St. Paul's, Covent Garden.

Here lies the body of

Mr. JOHN EDWIN, Comedian,

Who departed this life October 31, 1790, 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,

E're icy death had smote this child of glee; And care resun'd his empire o'er the heart, When heav'n issued Edwin should not be,

As a tribute of friendship to the memory of the deceased, this stone was erected by Mr. Henry Redhead.

On two young men killed by Lightning, at Rookhill, December 23, 1790.

Reader, this stone solicits not thy tear,

Deem not this sudden stroke of heav'n severe;

But justly bear upon thy breast imprest,

This awful lesson which the dead suggest :

The rich may need (if stain'd by worldly strife)

Slow death's repentant pangs to purchase healthy

life;

The virtuous poor require no chast'ning rod,
Lightning may waft them to the throne of God,

Extract from Howell's Letters.

Dated July 1, 1684.

He says, "As I passed by St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleetstreet, I stepped into a stone-cutter's, to treat with the master for a stone to be put upon my father's tomb; and casting my eyes up and down, I spied a huge marble with a large inscription upon it, which was thus, to the best of my remembrance.

"Here lies John Oxenham, a goodly young man, in whose chamber, as he was struggling with the pangs of death, a bird with a white breast was seen fluttering about his bed, and so vanished.

"Here lies also Mary Oxenham, sister of the above John, who died the next day, and the same apparition was in the room."

Another sister is spoken of then.

"Here lies hard by James Oxenham, the son of the said John, who died a child in his cradle, a little after, and such a bird was seen fluttering about his head a little before he expired, which vanished afterwards."

At the bottom of the stone:

"Here lies Elizabeth Oxenham, the mother of the said John, who died sixteen years since, when such a bird with a white breast, was seen about her bed before her death.

"To all these there were divers witnesses, both Squires and Ladies, whose names were graven on the stone, which was to be sent to a town hard by Exeter, where this happened."

At St. Giles in the Fields,

Lies interred the body of

ANDREW MARVELL, Esq.

And a monument was intended to have been erected to his memory by the corporation of Kingston upon Hull; on which the follow→ ing inscription was to have been engraven: but the minister of the parish, through a spirit either of bigotry or envy, forbad both from being placed there.

Near this place

Lyeth the body of ANDREW MARVELL, Esq.
A man so endured by nature;

So improved by education, study, and travel;
So consummated by experience;

That joining the most peculiar graces of wit and
Learning with a singular penetration and

Strength of judgement, and exercising all these,
In the whole course of his life, with
An unutterable steadiness in the ways of virtue,
He became the ornament, and

Example of his age, beloved by good men,
Feared by bad, admired by all,

Though imitated, alas! by few,
And scarce paralleled by any :

But a tomb-stone can neither contain his
Character, nor is marble necessary to transmit
It to posterity; it is engraved on the minds
Of this generation, and will be
Always legible in his inimitable writings :
Nevertheless, he having served near
Twenty years successively in parliament, and that
With such wisdom, dexterity, integrity, and courage,
As became a true patriot,

The town of Kingston upon Hull, From whence he was constantly deputed to the Assembly, lamenting in his death the public loss, Have erected this monument of Their grief and gratitude, 1688. He died in the 58th year of his age, On the 16th of August, 1678.

This gentleman was born at Kingston upon Hull, in the year 1620, which place he represented in five successive parlia ments; during which time he never neglected his duty in the house, and constantly supported the privileges of his fellow subjects.

Being in very low circumstances, he told his constituents, that he could not discharge his duty to them, unless they allowed him his wages, which was only two shillings a day: the corporation not only complied with this request, but also rechose him at every election, during the remainder of his life.

The king was very desirous of bringing Marvell over to his measures; and for that purpose desired the Earl of Danby, high treasurer, to offer him any sum of money he thought proper to accept, on condition that he would vote for the court: it was some time before the Earl could find out Mr Marvel's lodgings; for his circumstances were so low, that he was obliged to reside up two pair of stairs, in an alley in the Strand: to this mean place the Earl went, where he found the upright patriot sitting in a room so poorly furnished, as even to disgrace the character of a footman.

As soon as Mr. Marvell saw the high treasurer of England enter his room, he concluded that he had made an appointment to meet some female of the town, and therefore told him he was mistaken; but the Earl shut the door and sat down. After a proper introduction, he told Mr. Marvell, that he came to bim by order of his majesty, with a present of a thousand pounds, and that he should have his choice of any place that he would accept, on condition of his voting for the court: to which the patriot answered, that he would do his duty to his country as long as he lived, without the least view of any other reward except the approbation of his own conscience. "If the court," says he, "can bring any bill into the house for the good of the people, nothing on my part shall be wanting to support it; but if otherwise, neither power shall frighten, nor money bribe me from my duty." The Earl begged of him, in the most earnest manner, to accept of the money without any conditions being stipulated; but he answer ed, that he would not so much as bring himself under the power of temptation; "for were I," says he, "to accept of