Ottory St. Mary, Devonshire. Near this marble lies to rest, Of John, and Richard Cooke, the dust; Till death and grave give up their dead. King's Teignton, Devonshire. The inhabitants of which were formerly much afflicted with agues. Richardus Adlam, hujus Ecclesiæ Apostrophe ad Mortem ; Dam'd tyrant! can't prophaner blood suffice? Must priests that offer be the sacrifice? Go tell the genii that in Hades lye, Till some just Nemesis avenge our cause, Stepney Church-Yard. A flat stone over William Wheatley, 1683. I pray now tread most neatly: Battersea Church. On a brass plate are these words: HUGH MORGAN, LATE OF BATTERSEY, ESQ. Sleepeth here in peace: Whom men did late admire for worthful parts.-To queen Elizabeth he was chief pothecary, till her death. And in his science as he did excel, In her high favour he did always dwell. Frank to the poor, rich in content of mind. On the same stone another plate thus inscribed: Cui Hic jacet venerabilis Vir Hugo Morgan, Moriebatur 13 die Septembr. Anno Dom. 1613. Robertus Morgan generosus, ejus ex fratre nepos, Saxum hoc amoris ergô Posuit. On the tomb-stone of a young man, who died in consequence of a broken leg, and whose life, previous to that accident, had been very intemperate. In life's gay prime a thousand joys I sought, In riper years affliction's smarting rod, And pains and wounds, taught me to know my God; On a Friend. Though here in death thy relicks lie, Shall, mingling sighs, be heard to mourn; On Lansdown Hill, near Bath. SIR BEVIL GRANVILLE, Knighted at Berwick on Tweed, June 23d, 1639—He raised considerable forces at his own charge, in defence of king Charles I. against the parliament —At the battle of Lansdown, near Bath (July 5, 1643,) he led on a party of horse to charge sir William Waller, who had fortified himself on the hill, the summit of which sir Bevil gained, and sustained two full charges of the enemies horse, but the third charge his horse failing and giving ground, he received, after other wounds, a blow on the head, with a poll-axe, with which he fell. Lord Clarendon numbers him among those that were the life and soul of the king's cause in the western parts of England. His death was no little grief to the king, who, as it appears, designed him the dignity of an earl, which his son, king Charles II. repeats in a patent dated the 27th of his reign, where he grants to all his posterity, the privileges and honor that the sons and daughters of peers enjoy, and in the same quality and degree, as if he had lived to enjoy those titles of honour designed him by his said majesty's royal father K. Charles F. and which, after the restoration, was conferred on his eldest son. This monument was erected by order of the late lord Lansdown, to the honor of his lordship's ancestor, as near as possible to the spot where this brave gentleman was killed on the north side is the following inscription. Conquest or death was all his thoughts, so fire His courage work'd like flames, cast heat about But took new force from his aspiring hand'; And proud to fall with him, sworn not to yield, When now encompass'd round the victor stood, He fell, and made the waves his monument, Stepney. Susanna Ell, the wife of Richard Ell, died 17th To say an Ell lies here, ev'n that alone They are embalm'd, and lodg'd in good men's hearts, |