Lord Darnley her Hufband, who was a Native of England. Commiffioners were appointed to take Cognizance of her Caufe, Deputies fent from Scotland to accufe her, and York was named for the Place of Conference. This Commiffion was foon recalled, and the Matter brought to a Rehearing at Wemin fter, though without Effect. Her Confinement, which was a strict one, occasioned repeated Attempts, both at home and abroad, to deliver her, and even some Plots against the Life of Queen Elizabeth; which at laft occafioned, in 1584, an Affociation to be entered into by the Subjects of the Queen in her Delence. The Queen of Scots perceiving this to be formed for her Destruction, offered, among other things, to renounce all Claim to the Crown of England during Queen Elizabeth's Life: But this was rejected, upon Suggeftion, that there was no Hope of the Safety of the latter, if the former Thould enjoy her Freedom. In conféquence of this, the Queen of Scots being charged, in 1586, even by her own Secretaries, with having a Share in Babington's Plot, it was determined by the English Minifters to bring her to Trial; which was accordingly done in October that Year; and on the 25th of the fame Month Sentence was pronounced against her; which was confirmed a few Days after by the unanimous Confent of both Houfes of Parlia ment, who petitioned Queen Elizabeth, that it might be put in Execution. On the firft of February 1586-7. the Warrant was figned for her Death; but that Queen being defirous to have the Blame of the Action, as much as poffible, removed from herself, gave Orders to her Secretaries, Walfingham and Davison, to write to Sir Amias Paulet and Sir Drue Drury, the Queen of Scots Keepers, to make her fecretly away; but they declining the Office, her Majefty next Day commanded Davifon, that a Letter should be sent to Paulet for the fpeedy Execution of the Warrant. The Queen of Scots was accordingly beheaded, on the 8th of Fe bruary,

bruary, in the Hall of Fotheringay Caftle, and died with great Refolution, and an inviolable Attachment to the Romish Religion. Her Body was at firft interred in the Cathedral of Peterborough, and about twenty Years after removed to Westminster Abbey, by Order of her Son King James I. T. BIRCH.

The Profe Part of the Epitaph runs thus: To the gracious Memory and eternal Hope of Mary • Stuart, Queen of Scots, Dowager of France, Daugh⚫ter and fole Heirefs of James V. King of Scots;

and Great Grand-daughter of Henry the VIIth, by • Margaret his eldest Daughter, married to James IV. King of Scots: Defcended from Edward IV. King of England, by Elizabeth his eldest Daughter, Confort to Francis II. King of France; True and un• doubted Heiress to the Crown of England, and • Mother to the moft mighty Prince James, King

of Great Britain. She was of a most ancient and ' truly Royal Defcent, related to the greatest Princes • of all Europe; eminent for all Accomplishments of • Mind and Body. But fuch is the Viciffitude of human Things! after an Imprisonment of about twenty Years, and a firm but, alas! fuccefslefs • Struggle againft the Calumnies of the Malicious, the Sufpicions of the Timorous, and the Snares of the Implacable, the loft her Head! by an Act of ⚫ unparalleled Severity, and to the Difgrace of the • Sacredness of Majefty. With a noble Contempt of ⚫ the World, and a Soul fuperior to the Fear of Death, and to the Terror of the Executioner, leaving her Soul to Chrift, the Kingdom to her Son James, and to the Spectators of this atrocious Murder a Pattern of most exalted Fortitude, the compofedly fubmitted •her Royal Head to the Axe, and exchanged a precarious Life for the Eternity of Heaven, on the 18th of February 1587. aged 46.'

St. Faith's, under St. Paul's.

William Lambe, fo fometime was my Name,
Whiles I alyve did run my mortall Race;
Servynge a Prince of moft immortal Fame,
Henry the Eighth, who of his princely Grace
In his Chappell allowed me a Place.

By whofe Favour from Gentleman t' Efquire
I was prefer'd with Worship for my Hire.
With Wives three I joyned Wedlock Band,
Which all alive true Lovers were to mee,
Joane, Alice, and Joane, for fo they came to Hand,
What needeth Prayfe regarding their Degrees?
In wively Truth none stedfast more could be,
Who though in Earth Death's Force did once diffever,
Heaven yet, I truft, fhall joyne us all together.
O Lambe of God, which Sinne didft take away,
And as a Lambe was offered up for Sinne ;
Where I (poor Lambe) went from thy Flock aftray,
Yet thou, good Lord, vouchfafe thy Lambe to winne
Home to thy Folde, and holde thy Lambe therein :
That at the Day when Lambes and Goats shall sever,
Of thy choice Lambes Lambe may be one for ever.

This Lambe having left a perpetual Annuity to the Poor of this Parish, they are, upon receiving the faid Charity, enjoined to fay theie Verses:

I pray you all that receive Bread and Fence,
To fay the Lord's Prayer before you go hence.

Gloucester Cathedral..

Here lyes the Body of Samuel Bridger, Gent. wha departed this Life upon the 21ft Day of July, An. 1650.

Receiver of this College Rents, he paid
His Debt to Nature, and beneath he's laid

To

To reft, until his Summons to remove,
At the last Audit, to the Choir above.

Sherborne, Dorfetfhire.

On the Monument of the Honourable Robert Digby, and of his Sifter Mary, erected by their Father the Lord Digby, Annó 1727.

Go! fair Example of untainted Youth,
Of modest Wisdom, and pacific Truth;
Compos'd in Sufferings, and in Joy fedate,
Good without Noife, without Pretenfion great.
Juft of thy Word, in ev'ry Thought fincere,
Who knew no Wifh, but what the World might hear:
Of fofteft 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, bleft Maid, Attendant on his Doom,
Penfive haft follow'd to the filent Tomb,
Steer'd the fame Courfe to the fame quiet Shore,
Not parted long, and now to part no more!
Go then, where only Blifs fincere is known!
Go, where to love and to enjoy are one!

Yet take these Tears, Mortality's Relief,
And till we fhare your Joys, forgive our Grief:
These little Rites, a Stone, a Verfe, receive,
'Tis all a Father, all a Friend, can give.

A. POPE

Westminster Abbey.

Sidney, Earl of Godolphin, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, and Chief Minifter during the firft nine glorious Years of Queen Anne,

He

He died in the Year 1712. the 15 Day of September. Aged 67. and was buried near this Place; to whofe Memory this is offered, with the utmoft Gratitude, Affection, and Honour, by his much obliged Daughter-in-Law, Henrietta Godolphin.

This Nobleman was Member of Parliament in 1661. Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles II. Commiffioner of the Treafury 1679. in 1684 Secretary of State, then created Baron of Rialton in Cornwall by King James II. he was made Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, and Commiffioner for executing the Office of Lord High Treafurer. After the Revo lution, he was Firft Commiffioner of the Treafury, and foon after Lord Treasurer.

Sidney Earl of Godolphin was the filenteft and modefteft Man that perhaps was ever bred in a Court. He had a clear Apprehenfion, and dispatched Bufinefs with great Method, and with so much Temper, that he had no perfonal Enemies. But his Silence begot a Jealoufy, which hung long upon him. His Notions were for the Court; but his incorrupt and fincere Way of managing the Concerns of the Treafury, created in all People a very high Efteem for him. He had true Principles of Religion and Virtue, and never heaped up Wealth: So that, all things being laid together, he was one of the wifeft and worthieft Men employed in that Age. Bifhop BURNET.

The fame Hiftorian observes in another Place, That he was a Man of the clearest Head, the calmeft Temper, and the moft incorrupt of all the Minifters he had ever known; and that, after having been thirty Years in the Treasury, and during nine of thofe Lord Treafurer, as he was never once fufpected of Corruption, or of fuffering his Servants to grow rich under him, fo in all that Time his Eftate was not increased by him to the Value of 4000!.

He had a penetrating, contemplative Genius, a flow,