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Obiit Martii 30, 1669.otmis

Upon the Stone that lies over him;

Eximii

Hic reponuntur cineres

SOMNERI.

Ecce Monumentum in Pariete.

Barbara, Daughter of John
Dawson, of the County of Kent,
Gent. and second Wife to the
Deceased, did in the year 1695,

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I believe you would not look upon it as impertinent should I also subjoin the Epitaph of that judicious Antiquary, Mr. Archdeacon Battely, as I transcribed it from his Monument erected against the S. E. corner of the South cross, which is as follows:

H. S. E.

JOHANNES BATTELY, S.T.P.

Buriæ Sti. Edmundi in Suffolciâ natus,
Collegii, S. Stæ. Trinitatis Cantabrigiæ socius,
A Sacris domesticis

Reverendissimo Wilhelmo Sancroft,
Archiepiscopo Cantuarensi :

A quo meritissima accepit
Præmia,

Rectoriam de Adisham prope hanc urbem,
Hujus Ecclesiæ Metropolitica Canonicatum,
Hujus q. Dioceseos Archi-Diaconatum,
Quæ omnia

Summa cum fide, et prudentia,
Administravit Munia.

Vir integerrimâ in Deum pietate,
Honestissimis et suavissimis Moribus,
Excellenti Divinarum et Humanarum

Literarum scientiâ,

Singulari in Egenos Beneficentiâ,

In suos Charitate,

Candore et benignitate in omnes.

Hic tot præclaris dotibus

Hanc Basilicam,

Totamque Ecclesiam Anglicanam

Insigniter ornavit,

Obiit Octob. x. Anno Dni. MDCCVIII.
Etatis suæ LXI.

I hope you will excuse this long letter, and look upon me, as I am,

Your affectionate humble servt.

THOS. WAGSTAFFE.*

LETTER CXV.

Mr. BROWNE WILLIS to Dr. CHARLETT.

On Cardinal Wolsey's burial place, &c. and on removing his body to Christ Church.

"As to the great Cardinal Wolsey's Sepulchre, the best account I have met with is from one Mr. John Hasloe, whose grandfather Arthur Barefoot was Gardiner to the Countess of Devonshire, who lived at the Abby before the Civil Wars. He tells me that the Church stood part of it in what is now a little garden, and the east end of it, in the Orchard (which was formerly called the New Garden) where his grandfather, with others digging, found several stone coffins, the cavities of which did not lie uppermost but were inverted over the bodies. That among these he

*Probably son of the Rev. Thomas Wagstaffe, who is noticed in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, Vol. I. 36; and Vol. IV. 171.

discovered Cardinal Wolsey's (Mr. Hasloe forgets by what means he knew it) which the Countess would not suffer to be stirred, but ordered it to be covered again, and his grandfather laid a great heap of gravel over it, that he might know the place, which still remains there."

DEAR AND HONORED DR.

I AM greatly concerned no motives, importunities, &c. will tempt you hither; I must now totally give over all thoughts, and as my health &c. is, I fear, not think of seeing you again, tho' I cannot forbear writing to you when I have opportunity, notwithstanding what I shall say must be, by the person's haste, very brief.

Anthony à Wood* has not as yet bent his course this way, and I am weary of soliciting him, and now Physic ought to take place of Antiquities; but, as Dr. Symonds says, if one is not cheerful in taking it, all aids, &c. from it are ineffectual, and such is my case, wherefore a good friend's company, who would be Physic for Fortune, such as yours, might prove the best Recipe. And a little antiquities intermixed might come in, which notwithstanding my indisposition I cannot forget. I am greatly pleased with the abovementioned answer to some Queries

* He means Hearne, to whom he gave the name of Anthony à Wood. Wood died in 1695.

I sent to Leicester some time ago, from which I received this answer on Tuesday, sent me by the Reverend Mr. Sam. Carte, a noted Antiquary there, amongst other things relating to that borough. I have wrote since to him concerning more particulars in relation to the discovery. In short, as I have been ever zealous concerning our founder, Cardinal Wolsey, so I cannot but [be] pleased in whatever I discover about him, and it would be a great satisfaction to me, and I should be willing to contribute thereto, if his body could be translated to Christ Church. This our College ought in gratitude to do. And, dear Sir, if you have an opportunity of speaking to any of them, as doubtless you have many, sound the thing, and see how it will agree with their notions. Methinks tho' I am but a mean person, I could gladly undergo the charge of removing the Cardinal's Body, if it was into the next parish church, rather than it should rest so obscurely there.* I desire you to write me par

*On the place of Cardinal Wolsey's burial, the following is extracted from a letter of Dr. Tanner to Dr. Charlett.

"as for the place where the Cardinal himself was bu ried, our friend Tony from Cavendish tells us 'twas "in St. Marie's Chappel, in the Abbey of Leycester," but I don't find that ever any of those many dependents and servants that he had raised were so grateful to erect the least monument for their great master. I believe the place where his bones lay can't now be traced."

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