"To the memory of Stephen Hales, Doctor in Divinity, Augusta, the mother of that best of Kings, George the Third, has placed this monument, who chose him, when living, to officiate as her Chaplain, and after he died, which was on the 4th of January 1761, in the 84th year of his age, honoured him with this marble.

About the tomb of HALES, whose fair design
And polish, great Augusta caus'd to shine,
Religion, hoary Faith, and Virtue wait,
And shed perpetual tears in mournful state.
But of the preacher render'd to his clay,
The voice of Wisdom still has this to say-
He was a man to hear affliction's cry,
And trace his Maker's works with curious eye.
O HALES! thy praises not the latest age
Shall e'er diminish, or shall blot thy page;
England, so proud of Newton, shall agree
She has a son of equal rank in thee."

In the Record Room, behind this monument, is the painting of a Stag, which was done by order of King Richard the Second; the following motto was on the collar:

When Julius Cæsar first came in,
About my neck he put this ring;
Whosoever doth me take,

Use me well for Cæsar's sake.

It is said he lived three or four hundred years. ISAAC BARROW-This monument is remarkable for a fine bust on the top of it, representing this truly great man, who, as his inscription shews, was Chaplain to King Charles II. Head of Trinity. College, Cambridge; Geometrical Professor of Gresham College, in London, and of Greek and Mathematics, at Cambridge. This great Divine, in his youth, travelled through most parts of Europe,

rope, and learned the most polite languages. His works have been said to be the foundation of all the divinity that has been written since his time. He died May 4, 1677, aged 47.

EDWARD WETENHALL, M. D.-Over Isaac Barrow's is a handsome monument for Dr. Wetenhall, an eminent physician, son of Bishop Wetenhall, who died Aug. 29, 1753. His father was Dr. Edward Wetenhall, who was first advanced to the See of Cork in Ireland, which he filled with great dignity for twenty years; but was afterwards translated from thence to Kilmore and Ross, which he held fourteen years. He died Nov. 12, 1713, aged 78.3

Adjoining to Dr. Wetenhall is an elegant monument, erected to the memory of Sir John Pringle, Baronet. Upon a pyramid of grey marble is placed a medallion of the deceased, within a festoon curtain of white marble. The inscription sets forth that he was Physician to the Army, the Princess of Wales, and their Majesties; President of the Royal Society. His medical and philosophical knowledge, his inviolable integrity, and truly Christian virtues, rendered him an honour to his age and country. He was born in Scotland, in April 1707; and died in London, in January 1782..

The next is a late-erected monument to the memory of Sir Robert Taylor, Knt. who was a famous architect-the Bank Buildings are some of his works. He died on the 26th of September 1788, aged 70 years. It consists only of an urn over a tablet, on which is the inscription.

THOMAS TRIPLETT. This gentleman was likewise a great Divine. He was born near Oxford, and educated at Christ Church, where he was esteemed a wit, a good Grecian, and a poet. In 1645, he was made Prebendary of Preston, in the

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Church of Sarum, and had also a living, which being sequestered in the rebellion, he fled to Ire land, and taught school in Dublin, where he was when King Charles I. was beheaded. Not liking Ireland, he returned to England, and taught school at Hayes, in Middlesex, till the Restoration, when he was made Prebendary of Westminster, and of Fenton, in the Church of York. He died at a good old age, July 18, 1670), much beloved and lamented.

Sir RICHARD COXE-Adjoining to Triplett's is a table monument of white marble, erected to the memory of this gentleman, who was Taster to Queen Elizabeth and King James I. and to the latter Steward of the Household; a man commended in his epitaph for his religion, humanity, chastity, temperance, friendship, beneficence, charity, vigilance, and self-denial. He was third son of Thomas Coxe, of Beymonds, in Hertfordshire, and died a bachelor, in the 69th year of his age, Dec. 13, 1625.

A small tablet to the memory of James Wyat, Esq. who was Architect of this Church, and Surveyor-General of his Majesty's Board of Works. Departed this life on the 4th day of Sept. 1813.

ISAAC CASAUBON.-This neat monument was erected by the learned Dr. Moreton, Bishop of Durham, to the memory of that profound scholar and critic whose name is inscribed upon it, and who, though a native of France, and in his younger years Royal Library-keeper of Paris, yet was so dissatisfied with the ceremonial part of the Romish worship, that upon the murder of his great patron Henry IV. he willingly quitted his native country, and at the earnest entreaty of King James 1. settled in England; where, for uncommon knowledge, he became the admiration of all men of learning. He died 1614, aged 55.

JOHN

JOHN ERNEST GRABE.-Over Casaubon's is a curious figure, large as life, representing this great man sitting upon a marble tomb, contemplating the sorrows of death, and the sorrows of the grave. He was a man deeply skilled in Oriental learning. He died Nov. 3, 1711, aged 46, and was buried at Pancras, near London. This monument was erected by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.

"To the memory of DAVIDGARRICK, who died in the year 1779, at the age of 63.

To paint fair Nature, 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 Garrick

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 Garrick 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. WEBBER Fecit."

Garrick's throwing aside the curtain, which discovers the medallion, is meant to represent his superior power to unveil the beauties of Shakespeare. Tragedy and Comedy are assembled with their respective attributes, to witness and approve the

scene.

The back-ground is composed of dove-coloured polished marble.

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WILLIAM CAMDEN- Next the west corner of this cross is an ancient monument, to the memory of the great recorder of our antiquities, who is represented in a half-length, in the dress of his time, with his left hand holding a book, and in his right his gloves, resting on an altar, on the body of which is a Latin inscription, setting forth "his indefatigable industry in illustrating the British antiquities, and his candour, sincerity, and pleasant good-humour in private life." He was son to Sampson Camden, citizen of London, and painter-stainer; was born in the Old Bailey, May 2, 1551, and received the first rudiments of his education at Christ Church Hospital. In 1566, he entered himself of Magdalen College, Oxford, but afterwards removed to Pembroke, where he became acquainted with Dr. Goodman, Dean of Westminster, by whose recommendation, in 1575, he was made second master of the Abbey School, and began the laborious work of his Antiquities, encouraged thereto and assisted by his patron, Dr. Goodman. In August 1622, he fell from his chair, at his house at Chisselhurst, in Kent, and never recovered, but lingered till Nov. 9, 1623, and then died, aged 74.

This monument was repaired and beautified at the charge and expence of the University of Oxford, and iron rails set before it.

These are all the memorable personages whose tombs adorn the walls of this division of the Abbey; but there are some names to be met with on the pavement, too considerable to be passed over unnoticed. Among these you will find Thomas Parr, of the county of Salop, born in 1483. lived in the reign of ten Princes, namely, Edward IV. Edward V. Richard III. Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edward VI. Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. aged 152 years, and was

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