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1 Ben Jonson, poet laureate, the great comic dramatist and friend of Shakspeare. d. 1637. brack, after J. Gibbs.

2 Samuel Butler, author of " Hudibras."

Covent Garden, 1680.

Medallion, by Rys

Buried in St. Paul's, Bust and masks, 1721.

3 Edmund Spenser, author of the "Faërie Queene." "Heare lyes (expecting the second comminge of our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of Edmond Spencer, the prince of poets in his tyme, whose divine spirit needs noe othir witnesse then the workes which he left behinde him. He was borne in London, in the yeare 1553, and died in the yeare 1598." Base, tablet, and pediment, 1778. 4 John Milton, author of "Paradise Lost and Regained." Buried in Cripplegate church, 1674. Bust, &c. M. Rysbrack, 1737.

5 Thomas Gray, author of the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," "The Bard," &c., buried in Stoke Pogeis, near Windsor, 1771. Profile medallion, J. Bacon, Sen. R.A. 6 William Mason. He wrote Gray's epitaph, on the adjoining monument. d. 1797. Profile medallion, 1799. Thomas Shadwell, poet laureat; buried at Chelsea, 1692. F. Bird.

Tablet and bust.

8 Matthew Prior, a poet and diplomatist. Ile wrote his own epitaph

"To me 'tis given to dye, to you 'tis given

To live: alas! one moment sets us even.
Mark how impartial is the will of Heaven!"

which Dean Atterbury would not suffer to be inscribed. d. 1721. Bust by Coizevox: Rysbrack, after Gibbs. 9 Charles de St. Dennis, Lord d'Evremond. d. 1703. Bust and tablet.

10 Granville Sharp, one of the earliest abolitionists of slavery. d. 1813. Profile medallion, 1816. Sir F. Chantrey R.A. 11 C. Anstey, author of the Bath Guide. d. 1805. Tablet on column. Horwell.

12 John Dryden, poet and dramatist, and laureat in 1688. d. 1700. Bust on base, with pedestal, 1720. P. Scheemakers.

13 Anthony Horneck, D.D. d. 1696. Tablet with scrolls on pier opposite, &c.

14 Martha Birch, d. 1703. Oval tablet.

15 Abraham Cowley, a poet. d. 1667. Urn. John Bushnell. 16 John Roberts.

17 Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the patriarchs of English poetry. "He lieth buried," said Caxton, "to fore the chapele of Seynte Benet, by whos sepulture is wreton, on a table honging on a pylere his epitaphye, maad by a poete laureat." d. 1400. With canopy. Erected in Ed

ward VI.'s reign.

18 S. Barton, d. 1715. Tablet on pier opposite.

19 John Phillips. A poem entitled "Cyder," was his most celebrated work. d. 1708. Medallion on pedestal. 20 Barton Booth, an actor of celebrity. d. 1733. 1772. W. Tyler.

21 Michael Drayton, author of the Poly-olbion. said to have written his epitaph. d. 1631. pediment.

Medallion,

Dryden is
A bust on

22 Mrs. Pritchard, an actress much respected. d. 1768. Tablet. R. Hayward.

23 William Shakspeare. He was buried at Stratford-onAvon, his native place. The monument is unworthy of the greatest of English poets. d. 1616. Statue, 1740. Scheemakers, after Kent.

24 James Thomson, author of the "Seasons;" buried in Richmond (Surrey) church, 1748. Statue, 1762. Spang, after Adams.

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25 Nicholas Rowe, poet laureate, and translator of Lucan's Pharsalia," 1718. His daughter, Charlotte, 1730. Busts, M. Rysbrack.

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26 John Gay. Who does not know Gay as the author of the Beggar's Opera," one of the best satires in our language? but his satire ought not to be brought into a church.

"Life is a jest, and all things shew it;

I thought so once, but now I know it."

Pope wrote his epitaph. d. 1732. Medallion. M. Rysbrack.

27 Oliver Goldsmith, (over entrance door to the chapel of St. Blaize.) Poet, physician, historian. One of the truest pieces of English history is his "Vicar of Wakefield." He was buried in the Temple churchyard, 1774. Medallion. J. Nollekens, R.A.

28 John, Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, d. 1743. Several statues the duke as a Roman, with History, Eloquence,

Britannia, &c. This is one of Roubiliac's best works. The figure of Eloquence has great excellence of its kind. L. F. Roubiliac.

29 Mary Hope, d. 1767. Tablet.

30 James Stuart Mackenzie, d. 1800. Medallion and Tablet. J. Nollekens, R.A.

31 Sir Archibald Campbell, d. 1791. Sarcophagus, medallion, &c., 1795. J. Wilton, R. A.

Sir James Campbell, d. 1819.

32 Edward Atkyns and his Sons, d. 1669 to 1750. Tablet, sarcophagus, &c. H. Cheere.

33 Joseph Addison, author of "The Spectator," where he has written some of the best reflections on this church. He died at the picturesque Holland House, near Kensington, and was buried in Henry the Seventh's Chapel. This statue is not one of the best of Westmacott's works. d. 1719. Statue on pedestal, 1809. R. Westmacott, R.A. 34 George Frederick Handel. This monument is the work of Roubiliac, who executed one of Handel for Vauxhall, for which place it would be, perhaps, most appro priate, were it not hallowed by the passage from Handel's Messiah- "I know that my Redeemer liveth," &c. d. 1759. Statue. L. F. Roubiliac.

35 Sir T. and Lady Robinson, 1739. Busts, 1777. J. Walsh. 36 William Outram, D.D., 1679. Jane, his wife, 1678. Tablet. 37 Isaac Barrow, D. D. Eminent for his knowledge in divinity and mathematics. d. 1677. Tablet and scrolls, &c.

38 Thomas Triplet, D.D. A prebendary of this church, and somewhat known as a Greek scholar. d. 1670. Tablet. 39 Stephen Hales, D.D., 1761. Medallion, &c. J. Wilton, R.A.

40 Edward Wetenhall, M.D. Celebrated as a physician. d. 1733. Tablet.

41 Sir John Pringle, Bart., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University at Edinburgh. d. 1782. Medallion, urn, &c.

42 Sir Richard Coxe, "Taster" to Queen Elizabeth and James I. d. 1623. Tablet, &c.

43 James Wyatt, the architect. d. 1813. Tablet.

44 Isaac Casaubon, D.D., 1614. Tablet and alto-relievo. 45 William Camden, the great old English topographer and antiquary. His bones rest before the entrance to St. Nicholas' Chapel. d. 1623. Bust.

46 Sir Robert Taylor, Kt., sculptor and architect. d. 1788. Tablet.

47 John Ernest Grabe, editor of an edition of the Septuagint. d. 1711. Statue. F. Bird.

8 David Garrick, a great actor. d. 1779. Statue, with medallion of Shakspeare. H. Webber.

49 Robert South, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster. d. 1716. A reclining figure.

50 William Vincent, D.D., Dean of Westminster. d. 1815. Tablet.

51 Richard Busby, D.D., one of the most eminent of the masters of Westminster School, and celebrated for the employment of the "argumentum bacculinum." d. 1695. Reclining effigy. F. Bird.

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The most remarkable inscriptions on the gravestones in the South Transept belong to the following persons:-Richard Cumberland, "the Terence of England," 1811. Brinsley Sheridan, wit, orator, and dramatist, 1816. Johnson, LL.D., the great lexicographer, 1784. "Thomas Parr, of ye county of Sallop, borne in A.D. 1483. He lived in the reignes of ten princes, viz. King Edward IV., King Edward V., King Richard III., King Henry VII., King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles: aged 152 years, and was buryed here Nov. 15, 1635" Sir William Chambers, architect, 1796.

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52 Sophia Fairholm, Marchioness of Annandale, (immediately after passing the iron gates.) d. 1716. Sareophagus, &c. James Gibbs.

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