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[St. Laurence Jury.] Cheape Ward. [Monuments.] 47

[St. Laurence Jury.] Cheape Ward. [Monuments.]

jus Civitatis Aldermani venerabilis. Nec non Margeriæ Pyot Uxoris suæ, ut Fidelimissimæ, ita & Religiosissimæ. Qui quum in prospero rerum afflatu tranquille vitam transegiessent, tandem Annorum pleni, Pythagorico liberorum numero beati denario, omnium denique Bonorum suffragiis, laudibusque honorati, vitam auspicato initam, feliciter actam, fine quoque beato (carnis soluti ergastulo,) clauserunt. Hic quidem 19. die mensis Januarii, Anno Dom. 1619. Illa vero mensis Februarii, octavo vicessimo, Anno Dom. 1624. Et hic beatam manent Resurrectionem.

Quos connexit Amor verus,     
castumque cubile,
Queis longi dantur     
Nestoriique dies;
Unæ quibus Regio natalis,     
Dives, opima,
Unum quique Dei     
Templum adiere duo,
Per totam tenuit     
nos una Paracia vitam,
Sors rerum nobis     
una eademque fuit:
Denique (lector amans)     
quoniam convenimus ambo,
Nos mens una duos,     
nos rogus unum habet.

On the North side of the Chancel, a very fair Monument, with this Inscription.

M.S.

Prudens senator Mercimonii Indici,
Vigil Magister integræ famæ & Rei,
Domi Beatus conjuge atque liberis,
Poterat videri seculo felix suo,
Nisi lapidasset tot bona infestus filex,
Silex latentes cuspide lanians sinus,
Sed Christianus id mali vertit bene
Virtute adancta: Fluxa nam fastidiens,
Mercator Audax, Avidus uniri Deo,
Hac unione reliqua mutavit ibens.
Sub hoc Marmore expectat Resurrectionem Gulielmus Haliday ex Antiqua Halidaiorum Familia in Commitatu Glocest. Civis & Senator Londinensis, singulare, Integritatis, Prudentiæ & Pietatis, exemplar: In postquam VII. Annos inter purpuratós Patres urbis Rebus cum magna æquitatis & Sapientiæ laude vacasset, Indiæ societati prope Biennium quantum per ægritudinem licebat, summa cura præfuisset.

Longis ex calculo doloribus fractus,
Mente semper intacta, inter suorum
Amplexus & lacrymas, bonis desideratus,
Placide animam suo Creatori reposuit.
Anno ætatis 58. Febr. 14. Anno Dom. 1623.
Marito dilectissimo Susanna Henrici Roe Equitis, quondam Prætoris urbani Filia, Amisso compare suavissimo. M.P.
Parenti dulcissimo Anna Uxor Henrici Mildmæi Equitis, ex Nobilis. Mildmæorum prosapia, in comitatu Essexiæ.
Margareta nupta Edwardo Hungerford, militi ex illustri Hungerfordiorum domo in comitatu Wiltoniæ. M.M.P.P.

A very fair Stone in the South Isle, with this Inscription about it.

Here lyeth the body of Anne Barker, the Wife of John Barker, of London, Merchant, the Daughter of Thomas Westrow, Alderman of London: She deceased the 2. of August, 1629.

In the middle of the Stone, with their Arms at the four corners of it, these words.

Though we are dead, yet our lives are hid in Christ with God.
Christ is to me both in life and death advantage.
Though my flesh faileth; and my hear also, yet God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.


Here lies her Type, who was of late,
The prop of Belgia, stay of France,
Spains foil, Faiths shield, and Queen of State,
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:
In brief, of Women ne're was seen,
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.

Sithe Vertues Her immortal made,
Death (envying all that cannot dye)
Her earthy parts did so invade,
As in it wrackt self Majesty.
But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts,
That she still lives in loyal hearts.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.
Obiit 24, die Martii 1602.
Anno Regni 45.
ætatis suæ 70.]

Now for the Monuments of modern Date in this Church, (namely since the rebuilding of it) there be these erected and set up, and Stones laid over the Dead.

Modern Monuments.

J. S.

In the Chancel against the North Wall.

P.M.
Reverendissimi & Sanctissimi Præsulis JOANNIS TILLOTSON Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Concionatoris olim in hac Ecclesia per annos xxx. celeberrimi. Qui obiit Xo Kal. Decembr. MDCLXXXXIV. ætatis suæ LXIV. Hoc posuit Elizabetha Conjux ejus mæstissima.

Another Monument against the East Wall of the North Isle, for the Reverend BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE S.T.D. some time Vicar of this Church: a most learned and excellent Preacher. Ob. 1683. Aged 74.

The Inscription thereupon is as followeth:

Infra insulam mediam in Cancellis, situs est Reverend. BENJAMIN WHITCHCOTE, S.T.D. ex antiqua Prosapia in Agro Salopien. oriundus: Olim apud Cantabrienses,       Collegii
Emanuelensis Socius,
Regalis Præpositus Acceptissimus.
Tandem hujusque Ecclesiæ acceptissimus Vicarius. Quæ (præter cætera sua munia) quanta cum lau-

The I scription on his Monument.

de,

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