A small masble monument, with this inscription:

Here lyeth 4 Foot distant from this Wall the Body of William Suthes, Gentleman, a Man adorned with the Gifts of Grace, Art, and Nature. By Grace he was religious and charitable; he was in Masonry exquisite; by Nature he was humane and affable. He, by God's Appointment, changed his humane Life of Misery for a glorious Immortality, on the 5th of October 1625. His sorrowful and grateful Wife, Mrs. Ann Suthes, as a loyal Testimony of her Love to her deceased Husband, caused this Monument to be erected for an Exemplary of his Worthiness and her Affection. He was Master Mason of Windsor Castle, a Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and an Assistant of the said Worshipful Company. He left 3 Sons towardly and hopeful, to be each of them Imitators of their Father's Virtues, John, James, and Matthew; and herein the Reader may see express'd the Goodness of the deceased Husband, and the thankfulness of a surviving Wife.

Within the altar rails, on a spacious marble grave-stone:

Hic jacet Richardus Bancroft, S. T. P. Episcopus Londinensis primo, deinde Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, & Regi Jacobo à Secretioribus Consiliis.

Ob. secundo Novembris, A. D. 1610. Ætat. suæ 67.

Volente Deo.

Near the last, on a similar grave-stone, this inscriptiou:

Milo Smith, Reverendissimi in Christo Patris, ac Dom. Dom. Gilberti Archiepiscopi Cant. Secretarius, hic jacet. Ob. 7 Feb.

1671.

On a plated grave-stone in the chancel:

Hic jacet Thomas Thirlebye, olim Episcopus Elien. qui ob. 26 August, 1570.

A marble grave-stone in the chancel, has this inscription:

M. S.

Robertus Thompson, L. L. D. reverendissimus in Christo Pa tribus Gilberto & Gulielmo Archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus, nuper à Secretis 1. Sextus perilissimus servus Optimus, Eruditione non Vulgari, Benignitate morum Suaviss. Amicitia strictissima vitæq;

Integritate

Integritate summa spectabilis heic quod Mortale Deposuit Mensis Feb. die. 3 Anno Æræ Christianæ 1683. Ætat. 42.

A plain marble monument, in Leigh's chapel, to the memory of Elizabeth, formely wife of John Bayley, had these

lines:

Reader, tread soft, under thy Foot doth lye

A Mother bury'd, with her Progeny,

Two Females and 4 Male; the last, a Son

Who, with his Life, his Mother's Thread hath spun.
His Breath her Death procur'd (unhappy Son!)
That thus our Joy with Sorrow ushers in;
Yet he being loth to leave so kind a Mother,
Changes this Life to meet her in another.

The Daughters first were robb'd of vital Breath,
The Mother next, in strength of Years, met Death,
The Fathers only Joy, a hopeful Son,

Did lose his life, when life was scarce begun.

If harmless Innocence, if loyal Truth

Found in a constant Wife, combin'd with Youth;
If a kind Husband's Prayer, or Father's Tears
Could have prevail'd, they had liv'd many Years:
But these all failing, here rak'd up in Dust
They wait the Resurrection of the Just.
A Husband's Love, a Father's Piety,
Dedicates this unto their Memory;

And when he hath his Debt to Nature paid,
In the same grave himself will then be laid.
That all together when the Trump shall sound,

Husband, Wife, Children, may in Christ be found.

At the east end of Leigh's chapel is a marble grave-stone, inscribed to ELIAS ASHMOLE, Esq. the famous virtuoso and antiquary, 1692.

MODERN MONUMENTS. Archbishops Tenison, Hutton, Secker, and Cornwallis. There are also many monuments, &c. particularized by Mr. Lysons, in his Environs of London, Vol. I.

In the church-yard, is the singular monument of the TRADESCANTS, erected in 1662, and repaired by subscription in 1773, when the following inscription was restored :

Know,

Know, stranger, ere thou pass, beneath this stone
Lye John Tradescant, grand sire, father, son;
The last dy'd in his spring; the other two
Liv'd till they had travel'd art and nature through,
As by their choice collections may appear,
Of what is rare in land, in seas, in air;
Which they (as Homer's Illiad in a nut)
A world of wonders in one closet shut:
These famous antiquarians that had been
Both gardeners to the rose and lily queen,.
Transplanted now themselves, sleep here; and when
Angels shall, with their trumpets awaken men,
And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise
And change their garden for a paradise.”

RECTORS OF EMINENCE. GILBERT DE GLANVILLE, bishop of Rochester, and lord chief justice of England, 1.196. THOMAS DE ELTESLE, first master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1348. HENRY, bishop of Joppa, 1471 JOHN PORYE, translator of Leo's History of Africa, 1563. THOMAS BLAGUE, dean of Rochester, 1576. DANIEL FEATLEY, D. D. a remarkable sufferer during the Civil Wars, provost of Chelsea College, 1618. JOHN WHITE, one of the most learned and moderate of the sectaries. RoBERT PORY, 1663, one of the most remarkable pluralists of his time. The almanack which first came out that year, and received his imprimatur, was from that circumstance denominated Poor Robin's Almanack. THOMAS TOMKYNS, author of several loyal pamphlets. GEORGE HOOPER, 1703 he was made bishop of St. Asaph, and afterwards of Bath and Wells; he was a learned and pious prelate. EDMUND GIBSON, D. D. afterwards bishop of London, editor of Camden's Britannica, &c. JOHN DENNE, D. D. archdeacon of Rochester, 1731, author of a history of this parish. BEILBY PORTEUS, 1777, bishop of Chester, and present bishop of London. WILLIAM VYSE, L. L. D. chan.. cellor of Litchfield.

Lambeth, was antiently called Lambythe, is situated on the side of the Thames between Southwark and Battersea,

extending

extending southward from the east end of Westminster Bridge; and is chiefly inhabited by glass-blowers, potters, fishermen, and watermen. It is a very extensive parish, and is divided into six liberties; which liberties are again subdivided into eight precincts, and are thus distinguished. 1. The Bishop's. 2. The Price's. 3. Vauxhall. 4. and 5. Marsh Wall. 6. Stockwell. Lambeth Dean. The whole circumference contained in these divivisions amounts to about sixteen miles and an half.

It was under the walls of Lambeth church that Mary of Este, queen to James II. when she fled with her infant son, from the ruin impending over the royal family, took shelter for a whole hour, in the rain, during the inclement night of December 6, 1688, after having crossed the river from Whitehall. Here she was obliged to remain, a melancholy spectacle of fallen royalty, till a coach from an inn arrived, which conveyed her to Gravesend, whence she sailed to France, never to return to the country from which her imprudent and bigotted husband had banished himself, his queen, and family.

Lambeth was famous for astrologers and almanack makers, of whom Dr. Forman, the Rev. Dr. Napier, captain Bubb, and Francis Moore, were the principal.

The burial ground in High Street, contains the bones of Mr. EDWARD MOORE, author of the dramas of the Foundling, Gil Blas, comedies, and the Gamester, a tragedy; as well as Fables for the female sex; the trial of Selim, the Persian, the World, Poems, and other works. He died March 5, 1757. In the same ground lies THOMAS COOKE, the celebrated translator of Hesiod, Terence, Cicero de Natura Deorum, Amphytrion, and the following dramas: Albion, the Battle of the Poets, the Triumphs of Love and Honour, the Eunuch, the Mournful Nuptials, Love the Cause and Cure of Grief; Mr. Cooke was also editor of the works of Andrew Marvel.

This parish has the honour of being the birth place of the late THOMAS BANKS, Esq. R. A. He was born on the 22d of December, 1738, and passed the early part of his life at a school

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a school at Ross, in Herefordshire; where he shewed his predilection for the arts by constantly exhibiting sketches on his copy books. His father, Mr. William Banks, of Great Badminton, in Glocestershire, being steward and surveyor of the buildings and works executed by Kent, for his grace the duke of Beaufort, employed his son to make architectural drawings to illustrate his instruction to the workmen ; but misunderstanding the young man's genius, he not only neglected to place him where he might receive improvement suitable to his vast abilities, but sent him, at the age of fifteen, to be bound apprentice to a carver in wood, in the metropolis, with whom he lost seven years of a life, which might have been profitable to himself and useful to the public.

About this period the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, had instituted rewards for models and sculpture. Our aspiring artist burst from the trammels of slavish imitation, entered himself at the academy in St. Martin's Lane, to draw from the life; he had at this time arrived at the age of twenty-three years; within two years his intuitive faculty produced a basso-relievo of the death of Epaminondas, for which he obtained a premium in 1763; a basso-relievo in marble of the Redemption of the Body of Hector, procured the premium in 1765; and, in 1769, he obtained a third premium for a model of Prometheus, as large as life.

His fame now began to expand; and in the following year the Royal Academy not only voted to him the gold medal for a basso-relievo of the Rape of Proserpine, but two years afterwards elected him one of the students to be sent to Rome at their expence, where he arrived in August 1772.

In this emporium of classic elegance, Mr. Banks did not employ his time in vague speculation or fruitless research; in the course of seven years he had finished those noble compositions the Death of Germanicus, and Caractacus before the emperor Claudius; the first in the possession of Mr. Coke, of Holkham, in Norfolk; the latter in the possession VOL. V. No. 102.

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