strensis, assisteret, strenuè dimicans occubuit. Erat Parentum optimorum Proles haudquaquam degener; Nec indignus tanto Ductore, Miles, DOMI, egregia Comitate ac Benevolentia, Integritate ac Modestiâ, incorruptâ erga amicos Fide, summâ in Deum & Parentes Pietate. MILITIÆ Fortitudine invictâ, indefessa laborum Tolerantiâ, Mente inter pericula inconcussâ, spectabilis. Tot tantisq; Virtutibus, privatis, civilibus, bellicis Clarus; Triste sui desiderium, omnibus quibuscúnq; innotuerat, reliquit. Illi verò longe tristissimum, qui consuetudinis perjucundæ, diuternæq; officiorum Conjunctionis Memor, Amico suo usq; deflendo, Honorarium hoc Marmor, ingentis Amoris monumentum exiguum, P.
Obiit A. D. MDCCIX. Ætat. suæ 29.

JOHANNI TWYSDEN, Gulielmi Twysden, Bart. & Franciscæ Uxoris Filio natu Octavo. Qui in Nave Prætoria, cujus erat è Pronavarchis, cum Cloudesleio Shovell, Britannicæ Classis Præfecto, Naufragus periit. A. D. MDCCVII. Ætat. suæ xxiv. Ne optimi Juvenis Memoria cum Corpore obrueretur, Cenotaphium hoc multas ei fuisse Virtutes, magnam de eo spem, Parentes concepisse, in omne ævum testatur.

JOSIÆ TWYSDEN, Gulielmi Twysden, Bart & Franciscæ Uxoris, Filio natu nono. Qui in Exercitu Britannico Centurio, Castellum de Agramont, prope Urbem Insulas in Flandria, oppugnans, Glande plumbeâ ictus cecidit, A. D. MDCCVIII. Ætat. suæ xxiii. Cadaver in Castra referri, & cum miltantibus Honoribus, quos optimè meruit, Juvenis fortissimus, sepeliri curavit HENEAGIUS frater: Heu! non diu superstes.

In the Middle Ile, Grave Stones,

For Mrs. Katherine Hyde. Dyed Feb. 22, 1716.

And,

For Mr. Tho. Tompion. Dyed 20 Nov. 1713. Aged 75.

Grave Stones in the Cross Ile, on the North Side of the Choir, over

Sir Tho. Nevyl, Bart. Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Charles II. and K. James II. Dyed 25. Feb. 1711, in the 87th Year of his Age.

Dame Sarah Nevyl, Wife of Sir Tho. Nevyl, Bart. Dyed 17. Oct. 1710. Aged 60.

John Richbell, Armig. Ob. Ap. 4, 1714. Ætat. suæ 19.

Dame Elizabeth Campbell, Widow, A. D. 1713.

In the Cloisters on the North Side,

John Colman, Esq; Born in the Parish of Killconnel in the County of Galway, and Kingdom of Ireland. He served the Royal Family, viz. K. Charles II. K. James II. of blessed Memories, with approved Fidelity, above 50 Years, and departed this Life, a true Christian, and loyal Subject, the 2d of Jun. 1709. Aged 84.

Christopher Chapman, dyed 1681, and Elizabeth his Daughter, dyed 11. Mar. 1680. And Meliora Chapman, Wife to the said Christopher, dyed 6. July, 1707. Aged 87.

Captain Geo. Sloughter: Born in Gloucestershire. He was Cornet to the first Duke of Ormond. Dyed 1 Jan. 1695.

Mrs. Mary Pomeroy, Sister to the said Captain Sloughter. Dyed 8. Oct. 1707.

On a Grave Stone near the Former:

What I gave I have:
What I spent I had:
What I lost I lost
By not giving it.

Tho. Ravenscroft, Armig. Ob. 20. Apr. 1708. Ætat. suæ 80.

Monuments on the East Side of the Cloisters.

Elizabeth the beloved Wife of Mr. Charles West, Daughter of Christopher Mansel, Esq; of the County of Bucks. She dyed the 7th of Nov. 1710. Morum suavitate facilis suis Desideratissima vixit. Pietate cœlo matura, levi suspirio animam efflavit. Et firma (quid enim non possit Fides?) resurgendi spe munita, quiescit.

On the West Side;

The Remains of Anne Davis, the most faithful, vertuous, and beloved Wife of David Davis, Yeoman-Usher of the most Honourable House of Peers. She dyed the 18th of Decemb. An. 1714. Aged 47.
And Walter Davis, their only Son. Dyed 22. Nov. 1708. Aged 6 Years.
And David Davis, Esq; who dyed Yeoman-Usher of the Black Rod, 25th of Octob. 1716. Aged 54 Years.

In this Abbey are also Mounmental Inscriptions for

Henry Wharton, A. M. sometime Chaplain to Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury. Ob. 1694.

Sir Lumley Robinson, Bart. Ob. 1684.

Dame Grace Gethin, Wife of Sir Richard Gethin, Bart. Ob. 1697.

Anthony Horneck, S. T. P. Prebendary of this Church. Ob 1696.

Richard Busby, S. T. P. Chief Master of Westminster School, and Prebendary of this Church. Ob. 1695.

Martha Birch, ob. 1703.

George Sprat, second Son of Tho. Sprat, S. T. P. sometime Dean of this Church. Ob. 1683.

On the North Side of the Quire.

Henry Purcel, the famous Musician, belonging to the Kings Chapel. Ob. 1695.

Sir. Tho. Duppa, Kt. Gentleman-Usher of the Black Rod. Ob. 1694.

Sir Gilbert Lort, Bart. Ob. 1698.

On the North Side of the Abbey;

Dr. Peter Heylyn, Sub-Dean of this Church. Ob. 1662.

His Monument hath had Violence offered it by rude Hands. He was a great Writer, hearty in King Charles the Firsts Interest, and a Sufferer for him. The Inscription on his Monument was made by his Friend Dr. Earl, Dean of this Church, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury.

Depositum mortale Petri Heylyn, S. Th. D. hujus Ecclesiæ Præbendarii & Subdecani, Viri plane memorabilis, egregiis dotibus instructissimi, judicio subacto, memoria ad prodigium tenaci. Cui adjunxit incredibilem in studiis patientiam. Quæ, cessantibus oculis, non cessarunt. Scripsit varia ac plurima, quæ jam manibus teruntur. Et argumentis non vulgaribus, stylo non vulgari suffecit: Constans ubiq; Ecclesiæ & Magestatis Regiæ Assertor;