GRATISSIMA ESSET EJUS INTEGRITAS ET FIDES. MEMORIÆ TANTI VIRI CAROLES PRICE FILIUS NATU MAXIMUS ET QUATUOR SOLUS SUPERSTES FORTUNÆ ET HONORIS UTINAM AC VIRTUTUM HÆRES HOC MONUMENTUM POSUI. Though thou hast past the murky road Which Cato, Raleigh, Sidney, trod Yet still thy name and deathless praise By Poets sung in artless lays Or by tradition handed down To latest ages shall be known With tears of unaffected joy, Each parent teach his fav’rite boy How you withstood your country’s foes And o’er their spleen triumphant rose Although ‘twill hardly be believed That such a Patriot ever lived. This truly great man was born on the 20th August 1708. Having finished his Classical Education in some of the best private schools in England, his academical at Trinity Colledge in the University of Oxford and taken the tour of Europe he returned to this his Native Country in the month of January 1730. On the 13th March 1732 he was elected a Member of the Honourable House of Assembly, of which on the 18th March 1745 he was chosen Speaker. On the 3rd of August 1748 the House came to the following Resolution: Resolved Nemine Contradicente: That Charles Price Esq. have the thanks of this House for his candid and impartial behaviour in the Service of this Country as Speaker of the Assembly, and that as a farther acknowledgement of his said Service: Ordered:—That the Receiver-General do purchase a peice of Plate for the said Speaker of the value of Two hundred Pistoles to be made in such Form and Shape as the said Speaker shall direct. December 19th 1760 the House came to another Resolution: Resolved Nemine Contradicente: That Charles Price, Esqr. Speaker of the Assembly hath supported that High Office with great Dignity, Impartiality, and Integrity, and that the thanks of the House be, and they are hereby given to the said Charles Price, Esqr. for his faithful discharge of the High Office of Speaker, and as a further Testimony of the Sense this House entertains of his Conduct in that Office that a peice of Plate of the value of Two Hundred Pounds sterling be presented to him.