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fibi parum indulgentem: Æternitati femper attentam, omne fere virtutis nomen commendavit.

Nata Nortoniæ Regis, in agro Varvicenfi, anno MDCLXIX; obiit MDCCLIX.

Cum NATHANAELE illorum filio, qui natus MDCCXII, cum vires, et animi, et corporis multa pollicerentur, anno MDCCXXXVII, vitam brevem piâ morte finivit.

2. AT BROMLEY, IN KENT.

Hic conduntur reliquiæ
ELIZABETHÆ

Antiqua Jarvifiorum gente,
Peatlinge, apud Leiceftrienfes, ortæ;
Formofæ, cultæ, ingeniofæ, piæ;
Uxoris, primis nuptiis, HENRICI PORTER,
Secundis, SAMUELIS JOHNSON;

Qui multum amatam, diuque defletam
Hoc lapide contexit.

Obiit Londini, menfe Mart.

A. D. MDCCLIII.

3. IN WATFORD CHURCH.

IN the vault below are deposited the remains of JANE BELL, wife of JOHN BELL, Efq. who, in the fifty-third year of her age, furrounded with many worldly bleffings,

heard, with fortitude and compofure truly great, the horrible malady, which had for fome time begun to afflict her,

pronounced incurable;

and for more than three years,

endured with patience and concealed with decency, the daily tortures of gradual death;

continued to divide the hours not allotted to devotion, between the cares of her family, and the converse of her friends;

rewarded the attendance of duty,

and acknowledged the offices of affection; and while fhe endeavoured to alleviate by chearfulness, her husband's fufferings and forrows, increased them by her gratitude for his care, and her folicitude for his quiet.

To the memory of these virtues, more highly honoured as more familiarly known, this monument is erected by JOHN BELL.

She died in the month of October, 1771.

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4. IN STREATHAM CHURCH.

Juxta fepulta eft

HESTER MARIA SALISBURY,

THOME COTTON de Combei mere,
Baronetti, Ceftrienfis, Filia;
JOHANNIS SALISBURY Armigeri,
Flintienfis, uxor ;
Forma felix, felix ingenio,
Omnibus jucunda, fuorum amantiffima.
Linguis, Artibufque ita exculta
Ut loquenti nunquam deeffent
Sermonis nitor, fententiarum flofculi,
Sapientiæ gravitas, leporum gratia.
Modum fervandi adeo perita
Ut domeftica inter negotia literis
Oblectaretur,

Et literarum inter delicias rem

Familiarem fedulo curaret,
Multis illi multos annos precantibus
Diri carcinomatis* veneno contabuit,
Viribufque vitæ paulatim refolutis
E terris meliora fperans emigravit.
Nata 1707, Nupta 1739, Obiit 1773-

* Cancer.

5. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

OLIVARI GOLDSMITH

Poeta. Phyfici. Hiftorici.

Qui nullum ferè fcribendi genus
Non tetigit.

Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit
Sive Rifus effent movendi
Sive Lacrymæ.

Affectuum potens at lenis Dominator
Ingenio fublimis-Vividus Verfatilis
Oratione grandis nitidus Venustus
Hoc Monumentum Memoriam coluit
Sodalium Amor

Amicorum Fides

Lectorum Veneratio

Natus Hibernia Fornia Lonfordienfis

In Loco cui Nomen Pallas

Nov. xxix. MDCCXXXI.
Eblanæ Literis inftitutus

Obiit Londini

April iv. MDCCLXXIV.

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