Integritate summa spectabilis heic quod Mortale Deposuit Mensis Feb. die. 3 Anno Æræ Christianæ 1683. Etat. 42.

. A plain marble monument, in Leigh's chapel, to the memory of Elizabeth, formely wife of John Bayley, had these lines:..

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Reader, tread soft, under thy Foot doth Iye

A Mother bury'd, with her Progeny,'

Two Females and 4 Male; the last, a Son
Who, with his Life, his Mother's Thread hath spun.
His Breath her Death procur'd (unhappy Son!)
That thus our Joy with Sorrow ushers in;
Yet he being loth to leave so kind a Mother,
Changes this Life to meet her in another.

The Daughters first were robb'd of vital Breath,

The Mother next, in strength of Years, met Death.

The Fathers only Joy, a hopeful Son,

Did lose his life, when life was scarce begun.

If harmless Innocence, if loyal Truth

Found in a constant Wife, combin'd with Youth;
If a kind Husband's Prayer, or Father's Tears
Could have prevail'd, they had liv'd many Years:

But these all failing, here rak'd up in Dust

They wait the Resurrection of the Just.

A Husband's Love, a Father's Piety,

"Dedicates this unto their Memory;

And when he hath his Debt to Nature paid,

In the same grave himself will then be laid.

That all together when the Trump shall sound,

Husband, Wife, Children, may in Christ be found.

At the east end of Leigh's chapel is a marble grave-stone, inscribed to ELIAS ASHMOLE, Esq. the famous virtuoso and antiquary, 1692.

MODERN MONUMENTS. Archbishops Tenison, Hutton, Secker, and Cornwallis. There are also many monuments, &c. particularized by Mr. Lysons, in his Environs of London, Vol. I.

In the church-yard, is the singular monument of the TRADESCANTS, erected in 1662, and repaired by subscription in 1773, when the following inscription was restored:

Know,

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Know, stranger, ere thou pass, beneath this stone
Lye John Tradescant, grand sire, father, son,
The last dy'd in his spring; the other two
Liv'd till they had travel'd art and nature through,
As by their choice collections may appear,
Of what is rare in land, in seas, in air;
Which they (as Homer's Illiad in a nut)
A world of wonders in one closet shut;
These famous antiquarians that had been
Both gardeners to the rose and lily queen,
Transplanted now themselves, sleep here; and when
Angels shall, with their trumpets awaken men,
And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise
And change their garden for a paradise."

RECTORS OF EMINENCE. GILBERT DE GLANVILLE, bishop of Rochester, and lord chief justice of England, 1196. THOMAS DE ELTESLE, first master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1348. HENRY, bishop of Joppa, 1471 JOHN PORYE, translator of Leo's History of Africa, 1563. THOMAS BLAGUE, dean of Rochester, 1576. DANIEL FEATLEY, D. D. a remarkable sufferer during the Civil Wars, provost of Chelsea College, 1618. JOHN WHITE, one of the most learned and moderate of the sectaries. RoBERT PORY, 1663, one of the most remarkable pluralists of his time. The almanack which first came out that year, and received his imprimatur, was from that circumstance denominated Poor Robin's Almanack. THOMAS TOMKYNS, author of several loyal pamphlets. GEORGE HOOPER, 1703 he was made bishop of St. Asaph, and afterwards of Bath and Wells; he was a learned and pious prelate. EDMUND GIBSON, D. D. afterwards bishop of London, editor of Camden's Britannica, &c. JOHN DENNE, D. D. arch deacon of Rochester, 1731, author of a history of this parish. BEILBY PORTEUS, 1777, bishop of Chester, and present bishop of London. WILLIAM VYSE, L. L. D. chancellor of Litchfield..

Lambeth, was antiently called Lambythe,, is situated on the side of the Thames between Southwark and Battersea,

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extending southward from the east end of Westminster Bridge; and is chiefly inhabited by glass-blowers, potters, fishermen, and watermen. It is a very extensive parish, and is divided into six liberties; which liberties are again subdivided into eight precincts, and are thus distinguished. 1. The Bishop's. 2. The Price's. 3. Vauxhall. 4, and 5. Marsh Wall. e. Stockwell. Lambeth Dean.. The whole circumference contained in these divivisions amounts to about sixteen miles and an half.

It was under the walls of Lambeth church that Mary of Este, queen to James II. when she fled with her infant son, from the ruin impending over the royal family, took shelter for a whole hour, in the rain, during the inclement night of December 6, 1688, after having crossed the river from Whitehall. Here she was obliged to remain, a melancholy spectacle of fallen royalty, till a coach from an inn arrived, which conveyed her to Gravesend, whence she sailed to France, never to return to the country from which her imprudent and bigotted husband had banished himself, his queen, and family.

Lambeth was famous for astrologers and almanack makers, of whom Dr. Forman, the Rev. Dr. Napier, captain Bubb, and Francis Moore, were the principal.

The burial ground in High Street, contains the bones of Mr. EDWARD MOORE, author of the dramas of the Foundling, Gil Blas, comedies, and the Gamester, a tragedy; as well as Fables for the female sex; the trial of Selim, the He died Persian, the World, Poems, and other works. March 5, 1757. In the same ground lies THOMAS COOKE, the celebrated translator of Hesiod, Terence, Cicero de Natura Deorum, Amphytrion, and the following dramas: Albion, the Battle of the Poets, the Triumphs of Love and Honour, the Eunuch, the Mournful Nuptials, Love the Cause and Cure of Grief; Mr. Cooke was also editor of the works of Andrew Marvel.

This parish has the honour of being the birth place of the Late THOMAS BANKS, Esq. R. A. He was born on the 22d of December, 1738, and passed the early part of his life at a school

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a school at Ross, in Herefordshire; where he shewed his · predilection for the arts by constantly exhibiting sketches on his copy books. His father, Mr. William Banks, of Great Badminton, in Glocestershire, being steward and surveyor of the buildings and works executed by Kent, for his grace the duke of Beaufort, employed his son to make architectural drawings to illustrate his instruction to the workmen'; but misunderstanding the young man's genius, he not only neglected to place him where he might receive improvement suitable to his vast abilities, but sent him, at the age of fif teen, to be bound apprentice to a carver in wood, in the metropolis, with whom he lost seven years of a life, which might have been profitable to himself and useful to the public.

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About this period the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, had instituted rewards for models and sculpture. Our aspiring artist burst from the trammels of slavish imitation, entered himself at the academy in St. Martin's Lane, to draw from the life; he had at this time arrived at the age of twenty-three years; within two years his intuitive faculty produced a basso-relievo of the death of Epaminondas, for which he obtained a premium in 1763; a basso-relievo in marble of the Redemption of the Body of Hector, procured the premium in 1765; and, in 1769, he obtained a third premium for a model of Prometheus, as large as life.

His fame now began to expand; and in the following year the Royal Academy not only voted to him the gold medal for a basso-relievo of the Rape of Proserpine, but two years afterwards elected him one of the students to be sent to Rome at their expence, where he arrived in Au gust 1772.

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In this emporium of classic elegance, Mr. Banks did not employ his time in vague speculation or fruitless research; in the course of seven years he had finished those noble com> positions the Death of Germanicus, and Caractacus before the emperor Claudius; the first in the possession of Mr. Coke, of Holkham, in Norfolk; the latter in the possession VOL. V. No. 192.

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of the marquis of Buckingham: Mr. Banks had also begun a statue of Cupid, four feet and an half high; this he brought to London on his return in 1779, and finished in 1780. Being otherwise unemployed, he embarked with this specimen of his vast abilities for St. Petersburgh in June 1781, in which city he arrived in August following. He was noticed and patronized by the earl of Malmsbury, and prince Potemkin, who, upon seeing the Cupid, recon mended it to the empress Catharine, by whom it was purchased for four thousand roubles (about 300l. sterling) and placed in a building called The Grotto, in the gardens at Czarsco-Zelo. Having remained a year in the Russian metropolis, during which he had executed a capital model for a statue of the empress, for prince Potemkin, Mr. Banks returned to London iu 1782, and was employed by Mrs. Newton to construct a monument for her deceased lord, the bishop of Bristol, now in Bow church, Cheapside; another to the memory of Mrs. Hand, in Cripplegate church; and that fine model of excellence, the monument in Westminster Abbey, to the memory of Sir Eyre Coote, at the expence of the East India Company.

Those patrons of the sciences and literature, the BOYDELLS, perceived and acknowledged the eminent abilities of Mr. Banks, by appointing him to adorn the Shakespeare Gallery, the alto-relievo of which exhibited a grand specimen, and "a proud example of British art."

The monuments in St. Paul's cathedral, the medallions in the Bank, placed at the instigation of Mr. Soane, and other efforts of Mr. Banks's comprehensive genius, are striking proofs that though Great Britain may be of a cold limate, yet she is prolific in great men, in the sciences, the arts, eloquence, and the other requisites to substantiate her right to classic eminence; without recurring to a long list, we shall content ourselves with the recollection of Reynolds, Barry; Banks, Bacon; Pitt, Burke, and Fox.

Mr. Banks died on the 5th of February, 1805, aged sixty-seven, leaving behind him the character of a dignified artist and worthy man.

Lambeth,