Ye sacred reliques, which your marble keep, Here undisturb’d by wars, in quiet sleep: Discharge the trust, which (when it was below) } Fairborne’s undaunted soul did undergo, } And be the town’s palladium from the foe. } Alive and dead these walls he will defend: Great actions great examples must attend. The Candian siege his early valour knew, Where Turkish blood did his young hands imbrue; From thence returning, with deserv’d applause, } Against the Moors his well-flesh’d sword he draws, } The same the courage, and the same the cause. } His youth and age, his life and death combine, } As in some great and regular design, } All of a piece throughout, and all divine. } Still nearer heav’n his virtue shone more bright, } Like rising flames expanding in their height, } The martyr’s glory crown’d the soldier’s fight. } More bravely British General never fell, Nor General’s death was e’er reveng’d so well, Which his pleas’d eyes beheld before their close, Follow’d by thousand victims of his foes. To his lamented loss, for times to come, His pious widow consecrates this tomb. 26. On a table monument enriched with military trophies, and raised against the wall, is the following inscription: To the memory of the honoured Major Richard Creed, who attended his Majesty King William the Third in all his wars, every where signalizing himself, and never more himself than when he looked an enemy in the face. At the glorious battle of Blenheim, Ann. Dom. 1704, he commanded those squadrons that began the attack; in two several charges he remained unhurt; but in a third, after many wounds received, still valiantly fighting, he was shot through the head. His dead body was brought off by his brother, at the hazard of his own life, and buried there. To his memory his sorrowful mother erects this monument, placing it near another which her son, when living, used to look upon with pleasure, for the worthy mention it makes of that great man Edward Earl of Sandwich, to whom he had the honour to be related, and whose heroic virtues he was ambitious to imitate. 27. The monument of Sir John Chardin, who distinguished himself by his travels into the east, is adorned with a globe, which exhibits a view of the different countries he visited, and around it are represented a number of geographical instruments. 28. The monument of Sidney Earl of Godolphin is adorned with a bust richly dressed, and has an inscription which mentions the employments and honours through which he passed. He died on September 15, 1712, aged sixty-seven.