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 Charles the Second
Invited him into England.

He was no 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,
may be justly ranked

Who

Among the best writers of his time,

His friends have erected this monument.

Westminster Abbey.

SIR CLOUDSLEY SHOVEL, Knt. and Bart.
Rear Admiral of Great Britain;
And

Admiral and commander in chief of the fleet,
The just rewards

Of his long and faithful services.
He was

Deservedly beloved of his country,

And esteemed, tho' dreaded by his enemies,
Who had often experienced

His conduct and courage:
Being shipwreck'd

On the rocks of Scilly,
In his voyage from Toulon,
The 22d day of October, 1707, at night,
In the 57th year of his age,
His fate was lamented by all
But especially

The sea-fairing part of the nation,

To whom he was

A generous patron, and 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.

Sir C Shovel was born about the year 1650, in the county of Norfolk, of parents rather in the lower rank of life. He was first put apprentice to a shoe-maker, but disliking the trade, he left it and went to sea. He was at first cabin-boy with sir Christopher Mynns; but applying to the study of navigation with great industry, his skill as a seamen soon raised him above that station. When lieutenant he was twice sent by sir John Narborough to remonstrate at Tripoli to the Dey who treated him with great insolence, but on the third time he seized the guard-ship, and burnt four others without losing a man, which so terrified the Tripolins that they sued for peace.-After this he was made captain of the Sapphire, a fifth rate ship. He was knighted by king William, and when rear admiral of the red, shared the glory of the victory of La Hogue. Soon after the battle of Malaga he was presented by prince George to queen Anne, who received him graciously, and next year employed him as commander in chief. After doing essential service to his country in a number of brilliant actions, on the 22d of October, 1707, at night, his ship with three others, was cast away on the rocks of Scilly. All on board perished. His body was found by some fishermen on the island of Scilly, who stripped it of a valuable ring, and afterwards buried it. Mr. Paxton the purser of the Arundel, hearing of this, found out the fellows, and obliged them to discover where they had buried the body. He carried it on board his own ship to Portsmouth, from whence it was conveyed to London, and interred with great solemnity in Westminster Abbey. And this monument was erected to his memory by direction of the queen.

ON STEPHEN SPOONER.

Death hath time borrow'd of our neighbour Spooner, Whose wife much sorrow'd that he died no sooner.

Westminster Abbey.

Here lies

GEOFFERY CHAUCER:'

The prince of all the ancient
English Poets.

Art thou desirous of knowing

The

year

i

and time of his death?

It was on the 25th of October, 1400,

That he rested from his labours.

N. Brigham was at the expence of this tribute to His memory,

1556.

Here lies

Ready to start, with full hopes to save his distance, THOMAS TURF,

Formerly groom to Sir Marmaduke Match'em:

But was

Beat out of the world, on the first of April, 1787,

By that great Rockingham

Death.

He lived and died an honest man!

Here lies a groom, who longer life deserv'd,

Whose course was straight, from which he never swerv'd;

Yet, ere was quite complete his fiftieth round, * Grim death, at choak-jade.t brought him to the ground:

This tyrant oft to cross and jostle tried,

But not till now could gain the whip-hand side.

In youth he saw the high-bred cattle train❜d,
By gentlest means, and easiest trammel's reign'd.
He taught them soon the ending-stand to gain,
Swift as Camilla o'er the velvet plain;

Oft from the crack ones bear the prize away,
And grandly triumph in the blaze of day.
But of late years he train❜d the useful plough
To grace with yellow grain the naked brow;
And the green turf, which they were us'd to tread,
Affords the trembling oats with which they're fed.

O may this sod, with thorny texture bound,
Protect from foot prophane this sacred ground!
And may his colts and fillies‡ truly run,
Their beacon course,§ and see a later sun!

Otranto Castle, October 15, 1787.

* The Round or King's Plate Course.

OBLIVION.

A steep ascent in the Beacon Course, which is very trying

to bad bottomed horses.

His infant sons and daughters.

A long streight Course of four miles.