St. Saviour's Church, In the Borough of Southwark. FROM AN ANCIENT MONUMENT. Like to the damask rose you see, The gourd consumes, and man he dies. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. WILLIAM WENKWORTH, Pious without ostentation, In the ministry of the word, THOMAS SWAIN, Died, 22d May, 1772, aged 60, SARAH his Relict, Died, June 29th, aged 74; Also, their Grandson, Died, 1784, aged 3 Months. Here kindred ashes blend, a matron worn EDWARD ROBINSON BREWER, And his Two Sons, Edward and Richard. The grave stone is thus inscribed : Underneath this stone lie three, Join'd by consanguinity; The father he did lead the way, (His sons made haste, death could not stay,) The eldest son the next did go, For to enjoy that heav'nly rest, Which is ordain'd for those who are blest. In the Cross-Aisle, A monument of marble and other stone, at the north end of this aisle, adorned with columns, entablature, and arched piedment of the Ionic order; also the figure of the deceased, habited in a gown lined with fur and cumbent, his head reposing on the palm of his right hand, in the left a book, also a cherub. Here Lockyer lies interr'd, enough his name His eulogies which most men's mouths rehearse ; Deceased, April 26, A. D. 1672, aged 72. A MONUMENT On the west Wall of the south stern of the Cross-Aisle. Inscribed:- Monumentum viri justi. IN MEMORY OF JOHN SYMONS, Citizen and White Baker, London; Who departed this life, the 10th of August, 1625, And was a good benefactor unto this parish, who gave to the poor £8. per annum for ever, to be distributed on the feast-day of St. Thomas, before Christmas, and unto St. George's parish Southwark, the sum of £10. per annum for ever; and unto the parish of St. Mary's, Newington in Surry, the sum £5. per annum for ever. These sums to come unto the parishes, after the decease of his father Samuel Symons, who yet liveth, in the year 1631. His flesh interr'd here once contain❜d a spirit, To live and die well, was his whole endeavour, Here were also buried THOMAS YOUNG, CLARENCEX King at Arms; WILLIAM, LORD SEALES; WILLIAM, EARL WARREN; JOHN BUCKLAND GLOVER ; 1635. With this Epitaph : Not twice ten years of age, a weary breath My course so short, the longer is my rest, ON A STONE In the New Chapel, under the Grocer's-Arms. Garret some call'd him, but that was too high, His name is Garrard who now here doth lie; He in his youth was toss'd by many a wave, But now at port arriv'd, rests in his grave. The Church he did frequent while he had breath, And wish'd to lie therein after his death; Weep not for him, since he is gone before To Heav'n, where grocers there are many more. |