord 
 Byron : — 
 
 " There is a tomb in Arqua ; rear'd in air, 
 Pillar' d in their sarcophagus, repose 
 The bones of Laura's lover ; here repair 
 Many familiar with his^well-sung woes, 
 The pilgrims of his genius. He arose 
 To raise a language, and his land reclaim 
 Prom the dull yoke of her barbaric foes ; 
 Watering the tree which bears his lady's name, 
 With his melodious tears, he gave himself to fame. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 They keep his dust in Arqua, where he died ; 
 The mountain- village where his latter days 
 Went down the vale of years ; and 'tis their pride — 
 An honest pride — and let it be their praise, 
 To offer to the passing stranger's gaze 
 His mansion and his sepulchre ; both plain 
 And venerably simple, such as raise 
 A feeling more accordant with his strain, 
 Than if a pyramid form'd his monumental fame." 
 
 Rousseau's tomb— prior to 1791. — The author of 
 "Entile" died in 1778, aged 66, and was buried at 
 Ermonville, about thirty miles from Paris, and one only 
 from Clermont. It is difficult to suppress a sense of 
 deep emotion, as you land on the diminutive island of 
 poplars, which rises in the middle of the lake. These 
 beautiful trees ; the noble yet simple monument which 
 they almost conceal by their shade ; that beautiful turf 
 which covers the whole island; those gentle rippling 
 waves which wash its circumference, all tend to render 
 this spot the asylum of melancholy and meditation. — 
 It is there was buried J. J. Rousseau, who having 
 arrived at Ermonville, the 20th of May, 1778, died 
 there, suddenly, the 2nd July following. A piece of 
 rock is still shown, on which the philosopher often came 
 to sit down during the last days of his life. Opposite 
 the principal inn of the place stands a humble cottage, 
 on the door of which may be read these words — " The 
 Emperor Joseph 2nd dined in this house on the 24th of 
 July, 1784." 
 
 The remains of Rousseau were translated in 1791, 
 with great pomp, to the church of St. Genevieve (then 
 the Pantheon), and on the sarcophagus containing his 
 ashes, were the words : — 
 
 " Ici repose l'homme de la nature et de la verite." * 
 
 * In the garden of Nuneham Courtney, the seat of the Earl of Hareourt, 
 I a oust of Rousseau, inscribed as follows :— 
 
 " Say is thy honest heart to Virtue warm ? 
 Can genius animate thy feeling breast ? 
 Approach, behold this venerable form, 
 'Tis Rousseau ; let thy bosom speak the rest." 
 
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EPITAPHS ETC. 
 
 Paul Scaeeon, a celebrated comic writer, whose life 
 abounds with curious features, died at Paris in 1660, 
 aged 50 years. In his epitaph, made by himself, he 
 desires in a mixture of the comic and pathetic, that " the 
 passengers would not awaken poor Scaeeon from the 
 first good sleep he had ever enjoyed." 
 
 The tomb of Dr. Franklin and his wife. — " On the 
 12th of December we made a pilgrimage to the tomb of 
 Franklin — dear old Franklin ! It consists of a large 
 marble slab, laid flat on the ground, with nothing carved 
 upon it but these words : — 
 
 ' Benjamin \ 
 
 and [ Feanklin, 
 
 Deboeah ) 1790.' 
 
 He lies buried in an obscure corner of an obscure burying- 
 ground, where his bones lie indiscriminately along with 
 those of ordinary mortals. After all, — his literary 
 works, scientific fame, and his undoubted patriotism, 
 form his best epitaph." — Captain Basil HalVs Trowels 
 in North America. 
 
 Humorous epitaph, by Dr. Feanklin on himself — 
 written many years before his death, which took place 
 April 17th, 1790, aged 84 years: — 
 
 " The Body of 
 
 Benjamin Feanklin, 
 
 Printer, 
 
 Like the cover of an old Book, 
 
 Its contents torn out, 
 
 And stript of its Lettering and Gilding 
 
 Lies here, food for worms ; 
 
 Yet the work itself shall not be lost, 
 
 For it will (as he believed) appear once more 
 
 In a new and more beautiful edition 
 
 Corrected and amended, by 
 
 The Author." 
 
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POETS AND AUTHORS. 
 
 On the tomb of Dr. Franklin's father and mother, at 
 Boston. — In the Autobiography of Br. Franklin, is the 
 following : — " My mother was possessed of an excellent 
 constitution. She suckled all her ten children, and I 
 never heard either her, or my father complain of any 
 other disorder than that of which they died : my father 
 at the age of 87, and my mother at 35. They are buried 
 together at Boston, where, a few years ago, I placed a 
 Marble over their grave, with this Inscription : — 
 
 1 Here lie 
 Josiah Franklin, and Abiah his wife : They lived 
 together with reciprocal affection for fifty-nine years, 
 and without private fortune, without lucrative 
 employment, by assiduous labour and honest industry, 
 decently supported a numerous family, and educated 
 with success, thirteen children, and seven grand- 
 children. Let this example, reader, encourage thee, 
 diligently to discharge the duties of thy calling 
 and rely on the support of 
 Divine Providence. 
 
 He was pious and prudent, 
 
 She discreet and virtuous. 
 
 Their youngest son, from a sentiment of filial 
 
 duty, consecrates this stone 
 
 to their memory.' " 
 
 On the virtuous Saon (translated from the Greek) : — 
 
 " Beneath this tomb, in sacred sleep, 
 The virtuous Saon lies : 
 Ye passengers, forbear to weep — 
 A good man never dies." 
 
 Anthony Arnatjld, a celebrated French writer, died 
 in 1694, aged 82. His heart was, according to his 
 express desire, taken to Port Royal to be interred, Ra- 
 cine went to assist at the ceremony, and it was on this 
 occasion that the celebrated epitaph was written on 
 Arnault) (by Racine), which is thus translated : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Hated by some, by others loved, 
 
 Esteem' d by all mankind. 
 Fitter with patriarchs to have moved, 
 
 Than in our age perverse and blind. 
 
 Arnattld in death is now laid low, 
 
 Mortals had ne'er a guard more starch, 
 
 Error more formidable foe, 
 
 Or firmer friend our holy church." 
 
 The French Classical Drama. 
 
 On Racine, an eminent Erench poet, who died in 
 1699, aged 60 years (by Boileau) : — 
 
 " toi qui que tu sois, que la piete attire en ce saint 
 lieu, plains dans un si excellent homme la triste desti- 
 nee de tous les mortels ; et quelque grande idee que 
 puisse te donner de lui sa reputation, souviens-toi que 
 ce sont des prieres, et non pas de vains eloges qu'il te 
 demande." 
 
 On Louis de Camoexs, the Yirgil of Portugal, who 
 died at Lisbon, 1579, aged 55. The following was 
 placed over his tomb, in St. Anne's church : — 
 
 "Here lies Lotus de Camoexs, Prince of the Poets 
 of his time. He lived poor and miserable and died such. 
 Anno Domini, 1579." 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of Dante, the celebrated 
 Italian poet. He died Sep., 1321, aged 56, and was 
 buried in the church of the Minories, Ravenna, and his 
 original monument bears the following inscription : — 
 
 " S. Y. E. 
 Jura monarchic superos flegetonta lacusque. 
 Lustrando cecini voluerunt fata quousque : 
 Sed quia pars cessit melioribus hospita castris 
 Actoremque suum petiit fcelicior astris 
 Hie claudor Dakthes patris exterris, ab oris 
 Quern genuit parvi Elorentia mater amoris." 
 
 334 
 
l'OETS AND AUTHOltS. 
 
 "When the French Eoyal Academy of Literature 
 refused to elect Alexis Piron, a French dramatist, a 
 member, he wrote himself the following epitaph : — 
 
 " Cy git Piron, qui ne fut rien, 
 Pas meme Academicien." 
 
 Translated : — 
 
 "Piron lies here. What was he pray? 
 Nothing; not even an li. A." 
 
 He died 1773, aged 84 years. 
 
 Leonard Aretin, one of the ablest men of eloquence 
 and science in the 15th century, died in 1443, aged 74, 
 at Florence, where there is a marble monument erected 
 to him, in the church of the Holy Cross, with an inscrip- 
 tion to the following purport : — 
 
 " Since the death of Leonard, history is in mourning; 
 eloquence is become mute ; the Greeks and Latin muses 
 cannot forbear shedding tears." 
 
 Epitaph composed by Qttintus Ennius, a Latin poet, 
 for his own tomb. He died b.c. 167, aged 70 : — 
 
 " Nemo me decoret lacrumis, nee funera, fletu 
 Faxit. Cur? volito vivu per ora virum." 
 
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EPITAPH?. ETC. 
 
 PERSONS REMARKABLE FOR LONGEVITY. 
 
 At Bolton, in Yorkshire, is buried Hexey Jmuma , 
 the contemporary of Old Parr. A handsome pyramid 
 marks Ins grave, and in the church is erected a monument 
 to his memory, with this inscription (written by Dr. 
 Thomas Chapman) : — 
 
 " Blush not, marble, 
 
 To rescue from oblivion 
 
 The Alemory of 
 
 Hexey Jexkixs. 
 
 A person obscure in birth, 
 
 But of a life truly memorable : For 
 
 He was enriched 
 
 With the goods of nature. 
 
 If not of fortune, 
 
 And happy 
 
 In the duration, 
 
 If not variety 
 
 Of his enjoyments ; and 
 
 Tho' the partial world 
 
 Despised and disregarded 
 
 His low and humble state, 
 
 The equal eye of Providence 
 
 Beheld and blessed it 
 
 "With a Patriarch's health and length of days ; 
 
 To teach mistaken man 
 
 These blessings are entailed on Temperance, 
 
 A life of labour, and a mind at ease. 
 
 He lived to the amazing age of 169. 
 
 ~Was interred here, December, 1670, 
 
 And had this justice done to his memory, 1743." 
 
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INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY. 
 
 On a brass tablet in Willaston chapel, Shropshire : — 
 
 " The Old, Old, very Old Man 
 
 Thomas Pake,* 
 
 was born at the Grlyn, 
 
 within This Chapelry of Great Willaston, 
 
 and Parish of Alberbury, 
 
 in the County of Salop, 
 
 In the year of our Lord 1483. 
 
 He lived in the Reigns of Ten Kings 
 
 and Queens of England (viz) K. EDW. 4. 
 
 K. EDWD. 5. K. EICH. 3. K. HEN. 7th. 
 
 K. HEN. 8th. EDWd. 6th. Q. MARY. Q. ELIZ. K. 
 
 JAMES 1st. and K. CHARLES 1st., died the 13, 
 
 and was buried in Westminster Abbey 
 
 on the 15th of November, 1635, 
 
 Aged 152 Years and 9 Months." 
 
 The inscription in Westminster Abbey is very similar 
 to the above. 
 
 On a Cornish beggar, named Beawne : — 
 
 " Here Beawne, the quondam beggar lies, 
 Who counted by his tale, 
 Some six-score winters and above, 
 Such virtue is in ale. 
 
 Ale was his meat, his drink, his cloth, 
 Ale did his death reprieve : 
 
 And could he still have drunk his ale 
 He had been still alive." 
 
 At Leigh, in Essex : — 
 
 "Here lies the body of Maey Ellis, daughter of 
 Thomas Ellis, and Lydia his wife, of this parish. She 
 
 Taylor, the Water Poet, thus describes Old Parr in the following lines ; 
 
 " From head to heel, his body had all over, 
 A quick-set, thick-set, natural hairy cover." 
 
 337 
 
EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 was a virgin of virtuous character, and most promising 
 hopes. She died on the 3rd of .June, 1609, aged one 
 hundred and nineteen." 
 
 On Margaret Scott, who died at Dalkeith, in Scotland, 
 February 9th, 1738, aged 125 :— 
 
 " Stop, passenger, until my life you've read. 
 The Jiving may get knowledge by the dead. 
 Five times fee years I lived a virgin life ; 
 Ten times five years I was a virtuous wife ; 
 Ten times five years I lived a widow chaste, 
 Xow, tired of this mortal life, I rest. 
 I from my cradle to my grave have seen 
 Eight mighty Kings of Scotland, and a Queen : 
 Four times five years the commonwealth I saw ; 
 Ten times the subjects rose against the law. 
 Twice did I see old Prelacy pulled down, 
 And twice the cloak was humbled by the gown. 
 An end of Stuarfs race I saw ; nay, more, 
 I saw my country sold for English ore. 
 Such desolations in my time have been, 
 I have an end of all perfection seen." 
 
 At Soham churchyard, in Cambridge shire :- 
 •• Anno Domini, 1641, 
 
 JEtatis sua? 125. 
 
 Here lies Docter "Ward, whom 
 
 You knew well before ; 
 He was kind to his neighbour, 
 
 Good to the poor." — Mirror 
 
 On William Hisela^d, at Chelsea, aged 112 
 
 '•'Here rests William Hiselaxd. 
 a veteran, it ever soldier was: 
 
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INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY. 
 
 Who merited well a pension, 
 
 If long service be a merit, 
 
 Having served upwards of the days of man. 
 
 Ancient, but not superannuated ; 
 
 Engaged in a series of wars, 
 
 Civil as well as foreign, 
 
 yet not maimed or worn by either. — 
 
 His complexion was fresh and florid ; 
 
 His health hale and hearty ; 
 
 His memory exact and ready. 
 
 In Stature 
 
 He excelled the military size ; 
 
 In Strength 
 
 He surpassed the prime of youth ; 
 
 And 
 
 What renders his age 
 
 Still more patriarchal, 
 
 When above an hundred years old, 
 
 He took unto him a wife. 
 
 Eead ! fellow soldiers, and reflect 
 
 That there is a spiritual warfare 
 
 As well as a warfare temporal. 
 
 Born VI of August, 1620, ) A , u „ „ 
 
 DiedjVII "of February, 1732, j Agea LL 
 
 The following records are collected from among the 
 epitaphs in Chelsea college burying-ground : — 
 
 " Thomas Azbet, - - died 1737 - aged 112 
 
 Captain Laurence - died 1765 - aged 95 
 
 Robert Cumming - - died 1767 - aged 116 
 
 Peter Dowling - - died 1768 - aged 102 
 A Soldier who had fought 
 
 at the Battle of the 
 
 Boyne - - - - died 1772 - aged 111 
 Peter Bennet, of Tyne- 
 
 mouth - - - - died 1773 - aged 107." 
 
 In Matlock church, Derbyshire, is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Near this place was interred the Remains of Adam 
 Wolley, of Allen Hill, in this Parish, and of Grace 
 his Wife ; he was born in the year 1558, married at the 
 parish Church of Darley, 1st day of October, 1581, and 
 after continuing in wedlock with his said wife for the 
 long period of 76 years, died in the month of August, 
 1657, in the 100th year of his age. She was born in 
 the year 1559, and died in the month of July, 1669, 
 aged 110, and for the purpose of Recording so extraor- 
 dinary, but well-authenticated an instance of longevity 
 and long continuance in the state of wedlock, their 
 great, great, great grandson, Adam Wolley, of this 
 parish, Gentleman, caused this memorial to be erected 
 in the year 1824." 
 
 In Tickhill churchyard, Yorkshire : — 
 
 "This stone is sacred 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Eliza Shaw, 
 
 Who died Nov. 10th, 1820, 
 
 Aged 118 years. 
 
 She lived in six reigns, and enjoyed excellent health 
 
 until a few hours previous to her death." 
 
 Inscription on a stone in the Cathedral churchyard of 
 Peterborough : — 
 
 "In memory of Ann Askew, Widow, who died 
 
 October— 1783. Aged 107 years. 
 
 She survived her husband William Askew (who lies 
 
 buried near this spot) 52 years." 
 
 In the churchyard at Fulham : — 
 
 "Under this stone are deposited the remains of 
 
 Nathaniel Bench, 
 
 late of this Parish, Gardener, 
 
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INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY, 
 
 who departed this life, Jan. 18, 1783, 
 Aged 101 years." 
 
 In Peterborough Cathedral : — 
 
 " R. Scaelett, died July 2nd, 1594, Aged 98. 
 
 You see Old Scaelett' s picture stand on high, 
 But at your feet, there doth his body lie. 
 His gravestone doth his age and death time show, 
 His office by these tokens you may know. 
 Second to none for strength and sturdy limb, 
 A scare-babe mighty voice with visage grim. 
 He had interr'd two Queens* within this place, 
 And this town's householders in his life's space 
 Twice over ; — but at length his own turn came, 
 What he for others did, for him the same 
 Was done : no doubt his soul doth live for aye 
 In Heaven : tho' here his body's clad in clay." 
 
 In Flitten church, Bedfordshire : — 
 
 " To the Memory of Thomas Hill, who was Receiver- 
 General to the Earl of Kent, and died 26th of May, 
 1601, aged 101. 
 
 Aske how he lived, and you shall know his ende ; 
 He died a saint to God, to poore a friende. 
 These lines, men know, do truly of him story, 
 Whom God hath called, and seated now in glory." 
 
 Inscription on a stone in Longnor churchyard, Staf- 
 fordshire : — 
 
 " In memory of William Billings, who was born 
 in a Corn Field, at Fairfield head, in this Parish, in the 
 
 * Catherine, of Arragon, the first wife of Henry VIII. and Mary, Queen, 
 of Scots, after she was beheaded at Fotheringay. 
 
 .341 
 
EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 year 1679 : — at the age of 23 years he enlisted into his 
 Majesty's service, under Sir George Rook, and was at 
 the taking of the Fortress of Gibraltar, in 1704. He 
 afterwards served under the Duke of Marlbro', at the 
 ever memorable Battle of the Eamillies, fought on the 
 23rd of May, 1706, where he was wounded by a musket 
 shot in the thigh : afterwards he returned to his native 
 country, and with manly courage defended his Sove- 
 reign's Eights at the Rebellion in 1715, and 1745. He 
 died within the space of 150 yards of where he was 
 born, and was interred here the 30th of January, 1791, 
 aged 112 years. 
 
 Billeted by Death, I quarter' d here remain, 
 
 When the Trumpet sounds, I'll rise and march again." 
 
 A few remarkable instances of longevity : — 
 
 Louisa Truxo, a negress, died at Tucumen, 
 
 S. America 1780 - aged 175 
 
 Rebecca Fury, a negress, died in 
 
 Jamacia 1827 - aged 140 
 
 Marcus Apoxices, died at Rimini - aged 150 
 
 Trrus Felloxies, died at Bonoria - aged 150 
 
 Mary Yates, died in Shropshire 1776 - aged 128 
 
 Galex, died at Pergamus - - 271 - aged 140 
 
 James Bowles, died at Killing- 
 worth 1656 - aged 152 
 
 Fraxcis Coesist, died in York- 
 shire -------- 1768 - aged 150 
 
 Evax Williams, died in Carmar- 
 thenshire 1782 - aged 145 
 
 Col. T. AYixseow, died in Ireland 1766 - aged 144 
 
 C. J. Drakexberg, died in Xorway 1770 - aged 146 
 
 Countess of Ecclestox, died in 
 
 Ireland 1691 - aged 143 
 
 A. Goldsmith, died in France - 1776 - aged 140 
 
 At Bromley, in Kent : — 
 
 "Near this place lies the body of Elizabeth Moxk, 
 
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 who departed this life the 27th day of August, 1753, 
 aged 101. She was the widow of James Monk, late of 
 this parish, Blacksmith, her second husband, to whom 
 she had been a wife near fifty years, by whom she had 
 no children, and of the issue of her first marriage none 
 lived to the second. But Virtue would not suffer her 
 to be childless : an Infant, to whom and to whose father 
 and mother she had been nurse (such is the uncertainty 
 of temporal prosperity), became dependent on Strangers 
 for the necessaries of life. 
 
 To him she afforded the protection of a mother. 
 This parental charity was returned with filial affection, 
 
 And she was supported in the feebleness of age 
 
 By him whom she had cherished in the helplessness of 
 
 infancy. 
 
 Let it he remembered 
 That there is no situation in which industry will not 
 obtain power to be liberal, nor any character in which 
 liberality will not confer Honour. She had long been 
 prepared by a simple and unaffected piety for that awful 
 moment, which, however delayed, is universally sure. 
 
 How few are allowed an equal time of probation ! 
 
 How many by their lives appear to presume upon more ! 
 
 To preserve the memory of this person, 
 
 But yet more to perpetuate the lesson of her life, 
 This stone was erected by voluntary contribution." 
 
 In Battersea church, on a brass plate : — 
 
 "Hugh Mokgan, late of Battersea, Esq., 
 Sleepeth here in peace: Whom men did late admire for 
 worthful parts. — To Queen Elizabeth he was chief 
 Apothecary, till her death. 
 
 And in his science as he did excel, 
 In her high favour he did always dwell. 
 To God religious, to all men kind, 
 Frank to the poor, rich in content of mind. 
 These were his virtues, in these dyed he, 
 When he had liv'd an 100 years and 3." 
 
 By a Latin plate it appears that he died Sep. 13, a. d. 1613, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On a very old man : — 
 
 " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 
 But fell like Autumn fruit that mellowed long 
 Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner ; 
 Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, 
 Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, 
 Till, like a clock, worn out with beating time, 
 The wheels of weary life at last stood still." 
 
 Nat. Lee. 
 
 In Mellis churchyard, Suffolk, Wm. Hurn, died 
 March, 1813, aged 90 :— 
 
 " Eeader, if God should give thee length of days, 
 Devote the blessing to the Giver's praise. 
 If short the span, yet keep the heavenly road, 
 That life is long enough which pleases God." 
 
 In St. Michael's churchyard, Lichfield, an ancient 
 tombstone was lately discovered, which had been buried 
 in the earth a great number of years. Upon it are 
 deeply cut the following inscriptions : — - 
 
 "Here lyes the Body 
 
 of William Clarke, 
 
 who was Clarke of this 
 
 Church 51 years, and buried 
 
 March 25th, 1525, aged 96. 
 
 Here lyes the Body 
 
 of William Clarke 
 
 Clarke of this Church 71 
 
 years, who died Septem. 26, 
 
 1562, and aged 86. 
 
 The father lived in the reigns of six different kings, 
 viz. Henry 6th, Edwards the 4th and 5th, Richard 3rd, 
 and Henrys 7th and 8th. The Son in seven reigns from 
 Edward the 4th to Mary the 1st." — Morning Chronicle, 
 Oct., 1822. 
 
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INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY. 
 
 On Stephen Rtjmbold, at Brightwell, Oxon. : — 
 "Born Feb., 1582. 
 
 He lived one hundred and five, 
 
 Sanguine and strong ; 
 An hundred to five 
 
 You live not so long. 
 
 Dy'dMarch4, 1687." 
 
 PARENTS OF MANY CHILDREN. 
 
 At Aberconway, in Carnarvonshire, in "Wales :— 
 
 " Here lies the body of Nicholas Hookee, of Conway, 
 gent., who was the one-and-fortieth child of "William 
 Hooker, Esq., by Alice his wife, and the father of 
 twenty-seven children. 
 
 He died on the 20th of March, 1637." 
 
 On William Rich, the father of 40 children :— 
 
 " Beneath this stone, in sound repose 
 Lies William Rich, of Lydeard Close ; 
 Eight wives he had, yet none survive, 
 And likewise children eight times five ; 
 From whom an issue vast did pour — 
 Of great grand-children five times four, 
 Rich born, rich bred, but fate adverse, 
 His wealth and fortune did reverse ; 
 He lived and died extremely poor, 
 July the tenth, aged ninety-four." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC, 
 
 In St. Paul's churchyard, Bedford.— An old grave- 
 stone, in the above churchyard, has lately been 
 renovated ; it bears the following inscription : — 
 
 "Here lies interred the body of Patience, the wife 
 of Shadrack Johnson ; by her he had twelve sons and 
 twelve daughters ; she died in childbed, the 6th day of 
 June, 1717, aged 38 years. — 
 
 Shadrach ! Shadrach ! 
 
 The Lord granted unto thee 
 
 Patience, 
 
 Who laboured long and 'patiently 
 
 In her vocation ; 
 
 But her patience being exhausted 
 
 She departed in the midst of her labour 
 
 -&tat 38. 
 
 May she rest from her labours ! " 
 
 In the churchyard of Eyrie, Aberdeenshire : — 
 
 " Erected to the memory of Alexander Gray, some 
 time farmer in Mill of Burns, who died in the 96th 
 year of his age, having had thirty-two legitimate 
 children by two wives." 
 
 In the old burying- ground of Dundee : — 
 
 "Here I lie 
 Eppitie Pye 
 My twenty bairnies — my gudeman and I." 
 
 At Wolstanton, on Ann Jennings : — 
 
 " Some have children — some have none- 
 Here lies the Mother of twenty- one." 
 
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PARENTS, ETC. 
 
 In Bremhill churchyard, Wilts. — On the father of a 
 large family (by Eev. W. L. Bowles) : — 
 
 "How quiet is the bed of death, 
 
 Where the departing Christian lies, 
 While angels watch his parting breath, 
 And wait to close his weary eyes. 
 
 Children, who mark this lowly spot, 
 With eyes perhaps with weeping dim ! 
 
 Here lies your Father ! pray to God, 
 That you may live and die like him." 
 
 On Mrs. Rebecca Creamer, mother of 10 children: 
 
 " Farewell, my husband and children dear, 
 I am not dead but sleeping here, 
 In hope to wear the crown of Heaven, 
 And there to meet my dear eleven." 
 
 In St. Martin's church, Leicester : — ■ 
 
 "Here lieth the body of John Heyrick, of this 
 parish, who departed this life the second of April, 1589, 
 being about the age of seventy-six years. He did 
 Marry Mary, the daughter of John Bond, of Warden, 
 in the County of Warwick, Esq. He lived with the 
 said Mary, in one house, full fifty-two years, and in all 
 that time never buried man, woman, nor child, though 
 they were sometimes twenty in household. He had 
 issue by the said Mary, five sons and seven daughters. 
 The said John was Mayor of the town in 1559, and 
 again anno 1572. The said Mary lived to ninety-seven 
 years, and departed the 8th of December, 1611. She 
 did see, before her departure, of her children, and 
 children's children, and their children, to the number 
 of 142." 
 
 In the churchyard of Monksoham, Suffolk : — 
 "John Brtjnning died Jany. 21, 1817, aged 50. 
 
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EPITAmS, ETC. 
 
 Farewell, Dear Wife, Farewell, 
 For me no Sorrow make, 
 
 My Thirteen Children lore 
 For their Dear Father's sake." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of Sir Thomas Chal- 
 coner, the father of 21 children, in Chiswick church : — 
 
 " Here lyeth the bodey of Sir Thomas Chalconer, 
 who was Knighted in the warres of France, by King 
 Henry the Fourth, an. 1591, and after Governor in the 
 Minority, and Chamberlayne to the late Prince of 
 famous memorey, Henrey, Prince of Wales, Duke of 
 Cornwall and Earle of Chester. He married to his first 
 wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Fleetwood, Ser- 
 geant at Law to Queen Elizabeth, and Eecorder of 
 London, by whom he had yssue, Thomas deceased; 
 Arthur deceased ; James; Elizabeth deceased; William; 
 Edward ; Thomas ; Henry deceased ; Arthur deceased ; 
 James ; Elizabeth deceased ; Mary, wife of Sir Edward 
 Fisher, Knight; Elizabeth; and Dorothey; and died 
 22nd of June, an. 1603, aged 3 yeares; and to his 
 second wife he married, Jude, the daughter of William 
 Blunt, of London, Esquier, by whom he had also yssue, 
 Henrey ; Charles ; Fredericke ; and Arthure ; Anne ; 
 Katherine ; and Frances ; and she deceased the 30th 
 day ©f June, an. 1615, aged 36 yeares; and the afore- 
 sayd Sir Thomas Chalconer died the 1 8th day of jSov., 
 1615, being of the adge of 51 yeares. 
 
 An. Dom. 1721. In grateful remembrance of his 
 honourable ancestor, this monument was repaired at the 
 charge of Edward Chalconer, of Gisbrough, in com. 
 Ebor, Esq." 
 
 Numerous Families of Children.^In the genealogical 
 history of Tuscany, written by Gamarini, mention is 
 made of a nobleman, of Sienna, named Pichi, who by 
 three wives had had 150 children ; and that, being sent 
 
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BAD ORTHOGRAPHY, ETC. 
 
 ambassador to the pope and the emperor, he had 48 of 
 his sons in his retinue. — On a monument in the church- 
 yard of St. Innocent, at Paris, erected to a woman who 
 died 88 years of age, it is recorded that she might have 
 seen 288 children directly issued from her. But chil- 
 dren here evidently includes grand-children, &c, &c. — 
 The faithful mother of the Dalburg family saw her off- 
 spring of the sixth generation ; as recorded in the fol- 
 lowing distich : — 
 
 " Mater (1), ait natse (2) die natae (3) 
 filia natam (4), Ut moneat, natse (5)plangere nliolam (6):" 
 
 That is, "The mother (1), says to her daughter (2), 
 daughter, go tell your daughter (3), to advise her 
 daughter (4), to chastise her daughter's (5) little 
 daughter (6)." 
 
 BAD ORTHOGRAPHY, &c. 
 
 In a small churchyard, near Folkstone, in Kent : — 
 " Here lyeth the bones of Mary Rogers, who left 
 
 this world a.d. 1692 ; she was a goode mother, wifec, 
 
 and daughterr. 
 
 All goud people, as you pass 
 
 Pray reed my hour glass ; 
 
 After sweets and bitters it's down, 
 
 And I have left your pretty town 
 
 Remember soon you must prepare to fly 
 
 From all your friends and come to high" 
 
 In Sculcoate churchyard, near Hull : — 
 " In Memory of 
 
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EPITAPH-. ETC. 
 
 Jane the wife of George Wellihgtoh 
 "Who departed this life the 25 th of 
 13 aged 38 years. 
 
 moarn not for me i'm dead and gon 
 my loving husband gods will be done 
 but on my children pity take 
 and love them for their mother's sake." 
 
 In the churchyard of Christ church,, Hampshire : — 
 
 •' Hark, hark. I hears a vol 
 The Lord made sweet babes for his one choice, 
 And when His will and pleasure is 
 There bodies he turns to dust 
 There souls to raise with Christ on high."' 
 
 Mvg.. 1855. 
 
 In ATottram. churchyard, Cheshire : — 
 
 " Zounds. Death ! what hast thou done : 
 \Thy. thou hast taken Brother .Joh>- — 
 And* laid un under ground 
 Father had rather ha paid five pound." 
 
 Thei ailment near the baptismal font of St. 
 
 Andrew's church, Plymouth, with the following inscrip- 
 tion: — 
 
 •'■ Here lies the body of Jnrrs Versos, Esq., only 
 ring son of Admiral Vernon : died 2 3rd July, 1753." 
 
 In Michaelchurch churchyard, Herefordshire — 
 
 
BAD ORTHOGRAPHY, ETC. 
 
 " John Prosser is my name, and England is my nation, 
 Bowchurch is my dwelling place, & Christ is my salvation. 
 No w I am dead, and in my grave, and all my bones are rotten 
 As you pass by rememher me, when I am quite forgotten" 
 
 In Plumstead churchyard, Kent (near Woolwich), is 
 an epitaph to the memory of James Darling, who died 
 23rd of July, 1812, aged 10 years. 
 
 " "Weep not for me, my parents Beer 
 There is not witness wanted here 
 The hammer of death was Give to me 
 For eating the Cherris off the tree 
 Next morning death was to me so sweet 
 My Blised Jesus for to meet 
 He did ease me of my pain 
 And i did Join his holy train 
 The Cruil one his death can't shun 
 For he Most go when his glass is run. 
 The Uorrows of death is sure to meet 
 And take his Trail at the Judgment seat." 
 
 In Yarmouth churchyard : — 
 
 " To the memory of E. Scotte, who died September 
 28, 1824, aged iity-two years. 
 
 Blissed are the dade who did in the Lord." 
 
 At Westerham, in Kent : — 
 
 " Cheerful in death I close mine eyes. 
 Into thy arms, my God, I flies." 
 
 In St. Mary-at-Elm churchyard, Ipswich, on a child 
 who was bom 1850, and died 1852 :■ — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Sweet Babe Fail- Well 
 The Loss is Ours 
 For you Are Gone to Kest, 
 The Shepard has But 
 Call'd His Own 
 to Fold you in his Breast." 
 
 In the old churchyard of Belturbet, Ireland : — 
 
 " Here lies John Higley, whose father and mother 
 were drowned on their passage from America. Had 
 they both lived, they would have been buried here." 
 
 In Tottenham churchyard, to the memoiy of Mrs. 
 Deboea.h White, who died on the 25th July, 1805, at 
 the age of 40. 
 
 " Sorrow and pain is worn me quite ! 
 And : death is welcome at my sight, 
 The life i led : was only a dream ? 
 And every earthly thing was mean, 
 Sly husband due ! not weep at me, 
 And you the blessed one shall see." 
 
 On General Tijlly : — 
 
 "Here lies General Ttjlly, 
 Aged one hundred and five years fully 
 Nine of his wives beside him doth lie, 
 And also the others, when they die." 
 
 On a beautiful stone, in a village churchyard, near 
 Eye, in Suffolk ; — 
 
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BAD ORTHOGRAPHY, ETC. 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Heney 
 
 Lamb 
 
 who died 
 
 May 15 : 1852 
 
 In His 91st year. 
 
 I will lay me down in piece and sleep : &c." 
 
 In St. Philip's churchyard, Birmingham : — 
 
 " cruel Death ! how could you be so unkind, 
 To take him before — and leave me behind. 
 You should have taken both of us, if either 
 Which would have been more pleasing to the survivor." 
 
 On a gravestone in Staverton churchyard : — 
 
 "Here lieth the body of Betty Bowden - , 
 Who would live longer but she coulden* 
 Sorrow and grief made her decay, 
 Till her bad leg card f her away." 
 
 In Monkwearmouth churchyard, Durham : — 
 
 " In memory of Saeah Willock wife of John Willock, 
 Wo died August 15th 1825 aged 48 years. 
 
 She was, But Eeason For Bids me to Sa what, 
 
 But think what a women should Be, and She was that." 
 
 In Waddingham churchyard : — 
 
 "In love we liv'd, in peace did part, 
 All tho' it cot us to the Heart, 
 
 Could not. t Carried. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 dear what thoughts whe two had 
 
 To get for our 12 children Bread : 
 
 Lord ! send her health them to mentain i — 
 
 1 hope to meet my love again." 
 
 At Ilton, in Somersetshire : — 
 
 " If love and care could me prevent, ' 
 I had not thus so early went J " 
 
 In Sculcoate's churchyard, Yorkshire : — • 
 " In memory of John West. 
 Also 2 Childer who died Infants 
 
 In a churchyard, in Ireland, is this epitaph : — 
 
 " Sere lie two children dear, 
 One buried in England, the other here." 
 
 At Chiswiek : — ■ 
 
 "J. L. H. bom December 19. 1802, 
 Died January 8 . 1802." 
 
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PARISH CLERKS, ETC. 
 
 PARISH CLERKS AND SEXTONS. 
 
 In Crayford churchyard, Kent : — 
 
 " Here lieth the body of Peter Isnel (30 years 
 clerk of this parish). He lived respected as a pious and 
 a mirthful man, and died on his way to church, to assist 
 at a wedding, on the 31st day of March, 1811, aged 70 
 years. The inhabitants of Crayford have raised this 
 stone to his cheerful memory, and as a tribute to his 
 long and faithful service. 
 
 The life of this clerk was just three -score and ten, 
 Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen. 
 In his youth he was married, like other young men, 
 But his wife died one day, so he chanted Amen. 
 A second he took — she departed — what then ? 
 He married and buried a third with Amen ; 
 Thus his joys and his sorrows were treble, but then 
 His voice was deep bass, so he sung out Amen ; 
 On the horn he could blow as well as most men, 
 So his horn was exalted in blowing Amen. 
 But he lost all his wind after threescore and ten, 
 And now with three wives, he waits till again, 
 The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen!'' 
 
 On a country sexton, in Wexham churchyard 
 
 "Here lies Old Hare, worn out with care, 
 Who whilom toll'd the bell ; 
 Could dig a grave, or set a stave, 
 And say ( Amcn' full well. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 For sacred song, he'd Sternhold's tongue, 
 
 And Hopkin's eke also : 
 With eongh and hem. he stood by them 
 
 As far as lungs would go. 
 
 Many a feast for worms he drest, 
 Himself then wanting bread, 
 
 But, lo ! he's gone with skin and bone 
 To starve 'em now he's dead. 
 
 Here take his spade — and use his trade, 
 
 Since he is out of breath : 
 Cover the bones of him who once 
 
 Wrought journey-work for death." 
 
 In Bakewell churchyard, Derbyshire. — Mr. Bowe 
 filled the office of parish clerk, of Bakewell, and if the 
 gravestone flatters not, " with great ability." It tells 
 us in humble prose, that "the natural powers of his 
 voice, in clearness, strength, and sweetness, were alto- 
 gether unequalled," a commendation which is reiterated 
 in verse on the stone of his son, in the same churchyard, 
 and who succeeded him in the office of parish clerk. It 
 is insciibed as follows : — 
 
 " To the memory of Philip Koe, Parish Clerk of 
 Bakewell, who departed this life on the 12th September, 
 1815. 
 
 The vocal powers here let us mark, 
 
 Of PniLiP our late parish clerk. 
 
 In church one never heard a layman 
 
 With clearer voice say 'Amen.' 
 
 Who now with hallelujah sound 
 
 Like him can make the roofs rebound? 
 
 The choir lament his choral tones, 
 
 The town so soon here laid his bones. 
 Sleep undisturbed within thy peaceful shrine, 
 Till angels wake thee with such notes as thine." 
 
 
PARISH CLERKS, ETC. 
 
 In St. Mary's churchyard, Bury St. Edmunds 
 
 * # * # # 
 
 many years gravedigger in this town 
 
 after which important office of 
 
 stowing the human frame for its 
 
 last hopeful voyage 
 
 departed this life, 
 
 Dec. 21, 1821, 
 
 aged 63 years." 
 
 In Selby churchyard, Yorkshire : — 
 
 " Here lies the body of poor Frank Rowe, 
 Parish Clerk and grave-stone cutter ; 
 And this is writ to let you know, 
 What Frank for others used to do 
 Is now for Frank done by another." 
 
 In St. Clement's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 
 " John Planten, late Clerk of this Parish, died May 
 19, 1809, aged 33. 
 
 Christ's Death's the ground of every Christian's hope, 
 Though Atheists hiss and scornful Deists sneer. 
 Ah ! Mortals, mock not — soon the veil shall drop — 
 An awful vast eternity is near — 
 That dreadful hour of retribution fear." 
 
 On William Nott, shoemaker of Bedlam, near Lud- 
 low, Salop ; clerk and standing overseer of the parish : — 
 
 "He was Kott born of womankind : 
 And so it may be said, 
 Altho' within this grave he lies 
 We know he is Nott dead. 
 
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 I— 
 
 No MM " 
 
 en death gave him a call : 
 
 t was firm an 1 
 1 calm gave ut Eds 
 
 Enneh he regularly went 
 Upon the sabbath-day : 
 It was his duty so to do 
 
 lerk, an-1 ] | ray. 
 
 His character as 
 F : charity we find 
 
 those who badly were di- 
 Hie was Nan very kind. 
 
 Foolish or mad he ne~ jt was 
 rfoige apr 
 I a very 
 In Bettta I rty 7 ears. 
 
 his shade ! now " _ 
 There's no one living can 
 But tell the truth, and say that he 
 1 t an honest man. 
 
 n underneath this silent sod 
 We'll let him now remain, 
 
 e and confident are 
 He it rise 2 _~iin.** 
 
 In the Cathedral churchyard of Peterborough . — 
 
 •• E fa interred the body of 
 
 I B xton of St. John B; 
 
 . who died on the 11 Day of June, 1781, 
 aged 6: 
 
 Oft have I view^ this gloomy place 
 rich clain : the human race, 
 
 1 read on the insculpturr 1 stone 
 
 • Here lye the Body of" But now my own 
 
 L: - native dust, and as you see 
 
 Another here hath done the sam 
 
 
DRUNKARDS. 
 
 On the clerk of a country parish : — 
 
 "Here lies within this tomb so calm, 
 Old Giles : pray sonnd his knell ; 
 Who thought no song was like a psalm, 
 N o music like a bell." 
 
 In Weston churchyard, Cheshire, on a parish clerk : — ■ 
 
 Here lies entomb' d within this vault so dark, 
 A tailor, cloth-drawer, soldier, and a clerk. 
 Death snatch'd him hence, and also from him took 
 His needle, thimble, sword, and prayer book ; 
 He could no longer work, nor fight, what then ? 
 He left the world, and faintly cried — 'Amen' " 
 
 DRUNKARDS. 
 
 On a drunken cobbler: — 
 
 " Enclosed within this narrow stall, 
 Lies one who was a friend to awl ; 
 He saved bad souls from getting worse, 
 
 But his own without remorse, 
 
 And tho' a drunken life he pass'd, 
 
 Yet sav'd his soul, by mending at the last" 
 
 On a carrier who died intoxicated (by Lord Byron, 
 1810) :— J y ' 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, 
 A carrier who carried his can to his mouth well. 
 He carried so much, and he carried so fast, 
 He could cany no more, so was carried at last. 
 For the liquor he drank, being too much for one, 
 He could not cany off— so he's now earri-on" 
 
 On an epicure : — 
 
 " At length, my friend, the feast of life is o'er, 
 I've eat enough, and I can drink no more, 
 My night is come, I've spent a jovial day, 
 'Tis time to part, — but, ah ! what is to pay:' 
 
 On an ignorant, drunken sot : — 
 " Five letters his life and his death will express, 
 He scarce knew ABC, and he died of XS." 
 
 On a tippling lady : — 
 
 " Her clay beneath this marble lies, 
 Whose soul we trust ascends the skies, 
 She doubtless, for her taste and merits, 
 Is happy in the world of spirits" 
 
 On John Dote, inn-keeper of Mauchline ( by Eobert 
 Burns) : — 
 
 " Here lies Johnny Pidgeon, 
 "What was his religion 
 
 Whae'er desire to ken, 
 To some other warl 
 Maun follow the carl, 
 
 For here Johnny Pidgeon had nane ! 
 
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DRUNKARDS. 
 
 Strong ale was ablution — 
 Small beer persecution, 
 
 A dram was his momento mori , 
 But a full flowing bowl 
 Was the saving his soul, 
 
 And Port was celestial glory." 
 
 On a gravestone in the churchyard of Great Wolford: — 
 
 "Here old John Randall lies, 
 "Who, counting from his tale, 
 Lived three-score years and ten, 
 Such virtue was in ale. 
 Ale was his meat, 
 Ale was his drink, 
 Ale did his heart revive. — 
 And if he could have drunk his ale 
 He still had been alive. 
 
 He died January 5, 
 1699. 
 
 This epitaph was ordered to be put here by Major 
 Thomas Keyts, of this place, a younger son of the Keats 
 of Ellington, and was a person well known for his good 
 humour and hospitality, and was well beloved in his 
 country." — Notes and Queries. 
 
 On a drunkard : — 
 
 "Weep not for him, the warmest tear that's shed, 
 Falls unavailing o'er th' unconscious dead ; 
 Take the advice these friendly lines would give- 
 Live not to drink, but only drink to live." 
 
 On a gin drinker : — 
 
 Half burnt alive, beneath this dunghill lies 
 A wretch whose memory the sage despise. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Her brain all tumult ; ragged her attire ; 
 The sport of boys when wallowing in the mire. 
 Life did to her like a wild tempest seem ; 
 And Death, as sinking to a horrid dream. 
 
 Hence learn, ye brutes, who reel in human shape, 
 To you superior is the grinning ape : 
 For nature's wise impulses he'll pursue, 
 Whilst each dread start of frenzy governs you." 
 
 M I S E K S . 
 
 On an old miser : — 
 
 "Here lies Father Spakges, 
 Who died to save charges. 
 
 On a miser : — 
 
 Eeader, beware, immoderate love of pelf! 
 
 Here lies the worst of thieves — who robb'd himself." 
 
 On a miser : — 
 
 "Here lies Old Father Geipe, 
 Who never cried ' Jam satis.' 
 'T would wake him did he know, 
 You read his tombstone — gratis." 
 
 On a miser : — 
 
 A wealthy merchant died, his body was dissected, 
 
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MISERS. 
 
 No sympton of disease was any where detected, 
 
 Until they reach' d the heart, which to find they were 
 
 unable, 
 But in its place they found, a Compound Interest Table." 
 
 John Combe, of usurious memory, told Shakspeare, 
 that he fancied he intended to write his epitaph, if he 
 happened to outlive him ; and since he could not know 
 what might be said of him when dead, he desired it 
 might be done immediately; upon which Shakspeare 
 gave him these lines : — 
 
 " Ten in the hundred lies here ingraved, 
 'Tis an hundred to ten his soul is not saved : 
 If any man ask, who lies in this tomb ? 
 Oh! oh! quoth the Devil, ' 'tis my John-a-Combe." 
 
 Shakspeare survived him nearly 2 years, and in the 
 church of Stratford, close by the tomb of Shakspeare, 
 is a full-length effigy of John Coomb, cut in alabaster, 
 with a gown on, and the following inscription : — 
 
 "Here lyeth interred the Body of Jonisr Coomb, Esq. ; 
 who dy'd the 10th of July, 1614, who bequeathed several 
 Annual Charities to the Parish of Stratford, and £100 
 to be lent to fifteen poor Tradesmen from three years to 
 three years, Changing the Parties every third Year, at 
 the rate of fifty Shillings per Annum, The Increase to 
 be distributed to the Almes-poore there." 
 
 On a miser: — 
 
 " Here lies one who for medicines would not give 
 A little gold, and so his life he lost ; 
 I fancy now he'd wish again to live, 
 
 Could he but guess how much his funeral cost. 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 On a liar : — 
 
 " Good passenger, one does lie here 
 Who living, did lie everywhere." 
 
 On a notorious liar : — 
 
 " I always lied, and lied till Death, 
 But now I lie for want of breath." 
 
 On an inveterate liar : — 
 
 " Of William Knox this truth may say, 
 And there is no denying, 
 That here till he was forced to lay 
 He never gave up lying." 
 
 " Tinder this stone 
 Lies Mister Bone ; 
 He lying lived, and lying died, 
 For dying or living, he always lied." 
 
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MAIDENS AND LADIES. 
 
 MAIDENS AND LADIES. 
 
 On a Gallant Lady. — By the Honorable Mrs. Monk, 
 daughter of Lord Molesworth, and a celebrated poetess. 
 She died in 1715:— 
 
 " O'er this marble drop a tear, 
 Here lies fair Rosalind. 
 All mankind were pleased with her, 
 And she with all mankind." 
 
 Jones 1 8 Biog. Die. 
 
 On an old maid (by ¥m. Cowper, the poet) : — 
 
 " For threescore years, this life Cleoea led, 
 At morn she rose, at night she went to bed." 
 
 On an old maid, who dropped 10 years of her age 
 
 " A stiff-starch' d virgin of nnblemish'd fame, 
 And spotless virtue, Bridget Cole by name ; 
 At length the death of all the righteous dies, 
 Aged just four and fifty — ' Here she Lies.'' " 
 
 On a lady, famed for her caprice (by Robert Burns): 
 365 
 
EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 i( Here lies, now a prey to insulting neglect, 
 
 What once was a butterfly, gay in life's beam ; 
 Want only of wisdom denied her respect, 
 Vwant only of goodness denied her esteem." 
 
 On an old Lady, in Hendon churchyard, Middlesex: — 
 
 Reader ! she rambled all this desert through 
 In search of happiness : nor found repose 
 Till she had reached the borders of the waste : 
 Full many a flower that blossom' d in her path 
 She stopt to gather; and the fruit she pluck' d 
 That hung from many a tempting bough : all but 
 The Rose of Sharon and the Tree of Life. 
 This flung its fragrance to the gale, and spread 
 Its blushing beauties ; that its healing leaves 
 
 Displayed, and fruit immortal all in vain. 
 
 She neither tasted, nor admired ; and found 
 
 All that she chose and tasted, fair — but false ; 
 
 The flowers no sooner gathered, than they faded ; 
 
 The fruits enchanting, dust and bitterness ; 
 
 And all the world a wilderness of care. 
 
 Wearied, dispirited, and at the close 
 
 Of this eventful course, she sought the plant 
 
 Which long her heedless haste o'erlooked : and prov'd 
 
 Its sovereign virtues : underneath its shade 
 
 Outstretched, drew from her wounded feet the thorns, 
 
 Breath' d the last sigh shed the last tear 
 
 And here the aged pilgrim rests in trembling hope." 
 
 On Irish Xell, of Wapping. — A heroine of some 
 celebrity, distinguished by the name of Irish Nell, 
 died some time ago, in Well-court, Wapping. Her 
 
 house had long been a friendly asylum for travellers of 
 every description. The inhabitants of the frozen regions, 
 and the negro from the sultry climes of Ethiopia, often 
 sought refuge under her roof. Jews, Turks, Christians, 
 and Pagans, received the same welcome. Their accom- 
 modation was liberal, on reasonable terms; and, unlike 
 
 o6<o 
 
MAIDENS AND LADIES. 
 
 many who keep lodging-houses for the reception of 
 foreigners, she never practised imposition. In her will 
 she requested to be buried in her best clothes, and left 
 £5 as an indemnity to the parish, in case the penalty 
 should he enacted of them, for suffering her to be in- 
 terred in linen. The remains of poor Nell were interred 
 in Stepney burial-ground, in the presence of a number 
 of mourners. The following epitaph was written for 
 her head-stone : — 
 
 " Flashy Nell, of Old "Wapping, lies under this clay, 
 In a new gown and petticoat, deck'd out quite gay. 
 Death called at her lodgings — she put on her best, 
 And he took her away to his dwelling of rest." 
 
 Epitaph on a tomb, in Old Pancras churchyard. It 
 is 100 years old, and refers to a lady who died at the 
 age of 23 : — 
 
 " Go, spotless honour and unsullied truth ; 
 
 Go, smiling innocence and blooming youth ; 
 
 Go, female sweetness, joined with manly sense ; 
 
 Go, winning wit that never gave offence; 
 
 Go, soft humanity that blest the poore ; 
 
 Go, saint-eyed patience from affliction's door ; 
 
 Go, modesty that never wore a frown ; 
 
 Go, virtue, and receive thy heavenly crown. 
 Not from a stranger came this heartful verse, [hearse." 
 The friend inscribed thy tomb, whose tear bedew' d thy 
 
 On a lady : — 
 
 :< Here lies a lady, who, if not belied, 
 Took wise St. Paul's advice, and all things tried : 
 Nor stopt she here ; but followed through the rest, 
 And always stuck the longest to the best." 
 
 In Membury church, near Axminster, in Devonshire, 
 against the eastern wall, is an elegant mural monument, 
 
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 consisting of the bust of a young female, surrounded by 
 flowers, very well sculptured in white marble ; beneath 
 it is a tablet with this inscription : — 
 
 " Frances, daughter of Robert Fey, of Tarty, Esq., 
 by Frances, his wife, dyed 18th March, 1718, set suse 17, 
 who, disconsolate for her loss, erected this monument to 
 her dear memory : 
 
 Stop, passenger ! and view ye mournful shrine 
 Which holds ye reliques of a form divine. 
 ! she was all perfection, heavenly fair, 
 And chaste and innocent as vestals are, 
 Her wit, her humour, and her youth conspired 
 To warm the soul, and all who saw admired. 
 But, ah ! how soon was all this heaven of charms 
 Rifled by Death, and withered in his arms ; 
 Too soon for us, but not for her too soon, 
 For now upon ye wings of angels flown 
 Her native skies, she's by her God carest, 
 And keeps the eternal sabbath of ye blest. 
 Learn hence, believers (good reader), to be wise, 
 This trifling world and all its joys despise ; 
 With each high virtue let thy bosom swell, 
 And live like her, yt you may dye so well." 
 
 In the chancel floor of the above church, is a stone 
 bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " In memory of Mrs. Elino^e Fey, youngest daughr. 
 of Wm. Fry, of Tarty, Esq., who dyed August 27, 
 A.D. 1705, aged 83.— 
 
 Who, whilst she lived a virgin pure 
 Desired her dust might rest secure, 
 With grave beneath this stone, before 
 The last trump sounded times no more." 
 
 On a young lady (by Hannah More) : — 
 Go, peaceful shade ! exchange for sin and care 
 The glorious palm which patient sufFrers wear ! 
 Go, take the meed victorious meekness gains, 
 
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 Go, wear the crown triumphant faith obtains. 
 Those silent graces which the good conceal, 
 The day of dread disclosure shall reveal ; 
 Then shall thy mild, retiring virtues rise, 
 And God, both judge and witness, give the prize. 
 
 " Sleep on, fair maid, fulfil thy Maker's will, 
 Arise, unchang'd, and be an angel still." 
 
 An epitaph for a virgin : — 
 
 " Here a solemne fast we keepe, 
 While all beauty lies asleepe ; 
 Husht be all things ! no noyse here 
 But the toning of a tear ; 
 Or a sigh of such as bring 
 Cowslips for her covering." 
 
 Robert Herriclc. 
 
 On a fair maid in South Wales, lately erected :- 
 
 " The village maidens to her grave shall bring 
 The fragrant garland each returning spring ; 
 Selected sweets ! an emblem of the maid 
 Who underneath this hallow' d turf is laid." 
 
 On Miss Bttrdett. — In the chancel of Eamsbury 
 church is a monument to the memory of Miss Eleanoka 
 Btjkdett, who died Nov. 27, 1797, aged 26 years; and 
 the following inscription which was written by her bro- 
 ther, Sir Francis Burdett : — 
 
 "Not formal duty prompts these mournful lays ; 
 No painted shew of grief these lines impart ; 
 No cold, unfeeling, stale, insipid praise ; 
 But sorrow, flowing from the o'erfraught heart. 
 
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 No need hast thou of monumental verse, 
 Lamented maid ! to prove thy worth was high ; 
 The widow's tear bedews thy modest hearse ; 
 Thy name is honoured with the poor man's sigh ! 
 
 The sons of want, with unavailing woe, 
 To Heaven their eyes in anguish must uprear, 
 A thousand blessings on thy name bestow, 
 Hang o'er thy grave, and drop the silent tear. 
 
 1 Alas !' they cry, ' that feeling heart is cold, 
 That lib'ral hand which gave to all relief, 
 That tongue whose sweetness never can be told, 
 Which charmed our ears, and soothed our sharpest grief.' 
 
 If thou canst look, bright angel, from above, 
 As to thy God thou bend'st th' adoring knee, 
 Accept the tribute of a brother's love, 
 And in thy orisons remember me." 
 
 On a young maiden, who died of consumption, aged 
 21 years : — 
 
 " Death's icy hand in life's fair morn, 
 Untimely chilled the purple tide ; 
 When, like a rosebud rudely torn, 
 She droop'd — she linger' d, and she died." 
 
 On the monument of Mary Frampton, who died at 
 Bath, 1698, aged 21 years (by John Dryden) : — 
 
 " Below this marble monument is laid 
 All that Heaven wants of this celestial maid ; 
 Preserve, sacred Tomb, thy trust consign' d ; 
 The mould was made on purpose for the mind, 
 And she would lose, if at the latter day, 
 One atom could be mixed with other clay. 
 Such were the features of her heavenly face, 
 Her limbs were form'd with such harmonious grace, 
 So faultless was the frame, as if the whole 
 Had been an emanation of the soul, 
 
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 "Which her own inward symmetry reveal' d ; 
 
 And like a picture shone in glass anneal'd, 
 
 Or like the sun eclipsed, Avith shaded light, 
 
 Too piercing, else, to be sustain'd by sight ; 
 
 Each thought was visible that roll'd within, 
 
 As through a crystal case the figur'd hours are seen; 
 
 And Heaven did this transparent veil provide, 
 
 Because she had no guilty thought to hide. 
 
 All-white, a virgin saint, she sought the skies ; 
 
 For marriage, though it sullies not, it dies. 
 
 High though her wit, yet humble was her mind, ] 
 
 As if she could not, or ye would not, find 
 
 How much her worth transcended all her kind. ) 
 
 Yet she had learned so much of heaven below, 
 
 That when arrived, she scarce had more to know, 
 
 But only to refresh the former hint, 
 
 And read her Maker in a fairer print. 
 
 So pious, as she had no time to spare 
 
 Por human thoughts, but was confined to prayer. 
 
 Yet in such charities she passed the day, 
 
 'Twas wondrous how she found an hour to pray. 
 
 A soul so calm, it knows not ebbs or flows, 
 
 Which passion could but curl, not discompose. 
 
 A female softness, with a manly mind ; 
 
 A daughter duteous, and a sister kind ; 
 
 In sickness patient, and in death resigned." 
 
 In Toddington church, Beds., is a magnificent monu- 
 ment in memory of Lady Mama Wentwoeth, who died 
 at the early age of 18, in the year 1632. The inscrip- 
 tion is : — 
 
 "And here the precious dust is laid, 
 "Whose puerile tempered clay was made 
 So fine, that it the guest betrayed. 
 
 Else the soul grew so fast within, 
 It broke the outward shell of sin, 
 And so was hatch' d a cherubim. 
 
 In height it soar'd to God above; 
 In depth it did to knowledge move ; 
 And spread in breadth to general love. 
 
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 Before a pious duty shin'd 
 To parents ; courtesy behind ; 
 On cither side an equal minde. 
 
 Good to the poor, to kindred dear, 
 To servants kind, to friendship clear- 
 To nothing but herself severe. 
 
 So, though a virgin, yet a bride, 
 To every grace she justified 
 A chaste polygamy, and died.' 7 
 
 On a maid : — 
 
 " This little vault, this narrow room. 
 Of love and beauty is the tomb ; 
 The dawning beam that 'gan to clear 
 Our clouded sky, lies darkened here ; 
 For ever set to us by death 
 So to inflame the world beneath. 
 '"Twas but a bud, yet did contain 
 More sweetness than shall spring again ; 
 A budding star that might have grown 
 Into a sun, when it had blown : 
 This hopeful beauty did create 
 New life in love's declining state : 
 But now Iris empire ends, and we 
 From fire and wounding darts are free : 
 His brand, his bow, let no man fear, 
 The flames, the arrow, all lie here." 
 
 On Miss Stanley (by Jas. Thomson) : — 
 
 " Here, Stanley, rest, escap'd this mortal strife, 
 Above the joys, beyond the woes of life. 
 Fierce pangs no more thy lively beauties stain, 
 And sternly try thee with a year of pain: 
 !No more sweet patience, feigning oft relief, 
 Lights thy sick eye, to cheat a parent's grief : 
 With tender art, to save her anxious groan, 
 No more thy bosom presses down its own : 
 
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 Now well-earn' d peace is thine, and bliss sincere, 
 Ours be the lenient, not unpleasing tear ! 
 
 born to bloom, then sink beneath the storm ; 
 To show us Yirtue in her fairest form ; 
 To show us artless Eeason's moral reign, 
 What boastful Science arrogates in vain ; 
 The obedient passions knowing each their part ; 
 Calm light the head, and harmony the heart ! 
 
 Yes, we must follow soon, will glad obey, 
 "When a few suns have roll'd their cares away, 
 Tir'd with vain life, will close the willing eye : 
 'Tis the great birth-right of mankind to die. 
 Blest be the bark ! that wafts us to the shore, 
 Where death-divided friends shall part no more : 
 To join thee there, here with thy dust repose, 
 Is all the hope thy hapless mother knows." 
 
 On lady Ann, a famous fortune-teller in Westminster, 
 who died 1750: — 
 
 "Here lies the corpse of Lady Ann, 
 Blame her who list, and praise who can ; 
 Tho' skill' d in deep astrology, 
 She could not read her destiny. 
 In her observe each creature's lot, 
 And mend thy manners Master Scott. 
 Sure as thou didst her coffin make, 
 So death, thy doom shall undertake." 
 
 On Elizabeth L. H. (by Ben Jonson) : — 
 
 " Would' st thou hear what man can say 
 
 In a little ? reader, stay. 
 Underneath this stone doth lie 
 
 As much beauty as could die : 
 Which in life did harbour give 
 
 To more virtue than could live. 
 If, at all, she had a fault, 
 
 Leave it buried in this vault. 
 
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 One name was Elizabeth, 
 
 Th' other let it sleep in death ; 
 
 Fitter, where it died, to tell, 
 
 Than that it liv'd at all. Farewell ! 
 
 On a lady : — 
 
 Good sense and good fortune this lady possess' d, 
 But how she employed them, her day book shews best, 
 Forty shillings a year she bestowed on the poor. 
 But on superfluity for ty times more." 
 
 On a lady : — 
 
 " The purest soul that e'er was sent 
 Into a clayie element 
 Inform' d this dust ; but the weak mold 
 Could the great guest no longer hold : 
 The substance was too pure, the flame 
 Too glorious that thither came. 
 Ten thousand Cupids brought along, 
 As grace on each wing that did throng 
 For place there, till they all opprest 
 The seat in which they ought to rest. 
 Thus the fair model broke, for want 
 Of room to lodge the inhabitant." 
 
 JUDGES, STATESMEN, &c. 
 
 Sir Matthew Hale was buried in the churchyard 
 of Alderleyj in Gloucestershire. He desired by his will 
 that his funeral should be private — conducted without 
 
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 pomp — and that a marble stone should be laid on his 
 grave, inscribed only with his name ; meaning, probably, 
 without the praises which so often encumber such me- 
 morials; for the following inscription was written by 
 himself (it is in Latin, and is thus translated) : — 
 
 " Here is buried the body of Matthew Hale, Knight, 
 only son of Robert Hale, and Joan his wife ; who was 
 born in this parish of Alderley, on the first day of 
 November, in the year of our Lord 1609: and died in 
 the same place, on the 25th of December, 1676, in the 
 67th year of his age." — Hone's Life of Rale. 
 
 Monument to the duke and duchess of Newcastle, in 
 Westminster Abbey. The duke died 1676, and the 
 duchess in 1673. In their robes of state, they rest side 
 by side on a marble slab, supported by pedestals. The 
 monument bears this inscription : — 
 
 " Here lies the loyal Duke of Newcastle, and his 
 Duchess, his second wife, by whom he had no issue. 
 Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to Lord 
 Lucas, of Colchester ; a noble family, for all the brothers 
 were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. This Duchess 
 was a wise, witty, and learned lady, which her many 
 books will testify. She was a most virtuous and a loving 
 and careful wife, and was with her lord all the time of 
 his banishment and miseries, and when he came home 
 never parted from him in his solitary retirement." 
 
 In Graveney church, near Feversham, in Kent, is a 
 Latin epitaph, on Judge Martyn, of which the follow- 
 ing is a translation : — 
 
 " S. M. 
 John Martyn, one of the judges of the king's bench, 
 during the reign of Henry VI, died 1469. 
 
 Stay, traveller, and here incline thine eye, 
 Where 'neath this stone my mortal reliques lie : 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In mine, behold the image of thy fate, 
 
 And, weeping, own life's short and troubled date. 
 
 Unsought, unthought, unwelcome death appears 
 
 And blights the promise of extended years. 
 
 Once, cloth' d in state, my tongue pronounc'd the law, 
 
 Now in my turn with reverential awe, 
 
 Before the dread tribunal must I stand, 
 
 And, trembling, plead, at God's most high command : 
 
 So shall the judge be judged : thus pass away 
 
 Light, law, and life, the baubles of a day. 
 
 In cold oblivion sleeps my honour' d fame, 
 
 And scarce the tomb records my boasted name. 
 
 How awful is this change ! yet when from crime 
 
 My soul is purified, when with' ring time 
 
 Sinks in eternity, this mould'ring frame, 
 
 Cloth' d with celestial light, may humbly claim 
 
 Amid thy saints to stand, thy mercies own, 
 
 And bow the knee of worship at thy throne." 
 
 Sir "William "Walworth, the lord mayor of London 
 in the reign of Richard II., was formerly a fishmonger. 
 The following is a transcript of the epitaph placed over 
 his tomb in St. Michael's church, Crooked lane : — 
 
 " Here under lyeth a man of fame, 
 "William Walwoeth, called by name ; 
 Fishmonger he was, in lefe time here, 
 And twice Lord Mayor, as in books appear : 
 "Who with courage, stout and manly might, 
 Slew Wat Tyler, in King Richard's sight ; 
 For which act done, and true intent, 
 The Xing made him Knight incontinent, 
 And gave him arms as here you see, 
 To declare his fact and chivalry ; 
 He left this life, the year of our Lord 
 Thirteen hundred, fourscore, three and odd." 
 
 Heney Maeten, the regicide and friend of Cromwell, 
 spent more than 20 years in confinement in Chepstow 
 castle, in Monmouthshire, and died there, and was 
 
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 buried in Chepstow church, with the following epitaph 
 
 on a monument, written by himself : — 
 
 " Here 
 
 September the 9th, in the year of our 
 
 Lord, 1680, 
 
 Was buried a true Englishman, 
 
 Who in Berkshire was well known, 
 To love his country's freedom 'bove his own, 
 But living immured full twenty year, 
 Had time to write, as doth appear 
 His epitaph. 
 H ere or elsewhere (all's one, to you, to me), 
 E arth, air, or water, gripes my ghostless dust. 
 ~N one knows how soon to be by fire sett free. 
 E eader, if you are often tryed, rule with trust 
 Y ou'll gladly do and suffer what you must. 
 
 M y life was spent with serving you, and you, 
 
 A nd death's my pay (it seems) and welcome too; 
 
 B evenge destroying but itself, while I 
 
 T o birds of prey leave my old cage, and fly, 
 
 E xamples preach to th'eye, care then (mine says) 
 
 N ot how you end, but how you spend your days. 
 
 Heney Marten." 
 
 On the earl of Leicester. — Eobeet Dudley, Queen 
 Elizabeth's Earl of Leicester, died September 4th, 1588, 
 aged 57 years. It had been suspected he died of poison, 
 and that his lady served him as he is said to have served 
 others ; but a passage in " Drummond's Conversations" 
 goes far to prove that it was unintentional. " The 
 Earl of Leicester gave a bottle of liquor to his lady, 
 which he willed her to use in any faintness : which she, 
 after his return from court, not knowing it was poison, 
 gave him, and so he died." In the HawthorndenMSS. 
 is the following epitaph " of the Earl of Leicester," 
 probably communicated to Drummond by Ben Jonson : — 
 
 " Here lies a valiant warrior 
 Who never drew a sword ; 
 Here lies a noble courtier, 
 Who never kept his word ; 
 
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 Here lies the Earl of Leister 
 
 Who governed the estates, 
 Whom the earth could never living love, 
 
 And the just heaven now hates." 
 
 From various sources. 
 
 The resting-place of Oliver Cromwell : — 
 
 " Oliver Cromwell quitted his farming, and under- 
 took a Hercules' labour and life-long wrestle. His 
 wages, as I understand, were, burial under the gallows- 
 tree, near Tyburn turnpike, with his head on the gable 
 of Westminster Hall ; and two centuries now of mixed 
 cursing and ridicule from all manner of men. His dust 
 lies under the Edgeware road, near Tyburn turnpike at 
 this hour. We believe there is no Tyburn turnpike 
 now, but the bones of Oliver rest beneath the mile- 
 post on the park-side of the way, which serves as the 
 Lord Protector's Tombstone." — Carlyle's Past 8f Present. 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of the Eight Honourable 
 Spencer Perctval, in St. Luke's church, Charlton, in 
 Kent :— 
 
 " Near this place are the mortal remains of the Right 
 Hon. Spencer Percival, Eirst Lord of the Treasury, 
 and Chancellor of the Exchequer, who died the 11th of 
 May, 1812, in the Commons House of Parliament, in 
 the 50th year of his age. His noblest epitaph is the 
 regret of his Sovereign and his country — his most splen- 
 did monument the glory of England, by his counsels 
 maintained, exalted, amplified. But the hand of an 
 assassin not only broke asunder the brilliant chains of 
 duty which bind the statesman to his native land, and 
 made a void in the high and eloquent councils of the 
 nation : it severed ties more tender and delicate, those 
 of conjugal and parental affection, and turned a home 
 of peace and love into a house of mourning and desola- 
 tion." 
 
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JUDGES, STATESMEN, ETC. 
 
 Monument to the Et. Hon. Spencer Peecival, in 
 "Westminster Abbey. — The monument consists of an 
 efiigy of the unfortunate minister, with a statue of 
 power, indicated by the faces, weeping over him, and 
 figures of Truth and Temperance, the one distinguished 
 by a bridle and the other by a mirror, erect at his feet. 
 Along the back-ground runs an animated scene in basso- 
 relievo, descriptive of the lobby of the House of Com- 
 mons, at the moment of his fall. On the base of the 
 monument is this inscription : — 
 
 " In Memory of the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, 
 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer. Pirst Lord of the Treasury. 
 
 This monument was erected by the Prince regent 
 
 and Parliament, to record their deep sense of his 
 
 public and private virtues ; 
 
 and to mark the natural abhorrence of the act by which 
 
 he fell. 
 
 Born 1st November, 1762. Assassinated within the 
 
 walls of the House of Commons, 11th May, 1812." 
 
 In Everton Church, Huntingdonshire. — In the above 
 church is the following inscription on a monument : — 
 
 " To the Memory of Sir Humphrey Winche, alias de 
 la "Winche, Knt., who, in the 4th year of King James 
 A. D. 1606, was sent by him to serve in Ireland, as 
 chief baron and counsellor of state for that kingdom : 
 from whence re-called, he served his Majesty as one of 
 his Justices of his court of Common Pleas, &c, until an 
 apoplexy seized on him in his robes, the 4th day of 
 February, 1624, in the 71st year of his age, whereof, 
 about 24 hours after, he died in Chancery Lane, London; 
 whose corpse imbalmed was buried here below." 
 
 At East Mousley : — 
 
 " Here lyeth Anthonie Standen, Gentn., third son 
 of Edmund Standen, Esq., which Anthonie was cup- 
 bearer to the King of Scotland, sometyme Lord Dudley, 
 
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 father to King James, now of England, and also sworne 
 servant to his Majestie, who, after much experience in 
 the various states of humane things, marrying, be- 
 queathed himself to a private and quiet life, where, 
 notwithstanding evermore endeavouring (although with 
 his own cost) to make peace between those that were all 
 debate, promoting the poor man's cause often with his 
 own expense, and full of other pious workes, departed 
 this lyfe the X of Marche, 1611, in the 71st year of his 
 age." 
 
 Robert Boyle, earl of Cork, and Lord High Trea- 
 surer of Ireland, in 1631 (which office was made here- 
 ditary in his family), died in 1643, aged 78, and caused 
 this motto to be engraven on his tomb : — 
 
 " God's Providence is my inheritance." 
 
 In the church of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.— Near 
 the altar on a mahogany tablet, are placed certain en- 
 gravings representing the effigies of the defunct and his 
 family. The effigies alluded to represent Selwyn and 
 his wife, 6 daughters, and 5 sons, all full length figures, 
 and engraved with great force and spirit. At the top is 
 a spirited representation of the manner of Selwyn' s 
 death. He is seated on a stag, and has plunged a dag- 
 ger into its neck, having undertaken, either in the way 
 of wager or a trial of skill, so to destroy the animal, 
 but, as tradition says, he met his death in the attempt ; 
 the stag having, at the moment he was struck, thrown 
 back its head, and killed Selwyn by a blow of its horns. 
 The epitaph, in old English characters, is as follows : — 
 
 "Here lyeth ye bodye of John Selwyn, Gentn., 
 keeper of her Majestie' s parke of Otelande, under the 
 Right Honourable Charles Howarde, Lord Admyral of 
 Englande, his good lorde and master, who had issue by 
 Susan, his wyfe, Y sonnes and VI daughters, all living 
 at his death, and departed out of this worlde the XXII 
 day of March, A. D. 1587." 
 
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 Inscription on the monument of Sir James Fulleeton 
 and his Lady, in Westminster Abbey : — 
 
 " Here lie the remains of Sir J. Eulleeton, Kt., 1st 
 Gent, of the Bed-chamber to King Chas. I (prince and 
 king). A generous re warder of virtue, a severe reprover 
 of all vice, a profest renouncer of all vanity. He was a 
 firm pillar to the commonwealth, a faithful patron to 
 the Catholic Church, a fair pattern to the British court. 
 He lived to the welfare of his country, to the honour of 
 his prince, to the glory of his God. He died fuller of 
 faith than of fear, fuller of resolution than of pains, 
 fuller of honour than of days." 
 
 On Sir William Tetjmbttll, one of the principal Se- 
 cretaries of State to King William 3rd, who, having re- 
 signed his place, died in retirement at Easthampstead, 
 in Berkshire, in 1716 (by A. Pope) : — 
 
 " A pleasing form ; a firm, yet cautious mind ; 
 Sincere, tho' prudent ; constant, yet resigned ; 
 Honour unchang'd, a principle profest, 
 Eix'd to one side, but mod' rate to the rest; 
 An honest courtier, yet a patriot too ; 
 Just to his prince, and to his country true ; 
 EiU'd with the sense of age, the fire of youth, 
 A scorn of wrangling, yet a zeal for truth ; 
 A gen'rous faith, from superstition free ; 
 A love of peace, and hate of tyranny ; 
 Such this man was, who now, from earth remov'd, 
 At length enjoys that liberty he lov'd." 
 
 In Kimbolton church, Huntingdonshire, on a costly 
 monument to the memory of Henet, 1st Earl of Man- 
 chester, are his effigies and the following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lyeth Sir Heney Montague, Kt., Lord Kim- 
 bolton, "Viscount Mandeville, Earl of Manchester, who 
 in his younger years professed the common law, was 
 
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 chosen Recorder of London, and afterwards made the 
 King's Serjeant-at-law, thence Chief Justice of England, 
 then Lord President of the King's most Honble. Privy 
 Counsel!, and dyed Lord Privy Seale." 
 He died Nov., 1642. 
 
 John Wilkes was buried in Grosvenor chapel, South 
 Audley street, where he directed a tablet with this 
 inscription to be raised : — 
 
 "The remains of John Wilkes, a friend to liberty." 
 
 This was accordingly done, with this underneath — 
 Born at London, Oct. 7th, 1727, O.S. 
 Died in this Parish Dec. 26, 1797, - - 
 
 On the monument of the Marquis of "Winchester 
 (by John Dryden) : — 
 
 " He who in impious times undaunted stood, 
 And midst rebellion durst be just and good, 
 Whose arms asserted, and whose sufferings more 
 Confirm' d the cause for which he fought before, 
 Rests here, rewarded by a heavenly prince, 
 For what his earthly could not recompense. 
 Pray, Reader ! that such times no more appear ; 
 Or, if they happen, learn true honour here. 
 Ask of this age's faith and loyalty, 
 Which, to preserve them, Heaven confin'd in thee ; 
 Few subjects could a king like thine deserve, 
 And fewer such a king so well could serve. 
 Bless' d king ! bless' d subject ! whose exalted state 
 By sufferings rose, and gave the law to Fate. 
 Such souls are rare, but mighty patterns given 
 To earth, and meant for ornaments to heaven." 
 
 On the blood-thirsty Robespieeke. — In an epitaph, of 
 which the following couplet may serve as a translation, 
 his life was represented as incompatible with the exist- 
 ence of the human race : — 
 
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 Here lies Robespieeee — let no tear be shed, 
 Reader ! if he had lived, thou had'st been dead." 
 
 The only memorial of the death of Villiees, duke of 
 Buckingham, remaining at Kirby Moorside (where he 
 died in obscurity and distress), is an entry in an old 
 register of burials, which runs thus : — 
 
 " 1687, April 17th, Geoege Villus, Lord dook of 
 bookingham . ' ' — Ellis' s Correspondence. 
 
 On General Ludlow (one of the members of the high 
 court of justice which passed sentence on king Charles 
 I), at Vevay, in Switzerland : — 
 
 " Stop and behold ! Here lies Edmund Ludlow, an 
 Englishman, of the county of Wilts, son of Henry 
 Ludlow, Knight and Member of Parliament, as he also 
 was ; honourable by descent, but more so by his own 
 virtue ; by religion a protestant, and eminent for piety ; 
 In the 23rd year of his age, he was made Colonel of a 
 Regiment, and soon after Lieut. -Gen. of the Army. In 
 that post, he helped to reduce Ireland ; intrepid and 
 careless of life in battle, in victory merciful and humane. 
 A defender of his country's liberty ; and a warm op- 
 poser of arbitrary power; for which cause, banished 
 from his country 32 years, though worthy a better for- 
 tune, he took refuge in Switzerland, and dying there, in 
 the 73rd year of his age, regretted by his friends, flew 
 to the eternal seats of joy. His most beloved, coura- 
 geous, and most sorrowful consort, as well in misfortune 
 as in matrimony, Mrs. Elizabeth de Thomas, who, moved 
 by greatness of mind, and the force of conjugal affection, 
 constantly followed him in his exile till his death, conse- 
 crated this monument in perpetual memory of her true 
 and sincere affection to her deceased husband, in the 
 year of our Lord, 1693." 
 
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 In the cloisters of "Westminster Abbey, on Daniel 
 Pultexey, the famous opposer of Sir Eobert Walpole, in 
 Parliament. His eloquence and sarcasm were so severe 
 that Sir Eobert said, that " he dreaded that man's tongue 
 more than another man's sword": — 
 
 " Eeader ! if thou art a Briton, behold this tomb with 
 reverence and regret : here lie the remains of Daniel 
 PuLTEXEr, the kindest relation, the truest friend, the 
 warmest Patriot, the worthiest man : he exercised virtue 
 in this age sufficient to have distinguished him even in 
 the best. Sagacious by nature, industrious by habit, 
 inquisitive with art, he gained a complete knowledge of 
 the state of Britain, foreign and domestic ; in most, the 
 backward fruits of tedious experience ; in him, the early 
 acquisition of undissipated youth. He served the court 
 several years : abroad, in the auspicious reign of Queen 
 Anne : at home, in the reign of that excellent prince, 
 George I. He served his country always ; at court inde- 
 pendent, in the senate unbiassed : at every age and in 
 every station, this was the bent of his generous soul, this 
 was the business of his laborious life. Public men and 
 public things, he judged by one constant standard, the 
 true interest of Britain : he made no other distinction 
 of party; he abhorred all other. Gentle, humane, 
 disinterested, beneficent, he created no enemies on his 
 own account : firm, determined, inflexible, he feared 
 none he could create in the cause of Britain. 
 
 Eeader ! in this misfortune of thy country, lament 
 thy own. For know, the loss of so much private worth, 
 is a public calamity. Born 1682, died 1764." 
 
 EmrrxD Bubke, the orator, in his early days, and 
 while speaking with enthusiasm of the solemn glories 
 of Westminster Abbey, declared that he would rather 
 sleep " in the southern corner of a little country church- 
 yard " than in the tomb of the Capulets; that his dust 
 might mingle with the ashes of his kindred. "The family 
 burying- ground " he said, "had something in it pecu- 
 liarly soothing and dear." He lies buried in Beacons- 
 field churchyard, Bucks, in the same grave with his 
 
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 widow, his only son, and his brother. On a tablet 
 Beaconsfield church is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Near this place 
 
 lies interred 
 
 all that was mortal of the 
 
 Eight Honourable Edmund Burke, 
 
 who died on the 9th July, 1797, 
 
 aged 68 years. 
 
 In the same grave are deposited 
 
 the remains of 
 
 his only son, Eichard Burke, l!sq. 
 
 Eepresentative in Parliament, 
 
 for the Borough of Malton, 
 
 who died 2nd August, 1794, 
 
 aged 35. 
 
 Of his Brother, Eichard Burke, Esq. 
 
 Barrister at Law, and 
 
 Eecorder of the City of Bristol, 
 
 who died the 4th February, 1794 ; 
 
 and of his Widow 
 
 Jane Mary Burke, 
 
 who died on the 2nd April, 
 
 1812, aged 78."* 
 
 Hi 
 
 At Pewsey, in Wiltshire : — 
 
 " Here lies the body of the Lady O'Looney, great 
 niece of Burke, commonly called the Sublime. She was 
 bland, passionate, and deeply religious ; also, she painted 
 in "Water- Colours, and sent several pictures to the 
 Exhibition. She was first cousin to Lady Jones, — 
 and of such is the kingdom of heaven." 
 
 * Mr. Burke, by the provisions of his will, required that his funeral 
 should be as simple as possible ; adding, that there had been in his lifetime, 
 " too much of noise and compliment." Mr. Fox proposed that the body of 
 his ancient friend should be buried with public honours in Westminster 
 Abbey, but the express wishes of Burke were not to be violated. His 
 monument is in his works, which Avill be coeval with the literature of his 
 country, and of which Sheridan finely said " They will be read and admired 
 when all of us are gone, and most of us forgotten." 
 
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 Monument to William: Pitt, earl of Chatham, who 
 died a.d. 1778, aged 70 years. In "Westminster Abbey, 
 on a pedestal in a recess, is the earl standing erect, in 
 the act of speaking ; on a sarcophagus are figures of 
 Prudence and Fortitude; at the base, Neptune rest- 
 ing on a Dolphin ; on the other side, Peace holding a 
 globe ; under which are the fruits of the earth. The 
 monument is by Bacon, and was erected by Government, 
 at a cost of £6,000. On the pedestal is the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Erected by the King and Parliament 
 
 As a Testimony to 
 
 The Yirtue and ability 
 
 of 
 
 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 
 
 During whose Administration 
 
 Divine Providence 
 
 Exalted Great Britain 
 
 To an height of Prosperity and Glory 
 
 Unknown to any former age." 
 
 Monument to the Bt. Hon. William Pitt, in West- 
 minster Abbey. — He died Jany. 23, 1806, in his 47th 
 year. This celebrated statesman is represented robed 
 as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the act of 
 addressing the House ; while History, personified as a 
 female sketching his portrait, is seated on one side ; and 
 Anarchy, personified as a man, naked and bound with 
 chains, on the other. The monument is by Westmacott, 
 and cost the Government £6,300. It bears only the 
 inscription of his name. 
 
 For William Pitt (by Lord Byron, Jan., 1820) : — 
 
 " With death doom'd to grapple, 
 Beneath this cold slab, he 
 Who lied in the Chapel 
 Now lies in the Abbey." 
 
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 In Westminster Abbey is a figure, life-size, of the 
 marquis of Londonderry. On the pedestal is this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " This statue is erected to the Memory of 
 Eobeet, second Marquis of Londonderry, and Viscount 
 Castlereagh, K. G. 
 Born a.d. 1769; died a.d. August 12th, 1822. 
 History will record the success and splendour of his public 
 career during a period of unexampled difficulty in the 
 annals of Europe, in which he successfully filled the 
 highest offices under the crown ; and Ireland will never 
 forget the statesman of the Legislative Union. 
 
 This Tribute to the best of Brothers and Friends, is 
 placed in Westminster Abbey, by Charles William Vane, 
 third Marquis of Londonderry." 
 
 In Helmingham church, Suffolk. — In the above church 
 is a splendid monument to the memory of the Tollemache 
 family. It bears date 1615. On the monument are 
 four figures kneeling. Underneath the top figure is this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " Here with his Fathers sleep Sir Lionel, 
 Knight, Baronet, all honours worthy well ; 
 So well the acts of all his Life exprest 
 His Elders virtues, and excelled their best. 
 His Prudent Bearing in his Public place, 
 Suffolk's High Sheriff twice, in sixteen years' space. 
 
 His zeal to God, and towards ill Severity. 
 His Temperance, his Justice, his Sincerity. 
 His Native Mildness towards Great and Small. 
 His faith, his Love to Friends, Wife, Children all, 
 In Life and death, made him Beloved and Dear, 
 To God, and Men, Happy in Heaven and Here. 
 
 Happy in Soul and Body, Goods and Hame, 
 Happy in Wedlock with a Noble Dame. 
 Lord Crum well's Daughter, happy in his Heir 
 Whose Spring of Virtues Sprouts so Young, so Fair, 
 Whose Dear Affection to his Founder's debtor 
 Built them this Tomb, but in his Heart a better." 
 
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 Underneath the second figure : — 
 
 "Baptized Lionel Tolle^iache my name, 
 Since Norman's Conquest of unsoiled Tame 
 Shows my descent from ancestors of worth, 
 And that my Life might not belie my birth. 
 Their virtues' track with heedful steps I trod, 
 Rightful to Men, Religious towards God. 
 
 Train' d in the Law I gain'd the Bar and Bench 
 Not bent to kindle Strife, but rather Quench. 
 Gentle to Clients, in my Counsels just 
 With Norfolk's great Duke in no little Trust. 
 Sir Joyce his heir was my fair "Faithful wife, 
 Bently my Seat, and Seventy Years my Life." 
 
 Underneath the third figure : — 
 
 Heir of my Father's Name, Sir Name and Seat, 
 Lands, Goods, and Goodness towards Small and Great. 
 By Heaven's dear Blessing on my Best Endeavour, 
 In his Fail- Footsteps did I well persevere : 
 Amongst the Best, above the most admired, 
 For all the Parts my Race and Place required. 
 
 High Sheriff of Suffolk once, of Norfolk twice, 
 For both approved Right, Gentle, Just, and "Wise : 
 Frank House, Frank Heart, Free of my Purse & Port, 
 Both Lov'd and Loving towards every Sort, 
 Lord "Went worth's daughter was my Lovely Pheer, 
 And Fourscore, Six less, liv'd I Pilgrim here." 
 
 Underneath the fourth figure : — 
 
 " My Stile and State (lest any Question should) 
 My Sire and Grandsire have already told, 
 My Fame and Fortune not unlike to theirs, 
 My Life as fair as Human Frailty bears, 
 My Zeal to God, my Love to ev'ry Good 
 My Saviour knows, his Saints have understood. 
 
 My many Virtues, Moral and Divine, 
 
 My Lib'ral Hand, my Loving Heart to mine. 
 
 My Piety, my Pity, Pains and Care 
 
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 My Neighbours, Tenants, Servants, yet declare ; 
 
 My gentle Bride Sir Ambrose Jermyn bred, 
 
 My years lack fire of half my Grandsire's thread." 
 
 On another monument in Helmingham church : — 
 
 " Here Eesteth the body of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 
 Knight and Baronet, who died September 6th, 1640, 
 being the 49th year of his age. 
 
 "Wise tears turn hither here's a stone 
 Would not be left to weep alone. 
 
 It is a marble of much trust 
 
 And mourns for more than modern dust. 
 
 A man not made for moderate things 
 Served and pleased two mighty Kings. 
 
 His person did all praise combine 
 Honour and virtue, life and line. 
 
 Wisdom and wealth, fortune and merit 
 Ample power and ample spirit. 
 
 Both church and state, both rich and poor 
 Both peace and "War, Doth Sea and Shore, 
 
 All reconciled there in one Sorrow 
 Mutual tears did lend and borrow. 
 
 Join w tlu a grief, so great, so just, 
 Learn well to weigh so worthy dust 
 
 Lament his death, or go, and find 
 Store of such Lives left still behind," 
 
 On Thomas Gut, founder of Guy's hospital. — The 
 monumental group is of white marble, and stands against 
 the wall facing the visitor as he enters the hospital 
 chapel. It was executed by the late Mr. Bacon, in 1779, 
 and is said to have cost £1,000. Mr. Guy is represented 
 in his livery gown, holding out one hand to raise a poor 
 invalid lying on the earth, and pointing with the other 
 to a distressed object, who is being carried on a litter 
 
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 the wards; the hospital heing in the back ground. 
 On the pedestal is this inscription : — 
 
 " Underneath are deposited the remains of 
 
 Thoitas Gey, 
 Citizen of London, Member of Parliament, 
 and the sole founder of this Hos- 
 pital in his life- time. 
 It is peculiar to this beneficent man to have 
 persevered, during a long course of pros- 
 perity and industry, in pouring forth 
 to the wants of others, all that 
 he had earned by labour, or 
 withheld from self- 
 indulgence. 
 Warm with philanthropy, and exalted by 
 charity, his mind expanded te those 
 noble affections which grow but 
 too rarely from the most 
 elevated pursuits. 
 After administer] ng with extensive bounty 
 to the claims of consanguinity, he esta- 
 blished this asylum for that stage 
 of languor and disease to which 
 the charity of others had not 
 reached ; he provided a re- 
 treat, for hopeless in- 
 sanity, and rivalled 
 the endowments 
 of kings. 
 He died the 27th of December, 1724, in the 
 80th year of his age." 
 
 On Sir Henry Lee, at Quarendon, Bucks. — On a 
 black marble tablet, fixed against the wall at the upper 
 end of the chancel of St. Peter's chapel, is this inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " 1611, Memorise Sacrum. 
 Sir Henry Lee, Knight of the most noble Order of the 
 Garter, son of Sir Anthony Lee, and Lame Margaret 
 his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Wiat, Counsellor to the 
 
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 two kings of famous memory, Henries the Seventh and 
 Eighth. He was born in Kent, under the care of his 
 uncle, Sir Henry Wiat, of Arlington Castle, and was 
 bred in the court of Henry VIII. He was employed 
 in services in Scotland, under Queen Mary, at whose 
 death he travelled in France, Holland, and Germany, 
 and returned to England a finished traveller. In 1 573, he 
 was employed by Elizabeth, in Scotland, and was present 
 at the siege of Edinburgh : he was appointed by his 
 royal mistress, Lieutenant of the lloyal Manor of Wood- 
 stock, and to the office of the royal armoury; he received 
 at her majesty's hands, the noblest order of the Garter ; 
 he built four goodly mansions ; revived the ruins of this 
 chapel, and having served five succeeding princes, 'with 
 a body bent to earth, and a mind erected to heaven' he 
 died, aged 80." 
 
 Near this is a magnificent altar monument, with the 
 figure of the knight, Sir Henry Lee, in complete armour. 
 Over it is the following inscription : — 
 
 " Fide et constantia — Vixit Deo, patriae, et amicis annos. 
 Fide et constantia — Christospiritum, carnemsepulchro 
 
 commendari. 
 Fide et constantia — Scio, credo, expecto mortuum re- 
 
 surrectionem." 
 
 Which in English may be thus rendered — 
 " In faith and constancy — He lived to God, to his native 
 country, and to his friends, — years. 
 In faith and constancy — I have commended my soul to 
 
 Christ, and my body to the grave. 
 In faith and constancy — I know, I believe, I expect 
 
 the resurrection of the dead." 
 On a black marble beneath are the following lines : — 
 
 "If fortune's store or nature's wealth commende 
 They both nnto his virtues praise did lend ; 
 The wars abroad with honour he did pass ; 
 In courtly josts his Sovereign's knight he was, 
 Six princes he did serve, and in the fright 
 And change of state, did keep himself upright ; 
 With faith untaught, spotless and clear his fame, 
 So pure that envy could not wrong the same ; 
 
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 All but his virtue now (so vain is breath), 
 Turn'd dust, lie here in the cold arms of death. 
 Thus fortune's gifts and gentle favours fly, 
 When virtue conquers death and destiny. " 
 
 Inscription on the monument erected to the memory 
 of Chaeles, Earl of Dorset, who died January, 1705-6, 
 in "Withy am church, Sussex (by A. Pope) : — 
 
 "Doeset, the grace of Courts, the Muses' pride. 
 Patron of Arts, and judge of Xature, dy'd. 
 The scourge of Pride, though sanctify' d or great, 
 Of fops in learning, and of knaves in state : 
 Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay, 
 His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. 
 Bless'd Satirist ! who touch'd the mean so true, 
 As show'd, Yice had his hate, and pity too. 
 Bless'd Courtier! who could king or country please, 
 Yet sacred keep his friendships, and his ease. 
 Bless'd Peer ! his great forefathers' ev'ry grace, 
 Eeflecting, and reflected in his race ; 
 While other Buckhttests, other Doesets shine, 
 And patriots still, or poets deck the line." 
 
 Sir Fulee Geevile, afterwards Lord Brooke, and 
 chancellor of the exchequer in 1615, was stabbed mor- 
 tally in the back by an old serving man, Sep. 30, 1628, 
 aged 74, and was buried in St. Mary's church, Warwick, 
 under a monument which he had himself erected, with 
 this inscription : — 
 
 " Pr/LKE Geevile, servant to Queen Elizabeth, 
 
 counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. 
 
 Trophasum Peccati." 
 
 At Kendal, in Westmoreland (written by Dr. Watson, 
 bishop of Landaff) : — 
 
 " In Memory of Sir John Wilson, Knt. One of his 
 Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. 
 Born at the Howe in Applethwaite, 6th of August, 
 
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 1741. Died at Kendal, 18th of October, 1793. 
 He did not owe his Promotion to the weight of Great 
 Connections, which he never conrted ; nor to the influ- 
 ence of political parties, which he never joined : but to 
 his Professional Merit, and the unsolicited Patronage of 
 the Lord Chancellor Thurlow, who, in recommending 
 to his Majesty so profound a Lawyer, and so good a Man, 
 realized the hopes and expectations of the whole Bar, 
 gratified the general wishes of the Country, and did 
 honour to his own Discernment and Integrity." 
 
 The Earl of Strafford, after he was beheaded, was 
 buried at Went worth- woodhouse. At the east end of 
 that church, his son erected a monument to his memory, 
 with his statue kneeling, and under it, on a black marble, 
 this inscription in gold letters : — 
 
 "Thomas Wentwoeth, 
 Earl of Straiford, Yiscount Wentworth, Baron Went- 
 worth of Wentworth- woodhouse, Newmarch, Oversley, 
 and Baby, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 
 
 Lord President of the north of England ; 
 
 and knight of the most noble order of the garter. 
 
 His birth was upon Good Friday, 
 
 The 13th of April, 1593, 
 
 His death upon the 12th of May, 1641 ; 
 
 His soul through the mercy of God lives in eternal bliss, 
 
 And his memory will never die in these kingdoms." 
 
 On James Ceaggs, Esq., secretary of state, inscribed 
 on a monument in Westminster Abbey (by Pope), partly 
 written in Latin, and is thus translated : — 
 
 " James Ceaggs, 
 Privy counsellor and secretary of state 
 To the King of Great Britain, 
 Equally esteemed and beloved by Prince and people, 
 
 As indifferent to titles as he was above envy : 
 His years were few, alas ! too few for such a man : 
 
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 Dying in the 35th year of his age, 
 On February 14th, 1720. 
 
 Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, 
 
 In action faithful, and in honour clear ! 
 
 Who broke no promise, served no private end, 
 
 Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 
 
 Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 
 
 Prais'd, wept, and honour' d by the Muse he lov'd." 
 
 In St. Edmund's chapel, Westminster Abbey, on Lord 
 John Russell (who was beheaded in 1683, and whose 
 father the Earl of Bedford, offered £100,000 for a 
 pardon) : — 
 
 " To the memory of 
 
 JOHN, LOED ErSSELL, 
 
 (Son and heir to Francis Earl of Bedford,) 
 
 And his son Ebancis, 
 
 By Elizabeth daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, 
 
 And widow of Sir Thomas Hoby, Knight. 
 
 Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth, 
 Of heaven lov'd, and honour' d on the earth : 
 His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight, 
 My husband dear, more than this world's light, 
 Death hath me reft. But I from death will take 
 His memory, to whom this tombe I make. 
 John was his name (ah was ! wretch, must I say) 
 Loed Russell once, now my tear thirsty clay."* 
 
 On a lofty monument, with recumbent figures, in 
 Westminster Abbey, to the memory of Sir John and 
 Lady Puckering, who died in 1598, is this inscription : — 
 
 * Five years after his execution, when James II. was in his distresses, he 
 addressed himself to the Earl of Bedford, thus : — "My Lord, you are an 
 
 honest man, have great credit, and can do me signal service." " Ah 
 
 Sir," replied the earl, " I am old and feeble : I can do you but little ser- 
 vice ; but I once had a son that could have assisted you ; but he is no 
 more."— The king was so affected with his reply, that he could not speak 
 for some minutes. 
 
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JUDGES, STATESMEN, ETC. 
 
 " The public care and laws engaged my breast ; 
 To live was toilsome, but to die is rest. 
 "Wealth, maces, guards, crowns, titles, things that fade, 
 The prey of Time and sable Death are made. 
 Virtue inspires men. 
 His wife this statue rears to her beloved spouse, 
 The test of constancy and marriage vows. 
 
 I trust I shall see the Lord in the Land of the living." 
 
 In Hampton church : — 
 
 " Here lyeth the body of Edwaede Pigeon, Esquire, 
 yeoman of the Jewel House to King Henry VIII., and by 
 whose special command he attended him at Boloigne, 
 and continued in that office under King Edward VI., 
 Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, who made him also 
 clerk of her robes and wardrobes. 
 
 Nicholas Pigeon, sonne of the said Edwarde, suc- 
 ceeded his father in both of the said offices, and, after 
 he had faithfully served Elizabeth and James above 
 forty years, he departed this life the 1st March, 1619, 
 was buried near unto his father, and left issue Hugh 
 Pigeon and Alice." 
 
 " Thomas Jefferson, president of the United States, 
 died July 4, 1826, aged 83. He is buried in the grounds 
 near his own house. A simple inscription, which was 
 found among his papers after his death, recording him 
 as ' The Author of the Declaration of American Inde- 
 pendence, of the statue of Virginia for Eeligious Ereedom, 
 and Father of the University of Virginia,' is placed on 
 his tomb. The fact of his having been President of the 
 United States is not mentioned." — Knight's Cyc. 
 
 On Lord Bolingbeoke. — On the north side of Batter- 
 sea church, Surrey, is a monument erected to the memory 
 of Lord Viscount Bolingbeoke (who died Dec, 1751, 
 aged 73 years) bearing this inscription : — 
 
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 " Here lies 
 
 Hexey St. Johx : 
 
 In the reign of Queen Anne, 
 
 Secretary of war : secretary of state, 
 
 and Visct. Bolixgbeoee : 
 
 In the days of K. George I. and K. George II. 
 
 Something more and better. 
 
 His attachment to Queen Anne 
 
 Exposed him to a long and severe persecution, 
 
 He bore it with firinness of mind. 
 
 He passed the latter part of his life at home, 
 
 The enemy of no national party : 
 
 The friend of no faction. 
 
 Distinguished under the cloud of proscription, 
 
 Which had not been entirely taken off, 
 
 By Zeal to maintain the liberty 
 
 And to restore the antient prosperity 
 
 Of Great Britain." 
 
 On Viscountess Bollxgbeoke : — 
 
 " In the same Vault 
 
 Are interred the remains of 
 
 AIaeia Ceaea — des Champs de ATarsilli 
 
 Marchioness of Vilette, Viscountess Bolingbroke. 
 
 Bom of a noble family, 
 
 Bred in the court of Louis XIV., 
 
 She reflected a lustre on the former 
 
 By the superior accomplishments of her mind ; 
 
 She was an ornament to the latter 
 
 By the amiable dignity and grace of her behaviour. 
 
 She lived 
 
 The honour of her own sex, 
 
 The delight and admiration of ours. 
 
 She died 
 
 An object of imitation to both, 
 
 "With all the firmness that reason, 
 
 With all the resignation that religion 
 
 can inspire."* 
 
 * She was his second -wife ; his first wife and he could not agree, so they 
 soon parted; she died in 1718. In 1720 he married his second wife, which, 
 to the last, was a union of great happiness and strong affection on both sides. 
 
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 In Lee church, Kent, is a handsome tomb of marble 
 and alabaster, to the memory of Nicholas Ansley, Esq., 
 who died in 1593 ; inscribed as follows : — 
 " When the Quene Elizabeth full five years had rain'd, 
 Then Nicholas Ansley, whos corps lyes here interred, 
 At fyve and twenty yeres of age was entertayned 
 Into her servis, where well himself he carried 
 In eche man's love, till fifty and eight years ould, 
 Being Sergant of the Seller, death him contrould." 
 
 On Sir Thomas Stanley, according to Sir Wm. 
 Dugdale, by Shakspeare : — 
 
 " Aske who lies here, but do not weepe, 
 He is not dead, he doth but sleepe ! 
 This stony register is for his bones, 
 His fame is more perpetual than these stones. 
 And his own goodness with himself being gone 
 Shall live when earthly monument is none. 
 Not monumental stone preserves our fame, 
 Nor skye aspiring pyramids our name, 
 The memory of him for whom this stands 
 Shall outlive marble, and defacing hands ! 
 When all to Time's consumption shall be given, 
 Stanley, for whom this stands, shall stand in Heaven." 
 
 In St. Paul's Cathedral, is a noble statue of Sir 
 William Jones (by Bacon). This accomplished philo- 
 sopher, historian, poet, and scholar, is represented in a 
 studious attitude, his arm resting on the Institutes of 
 Menu. Against the pedestal, Study and Genius are 
 unveiling oriental science ; the inscription is : — 
 
 " To the Memory 
 
 of Sir William Jones, Knight, 
 
 one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 
 
 at Fort William, in Bengal : 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 This Statue was erected 
 
 by the Honourable East India Company, 
 
 in testimony 
 
 of their grateful sense of his public services, 
 
 their admiration of his genius and learning, 
 
 and their respect for his character and virtues. 
 
 He died in Bengal, on the 27th of April, 1794, aged 47." 
 
 Sir "William Jones, judge of the Supreme Court of 
 Bengal, wrote the following epitaph for himself: — 
 
 " Here was deposited 
 
 The mortal part of a man 
 
 who feared God but not Death, 
 
 and maintained independence 
 
 but sought not riches, 
 
 who thought none below him 
 
 but the base and unjust ; 
 
 None above him but the wise and virtuous : 
 
 who loved his parents, kindred, and friends, 
 
 and country, 
 
 And having devoted his life to their service 
 
 and the improvement of his mind, 
 
 resigned it calmly, 
 
 giving glory to his Creator, 
 
 wishing peace on earth, 
 
 and good-will to his fellow -creatures, 
 
 on the day of 
 
 In the year of our blessed Bedeemer " 
 
 Inscribed to the memory of Chaeles, late Duke of 
 Richmond, who died 1750 : — 
 
 " What bounds can limit now the falling tear 
 When honest souls no greater loss can fear ? 
 What power of courage can we now invoke, 
 Or how sustain the unexpected stroke ? 
 For fortitude in vain we now implore, 
 Richmond is dead, — and greatness is no more. 
 
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 Assist, Melpomene, this artless lay, 
 Enrich the tribute which I mourning pay : 
 So shall my verse, by thine inspiring aid, 
 In worthy strains address his sacred shade. 
 Heavens ! what misjudging errors rack my brain? 
 Ev'n thy assistance, goddess, all is vain : 
 Where's worth like his throughout rich nature's store ? 
 Richmond is dead, — and worth is now no more. 
 
 Lo ! uncorrupted faith, and truth sincere, 
 Drop on his silent tomb an honest tear ; 
 See ! steady virtue too, stands sorrowing by, 
 And views his relics with a gushing eye ; 
 Whose sighs her own approaching fall deplore, 
 Richmond is dead, — and virtue is no more. 
 
 Let every generous Briton grace his bier, 
 Each pay an honest, tributary tear ; 
 Then mournfully exclaim, in grief sincere, 
 ' The Patriot, — husband, — father, — friend — is here."' 
 
 In Westminster Abbey is a fine monument to 
 Charles James Eox, the statesman. It consists of a 
 recumbent statue supported by Liberty ; Peace at his 
 feet, and a negro kneeling with clasped hands. The 
 monument simply bears the statesman's name. 
 
 Inscription on a tablet in Chertsey church, Surrey :- 
 
 " To the 
 
 Memory of the Best of Husbands and 
 
 The most excellent of Men, 
 
 Charles James Eox, 
 
 who died Sep. 13th, 1806, 
 
 And is buried in Westminster Abbey. 
 
 His most affectionate Wife * 
 
 Places this Tablet. 
 
 * The church register of Wyton, in Huntingdonshire, preserves the 
 following : — " Charles James Fox, of the parish of Chertsey, in the county 
 of Surrey, bachelor, and Elizabeth Blanc, of this parish, were married in 
 this church, by licence, this 28th day of September, in the year one thou- 
 sand seven hundred and ninety-five, by me, J. Perry, rector." 
 
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 A patriot's even course he steered, 
 'Mid faction's wildest storms unmoved. 
 By all who marked his mind — revered, 
 By all who knew his heart — beloved." 
 
 Mrs. Fox, wife of Charles James Pox, is buried in 
 Chertsey churehyard, with the following inscription on 
 her tomb : — 
 
 " Elizabeth Bridget Fox, 
 
 Died 8th July, 1842, 
 
 Aged 92 years. " 
 
 In Kingston chapel is a monument to Lord Eldox, 
 with a medallion beneath, by Sir Francis Chantrey. 
 The inscription is : — 
 
 " The Bight Honourable Sir John Scott, 
 
 Earl of Eldox, 
 
 Bom at Newcastle- on-Tyne, June 4th, 1751. 
 
 Died in London January 13th, 1838, in the 87th year 
 
 of his age. 
 
 In 1766, Mr. Jonx Scott entered at University College, 
 Oxford, of which he became a Fellow in 1767. Having 
 married,November 19th, 1772, Elizabeth, eldest daughter 
 of Aubone Surtees, Esquire, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, he 
 entered in 1773, as a Student in the Middle Temple, 
 was called to the Bar in 1776, and was called within 
 the Bar by a patent of precedence in 1783. In 1787 
 Mr. Scott was made Chancellor of the Bishoprick and 
 County Palatine of Durham. In 1788 he was knighted 
 and appointed Solicitor-General, and in 1793 was 
 appointed Attorney-General. After having sat in four 
 Parliaments, as a member of the House of Commons, 
 he was created a Peer, July 18th, 1799, by the title of 
 Baron Eldon, of Eldon, in the County Palatine of Dur- 
 ham, and on the following day was appointed Chief 
 Justice of the Common Pleas. On the 14th of April, 
 1801, Lord Eldon was appointed Lord High Chancellor 
 of Great Britain; he resigned that office Feb. 7, 1806, 
 but was re-appointed April 1st, 1807, and continued to 
 
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 hold the Great Seal until April 30th, 1827, being alto- 
 gether a period of nearly 25 years. On the 7th of 
 July, 1821, he was created Earl of Eldon, in the County 
 Palatine of Durham, and Yiscount Encombe,of Encombe, 
 in the County of Dorset. Lord Eldon was the youngest 
 brother of the Eight Honourable Sir "William Scott, 
 Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, &c, who was 
 created Baron Stowell, July 17th, 1821, and who died 
 Jan. 28th, 1836, in the 91st year of his age. The office 
 of Steward of the University of Oxford, was held by 
 Lord Eldon from 1801 until his decease. 
 
 To his Beloved and Honoured Memory 
 
 This Tablet is dedicated by his Grandson and successor, 
 
 John, the Second Earl of Eldon." 
 
 Lord Eldon erected in 1834 a mural tablet in King- 
 ston chapel, to the memory of his lady and his sons. 
 The tablet is inscribed as underneath : — 
 
 " Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 Elizabeth, Countess of Eldon, 
 
 The Eldest Daughter of the late Aubone Surtees, Esq. 
 
 Of Newcastle on Tyne : 
 
 She died the 28th of June, 1831, nearly 77 years of age. 
 
 Her Remains were first deposited 
 
 In the ancient chapel of this place, 
 
 And afterwards removed to a family tomb 
 
 Built on ground belonging to the Earl of Eldon, 
 
 Situate on the North Side of the Chapel Yard, 
 
 Such ground being duly consecrated 
 
 By the Lord Bishop of Bristol. 
 
 This Tablet is placed here by an affectionate Husband 
 
 To the Memory of a Wife 
 
 To whom he was most devotedly attached, 
 
 And with whom he lived in Marriage 
 
 Nearly fifty-nine years. 
 
 It pleased God deeply to afflict him 
 
 By ordaining that he should survive Her. 
 
 In the Same Tomb 
 
 Are also deposited by the side of his Mother, 
 
 At his own earnest request 
 
 Made to his Eather in his last illness, 
 
 The remains of their second and much beloved Son 
 
 The Hon. William Henry John Scott, 
 
 Who died on the 6th day of July, 1832, 
 
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 In the 87th year of his age. 
 
 He was in several Parliaments 
 
 A Member of the House of Commons. 
 
 The Hon. John Scott, M. P., 
 
 The eldest Son of the above named first Lord and Lady 
 
 Eldon. Died on the 24th day of December, 1805, 
 
 In the 31st year of his age, 
 
 Universally esteemed and lamented, 
 
 And to the Inconsolable grief of his afflicted Parents. 
 
 His Remains, according to a desire that he had expressed, 
 
 "Were interred at Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. 
 
 He left an only son, John, 
 
 Now commonly styled Viscount Encombe, 
 
 By his wife Henrietta Elizabeth, Daughter of 
 
 Sir Matthew "White Eidley, Bart., of Blagden, 
 
 In the County of Northumberland." 
 
 Inscription on the monument of the Hon. John Scott, 
 in Cheshunt churchyard, Hertfordshire ( written by his 
 uncle, Sir William Scott) : — 
 
 " To the Memory of the Honourable John Scott, 
 
 (Eldest Son of John Baron Eldon) 
 
 "Who at the age of thirty-one years was removed by death 
 
 From the hopes and affections of his family and friends, 
 
 To all of whom he was eminently endeared, 
 
 By the purity of his moral and religious principles, 
 
 By the integrity of his public conduct, 
 
 By the grace of a highly cultivated understanding, 
 
 And 
 
 By a peculiar sweetness of disposition and manners. 
 
 This last painful testimony of regard is dedicated 
 
 By his disconsolate Father 
 
 And 
 
 By his afflicted Widow, 
 
 (Henrietta Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Matthew White 
 
 Ridley, Baronet) 
 
 With whom he had been happily united for the space of 
 
 little more than one year, 
 
 And 
 
 By whom he has left an onty Son, 
 
 Born about three weeks before his own decease, 
 
 Which took place on the 24th of December, 1805." 
 
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 Lord Stowell, the brother of Lord Eldon, was buried 
 in Sonning church, near Eeading ; and the wall above 
 the grave bears a monument, placed there by his son- 
 in-law, Lord Sidmouth, with the following inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 The Eight Honourable 
 
 William Scott, Baron Stowell, 
 
 of Stowell, in the County of Gloucester, 
 
 D. C. L., F. E. S. 
 
 Born October 28th, 1745, 
 
 Died January 28th, 1836. 
 
 He was one of his Majesty's 
 
 Most Honourable Privy Council : 
 
 Many years Judge of 
 
 The High Court of Admiralty, in England, 
 
 Chancellor of the Diocese of London ; 
 
 And one of 
 
 The Eepresentatives in Parliament 
 
 For the University of Oxford, 
 
 From the year 1796 to the year 1821, 
 
 When he was raised to the Peerage. 
 
 This eminent Person 
 
 Was universally and most justly regarded 
 
 As one of 
 
 The principal ornaments of the country 
 
 And age in which he lived. 
 
 In him were combined 
 
 All the talents and acquirements 
 
 Of a profound and accomplished scholar ; 
 
 All the qualities of a wise and upright judge ; 
 
 Together with an ardent attachment 
 
 To the civil and ecclesiastical institutions 
 
 Of his country, 
 
 Of which institutions he was 
 
 The firm and uncompromising supporter, 
 
 Throughout his long and 
 
 Exemplary Life." 
 
 Mr. Scott, the father of Lords Eldon and Stowell, was 
 buried at All Saints', Newcastle. Lord Eldon dedicated 
 
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 a tablet to his memory in the mother church of St. 
 Nicholas, with the following unostentatious inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 "In Memory of 
 
 Mr. William Scott, 
 
 Freeman and hoastman of this town, 
 
 "Who was buried at All Saints' Church 
 
 November, 1776. 
 
 He left to his family a rich inheritance, in the 
 
 example of a life of industry unremitting, 
 
 Of probity unsullied, and of piety 
 
 most pure and sincere. 
 
 This Tablet is placed here by one of his 
 
 affectionate Sons." 
 
 Eldorfs Life, hy Twiss. 
 
 Inscription on a monument in "Westminster Abbey, to 
 the Et. Hon. George Canning : — 
 
 "George Canning, 
 Born 11th April, 1770. Died 8th August, 1827. 
 
 Endowed with a rare combination of talents, 
 
 an eminent statesman, 
 
 an accomplished scholar, 
 
 an orator surpassed by none. 
 
 He united 
 
 The most brilliant and lofty qualities of the mind 
 
 with the warmest affections of the heart. 
 
 Eaised by his own merit, 
 
 He successively filled important offices in the State, 
 
 and finally became first Minister of the Crown. 
 
 In the full enjoyment of his Sovereign's favour, 
 
 and of the confidence of the people, 
 
 He was prematurely cut off 
 
 when pursuing a wise and enlarged course 
 
 of policy, 
 
 Which had for its object the prosperity and greatness 
 
 of his own country, 
 
 while it comprehended the welfare 
 
 and commanded the admiration 
 
 of foreign nations. 
 
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 This Monument is erected 
 By his Friends and Countrymen." 
 
 By the Rt. Hon. George Canning, on his Son :— - 
 
 " George Charles Canning, 
 
 Eldest Son of 
 
 The Eight Honourable George Canning 
 
 And Joan Scott, his Wife ; 
 
 Born April 25, 1801. Died March 31, 1820. 
 
 Though short thy span, God's unimpeach'd decrees, 
 Which made that shorten' d span one long disease, 
 Yet, merciful in chastening, gave thee scope 
 For mild redeeming virtues, faith and hope ; 
 Meek resignation ; pious charity : 
 And, since this world was not the world for thee, 
 Far from thy path remov'd, with partial care, 
 Strife, glory, gain, and pleasure's flowery snare, 
 Bade earth's temptations pass thee harmless by, 
 And fix'd on heaven thine unre verted eye. 
 
 Oh ! mark'd from birth, and nurtured for the skies ; 
 In youth, with more than learning's wisdom, wise ; 
 As sainted martyrs, patient to endure ! 
 Simple as unwean'd infancy and pure ! 
 Pure from all stain (save that of human clay, 
 Which Christ's atoning blood hath wash'd away !) 
 By mortal sufferings now no more oppress' d, 
 Mount, sinless spirit, to thy destin'd rest ! 
 While I — reversed our nature's kindlier doom — 
 Pour forth a father's sorrows on thy tomb." 
 
 On a tablet in Westminster Abbey is this inscription 
 to the memory of the Et. Hon. Charles Btjller : — 
 
 " Here, amidst the memorials of maturer greatness, 
 this tribute of private affection and public honour, 
 records the talents, virtues, and early death of the 
 Right Hon. Charles Btjller ; who, as an independent 
 
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 member of Parliament, and in the discharge of import- 
 ant offices of state, united the deepest human sympa- 
 thies with wide and philosophic views of government 
 and mankind, and pursued the noblest political and 
 social objects, above party spirit and without an enemy. 
 His character was distinguished by sincerity and resolu- 
 tion, his mind by vivacity and clearness of comprehen- 
 sion — while the vigour of expression and singular wit, 
 that made him eminent in debate and delightful in 
 society, were tempered by a most gentle and generous 
 disposition, earnest in friendship and benevolent to all. 
 The British Colonies will not forget the statesman who 
 so well appreciated their desires and their destinies ; and 
 his country in recalling what he was, deplores the 
 vanished hope of all he might have become. He was 
 born August -— 1806. He died November 29th, 1848." 
 
 In Winchester Cathedral : — 
 
 " A Union of two Brothers 
 From Avington. The Clark's family were grandfather, 
 father, and son, successively Clerks of the Privy Seal. 
 William, the grandfather, had but two sons, both 
 Thomas; their wives, both Amys, their heirs both 
 Henrys : and the heirs of Henry, both Thomas ; both 
 their wives inheritrixes, both had two sons and one 
 daughter, and both their daughters issueless : both of 
 Oxford ; both of the temple ; both officers to Queen 
 Elizabeth, and our noble King James : both Justices of 
 the Peace : both agree in arms, the one a knight, the 
 other a captain. 
 
 Si Queras Avingtonium Petas 
 Cancellarium Impensis. 
 
 Thomas Clarice, of Hide, 1622. 
 
 On the first Sir Bobekt and Lady Peel. In Drayton 
 church, Staffordshire, on the white wall, is a plain but 
 massive slab of white marble, which bears the following 
 inscription : — 
 
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 "In a Vault 
 
 Beneath this Church 
 
 Are deposited the remains of 
 
 Sir Robeet Peel, Bart., 
 
 Of Drayton Manor ; 
 
 And of Ellen, Lady Peel, his wife, 
 
 Daughter of William Yates, Esq., 
 
 Of Bury, Lancashire. 
 
 Sir Robeet Peel 
 
 Was born 25th April, 1 750, 
 
 And died 3rd May, 1830 ; 
 
 Lady Peel 
 
 Was born 5th May, 1766, 
 
 And died 28th December, 1803. 
 
 Their Children have raised this Monument to the Memory 
 
 of their beloved parents as a token of their 
 
 affection and gratitude." 
 
 Memorial of Sir Robeet Peel, the statesman. A 
 handsome monumental tablet has lately been erected by 
 tho sons of the late Sir Robeet, in the parish church of 
 Drayton; it is of statuary marble and Roche Abbey 
 stone, elaborately carved in the Tudor style. The height 
 of the monument from the floor of the church to the 
 apex of the finial of the canopy is 19 ft. 6 in. : and the 
 extreme width of the base is 6 ft. 4 in. : it has an 
 inscription table of statuary marble, and the letters are 
 incised and gilt : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Sir Robeet Peel, Bart., 
 
 to whom the People 
 
 have raised Monuments 
 
 in many places. 
 
 His Children 
 
 Erect this in the place 
 
 where his body 
 
 has been buried. 
 
 He was born, Feb., 1788, 
 
 and died 2nd July, 1850." 
 
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 In Longford church, Derbyshire, is a beautiful monu- 
 ment to Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester. 
 Upon the base a plain slab is fixed, bearing the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 11 To the revered memory of 
 Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester, 
 Born May 6, 1754. Died at Longford, June 30th, 1842. 
 His public conduct as representative for fifty-seven 
 years, of the County of Norfolk, was conspicuous for its 
 decision, disinterested zeal, and unimpeachable integ- 
 rity. Pre-eminent, no less for his generosity as a land- 
 lord, than for his skill and enterprise as an agriculturist, 
 he secured the deep affection of an attached and pros- 
 perous tenantry : while by his exertion and influence, 
 he extended in a most remarkable degree the cultivation 
 and rural improvements of the country. In his domestic 
 relations, he was most affectionate, kind, and hospitable. 
 His charity was munificent without ostentation, and his 
 piety simple, and unaffected, but warm and sincere. 
 
 This Monument is erected by persons of various 
 classes and opinions connected with the county, as some 
 record of an example so excellent and instructive." 
 
 Monument to the Earl of Beauchamp. In the parish 
 church of St. Marylebone, New Boad, is a very interest- 
 ing memorial to the memory of the late Earl of Beau- 
 champ, placed there by his widow. The tablet consists 
 of a bas-relief, which has been executed in Italy, and is 
 a fine work of art. The urn bears in Greek — 
 
 " He is not dead, but sleepeth." 
 
 Above are the arms of the Earl and Countess (his second 
 wife) in their proper colours ; the whole surmounted by 
 a white marble cross. The inscription is : — 
 
 " Sacred to the Memory of John Begin ald Pindae, 
 third Earl of Beauchamp, of Madresfield Court, Vis- 
 count Elmly and Baron of Powyke, county of Worcester, 
 where he was beloved and respected for thirty years as a 
 landlord and neighbour, as well as a consistent politician. 
 He was endowed with rare common sense, and superior 
 
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 abilities for business. He attained great knowledge in 
 agriculture, in the pursuits of which he took pleasure. 
 He was remarkable for the constancy of his attachment 
 to the friends of his youth, and he never forgot a 
 kindness. He bequeathed £60,000 for the erection and 
 endowment of alms-houses, at Newland, Worcestershire, 
 for the benefit of the agricultural poor. The last act of 
 his life was to rebuild, at his sole expense, the church 
 at Madresfield. He died January 2nd, 1853, aged sixty- 
 nine years, after a long illness borne with exemplary 
 resignation, placidity, and gentleness. His widow, 
 Catherine, Countess of Beauchamp (third daughter of 
 the Baroness Braye) received his last sigh and mourned 
 his loss. She erects this monument as a tribute of 
 affection to his memory. 
 
 Jesu Mercy ! 'lam the resurrection and the life. 
 
 He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall 
 
 he live.' St. John c. 11. v. 25." 
 
 On a tablet in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 
 London : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 The Right Honourable 
 
 Sir Nicholas Coitnygham Tindal, Kt. D.C L. 
 
 For 17 years 
 
 Lord Chief Justice 
 
 of the Court of Common Pleas, 
 
 and a resident in this Parish. 
 
 He was born at Chelmsford, 12th December, 1776, 
 
 And died at Folkestone, 6th July, 1846." 
 
 In the crown court at Stafford, is a mural monument 
 to Justice Talfotjed, placed against the wall between 
 the two galleries. The bust is of life size. The base 
 of the monumental tablet in which the bust is placed 
 bears the following : — 
 
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 " On the Judgment seat of this Court, 
 
 While addressing the grand jury, 
 
 On March XIII., MDCCCLIV. 
 
 Died 
 
 Sir Thomas Noon Talfoukd, Knt., D.C.L., 
 
 One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, 
 
 An accomplished Orator, Lawyer, and Poet. 
 
 The members of the Oxford Circuit 
 
 Erected this Memorial 
 
 Of their Regard and Admiration 
 
 For their former Leader, Companion, and Friend." 
 
 On "William Cobbett, in Farnham churchyard, 
 Surrey. Over the slab which has recently covered the 
 grave of Cobbett, in the above churchyard, a tomb has 
 just been erected ( by Milnes). It is made of Roche 
 Abbey stone, and stands near the porch of the church, 
 is of solid workmanship, oblong in form, and in the 
 plainest old English architectural style. On one panel 
 the inscription copied from the slab is : — 
 
 " William Cobbett, son of George and Anne Cobbett, 
 bom in the parish of Farnham, 9th of March, 1762: 
 Enlisted into the 54th Regiment of foot in 1784, of 
 which regiment he became Sergeant-Major in 1785, and 
 obtained his discharge in 1791. In 1794 he became a 
 political writer. In 1832 was returned to Parliament 
 for the Borough of Oldham, and represented it till his 
 death, which took place at Normandy Farm, in the 
 adjoining parish of Ash, on the 18th of June, 1835." 
 
 On the opposite panel : — 
 
 " Anne Cobbett, daughter of Thomas and Anne Reid, 
 and Wife of William Cobbett : born at Chatham 28th 
 of March, 1 774. Married at Woolwich 5th of February, 
 1792. Died in London 19th of July, 1848." 
 
 Monument to Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P. This memo- 
 rial, which is of massive granite, and simple in its form, 
 
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 is placed in the cemetery at Kensal Green. The inscrip- 
 tion on the top of the stone covering is : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Joseph Hume, Esq., 
 member of Parliament for nearly forty years. Born at 
 Montrose, June 22nd, 1777; died at Somerton, Norfolk, 
 Feb. 20th, 1855, in the 79th year of his age." 
 
 Below : — 
 
 "Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that 
 is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.' — 
 Psalm xxxvii., v. 38." 
 
 ARCHITECTS AND SCULPTORS. 
 
 On Sir Cheistophee Ween - , in St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 Over the entrance to the choir in St. Paul's is a monu- 
 ment erected to his memory (placed there by Mylne, the 
 architect of Blackfriars' Bridge), with an inscription in 
 Latin, thus translated : — 
 
 " Underneath is buried Sir Cheistophee "Ween, 
 The builder of this Church and City, 
 
 Who lived about ninety years, 
 
 not to himself, but to the public good. 
 
 Reader ! if thou seekest his monument, 
 
 look around. 
 
 He died, Feb. 25, 1723, in the 91st year of his age." 
 
 In the vaults below, where he is buried, a plain slab 
 bears this inscription : — 
 
 "Herelieth 
 
 Sir Cheistophee Weex, Kt., 
 
 The Builder of this Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 
 
 who died in the year of our Lord, 1723, 
 
 and of his age 91." 
 
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 Near him lie the remains of his sister, Mrs. Holden, 
 and of his only daughter, Jane, who was distinguished 
 both as an architect and a musician ; she has a pictu- 
 resque monument there ; near When, lie the ashes of 
 the following great English painters, whose graves are 
 covered by flat incised stone : — Sir Joshua Eeynolds, 
 James Barry, John Opie, Benjamin West, Henry Fuseli, 
 and Sir Thomas Lawrence ; as well as the architects of 
 Waterloo and Blackfriars' Bridges — Robert Mylne, and 
 John Rennie. 
 
 In Tabernacle chapel, Tottenham Court road, is a 
 monument to John Bacon, the sculptor, who died 
 August 4th, 1799, aged 59, on which is engraved the 
 following (written by himself) : — 
 
 "What I was as an artist 
 
 seemed to me of some importance 
 
 while I lived : 
 
 but what I really was as a believer in Christ Jesus, 
 
 is the only thing of importance to me now." 
 
 In Wollaton church is a monument erected to Smith- 
 son, the architect of Nottingham castle and Wollaton 
 hall, with the following inscription : — 
 
 " Here lyeth ye body of Mr. Robert Smithson, Gent. 
 Architecter and Surveyer unto the most worthy House 
 of Wollaton, with diverse others of great account. He 
 lived in ye faith of Christ 79 years, and then departed 
 this life ye XVth of October, Anno Dm. 1614." 
 
 On Mr. Nightingale, architect : — 
 
 "As the birds were the first of the architect kind, 
 And are still better builders than men, 
 What wonders may spring from a Nightingale's mind 
 When St. Paul's was produced by a Wren." 
 
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 In the Cathedral church of Salisbury : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 Thomas Glover, Architect, 
 
 who, having erected many 
 
 Stately, curious, and artful 
 
 edifices for others, himself is 
 
 here lodged under this single 
 
 stone, in full expectation 
 
 however of a building with 
 
 God, eternal in the Heavens. 
 
 n , ^ ) A.D. 1707, 
 Ob. Dec. 2, Mut 68< „ 
 
 On a plain square tablet, in Westminster Abbey, is 
 the following inscription : — 
 
 " In Memory of Thomas Banks, Esq., R. A., sculptor, 
 whose superior abilities in the profession added a lustre 
 to the arts of his country, and whose character as a man 
 reflected honour on human nature. His earthly remains 
 were deposited by his desire, on the north side of the 
 churchyard of Paddington. His spirit is with God. 
 He died Feb. 2, 1805, aged 70 years." 
 
 Sir Francis Chantrey, the sculptor, died Nov. 25, 
 1841, aged 69 years, and was buried in a vault con- 
 structed by himself, in his native parish of Norton, in 
 Derbyshire. At this place a monument has lately 
 been raised, consisting of an obelisk 21 ft. 10 in. high, 
 in one block, 3 ft. square at the base, and 1 ft. 6j-in. 
 square at the top. The base is three feet high, and 
 weighs upwards of 9 tons. The foundation is a solid 
 square of masonry, 25 tons of stone having been used 
 in the construction. The material of the shaft and steps 
 is grey granite, fine axed, from the quarries of Cornwall. 
 The design (a plain shaft on 3 steps) was furnished by 
 Mr. Philip Hardwick, R.A. The only inscription is the 
 word — 
 
 " Chantrey" 
 
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 in incised square letters, cut after the manner of the 
 ancient hieroglyphics." 
 
 Sir John Vanbetjgh, the architect and dramatist, 
 died March 26th, 1726, aged 60 years. He built Blen- 
 heim house, the towers of which have a heavy appear- 
 ance, like most of that architect's performances, which 
 caused the following epitaph to be written on him, by 
 Dr. Evans : — 
 
 " Under this stone, reader, survey 
 Dead Sir John Vanbrttgh's house of clay. 
 Lie heavy on him, earth ! for he 
 Laid many heavy loads on thee." 
 
 ASTRONOMERS. 
 
 Nicholas Copeenicus, the great astronomer, died 
 June, 1543, aged 70, and Count Sierakowski erected a 
 monument to his memory, in St. Anne's church at Cra- 
 cow, with this inscription taken from the Bible : — 
 
 " Sta, Sol, ne moveare." 
 
 Archimedes, the most celebrated of Greek geometers, 
 was killed by some soldiers as he was deeply engaged in 
 solving a geometrical problem, b.c 212 years: at his 
 own request during his life, a sphere inscribed in a 
 
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 cylinder was engraven on his tomb, in memory of his 
 discovery that the solid content of a sphere is exactly 
 two-thirds of the circumscribing cylinder. By this 
 method Cicero afterwards discovered his tomb, with an 
 inscription upon it. 
 
 Godfrey "William Leibnitz, the learned mathemati- 
 cian and philosopher, died November, 1716, aged 69, 
 and his monument, constructed in the form of a temple, 
 bears the simple inscription: — 
 
 " The Bones of Leibnitz." 
 
 On a profligate mathematician, at Manchester : — 
 
 " Here lies John Hill, a man of skill, 
 His age was five times ten : 
 He ne'er did good, nor ever would, 
 Had he liv'd as long again." 
 
 Monument to Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster 
 Abbey. Newton is represented in a recumbent posture, 
 his right arm leaning on four folios, entitled Divinity — 
 Chronology — Optics — and Phil. Prin. Math., and point- 
 ing to a scroll supported by two cherubs. Immediately 
 above him, projecting from behind a pyramid of black 
 marble, is a large globe on which is delineated the course 
 of the comet in 1680, with the signs, constellations, 
 and planets. On the globe sits the figure of Astronomy 
 in a contemplative attitude, with her book closed. 
 Underneath the figure of Newton is a curious bas-relief, 
 emblematic of his various discoveries. The monument 
 is by Bysbrack, and the inscription is Latin, which is 
 thus translated : — 
 
 "H. S. E. 
 
 Sir Isaac Newton. 
 
 By a spirit almost divine, he solved, on principles 
 
 of his own, 
 
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 the motion and figure of the planets, the paths of the 
 comets, and the ebbing and flowing of the sea; he 
 discovered the dissimilarity of the rays of light, and 
 the properties of colours from thence arising, which 
 none but himself had ever thought of. He was a 
 diligent, wise, and faithful interpreter of nature, anti- 
 quity, and the Holy Scriptures ; by his philosophy he 
 maintained the dignity of the Supreme Being, and by 
 the purity of his life, the simplicity of the gospel. 
 How much reason mortals have to pride themselves in 
 the existence of so great an ornament to the human 
 race. He was born Dec. 25, 1642, and died March 20, 
 1726." 
 
 Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, by Alexander Pope : — 
 
 " Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : 
 God said — 'Let Newton be' — and all was light." 
 
 When the house of Sir Isaac Newton was repaired, 
 in 1798, a tablet of white marble was put up by Mr. 
 Turner in the room where Sir Isaac was born, with the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " Sir Isaac Newton, son of John Newton, Lord of 
 the Manor of Woolsthorpe, was born in this room on 
 the 25th of December, 1642. 
 
 Nature and Nature's laws, &c." 
 
 Dr. Hallet, the second astronomer royal (who suc- 
 ceeded Flamsteed) was buried in the churchyard of Lee, 
 Kent, with the following inscription : — 
 
 " Sub hoc Marmore 
 Placide requiescit, cum uxore carissima 
 
 "Edmundtjs Halleitjs, L.L.D. 
 Astronomorum sui sceculi facile princeps, 
 
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 Ut vero scias, Lector 
 
 qualis quantusque virille fait 
 
 Scripta ejus multifaria lege, 
 
 Quibus omnes fere artes et scientias 
 
 Illustravit, ornavit, amplificavit, 
 
 iEquum est Igitur, 
 
 Ut, quern cives sui vivum 
 
 Tantopere coluere 
 
 Memoriam ejus posteritas 
 
 Grata veneretur. 
 
 Natus \ , . n ( MDCLVI. 
 
 Mortuus j est A ' u ( MDCCXLIII. 
 
 Hoc saxum optimis parentibus 
 
 Sacrarunt duse filise pientissimae 
 
 Anno C. MDCCXLII." 
 
 " Here is also interred Mrs. Margaret Halle y, 
 
 The eldest daughter of the above Dr. Halley. 
 
 She died on the 13th of October, 1743, 
 
 In the 55th year of her age. 
 
 Also, Mrs. Catherine Price, youngest 
 
 Daughter of the above Dr. Halley, 
 
 who died Nov. the 10th, 1765, Aged 77 years, 
 
 and Mr. Henry Price, her husband." 
 
 At the foot of the tomb is the following inscription 
 to John Pond, the sixth astronomer royal : — 
 
 "John Pond, 
 
 Born MDCCLXVII 
 
 was elected 
 
 Astronomer Royal 
 
 MDCCCXI 
 
 which office he resigned 
 
 MDCCCXXXY, 
 
 and died MDCCCXXXVI." 
 
 On the opposite end of the tomb, are the words — 
 
 " Restored by the Lords' Commissioners of Admiralty, 
 March, 1854.'" 
 
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 Translation of the Latin inscription to the memory of 
 James Bradley, the third astronomer royal, who suc- 
 ceeded Dr. Halley, on the brass plate now affixed to 
 the wall on the east side of the south transept in Minch- 
 inhampton church, Gloucestershire, and formerly on the 
 tomb in the churchyard : — 
 
 " Here lies buried James Bbadley, D.D., Member 
 of the Royal Societies of London, Paris, Berlin, and 
 Petersburgh ; Astronomer Royal ; Savilian Professor of 
 Astronomy at Oxford ; a man highly esteemed for his 
 knowledge of philosophy, especially in the investigation 
 of abstruse points ; so successfully diligent, and of such 
 great wisdom, that those of every nation who devoted 
 themselves to those pursuits, freely owned his superiority; 
 and, at the same time, of such rare modesty, that he 
 also seemed ignorant of the high reputation in which he 
 was held by the most competent judges. 
 
 He died 12th July, 1762, aged 70." 
 
 In Lee churchyard, Kent, close by Dr. Halley, is 
 buried Bliss, the fourth astronomer royal, but without 
 any inscription. The only mention of Bliss's name, at 
 Lee, is in the register of burials, which terminates very 
 abruptly. It is as follows : — 
 
 " The Reverend Mr. Nathaniel Bliss, of East 
 Greenwich, was buried September 4th, 1 764. He was" — 
 
 REMARKABLE PEESONS. 
 
 Upon the pedestal of the statue erected to Joan of 
 Arc, the maid of Orleans, in Rouen, on the spot of her 
 unjust execution, was affixed an inscription in acknow- 
 
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I REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 ledgment of her services to the state, which may be 
 thus translated : — 
 
 " The Maiden's sword protects the royal crown : 
 Beneath her sacred care, the lilies safely bloom." 
 
 Chambers. 
 
 At Kirlees, Yorkshire, is, or was lately, a funeral 
 monument of the famous outlaw, Robin Hood, inscribed 
 as follows : — 
 
 "Here, undernead dis laid stean, 
 Lais, Robert, Earl of Hunting-tun ; 
 Nea arter az hie sa geud, 
 An pipl kauld him Robin Heud, 
 Sich outlawz hi an iz men, 
 Vil England never si agen. 
 
 Obiit 24. kal. Decembrio. 1247." * 
 
 Robin Hood lies buried in the park : the remains of 
 the ancient gravestone having been surrounded with a 
 handsome iron railing, by the late Sir George Armitage ; 
 in the wall is an old inscription on brass ; it is situated 
 in a very gloomy place. Not far distant from his grave, 
 are the remains of a Nunnery, and a burial ground, 
 with tombs in it ; but I could find no date, either in the 
 house or on those tombs. One of the tombs has this 
 inscription round its edge : — 
 
 "Sweet Jesus of Nazareth, show mercy to Elizabeth 
 Stainton, late Prioress of this place." 
 
 The following is also said to have been inscribed on 
 the tombstone of Robin Hood : — 
 
 "Underneath this marble stone 
 Through death's assault now lieth one, 
 Known by the name of Robin Hood 
 Who was a thief and archer good. 
 
 * This epitaph was found among the papers of the learned Gale, Dean 
 of York, written in old English. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Full twenty years (and somewhat more) 
 He robbed the rich to feed the poor : 
 Therefore bedew his grave with tears, 
 And offer for his soul your prayers. 
 
 He died Dec. 1247." 
 
 In St. Mary's churchyard, Lambeth Walk, is the 
 tomb of the Tradescants, founders of the Ashmolean 
 Museum, at Oxford, erected in 1662. The younger 
 Tradescant left his museum of natural history to Mr. 
 Elias Ashmole, who afterwards bequeathed it to the 
 University of Oxford. A black marble tablet bears this 
 inscription : — 
 
 " John Tradescant, 
 Died a.d. MDCXXXYIII. 
 Jane Tradescant, his wife, 
 
 Died a.d. MDCXXXIY. 
 
 John Tradescant, his son, 
 
 Died 25th April, a.d. MDCLXII. 
 
 John Tradescant, his grandson, 
 
 Died 11th September, a.d. MDCLII. 
 
 Hester, wife of John Tradescant, Younger, 
 
 Died 6th April, a.d. MDCLXYIII. 
 
 Know, stranger ! ere thou pass, beneath this stone 
 Lye John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son : 
 The last dyed in his Spring : the other two 
 Liv'd till they'd travell'd Art and Nature thro', 
 As by their choice collections may appear, 
 Of what is rare in land, in sea, or air : 
 "Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut) 
 A world of wonders in one closet shut : 
 These famous antiquarians, that had been 
 Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen,* 
 Transplanted now, themselves sleep here, and when 
 Angels shall with their trumpets waken men, 
 And fire shall purge the world — these hence shall rise 
 And change this garden for a Paradise. 
 
 * Meaning Queen Elizabeth, the Rose Queen ; and Henrietta, Consort of 
 Charles II., the Lily Queen. 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 This Tomb, originally erected on this spot in the year 1662, 
 By Hester, relict of John Tradescant, the Younger, 
 
 Being in a state of decay 
 "Was repaired by Subscription, in the year 1773." 
 
 After a lapse of nearly two centuries since its erection, 
 it was entirely restored, by subscription, in the year 
 1853. 
 
 On William Lilly, the astrologer. — In the church 
 of Walton-upon-Thames, is the tomb of Lilly, with the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 "That the tomb of that eminent Astrologer William 
 Lilly, might not be utterly forgotten, who died on the 
 9th June, in the Julian year of our Lord, 1681, Elias 
 Ashmole, Esquire, dedicated to him this testimony of 
 his affection. King Charles the Second granted to the 
 above William Lilly, a pension of a hundred pounds 
 per annum, during life, which he enjoyed in Walton 
 for several years." 
 
 On Joanna Southcote, the notorious imposter. — She 
 died Dec. 27th, 1814, aged 64, and was buried at 
 Mary-le-bone. In St. John's Wood chapel is a flagstone 
 placed to her memory, on which are engraven the follow- 
 ing doggerel lines, signed " Sabineus" : — 
 
 " While vain sages think they know 
 Truths which Thou alon'st can show, 
 Time alone shall show what hour 
 Thou'lt appear in greater power." 
 
 On Sir John Mandeville, in St. Alban's Abbey. 
 On one of the pillars of the nave, in St. Alban's Abbey, 
 Herts., there is an inscription to the memory of the 
 famous traveller, Sir John Mandeville, whose excessive 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 credulity, rather than a love of misrepresentation, made 
 his "Itinerary" the type of the modern Baron Munchausen. 
 Who forgets (that has once read it) the "Tattler's" 
 account of the experiences of himself and crew at 
 Nova Zembla, where their words froze in the act of 
 being uttered, and on a thaw coming on, were heard 
 breaking as it were from the atmosphere in the most 
 extraordinary, and, according to Mr. Bickerstaff, the 
 most mirth-provoking manner ? Sir Johx was born at 
 St. Alban's, and hurled there* in 1372, having com- 
 menced his peregrinations in 1322, and continued them 
 during 34 years, through the greater part of the world. 
 The inscription over his remains is as follows : — 
 
 " Lo in this tomb of travellers do ly 
 
 One rich in nothing but in memory ; 
 His name was Sir Johx AIaxdeville, content, 
 Having seen much mirth, with small confinement ; 
 Towards which he travelled ever since his birth, 
 And at last pawned his body to the earth, 
 Which by a statute must in mortgage be 
 Till a Eedeemer come to set it free." 
 A Visit to the Shrine of St. Allan's, hy 2Irs. Wliite. 
 
 In St. John the Baptist church, Savoy street, London, 
 is a monument to Bichard Laxder, the African travel- 
 ler, bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the memory of 
 
 Air. Bichard Lander, 
 
 Born at Truro, in Cornwall, on the 8th of February, 1804, 
 
 and Died at Fernando Po, on the 2nd February, 1834. 
 
 * Sir John de Mandeville died at Liege, Xov. 17, 1371, and -was buried 
 there, with an inscription upon his tomb, in the French of that time : — 
 
 " Vos ki paseis sor mi, pour l'amour Deis 
 Proies por mi." 
 
 Rahking's Historical Researches, &c, p 514. 
 
 He died at Liege in 1372, where a monument is erected to his memory, 
 the inscription of which denominates him — 
 
 " John de Maxdeville, alias De Barba, Lord of Campoli." 
 
 Another writer's statement. 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 His death was occasioned by a gun-shot wound, received 
 from the Natives of Africa, by whom he was attacked 
 and plundered whilst ascending the Biver Niger, for 
 the purpose of introducing into that country the bless- 
 ings of civilization, and the arts of peace. 
 
 This Tablet is erected by his Widow and Child." 
 
 In St. John's church, Maddermarket, Norwich, is a 
 mural monument to the memory of the second wife of 
 Thomas, duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded. It bears 
 the following inscription : — 
 
 " Under this place 
 
 lie the remains of 
 
 The Virtuous Lady Maegaeet, 
 
 Duchess of Norfolk, 
 
 and daughter of 
 
 Thomas Lord Audley, of Walden, 
 
 Lord High Chancellor of England. 
 
 She died Feb. 7th, 
 
 1563. Mt. 23. 
 
 Her descendant, 
 
 Lord John Howard, of Walden, 
 
 Erected this monument 
 
 to her memory, 
 
 1791." 
 
 In Worlingworth church is a beautiful monument 
 (by Bacon), inscribed as follows : — 
 
 "Erected to the memory of 
 
 the most noble 
 
 Elizabeth, Duchess Dowager of Chandos, 
 
 Deceased the 30th of March, 1813, aged 82. 
 
 Her grace was more exalted by intrinsic virtue than rank. 
 
 The unaffected grief of her relatives, friends and 
 
 Neighbours, the blessings of a multitude, 
 
 Followed her to the Grave. 
 
 Promptitude to honour and obey her Parents 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Gave evidence of her mortal longevity : 
 
 Her faith, her piety, her christian resignation, 
 
 Her stedfast hope, 
 
 Her trust in the mercy of God, 
 
 Give, it is humbly presumed by her mourning survivors, 
 
 assurance of a crown and a glory 
 
 eternal. 
 
 This Monumental tribute proceeds from the veneration 
 
 of her ever affectionate and grateful nephew, 
 
 John Lord Henniker, 
 
 MDCCCXVIII." 
 
 Monument to Lilltwhite, the cricketer. In August, 
 1856, was erected in Highgate cemetery, a monument 
 to this celebrated cricketer. It consists of a marble 
 pedestal, surmounted by a broken column, upon which 
 is engraved the following characteristic inscription : — 
 
 "Lilltwhite, born June, 1792; died August 21, 1854. 
 From an humble situation he achieved a world-wide 
 reputation, teaching, both by precept and example, a 
 sport in which the blessings of youthful strength and 
 spirits may be most innocently enjoyed, to the exercise 
 of mind, the discipline of the temper, and the general 
 improvement of the man. 
 
 This monument testifies the respect of the noblemen 
 and gentlemen of the Marylebone Cricket Club, and of 
 the many private friends to one who did his duty in the 
 state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." 
 
 George Stephenson, the eminent engineer, died 
 Aug, 12th, 1848, in the 68th year of his age, and was 
 buried in Trinity church, Chesterfield, where, near to 
 his grave, is a memorial window, erected by his son, 
 Mr. Eobert Stephenson, inscribed only with his name, 
 age, and time of death. 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor of cotton 
 spinning, died Aug. 3rd, 1792, aged 59, and was buried 
 in a vault beneath the floor of the neat little church at 
 Cromford, in Derbyshire; but neither an inscription on his 
 tomb, nor a memorial in the church records the name of 
 him who will ever claim an exalted position among the 
 founders of England's manufacturing and commercial 
 greatness. In the same vault are deposited the remains 
 of his son, Richard Arewright, Esq., who inherited 
 his father's sagacity and aptitude for business, and died 
 the wealthiest commoner in England, April 23rd, 1843, 
 aged 87. 
 
 In the churchyard of "Wrexham, Denbighshire, in 
 North "Wales, is buried Elihu Yale, the traveller, of 
 whom it is said that, when in India, he ordered his 
 groom to be hanged for having ridden his horse on a 
 journey of two or three days for the sake of his health. 
 Yale died in London, and the following inscription is 
 on his tomb at "Wrexham : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 Elihu Yale, Esq., 
 Who died 22nd July, 1721. 
 
 Born in America, in Europe bred, \ 
 
 In Africa travel!' d, and in Asia wed, .' 
 
 "Where long he liv'd and thriv'd, at London dead. ) 
 Much good, some ill he did ; so hope all's even, 
 And that his soul thro mercy's gone to heaven. 
 You that survive, and read, take care 
 For this most certain exit to prepare ; 
 For only the actions of the just 
 Shall sweet and blossom in the dust." 
 
 Monument to Sir Edward "Wtnter, in Battersea 
 church. This monument is on the south wall ; on the 
 top is his bust, of a large size, with whiskers : under- 
 neath the inscription is a bas-relievo, representing him 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 in the act of performing the exploits mentioned in his 
 epitaph. He died 1685, aged 64. The inscription 
 (after a few lines in Latin) is as follows : — 
 
 " Born to be great, in fortune as in mind, 
 Too great to be within an isle confin'd ; 
 Young, helpless, friendless, seas unknown he tried ; 
 But English courage all those wants supplied. 
 A pregnant wit, a painful diligence, 
 Care to provide, and bounty to dispense ; 
 Join'd to a soul sincere, plain, open, just, 
 Procur'd him friends, and friends procur'd him trust. 
 These were his fortune's rise, and thus began 
 This hardy youth raised to that happy man. 
 A rare example, and unknown to most, 
 "Where wealth is gain'd, and conscience is not lost ; 
 Nor less in martial honour was his name, 
 Witness his actions of immortal fame : 
 Alone, unarm' d, a tyger he oppress' d, 
 And crush' d to death the monster of a beast : 
 Twice twenty mounted Moors he overthrew, ] 
 
 Singly, on foot, some wounded, some he slew : 
 Dispers'd the rest — what more could Sampson do ? ) 
 True to his friends, a terror to his foes, 
 Here now in. T)eace his honoured bones repose. 
 Yita Peregrinatio." 
 
 This Monument was restored, after the rebuilding of 
 the Church, by his great grandson, Edwd. Hampson 
 Wynter, Esq. 
 
 At Babraham, in Cambridgeshire, is this epitaph on 
 Oeazio Palovici^, who was the last deputed to this 
 country to collect the Peter-pence ; but instead of 
 returning to Rome, he divided the spoil with the queen, 
 and bought the estate at Babraham : — 
 
 " Here lies Oeazio Palottcust 
 Who robb'd the Pope to pay the Queen. 
 He was a thief : — A thief ? thou liest ! 
 For why ? He robb'd but Antichrist. 
 Him death with besom swept from Babraham, 
 "Onto the bosom of Old Abraham ; 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 Then came Hercules with his club, 
 And knocked him down to Beelzebub.' 
 
 In Newhaven churchyard, on Thomas Tippeb, who 
 died May 14, 1785:— 
 
 "Reader, with kind regard, this grave survey, 
 Nor heedless pass where Tipper's ashes lay. 
 Honest he was, — ingenuous, blunt, and kind, 
 
 And dar'd do what few dare do speak his mind. 
 
 Philosophy and History well he knew — 
 Was vers'd in Physic and in Surgery too. 
 The best old Stingo he both brew'd and sold, 
 Nor did one knavish act to get his gold. 
 He play'd through life a varied comic part, 
 And knew immortal Hudibras by heart ! 
 Eeader! in real truth, such was the man": 
 Bejbetter, wiser — laugh more, if you can." 
 
 James Watt, was buried in the church at Handsworth, 
 near his estate of Heathfield. His son, Mr. James "Watt, 
 has raised over his grave a Gothic Chapel, in the centre 
 of which is placed a statue by Chantrey. He has also a 
 monument in Westminster Abbey, erected by subscrip- 
 tion. It consists of a colossal statue of Carrara marble, 
 by Chantrey, and on the pedestal of the monument is the 
 following inscription from the pen of Lord Brougham: — 
 "Not to perpetuate a name 
 Which must endure while the peaceful arts flourish, 
 But to show 
 That mankind have learned to honour those 
 Who best deserve their gratitude, 
 The King, 
 His Ministers, and many of the Nobles 
 And Commons of the Kealm, 
 Raised this monument to 
 James Watt, 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 Who, directing the force of an original genius, 
 
 Early exercised in Philosophic research 
 
 To the improvement of 
 
 The Steam Engine, 
 
 Enlarged the resources of his country, 
 
 Increased the power of ATari, 
 
 And rose to an eminent place 
 
 Among the most illustrious followers of Science 
 
 And the real Benefactors of the world. 
 
 Born at Greenock. 1LDCCXXXYI. 
 
 Died at Heathneld, in Staffordshire, 1LDCCCXIX." 
 
 Charles Bcoxaparte, the father of the first 
 Xapoleon, died at ALontpellier, in 1783, and was interred 
 there in a very modest tomb, in the Church of St. 
 Dennis. 
 
 Burial place of John Howard, the philanthropist. 
 Howard's dying wish was that a sun-dial should be 
 placed over his grave, and that he might be forgotten. 
 The Cherson authorities buried him at the spot he had 
 selected, but, instead of a sun-dial, erected a brick pyra- 
 mid over his grave, surrounded with stone posts and 
 chains. There was no inscription, but simply the 
 words — 
 
 "JOHN HOAYARD." 
 
 Another monument was erected to his memory in the 
 church of the Assumption. 
 
 The monument to John Howard, in St. Paul's Cathe- 
 dral, is a well executed statue, by Bacon, representing that 
 benevolent man in the Roman costume, trampling on 
 some fetters ; a key in his right hand, and in his left a 
 scroll, on which these words are visible : — 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 " Plan for the Improvement of Prisons and Hospitals." 
 There is a bas-relief on the front of the pedestal, 
 representing Howard entering a cell, bringing food and 
 clothing for the prisoners. Below this is the name 
 " John Howard." On the north side of the pedestal — 
 " John Bacon, Sculptor, 1795." On the south side is 
 this inscription, written by the late Samuel Whitbread, 
 M.P. :— 
 
 " This extraordinary man had the fortune to be 
 
 honoured whilst living, in the manner in which his 
 
 virtues deserved. 
 
 He received the thanks of both Houses of the British 
 
 and Irish Parliament for his eminent services 
 
 rendered to his country 
 
 and to mankind. 
 
 Our national prisons and hospitals, 
 
 improved upon the suggestions of his wisdom, 
 
 bear testimony to the solidity of his judgment, 
 
 and to the estimation in which he was held. 
 
 In every part of the civilized world, 
 
 which he traversed to reduce the sum of human misery, 
 
 from the throne to the dungeon, 
 
 his name was mentioned 
 
 with respect, gratitude, and admiration. 
 
 His modesty alone 
 
 defeated various efforts which were made during his life 
 
 to erect this statue, 
 
 which the public has now consecrated to his memory. 
 
 He was born at Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, 
 
 Sept. 2nd, 1726. 
 
 The early part of his life he spent in retirement, 
 
 residing principally upon his paternal estate, 
 
 at Cardington, in Bedfordshire, 
 
 for which county he served the office of Sheriff 
 
 in the year 1773. 
 
 He expired at Cher son in Russian Tartary, on the 
 
 20th January, 1790, 
 
 a victim to the perilous and benevolent attempt 
 
 to ascertain the cause of, and find an efficacious remedy 
 
 for the plague. 
 
 He trod an open and unfrequented path to immortality, 
 
 in the ardent and unintermitted exercise of 
 
 Christian charity. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 ITay this tribute to his fame 
 excite an emulation of his truly glorious achievements." 
 
 The remains of Walter Venhting, the philanthro- 
 pist, lie at St. Petersburgh, and have had accorded to 
 them a simple monument, with an inscription in Rus 
 and English. After his funeral, Prince Gallitzin 
 observed : — 
 
 " While Eussia has to show, near one frontier, the 
 ashes of his countryman, who about thirty years before, 
 fell a victim to his philanthropy, at another extremity 
 of that empire, she here presents in the capital, the 
 monument of a second Howard." 
 
 Rosamond Clifford, the famous mistress of Henry II., 
 was buried in the chapel of the nunnery at Godstow, 
 near Oxford, with this curious inscription on her 
 tomb : — 
 
 " Hie jacet in tumba, Rosa mundi, non Rosa munda : 
 Non redolet sed olet, quae redolere solet." 
 
 Imitated in English : — 
 
 "Here lies not Rose the chaste, but Rose the fair; 
 Her scents no more perfume, but taint the air." 
 
 Old Tobias Hobsox, the University carrier, kept a 
 stable of forty good cattle always ready and fit for 
 travelling, to furnish the scholars of Cambridge Univer- 
 sity. When a man came for a horse, he was led into 
 the stable, where there was great choice : but he obliged 
 him to take the horse which stood next to the stable 
 door. Erom whence it became a proverb " Hobson's 
 choice." Mr. Hobsox sickened in the time of his 
 vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the 
 
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I REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 plague. The following epitaph on Old Hobson, is by 
 
 John Milton : — 
 
 "Here lies Old Hobsoist ; Death hath broke his girt, 
 And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt ; 
 Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one 
 He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 
 'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known, 
 Death was half glad when he had got him down ; 
 For he had, any time this ten years full 
 Dodg'd with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull. 
 And surely death could never have prevail' d 
 Had not his weekly course of carriage fail'd ; 
 But lately finding him so long at home, 
 And thinking now his journey's end was come, 
 And that he had ta'en up his latest inn ; 
 In the kind office of a chamberlain 
 Show'd him his room where he must lodge that night, 
 Pull'd off his boots, and took away the light : 
 If any ask for him, it shall he said, 
 'Hobson has supp'd, and's newly gone to bed.' " 
 
 Another on old Hob son (by John Milton) : — 
 
 "Hebe lieth one, who did most truly prove, 
 That he could never die while he could move ; 
 So hung his destiny, never to rot 
 While he might still jog on and keep his trot, 
 Made of sphere-metal, never to decay 
 Until his revolution was at stay. 
 Time numbers motion, yet, (without a crime 
 'Gainst old truth) motion number' d out his time : 
 And like an engine moved with wheel and weight, 
 His principles being ceas'd he ended straight. 
 Eest, that gives all men life, gave him his death, 
 And too much breathing put him out of breath ; 
 Nor were it contradiction to affirm, 
 Too long vacation hastened on his term. 
 Merely to drive the time away he sicken' d, 
 Tainted and died, nor would with ale be quicken' d ; 
 Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch'd, 
 ' If I may'nt carry, sure I'll ne'er be fetch'd, 
 But vow, though the cross doctors all stood hearers, 
 Eor one carrier put down to make six bearers." 
 Ease was his chief disease ; and to judge right, 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 He died for heaviness that his cart went light ; 
 
 His leisure told him, that his time was come, 
 
 And lack of load made his life burdensome, 
 
 That even to his last breath, 'there be that say*t) 
 
 As he was pressed to death he cried "more weight " 
 
 But had his doings lasted as they were, 
 
 He had been an immortal carrier. 
 
 Obedient to the moon he spent his date, 
 
 In course reciprocal, and had his fate 
 
 Link'd to the mutual flowing of the seas, 
 
 Yet (strange to think his wain was his increase : 
 
 His letters are delivered all and gone, 
 
 Only remains this superscription." 
 
 Monument to Geace Daeli^g, in St. Cuthbert's Chapel, 
 on Fern Island. — A monument, by Mr. Davies, the sculp- 
 tor, of Newcastle, has been placed to Geace ? s memory; 
 it consists of a cippus of stone, 6 feet in height, sculp- 
 tured with the Cross of St. Cuthbert, and bearing the 
 following inscription : — 
 
 " To the memoiy of 
 
 Geace Hoesley Daelixg, 
 
 a native of Bamburgh, 
 
 and an Inhabitant 
 
 of these Islands : 
 
 \Yho died Oct. 20th, A. D. 1842, 
 
 Aged 26 years. 
 
 Pious and pure, modest, and yet so brave, 
 Though voung so wise, though meek so resolute. 
 
 Oh ! that winds and waves could speak 
 
 Of things which their united power called forth 
 
 From the pure depths of her humanity ! 
 
 A maiden gentle, yet, at duty's call, 
 
 Firm and unflinching as the lighthouse reared 
 
 On the island-rock, her lonely dwelling place ; 
 
 Or like the invincible rock itself that braves, 
 
 Age after age, the hostile elements, 
 
 As when it guarded holy Cuthbert's cell. 
 
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j REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 All night the storm had raged, nor ceased nor paused, 
 When, as day broke, the maid, through musty air, 
 Espies far off a wreck, amid the surf, 
 Beating on one of those disastrous isles. 
 Half of a vessel, half — no more ; the rest 
 Had vanished ! " — Wm. Wordsworth. 
 
 Another monument has been raised to Grace Darling, 
 in the churchyard of Bamborough, on the coast of Nor- 
 thumberland, where her remains lie. The monument 
 is an altar -tomb, upon which is the recumbent figure of 
 Grace Darling, sculptured in fine Portland stone, and 
 surmounted by a Gothic eanopy, with six side and two 
 end arches. The figure is represented lying on a plaited 
 straw mattress, bearing an oar, such as is peculiar to the 
 Northumberland coast ; and beneath the folds of the 
 mattress, at the head, is introduced a kind of sea weed, 
 which is very abundant in the district." 
 
 Inscription on the tomb of Sir "William De Tracy, 
 one of the murderers of Becket. The little village of 
 Morte, is associated with the history of Sir William De 
 Tracy, one of the knights who murdered Thomas a 
 Becket. The old weather-beaten church of grey stone, 
 that rears its tower on a little hill, the most conspicuous 
 object far or near, was built by him as a supposed expi- 
 ation for his crime, and within an aisle of this church 
 his tomb still stands. Its antiquity is very evident. 
 The black marble cover bears the rude effigy of the 
 repentant knight, but clothed in the full canonical robes 
 of that priesthood which he is said to have assumed in 
 his retirement. An inscription in old Norman charac- 
 ters records the name and prayer of the dead : — 
 
 " Syre Willi ame de Trace Dieu de sa 
 
 alme eyt Mercy." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In St. Peter's chapel, Quarenden, Bucks., on a mon- 
 ument to Sir Anthony Lee (who died about 1550), is 
 this inscription : — 
 
 " Anthony Lee, a knight of worthy name, 
 Sire to Sir Henry Lee, of noble fame, 
 Son to Sir llobert Lee, here buried lies, 
 "Whereas his fame and memory never dies. 
 Greate is the fountain whence himself did roam 
 But greater is the greatness of his son ; 
 His body here, his soul in heaven doth reste, 
 What scornde the earthe cannot with earthe be prest." 
 
 William Stevens, Esq. was buried in Otham church- 
 yard, in Kent, where the following inscription is placed 
 upon a marble tablet in the church (written by a 
 friend) : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 William Stevens, 
 
 Late of Broad- Street, in the city of London, Hosier, 
 
 And many years Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty ; 
 
 Whose remains, by his own desire, were deposited 
 
 Near this church, which he delighted to frequent as the 
 
 Place of his devotion, and which he repaired and 
 
 Adorned by his munificence. 
 
 Educated, and daring his whole life engaged in trade, 
 
 He j r et found means to enrich his mind 
 
 With English, French, Latin, Greek, and especially 
 
 Hebrew Literature ; 
 
 And connected by blood and affection 
 
 With many of the most distinguished Divines of his age, 
 
 He was inferior to none 
 
 In profound knowledge and steady practice 
 
 Of the doctrines and discipline of the Church of England : 
 
 Austere to himself alone, 
 
 Charitable and indulgent towards others, 
 
 He attracted the young by the cheerfulness of his temper, 
 
 The old by the sanctity of his life : 
 and tempering instructive admonition with inoffensive wit, 
 
 Uniting feivent piety towards God, 
 With unbounded good-Avill and well regulated beneficence 
 
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REMARKABLE persons. 
 
 towards men, 
 
 And illustrating his Christian profession by his own 
 
 consistent example, 
 
 He became the blessed means, bv divine grace, 
 
 Of winning many to the ways of righteousness. 
 
 He finished his probation, and entered into his rest, 
 
 On the 7th day of February, a.d. 1807, 
 
 In the 75th year of his age." 
 
 Baron Park's Memoirs of Stevens. 
 
 On visiting, a short time since, the interesting church 
 of Ightham, near Sevenoaks, my attention was caught 
 by a mural monument containing the bust of a lady, 
 who was traditionally reported to have written the 
 letter which proved the cause of discovering the Gun- 
 powder Plot. Behind the monument was some of her 
 needlework suspended. The following was the epi- 
 taph : — 
 
 " D. D. D. To the pretious name and honor of Dame 
 Dorothy Seley, the Relict of Sir William Selby, Kt., 
 the only daughter and heire of Charles Bonkam, Esq. 
 
 " She was a Dorcas 
 "Whose curious needle wound the abused stage 
 Of this leud world into the golden age, 
 Whose pen of steel and silken inck enroll' d 
 The acts of Jonah in records of gold. 
 Whose arte disclosed that plot, which, had it taken, 
 Rome had tryumph'd, and Britain's walls had shaken. 
 
 She was 
 In heart a Lydia, and in tongue a Hanna, 
 In zeale a Ruth, in wedlock a Susanna. 
 Prudently simple, providently wary, 
 To the world a Martha, and to heaven a Mary. 
 
 Who put on | in the year ) Pilgrimage, 69. 
 immortality j of her ) Redeemer, 1641. 
 
 Notes Sr Queries. 
 
 On James Bruce, Esq., the celebrated African travel- 
 ler, in the churchyard of Larbert : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 : In this tomb are deposited the remains of 
 
 James Bruce, Esq., of Kinnaird, 
 
 who died on the 27th of April, 1794, 
 
 In the 64th year of his age. 
 
 His life was spent in performing- 
 useful and splendid actions ; 
 He explored many distant regions, 
 He discovered the fountains of the Kile, 
 He traversed the deserts of Nubia. 
 He was an affectionate husband, 
 
 An indulgent parent, 
 An ardent lover of his country. 
 
 By the unanimous voice of mankind, 
 
 His name is enrolled with those 
 
 "Who were conspicuous 
 
 For genius, for valour, and for virtue." 
 
 In Rushden church, Northamptonshire, on Sir Goddaed 
 Pembeeton", Knt., who died Angust, 1616 : — 
 
 " When all is done, it only is the pen 
 Can tell the world the good or ill of men ; 
 Stone, wood, or brass, whereon the naught is writt 
 Is soone as silent as those under it ; 
 And for tradition let the world not trust, 
 Or to the living that we see unjust ; 
 Then for thy reverence to his generous race, 
 The Knight which here lies buried in this place ; 
 Hurt not this tomb, raze not when thou hast read, 
 Oh ! in thy mercye do not wrong the dead." 
 
 On Viscountess Palmeeston. At Nuneham Courtney, 
 in Oxfordshire, on an altar, encircled with cypresses, 
 which stands within a recess in the shrubbery that sur- 
 rounds the garden, is placed the Uen. The bank that 
 rises behind is planted with flowers, and a weeping 
 willow, large Weymouth pines, and other evergreens, 
 form the back ground. The following inscription from 
 the pen of William Whitehead, Poet Laureate, is on the 
 Altar: — 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of Frances Poole, 
 Yiscountess Palrnerston. 
 
 Here shall our lingering footsteps oft be found, 
 
 This is her shrine, and consecrates the ground. 
 
 Here living sweets around her altar rise 
 
 And breathe perpetual incense to the skies. 
 
 Here too, the thoughtless, and the young may tread 
 
 Who shun the drearier mansions of the dead : 
 
 May here be taught what worth the world has known, 
 
 Her wit, her sense, her virtues were her own ; 
 
 To her peculiar and for ever lost 
 
 To those who knew, and therefore lov'd her most. 
 Oh ! if kind pity steal on virtue's eye, 
 Check not the tear, nor stop the useful sigh ; 
 From soft humanity's ingenuous flame, 
 A wish may rise to emulate her fame, 
 And some faint image of her worth restore, 
 When those who now lament her are no more. 
 
 George Simon Harcourt, and the Honourable 
 Elizabeth Vernon, Viscount and Viscountess Newnham, 
 erected this urn in the year 1771." 
 
 In Berkeley churchyard, Gloucestershire :— 
 
 " Here resteth the Body of Thomas Peirce, who was 
 five times Mayor of this Towne, who deceased the 25th 
 of Feb., 1665. vEtatis 77. 
 
 Here lyeth Thomas Peirce, whom no man taught, 
 Yet he in Iron, Brasse, and Silver wrought. 
 He Jacks, and Clocks, and Watches (with art) made, 
 And mended too when others' worke did fade. 
 Of Berkeley five times Mayor this artist was, 
 And yet this Mayor, this Artist was but grasse. 
 When his own watch was Downe on the last day, 
 He that made watches, had not made a Key 
 To wind it up, but useless it must lie, 
 Until he Rise again no more to die." 
 
 Some years since, a Mr. Dickson, who was Provost 
 of Dundee, in Scotland, died, and by will left the sum 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 of one guinea to a person to compose an epitaph upon 
 him, which sum he directed his three executors to pay. 
 The executors, thinking to defraud the poet, agreed to 
 meet and share the guinea among them, each contri- 
 buting a line to the epitaph, which ran as follows : — 
 
 (First) " Here lies Dicksox — Provost of Dundee, 
 (Second) Here lies Dicksox — Here lies he, 
 
 (The third was put to it for a long time, but unwilling 
 to lose his share of the guinea, vociferously bawled out) 
 Hallelujah— hallelujah." 
 
 In Dundee churchyard : — 
 
 " Here lies the body of Jbnx Watson, 
 Read not this with your hats on, 
 For why r He was the Provost of Dundee, 
 Hallelujah, hailelu^." 
 
 In All Saints' church, Leicester. On a wooden tablet 
 in this church, is an inscription to the memory of 
 "William Nobice, stating that he is — 
 
 " Dead and gone, 
 
 Whose grave from all the rest is known 
 By finding out the greatest stone." 
 
 This stone is a large rough pebble ; and Vii. Xoerice 
 appears to have been twice mayor of Leicester, and 
 " gave twice fifteen groats yearly to All Saints' poor :" 
 also "five marks yearly to the master of the free school." 
 He had three wives, and died 1615, aged over 90 years. 
 
 Cook's Topography. 
 
 At North . Ferryby, Yorkshire, the following very 
 instructive lines are inscribed on a handsome tablet, to 
 the memory of Sir T. Ethbixgtox, an alderman of 
 Hull, and late a resident at the above place : — 
 
 438 
 
REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 " Taught of God we should view losses, sickness, 
 pain, and death, but as the several trying stages by 
 which a good man, like Joseph, is conducted from a 
 tent to a court ; sin his disease, Christ his physician, 
 pain his medicine, the Bible his support, the grave his 
 rest, and death itself an angel expressly sent to relieve 
 the worn-out labourer, or crown the faithful soldier." 
 
 In Framlingham churchyard, Suffolk. Edmund 
 "Webster, died June 8th, 1834, aged 79. 
 
 1 ' In the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, 
 
 To chime here he did begin, 
 And constant with rising companies 
 
 He many years was seen. 
 His last peal for a wedding was, 
 
 Which he performed with glee, 
 So the years he was a chimer, 
 
 Above you may plainly see." 
 
 In Worlingworth churchyard. John Jessop died 
 June 19th, 1825, aged 80 years:— 
 
 " To ringing from his youth he always took delight, 
 Now his bell has rung, and his soul has ta'en its flight, 
 We hope to join the choir of heavenly singing, 
 That far excels the harmony of ringing." 
 
 In the village churchyard at Leeds, in Kent : — 
 
 " In memory of James Barham, of this parish, who 
 departed this life January 14, 1818, aged 93 ; and who 
 from the year 1774 to the year 1804, rung in Kent, and 
 elsewhere, 112 peals, not less than 5040 changes in each 
 peal, and called bobs, &c, for most of the peals ; and 
 April 7th and 8th, 1761, assisted in ringing 40,320 bob- 
 majors on Leeds bells, in twenty- seven hours. 
 
 Notes and Queries, March, 1855. 
 
 439 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On Powell, the -famous pedestrian : — 
 
 "For quick ideas some we praise, 
 And men of talents meet ! 
 But this man's fame, and fame it was, 
 Lay wholly in his feet. 
 
 Such feet were never known before, 
 
 Witness the wondrous work 
 Which thousands long remember still 
 
 Of travelling to York. 
 
 But now, alas ! our Traveler's gone 
 
 To that mysterious bourn, 
 From- which, the immortal Shakspeare says, 
 
 1 No traveler's e'er return.' " 
 
 Francis Chaetees was a man infamous for all manner 
 of vices. When he was ensign in the army, he was 
 drummed out of the regiment for a cheat ; he was next 
 banished Brussels, and drummed out of Ghent on the 
 same account. After a hundred tricks at the gaming- 
 tables, he took to lending of money at exorbitant inte- 
 rest, and on great penalties, accumulating premium, 
 interest, and capital into a new capital, and seizing to 
 a minute when the payments became due. In a word, 
 by a constant attention to the vices, wants, and follies 
 of mankind, he acquired an immense fortune. His 
 house was a perpetual bawdy house. He was twice 
 condemned for rapes, and pardoned ; but the last time 
 not without imprisonment in Newgate, and large con- 
 fiscations. He died in Scotland in 1731, aged 62. 
 The populace, at his funeral, raised a great riot, almost 
 tore the body out of the coffin, and cast dead dogs, &c. 
 into the grave along with it. He was worth £7000 a 
 year estate in land, and about £100,000 in money. This 
 epitaph contains his character, very justly drawn by 
 Dr. Arbuthnot : — 
 
 " Heee continueth to rot 
 
 The body of Feancis Chaetees ; 
 
 Who with an Inflexible Constancy, 
 
 And Inimitable Uniformity of Life, 
 
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REMARKABLE PERSONS, 
 
 Persisted 
 
 In spite of Age and Infirmities, 
 
 In the practice of Every Human Vice, 
 
 Excepting Prodigality and Hypocrisy ; 
 
 His insatiable Avarice exempted him from the first, 
 
 - His matchless Impudence from the second. 
 
 Nor was he more singular 
 
 In the nndeviating Pravity of his Manners 
 
 Than successful 
 
 In accumulating Wealth ; 
 
 For, without Trade or Profession, 
 
 Without Trust of Public Money, 
 
 And without Brihe-worthy Service, 
 
 He acquired, or more properly created 
 
 A Ministerial Estate. 
 
 He was the only person of his time 
 
 Who could cheat without the mask of Honesty, 
 
 Retain his primeval Meanness 
 
 When possessed of Ten Thousand a year ; 
 
 And having daily deserved the Gibbet for what he did, 
 
 Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. 
 
 Indignant Reader ! 
 
 Think not his life useless to mankind : 
 
 Providence connived at his execrable designs, 
 
 To give to after ages 
 
 A conspicuous Proof and Example, 
 
 Of how small estimation is Exorbitant Wealth 
 
 In the sight of God, 
 
 By his bestowing it on the most unworthy of all 
 
 Mortals." 
 
 On Lord Contngsby, by Pope. ( This was originally 
 written on Picus Mirandula, is applied to Francis 
 Chartres, and printed among the works of Swift.) 
 
 "Here lies Lord Coningsby — be civil: 
 The rest God knows — so does the devil." 
 
 In the chancel of the church of All Saints, at Maldon, 
 in Essex, is a stone of white marble, on which is a Latin 
 epitaph to this effect : — 
 
 441 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " The deposit of John Vernon, Gent. Turkey mer- 
 chant, who hath often crossed the seas, tempted thereto 
 not so much by the love of gain, as an ardent desire of 
 beholding the wonderful works of God in the deep. He 
 boasts of this sepulchral stone, as not the least reward 
 of all his labours, it being discovered among the ruins 
 of Smyrna : he also brought to light some choice ancient 
 manuscripts, monuments of that ancient city; with 
 these he enriched his native country. He is now safely 
 arrived at the haven of rest. He died January 28, 
 1653, aged 84."— Mirror, 1833. 
 
 In Westminster Abbey is a medallion profile of Jonas 
 Hanway ; on each side, flags — one inscribed " Charity 
 and Policy united." Bas-relief — Britannia relieving 
 distressed youths. Arms, with motto " Never despair." 
 It bears this inscription : — 
 
 " Sacred to the memory of 
 
 Jonas Hanway ; 
 
 Who departed this life Sep. 5, 1786, aged 74, 
 
 whose name now liveth and will ever live, 
 
 Whilst active Piety shall distinguish 
 
 the Christian : 
 
 Integrity and truth shall recommend 
 
 the British Merchant ; 
 
 and universal kindness shall characterise 
 
 the Citizen of the World. 
 
 The helpless infant nurtured thro' his care, 
 
 The friendless Prostitute sheltered and reformed, 
 
 The hopeless youth rescued from Misery and Buin, 
 
 and trained to serve and defend his country, 
 
 Uniting in one common strain of Gratitude, 
 
 Bear Testimony to their Benefactor's Virtues. 
 
 1 This was the Friend and Father of the Poor.' " * 
 
 * In " Remarkable Occurrences in the Life of Jonas Hanway," by John 
 Pugh (Lond. 1787), it is stated that "he was the first man who ventured to 
 walk the streets of London with an umbrella over his head. After carrying 
 one nearly thirty years, he saw them come into general use." 
 
 442 
 
REMARKABLE PERSONS, 
 
 There is a plain tablet in "Westminster Abbey, to 
 Ann Eilding, ■with an inscription in Hebrew, Ethic- 
 pic, and English. The Hebrew inscription is thus 
 translated : — 
 
 " thou fairest among women ! yirtuous woman ! 
 the hand of the Lord hath done this. 
 
 1 The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and 
 blessed be the name of the Lord,' " 
 
 The Ethiopic is thus translated : — 
 
 "Come let us lament o'er this monument of a beloved 
 husband for thee, but in certain hope that thou art 
 united with Christ. 
 
 This Lady was truly religious, virtuous, faithful, and 
 mild as a dove, and chaste ; while she continued in life 
 she was honoured ; and is happy through mercy in 
 death." 
 
 Underneath : — 
 
 " Ann, daughter of George Eilding, Esq., and of 
 Mary his wife, the truly loving (and as truly beloved) 
 wife of Samuel Moeland, Kt. and Bart., died Eeb. 20. 
 Anno Dn. 1679, ^Etatis XIX." 
 
 On Mrs. Eeskine, wife of "William Erskine, Esq., 
 (afterwards Lord Kinedder) who died September, 1819, 
 and was buried at Saline, in the county of Eife, in 
 Scotland, where these lines are inscribed on the tomb- 
 stone (by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.) : — 
 
 " Plain, as her native dignity of mind, 
 Arise the tomb of her we have resigned ; 
 TJnnaw'd and stainless be the marble scroll, 
 Emblem of lovely form and candid soul. 
 But oh ! what symbol may avail, to tell 
 The kindness, wit, and sense, we loved so well ! 
 "What sculpture show the broken ties of life, 
 Here buried with the parent, friend and wife ! 
 Or on the tablet stamp each title dear, 
 By which thine urn, Euphemia, claims the tear ! 
 Yet taught, by thy meek sufferance, to assume 
 Patience in anguish, hope beyond the tomb, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Kesign'd, though sad, this votive verse shall flow, 
 And brief, alas ! as thy brief span below ! " 
 
 The Duke of Alencon crowned Henry VI. at Paris in 
 1431, and died there in 1435, and was buried in Eouen 
 Cathedral, where his monument is still to be seen. 
 When Charles VIII. visited this tomb, some noblemen 
 who accompanied him, solicited him to give orders for 
 the destruction of the monument of the ancient foe of 
 France, but the monarch answered with a better spirit, 
 " Let him rest in peace, now he is dead ; it was when 
 he was alive, and in the field, that France dreaded him." 
 
 On John St. John Long : — 
 
 " It is the fate of most men 
 
 to have many enemies and few friends. — 
 
 This monumental pile 
 
 is not intended to mark the career, 
 
 but to shew 
 
 how much its inhabitant was respected 
 
 by those who knew his worth, 
 
 and the benefits 
 
 derived from his remedial discovery : 
 
 he is now at rest 
 
 and far beyond the praises or censures 
 
 of this world. 
 
 Stranger ! As you respect the receptacle for the dead 
 
 (as one of the many that will rest here) 
 
 Read the name of 
 
 John St. John Long, 
 
 without comment. 
 
 Died July 2nd, 1834, 
 
 Aged 37 years." 
 
 On the well-known Beau Nash, in Bath Abbey 
 church, said to have been written by Dr. Harington : — 
 
 444 
 
REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 " Adeste Cives, adeste Lugentes! 
 
 Hie silent Leges 
 
 Ricardi Nash, Arinig. 
 
 Nihil amplius imperantis; 
 
 Qui diu et utilissime 
 
 Assumptus Bathoniae 
 
 Elegantiae Arbiter, 
 
 Eheu! 
 
 Morti, (ultimo designatori) 
 
 Haud indecore succubuit, 
 
 Ann. Dora. MDCCLXI. iEtat suae LXXXVII. 
 
 Beatus ille qui sibi imperiosus ! 
 
 If social virtues make remembrance dear, 
 Or manners pure on decent rule depend ; 
 
 To Sis remains consign one grateful tear, 
 
 Of Youth the Guardian, and of all the Friend. 
 
 Now sleeps Dominion ; here no Bounty flows ; 
 
 Nor more avails the festive scene to grace, 
 Beneath that Hand which no discernment shews 
 
 Untaught to honour, or distinguish place." 
 
 Robert Sandeman, from whom the religious sect of 
 the Sandemanians takes its name, died in America, a.d. 
 1772, aged 59, and was buried at Danbury, in New 
 England, with the following inscription on his tomb : — 
 
 "Here lies until the resurrection, the body of Robert 
 Saistdeman, who, in the face of continual opposition from 
 all sorts of men, long and boldly contended for the 
 ancient faith, that the bare death of Jesus Christ, with- 
 out a deed or thought on the part of man, is sufficient 
 to present the chief of sinners spotless before God." 
 
 On Peter the Great, czar of Russia, who died in 
 1725, aged 53 :— 
 
 " Here under deposited lies all that could die of a 
 man immortal, Peter Alexowitz ; it is almost super- 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 fluous to say, Great Emperor of Russia : a title, which, 
 instead of adding to his glory, became glorious by his 
 wearing it, let antiquity be dumb, nor boast her Alex- 
 ander, or her Caesar. How easy was victory to leaders 
 who were followed by heroes ! and whose soldiers felt a 
 noble disdain to be thought less awake than their gene- 
 rals ! But he ! who in this place knew rest, found 
 subjects base and unactive, unwarlike, unlearned, 
 untractable; neither covetous of fame, nor liberal of 
 danger ; creatures with the name of men, but with 
 qualities rather brutal than rational : yet even these 
 he polished from their native ruggedness ; and breaking 
 out like a new sun, to illuminate the minds of a people, 
 dispelled their night of hereditary darkness ! till by force 
 of his invincible influence, he had taught them to conquer 
 even the conquerors of Germany. Other princes have 
 commanded victorious armies, this commander created 
 them. Blush, art ! at a hero who owed thee nothing ! 
 Exult, nature ! for thine was this prodigy." 
 
 The tomb of the late Emperor Nicholas, faces that 
 of Peter the Great. Mentioning this fact, the Journal 
 de St. Petersburgh exclaims — " Symbolical situation, 
 awakening a world of thought ! On one side the tomb 
 of him who dispelled the darkness of ancient Russia ; 
 on the other, the tomb of the great sovereign who raised 
 it to the apogee of glory and prosperity." 
 
 In St. Mary's church, at "Westerham, in Kent, is a 
 fine cenotaph to the memory of General Wolfe, (see 
 page 33) bearing the following inscription : — 
 
 " "While George in sorrow bows his laurel' d head, 
 And bids the artist grace the soldier dead, 
 "We raise no sculp tur'd trophy to thy name, 
 Brave youth ! the fairest in the lists of fame. 
 
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J REMARKABLE PERSONS. 
 
 Proud of thy birth, we boast the auspicious year ; 
 Struck with thy fall, we shed the general tear : 
 "With humble grief inscribe one artless stone, 
 And from thy matchless honour date our own." 
 
 Inscribed on a monument in Westminster Abbey : — 
 
 " To the Memory of James Wolfe, Major General 
 and Commander-in-chief of the British land forces, on 
 an expedition against Quebec ; who after surmounting 
 by ability and valour, all obstacles of art and nature, 
 was slain in the moment of victory, on the 14th of Sep. 
 1759. The King and Parliament of Great Britain 
 dedicate this Monument." 
 
 In South-hill church, Bedfordshire ; on Admiral Byng, 
 who was shot at Portsmouth : — 
 
 " To the perpetual disgrace of public justice, 
 The Honourable John Byng, Vice Admiral of the 
 Blue, fell a martyr to political persecution, March 1 4, in 
 the year 1757 ; when bravery and loyalty were insuffi- 
 cient securities for the life and honour of a naval 
 officer." 
 
 On Colonel James Gaedinee, a man distinguished for 
 his piety and bravery, who fell at the battle of Preston 
 Pans, 1745, within sight of his own house : — 
 
 "While fainter merit asks the powers of verse, 
 One faithful line shall Gaedinee' s worth rehearse : 
 The bleeding hero, and the martyr'd saint, 
 Transcends the poet's praise, the herald's paint : 
 His the best path to fame that e'er was trod ! 
 And surely his the noblest road to God ! " 
 
 447 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 TRADESMEN. 
 
 In Dunniore churchyard, Ireland : — 
 
 "Here lie the remains of John Hall, Grocer. The 
 world is not worth a fig, and I have good raisins for 
 saying so." 
 
 On Peter Gedge, printer, who started the first news- 
 paper at Bury St. Edmund's, and died in 1818 : — 
 
 " Like a worn out type, 
 
 He is returned to the Pounder, 
 
 In hopes of being re-cast in a better 
 
 and more perfect mould." 
 
 On a stay-maker : — 
 
 " Alive, unnumber'd stays he made, 
 (He work'd industrious night and day) 
 E'en dead he now pursues his trade, 
 Por here his bones will make a staxj" 
 
 On an innkeeper, at Exon : — 
 
 " Life's an Inn, my house will show it, 
 I thought so once — but now I know it. 
 Man's life is but a winter's day, 
 Some only breakfast and away : 
 
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TRADESMEN. 
 
 Others to dinner stay, and are full fed, 
 The oldest man but sups, and then to bed. 
 Large is his debt who lingers out the day, 
 He who goes soonest has the least to pay. 
 
 In St. Paul's churchyard, London : — 
 
 Alexander Hogg, bookseller, died July, 1809, aged 57. 
 
 A husband, father, friend, all three in one, 
 Kay, what is more, an honest man is gone ; 
 Not gone for ever, only gone before, 
 For every Honest man to Heaven shall soar ; 
 That his reward above, below his praise, — 
 Hence, reader, then, and imitate his ways." 
 
 Inscription on a stone in St. Margaret's churchyard, 
 at Lynn, in Norfolk, to the memory of William Scniv- 
 enoe, cook to the corporation, who died in 1684 : — 
 
 " Alas ! alas! Will Scrivenoe's dead, who by his art 
 Could make death's skeleton edible in every part. 
 Mourn, squeamish stomachs, and ye curious palates, 
 You've lost your dainty dishes, and your salades ; 
 Mourn for yourselves, but not for him i'th' least, 
 He's gone to taste of a more heavenly feast." 
 
 In Awlincombe churchyard, Devonshire : — 
 
 " Here lie the remains of James Pady, brichnaker, 
 late of this parish, in hopes that his clay will be re- 
 moulded in a workman like manner, far superior to his 
 former perishable materials. 
 
 Keep death and judgment always in your eye 
 Or else the devil off with you will fly, 
 And in his kiln with brimstone ever fry, ; 
 If you neglect the narrow road to seek, 
 Christ will reject you like a half -burnt brick. 1 
 
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EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 In St. James's churchyard, Bury St. Edmunds: — 
 
 " A Tribute of Eespect 
 
 Kaised by the Traders attending Bury Fair, 
 
 In Memory 
 
 of one of their number, 
 
 Mr. Augestus Stexsox, 
 
 of Sandyacre, in Derbyshire, 
 
 who, after a very short illness, left this 
 
 for a better World/ on Friday, Oct. 24, 1817, 
 
 aged 36. 
 
 'An Honest Man's the noblest work of God.' 
 
 If honour can ennoble Man's vain life, 
 
 If Charity and truth can lend a charm, 
 
 If reconciling enmity and strife 
 
 Can check in Death's dark hour each wild alarm, 
 
 Then Stexsox died in peace ! for his were those 
 And every action token of them gave ! 
 Stranger ! one sigh will add to his repose, 
 For 'twill be breath' d upon a Stranger's grave." 
 
 On a tombstone in Lidford churchyard, Devonshire: — 
 
 " Here lies, in Horizontal position, 
 
 The outside case of 
 George Roeteeigh, Watchmaker, 
 
 "Whose abilities in that line were an honour 
 
 To his profession : 
 
 Integrity was the main-spring, 
 
 and Prudence the Regulator 
 
 Of all the actions of his life : 
 
 Humane, generous, and liberal, 
 
 His hand never stopped 
 
 Till he had relieved distress ; 
 
 So nicely regulated were all his movements 
 
 That he never went wrong 
 
 Except when set-a-going 
 
 By People 
 
 Who did not know 
 
 His Key : 
 
 Even then, he was easily 
 
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TRADESMEN. 
 
 Set right again : 
 He had the art of disposing his Time 
 So well, 
 That his Hours glided away 
 
 In one continual round 
 
 Of Pleasure and Delight, 
 
 Till an unlucky Moment put a 'period to 
 
 His existence; 
 
 He departed this Life 
 
 November 14, 1802, 
 
 Aged 57, 
 
 Wound up, 
 
 In hopes of being taken in Sand 
 
 By his Maker, 
 
 And of being 
 
 Thoroughly cleaned, repaired, and set-a-going 
 
 In the World to come." 
 
 At Hampstead, on John Johnson, "Watchmaker, who 
 Died 27th June, 1800, aged 43 years:— 
 
 "For honest worth let friendship drop a tear, 
 Who knew him best, lament him most sincere; 
 In all his actions, generous, just, and kind, 
 His regulator was a virtuous mind ; 
 Strict in his morals, in his manners mild, 
 A better man, look far, you will not find." 
 
 In Lavenham church, Suffolk. In the north aisle of 
 this church is a small mural monument, upon which 
 are represented a man and woman, engraved on brass, 
 kneeling before a table, and three sons and daughters 
 behind them. From the mouth of the man proceeds a 
 label on which is a Latin sentence, meaning this : — 
 " Into thy hands I commend my spirit." Underneath 
 is this inscription, which, like that of the label, is in 
 the old English characters : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Contynuall prayse these lynes in brasse, 
 
 Of Allaine Dister here, 
 A clothier, vertuous while he was 
 
 In Lavenhain many a year. 
 
 For as in lyefe he loved best 
 
 The poore to clothe and feede 
 So with the rich and all the rest 
 
 He neighbourlie agreed ; 
 
 And did appoynte before he dyed, 
 
 A special yearlie rent, 
 "Which should be every Whitsontide 
 
 Among the poorest spent. 
 
 Et obiit Anno Dni. 1534. 
 
 On an unsuccessful oculist, who became a tallow- 
 chandler : — 
 
 " So many of the human kind 
 Under his hands became stone blind, 
 That for such failings to atone 
 At length he let the trade alone : 
 And ever after in despite 
 Of darkness, liv'd by giving light ! 
 But Death ! who had exciseman's power 
 To enter houses every hour, 
 Thinking his light grew rather sallow, 
 Snuff' d out his wick, and seized his tallow." 
 
 On a baker : — 
 
 " Richard Fuller lies buried here, 
 Do not withhold the crystal tear, 
 For when he liv'd — he daily fed 
 Woman, and child, and man, with bread. 
 But now, alas ! he's turn'd to dust, 
 As thou, and I, and all soon must : 
 And lies beneath this turf so green, 
 Where worms do daily feed on him." 
 
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TRADESMEN. 
 
 On a porter, who died suddenly under a load;- 
 
 " Pack'd up within these dark abodes, 
 Lies one, in life inur'd to loads, 
 Which oft he carried 'tis well known, 
 Till death pass'd by — and threw him down- 
 When he that carried loads before, 
 Became a load which others bore, 
 To this his inn — where as they say, 
 They leave him till another day." 
 
 On a blacksmith : — 
 
 " Here cool the ashes of 
 
 MULCIBER GEIM, 
 
 late of this parish, 
 
 blacksmith. 
 
 He was born in Seacoal-l&ne, 
 
 and bred at Hammersmith ; 
 
 from his youth upwards he was much addicted to vices 
 
 and was often guilty of forgery ; 
 
 having some talents for irony, 
 
 he thereby produced many heats in his neighbourhood, 
 
 which he usually increased by blowing the coals, 
 
 this rendered him so unpopular, that 
 
 when he found it necessary to adopt cooling measures, 
 
 his conduct was generally accompanied with a hiss. 
 
 Though he sometimes proved a warm friend, 
 
 yet where his interest was concerned 
 
 he made it a constant rule to strike while the iron was hot, 
 
 regardless of the injury he might do thereby : 
 
 and when he had any matter of moment upon the anvil 
 
 he seldom failed to turn it to his own advantage. 
 
 Among numberless instances that might be given 
 
 of the cruelty of his disposition, 
 
 it need only be mentioned that he was the means 
 
 of hanging many of the innocent family of the Bells, 
 
 under the idle pretence of keeping them from jangling : 
 
 and put great numbers of the Hearts of Steel into 
 
 the hottest flames, 
 
 merely (as he declared) to soften the obduracy 
 
 of their tempers. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At length, after passing a long life in the commis- 
 sion of these black actions, 
 his fire being exhausted, and his bellows worn out, 
 he filed off to that place where only 
 the fervid ordeal of his own forge can be exceeded, 
 declaring with his last puff 
 that ' Man is born to trouble as the sparks 
 fly upwards.'' 
 
 At Ockham, in Surrey, to the memory of John Spong, 
 carpenter, who died 1736 : — 
 
 ' Who many a sturdy oak hath laid along, 
 Fell'd by Death's surer hatchet, here lies Spong. 
 Posts oft he made, yet ne'er a place could get, 
 And liv'd by railing, though he was no wit. 
 Old saws he had, although no antiquarian, 
 And styles corrected, yet was no grammarian." &c. 
 
 In Sheffield parish church, in memory of Richard 
 Smith, who died April 6th, 1756, aged 52 : — 
 
 " At thirteen years I went to sea 
 
 To try my fortune there, 
 But lost my friend, which put an end 
 
 To all my interest there 
 
 Then to land I came 
 As 'twere by chance, 
 At twenty then I taught to dance, 
 But yet unsettled in my mind, 
 To something else I was inclined; 
 At thirty-five I laid dancing down, 
 To be a bookseller in this town, 
 "Where I continued without strife 
 Till death depriv'd me of my life ; 
 Yain world, to thee I bid farewell, 
 To rest within this silent cell, 
 Till the great God shall summons all 
 To answer his majestic call, 
 The Lord have mercy on us all." 
 
 454 
 
TRADESMEN. 
 
 On a celebrated coalheaver : — 
 
 " Cease to lament his change, ye just ; 
 He's only gone from ' dust to dust.' " 
 
 Epigrammatic epitaph : — 
 
 " Beneath yon humble clod, at rest, 
 Lies Andrew, who if not the best, 
 
 Was not the very worst man ; 
 A little rakish, apt to roam ; 
 But not so now, he's quite at home, 
 
 For Andrew was a dustman." 
 
 For Joseph Blackett, late poet and shoemaker, who 
 died at Seaham, in 1810 (by Lord Byron) : — 
 
 " Stranger ! behold interr'd together 
 The souls of learning and of leather. 
 Poor Joe is gone, but left his all : 
 You'll find his relics in a stall. 
 His works were neat, and often found 
 Well stitch' d, and with morocco bound. 
 Tread lightly — where the bard is laid, 
 He cannot mend the shoe he made ; 
 Yet is he happy in his hole, 
 With verse immortal as his sole. 
 But still to business he held fast, 
 And stuck to Phoebus to the last. 
 Then who shall say so good a fellow 
 Was only ' leather and prunella.' 
 For character — he did not lack it ; 
 And if he did — 'twere shame to ' Black-it.' " 
 
 In Hessle churchyard, near Hull, on George Prissick, 
 plumber and glazier : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Adieu ! my friends, my thread of life is spun, 
 The diamond will not cut, the soder will not run, 
 My body's turn'd to ashes, my grief and troubles past, 
 I've left no one to worldly care, — and I shall rise at last." 
 
 In Matlock churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " To the memory of 
 
 James Geeen, 
 
 of Cromford, 
 
 who departed this life Nov. 17th, 1843, 
 
 in full assurance of a joyful resurrection : 
 
 aged 51 years. 
 
 " A man of sense, a man of care ; 
 A man of truth, a man of prayer ; 
 A man of thought ; whose feeling mind 
 Led him to leave advice behind ; 
 Advice to his dear children given, 
 To guide them in the way to heaven. 
 Such was the man who now here lies, 
 Whose soul we trust's above the skies." 
 
 On a puritanical locksmith : — 
 
 " A zealous Locksmith died of late, 
 And did arrive at heaven's gate, 
 He stood without and would not knock, 
 Because he meant to pick the lock." 
 
 On a railway engineer, in Bromsgrove churchyard, 
 Worcestershire ; dated 1840 : — 
 
 "My Engine now is cold and still, 
 No water does my boiler fill : 
 My coke affords its flame no more, 
 My days of usefulness are o'er, 
 My wheels deny their noted speed, 
 No more my guiding hand they need. 
 
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TRADESMEN. 
 
 My whistle, too, has lost its tone, 
 
 Its shrill and thrilling sounds are gone : — 
 
 My valves are now thrown open wide, 
 
 My flanges all refuse to guide, 
 
 My clacks, also ! though once so strong, 
 
 Refuse to aid the busy throng : 
 
 ~No more I feel each urging breath, 
 
 My steam is now condensed in death. 
 
 Life's railway o'er — each station's past, 
 
 In death I'm stopp'd, and rest at last. 
 
 Farewell, dear friends, and cease to weep, 
 
 In Christ I'm safe — in Him I sleep." 
 
 On a dyer, in a churchyard at Lincoln : — 
 
 " Here lies John Hyde; 
 
 He first liv'd, and then he died 
 He dyed to live, and liv'd to dye, 
 And hopes to live eternally." 
 
 On an undertaker, in Stoke churchyard : — 
 
 " An undertaker, named John Fey, 
 Lies here — who lost his breath, 
 Endeavouring, but in vain, to fly 
 That o^rtaker — Death." 
 
 In Henbury churchyard, near Bristol, on Joseph 
 Wills, of Long Ashton County town gardener, who 
 died August 20th, 1720, aged 45 :— 
 
 " Pomona's treasures gone — her glory fled, 
 
 And Flora's beauty lost since thou art dead. 
 
 The trees, and plants, and flowers now fading stand, 
 
 "Which used to flourish by thy skilful hand. 
 
 'Twas by thy skilful hand that they did bring 
 
 Treasures of the Autumn — pleasure of the Spring. 
 
 Alas ! that neither flower, nor plant, nor tree 
 
 Could thee reprieve, so oft reprieved by thee." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In All Saints' church, Leicester : — 
 
 " To the memory of Joseph "Weight, a Gardener 
 
 My mother Earth, though mystically curst, 
 Hath me, her son, most bountifully nurst : 
 For all my pains, and seed on her bestow' d, 
 Out of which store that I of her received : 
 My painful, wantful brethren I relieved ; 
 And though this Mother I full well did love, 
 I better lov'd my Father that's above : 
 My Mother feeds my body for a space, 
 My soul for aye beholds my Father's face." 
 
 On the tomb of a corpulent chandler : — 
 
 " Here lies in earth an honest fellow, 
 Who died by fat, and lived by tallow." 
 
 On the three dyers, at Truro, in Cornwall : — 
 
 " A Dyer born, a dyer bred, 
 Lies numbered here among the dead ; 
 Dyers, like mortals doomed to die, 
 Alike fit food for worms supply. 
 Josephus Dyer was his name, 
 By dyeing he acquired fame ; 
 'Twas in his forty- second year 
 His neighbours kind did him inter. 
 Josephus Dyer, his first son, 
 Doth also lie beneath this stone ; 
 So likewise doth his second boy, 
 Who was his parents' hope and joy. 
 His handywork all did admire, 
 For never was a better dyer. 
 Both youths were in their fairest prime, 
 Ripe fruitage of a healthful clime ; 
 But nought can check Death's lawless aim, 
 Whos'ever life he choose to claim : 
 It was God's edict from his throne, 
 ' My will shall upon earth be done.' 
 
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TRADESMEN. 
 
 Then did the active mother's skill 
 The vacancy with credit fill 
 Till she grew old, and weak, and blind, 
 And this last wish dwelt on her mind — 
 That she, when dead, should buried be 
 "With her loved spouse and family. 
 At last Death's arm her strength defied; 
 Thus all the dyeing Dyers died." 
 
 On a potter : — 
 
 " How frail is man — how short life's longest day, 
 Here lies the worthy Potter turn'd to clay, 
 Whose forming hand, and whose reforming care 
 Has left us full of flaws. Yile earthenware." 
 
 On an itinerant linen-draper, in Hampstead church- 
 yard : — 
 
 " Cottons and Cambrics, all adieu ! 
 And Muslins, too, farewell ! 
 Plain, striped, and figured, old and new, 
 Three-quarters, yard, or ell. 
 
 By yard and nail I've measured ye, 
 
 As customers inclined ; 
 The Churchyard now has measured me, 
 
 And nails my coffin bind. 
 
 So now my kind and worthy friends 
 
 Who dealt with me below, 
 I'm gone to measure Time's long ends — 
 
 You'll follow me — I know." 
 
 On Henry Fox, a weaver, in Sleaford churchyard : 
 
 " Of tender threads this mortal web is made, 
 The woof and warp, and colours early fade ; 
 When power divine awakes the sleeping dust, 
 He gives immortal garments to the just." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Dennington churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Here lie the mortal remains of 
 
 James Stearne, Bachelor, 
 
 who was born in this parish, and died at Eomford, in 
 
 Essex, Feb. 27, 1843, aged 70. 
 ' ' Eeneath this tomb lies buried here a man of note in trade, 
 And unto him was merit due for works which he had made. 
 On Steel and Brass his hands had wrought and laboured 
 
 night and day, 
 But now in silence here does rest down in his bed of clay. 
 When the great last trump shall sound, and the earth give 
 
 up her dead, 
 May he arise with God to dwell — through Christ his 
 living head." 
 
 In the north aisle of St. Giles' church, Cripplegate : — 
 
 " A remembrance of Thomas Bvsby, Cooper and 
 
 Citizen of London, who departed this life in Ano 1575, 
 
 and bvried heare the xi of July. 
 
 This Bvsby willing to relieve the poore with fire and 
 
 with breade 
 Did give that hovse in which he dy'd, then called the 
 
 Queenes heade. 
 Foure full loades of ye best charcole he wovld have bovght 
 
 each yeare, 
 And fortie dosen of wheaten breade, for poor hovsehold- 
 
 ers heare, 
 To see these things distribvted this Bvsby put in trvst, 
 The Yicar and Chvrchwardens, thinking them to be jvst. 
 God grante that poore hovseholders heare may thankfvl 
 
 be for svch, 
 So God will move ye heartes of more, to do for them as 
 
 mvch, 
 And let this goode example move such men as God as 
 
 blest, 
 To do the like before they goe with Bvsby to their reste. 
 Within this chappell Bvsby' s bones in dvst awhile doth 
 
 stay, 
 Till he that made them, raise them up to live with Christ 
 
 for aye." 
 
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TRADESMEN. 
 
 Upon a plain slab in the Cathedral church of St. Mary, 
 
 Limerick, is the following inscription : — 
 
 "Memento mory 
 
 Here lieth littel 
 
 Samvell Bakington, That 
 
 Great Undertaker of 
 
 Famovs cittis Clock and 
 
 Chime Maker : he made 
 
 His own time goe early 
 
 ami latter, but 
 
 now he is retvrned to 
 
 God his Creator 
 
 the 19th November then 
 
 he seest and for his 
 
 memory this here is 
 
 Pleast by his son Ben. 
 
 1639." 
 
 The Rev. J. Caughey 's letters, Vol. 1. 
 
 At Wigtown, Galloway, in Scotland : — 
 
 "Here lies John Taggaet of honest fame, 
 Of stature low, and a leg lame, 
 Content he was with portion small, 
 Kept a shop in "Wigtown, and that's all." 
 
 On a tailor : — 
 " Fate cuts the thread of life, as all men know, 
 And fate cut his, though he so well could sew, 
 It matters not how fine the web is spun, 
 'Tis all unravelled when our course is run." 
 
 On a cobbler : — 
 
 "Death at a cobbler's door oft made a stand, 
 And always found him on the mending hand ; 
 At last came death, and in foul weather, 
 Bipt the sole from off the upper leather. 
 Death by a trick of art, then laid him fast, 
 His awl he call'd for, but death brought his last. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 On John Emery : — 
 
 " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, — 
 Here lies John Emery, I trust ; 
 And when the trump blows loud and louder, 
 He'll rise — a Box of Emery Powder." 
 
 Inscription on a stone in the churchyard of "Wrex- 
 ham : — 
 
 "Bichard Kenrick was buried August 29th, 1785, 
 by the desire of Ms ivife, Margaret Kenrick." 
 
 Irish epitaph : — 
 
 " Here I lies 
 And my heart at aise is, 
 Wid the point o'my nose 
 And the tips o'my toes 
 Turn'd up to the roots o'the daises." 
 
 On John Berry : — 
 
 " Hark ! how ! who's buried here ? 
 
 John Berry, is't the younger ? 
 
 Wo, it is the Elder Berry. 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 An Elder-'BKK&Y buried surely must 
 Kather spring up and live than turn to dust : 
 So may our Beeey whom stern death has slain, 
 Be only buried to rise up again." 
 
 In the churchyard behind the famous Boar's Head 
 tavern, Eastcheap, was formerly a tablet inscribed to the 
 memory of Bobeet Peeston, a drawer at the Boar's 
 Head, who died in 1730, on which his sobriety and other 
 virtues are celebrated : — 
 
 " Though nurs'd among full hogsheads, he defied 
 The charms of wine, as well as others' pride. 
 You that on Bacchus have the like dependance, 
 Pray copy Bob in measure and attendance." 
 
 In Carlton church, Northamptonshire : — 
 
 " JoANE GoDDAED, 
 
 Here lyeth hir corps entombed, which was ever, 
 (From infancie to age) a dying lyver, 
 Her bodie here doth lye ; noe massie stone 
 Entombes hir sovle ; hir sovle is god- ward gone. 
 Who god-ward lives, with God shall live and rest- 
 Then is hir sovle entomb'd in Abram's brest. 
 1610. 
 Yet let not man defer to ye last hour, 
 Repentance is of God, not in man's powre." 
 
 In Wirksworth churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 Job White departed this life July 3rd, 1807, aged 55. 
 
 This languishing head is at rest, 
 Its thinkings and achings are o'er ; 
 This quiet immoveable breast 
 Is heav'd by affliction no more. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Those eyes he so seldom could close 
 By sorrow forbidden to sleep, 
 Are seal'd in eternal repose 
 And strangely forgotten to weep." 
 
 In Woodbridge churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " In Memory of 
 
 William Webb, Esq., 
 
 who departed this life 22nd May, 1812, 
 
 Aged 74 years. 
 
 If each kind impulse of the human breast 
 
 Can purchase heavenly joys for Souls at rest ; 
 
 A conscience free from guilt, affording birth 
 
 To Wit, Conviviality, and Mirth ; 
 If whilst on Earth, He never varying trod 
 In virtue's happy path, prescrib'd by God, 
 Reader ! this stone before you will display 
 A much lamented, yet auspicious clay. 
 Lov'd Webb's remains, like him Oh may you die, 
 
 With all his hopes of immortality." 
 
 Greek epitaph, on Zosima, who lived in slavery : — 
 
 " Zosima, who in her life could only have her body 
 enslaved, now finds her body likewise set at liberty." 
 
 "My fellow sinners in a world of woe 
 May mercy lead thee all thy journey through ; 
 Thy sinful state may mercy make thee feel ; 
 Christ's mercy pardon, and Christ's mercy heal." 
 
 " Let no proud stone with sculptured virtues rise, 
 To mark the spot wherein a sinner lies ; 
 Or if some boast must deck the sinner's grave, 
 Boast of His love, who died lost man to save." 
 
 " Eeader ! whoe'er thou art, one moment stop and think, 
 That I am in eternity, and thou art on the brink." 
 
 464 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 On a tablet in the outside wall of the old church at 
 Taunton, in Somersetshire : — 
 
 " James Waters, late of London, aged 49. 
 
 Death traversing the western road, 
 And asking where true merit lay, 
 
 Made in this town a short abode, 
 Then took this worthy man away." 
 
 A Roman's epitaph. Some workmen in making an 
 excavation at Constantina, in Algeria, a short time back 
 came on an ancient tomb, which turned out to be that 
 of a Roman citizen. It offered no peculiarity in con- 
 struction, but the inscription, which is in well- written 
 hexameters and pentameters, appears so curious, that a 
 translation of it seems worth giving. It runs thus : — 
 
 " I, Procilitjs, whose remains repose here, state the 
 exact truth in these verses. I have spent a life without 
 annoyance, exercising the calling of Silversmith in my 
 house at Cirta. I have always been of the strictest 
 probity, and of the most complete frankness towards 
 every man. I have nothing whatever to complain 
 of, for I was always gay and always happy, until 
 the death of my chaste Valerian. I have celebrated 
 with honour and in prosperity one hundred anniversaries 
 of my birth-day ; and at last, my final day arrived 
 when my enfeebled frame rendered it welcome. The 
 lines which you are now reading I composed myself 
 during my life-time, being permitted so to do by the 
 kind goddess Fortune, who never forsook me. 
 
 Follow the path which I have taken : I await you 
 here below ; come ! " 
 
 In the churchyard of Christchurch, Hants. : — 
 
 " We were not slayne bvt raysd : 
 Raysd not to Life, 
 But to be bvried twice 
 By men of strife. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 "What rest could th' living have 
 
 When deacThad none ? 
 Agree amongst you — 
 
 Here we ten are one. 
 
 Hen:_Eogers died April 17, 1641." 
 
 In the same churchyard, on a plain slab : — 
 " Sally Williams 
 Died of Grief 
 
 1836 
 aged 79." 
 
 On Mr. Bywater : — 
 "Here lie the remains of his "relatives' "pride, 
 
 By water he liv'd, and by water he died ; 
 
 Though by water he fell, yet by water he'll rise. 
 
 By water baptismal attaining the skies." 
 
 In St. Mary Key, Ipswich, Chaeles Jobson, died 
 August 30th, 1831, aged 56. 
 
 "Sometimes by thee, Melancholy! led, 
 I walk'd the ground that hides the happy dead, 
 Where every tombstone I am passing by 
 Gives me a lecture on mortality. 
 Even marble speaks, and tells me I must die. 
 The Clown, the Monarch, and the rich and poor, 
 Are levell'd in the grave, distinction is no more.' 
 
 Inscription on a marble monument, at Felbriggs, 
 Norfolk :— 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 "To the memory of Thomas Windham, Esq., 3rd 
 son of Sir Edmund, who lived a single life, and died 
 Dec. 20th, 1559; to whose memory, Sir John Wind- 
 ham, of Orchard, in Somersetshire, his cosen and heire, 
 hath sett this marble. 
 
 Liv'st thou, Thomas? Yes. Where? With God on high. 
 Art thou not dead? Yes, and here I lye. 
 I that with men on earth did live to dye, 
 Dy'd for to live with Christ eternally." 
 
 At Winborne, on John Penny : — 
 
 Here honest John who oft the turf had paced, 
 
 And stopp'd his mother's earth, in earth is placed, 
 
 Nor all the skill of John himself could save, 
 
 Erom being stopp'd within an early grave. 
 
 A friendjto sport, himself of sporting fame, 
 
 John died, as he had lived, with heart of game. 
 
 Nor did he yield until his mortal breath 
 
 Was hard run down by that grim sportsman, death. 
 
 Eeader ! if cash thou art in want of any, 
 
 Dig four feet deep and thou wilt find a Penny.' ' 
 
 In St. James's churchyard, Bury St. Edmunds : — 
 
 "Robert Clarke, died Oct., 1839, aged 42 years. 
 
 Mock not with fulsome Epitaph the Earth 
 That slumbers here ! Go Moralist and scan 
 His actions, they alone will prove his worth, 
 And that he Liv'd and Died an Honest man." 
 
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 In Allestree churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 What is life ? a breath, a dream, a bubble on a rapid 
 stream ; 
 A lurid shade with scarce a ray, a short and stormy 
 winter's day. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 A falling star, a morning flower, a passing cloud, a 
 
 mountain shower ; 
 A flying shuttle ; nay, a span : so short and frail's the 
 
 life of man." 
 
 In Worlingworth church, Suffolk : — 
 
 "In memory of 
 
 John Cokdy, 
 
 late of Woodbridge, 
 
 and formerly of this parish. 
 
 He died Jan. 18th, 1828, aged 66 years. 
 
 The earthly frame of Coedy moulders here-, 
 Bedew' d by love's — by friendship's sacred tear. 
 In firm but modest hope, the spirit flies 
 Ushered by guardian seraphs to the skies. 
 His many virtues o'er his dust shall glow, 
 But these brief lines his excellence will show. 
 Beneficent in action, pure in mind, 
 Humble to God, and just to all mankind. 
 To live like him, and in his state expire, 
 Will be their aim, who future bliss desire." 
 
 At Eyam, Derbyshire : — 
 
 "In sure and steadfast hope to rise 
 And claim a mansion in the skies. 
 A Christian, a life laid down, 
 A cross exchanging for a crown, 
 Meet for the fellowship above 
 She heard the call — ' Arise my love. 
 ' I come,' her dying looks replied, 
 And lamblike in her Lord she died." 
 
 In the above churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 468 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 " In peace she did her soul resign 
 To God who kindly gave it, 
 Why should not thou do so with thine ? 
 Christ liv'd and died to save it." 
 
 : It must he so — our father Adam's fall 
 And disobedience, brought this lot on all. 
 All die in him — but hopeless should we be, 
 Blest Kevelation ! were it not for thee. 
 
 Hail glorious Gospel ! heavenly light ! whereby 
 We live with comfort, and with comfort die, 
 And view beyond this gloomy scene, the tomb, 
 A life of endless happiness to come." 
 
 Some years ago, the following inscription, engraved 
 on the fragment of a stone, was discovered amongst the 
 relics of an antiquarian, and was considered by him as 
 a great curiosity, and enhanced in value by its transla- 
 tion having puzzled the best scholars of his age : — 
 
 "Bene 
 
 A. T. H. TH. ISST. 
 
 onere. Pos. et. 
 
 h CLAUD Cos Ter. trip 
 
 e. Sellero 
 
 F. IMP 
 
 IN. GT. onas DO 
 
 TH. HI 
 
 s. c 
 
 On. s or 
 T. IANE" 
 
 Some supposed it to refer to the Emperor Claudian, till 
 one day a lad spelled it out : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " Beneath this stone reposeth Claud Costee, tripe 
 seller of Impington, as doth his consort Jane." 
 
 In Clumleigh churchyard, Devonshire : — 
 
 " Man that is horn alas ! and what is man ? 
 A scuttle full of dust, a measured span, 
 A vale of tears, a vessel tun'd with breath, 
 By sickness broach' d, and then drawn out by death." 
 
 On John Weight : — 
 " Here lies John Weight, as queer a wight 
 
 As sleeps these tombs among, 
 "Who, strange to tell, though always Weight 
 
 Was sometimes in the wrong" 
 
 On John Sullen : — 
 
 Here lies John Sullen ; and it is God's will 
 He that was Sullen, should be Sullen still ; 
 He still is Sullen, if the truth ye seek, 
 Knock until doomsday, Sullen will not speak.' 
 
 In Camerton churchyard, a village in the neighbour- 
 hood of Bath : — 
 
 " Come hither mortal, cast an eye, 
 Then go thy way, prepare to die : 
 Read here thy doom, for know thou must 
 One day like me be turn'd to dust. 
 
 But if thou dost on Christ depend, 
 Then bless' d indeed shall be thine end ; 
 If thou hast lov'd and serv'd him here, 
 Death has no sting — the grave no fear." 
 
 470 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 In Maidstone churchyard, Kent : — 
 "Here Feancis Jaeeett lies; what then? 
 Frank, when his Master calls, will rise again." 
 
 On a tombstone erected a century ago, in the church- 
 yard of South Wooton, Norfolk, is the following 
 epitaph : — 
 
 " Keep death and judgment always in your eye, 
 None is fit.'. to live, but who is fit to die. 
 Make use of present time, because you must 
 Take up your lodging shortly in the dust ; 
 'Tis dreadful to behold the setting sun, 
 And night^approaching ere your work is done." 
 
 In "Worlingworth churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Joseph Adams, Gent., died Dec. 2nd, 1845, aged 
 59:— 
 
 "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, 
 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." 
 
 For MY Salvation must its doom receive 
 
 Not from what OTHEES, but what I believe." 
 
 In "Worlingworth church, Suffolk, on a copperplate 
 fixed in a stone : — 
 
 "Here lyeth buried the body of Jaspae Htjssie, 
 Citizen of London, Borne in Exceter. A man religious 
 and Peaceable, and one of good Ranck & Reckoning in 
 in y e famous cittie wherein he lived. Hee came to this 
 towne after a long sickness to take y e benefit of this 
 aire, where it pleased God w th much comfort and pati- 
 ence, Hee exchanged this eafthly for a heavenly country 
 on the 24th day of July, in y e yere of our Lord God 
 1624, in the 44th yere of his age. 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 From Home hee went to live, from home hee dy'd, 
 Yet lives at Home, which hee by faith descry' d. 
 
 The change did please him well, and God and Hee, 
 Agreed that this the better Home would be." 
 
 In Hereford Cathedral is a plain stone inscribed only 
 " Misserimus." "Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on this 
 tomb. 
 
 In St. Margaret's churchyard, Ipswich : — 
 "Mary Burgess, died Dec. 25, 1825, aged 58. 
 Reader ! pass on — ne'er waste your time 
 On bad biography, or bitter rhyme : 
 For what I am, this cumbrous clay insures, 
 And what I was is no affair of yours." 
 
 On Richard "Wren : — 
 
 "Beneath this stone lies Richard Wren, 
 Who trusts that he shall waken up 
 Before the resurrection men 
 
 Do slyly come and take him up." 
 
 Witty epitaphs: — When a cemetery was first opened, 
 it occurred to two gentlemen to prepare some suitable 
 device and inscription with which to ornament the mon- 
 uments they intended to erect, to point out their last 
 resting-place. Each left his memento mori to the fertility 
 of the other's invention, and as one was a well-known 
 auctioneer, his friend immediately proposed the design of 
 an arm with an auctioneer's hammer, and the motto: — 
 
 " Going — Going — gone," 
 
 472 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 a good idea naturally suggested by the profession of the 
 supposed defunct, and forcibly reminding one of the 
 precarious nature of human existence, as well as bargains 
 at auctions. The originator of this pithy production, a 
 highly respectable oil merchant, had hardly finished con- 
 gratulating himself at the successful issue of his part of 
 the agreement, than our auctioneer, far from being 
 discomfited by the wit of his companion, proclaimed 
 with the sententious gravity of his calling, that " his 
 device should be a Lamp, whose flame just expiring for 
 want of oil, should remind the looker-on of the neces- 
 sity of being well-trimmed through life, while the 
 inscription should read — 
 
 ' And while the lamp holds out to burn 
 The vilest sinner may return." 
 
 The critical condition in which both gentlemen were 
 found, clearly showed the painful appreciation which 
 they formed of each other's wit." 
 
 At Brighton, on Mary Atkinson, who died Jan. 1, 
 1786, aged 77:— 
 
 " Periwinkles ! periwinkles ! 
 Was ever her cry ; 
 She labour' d to live, 
 Poor and honest to die. 
 At the last day again 
 
 How her old eyes will twinkle ; 
 For no more will she cry 
 Periwinkle ! periwinkle. 
 
 Ye rich, ye virtuous, want regard, pray give ; 
 Ye poor, by her example, learn to live." 
 
 On John Huxley, in Eccleston churchyard, near 
 Chester : — 
 
 "Poor Jack, he lies beneath this rood, 
 And sure he must be blest, 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 For if he could do nothing good, 
 
 He meant to do his best. 
 Think on your souls ye guilty throng, 
 Who, knowing what is right, does wrong. 
 
 u Gentle reader, gentle reader, 
 
 Look on the spot where I do lie ; 
 I always was a very good feeder, 
 But now the worms do feed on I. 
 
 In St. James's churchyard, Bury : — 
 
 " To the memory of 
 
 James Paiilett, 
 
 Born May 18, 1775, 
 
 Died Oct. 21, 1837, 
 
 At whose expense this tomb was raised 
 
 in the year 1834, because the original 
 
 Memorials were gone into decay. 
 
 Faith, Hope, and Charity ! mark'd his career, 
 A Man of Worth, in friendship most sincre. 
 Benevolence unbounded, and with judgment given, 
 Reader, doubt not ! this was the road to Heaven. 
 
 In the Metropolis 
 
 He breathed his last, where 
 
 His charities, both public 
 
 and private, were most 
 
 extensive." 
 
 In Wood Ditton churchyard, in memory of "William 
 Symonds, gamekeeper to the late Duke of Rutland, at 
 Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. It is said to be written by 
 himself. A dripping-pan is carved on the head of the 
 tomb : — 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 In the chancel of the church at Barrow-on-Soar, in 
 Leicestershire, is buried Theophilus Cave ; the inscrip- 
 tion bears date 1584, and is as follows : — 
 
 1 ' Here in this Grave their lies a Cave 
 "We call a Cave a Grave ; 
 If Cave be Grave, and Grave be Cave 
 
 Then reader, judge, I crave 
 Whether doth Cave here lye in Grave 
 
 Or Grave here lye in Cave : 
 If Grave in Cave here buryed lye, 
 Then Grave, where is thy victory ? 
 Goe, reader ! and report 
 
 Here lies a Cave 
 Who conquers Death 
 
 And buryes his own Grave." 
 
 In Storrington churchyard : — 
 
 "Here lies the body of Edward Hide, 
 We laid him here, because he died. 
 We had rather 
 It had been his father : 
 If it had been his sister, 
 Few would have miss'd her : 
 But since tis honest Ned 
 No more shall be said." 
 
 Mournful, oppress' d and burden' d sore, 
 
 I waited long at wisdom's door; 
 
 When lo ! I heard the Saviour's voice, 
 
 1 Fear not — believe — in me rejoice.' 
 
 The clouds dispers'd ; the sun shone bright, 
 
 At even- tide I found 'twas light." 
 
 Epitaph, composed by the person himself, for his 
 tombstone : — 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 " BEADER, 
 
 The soul which inhabited the body that now 
 
 lies at thy feet, 
 
 Is, at this time, partaking 
 
 Of the due reward of its deeds ! 
 
 This state is now unalterable ; 
 
 If good, it is happy, without fear of change, 
 
 If not, how great a mercy would it be esteemed, 
 
 Even for a short time, 
 
 To be as thou art 
 
 Capable of avoiding the torments of hell, 
 
 And of enjoying the rest and pleasures 
 
 That are at God's right hand for evermore ! 
 
 Now is the accepted time, now is the day of 
 
 SALVATION. 
 
 Oh ! receive not the grace of God in vain. 
 
 2 Cor. vi. 1, 2." 
 
 In the Cathedral of Christ church, Oxford : — 
 
 " Jana 
 
 B. Blayney Filia 
 
 Eheu! Unica." 
 
 On Thomas Htjddlesto^e : — 
 
 Here lies Thomas Huddlestone, Header don't smile ! 
 
 But reflect, as this tombstone you view, 
 That Death, who kill'd him, in a very short while 
 
 Will huddle a stone upon you." 
 
 On Mr. Peck : — 
 
 "Here lies a Peck ! which some men say 
 Was first of all a Peck of clay ; 
 This, wrought with skill divine while fresh, 
 Became a curious Peck of flesh : 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Through various forms its Maker ran, 
 Then adding breath made Peck a man. 
 Full sixty years Peck felt life's bubbles, 
 'Till death reliev'd a Peck of troubles. 
 Then fell poor Peck, as all things must ; 
 And here he lies a Peck of dust." 
 
 In St. Stephen's church, Ipswich : — 
 
 " On Eobert Leman and Mary his wife, who both 
 expired on the same day, Sep. 3rd, 1637. 
 
 Beneath this monument entombed lye, 
 The rare remark of a conjugal tye. 
 Eobert and Mart, who to show how neere 
 They did comply — how to each other deere, 
 One loath behind the other long to stay, 
 (As married) died together in one day." 
 
 Greek epitaph : — 
 
 " I shall ever love thee, but thou, in the region of the 
 dead, drink not, I pray thee, of that cup which would 
 cause thee to forget thy former friends." 
 
 In the cemetery at Liverpool : — 
 
 " What her character was will be known at the day 
 of judgment. Eeader ! think what thine own will be." 
 
 Memorial to Francis Hurt, Esq., of Alderwasley, 
 Derbyshire, in Wirksworth church. It was unani- 
 mously agreed, at a meeting of the county magistrates, 
 held at Derby, to erect an obituary window in the 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 chancel of Wirksworth church, to the memory of the 
 late Francis Hurt, Esq., of Alderwasley. It cannot 
 fail to be gratifying to his friends and admirers, that the 
 memory of one so universally respected and beloved, 
 should be perpetuated by a testimonial so graceful and 
 appropriate. The following is a description of it : — 
 
 The East (the memorial) window is in the style of 
 Gothic architecture called perpendicular. The upper, 
 or traceried parts, contain the armorial bearings of the 
 family, viz, Hurt, Lowe, and Eawne. Interspersed 
 with these are angels bearing obituary inscriptions ; the 
 upper being, " Blessed are the dead which die in the 
 Lord;" the lower, "As we have borne the image of 
 the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the hea- 
 venly." The five chief lights below contain as many 
 subjects, namely, The good Samaritan — The lost sheep 
 found — The distribution of the talents — The rendering 
 of the talents — and, The faithful servant found watch- 
 ing. Over each of these subjects are lofty canopies, 
 with angels holding sacred symbols ; beneath them are 
 pedestals bearing scrolls inscribed with the Scripture 
 texts which refer to the several subjects. These com- 
 partments are wholly bordered with ornaments embo- 
 dying the paternal arms and monogram of the deceased. 
 The inscriptions on the scrolls are : — 
 
 1. "And when He saw him, He had compassion 
 
 on him." 
 
 2. " Rejoice with me for I have fonnd my sheep 
 
 which were lost." 
 
 3. " And unto one he gave five talents, to another 
 
 two." 
 
 4. " "Well done thou good and faithful servant." 
 
 5. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when 
 
 He cometh shall find watching." 
 
 Along the bottom of the window runs the following 
 dedication : — 
 
 " Memorial to Francis Edward Hurt, Esq., of 
 Alderwasley, died March 22, 1854, aged 73 years. 
 Erected by public subscription, 1855." 
 
 Abridged from the Derby "Reporter." 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 In the parish church at Bushley, in Hertfordshire, is 
 a small blue tombstone, about four feet long, and two 
 broad, with the following inscription : — 
 
 of ROBERT BLAKWELL, sonne of Richard 
 
 Here's two in one, and yet not two, but one, 
 Two sons, one tomb, two heirs, one name alone. 
 
 '£t9I 'aaqmaoaa jo v&f\ a£ parp oqAV 
 
 Memento Mori. Inscribed on a tomb : — 
 
 " When you look on my grave, 
 And behold how they wave, 
 
 The cypress, the yew, and the willow, 
 You think tis the breeze 
 That gives motion to these 
 
 'Tis the laughter that's shaking my pillow. 
 
 I must laugh when I see 
 
 A poor insect like thee 
 Dare to pity the fate thou must own ; 
 
 Let a few moments slide, 
 
 "We shall lie side by side, 
 And crumble to dust, bone for bone. 
 
 Go weep thine own doom, 
 
 Thou wert born for the tomb 
 
 Thou hast liv'd, like myself, but to die; 
 
 Whilst thou pity'st my lot, 
 
 Secure fool, thou'st forgot 
 Thou art no more immortal than I." 
 
 Epitaph from " Ryan's Antiquities of Carlow." The 
 following lines were written, I am told, by the late 
 Henry Tighe, Esq., of Rosanna, in the county of Wick- 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 low. Ralph, the subject of them, was wood-ranger to 
 Mr. Tighe. Perhaps his lady, the gifted authoress of 
 Psyche, lent a hand to the production : — 
 
 "To the memory of William Ralph, of Kilcarry, 
 who died on the 21st of February, 1818, aged 71. 
 Guard of the wood, in settled low content, 
 Lived "William Ralph, — a ramble paid his rent: 
 A boy, in sportive toil he climbed the trees ; 
 A man, he loved them rustling in the breeze. 
 As he grew old, his old companions spread 
 A broader, browner shadow o'er his head ; 
 "While those he planted shot on high and made 
 For many a rook an hospitable shade. 
 With this one change, life gently crept away, 
 A placid stream it flow'd from day to day. 
 His friends and children lov'd him, as the tear 
 Well spoke, profusely shed upon his bier. 
 If he had faults, thou also hast thy share ; 
 Strike thy own breast, and feel what lurketh there. 
 He who sees all, shall judge both him and thee ; 
 Repent, for as it falls, so lies the tree." 
 
 Notes and Queries, 1856. 
 
 In Allerton churchyard, Notts. The stone joins to 
 the south wall of the church under one of the spouts : — 
 
 " Beneath the droppings of this spout 
 Here lies the body once so stout 
 
 Of Fraxcis Thompson, 
 A soul this carcass long possess' d, \ 
 W^hich for its virtues was caress' d, J 
 By all who knew the owner best. ) 
 The Rufford* records can declare 
 His actions who for seventy year 
 Both drew and drank its potent beer. 
 Fame mentions not in all that time 
 In this great Butler the least crime 
 
 To stain his reputation. 
 
 Rufford Abbey, where he lived as Butler. 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 To envy's self we now appeal 
 
 If ought of fault she can reveal 
 
 To make her declaration. 
 Then rest good shade, nor hell, nor vermin fear 
 Thy virtues guard thy soul, thy body good strong beer. 
 
 He died July the 6th, 1739. Aged 83." 
 
 In St. John's, Leeds : — 
 
 " Hie jacet, sure the fattest man 
 That Yorkshire stingo made, 
 He was a lover of his can, 
 A clothier by his trade. 
 His waist did measure three yards round, 
 He weighed almost three hundred pounds ; 
 His flesh did weigh full twenty stone, 
 His flesh — I say — he had no bone, 
 At least, 'tis said that he had none." 
 
 At Backwell, in Somersetshire. To the memory of 
 John Kidwell, a very robust man : — 
 
 " Jesus beholds, methinks, a man full grown, 
 Orders grim Death to mow his manful body down. 
 A swift convoy flew to convey, 
 His soaring spirit was borne away. 
 A loss to us, but everlasting gain 
 To the blest saints exempt from every pain. 
 Behold he lies, he lives to die no more, 
 Escap'd from earth, arriv'd on Canaan's shore." 
 
 On Tam Samson, the worthy old Sportsman (by E. 
 Burns) : — 
 
 "Tam Samson's weel worn clay here lies, 
 Ye canting zealots, spare him, 
 If honest worth in heaven rise 
 Ye'll mend, or ye win near him." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 On George Dixon, a noted fox hunter (by the late 
 W. Hickington, Esq.) : — 
 
 " Stop passenger ! and thy attention fix on ! 
 That true-born honest fox-hunter George Dixon ! 
 "Who after eighty years' unwearied chase, 
 Now rests his bones within this hallow' d place. 
 A gentle tribute of applause bestow, 
 And give him as you pass one tally-ho ! 
 Early to cover, brisk he rode each morn, 
 In hopes the brush his temple might adom, 
 The view is now no more, the chase is past, 
 And to an earth poor George is run at last." 
 
 In Bristol churchyard : — 
 
 " This is to the memory of old Amos, 
 Yv ho was, when alive, for hunting famous ; 
 But now his chases are all o'er, 
 And here he's earthed, of years fourscore." 
 
 In Fulham church is a monument to Thomas Bonde, 
 dated 1600, inscribed as follows : — 
 
 " At Earth in Cornwall was my first beginninge, 
 Erom Bondes and Corrington's, as it may appear ; 
 Now to earth in Eulham God disposed my endinge, 
 In March the thousand and six hundredth yeare 
 Of Christ ; in whom my body sure doth rest, 
 Till both in body and soul I shall be blest. 
 
 Thomas Bonde, obiit aetat suae 68." 
 
 On Mr. Ashton (by Richard Crashaw) :- 
 
 " The modest front of this small floor, 
 Believe me, reader, can say more 
 Than many a braver marble can, 
 Here lies a truly honest man ; * 
 
 484 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 One whose conscience was a thing 
 
 That troubled neither church nor king ; 
 
 One of those few, that in this town, 
 
 Honour all preachers, hear their own. 
 
 Sermons he heard, yet not so many 
 
 As left no time to practise any ; 
 
 He heard them reverently, and then 
 
 His practice preach' d them o'er again. 
 
 His parlour sermons rather were 
 
 Those to the eye than to the ear. 
 
 His prayers took their price and strength 
 
 Not from the loudness, nor the length. 
 
 He was a Protestant at home, 
 
 Not only in despite of Eome. 
 
 He lov'd his father, yet his zeal 
 
 Tore not off his mother's veil ; 
 
 To the church he did allow her dress 
 
 True beauty to true holiness. 
 
 Peace, which he lov'd in life, did lend 
 
 Her hand to bring him to his end. 
 
 When age and death call'd for the score, 
 
 JSTo surfeits were to reckon for. 
 
 Death tore not (therefore) but sans strife 
 
 Gently untwin'd his thread of life. 
 
 What remains, then, but that thou 
 
 Write these lines, reader, in thy brow ; 
 
 And by his fair example's light, 
 
 Burn in thy imitation bright ? 
 
 So, while these lines can but bequeath 
 
 A life perhaps unto his death, 
 
 His better epitaph shall be 
 
 His life still kept alive in thee." 
 
 In Berkeley churchyard, Gloucestershire, on Dicky 
 Peakce (by Dean Swift) : — 
 
 "Here lies the Earl of Suffolk's Fool, 
 Men call'd him Dicky Peaece ; 
 His folly serv'd to make folks laugh, 
 When wit and mirth was scarce. 
 Poor Dick alas ! is dead and gone, 
 What signifies to cry ? 
 
 485 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Dicky's enough are still behind, 
 To laugh at by and by. 
 
 Buried XVIII June, MDCCXXYIII, 
 aged LXIII years." 
 
 On Scipio Afetcantjs : — 
 
 " Here lyeth the body of Scipio Aericantts, negro 
 servant to the honourable Charles William, Earl of 
 Suffolk and Brandon, who died Dec. 21st, 1720, aged 
 48 years. 
 
 I, who was born a pagan and a slave, 
 
 "Now sweetly sleep a christian in my grave. 
 
 What though my hue was dark, — my Saviour's sight 
 
 Shall change this darkness into light. 
 
 Such grace to me my Lord on earth has given 
 
 To recommend me to my Lord in heaven, 
 
 Whose glorious second coming here I wait, 
 
 With saints and angels him to celebrate." 
 
 At Caverswall, in Staffordshire, is a castle built by 
 William de Caverswall, in the beginning of the 13th 
 century. The pools, dams, and houses of office being 
 all masonry. His posterity enjoyed it till the year 
 1346, when it passed into several hands, and lastly came 
 into the family of the Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, 
 who were owners of it in the 17th century. The 
 castle in the beginning of that century was in reason- 
 able good repair, but was suffered to run into decay 
 (some think on purpose) by one Brown, the farmer of 
 the lands about it, lest his lord should at any time be in 
 mind to live there, and take the demesne from him. 
 
 In the church of the above named place, is a monu- 
 ment for Willtam de Caverswall, above mentioned, 
 the builder of the castle, with this inscription about 
 it. (At the head) : — 
 
 " William of Caverswall," 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 and then about it is a Latin distich, which is thus trans- 
 lated : — 
 
 " I built this castle, with its rampiers round, 
 For th' use of the living, who am under ground." 
 
 Erdswich says that the following lines were since 
 written under this monument : — 
 
 " William of Caveeswall, here lye I 
 That built this castle, and pools hereby. 
 William of Caverswall, here thou mayest lye : 
 But thy castle is down, and thy pools are dry." 
 
 Coolcs Topography of Staffordshire' 
 
 On a monument in Bath Abbey church, to the 
 memory of Dame Elizabeth Napieb Webb. After an 
 enumeration of the lady's titles and connections, is the 
 following : — 
 
 " Beader, 
 
 If such thou art from heedless curiosity, 
 
 Enough is told thee : 
 
 But if thou hast lost a parent 
 
 Ever kind, ever liberal, ever self-denying, 
 
 Ask thine own heart 
 
 for what is wanting here. 
 
 Yale Matrum optima ! 
 
 Ave, Anima beata ! " 
 
 John Lilbuene, the controversialist, died in 1657, 
 aged 39. It was a common saying that Lilbuene was 
 so quarrelsome, that if he were the only man in the 
 world John would quarrel with Lilburne, and Lilbume 
 with John. He was a sore thorn in Cromwell's side, 
 for which Cromwell caused him to be sent to Ports- 
 mouth for transportation. On his death appeared the 
 following epigrammatic epitaph : — 
 
 "Is John departed, and is Lilbuene gone ? 
 Farewell to both, to Lilbuene and to John ! 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Yet being gone take this advice from me, 
 Let them not both in one grave buried be. 
 Sere lay ye John ; lay Lilburne thereabout, 
 For if they both should meet, they would fall out." 
 
 On two religious disputants, who are interred within 
 a few paces of each other : — 
 
 " Suspended here, a contest see, 
 Of two, whose creeds could ne'er agree, 
 For whether they would preach or pray, 
 They'd do it in a different way : 
 And they would fain our fate deny'd, 
 In quite a different manner dy'd ! 
 Yet think not that their rancour's o'er, 
 No, for tis ten to one, and more, 
 Tho' quiet now as either lies, 
 But they've a wrangle when they rise." 
 
 In Tetbury church, Gloucestershire : — 
 
 "Ina vault underneath lie several 
 
 of the Satjndeeses, late of this Parish. 
 
 Particulars, the last day will disclose." 
 
 In Easton church, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Sacred 
 
 To the memory of 
 
 Geoege Richaed Savage Nassau, Esq. 
 
 Brother to William Henry, fifth Earl of Eochford, 
 
 and second son of 
 
 The Honourable Richard Savage Nassau, 
 
 By Ann 
 
 Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon. 
 
 He died the 18th of August, 1823, 
 
 aged 66 years. 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Here lies a Nassau. — Honour owns the name, 
 
 And George prefix' d awakens friendship's claim; 
 
 Affection springing from a brother's breast, 
 
 Rais'd to his worth this tributary test. 
 
 A polish' d mind, rul'd by a generous heart, 
 
 Form'd of his character the leading part, 
 
 Integrity — candour — benevolence, and love 
 
 Yied in their turns ascendancy to prove. 
 
 On duty's course he won the glorious race 
 
 And crown'd morality with Christian grace. 
 
 Yain is the Poet's art, and Sculptor's plan, 
 
 Truth of herself best celebrates the man. 
 
 Religion guards his ashes as a prize, 
 
 And wafts his Soul immortal to the skies." 
 
 In the churchyard of Arlington, a village in Devon- 
 shire : — 
 
 "Here lies Will Btjrgoin, a squire by descent, 
 "Whose death in this world many people lament. 
 The Rich for his love, 
 The poor for his alms, 
 The wise for his knowledge, 
 The sick for his Balms. 
 Grace he did love and vice control, 
 Earth hath his body — and heaven his soul. 
 The twelfth of August in the morn died he, 
 1 6 2 and 3." 
 
 In the chancel of East Bergholt church, is an inscrip- 
 tion of which the following is a verbatim copy : — 
 
 " Edwakd 
 
 Edward Lambe 
 
 Lambe 
 
 Ever 
 
 second sonne of 
 
 Lived 
 
 Envied 
 
 Thomas Lambe 
 
 Laudably 
 
 Evill 
 
 of Trimley 
 
 Lord 
 
 Endured 
 
 Esquire. 
 
 Lett 
 
 Extremities 
 
 All his days 
 
 Like 
 
 Even 
 
 he lived a Bachelor, 
 
 Life 
 
 Earnestly 
 
 well learned in deveyne 
 
 Learne 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Expecting and Common Lawes — Ledede 
 
 Eternal with his councell he Livers 
 
 Ease helped many, yett took Lament. 
 
 fees scarse of any. 
 
 He dyed the XIX November, 1647." 
 
 In Ercoll churchyard, Shropshire : — 
 
 " When terrestrial all in chaos shall exhibit effervescence, 
 
 Then celestial virtues in their most refulgent brilliant 
 essence 
 
 Shall with beaming beauteous radiance thro' the dull 
 ebullition shine 
 
 Transcending to glorious regions, beatifical sublime. 
 
 Human power absorbed, deficient to delineate such efful- 
 gent lasting sparks, 
 
 "Where honest plebians ever will have precedence o'er 
 ambiguous great monarchs." 
 
 In Bath Abbey church, on the monument of Lady 
 Millee, wife of Sir John Miller, Knt., of Bath, Easton 
 villa; Ob. June 24th, 1781. 
 
 Devoted stone ! amidst the wrecks of time 
 Uninjur'd bear thy Millee' s spotless name ; 
 
 The virtues of her youth and ripen' d prime, 
 
 The tender thought, the endearing record claim. 
 
 "When clos'd the num'rous eyes that round this bier 
 Have wept the loss of wide-extended worth, 
 
 gentle stranger ! may one generous tear 
 
 Drop, as thou bendest o'er this hallowed earth ! 
 
 Are truth and genius, love and pity thine, 
 With lib'ral charity, and faith sincere ? 
 
 Then rest thy wandering step beneath this shrine, 
 And greet a kindred spirit ho v' ring near." 
 
 In Eramlingham churchyard. Maey Seggate, died 
 July 2nd, 1824, aged 75 :— 
 
 490 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 "Earth's highest station ends in e here he lies,' 
 And 'dust to dust' concludes her noblest song.' 
 
 Highgate Cemetery. — In this cemetery is a lofty white 
 marble tomb, with its crouching lion keeping watch 
 above, in which, after all his wanderings, rest the remains 
 of the menagerist George Wombwell ; here also rest the 
 surgeon Liston, and Goodyear, the historical engraver. 
 But perhaps the name which awakens the most interesting 
 associations for the general visitor, is that of the widow 
 of John Philpot Curran, the wit, orator, and patriot, 
 sometime master of the rolls, in Ireland, and father of 
 the unhappy lady, for whose love young Emmett ven- 
 tured into the neighbourhood of Dublin (though a price 
 was on his head), and being taken was subsequently 
 hung at Harold's Cross — she whom Moore has immor- 
 talized in deathless verse — and whose story Washington 
 Irving has told in prose as exquisitely pathetic — she, 
 who " far from the land where her young hero sleeps" 
 sank into quiet madness and the grave. 
 
 Highgate Cemetery, by Mrs. White. 
 
 On a stone in Islington churchyard : — 
 
 " In memory of 
 
 Elizabeth Emma Thomas, 
 
 who died the 28th October, 1808, 
 
 aged 27 years. 
 
 She had no fault, save what Travellers give the Moon 
 Her light was lovely, but she died too soon." 
 
 In Norwich Cathedral : — ' 
 
 "Here lies the body of honest Tom Page, 
 Who died in the 33rd year of his age." 
 
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EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In the churchyard of the parish of St. Peter the 
 Apostle, Canterbury : — 
 
 " Here lieth the body of John Ctjceow, 
 Ob 7th Jan. 1760, JE 74. 
 
 Touch not this grave, my bones, 
 
 Nor yet the dust : 
 But let this stone which stands 
 
 Be rotten first." 
 
 On a tombstone in the burying ground of the parish 
 church of St. Olave, Tooley street : — 
 
 " Once I stand as you stand now, 
 To view the dead as you do me ; 
 Ere long, and you will lay as low, 
 And others stand, and look on thee." 
 
 On an unknown person : — 
 
 ' "Without a name, for ever senseless, dumb, 
 Dust, ashes, naught else, lies within this_ tomb. 
 Where'er I lived, or died, it matters not : 
 To whom related or by whom begot. 
 I was, but am not, ask no more of me — 
 It's all I am, and all that thou shalt be." 
 
 Swift having been applied to for an epitaph to the 
 memory of a member of the Kildare family, wrote 
 as follows : — 
 
 " Who killed Kildare ? wlio dared Kildare to hill ? 
 Death hilled Kildare — who dare Kill whom he will." 
 
 In Claybrooke church, Leicestershire, on C. Dicey, 
 Esq. (by Hannah Moore) : — 
 
 492 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 1 thou, or friend or stranger, who shalt tread 
 These solemn mansions of the silent dead ! 
 Think, when this record to enquiring eyes 
 No more shall tell the spot where Dicey lies ; 
 When this frail marble, faithless to its trust, 
 Mould'ring itself, resigns its moulder'd dust : 
 When time shall fail and nature's self decay; 
 And earth, and sun, and skies dissolve away : 
 Thy soul, this consummation shall survive, 
 Defy the wreck, and but begin to live. 
 This truth, long slighted, let these ashes teach, 
 Tho' cold, instruct you, and tho' silent preach! 
 pause ! reflect, repent, resolve, amend ! 
 Life has no length, Eternity no end." 
 
 At Edenbridge, Kent : — 
 
 " Vain are the joys we fondly prize 
 In life's uncertain state, 
 Time swiftly flies — man quickly dies, 
 And all must yield to fate." 
 
 Beneath this earthly silent sod 
 
 Lies one who firmly trusted in her God." 
 
 " What is man's life, 'tis as a flower, 
 Looks fresh and dies within an hour. 
 How frail is man — how short his breath, 
 In midst of life we are in death." 
 
 At Gunwalloe, near Helstone, in Cornwall (it may be 
 read either backwards or forwards, up or down) : — 
 
 493 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Shall we all die ? 
 We shall die all : 
 All die shall we ? 
 Die all we shall : 
 
 In St. Michael's churchyard, Crooked lane 
 
 " Here iyeth, wrapt in clay, 
 The body of William Weay, 
 I have no more to say." 
 
 Fea^e Fey, of Christian- ATalford, "Wiltshire," whose 
 bones repose undisturbed in the churchyard of his native 
 Tillage, wrote for himself the following epitaph : — 
 
 " Here lies I 
 Who did die : 
 
 I He did 
 As I die did. 
 Old Feank Fey 
 When the worms comes, 
 To pick up the crumbs, 
 They'll have in I 
 A rare Feank Fey." 
 
 Died at Primrose cottage, High Wycombe, Bucks, 
 Mr. John Guy, aged 64. His remains were interred in 
 a brick grave in Hughenden churchyard, near Wycombe. 
 On a marble slab, on the lid of the coffin, was the 
 foHowing inscription : — 
 
 "Here, without nail or shroud, doth He, 
 Or covered by a pall, John Guy. 
 Born May 17th, 1773. 
 Died 24th, 1837." 
 
 On his gravestone the foHowing lines are inscribed : — 
 
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MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 "In coffin made without a nail, 
 
 "Without a shroud his limbs to hide ; 
 For what can pomp or show avail, 
 Or velvet pall, to swell the pride. 
 Here lies John Gut beneath this sod, 
 Who lov'd his friends and fear'd his God." 
 
 This gentleman's grave and coffin were made, under his 
 directions, more than twelve months before his death : 
 the inscription on the tablet on his coffin, and the lines 
 placed upon his gravestone, were his own composition. 
 He gave all necessary orders for the conducting of his 
 funeral, and sums of 5s. 6d. were wrapped in separate 
 piecesof paper for each of the bearers. — The Mirror, 1837. 
 
 In Berkeley churchyard, Gloucestershire : — 
 
 "Look not mournfully into the Past, It comes not back 
 
 again. 
 Wisely improve the Present, It is thine. 
 Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and 
 
 with a manly heart." 
 
 For Eobeet Aikin, Esq. (by Eobert Burns) : — 
 " Know thou, stranger to the fame 
 Of this much lov'd, much honour' d name ! 
 (For none that knew him need be told) 
 A warmer heart death ne'er made cold." 
 
 On Wee Johnie (by Burns) : — 
 
 " Hie jacet wee Johnie. 
 Whoe'er thou art, reader, know 
 That death has murder' d Johnie ! 
 
 An here his body lies fu' low, 
 
 For saul he ne'er had ony." 
 
 495 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 At Folkestone, in Kent. On a tombstone is the fol- 
 lowing inscription, lately renovated -with much care, 
 that it may not be lost to the rising generation : — 
 
 "In iTemory of 
 
 Rebecca Rogers, 
 
 who died, August 23rd, 1688, aged 44 years. 
 
 "A House she hath, its made of such good Fashion, 
 The Tenant ne'er shall pay for Reparation, 
 K or will her Landlord ever raise her Rent, 
 Nor turn her out of doors for non-payment : 
 From Chimney-money too, this Cell is free ; 
 To such a House, who would not Tenant be." 
 
 In Brandeston churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "Sacred. 
 Gentle Reader, as you pass 
 Observe who lyeth here ; alas ! 
 At 66 his fate he met, 
 His sun did on the morning set, 
 A useful neighbour to the feeble 
 And faithful friend was WiLL m - Keable. 
 October the 29th seal'd his fate, 
 1838, the Christian's date." 
 
 In a churchyard of one of the parishes of Walsall, 
 
 Staffordshire : — 
 
 "Reader! if thou art an inhabitant of the Foreign 
 of Walsall, know that the dust beneath thy feet was 
 imprisoned in thy cause, because he refused to incorpo- 
 rate the poor-rates of the Foreign of Walsall, and those 
 of the Borough of Walsall. His resistance was success- 
 ful. Reader ! the benefit is thine." 
 
 In Hampshire : — 
 
 " Here lies poor Teddy ; 
 Death took his hand, and said he, 
 Oh! Oh! John." 
 
 496 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 In Norfolk :— 
 
 "Here lies Matthew Mud 
 Death did him no hurt 
 "When alive he was mud 
 And now dead he's but dirt. 1 * 
 
 The following epitaph was found among the papers 
 of an old man, named John So, who passed a great 
 part of his life in obscurity, near Port Glasgow. The 
 handwriting leads to the conclusion that it was written 
 by himself : — 
 
 " So died John So 
 So so did he so ? 
 So did he live 
 And so did he die ! 
 So so did he so 
 And so let him lie." 
 
 The grave of Addison. Joseph Addison was buried 
 in the North aisle of Henry VII. Chapel, near to Queens 
 Mary and Elizabeth, where a stone has just been placed 
 over his grave (Nov. 1856), bearing the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 " ADDISON. 
 
 Near to these chambers, where the mighty rest, 
 Since their foundation came a nobler guest ; 
 Nor ere was to the bowers of bliss conveyed, 
 A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. 
 Oh ! gone for ever — take this last adieu, 
 And sleep in peace next thy lov'd Montesquieu ! 
 
 Born 1672; died 1719." 
 
 At the north-west corner of Chichester Cathedral, is 
 a vault belonging to Mr. Guy, in the centre of which is 
 a fine piece of sculpture. On a pedestal is represented 
 
 497 it 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Time, in a sitting posture, holding an hour glass in his 
 left hand. The right hand extended, on which are 
 inscribed the following lines : — 
 
 "Here, doubtless, many a trifler on the brink 
 
 Of this world's hazardous and headlong shore, 
 Forc'd to a pause, will feel it good to think, 
 Told that his setting sun may rise no more 1 
 
 Ye self deceived ! could I prophetic say 
 Who next is fated, and who next shall fall, 
 
 The rest might then seem privileged to play ; 
 But naming none, Time's voice here speaks to all ! 
 
 Learn then ye living ! by the mouths be taught 
 Of all these sepulchres, instruction true — 
 
 That soon or late, death also is your lot, 
 
 And the next opening grave may yawn for you !" 
 
 At the farther end of the vault the word Death is 
 engraved on a black marble slab. 
 
 In Parham churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 "John G. Feost died May 28th, 1844, aged 57 years. 
 
 Reader ! pause awhile, you see I'm gone 
 
 To lie and moulder underneath this stone. 
 
 A short time since I was alive like thee, 
 
 But now I'm in a vast eternity. 
 
 "What road you are now in consider well, 
 
 There's only one to Heaven, and one to Hell. 
 
 You must repent, you must be born again, 
 
 Or all your hopes of heaven will be in vain." 
 
 In Bremhill churchyard, Wilts. On John Harding, 
 aged 84 (by the Rev. W. L. Bowles) : — 
 
 "Lay down thy pilgrim's staff upon this heap 
 And till the morning of redemption sleep, 
 Old way-farer of earth ! From youth to age, 
 Long, but not weary, was thy pilgrimage ; 
 
 498 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Thy Christian pilgrimage, for truth and prayer 
 
 Alone enabled thee some grief to bear. 
 
 Left in old age, without a husband's aid, 
 
 Thy wife shall pray beside thee to be laid : 
 
 For more than a kind father didst thou prove, 
 
 To fourteen children of her faithful love. 
 
 May future fathers of the village trace 
 
 The same sure path to the same resting place : 
 
 And future sons, taught in their youth to save,* 
 
 Learn that first lesson from a poor man's grave ! " 
 
 On a man of the name of Fish : — 
 
 Worms bait for fish ; but here's a sudden change, 
 Fish's bait for worms — is not that passing strange." 
 
 Wells, the master of the celebrated Bear Gardens at 
 Hockley-in-the-Hole, succeeded Christopher Preston, as 
 master. Preston had taught his bears almost every 
 thing but forgiveness of injuries ; so one day they 
 attacked, overthrew, killed, and almost devoured this 
 sovereign of the bears, before his friends could fly to his 
 aid: this was in 1709. It was upon Wells's successor 
 as sovereign of Hockley-in-the-Hole, that the following 
 epitaph was made : — 
 
 " Shed, ye combatants, a flood of tears ; 
 Howl all ye dogs ; roar all ye bulls and bears, 
 Ye butchers weep ; for ye, no doubt are grievers, 
 And sound his loss with marrow-bones and cleavers. 
 Wells is no more ! yet death has been so kind 
 That he hath left the bulls and bears behind." 
 
 Inscribed on the tomb of Thomas Aebott Hamilton", 
 who died in 1788, in the churchyard of JSTewport-Pag- 
 nell, Bucks (by Wm. Cowper) : — 
 
 From £100 left liim by his father when a lad, he saved £400. 
 
 499 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 Pause here, and think ; a monitory rhyme 
 Demands one moment of thy fleeting time. 
 
 Consult life's silent clock, thy bounding vein; 
 Seems it to say — ' Health here has long to reign ? ' 
 Hast thou the vigour of thy youth ? an eye 
 That beams delight ? a heart untaught to sigh ? 
 Yet fear. Youth, oftimes healthful and at ease, 
 Anticipates a day it never sees ; 
 And many a tomb, like Hamilton's, aloud 
 Exclaims, ' Prepare thee for an early shroud.' " 
 
 On Mr. Chestee, of Chichely (by "Wm. Cowper) : — 
 
 Tears flow, and cease not, where the good man lies, 
 Till all who knew him follow to the skies. 
 Tears therefore fall where Chestee' s ashes sleep ; 
 Him, wife, friends, brothers, children, servants weep, 
 And justly — few shall ever him transcend 
 As husband, parent, brother, master, friend." 
 
 In Easton churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " William Cotton, 
 
 of this Parish, 
 
 "Who was the last Male branch 
 
 of an old and respectable family 
 
 In this County. 
 
 He died on the 21st of Jan. 1821, 
 
 In the 76th year of his age. 
 
 In adverse hour he show'd a Christian mind 
 To Man forgiving, and to God resigned. 
 Exempt himself from malice, fraud and strife, 
 More sinn'd against than sinning was his life. 
 His soul a treasure fit for heavenly weal, 
 "Where moth nor rust corrupt, nor thieves break thro' 
 and steal." 
 
 In Bremhill churchyard, on an old church-going 
 parishioner (by Kev. W. L. Bowles) : — 
 
 500 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 ; Reader, this heap of earth — this grave- stone mark, 
 Here lie the last remains of poor Jomsr Daek ! 
 Five years beyond man's age he liv'd, and trod 
 This path each sabbath to the House of God. 
 From youth to age — nor ever from his heart, 
 Did that best prayer our Saviour taught depart. 
 At his last hour with lifted hands he cried, 
 ' Thy Kingdom come — thy will be done,' and died." 
 
 With deepest'thoughts, spectator view thy fate, 
 Thus mortals pass to an immortal state." 
 
 In "Wingfield churchyard, Suffolk : — 
 
 " Blame not the monumental stone we raise ; 
 'Tis to the Saviour's, not the sinner's praise ; 
 Sin was the whole that she could call her own, 
 Her good was all deriv'd from Him alone : 
 To sin, her conflicts, pains and griefs she owed, 
 Her conquering faith and patience He bestowed. 
 Reader ! may'st thou obtain like precious faith 
 To smile in anguish, and rejoice in death." 
 
 In Brading churchyard, Isle of Whight : — 
 
 "Forgive, blest shade, the tributary tear 
 
 That mourns thy exit from a world like this : 
 Forgive the wish that would have kept thee here, 
 And stay'd thy progress to the seat of bliss. 
 
 No more confin'd to grov'ling scenes of night, 
 JSTo more a tenant pent in mortal clay : 
 
 Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight 
 And trace thy journey to the realms of day." 
 
 501 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 In Peterborough Cathedral graveyard : — 
 
 " In memory of Robert Stevens, 
 who died Alay 31, 1795, aged 34. 
 
 " Youth Builds for Age — Age Builds for Rest, 
 They who Build for Heaven Build Best." 
 
 In Darley churchyard, Derbyshire : — 
 
 " In memory of Jon>- Somerset, who died June, 1841, 
 aged 60. , 
 
 Encomium of the dead is mockery; the last great day 
 alone will wipe all colouring off, and shew each man 
 in his real character." 
 
 For a country Schoolmistress : — 
 
 " Here lies a dame whom fate ordained 
 By certain requisites unnamed, 
 
 To instruct her generation. 
 'Twas hers to give the rustic youth, 
 By methods rigid and uncouth, 
 
 The village education. 
 
 Her plans to ancient plans allied, 
 To gain this end she harshly plied, 
 
 (So stubborn was the soil) 
 Hard blows and threats, and raving loud 
 To awe the young rebellious crowd, 
 
 And aid tuition's toil. 
 
 Now all her puny passion o'er, 
 No longer she locks up the door, 
 
 To keep her scholars in, 
 For she within this dungeon drear, 
 Shall sleep through many a distant year, 
 
 Nor ever storm again. 
 
 No nattering marble marks this spot, 
 To insinuate her future lot, 
 
 Or tell her age and name. 
 
 502 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Yet if no tombstone tells her tale, 
 Our own remembrance ne'er shall fail, 
 To her 'tis all the same." 
 
 Vault of Sir John Strange, master of the rolls, 
 in Leyton churchyard, near London. This vault though 
 of great dimensions, is plain in its architecture, and 
 surrounded by palisades which enclose a large extent 
 of ground. The inscription is as follows : — 
 
 " In this Vault lie the Eemains of the Eight Honble. 
 Sir John Strange, The Master of the Rolls, and one of 
 his Majesty's most Honble. Privy Council, who by great 
 natural abilities, assisted by an unwearied application to 
 the Profession of the Law, arrived at such eminence, 
 that on the 9th of Feb. 1735, he was appointed one of 
 his Majesty's Council learned in the Law, and on the 
 28th of Jan. 1736, Solicitor General; whilst in that 
 Honourable Office under the Crown, He was so highly 
 esteemed by the Citizens of his native City that at their 
 request he became Eecorder of London on the 13th of 
 Nov., 1739. 
 
 On his Eesignation of these employments in the year 
 1742, Sis Majesty, as a peculiar mark of his Eegard, 
 honoured him with a Patent to take place for life next 
 to his Attorney General, and on the 11th of January, 
 1749, was pleased to advance him to the high and im- 
 portant Office of Master of the Rolls ; the Eevenue of 
 which, soon after his promotion, received from Parlia- 
 ment, unsought by him, a very considerable and equally 
 Honourable Augmentation. By a faithful Discharge of 
 the different Stations which he so ably and worthily 
 filled, he conciliated to him the Favour of his Sovereign, 
 and the Esteem of his country; the true Summit of 
 honourable and laudable Ambition ! — Such was his 
 Public Life. 
 
 Great and amiable were the Virtues of his Private 
 and Domestic character, which will ever endear the 
 remembrance of Him to the Hearts of all who knew 
 him, and to those who had not that happiness, suffice it 
 to say, that by a serious and constant performance of 
 every Eeligious Duty, He was an inviting Example of 
 
 503 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 true Christian Piety. In the Social Duties He excelled 
 as a Son, an Husband, a Father, a Brother, a Eriend, 
 and a Master. He died full of Honours, tho' not of 
 Years, to the general Regret of good Men, and to the 
 inexpressible Loss and Affliction of his Family, on the 
 18th of May, 1754, in the 58th year of his age. 
 
 He married Susanna, Eldest Daughter and co-heir of 
 Edward Strong, of Greenwich, in the county of Kent, 
 Esq. She was a Dutiful and Affectionate Wife, a tender 
 Mother, and a Charitable, Religious, and good Christian. 
 She died the 21st of January, 1747, in the 46th year of 
 her age, and lies interred in this vault. By her he was 
 blessed with a numerous Issue, of which Two Sons and 
 Seven Daughters survived him. 
 
 Since the letter concerning the burial place of Samuel 
 Rogers (page 322) was printed, we have copied the 
 following from the same paper in which that letter 
 appeared : — 
 
 " The plain Monumental Structure over the vault of 
 the Rogers' family, in Hornsey Churchyard, has received 
 an interesting addition to its mortuary inscriptions. It 
 records the date of birth and death of the poet, adding 
 that he was ' Author of the Pleasures of Memory,' with- 
 out, however, specifying to what class of literature the 
 work belongs." 
 
 In Halstead churchyard, Essex, is an iron tomb, on 
 which the only inscription is the emphatic word 
 
 " Silence ! " 
 
 504 
 
INDEX. 
 
 IITDEX . 
 
 
 A, Sarah 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 251 
 
 Atterbury, Bishop 
 
 P V&E 
 
 . 110 
 
 A youth 
 
 . 163 
 
 Atterbury, Miss 
 
 . 110 
 
 Abbott, Thomas 
 
 . 178 
 
 Attorney at Law, on an 
 
 . 180 
 
 Abercromby, Lieut. Gen 
 
 63 
 
 Austen, Jane . 
 
 . 308 
 
 Abernethy, Dr. John 
 
 . 190 
 
 Austen, Rev. John 
 
 . 127 
 
 Adams, John 
 
 94 
 
 Azar, King Ezman 
 
 3 
 
 Adams, John 
 
 . 359 
 
 
 
 Adams, Joseph 
 
 . 471 
 
 Babington, Dr. Willian 
 
 t 184 
 
 Addison, Joseph 
 
 . 497 
 
 Bacon, Ann 
 
 155 
 
 iEschylus 
 
 . 325 
 
 Bacon, John . 
 
 412 
 
 Aikin, Robert 
 
 495 
 
 Bacon, "William 
 
 99 
 
 Alencon, Duke of 
 
 444 
 
 Badham, Margaret 
 
 222 
 
 Alexander the Great 
 
 3 
 
 Baker, on a 
 
 452 
 
 Allegri, Gregoris 
 
 209 
 
 Baker, John . 
 
 244 
 
 Allestree, Epitaph at 
 
 467 
 
 Baker, Priscilla 
 
 244 
 
 Alma, Monument on th< 
 
 
 Bakewell, Epitaph at 
 
 153 
 
 field of 
 
 79 
 
 Balfour, John 
 
 93 
 
 An honest man 
 
 177 
 
 Bailie, Lady Grisell 
 
 261 
 
 Anacreon 
 
 324 
 
 Bammont, Mary 
 
 224 
 
 Andre's tomb in America 
 
 
 Bananomi, Ida 
 
 212 
 
 Major 
 
 34 
 
 Banks, Sir Joseph 
 
 308 
 
 Andre's tomb in West 
 
 
 Banks, Thomas 
 
 413 
 
 minster Abbey 
 
 35 
 
 Barham, James 
 
 439 
 
 Andrews, James 
 
 155 
 
 Barington, Samuel 
 
 461 
 
 Ann, Lady 
 
 373 
 
 Barly, Susannah 
 
 248 
 
 Ansley, Nicholas 
 
 397 
 
 Barnaby, Sarah 
 
 220 
 
 Antrobus, Mary 
 
 310 
 
 Bartleman, David 
 
 97 
 
 Apple waite, Bridget 
 
 176 
 
 Barton, Bernard 
 
 288 
 
 Archimedes 
 
 414 
 
 Bastoul, General 
 
 36 
 
 Aretin, Leonard 
 
 335 
 
 Bates, Ely 
 
 305 
 
 Aretine, Peter 
 
 329 
 
 Batte, Joseph . 
 
 216 
 
 Arkwright, Sir Richard 
 
 425 
 
 Bayley, John . 
 
 214 
 
 Arkwright, Richard 
 
 425 
 
 Beach, Mary . 
 
 213 
 
 Arnauld, Anthony 
 
 333 
 
 Beard, John 
 
 207 
 
 Arthur, Prince 
 
 21 
 
 Beauchamp, Earl of 
 
 408 
 
 Ashford, Mary i 
 
 93 
 
 Beauclerk, Lord Aubrey 
 
 31 
 
 Ashton, Mr. 
 
 484 
 
 Beaumont, Erancis 
 
 285 
 
 Askew, Ann 
 
 340 
 
 Behn, Aphra . 
 
 289 
 
 Atkinson, Mary 
 
 212 
 
 Bellot, Lieutenant 
 
 73 
 
 Atkinson, Mary 
 
 473 
 
 Bellot, Lieutenant 
 
 73 
 
 505 
 

 EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 
 
 r >.GE 
 
 
 
 Bellot, Lieutenant 
 
 74 
 
 Brookson, Benjamin r . 
 
 1-2 
 
 Beneath this earthly 
 
 . 493 
 
 Brother John 
 
 3.50 
 
 Benson, Bishop 
 
 109 
 
 Browne, Sir Thomas, M . D . 
 
 1-1 
 
 Berkeley, Epitaph at 
 
 . 495 
 
 Brace, Jaine3 . 
 
 
 Berkshire, Epitaph in 
 
 148 
 
 Brunning, John 
 
 347 
 
 Berry, John 
 
 402 
 
 Brunswick.?, over the 
 
 
 Bexhill. Epitaph at 
 
 . 151 
 
 vault of the 
 
 17 
 
 Bideford, Epitaph at 
 
 . 102 
 
 Buckingham, Edmund, 
 
 
 Billings, William 
 
 341 
 
 Duke of 
 
 159 
 
 Billingsley, Richard 
 
 101 
 
 Buckingham, Sheffield, 
 
 
 Bird, Edward . 
 
 194 
 
 Duke of 
 
 286 
 
 Bird, Mrs. 
 
 194 
 
 Buckingham, Till. 
 
 
 Birmingham, Epitaph a 
 
 : 353 
 
 Duke of 
 
 383 
 
 Blackett, Joseph 
 
 455 
 
 Buller, Rt. Hon. Charle3 
 
 405 
 
 Blake, Admiral 
 
 77 
 
 Bunbury, Annabella 
 
 225 
 
 Blakemere, Epitaph at 
 
 172 
 
 Buonaparte, Charles 
 
 428 
 
 Blakwell, Bobert 
 
 481 
 
 Buonaparte's tomb at St. 
 
 
 Blandford, Mrs. 
 
 259 
 
 Helena 
 
 17 
 
 Bh53, Rev. Nathaniel 
 
 . 418 
 
 Buonaparte's tomb in 
 
 17 
 
 Bloomfield, Bobert 
 
 320 
 
 Paris 
 
 17 
 
 Blucher, Marshal 
 
 41 
 
 Buonaparte, Duke of 
 
 
 Boardman, Kev. Richarc 
 
 133 
 
 Reichstadt . 
 
 17 
 
 Bobbin, Tim 
 
 253 
 
 Burdett, Eleonara 
 
 309 
 
 Bobbin, Mary 
 
 2o3 
 
 Burgess, Captain 
 
 58 
 
 Bodger, Samuel 
 
 81 
 
 . ss Mary 
 
 472 
 
 Bolingbroke, Lord Vise 
 
 395 
 
 Burgoin, Wild 
 
 4^9 
 
 Bolingbroke, Viscountes 
 
 j 396 
 
 Burke, Rt. Hon. Edmund 
 
 
 Bond, Mary 
 
 237 
 
 Burke, Mrs. 
 
 3-5 
 
 Bond, Thorn aa 
 
 237 
 
 Burke, Bichard 
 
 385 
 
 Bonde, Thomas 
 
 4-4 
 
 Burke, Bichard 
 
 3-5 
 
 Boon, Eleanor 
 
 227 
 
 Burns, Mr. 
 
 301 
 
 Boothby, Sir Brook 
 
 240 
 
 Burns, Bobert 
 
 300 
 
 Boothby, Dame Phebe 
 
 240 
 
 Burton, Bev. Bobert 
 
 126 
 
 Boothby, Penelope 
 
 151 
 
 Bury St. Edmunds, Epi- 
 
 
 Boscawen, Admiral 
 
 27 
 
 taph at 
 
 357 
 
 Bosworth, William 
 
 294 
 
 Burying ground at Chelsea 
 
 339 
 
 Boucher, Bev. Jonathar 
 
 124 
 
 Busby, Thomaa 
 
 
 Bourbon, Constable 
 
 29 
 
 Butler, Capt. Charles 
 
 60 
 
 Bowden, B 
 
 353 
 
 Butler, Capt. Henry 
 
 
 Bowen, Matilda 
 
 148 
 
 Boiler, Capt. James 
 
 CO 
 
 E j ires , Maj or General 
 
 58 
 
 Butler, Samuel 
 
 273 
 
 Bowles, Bev. W. Lisle 
 
 129 
 
 Butler, lines on his mon- 
 
 
 Boxer, Thomas 
 
 88 
 
 ur.. 
 
 273 
 
 Bradley. Dr. James 
 
 418 
 
 Byng, Admiral John 
 
 447 
 
 Brandeston, Epitaph ai 
 
 162 
 
 Byron, the 2nd Lord 
 
 
 Branioy, Bebecca 
 
 229 
 
 .. Lord Noel 
 
 291 
 
 Brassgirdle, Bev. J. 
 
 126 
 
 .. Lord Noel 
 
 
 Brawne, the Cornisr. 
 
 L 
 
 Byron, wishes relating 
 
 
 beggar 
 
 337 
 
 to his Epitaph 
 
 292 
 
 Bre:v h at 
 
 1.54 
 
 Bywater, Mr. 
 
 466 
 
 .ht, Ellen 
 
 98 
 
 
 
 Brinkley, Benjamin 
 
 
 Cadogan, Col. . 
 
 42 
 
 Bristol, Epitaph near 
 
 hi 
 
 . Dr. John 
 
 186 
 
 Brock. Major General 
 
 29 
 
 CamberwelL on 2 chil- 
 
 
 Bronlly, Epitaph at 
 
 " 
 
 dren at 
 
 145 
 
 Brooke, Ralph 
 
 305 
 
 Camden, William 
 
 
 
INDEX. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Cameron, Dr. Archibald 
 
 189 
 
 Churchyard, James 
 
 . 241 
 
 Camerton, Epitaph at 
 
 470 
 
 Churchyard, Sophia 
 
 . 241 
 
 Camoens, Louis de 
 
 334 
 
 Clapton, Epitaph at 
 
 . 172 
 
 Campbell, Thomas 
 
 321 
 
 Clarke, Mrs. Mary 
 
 . 186 
 
 Campden, Rev. John 
 
 128 
 
 Clarke, Robert 
 
 . 467 
 
 Canham, Susannah 
 
 162 
 
 Clarke, William 
 
 . 344 
 
 Canning, Rt. Hon. Geo. 
 
 404 
 
 Clarke, William 
 
 344 
 
 Canning, George Charles 
 
 405 
 
 Clarke's the 2 
 
 406 
 
 Captain . . . 
 
 94 
 
 Clarkson, Thomas 
 
 306 
 
 Carey, Rev. Wm. 
 
 122 
 
 Clay, Cecil 
 
 . 310 
 
 Carnagie, Johnie 
 
 297 
 
 Clayton, Lieutenant 
 
 57 
 
 Caroline, Queen 
 
 16 
 
 Clements, William 
 
 . 171 
 
 Carr, Rev. Samuel 
 
 127 
 
 Clergyman, on a country 
 
 r 118 
 
 Cart wright, Major 
 
 54 
 
 Clerke, Captain 
 
 41 
 
 Cartwright, Mrs. 
 
 54 
 
 Clifford, Rosamond 
 
 430 
 
 Castlereagh, Lord 
 
 387 
 
 Clive, Catherine 
 
 . 203 
 
 Cave, Joseph 
 
 314 
 
 Clive, Catherine 
 
 . 204 
 
 Cave, Theophilus 
 
 477 
 
 Coalheaver, on a 
 
 . 455 
 
 Cave, William 
 
 314 
 
 Cobbett, William 
 
 . 410 
 
 Caverswall, "William de 
 
 4^6 
 
 Cobbett, Mrs. 
 
 . 410 
 
 Chalconer, Sir Thomas . 
 
 348 
 
 Cobbler, on a drunken 
 
 . 359 
 
 Chandler, George 
 
 88 
 
 Cobbler, on a drunken 
 
 . 461 
 
 Chandos, Duchess of 
 
 423 
 
 Cobbold, Marion Edith 
 
 142 
 
 Chantrey, Sir Francis . 
 
 413 
 
 Cock, Jane 
 
 228 
 
 Chapman, George 
 
 311 
 
 Cole, Bridget . 
 
 365 
 
 Charlemagne, King 
 
 4 
 
 Cole, Rev. William 
 
 139 
 
 Charlemagne, the Queen of 
 
 4 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel Tayloi 
 
 302 
 
 Charles the I. 
 
 10 
 
 Colling wood, Adm. Lore 
 
 L 51 
 
 Charles the I. 
 
 11 
 
 Collins, William 
 
 291 
 
 Charles the II. 
 
 11 
 
 Columbui, Christopher 
 
 85 
 
 Charles the VII. King of 
 
 
 Combe, John 
 
 363 
 
 France 
 
 7 
 
 Combe, John 
 
 363 
 
 Charles the Bold's army 
 
 31 
 
 Congreve, William 
 
 288 
 
 Charlotte's child, the 
 
 
 Coningsby, Lord 
 
 441 
 
 Princess 
 
 20 
 
 Cook, Eliza 
 
 163 
 
 Chartres, Francis 
 
 440 
 
 Cook, Susan . 
 
 219 
 
 Chatham, Earl of 
 
 386 
 
 Cooke, Captain John 
 
 43 
 
 Chatterton, Thomas 
 
 293 
 
 Cooke, Thomas 
 
 . 215 
 
 Chaucer, Geoffrey 
 
 269 
 
 Cooper, Sir. A. Ashley 
 
 18 7 
 
 Cheltenham, Epitaph at 
 
 149 
 
 Copernicus, Nicholas 
 
 414 
 
 Chester, Mr. . 
 
 500 
 
 Corbet, Mrs. . 
 
 262 
 
 Chigwell, Epitaph at 
 
 92 
 
 Cordy, Elizabeth 
 
 170 
 
 Child, on a 
 
 148 
 
 Cordy, John 
 
 468 
 
 Children, on 3 
 
 151 
 
 Cork, Earl of . 
 
 380 
 
 Children, numerous fami- 
 
 
 Cornwall, Captain 
 
 50 
 
 lies of 
 
 348 
 
 Cornwallis, Marquis 
 
 35 
 
 Chiswick, Epitaph at 
 
 354 
 
 Corret, D'auvergne 
 
 54 
 
 Christchurch, Epitaph at 
 
 350 
 
 Coster, Claude 
 
 469 
 
 Christchurch Cathedral, 
 
 
 Cotton, Rev. John 
 
 133 
 
 Epitaph at t 
 
 478 
 
 Cotton, William 
 
 500 
 
 Chumleigh, Epitaph at . 
 
 470 
 
 Couple, on a loving 
 
 240 
 
 Church Crettow, Epi- 
 
 
 Couple, on a quarrelsome 
 
 ► 236 
 
 taph at 
 
 175 
 
 Coverdale, Bishop 
 
 111 
 
 Churchgoing Parishioner, 
 
 
 Cowley, Abram 
 
 271 
 
 on a 
 
 500 
 
 Cowley, Abram 
 
 272 
 
 Churchill, Charles 
 
 282 
 
 Cowper, William 
 
 280 
 
 507 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Cowper, Mrs. 
 
 . 231 
 
 Eliza) 
 
 . 117 
 
 Crabbe, Rev. George 
 
 . 127 
 
 Drayton, Michael 
 
 . 270 
 
 Craggs, James 
 
 . 393 
 
 Drelincourt, Rev. Deal 
 
 1 112 
 
 Crauford, Maj, Gen. 
 
 72 
 
 Drew, Sarah 
 
 95 
 
 Creamer, Rebecca 
 
 347 
 
 Drummer, on a 
 
 84 
 
 Crispe, Sir Nicholas 
 
 12 
 
 Drunkard, on a 
 
 . 361 
 
 Croker, Thomas Croftoi 
 
 l 302 
 
 Dryden, John 
 
 . 275 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver 
 
 . 378 
 
 Duff, Captain . 
 
 54 
 
 Cross, Philip Shall 
 
 - 179 
 
 Dun, Cornelius Van 
 
 26 
 
 Crossfield, Dr. Thomas 
 
 . 183 
 
 Duncan, Admiral Lord 
 
 48 
 
 Cuckow, John 
 
 . 492 
 
 Dundas, Major General 
 
 24 
 
 Cullam, Sarah 
 
 . 149 
 
 Dyer, Sir William 
 
 . 244 
 
 Cumming, Capt. ¥m 
 
 78 
 
 Dyers, the 3 
 
 . 458 
 
 Cunningham, John 
 
 . 267 
 
 
 
 f!nrvan IXTtq 
 
 230 
 
 E S 
 
 86 
 . 150 
 
 Cutbush, William 
 
 73 
 
 Eaton. Richard F. 
 
 Cyrus, King of Persia 
 
 2 
 
 Edenbridge, Epitaph at 
 
 . 493 
 
 
 
 Edward the I. 
 
 6 
 
 Dale, and his two wives 
 
 p 
 
 Edward the V. 
 
 8 
 
 John 
 
 250 
 
 Edward the VI. 
 
 8 
 
 Dal ton, Major 
 
 61 
 
 Edward the Black Princ< 
 
 3 19 
 
 Dante 
 
 334 
 
 Edwin, John 
 
 206 
 
 Danvers, Sir Joseph 
 
 41 
 
 Ehrensword, Earl of 
 
 33 
 
 Darius, King of Persia 
 
 2 
 
 Eldon, Earl of 
 
 400 
 
 Darling, Grace 
 
 432 
 
 Eldon, Countess of 
 
 401 
 
 Darling, Grace 
 
 433 
 
 Eidred, Charles 
 
 90 
 
 Darling, James 
 
 351 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen 
 
 9 
 
 Daughter, on a dutiful 
 
 147 
 
 Ellis, Mary 
 
 337 
 
 Davies, Ann 
 
 216 
 
 Eltham, Epitaph at 
 
 224 
 
 Davies, Rev. George 
 
 120 
 
 Emery, John 
 
 462 
 
 Day, Thomas 
 
 279 
 
 Ennuis Quintus 
 
 335 
 
 Dealtry, Dr. John 
 
 190 
 
 Epaminondas 
 
 33 
 
 Death, Mr, 
 
 197 
 
 Epictetus 
 
 325 
 
 Delamotte, Jane 
 
 256 
 
 Epicure, on an 
 
 360 
 
 Demosthenes . 
 
 324 
 
 Epigrammatic Epitaph 
 
 455 
 
 Desaix, General 
 
 38 
 
 Epitaph 
 
 264 
 
 Dicey, C. 
 
 492 
 
 Epitaph, a literary 
 
 298 
 
 Dickson, Mr. . 
 
 437 
 
 Epitaph 
 
 477 
 
 Digby, Mary 
 
 156 
 
 Ercall, Epitaph at 
 
 490 
 
 Digby, Hon. Robert 
 
 156 
 
 Ere sin could blight 
 
 150 
 
 Dilly, Thomas 
 
 . 219 
 
 Erskine, Mrs. 
 
 443 
 
 Dister, Allaine 
 
 451 
 
 Etherington, Sir Thomas 
 
 438 
 
 DixoD, George 
 
 484 
 
 Euripides 
 
 326 
 
 Dodd, Robert 
 
 90 
 
 Evelyn, John . 
 
 301 
 
 Dodsley, Robert 
 
 272 
 
 Evelyn, Mrs. . 
 
 301 
 
 Dolman, Miss 
 
 277 
 
 Eyam, Epitaph at 
 
 468 
 
 Dominique 
 
 199 
 
 
 
 Donald and his Wife 
 
 248 
 
 F W 
 
 168 
 
 Dorchester, Epitaph at . 
 
 98 
 
 Fair Flower 
 
 143 
 
 Dorset, Earl of 
 
 392 
 
 Fairbones, Sir Palmes 
 
 66 
 
 Dove, John 
 
 360 
 
 Fairfax, Lady . 
 
 227 
 
 Downie, Malcolm 
 
 92 
 
 Falconer, William 
 
 286 
 
 D'oyley, Sir Cope 
 
 232 
 
 Father of a large family 
 
 347 
 
 Doyle, Martha 
 
 232 
 
 Father Gripe . 
 
 362 
 
 Dragoon, on a 
 
 84 
 
 Father Sparges 
 
 362 
 
 Draper, Eliza (Sterne's 
 
 
 Faulknor, Capt. Robert 
 
 47 
 
 508 
 
IN DM. 
 
 Fenton, Elijah 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 285 
 
 Giles, on old 
 
 TAGE 
 
 . 359 
 
 Fergusson, Robert 
 
 . 300 
 
 Gillespie, Major General 
 
 Fielding, Henry 
 
 . 275 
 
 Gilpin, Rev. Bernard 
 
 . 118 
 
 Fielding, Sarah 
 
 . 294 
 
 Gin drinker, on a 
 
 . 361 
 
 Fitting, Ann 
 
 . 443 
 
 Glemham, Epitaph at 
 
 . 248 
 
 Fish, on a man named 
 
 . 499 
 
 Glover, Thomas 
 
 . 413 
 
 Fitzgerald, Mrs. 
 
 . 254 
 
 Goddard, Joane 
 
 . 463 
 
 Fletcher, Thomas 
 
 82 
 
 Godfrey, Dr. Boyle 
 
 . 184 
 
 Fletcher, John 
 
 . 285 
 
 Goldsmith, Oliver 
 
 . 298 
 
 Floyer, Ann 
 
 . 230 
 
 Gordon, Lieut. Col. Si 
 
 
 Fool, on a 
 
 99 
 
 Alexander 
 
 52 
 
 Foote, Samuel 
 
 . 197 
 
 Gore, Major General 
 
 54 
 
 Foreman, Jane 
 
 . 226 
 
 Gower, John 
 
 . 270 
 
 Forgive blest shade 
 
 501 
 
 Grace, Colonel 
 
 79 
 
 Fox, Rt. Hon. C. Jarae 
 
 } 399 
 
 Gray, Alexander 
 
 346 
 
 Fox, Rt. Hon. C. Jame 
 
 , 399 
 
 Gray, Thomas 
 
 . 311 
 
 Fox, Mrs. 
 
 400 
 
 Gray, Thomas 
 
 . 311 
 
 Fox, Henry 
 
 . 459 
 
 Gray, Dorothy 
 
 310 
 
 Fox, John 
 
 267 
 
 Greek, on a young 
 
 161 
 
 Foy, General . 
 
 49 
 
 Greek epitaph 
 
 479 
 
 Frampton, Mary 
 
 370 
 
 Green, James 
 
 456 
 
 Franklin, Dr. Benjamir 
 
 332 
 
 Greenwood Cemetery 
 
 258 
 
 Franklin, Dr. Benjamin 
 
 332 
 
 Greenwood, Mrs. 
 
 . 227 
 
 Franklin, Mrs. 
 
 332 
 
 Gregory, Henry 
 
 166 
 
 Franklin, Abiah 
 
 333 
 
 Grenville, Captain 
 
 30 
 
 Franklin, Josiah 
 
 333 
 
 Grevile, Sir Fulke 
 
 392 
 
 Freed from this maze 
 
 257 
 
 Griffith, Jane 
 
 230 
 
 French, Col. the Hon. k 
 
 
 Griffiths, George 
 
 92 
 
 Poer 
 
 26 
 
 Grim, Mulciber 
 
 453 
 
 Frost, John 
 
 498 
 
 Grindal, Archbishop 
 
 106 
 
 Fry, Eleanor 
 
 368 
 
 Groom, George 
 
 250 
 
 Fry, Frances . 
 
 368 
 
 Gundred, daughter o 
 
 r 
 
 Fry, John 
 
 457 
 
 William I. 
 
 18 
 
 Fry, Frank 
 
 494 
 
 Gunwalloe, Epitaph at 
 
 493 
 
 Fuller, Dr. Thomas 
 
 116 
 
 Gustavus Adolphus 
 
 10 
 
 Fullerton, Sir James 
 
 381 
 
 Guy, John 
 
 494 
 
 Fullerton, Lady 
 
 381 
 
 Guy, Mr. 
 
 497 
 
 
 
 Guy, Thomas 
 
 . 389 
 
 Gardiner, Col. James 
 
 447 
 
 
 
 Gardiner, Thomas 
 
 322 
 
 H Elizabeth L. 
 
 373 
 
 Gardner, Ann 
 
 217 
 
 Hague, Harriot 
 
 208 
 
 Garrett, Hammond 
 
 87 
 
 Hale, Sir Matthew 
 
 374 
 
 Garrick, David 
 
 196 
 
 Hall, Bishop 
 
 111 
 
 Garrick, David 
 
 196 
 
 Hall, John 
 
 448 
 
 Garrick, David 
 
 197 
 
 Hall, Micah . 
 
 180 
 
 Garrick, Mrs. 
 
 196 
 
 Hall, Mary . 
 
 249 
 
 Gaskoin, Mary 
 
 211 
 
 Hall, Russell . 
 
 249 
 
 Gay, John 
 
 277 
 
 Halley, Dr. Edmund 
 
 416 
 
 Gay, John , 
 
 278 
 
 Hal ley, Mrs. . 
 
 417 
 
 Gedge, Peter . 
 
 418 
 
 Halstead, Epitaph at 
 
 504 
 
 Gentle, as pious 
 
 476 
 
 Hamilton, Elizabeth 
 
 224 
 
 Gentle reader 
 
 474 
 
 Hamilton, Ths. Abbott 
 
 499 
 
 Gentleman who died foi 
 
 
 Hampden, John 
 
 46 
 
 love, on a 
 
 168 
 
 Handel, G. Frederick 
 
 210 
 
 George Henry 
 
 248 
 
 Hannibal 
 
 23 
 
 Gibbs, Major General 
 
 74 
 
 Hanway, Jonas 
 
 442 
 
 509 
 
i 
 
 EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Harcourt, Hon. Simon 
 
 . 169 
 
 Hooper, Bishop 
 
 . 113 
 
 Harding, John 
 
 . 498 
 
 Hope, Mrs. Mary 
 
 . 234 
 
 Hardinge. Captain 
 
 55 
 
 Horley, Epitaph on 5 per 
 
 
 Hare, Old 
 
 355 
 
 sons at 
 
 97 
 
 Harrison, Elizabeth 
 
 . 220 
 
 Home's 4 W r ives, Mr. 
 
 . 251 
 
 Harvey, Robert 
 
 . 161 
 
 Horsey, Anchoret 
 
 . 221 
 
 Haselton, Mary 
 
 96 
 
 Hoste, Captain W T illian 
 
 \ 28 
 
 Havard, Mr. 
 
 . 206 
 
 Hove, Epitaph at 
 
 . 147 
 
 Hawke, Admiral Lord 
 
 40 
 
 How eloquent 
 
 . 158 
 
 Hay, Major General 
 
 71 
 
 How, Humphrey 
 
 . 220 
 
 Hearne, Thomas 
 
 . 279 
 
 How sweet a thing 
 
 . 476 
 
 Heathfield, Lord ( Gen 
 
 
 Howard, John 
 
 . 428 
 
 Elliott) 
 
 68 
 
 Howard, John 
 
 . 428 
 
 Heber, Bishop 
 
 . 109 
 
 Howe, Admiral Earl 
 
 32 
 
 Henbury, Epitaph at 
 
 . 263 
 
 Huddlestone, Thomas 
 
 . 478 
 
 Henderson, Captain 
 
 25 
 
 Humble and his 2 Wives 
 
 , 
 
 Henricus, Bishop 
 
 . 107 
 
 Richard 
 
 . 260 
 
 Henry II. 
 
 4 
 
 Humbruck, Jeems 
 
 96 
 
 Herbert, Rev. George 
 
 . 123 
 
 Hume, David 
 
 . 282 
 
 Here lies a spotless 
 
 . 147 
 
 Hume, Joseph 
 
 . 410 
 
 Here sweetly sleep 
 
 . 141 
 
 Humphrey and Joan 
 
 . 239 
 
 Hereford Cathedral, Epi 
 
 
 Hunt, Harriett 
 
 . 164 
 
 taph in 
 
 . 472 
 
 Hunt, Mary 
 
 . 164 
 
 Herriott, Elizabeth 
 
 228 
 
 Hunter, Rev. Mr. 
 
 . 119 
 
 Hervey, Rev. James 
 
 289 
 
 Hum, William 
 
 . 344 
 
 Hesilrige, Sir A. and hi 
 
 i 
 
 Hurt, Francis Edward 
 
 479 
 
 two Wives . 
 
 247 
 
 Husband, on a 
 
 247 
 
 Hesketh, Lady 
 
 280 
 
 Hussie, Jasper 
 
 . 471 
 
 Hewetson, Captain 
 
 58 
 
 Hutton, Wm. and Mrs 
 
 . 287 
 
 Hewett, John 
 
 95 
 
 Huxley, John 
 
 . 473 
 
 Heyrick, John and Mrs 
 
 347 
 
 Hyde, John 
 
 . 457 
 
 Hide, Edward 
 
 477 
 
 
 
 Highgate Cemetery 
 
 491 
 
 If drucs and physic 
 
 165 
 
 Hitfley, John 
 
 352 
 
 Ilton, Epitaph at 
 
 354 
 
 Hill, Captain 
 
 69 
 
 In peace she died 
 
 468 
 
 Hill, John 
 
 165 
 
 Incledon, Charles 
 
 210 
 
 Hill, John 
 
 415 
 
 Infant, on an 
 
 140 
 
 Hill, Thomas . 
 
 341 
 
 Infant, on an 
 
 149 
 
 Hill, Mrs. 
 
 234 
 
 Infants, on 2 
 
 143 
 
 Hilton, Ann 
 
 222 
 
 Infants, on 4 
 
 146 
 
 Hippsley, John • 
 
 200 
 
 Innkeeper, on an 
 
 448 
 
 Hiseland, William 
 
 338 
 
 Inscription on a cenotaph 
 
 178 
 
 Hobson, Tobias 
 
 430 
 
 Instances of Longevity 
 
 342 
 
 Hobson, Tobias 
 
 431 
 
 Ireland, Epitaph in " , 
 
 354 
 
 Hodgkins, Mira 
 
 150 
 
 Irish Epitaph 
 
 462 
 
 Hogarth, William 
 
 191 
 
 Irish Nell 
 
 366 
 
 Hogarth, William 
 
 191 
 
 Irving, Dr. John 
 
 187 
 
 Hogg, Alexander 
 
 449 
 
 Isnell, Peter 
 
 355 
 
 Hoghton, Major General 
 
 66 
 
 It must be so . 
 
 469 
 
 Hollis, Francis 
 
 166 
 
 
 
 Honeywood, Rev. Michl. 
 
 134 
 
 Jack and Joan 
 
 242 
 
 Honeywood, Elizabeth . 
 
 233 
 
 James II. 
 
 13 
 
 Hood, Robin 
 
 419 
 
 James, Mrs. 
 
 236 
 
 Hood, Robin 
 
 419 
 
 Jarrett, Francis 
 
 471 
 
 Hood, Thomas 
 
 286 
 
 Jefferson, Thomas 
 
 395 
 
 Hooker, Nicholas 
 
 345 
 
 Jenkins, old Henry 
 
 336 
 
 ...... 
 
 510 
 

 INDEX. 
 
 
 Jenner, Dr. Edward 
 
 PAGE 
 
 188 
 
 Lady, on an old 
 
 PAOE 
 
 * 366 
 
 Jennings, Ann 
 
 346 
 
 Lady, on an old 
 
 374 
 
 Jermy, Isaac 
 
 102 
 
 Lady, on a tippling 
 
 . 360 
 
 Jermy, Isaac Jermy 
 
 102 
 
 Lady, on a young 
 
 V.368 
 
 Jermy, Albert 
 
 102 
 
 Lady, on a young 
 
 374 
 
 Jessop, Alice 
 
 175 
 
 Lamb, Thomas 
 
 87 
 
 Jessop, Joanna 
 
 175 
 
 Lambe, Edward 
 
 489 
 
 Jessop, John 
 
 439 
 
 Lambe, Henry 
 
 352 
 
 Joan of Arc 
 
 418 
 
 Lambe, Wm. and his 1 
 
 
 Jobson, Charles 
 
 466 
 
 Wives 
 
 252 
 
 John, King 
 
 5 
 
 Lander, Richard 
 
 422 
 
 John, on Faithful 
 
 218 
 
 Langwerth., Major Gen. 
 
 76 
 
 Johnie 
 
 495 
 
 Lawrence, William 
 
 164 
 
 Johnson, Hester (Stella] 
 
 115 
 
 Lawes, William 
 
 209 
 
 Johnson, John 
 
 451 
 
 Lawrence, General 
 
 28 
 
 Johnson, Patience 
 
 346 
 
 Lawrence, William 
 
 221 
 
 Johnson, Rev. Robert 
 
 130 
 
 Lawton, Richard 
 
 89 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 
 
 315 
 
 Laxfield, Epitaph at 
 
 150 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 
 
 316 
 
 Le Marchant, Major Gen 
 
 78 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 
 
 317 
 
 Lee, Sir Anthony 
 
 434 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 
 
 316 
 
 Lee, Sir Henry 
 
 390 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 
 
 317 
 
 Lee, Major General 
 
 79 
 
 Jones, Sir Thomas 
 
 24 
 
 Lee, Susan 
 
 154 
 
 Jones, Sir William 
 
 397 
 
 Leeds Old Church, in 
 
 . 158 
 
 Jones, Sir William 
 
 398 
 
 Leibnitz, Godfrey Wm 
 
 415 
 
 Jones, William 
 
 92 
 
 Leicester, Coke Earl of 
 
 408 
 
 Jonson, Benjamin 
 
 284 
 
 Leicester, Earl of (Elizb's 
 
 ) 377 
 
 Jonson, Benjamin 
 
 285 
 
 Leman and his Wife, R 
 
 479 
 
 Jordan, Mrs. 
 
 197 
 
 Lempriere, Captain 
 
 77 
 
 Jortin, Dr. John 
 
 124 
 
 Leofricus, Bishop 
 
 107 
 
 Juby, William Fulcher 
 
 155 
 
 Let no proud stone 
 
 464 
 
 
 
 Lewes, Jonathan 
 
 99 
 
 Katerfelto, Dr. 
 
 279 
 
 Lewis, Bryant 
 
 . 101 
 
 Keable, William 
 
 496 
 
 Leybourne, Rebecca 
 
 232 
 
 Keats, Admiral 
 
 68 
 
 Liar, on a 
 
 364 
 
 Keats, John 
 
 319 
 
 Liar, on a notorious 
 
 364 
 
 Keeling, William 
 
 67 
 
 Liar, on an inveterate 
 
 364 
 
 Kemp, Tom 
 
 98 
 
 Lieutenant, on a 
 
 40 
 
 Kempenfelt Admiral 
 
 70 
 
 Lieutenant of Marines, on 
 
 a 40 
 
 Ken rick, Richard 
 
 462 
 
 Lilburne, John 
 
 487 
 
 Kidwell, John 
 
 483 
 
 Lilly, William 
 
 421 
 
 Kildare 
 
 492 
 
 Lillywhite the Cricketei 
 
 . 424 
 
 Kingsley, Mary Ana 
 
 172 
 
 Linen Draper, on an itin- 
 
 
 Kir by, Emma 
 
 153 
 
 erant 
 
 . 459 
 
 Kneller, Sir Godfrey 
 
 . 192 
 
 Ling, Mary 
 
 258 
 
 Knightsbridge, Epitaph a 
 
 t 476 
 
 Ling. Sarah 
 
 . 241 
 
 Kcerner, Chs. Theodon 
 
 I 327 
 
 Ling, William 
 
 . 241 
 
 Koerner, Emma Sophia 
 
 328 
 
 Linnett, Mary 
 
 167 
 
 
 
 Little, Mrs. 
 
 259 
 
 Lady, on a 
 
 223 
 
 Littlewood, John 
 
 . 262 
 
 Lady, on a 
 
 231 
 
 Liverpool Cemetery, in 
 
 . 479 
 
 Lady, on a 
 
 367 
 
 Livy, Titus 
 
 . 326 
 
 Lady, on a 
 
 367 
 
 Lloyd, Rev. Evan 
 
 . 135 
 
 Lady, on a gallant 
 
 365 
 
 Locke, John 
 
 . 293 
 
 Lady, famed for her cap 
 
 
 Locksmith, on a puritan 
 
 
 rice, on a 
 
 365 
 
 ical 
 
 . 456 
 
 511 
 
EPITAPHS. ETC. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Long, John St. John 
 
 444 
 
 Massinger, Philip 
 
 285 
 
 Loste. on a pair named . 
 
 241 
 
 Maton, on 3 childrennamed 145 
 
 Louis XIV., Anecdote of 
 
 204 
 
 Matsys, Quintin 
 
 193 
 
 Louis Philippe, King 
 
 18 
 
 Matthews, Charles 
 
 205 
 
 Love, Eev. Mr. 
 
 123 
 
 Mausolus, King 
 
 2 
 
 Loving, John 
 
 358 
 
 Meadows, Charlotte 
 
 229 
 
 Ludlam, Hannah 
 
 156 
 
 Memento Mori 
 
 481 
 
 Ludlow, General 
 
 383 
 
 Mercy, Francois de 
 
 30 
 
 Lulli, John Bapliste 
 
 207 
 
 Meynell, Lieutenant 
 
 57 
 
 Luther, Dr. Martin 
 
 134 
 
 Middleditch, William 
 
 81 
 
 Lymington, Epitaph at . 
 
 476 
 
 Middleton, Bishop 
 
 112 
 
 Lyttleton, Lord George . 
 
 228 
 
 Military Officer, on a 
 
 37 
 
 Lyttleton, Lady 
 
 228 
 
 Miller, Captain 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 Miller, Lady 
 
 490 
 
 Macgilivray 
 
 287 
 
 Miller, Joe 
 
 206 
 
 Mackenzie, Major Gen. . 
 
 76 
 
 Milton, John 
 
 276 
 
 Mackinnon, Major Gen. . 
 
 72 
 
 Milton, John 
 
 276 
 
 Macpherson, Alexander 
 
 82 
 
 Mira 
 
 257 
 
 Madame de Lavalette's 
 
 
 Mirandula, Earl of 
 
 330 
 
 son 
 
 145 
 
 Miser, on an old 
 
 362 
 
 Madan, Bishop 
 
 108 
 
 Miser, on an old 
 
 362 
 
 Magee, Alexander 
 
 214 
 
 Miser, on an old 
 
 363 
 
 Maginn. William 
 
 312 
 
 Mister Bone 
 
 364 
 
 Maid who died the day 
 
 
 Mohammed 2nd. 
 
 8 
 
 she was married, on a 
 
 1G7 
 
 Moir, Dr. David Macbeth 
 
 186 
 
 Maid who was drowned . 
 
 101 
 
 Moises, Rev. Hugh 
 
 129 
 
 Maid, on an old 
 
 365 
 
 Molly, Poor 
 
 236 
 
 Maid, on a fair 
 
 369 
 
 Monk, Elizabeth 
 
 342 
 
 Maid, on a fair 
 
 372 
 
 Monument to the Guards 
 
 76 
 
 Maiden, on a young 
 
 370 
 
 Moore, Lieutenant Gen- 
 
 
 Malcolm, Admiral Sir P. 
 
 44 
 
 eral, Sir John 
 
 64 
 
 Man, on a very old 
 
 344 
 
 More, Elizabeth 
 
 304 
 
 Man and his Wife, on a . 
 
 246 
 
 More, Eliza 
 
 157 
 
 Man, on a young 
 
 159 
 
 More, Hannah 
 
 303 
 
 Man, on a young 
 
 165 
 
 More, Martha 
 
 303 
 
 Man, who was choked 
 
 
 More, Mary 
 
 304 
 
 with new bread, on a . 
 
 91 
 
 More, Sarah 
 
 304 
 
 Man who was killed in 
 
 
 Morgan, Meredith 
 
 211 
 
 America, on a 
 
 100 
 
 Morgan, Hugh 
 
 . 343 
 
 Man who was hanged, on a 
 
 99 
 
 Morwenstow, Epitaph al 
 
 154 
 
 Manchester, Earl of 
 
 381 
 
 Mosse, Captain 
 
 39 
 
 Mandeville, Sir John 
 
 421 
 
 Mourn not this hopeful 
 
 163 
 
 Mandeville, Sir John 
 
 422 
 
 Mournful, oppressed 
 
 477 
 
 Mandeville, Sir John 
 
 422 
 
 Mud, Matthew 
 
 497 
 
 Margaret, of Austria 
 
 9 
 
 Mailer, John . 
 
 . 153 
 
 Marl borough, Duke of 
 
 56 
 
 My fellow sinners 
 
 464 
 
 Marrs, on the 3 
 
 91 
 
 Myers, Lieut. Col. 
 
 45 
 
 Marten, Judge (the Regi- 
 
 
 
 
 cide) 
 
 376 
 
 Nash, Richard, (Beau) 
 
 . 444 
 
 Martyn, Eev. Henry 
 
 117 
 
 Nassau, George R. Savag 
 
 J 488 
 
 Blarlyn, JucU r e 
 
 3/5 
 
 Xeave, Elizabeth 
 
 249 
 
 Mary de MeJlicis 
 
 9 
 
 Xeave, Thomas 
 
 249 
 
 Mason, Edward 
 
 163 
 
 Xelson. Admiral Lord 
 
 51 
 
 Mason, Rev. William 
 
 132 
 
 Xelson, Rev. Earl 
 
 . 118 
 
 Mason, Mrs. 
 
 132 
 
 Xelson, Countess 
 
 118 
 
 Massachussetts, Epitaph in 
 
 475 
 
 Xeville, Captain 
 
 do 
 
 512 
 
1 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Neville, Cornet 
 
 55 
 
 Peirce, Thomas 
 
 437 
 
 Newcastle, Duke of 
 
 375 
 
 Pemberton, Sir Goddard 
 
 436 
 
 Newcastle, Duchess of 
 
 375 
 
 Pern ber ton, Mrs. 
 
 243 
 
 Newington, Epitaph at . 
 
 259 
 
 Pemberton, Robert 
 
 243 
 
 Newton, Bishop , 
 
 108 
 
 Pembroke, Countess of . 
 
 260 
 
 Newton, Sir Isaac 
 
 415 
 
 Pembruge, Catherine 
 
 222 
 
 Newton, intended for 
 
 416 
 
 Pendrell, Richard 
 
 75 
 
 Newton, Rev. John 
 
 122 
 
 Penny, John 
 
 467 
 
 Ney, Tomb of Marshal . 
 
 62 
 
 Penrose, Rev. Mr. 
 
 116 
 
 Nicholas, Emperor of Rus 
 
 
 Percival, Rt. Hon. Spencer 378 
 
 sia 
 
 446 
 
 Percival, Rt. Hon., West 
 
 
 Nicholls, Major 
 
 26 
 
 Abbey 
 
 379 
 
 Nicholls, Robert 
 
 103 
 
 Percy, Henrietta Maria 
 
 166 
 
 Nightingale, Mr. 
 
 412 
 
 Pere la Chaise, 3 epi- 
 
 
 Nitocris, Queen 
 
 2 
 
 taphs in 
 
 144 
 
 Noe wonder that 
 
 144 
 
 Pere la Chaise, 2 epi- 
 
 
 Nolan, Captain 
 
 65 
 
 taphs in 
 
 257 
 
 Norfolk, Duchess of 
 
 423 
 
 Perkins, Peter 
 
 186 
 
 Norice, William 
 
 438 
 
 Person, on an unknown 
 
 492 
 
 North, Christopher 
 
 313 
 
 Person, on a young 
 
 171 
 
 Norton, Colonel Ambros< 
 
 $ 70 
 
 Peter the Great 
 
 445 
 
 Nott, William 
 
 357 
 
 Petrarch, Francis 
 
 330 
 
 
 
 Phillips, Claude 
 
 208 
 
 Ockham, Epitaph at 
 
 87 
 
 Phillips, Claude, for 
 
 209 
 
 Oh ! friend for ever 
 
 177 
 
 Pickering, Sophia Olive 
 
 146 
 
 Old Amos 
 
 484 
 
 Picton, Lieut. Gen. Sii 
 
 
 Old Epitaph 
 
 476 
 
 Thomas 
 
 49 
 
 O'Looney, Lady 
 
 385 
 
 Picton, Lieut. Gen. Sii 
 
 
 Otho the Great 
 
 4 
 
 Thomas 
 
 49 
 
 Ovid 
 
 326 
 
 Pigeon, Edward 
 
 395 
 
 Owen, John 
 
 214 
 
 Pigeon, Nicholas 
 
 395 
 
 
 
 Pike, Rev John Gregory 
 
 323 
 
 Pady, James . 
 
 449 
 
 Piron, Alexis 
 
 335 
 
 Page, Tom 
 
 491 
 
 Pitt, Rev. Christopher 
 
 121 
 
 Paine, Tom 
 
 290 
 
 Pitt, Rt. Hon. William 
 
 386 
 
 Pakenham, Major Genera 
 
 L 74 
 
 Pitt, Rt. Hon. Wm. f for 
 
 386 
 
 Palmer, John 
 
 198 
 
 Planten, John 
 
 357 
 
 Palmerston, Viscountes 
 
 » 436 
 
 Plato : 
 
 325 
 
 Palovicin, Orazio 
 
 426 
 
 Playfer, Dr. . 
 
 114 
 
 Pancras, Epitaph at 
 
 143 
 
 Plutarch 
 
 325 
 
 Parents and Friends 
 
 94 
 
 Pole, Cardinal 
 
 112 
 
 Parker, Archbishop 
 
 111 
 
 Polybius 
 
 327 
 
 Parlett, James 
 
 474 
 
 Pond, Dr. John 
 
 417 
 
 Parnell, Dr. Thomas 
 
 114 
 
 Ponsonb}', Major Genera 
 
 1 39 
 
 Parr, Dr. Richard 
 
 123 
 
 Pope Adrian VI. 
 
 113 
 
 Parr, Dr. Samuel 
 
 113 
 
 Pope, Alexander 
 
 309 
 
 Parr, Old Thomas 
 
 337 
 
 Pope, Alexander 
 
 309 
 
 Parry, Dr. Caleb Hillie 
 
 r 188 
 
 Pope, Editha 
 
 . 310 
 
 Parsons, William 
 
 201 
 
 Porlier, General 
 
 34 
 
 Paston, Margaret 
 
 . 259 
 
 Porter, William 
 
 . 249 
 
 Pattison, Susan 
 
 : 236 
 
 Porter, who died sudden 
 
 
 Pearce, Dickv 
 
 . 485 
 
 ly under a load, on a 
 
 . 453 
 
 Peck, Mr. " . 
 
 . 478 
 
 Potter, on a 
 
 . 459 
 
 Peel, 1st Sir Robert 
 
 406 
 
 Pottinger, Major Eldrec 
 
 I 48 
 
 Peel, Lady 
 
 . 406 
 
 Powell, the pedestrian 
 
 . 440 
 
 Peel, 2ud Sir Robert 
 
 . 407 
 
 Powell, William 
 
 . 199 
 
 513 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Powell, William 
 
 . 200 
 
 Robinson, Rev. William 
 
 . 135 
 
 Preston, Robert 
 
 . 463 
 
 Robinson, William 
 
 . 141 
 
 Price, Henry 
 
 . 417 
 
 Rodney, Admiral Lord 
 
 65 
 
 Price, Mrs. 
 
 . 417 
 
 Rogers, Henry 
 
 . 465 
 
 Prior, Matthew 
 
 . 295 
 
 Rogers, Mary 
 
 . 349 
 
 Prior, Matthew 
 
 . 295 
 
 Rogers, Rebecca 
 
 . 496 
 
 Prior, Matthew 
 
 . 296 
 
 Rogers, Samuel 
 
 . 322 
 
 Prior, Matthew 
 
 . 296 
 
 Rogers, Samuel 
 
 . 504 
 
 Prior, Matthew 
 
 . 297 
 
 Roscoe, Ann 
 
 . 253 
 
 Prissick, George 
 
 . 455 
 
 Ross, Major General 
 
 43 
 
 Pritchard, Mrs. 
 
 . 198 
 
 Rotherham, Epitaph at 
 
 . 240 
 
 Pritchard. Mary 
 
 . 241 
 
 Rousseau, John James 
 
 . 331 
 
 Pritchard, Richard 
 
 . 241 
 
 Rousseau, John James 
 
 . 33L 
 
 Procilius 
 
 . 465 
 
 Rousseau, John James 
 
 . 331 
 
 Prosser, John 
 
 . 350 
 
 Routleigh, George 
 
 . 450 
 
 Prussia. Queen of 
 
 16 
 
 Rowe, Mr. 
 
 . 356 
 
 Puckering, Sir John 
 
 . 394 
 
 Rowe, Frank . 
 
 . 357 
 
 Puckering, Lady 
 
 , 394 
 
 Rowe, Mrs. 
 
 . 250 
 
 Pulteney, Daniel 
 
 . 384 
 
 Rowe, Nicholas 
 
 . 274 
 
 Purcell, Henry 
 
 . 210 
 
 Rowe, Nicholas 
 
 . 275 
 
 Purdon, Edward 
 
 . 307 
 
 Rowe, Philip 
 
 . 356 
 
 Pye, Eppitie 
 
 . 346 
 
 Rowell, Ann 
 
 . 164 
 
 
 
 Royston, Sarah 
 
 . 165 
 
 Quelche, Ralph and Mrs 
 
 . 245 
 
 Rumbolt, Stephen 
 
 . 345 
 
 Quin, James 
 
 . 205 
 
 Russell, Lord John 
 
 394 
 
 Quin, James 
 
 . 205 
 
 Russell, Francis 
 
 . 394 
 
 Quinlivan, Mary 
 
 . 171 
 
 Rutter, Bishop 
 
 105 
 
 Quite well at ten 
 
 . 475 
 
 
 
 
 
 S r, Eliza 
 
 . 158 
 
 Racine 
 
 . 334 
 
 Saffin, Thomas 
 
 . 169 
 
 Railway Engineer 
 
 456 
 
 Sailor, on a 
 
 83 
 
 Rainolds, Dr. John 
 
 . 122 
 
 Sailor, on a 
 
 85 
 
 Raleigh, Sir Walter 
 
 306 
 
 Salome, Margaret 
 
 235 
 
 Raleigh, Sir Walter 
 
 . 307 
 
 Samsoe 
 
 329 
 
 Raleigh, Sir Walter 
 
 307 
 
 Samson, Tam . 
 
 483 
 
 Ralph, William 
 
 482 
 
 Sancroft, Archbishop 
 
 104 
 
 Randall, John 
 
 361 
 
 Sandeman, Robert 
 
 445 
 
 Raphael 
 
 . 194 
 
 Sandwich, Earl of 
 
 69 
 
 Reader, whoe'er 
 
 464 
 
 Saon 
 
 333 
 
 Rector, on a 
 
 119 
 
 Sardanapalus . 
 
 1 
 
 Reddyard, John 
 
 . 213 
 
 Sardanapalus . 
 
 1 
 
 Reeve, Clara 
 
 289 
 
 Saunderses, on the 
 
 488 
 
 Religious Disputants, on 
 
 2 488 
 
 Scarlett, R. 
 
 341 
 
 Rench, Nathaniel 
 
 340 
 
 Scarron, Paul 
 
 332 
 
 Reynolds, Sir Joshua 
 
 193 
 
 Schoolmistress, for 8 
 
 t 
 
 Rich, William 
 
 345 
 
 country 
 
 502 
 
 Richmond, Duke of 
 
 . 398 
 
 Scipio, Africanus 
 
 486 
 
 Rigg, on 6 young persons 
 
 I 
 
 Scold, on a 
 
 237 
 
 named 
 
 86 
 
 Scold, on a 
 
 237 
 
 Riou, Captain . 
 
 39 
 
 Scold, on a 
 
 239 
 
 Robespierre 
 
 382 
 
 Scott, Rev. George 
 
 119 
 
 Robinson, Ellen Jane 
 
 136 
 
 Scott, Grace 
 
 225 
 
 Robinson, Marianne 
 
 136 
 
 Scott, Hon. John 
 
 402 
 
 Robinson, Mary 
 
 202 
 
 Scott, Hon. John 
 
 402 
 
 Robinson, Sally 
 
 141 
 
 Scott, Margaret 
 
 338 
 
 Robinson, Susannah 
 
 254 
 
 Scott, Maria . 
 
 152 
 
 514 
 
INDEX. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Scott, Mr. 
 
 403 
 
 Spong, John 
 
 454 
 
 Scott, Hon. W. H. J. 
 
 401 
 
 Spragg, Anne 
 
 . 174 
 
 Scotte, R. 
 
 351 
 
 Spurrer, Walter 
 
 89 
 
 Scrivenor, William 
 
 449 
 
 St. Evremond, Charles D 
 
 . 318 
 
 Selby, Dorothy 
 
 . 435 
 
 St. John's, Leeds, at 
 
 . 483 
 
 Selwyn, John . 
 
 380 
 
 St. Margaret's, Ipswich, at 264 
 
 Sevenoaks, Epitaph at 
 
 475 
 
 St. Mary Elms, Ipswich.at 351 
 
 Seward, Miss 
 
 303 
 
 St. Olave, Epitaph at 
 
 . 492 
 
 Sexton's 2 Wives, Tom 
 
 . 247 
 
 St. Vincent, Earl of 
 
 60 
 
 Shakspeare, William 
 
 . 264 
 
 Stafford, Dr. 
 
 . 184 
 
 Shakspeare, William 
 
 265 
 
 Stainton, Elizabeth 
 
 . 419 
 
 Shakspeare, William 
 
 . 266 
 
 Standen, Anthony 
 
 , 379 
 
 Shakspeare, Mrs. 
 
 . 267 
 
 Stanley, Miss 
 
 . 372 
 
 Shaw, Eliza 
 
 . 340 
 
 Stanley, Sir Thomas 
 
 . 397 
 
 Shaw, Huntingdon 
 
 . 195 
 
 Stay, Christian, stay 
 
 . 163 
 
 Shaw, John 
 
 . 179 
 
 Staymaker, on a 
 
 . 448 
 
 Shaw, William 
 
 . 181 
 
 Stearne, James 
 
 . 460 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 
 
 319 
 
 Stedman, Captain J. G 
 
 . 302 
 
 Shenstone, William 
 
 277 
 
 Stenson, Augustus 
 
 . 450 
 
 Sheridan, Richard B. 
 
 . 202 
 
 Stephen and Mary 
 
 . 246 
 
 Sheridan, Mrs. 
 
 201 
 
 Stephen Little 
 
 . 211 
 
 Sheridan, Dr. Thomas 
 
 . 288 
 
 Stephenson, George 
 
 424 
 
 Sherland, Edward 
 
 180 
 
 Stepney, Georgej 
 
 . 288 
 
 Short, yet how pleasing 
 
 ; 144 
 
 Sterne, Rev. Laurence 
 
 . 125 
 
 Shovel, Sir Cloudesley 
 
 45 
 
 Sterne, Rev. Laurence 
 
 , 125 
 
 Shovel, Sir Cloudesley 
 
 46 
 
 Sterne, Rev. Laurence 
 
 . 126 
 
 Shuter, Ned 
 
 . 203 
 
 Sterne, Miss 
 
 . 170 
 
 Silton, Epitaph at 
 
 258 
 
 Stevens, Robert 
 
 . 502 
 
 Similis 
 
 24 
 
 Stevens William 
 
 . 434 
 
 Simpson, George 
 
 101 
 
 Stonhouse, Rev. Sir Jas 
 
 
 Since God to take 
 
 152 
 
 M.D. 
 
 182 
 
 Sisters, on 4 
 
 167 
 
 Stonhouse, Sarah 
 
 . 182 
 
 Sisters, on Twin 
 
 154 
 
 Stop traveller 
 
 95 
 
 Skerrett, Major Genera 
 
 I 54 
 
 Stowell, Lord 
 
 403 
 
 Sleep on fair maid 
 
 869 
 
 Strafford, Earl of 
 
 393 
 
 Sloane, Sir Hans 
 
 183 
 
 Strange, Sir John 
 
 503 
 
 Smith, Isaac 
 
 81 
 
 Suger, the abbe 
 
 . 133 
 
 Smith, Richard 
 
 454 
 
 Suggate, Mary 
 
 490 
 
 Smith, Sarah 
 
 252 
 
 Sullen, John 
 
 470 
 
 Smith, Sir Sidney 
 
 70 
 
 Sully, Duke of 
 
 63 
 
 Smith, William 
 
 94 
 
 Sussex, Duke of 
 
 22 
 
 Smithson, Robert 
 
 412 
 
 Swallowfield, Epitaph at 
 
 146 
 
 So, John 
 
 497 
 
 Swannell, Harriett 
 
 . 143 
 
 Soldier, on an old 
 
 82 
 
 Swannell, James 
 
 143 
 
 Soldier, on a 
 
 85 
 
 Swift, Dr. Jonathan 
 
 116 
 
 Soldiers, on 2 Danish 
 
 90 
 
 Swinbourne, Ursula 
 
 217 
 
 Somerset, John 
 
 502 
 
 Symonds, William 
 
 474 
 
 Somerville, William 
 
 281 
 
 
 
 Son, on an only 
 
 160 
 
 Taggart, John 
 
 461 
 
 Sot, on an ignorant drunke 
 
 n 360 
 
 Tailor, on a 
 
 461 
 
 South Wooton, Epitaph a 
 
 t 471 
 
 Talfourd, Justice 
 
 409 
 
 SoHthcote, Joanna 
 
 421 
 
 Tallow Chandler, on a 
 
 452 
 
 Southey, Robert 
 
 321 
 
 Tallow Chandler, on £ 
 
 i 
 
 Southey, Robert 
 
 322 
 
 corpulent 
 
 458 
 
 Spalding, Joseph 
 
 83 
 
 Tappy, James 
 
 217 
 
 Spencer, Edmund 
 
 269 
 
 Tasso, Bernardo 
 
 329 
 
 515 
 
EPITAPHS, ETC. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Tasso, Torquato 
 
 . 329 
 
 Virgin, for a 
 
 . 369 
 
 Tattersell, Captain N. 
 
 75 
 
 
 
 Tattersell, Mrs. 
 
 75 
 
 Waddingham, Epitaph at 353 
 
 Taylor, Dr. Rowland 
 
 . 137 
 
 Wade, Field Marshal 
 
 52 
 
 Taylor, Dr. Rowland 
 
 . 137 
 
 Wager, Admiral Sir C. 
 
 37 
 
 Taylor, Dr. Rowland 
 
 . 138 
 
 Wakefield, Epitaph at 
 
 . 226 
 
 Taylor, John 
 
 . 312 
 
 Walker, Dr. 
 
 . 276 
 
 Teddy, Poor 
 
 . 496 
 
 Waller, Edmund 
 
 . 289 
 
 The vernal grass 
 
 . 152 
 
 Waller, Lady Jane 
 
 . 233 
 
 Themistocles 
 
 23 
 
 Walpole, Lady 
 
 . 256 
 
 Theodore, Anthony I. 
 
 15 
 
 Walsall, Epitaph at 
 
 . 496 
 
 Theodore, Col. Frederic! 
 
 c 15 
 
 Walton, Izaak 
 
 . 299 
 
 Theodore, Paleologus 
 
 13 
 
 Walton, Mrs. 
 
 . 299 
 
 Thickness. Miss 
 
 . 160 
 
 Walworth, Sir William 
 
 . 376 
 
 Thomas, Elizabeth Emm 
 
 a 491 
 
 Warburton, Bishop 
 
 . 108 
 
 Thomas and his Wife 
 
 239 
 
 Ward, Dr. 
 
 . 838 
 
 Thompson, Francis 
 
 482 
 
 Washington, Gen. George 33 
 
 Thomson, James 
 
 267 
 
 Waterhouse, Rev. Joshua 100 
 
 Thomson, James 
 
 268 
 
 Waters, James 
 
 . 465 
 
 Thorpe, Major Samue 
 
 1 71 
 
 Watson, John 
 
 . 438 
 
 Thou lovely babe 
 
 140 
 
 Watt, James 
 
 . 427 
 
 Thwaits, Francis 
 
 149 
 
 Watts, Dr. Isaac 
 
 . 134 
 
 Thynne, Thomas 
 
 103 
 
 Watts, Dr. Isaac 
 
 135 
 
 Tibullus and Virgil 
 
 323 
 
 Webb, Dame Elizabeth 1> 
 
 \. 487 
 
 Tickell, Thomas 
 
 290 
 
 Webb, William 
 
 464 
 
 Tighe, Mrs. 
 
 285 
 
 Webster, iudmund 
 
 439 
 
 Tindal, Judge 
 
 409 
 
 We ver, John 
 
 . 318 
 
 Tipper, Thomas 
 
 427 
 
 Wells. Mr. 
 
 499 
 
 Titian 
 
 193 
 
 Welshman, James 
 
 256 
 
 Tollemache, Sir Lionel 
 
 387 
 
 Wentworth, Lady Marie 
 
 t 371 
 
 Tollemache, Sir Lionel . 
 
 388 
 
 Wesley, Rev. Charles 
 
 114 
 
 Tollemache, Sir Lionel . 
 
 388 
 
 Wesley, Rev. John 
 
 138 
 
 Tollemache, Sir Lionel . 
 
 388 
 
 West, John 
 
 354 
 
 Tollemache, Sir Lionel . 
 
 389 
 
 West. Dr. Thomas 
 
 185 
 
 Tonson, Jacob 
 
 315 
 
 Wtstbury, Epitaph at 
 
 98 
 
 Tracy, Sir William de 
 
 433 
 
 West bury, Epitaph at 
 
 253 
 
 Tradescants, on the 5 
 
 420 
 
 Westcott, Capt. 
 
 72 
 
 Traitor, on a 
 
 94 
 
 Westerham, Epitaph at 
 
 263 
 
 Trehearne John 
 
 218 
 
 Westerham, Epitaph at 
 
 351 
 
 Trumbull, Sir William . 
 
 381 
 
 Weston, Epitaph at 
 
 359 
 
 ,Tully General 
 
 352 
 
 What is man's life 
 
 493 
 
 Tyrer, Rev. Ralph 
 
 134 
 
 Wheatcroft, Mrs 
 
 251 
 
 
 
 Whiston, Rev. William 
 
 120 
 
 Underneath this stone 
 
 169 
 
 White, Deborah 
 
 352 
 
 Underwood, Captain 
 
 90 
 
 White, George 
 
 162 
 
 Underwood, John 
 
 475 
 
 White, Gilbert 
 
 319 
 
 Unwin, Mrs. 
 
 281 
 
 Whit.', Job 
 
 463 
 
 
 
 W'hite, Mary 
 
 263 
 
 Yanbrucjh, Sir John 
 
 414 
 
 White. Henry Kirke 
 
 297 
 
 Vandycke, Anthony 
 
 193 
 
 Whitehead, Paul 
 
 817 
 
 Yenning, Walter 
 
 430 
 
 Whiten, Ann 
 
 16S 
 
 Yere, Sir Francis 
 
 . 44 
 
 Whit more, Ladv 
 
 225 
 
 Yernon, James 
 
 350 
 
 Wickliffe, John" 
 
 305 
 
 Vernon, John , 
 
 441 
 
 Wife, on a beloved 
 
 224 
 
 Vernon, Catherine 
 
 161 
 
 Wife, on a good 
 
 224 
 
 Virgil, 
 
 324 
 
 Wife, on a good 
 
 227 
 
 IG 
 
INDEX. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 
 P \OE 
 
 Wife, on a good. 
 
 . 230 
 
 Wolley, Adam . 
 
 339 
 
 Wife, on a bad 
 
 . 2^6 
 
 Wolley, Grace . 
 
 . 339 
 
 Wife, on a bad 
 
 . 237 
 
 Woman, on a quarrelsome 237 
 
 Wightman, Rev. Dr. 
 
 . 115 
 
 Woman and her 3 daughters 254 
 
 Wilkes, John 
 
 . 882 
 
 Woman, on a voung 
 
 . 157 
 
 Wilkie, Sir David 
 
 . 195 
 
 Woollett, William 
 
 . 195 
 
 William III. 
 
 14 
 
 Worby, Elizabeth 
 
 . 226 
 
 Williams, Sally 
 
 . 466 
 
 Wordsworth, William 
 
 . 313 
 
 Williams, Mary 
 
 . 229 
 
 Worlingworth, Epitaph a 
 
 t 229 
 
 Willington, Jane 
 
 . 349 
 
 Worsdale, James 
 
 192 
 
 Willock, Sarah 
 
 . 353 
 
 Wotton, Sir Henry 
 
 284 
 
 Willson, Peter 
 
 84 
 
 Wray, William 
 
 494 
 
 Wills, Joseph 
 
 . 457 
 
 Wren, Sir Christopher 
 
 411 
 
 Wilson, Bishop 
 
 . 105 
 
 Wren, Sir Christopher 
 
 411 
 
 Wilson, Captain Henry 
 
 69 
 
 Wren, Richard. 
 
 472 
 
 Wilson, Sir John 
 
 . 392 
 
 Wright, Joseph 
 
 458 
 
 Wimbledon. Epitaph at 
 
 . 157 
 
 Wright, John . 
 
 83 
 
 Winche, Judge 
 
 . 379 
 
 Wright, John . 
 
 470 
 
 Winchester, Marquis of 
 
 . 382 
 
 Wynne, Dr. William 
 
 113 
 
 Winchester, Marchioness 
 
 of 172 
 
 Wynter, Sir Edward 
 
 425 
 
 Windham, Thomas 
 
 . 466 
 
 
 
 Wingfield, Epitaph at 
 
 . 501 
 
 Yale, Elihu . 
 
 425 
 
 With deepest thoughts 
 
 . 501 
 
 York, Richard Duke of 
 
 8 
 
 Withers, George 
 
 . 282 
 
 York, Richard Duke of 
 
 19 
 
 Withers, Gen. Henry 
 
 37 
 
 York, Edward Duke of 
 
 19 
 
 Witty Epitaphs 
 
 472 
 
 Young, Rev. Edward 
 
 128 
 
 Wives, on a man's two 
 
 246 
 
 Young, Elizabeth 
 
 128 
 
 Wolfe, Gen. . 
 
 33 
 
 Youth, on a 
 
 159 
 
 Wolfe, Gen. . 
 
 34 
 
 Youth, on a 
 
 171 
 
 Wolfe, Gen. . 
 
 446 
 
 
 
 Wolfe, Gen, . 
 
 447 
 
 Zosima 
 
 464 
 
 Wolflf, Matty . 
 
 235 
 
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 THE END. 
 
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