London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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20. A neat monument erected to the memory of the learned Isaac
Casaubon, by Dr. Moreton, Bishop of Durham. That profound scholar and
critic whose name is inscribed upon it, was born in France, and in his
younger years was keeper of the royal library at Paris; but at length
being dissatisfied with the Romish religion, he, upon the murder of
his great patron Henry IV. quitted his native country, and at the
earnest entreaty of King James I. settled in England, where he died in
1614, aged forty-five.
21. Above this last monument, is another for John Earnest Grape, a
person well skilled in oriental learning, who is represented as large
as the life, sitting in a thoughtful posture upon a marble tomb, as if
contemplating on death.
22. Next to the west corner of the south cross is an ancient monument
to the memory of that great antiquarian William Camden, who is
represented in a half length, in the dress of his time, holding a book
in his right hand, and in his left his gloves. He rests on an altar,
on the body of which is a Latin inscription, which mentions his
indefatigable industry in illustrating the British antiquities, and
his candour, sincerity, and pleasant good humour in private life. He
died Nov. 9, 1623.
In this south cross are several stones to be met with on the pavement,
worthy of notice. Among these is one over the body of Thomas Parr, of
the county of Salop, born in 1483. He lived in the reigns of ten
Princes, King Edward IV. King Edward V. King Richard III. King Henry
VII. King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth,
King James I. and King Charles I. and was interred here Nov. 15, 1635,
aged an hundred and fifty-two.
At a small distance from Parr, is a small white stone, over the body
of Sir William Davenant, who succeeded Ben Johnson as Poet Laureat to
King Charles I. and died in 1688, aged sixty-three. On this stone is
inscribed O RARE SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT! and this probably gave the
thought of putting the like inscription on the monument afterwards
erected to his predecessor Ben Johnson.
Under the pavement near Dryden’s tomb, lie the remains of Francis
Beaumont, the dramatic writer, who died in London in March, 1615, and
was buried here without either tomb or inscription.
Affixed to the pillars in this south cross, are also two table
monuments; which we shall but just mention, one for Samuel Barton,
D.D. a Prebendary of this church, who died in Sept. 1715, aged
sixty-two: and the other to the memory of Anthony Horneck, D.D. who
was born at Wittenberg in Zealand, but was educated at Oxford, and
became King’s Divinity Professor and Chaplain, a Prebendary of this
church, and a Preacher at the Savoy. This gentleman, who was
remarkable for his piety, died of the stone on the 30th of January,
1696, aged fifty-six.
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