filiæ, Filius natu maximus. Vixi, dum vixi, Deo: Mihi, Meis: Mufarum cultor affiduus; Contemptor Mundi; Candidatus Cæli; Servus Jefu Chrifti indigniffimus. En qui fuerim ! Quæris qui fim? Dicam et id quod. Dimidium mei (mortale fcilicet et interitui obnoxium) labefecit tas, dejecit Morbus, abripuit Mors, et in hunc quem vides carcerem, prædæ veluti fuæ metuens, abftrufit. Pars autem illa mei melior, atque fuperftes, Chrifto lætabunda inhæret, furentique jam morti, et mortalitatis meæ exuvias, 'ut cernis, clanculum devoranti, Chrifto vindice, mortem intentat: Utraque fummæ Majeftatis fecundum adventum expectat: Utraque (quum Juftitiæ Sol ille magnus, mortuos ac vivos judicaturus toti Terrarum orbi denuo illuxerit) refurrectionis et immortalitatis gloria, quam mihi miferrimo peccatori, redemptor humani generis Deus pretiofiffimo fuo fanguine acquifivit, æternum præfervetur: In hac Spe vixi; in hac Speet Fide, invitâ Carne, Mundo, Morte, DiaIncarnati Chrifti bolo, obii Anno Ætatis meæ 1614. Menfis Octobris 4. Sat eft, Habeas, O bore, quæ me dicere, te fcire par eft. Vale."

O Deus! In te Salutis Spem pofui mese; fac, me perennis ne pudor obruat.

Ubi tua, Mors, Victoria!

Ubi tuus, O Sepulcrum, Stimulus !

In English thus:

• Here lies the Body of Alexander Nevil, Efq;
• If
you would learn what I was! know.

Alexander Nevil, Eldeft Son of Richard Nevil, Efquire, defcended from the noble and ancient Family of the Nevils, and Anne Mantel, Daughter of Sir Walter Mantel, Knight. While living, I lived ' to God, myself and my Friends. An unwearied and conftant Follower of Learning, a Defpifer of

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the World, a Candidate of Heaven, an unworthy • Servant of Jefus Chrift. Behold what I was! if • you would learn what I am, that I will inform you likewife. The one Part of me (that which was mortal, and fubject to perifh) Age decayed, Difeafe • oppreffed, and Death at length feized; and (being ⚫ fearful of lofing his Prey) thruft it into this Prifon, which you fee; but my other and better Part, being • immortal, is joined in Happiness to Chrift, and de'fies Death (thro' Chrift's Power) tho' he rages, and (as you may perceive) waftes, and tears in Pieces the Remains of my Mortality. Both expect the fame Coming of his heavenly Majefty; and both, when that great Sun of Righteousness thall enlighten the Earth, and come at length to judge both the • Quick and the Dead, fhall be Partakers of a glori ous Refurrection and Immortality; which God, the Redeemer of Mankind, purchased with his most precious Blood for me a moft miferable Sinner. In this Hope I lived, and in it, maugre the Flesh, the • World, Death, and the Devil, I die in the

Year of my Age, and in the Year of Chrift's Incarnation 1614, the 4th of October. Reader, I have ⚫ told thee all that is needful for me to fay, or thee to hear. Know thyfelf, Farewel.O God, in thee "have I put my Truft, fuffer me not to be confounded. O Death, where is thy Victory? O Grave, where is thy Sting?'

Canterbury Cathedral.

Sta et venerare, Viator.

Hic Mortales Immortalis Spiritûs Exuvias

depofuit

MERICUS CASAUBONUS.

Quippe qui Avum Henricum Stephanum
Proavum Robertum Stephanum

habuit:

Hui quos Viros! quæ literarum lumina! Quæ ævi fui decora! Ipfe Eruditionem per tot erudita capita traduce accepit, excoluit, et ad Pietatis ( quæ in ejus Pectore Regina fedebat) Ornamentum et incrementum fæliciter confecravit: Rempublicamque Literaram multiplici rerum et linguarum fupellectile locupletavit. Vir, incertum, doctior, an melior, in pauperes liberalitate, in amicos Utilitate, in omnes Humanitate, in acutiffimis longiffimi Morbi tormentis Chriftianâ Patientiâ infigniffimus. Gaudeat primaria hæc Ecclefia Primariis Canonicis Cafaubonis Ambobus; qui eundem in Eruditorum, quo ipfa in Ecclefiarum Serie, Ordinem obtinent. Obiit nofter pridie Idus Julii Anno 1671. Ætatis fuæ 75. Canonicatus fui 46.

In English thus:

Stay, Traveller, and reverence. Here Meric Cafaubon divefted himself of the mortal Remains of his immortal Spirit. The Heir of a great Name and a learned Race. Having for his Father Ifaac Cafaubon; for his Uncle, Henry Stephens; and for his • Great-uncle, Robert Stephens. Alas! what Men! what Prodigies of Learning! what Ornaments of their Age! He, having received his Learning, as by Inheritance, defcending from fo many learned Ancestors, improved it; and confecrated it to the • Ornament and Increase of Piety, which ever fat as Queen in his Breaft. He also enriched the Republic of Letters with a manifold Treasure of Things and Languages. He was a Man, uncertain, whe⚫ther more famous for Learning or Piety; and moft <remarkable

⚫ remarkable for his Liberality to the Poor; his com⚫municative Temper to his Friends; his Humanity and Tendernefs to all; and for his enduring the moft exquifite Tortures of a lingering Diftemper, ' with all Chriftian Patience. This Metropolitan Church boafts in bestowing the Dignity of firft Canonfhips on both the Cafaubons; who hold the fame Rank among the Learned, as the holds among the Churches. Our Cafaubon died the Day preceding the Ides of July, Anno 1671, in the 75th • Year of his Age, and the 46th of his Canonship.'

Meric Cafaubon was Son of the most learned Ifaac, Son of Arnold Cafaubon, by Joanne Rouffeau, his Wife. He was born within the City of Geneva, in the Month of September, 1599. At nine Years of Age, being brought into England by his Father, he was inftructed by a private Mafter till 1614, at which time he was fent to Ch. Ch. in Oxford; where, being put under a moft careful Tutor, Dr. Edward à Meetkirk, the King's Hebrew Profeffor, he was soon after elected a Student of that Houfe; and, making a very confiderable Progress in Logic and Philofophy, he took the Degrees in Arts, that of Mafter being compleated in 1621, at which time he was much noted for his Sufficiencies in the Arts and Sciences. In the fame Year, tho' he was then young, he published a Book in Defence of his Father against the Calumnies of a certain Roman Catholic; which making him known to King James, he ever afterwards had a good Opinion of him. That Book brought him alfo into Credit abroad, especially in France; whence he had Offers and Invitations for fome Promotion there, his Godfather, Meric de Vic (fometime Governor of Calais) being then, or foon after, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of that Kingdom. The next Book that he publifhed was written by Command of King James, in Defence of his Father and the Church of England, against

against the Puritans of those Days; of which Book he gave a farther Account in his Neceffity of Reformation. About that time, he being beneficed in Somersetshire (at Bledon) by the Favour of Dr. Andrews, Bilhop of Winton, did chiefly design to go on where his Father had left off, against Baronius his Annals; but was diverted by fome accidental Occafions or Provocations. At length, when he came to Maturity of Years for fuch a Work, and had acquainted Archbifhop Laud, his great Friend and Patron, with his Defign, the Troubles and Divifions began in England; fo that, having no certain Place, he was forced to fell a good Part of his Books, and in Conclufion, after 20 Years Sufferings, more or lefs, he was grown fo old and crazy in Body, that he could not expect to live many Years, and thereupon was forced to give over that Project. Some Years after his Publication of the faid two Books, he was made Prebendary of Canterbury; and, in 1636, he was created Dr. of D. by Command from his Majefty, when he and the Queen were entertained by the Mufes at Oxford. In the Be-. ginning of the civil War that followed, he loft all his fpiritual Promotions, and lived retiredly with that little he had left. In 1649, one Mr. Greaves, of Gray'sInn, an intimate Acquaintance with Mr. Cafaubon, brought him a Meffage from Oliver Cromwell, then Lieutenant-General of the Parliament's Forces, to bring to Whitehall, to confer with him about Matters of Moment; but his Wife being then lately dead, and not, as he faid, buried, he defired to be excufed. Afterwards Greaves came again, and Cafaubon (being in fome Disorder thereat, fearing that Evil might follow), defired him to tell him the Meaning of the Matter; but Greaves refufing, went away the second Time. At length he returned again, and told him that the L. G. intended his Good and Advancemen and that his particular Errand was, that he would make Ufe of his Pen to write the Hiftory of the late War

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