violation, whose learned leaves have so preserved the antiquities of the nation.1 It was restored by the University of Oxford, from which, in his earlier struggles, he had vainly sought a fellowship and a degree one of the many instances of generous about 1780. repentance by which Oxford has repaid her shortcomings to her eminent sons. Restored Spelman. buried Oct. 'Opposite his friend Camden's monument,' though a little beyond the precincts of the transept, before the entrance of St. Nicholas's Chapel, is the grave of another antiquary, hardly less famous-Sir Henry Spelman, buried in his eighty24, 1641. first year, by order of Charles I., with much solemnity.3 He had lived in intimacy with all the antiquarians of that antiquarian time, and the patronage which he received, both from Archbishop Abbott and Archbishop Laud, well agrees with the two-sided character of the old knight, at once so constitutional and so loyal. If ever any book was favourable to the claims of the High Church party, it was the History ' of Sacrilege;' but even Spelman was obliged to stop his Glossary' at the letter L,' because there were three M's that scandalised the Archbishop-Magna Charta,'' Magnum Concilium Regis,' and 'M. At the foot of Camden's monument the Parliamentary historian May had been buried. If he were a biassed and partial writer, he lieth near a good ' and true historian indeed-I mean Dr. Camden.'4 Twiss, July 24, 1646. Under the Commonwealth this spot was consecrated. Strong, July to the burial of theologians." Twiss, the Calvinist Vicar of Newbury and Prolocutor of the Westminster 6 Assembly, Strong, the famous Independent, and Marshall, 4, 1654. I Winstanley's Worthies (1660). 2 Gibson's Life of Spelman. 3 Register. 4 Fuller's Worthies, ii. 259.-The expressive bust of Sir William SanderSanderson, son, the aged historian of July 18, Mary Stuart, James I., and 1676, aged 91. Charles I., was originally close to the spot where, with his wife, mother of the maids of honour,' he lies in the North Transept. Evelyn (Memoirs, ii. 420) was present at his funeral. It was removed to make way for Wager's monument, and now looks out from beneath that of Admiral Watson. 5 Two earlier Protestant divines had been already interred in the Abbey, Redmayne (1551), Master of Trinity, 1655. buried Outram, Aug. 25, Barrow, buried May the famous Presbyterian preacher, were all laid here until their disinterment in 1661. It became afterwards no less the centre of Royalist divines. In the place of Marshall, May's monument was raised the tablet of Dr. Trip- Nov. 23, lett, and then that of Outram, who wrote a once Triplett, celebrated book on sacrifice, both Prebendaries of July, 1670. Westminster. Beside them rests another far greater, buried also locally connected with Westminster Isaac 1679. Barrow. Doubtless had the best scholar in Eng- died May 4, 'land' (as Charles II. called him when he signed 7,1677. his patent for the Mastership of Trinity) died in his own great college, he would have been interred in the vestibule of Trinity chapel, which was to contain Newton's statue, as his portrait hangs by the side of that of Newton in Trinity hall. It was the singular connection of his office with Westminster School which caused his interment under the same roof which contains Newton's remains. He had come, as master after Master, to the election of Westminster scholars, and was lodged in one of the canonical houses that had a little stair to it out of the 'Cloisters,' which made him call it a man's nest.' He was there struck with high fever, and died from the opium which, by a custom contracted when at Constantinople, he administered to himself. Had it not been too inconvenient to carry him to 'Cambridge, there wit and eloquence had paid their tribute 'for the honour he has done them. Now he is laid in West'minster Abbey, on the learned side of the South Transept.'4 His monument was erected by the gratitude of his Barrow's friends, a contribution not usual in that respect peculiar to him among all the glories of that Church.' His epitaph was written by his dear friend Dr. Mapletoft.' His picture was never made from life, and the effigies on his 'tomb doth but little resemble him.' 'He was in person of the 2 age, and a monument. 'lesser size, lean and of extraordinary strength, of a fair and 'calm complexion, a thin skin, very susceptible of the cold; his eyes gray, clear, and somewhat shortsighted; his hair of a 'light auburn, very fine and curling.' Above Casaubon and Barrow is the monument erected by Harley, Earl of Oxford, to the illustrious Prussian scholar, Grabe, died Grabe,' the editor of the Septuagint and of Irenæus, Aug. 3. 1711, who, like Casaubon, found in the Church of England Pancras. a home more congenial than either Rome or Geneva could furnish. buried in St. buried April His monu ment. Looking down the Transept are three notable monuments, united chiefly by the bond of Westminster School, but also by Busby, that of learning and wit-Busby, South, and Vincent. 5, 1695. Busby, the most celebrated of schoolmasters before our own time, was doubtless the genius of the place for all the fifty-eight years in which he reigned over the School. To this, and not to the Abbey, belongs his history. But the recollection of his severity long invested his monument with a peculiar awe. 'His pupils,' said the profane wit of the last century, when they come by, look as pale as his marble, in remembrance of his severe exactions.'3 As Sir Roger de Coverley stood before Busby's tomb, he exclaimed, 'Dr. Busby, a great man, whipped my grandfather a very great man! I should have gone to him myself if I had not 'been a blockhead. A very great man!' From this tomb, it is said, all the likenesses of him have been taken, he having steadily refused, during his life, to sit for his portrait. He was buried, like a second Abbot Ware, under the black and white marble pavement which he placed along the steps and sides of the Sacrarium. Under those steps was laid South, who began his career at Westminster under Busby; and then, after his many vicissitudes of political tergiversation, polemical bitterness, and witty preaching, was buried, as Prebendary and Archdeacon of Westminster, with much solemnity,' South, died July 8, buried July 16, 1716. in his eighty-third year, by the side of his old master. 1 Secretan's Life of Nelson, p. 223.— He was buried in the Chancel of St. Pancras Church, it was believed from a secret sympathy with the Roman Catholics, who were buried in the adjacent cemetery. the same thought in Carmina Quadrigesimalia, first series, p. 66. Spectator, No. 139. One exception must be noticedthe portrait in the Headmaster's house-unlike all the others, and apparently from life. See Chapter VI. Vincent. Vincent followed the two others after a long interval.' His relations with Westminster were still closer than theirsScholar, Under-master, Headmaster, Prebendary and Dean in succession. Still his works on ancient commerce and navigation would almost have entitled him 29, 1815. to a place amongst the scholars of the Abbey, apart from his official connection with it. buried Dec. buried Feb. Not far from those indigenous giants of Westminster is the monument of Antony Horneck, who, though a German by birth and education, was, with the liberality of those Horneck, times, recommended by Tillotson to Queen Mary for a 4, 1696-7. stall in the Abbey. He was a most pathetic preacher, a person of saint-like life,' the glory of the Savoy Chapel, where his enormous congregations caused it to be said that his parish reached from Whitechapel to Whitehall. He presented the rare union of great pastoral experience, unflinching moral courage, and profound learning. The Hebrew epitaph bears witness to his proficiency in Biblical and Rabbinical literature. buried July His grave. Another Prebendary of Westminster, Herbert Thorndyke,' lies in the East Cloister. He had the misfortune of equally offending the Nonconformists at the Savoy Conference Thorndyke, by his supposed tendencies to the Church of Rome, 18, 1672. and the High Church party by his familiarity with the Moravians. In his will he withheld his money from his relatives if they joined either the mass or the new licensed Conventicles. And on his grave he begged that these words might be inscribed Hic jacet corpus Herberti Thorndyke, Preb. 'hujus ecclesiæ, qui vivus veram reformandæ ecclesiæ rationem ac 'modum precibusque studiisque prosequebatur. Tu, lector, requiem ei et beatam in Christo resurrectionem precare.' 5 This wish was not fulfilled. His gravestone, which is near the eastern entrance to the Abbey, from the Cloister, never had any other inscription than his name, which has lately been renewed. Beneath another unmarked gravestone, in the North Cloister, lies Dr. He is buried in St. Benedict's Chapel. See Chapter VI. 2 He is buried in the South Transept. See Chapter VI. Close beside his monument is that of another Prebendary, Samuel Barton (died Sept. 1, 1715). Evelyn, iii. 78. His brother, John Thorndyke, who lies with him, died in 1668, on his re- 5 This inscription was adduced in the famous Woolfrey case. William King, friend of Swift, and author of a long series of Dr. William humorous and serious writings, intertwined with the Dec. 27,1712. politics and literature of that time. He lies beside his master, Dr. Knipe. King, buried Atterbury, died at Paris, 12, 1732. Wharton, buried March 8, The burial of Atterbury, connected with almost every celebrated name in the Abbey during this period, and in the opinion of Lord Grenville the greatest master of English buried May prose, must be reserved for another place.' But immediately above his grave hangs the monument of a divine whose memory casts a melancholy interest over 1694-5. the small entrance by which Dean after Dean has descended into the Abbey: the favourite pupil of the great 'Newton the favourite chaplain of Sancroft, whose early 'death was deplored by all parties as an irreparable loss to 'letters; the youthful pride of Cambridge, as Atterbury was of Oxford; perhaps, had he lived, as unscrupulous and as imperious as Atterbury, but with an exactitude and versatility of learning which may keep his name fresh in the mind of students long after Atterbury's fame has been confined to the political history of his time. Henry Wharton, compiler of the Anglia Sacra,' died in his thirty-first year. His funeral was attended by Archbishop Tenison and Bishop Lloyd. Sprat, as Dean, read the service. The Westminster scholars (at that time an "uncommon respect,' and 'the highest the Dean and Chapter 'can show on that occasion') were caused to attend; the usual fees were remitted; and Purcell's Anthem was sung over his grave, which was close to the spot where his tablet is seen.1 Returning towards Poets' Corner, in the south aisle of See Chapter VI. 2 Macaulay, ii. 109. 3 Life of Wharton. Warren, 1800. Boulter, 1742. In the North Aisle and Transept may here be noticed Warren, Bishop of Bangor (1800), with the fine monument of his wife, and the two Irish Primates -Boulter, the munificent statesman-prelate, who was translated 'to the Archbishopric of Armagh, 1723, and from thence to Heaven, 1742;' and Agar, Lord Normanton, Agar, 1809. who, in 1809, was buried in the adjacent grave of his uncle, Lord Mendip, Archbishop successively of Cashel and Dublin. On his tomb is sculptured, by his express desire, an exact copy of the miserable modern Monk. June 14, 1856. Cathedral of Cashel, which he built at |