• of fuch a Place: To whofe Liberality it is owing that the Ashes of Langton are now covered. Here

lies the Rebuilder of this Cathedral Church of Litchfield, and there the Repairer of it. Two the great. eft of English Prelates, and the greater that they were equal. Would you know, Reader, how many ⚫ different People weep this great Man's Departure? • In him the Royal College at Westminster mourn the Lofs of their greatest Honour; Trinity-College, • Cambridge, a most learned Fellow; the Churches of • St. Andrew's Holborn, and Cheam in Surrey, their Rector; St. Paul's a Refidentiary; and this See a moft worthy Bishop. But I mock thee, Traveller, ' while I reckon among the Dead that Man, whom the Churches of St. Paul and Litchfield magnificently repaired, the Bishop's House at Trinity College built a-new, and the Cambridge Library greatly increased ' with Books, will keep for ever living.'

Christ Church, Oxford.

Hic jacet Johannes Higden, S. Theol. Profeff. et Coll. Henrici octavi in Oxon. primus Decanus, qui obiit 13 Die Januarii, A. D. 1532.

Pray for the Soule of Master John Higden, which bath ftablyfyed and founded a perpetual Exhibition for eight Students of this College.

Westminster Abbey.

Ab hoc haud procul marmore juxta Preceptoris Bufbeii Cineres fuos conquiefcere voluit Robertus South, S. T. P. Vir Eruditione, Pietate, Moribus antiquis, Scholæ Westmonafterienfis, deinde Edis Chrifti Alumnus, et poft reftauratum Carolum, magno favente Clarendono, utriufque in quo fenfim adoleverat Collegii

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Prebendarius, Ecclefiæ Anglicanæ et florentis et afflictæ Propugnator affiduus, Fidei Chriftiana Vindex Acerrimus, in Concionibus novo quodam et plane fuo, fed admirabili dicendi genere excellens, ut harum Rerum peritis dubitandi fit locus utrum Ingenii acumine, an Argumentorum vi, utrum Doctrinæ ubertate, an splendore Verborum et pondere præftaret; hifce certe omnibus fimul inftructus adjumentis animos audientium non tenuit tantum, fed percelluit, inflammavit. Erat ille humaniorum Literarum et primævæ Theologiæ cum paucis fciens; in Scholafticorum interim fcriptis idem verfatiffimus è quibus quod fanum eft et fucculentum expreffit, idque a rerum futilium difquifitione et vocabulorum involucris liberatum luculentâ oratione illuftravit. Si quando vel in Rerum vel in Hominum Vitia acerbius eft invectus, ne hoc aut Partium ftudio aut Naturæ cuidam afperitati tribuatur; eam quippe is de rebus omnibus fententiam aperte protulit quam ex maturo animi fui Judicio amplexus eft: Et cum effet ipfe fuæ Integritatis confcius,quicquid in Vitâ turpe, quicquid in Religione fucatum fictumque viderat,illud omne liberrima Indignatione commotus profligavit. His intentus ftudiis, hæc animo femper agitans, Hominum a Confortio cum effet remotior, auxilio tamen non defuit : Quam enim benignum, quam mifericordem in Calamitofos animum gefferit, largis Muneribus vivens morienfque teftatus eft. Apud Iflipam Ecclefiæ Sacrarium et Rectoris Domum de integro extruxit; ibidemque Scholam erudiendis pauperum Liberis inftituit et dotavit. Literis et hic Loci, et apud Ædem Chrifti promovendis, Ædificiis iftius Collegii instaurandis, Libras millenas in numeratis Pecuniis, tercentenas circiter annuis redditus ex Teftamento reliquit, Pietatis erga Deum, Benevolentiæ erga homines, Monumenta in æternum manfura. Obiit Jul. 8. Ann. Dom. MDCCXVI. Ætat. LXXXII.

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In English thus:

Not far from this Monument
Robert South, D. D.

Gave Orders his Afhes fhould reft near thofe of his
Master Busby;

A Man of Learning, Piety, and Simplicity of Manners.
He was Scholar of Westminster School,
Then Student of Christ-Church;
And after the Restoration of King Charles,
By the Intereft of Lord Clarendon,
Prebendary of both Colleges where he was educated:
A firm and indefatigable Champion of the Church,
In her flourishing and afflicted State;
A ftout Afferter of the Chriftian Faith.
Excellent in his Sermons,

For a new Method entirely his own,
But illuftrious and admirable;

Infomuch that, verfed in all these Qualities, there is room to doubt

Whether he was moft excellent

In his fine Turn of Thought, or Force of Argument, The Richness of his Doctrine, or the Beauty and Weight of his Language.

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Of all these Affiftances, being undoubtedly at the fame time poffeffed,

He not only gained upon the Minds of his Audience, but inflamed and moved them.

In Orthodox Divinity, as well as human Learning
He was fcarce equalled;

And at the fame time familiar with the Schoolmen, Out of whom he made ufe of whatever was wholfome and nourishing:

And having relieved it from their nice and intricate

Diftinctions,

And Cloud and Jargon of Words,
He fet it off in fine Language.

If at any time he was severe,

In expofing the Vices of Men, or the Times, It ought not to be afcribed to Party, or Ill-nature; For in all these Cafes he openly exprefs'd, What he had before deliberately weighed in his Mind: And being well affured of his own Innocence, He, warmed with a generous Indignation, Exposed whatever was bafe in Life, or fuperficial or affected in Religion.

Intent on these Studies, and his Mind working that way, When he was more fecluded from the Conversation of Men,

He was not wanting to them in his Affistance: How munificent, how pitiful, he was in his Temper, To thofe in Diftrefs,

Is evident from his extenfive Charities when living, And Legacies at his Death.

On the Pedestal.

He was Rector of Iflip, where he rebuilt the Rectory, and founded and endowed a School for the Education of poor Children; an Encourager of Learning both at this Place and Chrift-Church; for enlarging the Buildings of which College, he left, by his Will, the Sum of One thousand Pounds, three hundred of which to be paid in one Year after his Deceafe; Lafting Monuments of his Piety to God, and Beneficence towards Men. He died the 8th of July, A. D. 1716. Aged 82 Years.

Peterborough Cathedral.

Juxta jacet doctiffimus fanctiffimufque Præful Richardus Cumberland, hujus Civitatis Epifcopus; qui cum Ecclefiæ et Reipublicæ, diu et feliciter invigilaverat migratus ad aliam quam folam quærebat civita

tem,

tem, Honorum et Dierum fatur, obdormivit in Domino Anna Chrifti 1718. Etatis 86.

Macte malæ Fraudis Domitor, Defenfor Honesti,
Legum Naturæ, Juftitiæque Pugil!

O quantum debent, quas læferat Hobbius ambas,
Recta fimul Ratio, Religioque Tibi!

Duport in Hobbium à Cumberlandio Confutatum. Underneath are two Books, with thefe Words engraved on the Leaves :

Biblia Sacra.

De Legibus Naturæ.

This great Man was born July 15. 1632. in the Parifh of St. Anne's Alderfgate, London; was Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, Rector of Brampton, and Vicar of St. Martin's Stamford, in the Diocese of Peterborough; elected Bishop of Peterborough May 15, confecrated July 5, and enthroned September 12, 1691. He died October 9. 1718. Befides his Book, intituled, De Legibus Naturæ difquifitio, he wrote An Effay towards the Recovery of the Jewish Meafures and Weights.

The Epitaph is in English thus:- Hard-by lies the most learned and moft holy Prelate Richard • Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough; who, when he had long and happily watched over the Church and • Commonwealth, leaving this World for a more lafting one, full of Days and Honours, flept in the Lord, the Year of Chrift 1718. aged 86.' The Verfes are only a poor Compliment on his vanquishing Hobbes.

St. Mary's, Warwick.

Lettice, Counteffe of Leycefter,

Who dyed upon Christmas-Day in the morning, 1634.

Look in this Vault, and search it well,

Much Treafure in it lately fell;

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