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BUNHILL FIELDS 
 35unal (Srounlr: 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE 
 
 TO ITS 
 
 PEESEEYATION. 
 
 INSCKIPTIONS ON THE TOMBS. 
 
 LONDON: 
 HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., 32, PATEENOSTEE EOW. 
 
 MDCCCLXTII. 
 PEICE TWO SHILLIH-GS. 
 
L0Ni>ON : 
 
 BESJAMIN PABDON, PRINTER.. 
 
 PATERNOSTER ROW. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Eeport of the Committee to the Common Cotinoil, Decem- 
 ber 6, 1866 2 
 
 Appeitdix 33 
 
 Memorial oe J. E. Mills and others 34 
 
 Memorial op the Inhabitants of St. Luke, Middlesex . 38 
 Eesoltjtion of the Coitrt .of Common Council, November 
 
 16, 1865 40 
 
 Appointment of Committee 41 
 
 Statement of Memorialists to the Ecclesiastical Com- 
 missioners 44 
 
 Inscriptions on the principal Tombs in the Bunhill Fields 
 
 Burial Ground in the Year 1717 52 
 
3SunJ)tll JFWlis Prescr&atton (Committee, 
 
 APPOINTED BY THE CORPORATION. 
 
 CHAELES REED, Esq., Deputy, F.S.A., (Chflirman). 
 
 JAMES CLARKE LAWEENCE, Esq., Alderman. 
 
 BENJAMIN BOWER, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 BLOMFIELD BURNELL, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 RICHARD N. PHILIPPS, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. GEORGE ROGER LONGDEN. 
 
 Mr. JOHN SEWELL. 
 
 Mr. ARTHUR STONE RIDLEY. 
 
 GEORGE JOSEPH COCKERELL, Esq. 
 
 Mr. SAMUEL GIBBINS. 
 
 Mr. JOHN RICHARDSON. 
 
 Mr. HENRY HODSOLL HEATH. 
 
In addition to the Inscriptions reprinted at the 
 end of this Volume, a large collection, made by 
 the Rev. Dr. John Eippon, in several volumes, is 
 preserved in the Library of the Heralds' College, 
 Doctors' Commons. 
 
GABRIEL, Mayor. 
 
 A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the 
 Guildhall of the City of London, on Thursday 
 the 6th day o^ December, 1866. 
 
 The Special Bunhill-fields Burial Ground Com- 
 mittee did this day deliver into this Court a Report 
 in writing under their hands, of proceedings under 
 the reference of the 7th of December, 1865, upon 
 the Letter of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners upon 
 the subject oi Bunhill-fields Burial-ground, and upon 
 the Petition of John Remington Mills and others in 
 respect of the said Burial-ground ; which was read. 
 
 Resolved, That the consideration thereof be 
 adjourned ; and it is ordered that the Report be 
 printed, and a copy sent to every member of this 
 Court. 
 
 WOODTHORPE. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 REPORT. 
 
 To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Alder- 
 men, and Commons of the City of London in 
 Common Council assembled: 
 
 We the undersigned, of your Committee appointed 
 on the seventh December, 1865, in respect of the 
 preservation from desecration of the Bunhill-fields 
 Burial-ground, and to whom it was referred to have 
 prepared by the proper officers, subject to our direc- 
 tion, certain returns asked for by the Ecclesiastical 
 Commissioners, upon the subject of the said burial- 
 ground ; — and to whom also was referred, on the 
 same day, the Memorial * of John Remington Mills, 
 esq., M.P., and others, presented to your Honourable 
 Court on the 9th June, 1864, praying that the Cor- 
 poration would cause inquiry to be instituted into 
 the circumstances under which Bunhill-fields Burial- 
 ground had been opened and used, and to take what- 
 ever steps might be necessary to secure the ground 
 for ever against any possible perversion to other uses 
 than those to which for two centuries it had been 
 sacredly appropriated, with authority to take such 
 steps therein as we might think requisite, reporting the 
 same to your Honourable Court, do certify that 
 we proceeded duly to consider the several references ; 
 and, having heard Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Comp- 
 troller, we directed them to search the several 
 
 * See Appendix I. 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL OROUND. 3 
 
 documents in their respective departments, and to 
 prepare therefrom the returns asked for by the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, first submitting the 
 same to your Committee. The following Letter 
 contains the request of the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
 sioners referred to. 
 
 " 10 WhitehaU place, S.W., 28tli November, 1865. 
 " The Bunhill-pields BuEiAL-OROtrND. 
 
 " Sir. — I have laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
 Englamd your communicatioii of the 17th instant, and I am 
 directed, prior to the consideration of the Memorial, to request 
 you to be so good as to inform me what are the amounts of the 
 annual receipts from, or the capital suras paid for, vaults and in- 
 terments or otherwise, and received by the corporation during 
 the current lease, and in what way the same may have been 
 appropriated ; and also to what charges or outgoings the land 
 comprised in the cemetery is subject. 
 
 " I am, gir, your very obedient servgnt, 
 
 Jaues J. Chalk. 
 « The Town Clerk, Guildhall, E.C." 
 
 Previously to our receiving the Report from our 
 Officers on the subject of the information sought by 
 the Commissioners, the following Letter, addressed 
 on their behalf to the Town Clerk, enclosing a copy 
 of a letter which they had caused to be addressed to 
 Mr. Samuel Morley, on the subject, was laid before 
 us, a copy of which letter and enclosure we append, 
 as follows : 
 
 " 10, Whitehall fl&ee,, S.W., 18th December, 1865, 
 " £e The BinrniLL-FiELDs Bueial-ghound. 
 
 " Sir. — I am directed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
 England to transmit to you for the information of the Corpora- 
 tion of ihe City of London, the enclosed copy of a communica- 
 tion which, by the direction of the board, I have addressed to 
 
 B 2 
 
4 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 Mr. Samuel Morley, in reference to the BwnhHt-Jidds Burial- 
 ground. 
 
 " I am, sir, your very obedient servant^ 
 
 « James J. Chalk. 
 « The Town Clerk, Guildhall, E.C." 
 
 (Enclosure in the above.) 
 
 « 10, WhitehaM place, S.W., 16th December, 1865. 
 
 "Sir. — The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Englamd have taken 
 into consideration the statement (Appendix "V.) relative to BunMll- 
 fidds Burial-ground, transmitted -with your letter of the 11th 
 instant, and your request for an interview with the board. 
 
 " The Estates Committee will be happy to receive yourself and 
 any deputation on Thursday next, the 21st instant, at two o'clock, 
 if you continue to desire itj but to prevent misconception, I am 
 directed at once to state to you the present position of the case^ so 
 far as it relates to any action which may have taken place upon 
 it 
 
 "Under an Act passed in 1768, the Ccaporation of London 
 became entitled to receive three-sixths of the net rents, profits, 
 and annual proceeds arising on the FLnsbuiy estate during a lease 
 for ninety-nine years fix)m that date^ the then Prebendary 
 (WUsoii) and his assigns to receive two-sixths in their own right ; 
 and the sa^e Prebendary amd his successors to recave one-sixth of 
 the net rents diiring the leasehold term. Under the Act the 
 Corporation of London, as possessing the largest share of the rents 
 arising during the lease, had the charge of the management of the 
 estate. 
 
 " In 1801 the corporation purchased from the WUson fiimily 
 thedr two-rixths of the rents, and thus became owners of five- 
 sixths of the net rents during the term outstanding. ; 
 
 " In 1865 the estate of the prebend became vested in the Com- 
 missioners, who have since received the sixth share reserved to 
 the Prebendary. 
 
 " The Commissioners have never yet expressed any opinion in 
 &vour of the appropriation of the BunhUl Burial-ground to pur- 
 poses which would in any way conflict with its reverential preserva- 
 tion ; on the contrary, the only action which theyhave taken with 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL GROUND. 6 
 
 reference to the ground had for its especial object an appropriation 
 of it in accordance ■with the wishes of the parties you represent. 
 
 "In December, 1863, Mr. John Ivimey, who was understood to 
 negotiate for the representatives of parties possessing vaults and 
 burial-places, oflFered to make a conditional purchase on their 
 behalf and the Commissioners agreed to accept £10,000 provided 
 the ground was appropriately laid out, and due regard were had to 
 the preservation of the gi-aves and vaults ; and provided also, that 
 in the event of any future appropriation of the land to other 
 purposes it should revert to the Commissioners. 
 
 "In this way the object proposed was to be fully secured. 
 The Commissioners would have received a small part of the value 
 of the land. Mr. Ivimey and his co-trustees would have held the 
 ground in trust for the representatives of those who were buried 
 there, and they would only have lost that possession in the event 
 of the trust ceasing to be operative. 
 
 " On 9th January, 1865, tzhe Corporation of London wrote to 
 the Commissioners, stating that tiiey had received a memorial on 
 this subject ; and on the 26th Jcmmmry a deputation from the City 
 iands Committee attended the Commissioners. They stated that 
 they had no suggestions to make, that they simply came to ascer- 
 tain the intentions of the Commissioners. The Earl of Chichester 
 mentioned the proposal of Mr. Ivvmey as having been accepted by 
 the Commissioners, and the deputation stating that they had not 
 been previously aware of that negotiation, withdrew. 
 
 "On 23rd J/arcA a similar deputation attended the Commissioners, 
 and, after stating that Mr. Ivimey had abandoned his proposal, 
 desired that the Commissioners should enable the Court of Common 
 Coundl to give the memorialists an assurance that this ground 
 should not be appropriated to any other purpose than that of 
 burial. The Earl of CMchester stated that he had no suggestion 
 to offer, save that the memoiialists should be referred by the 
 corporation to the Commissioners themselves, as the parties im- 
 mediately interested in the disposal of the property.' 
 
 "On the 18th November last, the Commissioners received a 
 memorial from the Corporation of London on this subject. Before 
 they can give a satisfactory answer they have felt it to be their 
 duty to make an inquiry of the corporation as to the appropriation 
 of the monies received by them for the sale of vaults, &c., and the 
 consideration of that Memorial awaits the reply from the corpora- 
 tion on this point. 
 
6 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 *' The Commissioners contiirae to be of opinion that the terms 
 agreed ■with Mr. Ivimey are, considering the value of the land 
 (confessedly more than £100,000), a liberal settlement of the 
 question, and they are still willing to caiTy out that arrangement. 
 
 " In the statement transmitted by you, the assurances of the 
 corporation and other parties interested in the lease, and also of 
 the Prebendary in 1788, that the graves and vaults should be 
 undisturbed, form a material element. It is, clear, however, that 
 in 1788 the corporation, as interested only to the extent of three- 
 sixths of the rents arising during a lease, and the Wilson family 
 as possessing two-sixths of the same rents, and the then Prebendary 
 as possessing the remaining sixth merely for his incumbency, 
 could not legally dispose of the land in perpetuity, or for any 
 period beyond the expiration of the leasehold term. 
 
 " The Commissioners recognize a moral claim on the part of the 
 representatives of those who lie buried in this ground, to have the 
 ground still undisturbed, and they would be prepared to confirm, 
 subject to the provisoes agreed with Mr Ivimey, any sales that 
 have been made, if they were placed in the ordinary position of 
 reversioners, that is, in a position to receive, at the expiration of 
 the lease, from the corporation (as now representing the two- 
 sixths of the rents belonging to the Wilson family as well as their 
 original share), five-sixths of the purchase monies paid for the 
 sale of vaults, &c., in perpetuily. 
 
 "Failing the adoption of one or other of the arrangements here- 
 in mentioned, or of any modification which may be suggested, the 
 Commissioners are not prepared to decide at the present momenl^ 
 and without further consideration, as to the course they may feel 
 it to be their duty to take. 
 
 " I am directed, in conclusion, to assure you that the fact of the 
 Nonconformists being mainly interested in the Butial-ground 
 renders the Commissioners the more desirous that no serious 
 difiierence of opinion should arise on the subject. 
 
 " The Commissioners have thought it right to send a copy of this 
 letter to the Corporation of Lamdon, 
 
 " I. am sir, your very obedient servant^ 
 
 J^MES J. Chalk. 
 
 " Sa/muel Morley, esq., M.P., 
 
 " Wood street, Gheapside, E.C." 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BUKIAL GEOUND. 7 
 
 On the 6th oi- February 1866, Mr, Chamberlain 
 and Mr. Comptroller (who informed us that the 
 whole of the books and vouchers relating to the 
 ground during the term of the existing lease were 
 in their departments) submitted to us the following 
 Report : 
 
 " To The Special Gommittee on the stibjeci of Bunhill-fields 
 Burial-ground. 
 
 " Gentlemen. — In obedience to your reference we beg to report 
 that the total net proceeds of the burial-ground during the period of 
 the current lease amounted to ^24,001 7s. Id. including the capital 
 sums paid for vaults and interments or otherwise, being an average 
 for the ninety-seven years of £247 8s. 9d. per cmmcm, 
 
 " One half of this sum has been applied in connection with the 
 prebend of Finsbwry and the remaining moiety has been received 
 by the Corporation of London. 
 
 " The charges and outgoings since the close of the ground in 
 1854, consist of the following items, viz. ; 
 
 Ij3,nd tsQi per mmum .. .. .. J613 6 8 
 
 Keeper of the ground- (14s. /jer weet) 36 8 
 Sundry repairs, average . . . . 4 
 
 Annual average . . . . . . £5S 14 8 
 
 " All of which we have the honour to report to your Worshipful 
 Committee. 
 
 '' Benjamin Scott, Chamberlain. 
 "Ferd. Brand, Comptroller. 
 "Guildhall, Feb. 6th, 1866." 
 
 Learning that there were certain books of a date 
 earlier than the existing lease (which was granted 
 in 1768), in the offices of Mr. Chamberlain and 
 Mr. Comptroller, we directed searches to be made 
 therein of any entries relatiag to the ground in 
 question, and we directed searches also to be made 
 in the City Library in relation to the subject. 
 
8 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 We also directed Mr. Town Clerk to communicate 
 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners the information 
 they desired in reference to the income derived from 
 the ground, which he did in the following letter : 
 
 " Guildhall, 15tli Febnumry, 1866. 
 
 " Sir. — I am directed by the Committee of the Court of 
 Common CoimcU, to whom it has been referred to make the 
 returns asked for in your letter of the 28th November last, 
 relative to BunhUl-fidds Burial-ground, to inform you that the 
 total net proceeds of the burial-ground dui'ing the period of the 
 current lease amounted to ^24,001 7s. \d., including the capital 
 sums paid for vaults and interments or otherwise being an 
 average, for the ninety-seven years, of £247 8s. 2d. per annum. 
 
 " One haK of this sum has been applied in connection with the 
 prebend of Finshm/ry, and the remaining moiety has been received 
 by the Corporation of London. 
 
 " The charges and outgoings since the close of the ground 
 in 1854, consist of the following items, viz. : — 
 
 Land tax, per annum £13 6 8 
 
 Keeper of the ground (14s. per week) 36 8 
 Sundry repairs, average . . • . 4 
 
 £53 14 8 
 "I have to request that you will lay this communication before 
 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and at the same time, state 
 to them that the Committee have been desirous of furnishing the 
 information asked for as early as possible, but that delay has 
 unavoidably arisen in consequence of the very voluminous 
 accounts, extending over a period of many years, which it' was 
 necessary to go through in order to arrive at the results above 
 stated. 
 
 " I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 "F. WOODTHOBPB. 
 
 " J. Jell GhaJik, esq., 
 " Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners." 
 
 To this letter the following reply was received on 
 the 4th March, 1866:— 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL GEOUND. » 
 
 « 10, WhitehaU-Tplaioe, S.W., 3rd March, 1866. 
 The Bunhill-pields Burial-ground. 
 
 " Sir. — I have submitted to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
 for England your communication of the 15th ultimo, on the 
 subject of the BunhiU-fields Burial-ground, stating, in reply to 
 the inquiries contained in my letter to you of the 28th November 
 last, that the total net proceeds of the burial-gi'ound during the 
 period of the current lease amount to f 24,001 7s. \d., that one 
 moiety of this sum has been applied in connection with the 
 prebend of Finshv/ry, and the other moiety has been received 
 by the corporation ; and that the annual cost of maintaining the 
 burial-ground, since it was closed in 1854, has been ,£53 lis. 8rf. 
 
 "The Memorial transmitted on the 11th March last, by the 
 City Comptroller to the Commissioner, was accompanied by 
 a letter from the Comptroller, stating that the allegations contaiaed 
 in the Memorial are not to be taken as admitted on the part 
 of the corporation, nor are the corporation to be considered as 
 bound by the statements made by the memorialists, or the conclu- 
 sions at which they have arrived ; and, at the interview which 
 took place on the 23rd Ma/rch, 1865, between the deputation from 
 the City Lands' Committee and the Commissioners, the deputation, 
 and Mr. Brand, the Comptroller, did not withdraw this notification. 
 
 " The first intimation to the Commissioners that the Corporation 
 of London recognized the claim to the perpetual enjoyment of the 
 burial-ground, made on the part of the representatives of th,e 
 purchasers of vaults, &c., was contained in your communication of 
 the 17th November last. 
 
 " The facts appear to be as follows : viz. that under the Act 
 of Parliament passed in 1769, the corporation took three-sixths of 
 the rents during the ensuing ninety nine years ; the Prebendary 
 Wilson in his private capacity two-sixths, and the Prebendary 
 in his official capacity one-sixth of the rents, the reversion of the 
 ninety-nine years remaining unaffected. That the corporation 
 in 1801 purchased from the heirs of the Prebendary of 1769 the 
 interest which remained to such heirs under the lease, and that 
 the corporation thus became possessed of five-sixths of the lease- 
 hold interest, and that the prebendal sixth and the reversion are 
 now vested in the Commissionei-s, and that any sale affecting 
 the reversion was throughout the lease beyond the powers entrusted 
 to the prebendaries and the lessees. . 
 
10 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 " It appears to the Commissioners that the £24,001 mentioned 
 by the corporation is in the nature of capital which should have 
 been invested, the annual proceeds of sach investment being taken 
 by the lessees during the leasehold term, and the capital itself 
 passing to the Commissioners as reversioners on the expiration of 
 the lease; one-sixth of the £24,001 paid for vaults, &c., was, 
 probably in error, paid over to the Prebendary for the time being, 
 and as the Commissioners might be disposed to waive any claim in 
 that respect, the sum due &om the corporation to the Commis- 
 sioners at the expiration of the lease would thereupon be reduced 
 to the amount of £20,000. 
 
 "Subsequently to the receipt of the communication from the 
 corporation on the 16th November last, acknowledging the claim 
 of the representatives of the purchasers of vaults, &c., the Commis- 
 sioners received a Memorial from those gentlemen, and replied 
 in a letter of which a copy was transmitted to the corporation, to 
 the effect that the Board would be willing to confirm any sales 
 that have been made, provided that they were placed in the 
 ordinary position of reversioners, that is, in a position to receive at 
 the expiration of the lease from the corporation (as now repre- 
 senting the two-sixths of the rents belonging to the Wilson family 
 as well as their original share), five-sixths of the purchase money 
 paid for the sale of the vaults, &c., in perpetuity. The Comn;is- 
 sioners, however, also stated that -they were still willing to carry 
 out the terms arranged with Mr. Ivimey, viz., to accept £10,000, 
 provided the ground be appropriately laid o>it, and due regard be 
 had to the preservation of the graves ; and provided also that in 
 the event of any future appropriation of the land to other purposes 
 it shall revert to the Commissioners. 
 
 " Recognizing a moral claim on the part of the pui'chasers of 
 the vaults and graves, and being willing to give every facility for 
 the amicable adjustment of such claim, the Commissioners would 
 he glad to be informed whether the corporation prefer to enter into 
 discussion with reference to the exact portion of the £24,001 to 
 which the Commissioners may be entitled, or to concur in the 
 settlement contemplated by the Commissioners in the communica,^ 
 tion with Mr. Ivimey. 
 
 " I am, sir, your very obedient sei-vant, 
 
 "James J. Chalk. 
 
 " The Town Clerk, Gvdldhali; E. C." 
 
THE BUHHILL-FIELDS BURIAL GROUND. 11 
 
 ■It appearing to your Committee from the above 
 letter, that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had 
 somewhat misunderstood the terms of Mr. Town 
 Clerk's letter of the 15th February in regard to the 
 figures therein contained, we directed him to write 
 to the Commissioners in explanation as follows : 
 
 « Guildhall, 19th Mwrch, 1866. 
 
 " Sir. — I have submitted to the Bv/rihiU-fields Committee of the 
 corporation, your letter of the 3d March, in. reply to which I have 
 to state that my communication of the 15th February last appears 
 to have been misunderstood upon an important point. The state- 
 ment made by me was that the sum of £24,001 7s. \d. was 'the 
 total net proceeds of the burial-ground during the period of the 
 current lease, including the capital sums paid for vaults and inter- 
 ments or otherwise ;' and in your letter of the 3d Ma/rch you 
 appear to have assumed that the sum in question had been realized 
 by sales in fee-simple of ground for the purpose of burial, and the 
 assumptions in your letter are based upon the misunderstanding 
 which has obviously taken place. I am therefore instructed to 
 inform you that no part of the said sum of £24,001 Is. \d. has 
 arisen from the sale of any ground in fee-simple, and that no 
 amount has been received by the corporation, to which the rever- 
 sioners are or will be entitled, as arising out of the BvmhUl-fields 
 Burial-ground. 
 
 " I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 "P. WOODTHOKPE. 
 
 "To J. J. CAaZA, esq." 
 
 On the 27th March, 1866, the Ecclesiastical 
 Commissioners addressed the following letter to Mr. 
 Town Clerk, in continuation of the correspondence : 
 " 10, Whitehall place, S.W. 27th March, 1866. 
 
 " Sir. — I have laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
 England your further letter of the 19th instant, stating that your 
 communication of the 15th of February last appears to have been 
 misunderstood on an important point, and that no part of the sum 
 of £24,001 7«. Id., therein mentioned, has arisen from the sale of 
 
12 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 any ground-in fee-simple, also that no amount has been received 
 by the corporation to which the reversioners are or will be entitled 
 as arising out of the Bunhill-Jlelds Burial-ground. 
 
 "I am directed to remind you that the Commissioners have 
 been recently guided in this matter by information derived from 
 the corporation, and I am to recapitulate the substance of their 
 communications of the 18th of December and 3rd of March last. 
 
 " Under an Act of Parliament passed in 1768, the Corporation 
 of London took three- sixths of the rents of the Fvnsbv/ry Estate for 
 a term of ninety-nine years. Under a subsequent purchase the 
 corporation became possessed of a further two-sixths of the rents 
 during that term, and the remaining one-sixth and the reversionary 
 interest continued throughout the whole period in the Church, 
 now represented by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 
 
 " During this term the corporation have managed the property 
 and sold graves and vaults in BvmJiiU-fielda Burial-ground. 
 
 "At the close of the period, viz., at the end of 1867, the 
 Bunhill-fidds Burial-ground will come into the posisession of the 
 Commissioners. 
 
 " In 1863 the Commissioners offered, on certain terms, one of 
 which was the condition of its decent preservation as a place of 
 interment, to make over the ground for that purpose, and those 
 terms were accepted, though somewhat informally, by Mr. Ivvmey, 
 who was assumed to have authority to conclude such a negotiation. 
 
 " In 1865. certain memorialists stated that graves and family 
 vaults had been bought in this burial-ground, under the impression 
 that the purchasers were securing a place of sepulture which would 
 for all time be incapable of disturbance, and the coiporation shortly 
 afterwards transmitted the Memorial for consideration by the 
 Commissioners, but warned them against an unquestioned accep- 
 tance of its allegations. 
 
 " In November in the same year, the Court of Common Council 
 passed a resolution embodying the statement that graves and 
 vaults had been sold under the pledge that the ground should at 
 all. times thereafter remain for the purposes of burial only, and 
 transmitted such resolution to the Commissioners. 
 
 " In December, 1865, certain memorialists addressed the Com- 
 missioners on the subject (that being the first direct communication 
 they had received from the parties interested in the ground), and 
 on the 16th of that month the Commissioners sent an answer to 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELD8 BURIAL GROUND. 13 
 
 the Memorial, and a copy of such answer was on the 18th sent to 
 the corporation. That answer stated that the Commissioners were 
 still willing to accept the terms agreed upon in 1863, or as an 
 alternative that they would accept from the corporation five-sixths 
 of the purchase monies which had been paid to the corporation for 
 the sale of vaults, &c., in pei-petuity. 
 
 " This -letter having been communicated to the corporation in 
 the middle of December last, the Commissioners received, on the 
 16th of February last, your statement as to the sum of £24,001 
 7s. \d. having been received for the sale of vaults, &c., and they 
 replied in their letter of 3rd March, in conformity with, and indeed 
 in the very terms of) their answer to the memorialists dated 16th 
 December last. 
 
 " The Commissioners are strictly entitled to come into possession 
 of the land as reversioners, free from any claims in respect of sales 
 made by the corporation ; but the Board are exceedingly indis- 
 posed to treat tlfe matter as a merely legal question, and hence 
 they ofier either to accept from the parties interested as purchasers 
 of vaults, &c., the terms agreed upon in 1863, or to accept from 
 the corporation five-sixth parts of the purchase monies paid for 
 the sales. 
 
 " The Commissioners regard the parties who represent the pur- 
 chasers of vaults as having a moral claim, and this the Board are 
 willing to aid in adjusting, between those parties and the Corpo- 
 ration of London. 
 
 " I am, sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 " George Pringle, Assistant Seoretaiy. 
 
 "To the Town Clerk, GuUdhall." 
 
 It will be observed by your Honourable Court 
 that the above letter, after recapitulating the views 
 of the Commissioners as to the circumstances of the 
 case, and alluding to an alleged agreement with 
 certain parties in 1863, makes a distinct offer to 
 accept from the corporation, for the Commissioners' 
 reversionary interest in the grolind, a sum equal to 
 "five-sixth parts of the purchase monies paid for 
 the sales" of ground for vaults and graves, during 
 
14 PROCEEDINGS IN HEFEEENCE TO 
 
 the term of the lease. We accordingly referred it 
 to Mr. Comptroller to report to us the total sum so 
 paid, and he subsequently reported to us that the 
 sum total during the term of the lease was £1,168 
 19*. Gd., which was the gross sum paid, and some- 
 what in excess of the sales referred to, as it included 
 the bricklayers' charges for making vaults and 
 graves. Five-sixths of that sum is £974 2*. lid., 
 being the sum at which the offer of the ground was 
 made to the corporation in trust, for the purposes of 
 securing it from other than sepulchral uses. The 
 Commissioners, it will be noticed, represent, in con- 
 nection with the said offer, " that they regard the 
 parties who represent the purchasers of vaults as 
 having a moral claim," and that the Board " are 
 willing to aid in adjusting between tiiose parties and 
 the Corporation of London." 
 
 Your Committee felt that the letter now under 
 review demanded their very serious attention, and 
 we determined, as reference to legal claims and 
 demands had been imported into the discussion, to 
 consult our law officers upon certain points, pre- 
 viously to determining whether we should accept the 
 offer of the Commissioners. It was a source of 
 regret to us that the absence of Mr. Recorder from 
 England prevented our receiving his advice at an 
 earlier period ; but immediately on the return of the 
 right honourable gentleman from Jamaica, a con- 
 sultation took place, and we were enabled to proceed 
 with the reference to us. "We arrived at the con- 
 clusion that it was desirable to close with the offer 
 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the grounds 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL GROUND. 15 
 
 stated by us, and we communicated such our inten- 
 tion accordingly to them in the following letter : 
 
 "Guildhall, Jrdy 10th, 1866. 
 
 " Sir. — I am desired by the BunhiU-fields Committee of the cor- 
 poration to reply to your letter of the 27th March last, written by 
 direction of the. Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; but 
 previously to so doing, I am requested to state that the Committee 
 have had under their careful consideration the whole correspon- 
 dence which has taken place on the subject of the future disposal 
 of the burial-ground, and, looking to the important questions in- 
 volved, they thought it desirable, before proceeding fui-ther in the 
 matter, to consult their usual legal advisers on the questions which 
 have been incidentally raised. The absence from Englcmd of the 
 Recorder interposed some delay in carrying their intention into 
 effect, but having now received the benefit of his advice, they are 
 at liberty to resume the correspondence, and they trust that the 
 removal of one or two misapprehensions which appear to have 
 existed in the minds of the Commissionei's, may promote an early 
 settlement of this important public question. 
 
 " It may be desirable, in the first place, to recapitulate some of 
 the statements contained in your said letter of the 27th Ma/rch, to 
 which the Committee take some exception. 
 
 "You state, 'under an Act of Parliament passed in 1768, the 
 Corporation of London took three-sixths of the rents of the 
 Finsbury Estate for a term of ninety-nine years. Under a sub- 
 sequent purchase the corporation became possessed of a farther 
 two-sixths of the rents during that term, and the remaining one- 
 sixth, and the reversionary interest, contiuued throughout the 
 whole period in the Chflrch, now represented by the Ecclesiastical 
 Commissioners. ' 
 
 " To this statement the Committee only take exception that 
 notice should have been taken that the coi-poration became, 
 possessed of two-sixth parts of the rents therein referred to by 
 purchase of the representatives of the Bishop of Bristol, a former 
 Prebend of Fvnsbury ; that consequently they, the corporation, 
 paid in effect by anticipation such two-sixth parts to the repre- 
 sentatives of the Prebendary, and received two-sixths of the rents 
 as his assignees. These two-sixths, with one-sixth paid to the 
 Prebendary for the time being, make one moiety paid to . the 
 
16 PROCEEDINGS IN EEFERENCE TO 
 
 representatives of the Churoi, and leave one moiety as the share 
 of the, corporation, in their own right, as lessees under the build- 
 ing lease of 1768. It is desirable to place these facts clearly, as 
 they accord with the statement made in my letter of the 15th 
 February last, ' that one moiety of the net proceeds had been 
 applied in connection with the prebend, and the remaining moiety 
 had been received by the corporation.' 
 
 " You proceed to state : ' Duriiig this term (ninety-seven years) 
 the corporation have managed the property, and sold graves and 
 vaults in BunhUl-fields Burial-ground. At the close of the period, 
 viz. at the end of 1867, the Bwnhill-Jidds Burial-ground will come 
 into the possession of the Commissioners. 
 
 "'In 1865 certain memorialists stated that the graves and 
 family vaults had been bought in this burial-ground, under the 
 impression that the purchasers were securing a place of sepulture 
 which would, for all time, be incapable of disturbance, and the 
 corporation shortly afterwards transmitted the Memorial for con- 
 sideration by the Commissioners, but warned them against an 
 unquestioned acceptance of its allegations. 
 
 " ' In November in the same year, the Court of Common Council 
 passed a resolution embodying the statement that graves and vaults 
 had been sold under the pledge that the ground should at all times 
 thereafter remain for the purposes of burial only, and transmitted 
 such resolution to the Commissioners. 
 
 " ' The Commissioners are strictly entitled to come into posses- 
 sion of the land as reversioners, free from any claims in respect of 
 the sales made by the corporation, but the Board are exceedingly 
 indisposed to treat the matter as a merely legal question.' 
 
 "With reference to these paragraphs of your letter, I am to 
 state that, while they describe accurately some of the circumstances, 
 there are others which would appear to require explanation and 
 modification, if this correspondence is to present the case with that 
 clearness which all the parties concerned doubtless desire. 
 
 " The corporation, during the term, had the management of the 
 property, and in so doing sold certain graves and vaults in the 
 burial-groimd. At the close of the term (1867) the said ground 
 will come into possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. So 
 far the Committee take no exception to your statement ; but I am 
 to inform you that the sales referred to could be, and, in fact, were 
 only to the extent of the interest which the corporation and the 
 
THE BUNHtLL-FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 17 
 
 Prebendary had in the estate, vie. for the term of their leasehold 
 interests respectively. It may be true that certain parties, as 
 stated, paid for graves and vaults under the impression that they 
 ■were securing a place of sepulture incapable of disturbance ; and 
 it is the fact that the Court of Common Council passed a resohi- 
 tion embodying their opinion that a pledge had been given with 
 their consent, and that of the Prebendary, that the ground should 
 remain undisturbed. This might give the representatives of such 
 purchasers a moral claim upon the lessees, but the Committee 
 cannot understand, and does not assent to the inference, that such 
 moral claim being in respect only of a leasehold interest, confers 
 any legal right upon the reversioners of the estate, or entitles 
 them to any share whatever in the purchase-money for such sales. 
 
 " Having stated thus much in explanation of the character of 
 the alleged sales, I proceed to remove a misapprehension which 
 has evidently arisen as to their amount. 
 
 " The Commissioners, by letter of Mr. Chalk 28th November, 
 1865, requested to be furnished with 'the amounts of the annual 
 receipts from, or the capital sums paid for, vaults and interments 
 or otherwise, and received by the corporation during the current 
 lease, and in what way the same may have been appropriated.' 
 The "Committee accordingly caused search to be made through the 
 accounts of the whole period of ninety-seven years ; and my letter 
 of the 15th -^eSrwory last informed the Commissioners that 'the 
 total net proceeds of the burial-ground during the period of the 
 current lease amounted to .£24,001 Is. Id., vncluding the capital 
 sv/ms paid for va/ulfs cmd interments, or otherwise ; being an aver- 
 age for the ninety-seven years of £247 8s. 9c?. per annum.' The 
 Commissioners were also informed that ' one half of this sum had 
 been applied in connection with the prebend of Finsbwry and the 
 remaining moiety had been received by the corporation.' 
 
 " On the 3rd of Mwrch last, a letter was received from Mr. 
 Chalk, on behalf of the Commisaioners, in which, after imper- 
 fectly reciting my letter of the 15th of February, by the omission 
 of words in reference to this sum of £24,001, he proceeds to put a 
 construction upon that letter which its terms, if carefully read, 
 could not justify. 
 
 " Having in the recital of such letter omitted to notice that the 
 sum in question included the amount paid for vaults, he proceeds 
 to assume that the whole of that sum had been realized by the 
 
18 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 sale of vaults, and remarks, that ' one-sixth of the £24,001 paid 
 for vaults &c. was, probably in error, paid over to the Prebendary 
 for the time beiug,' and he then waives on >iehalf of the Commis- 
 sioners any claim in that respect, and treats the corporation as 
 though they were liable to pay to the Commissioners at the explica- 
 tion of the lease a sum of £20,000. 
 
 " All this, I am desired to say, is based upon an obvious mis- 
 understanding on the paii of the Commissioners. On the 19th 
 March last, by desire of the Committee, a letter was written by 
 me to their secretary, pointing out the error into which he had 
 fallen, and referring him to the communication of the 15th 
 February, informing hiin that the sum of £24,001 was ' the total 
 net proceeds of the burial ground,' and not merely the amount 
 realised by the sale of vaults, which was included in that sum. 
 The Committee feel regret that after such explanation had been 
 furnished, your letter of the 27th Mojrch, should have contained 
 the following : 'the Commissioners received on the 16th Februa/ry 
 last, your statement as to the sum of £24,001 7s. \d. having been 
 received for t-he sale of vaults, &c.' and the Committee conclude 
 that you were unaware of the letter written by me on the 19th 
 March, in which I explained to Mr. Qhalh the error into which he 
 had fallen. 
 
 " I am directed now again to state for the information of the 
 Commissioners that the sum in question represents the net pro- 
 ceeds of the ground from every source, including rents, fees, and 
 sales of leasehold interests. 
 
 " Having endeavoured to remove misapprehension on several 
 incidental points, I am instructed to address you with respect to 
 the terms upon which the Commissioners have expressed their 
 willingness to convey the ground to the corporation. 
 
 " These terms have been variously stated, and for the purpose of 
 definiteness it may be as well to recapitulate them. 
 
 " In Mr. Chalk's letter to Messrs. Morley and others, dated 16th 
 December, 1865, and communicated to the corporation, he states : 
 'the Commissioners recognise a moral claim on the part of the 
 representatives of those who lie buried in this gi-ound to have the 
 ground still undisturbed, and they would be prepared to confirm, 
 subject to the provisoes agreed with Mr. Ivimey, any sales that 
 have been made, if they were placed in the ordinary position of 
 reversioners, that is, in a position to receive, at the expiration of 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 19 
 
 the lease, from the corporation (as now representing the two-sixths 
 of the rents belonging to the Wilson family as well as their origiaal 
 share), five-sixths of the purchase monies paid for the sale of vaults, 
 &c. in perpetuity,' 
 
 "In Mr. Chalk's letter to myself dated 3rd March, 1866, the 
 terms of sales are repeated in precisely the same words. 
 
 " In your letter of the 27th March, to which reference is now 
 particularly made, the terms which the Commissioners are willing 
 to accept from the corporation are twice stated ; first in recital of 
 a previous letter, as follows : ' the Commissioners are still willing 
 to accept from the corporation five-sixths of the purchase monies 
 which had been paid to the corporation for the sale of vaults, &o. 
 in perpetuity ' 
 
 " The terms are then repeated in the shape of a renewed ofier, 
 as follows: they, the Commissioners, 'offer to accept from the 
 corporation five sixth parts of the purchase monies paid for the 
 
 " The Committee feel that some difficulty arises in dealing with 
 these offers of the Commissioners, on account of the indefiniteness 
 of the terms themselves, as well as the verbal variation of the 
 terms as stated in the several communications ; the difficulty is 
 mateiially increased by the fact that the corporation has informed 
 the Commissioners, and now reiterates the statement, that no sales 
 of ground for vaults, or otherwise, in perpetuity have taken place. 
 The offer to dispose of the ground for five-sixth parts of the sum 
 received for such sales in perpetuity is therefore inoperative, for 
 there would be no consideration to receive. 
 
 " In their last communication, the Commissioners offer the 
 ground for five sixth parts of the sales, without specifying their 
 character, whether in perpetuity or otherwise, by which the Com- 
 mittee understand that the Commissioners offer to convey for five- 
 sixth parts of any sales of ground for vaults, (fee. which have 
 actually taken place, the amount of the same to be ascertained by 
 reference to the accounts. The Committee have accordingly had 
 an account taken of all sums of money which have been received 
 for vaults and brick graves during the term of the lease (the docu- 
 ments being all in existence), and they find that the total amount, 
 including the bricklayers' charges for building vaults and brick 
 graves, amounts to the sum of £1,168 19s. 6d. 
 
 " The amount received for the vaults, <kc. must therefore be 
 
 c2 
 
20 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 somewhat under that sum, -which represents the extreme amount 
 received by all parties interested during the term of the lease. Of 
 this sum the corporation ■will have received one half in their own 
 right. 
 
 " The consideration for the ground demanded by the Commis- 
 sioners will not therefore exceed j£974 2s. \\d., being 'five-sixths 
 of the purchase monies paid for the sales.' 
 
 " The Committee do not recognise any principle, equitable or 
 otherwise, in the mode of arriving at the consideration required 
 by the Commissioners ; but they have nevertheless taken the offer 
 of the Commissioners into their careful consideration, upon public 
 grounds, and I am to state that they are prepared, if the Commis- 
 sioners still adhere to their determination, as expressed in your 
 letter of the 27th March, to accept those terms on behalf of the 
 corporation as trustees for the public. 
 
 '■ The corporation will at once ratify the proposed purchase, and 
 will be prepared to give all necessary guarantees that the ground 
 shall be kept undisturbed, and preserved and maintained in proper 
 condition, or in failure thereof that it shall revert to the Commis- 
 sionei-s. 
 
 "The corporation will likewise be prepared to afford to the 
 Commissioners evidence as to the amounts paid for vaults, &c. 
 
 " There is one consideration which presents itself to the minds 
 of the Committee in accepting these terms, which they think they 
 should represent to the Commissioners. It is this, that looking to 
 the public, indeed they might say national, interest which attaches 
 to the burial-ground, it appears to the Committee that the great 
 and important religious interests which the Commissioners repre- 
 sent would be impaired rather than promoted by accepting so 
 inconsiderable a sum as that to which the consideration is now 
 reduced ; and the Committee desire me to suggest whether it would 
 not be desirable, under all the circumstances, to make a free grant 
 of this ground to the public. 
 
 " I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
 " George Pringle, Esq., " F. Woodthorpk 
 
 " Assistant Secretary, Ecclesiastical Commissioners 
 for England. 
 
 " P.S. You will notice that in the foregoing letter all allusions 
 which occur in the course of the correspondence to Mr. Ivimey are 
 advisedly avoided, inasmuch as the corporation has no knowledge 
 
THE BUNHILL- FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 21 
 
 of or connection with that gentleman, or of any negooiations 
 entered upon, or now pending with him." 
 
 Your Committee, who had regarded the offer of 
 the Commissioners as made in good faith, were sur- 
 prised to receive from them on the 22nd of July a 
 reply to their letter of the 10th July^ in which they 
 pass by altogether the subject of their offer and of 
 the acceptance of the same by your Committee. The 
 letter is as follows : 
 
 " 10, Whitehall Place, S.W., 21st July, 1866. 
 
 " Sir. — I have laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
 England jovx letter of the 10th instant relative lotYieBymhill- 
 Jields Burial-ground. In reply to this communication the Board 
 direct me to point out, that in this case the Commissioners are 
 shoi-tly coming into possession of an estate, the reversion of ■which 
 is at present expectant on the determination of a limited interest 
 in the same which has been held by the Corporation of London : 
 and the Commissioners are informed by the corporation that a 
 valuable portion of that estate has been dealt with by the corpora- 
 tion as lessees, to their own profit, in such manner as to create a 
 difficulty in the way of the Commissioners deriving any income or 
 proceeds from this poi-tion of the property ; such portion being, in 
 the absence of such difficulty, coafessedly worth, at the present 
 time, more than £100,000. 
 
 " There has been no question anywhere as to the propriety of 
 some arrangement being made to prevent the desecration of the 
 ground in question, used as it has been for the purposes of sepulture- 
 Neither has it appeared possible to argue that the permanent in- 
 terests of the Church can have been with propriety or legality pre- 
 judiced by the action of parties who, neither in the capacity of 
 lessees nor of prebendaries, ever possessed more than a limited 
 right or interest in the estate. The only questions really raised 
 seemed to have been, what should be the basis for the calculation 
 of the compensation to be made to the Board for the reduction of 
 their interest in the estate, and by whom such compensation should 
 be provided. 
 
 " With a view to meeting what appeared to the Commissioners 
 
22 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 to be the moral claims of parties now representing persons buried 
 in the ground, the Board agreed, as you are aware, to accept for the 
 waiver of certain rights over the property a sum of £10,000 ; and 
 to this offer the Board expressed their willingness to adhere, even 
 after it had been stated that the permanency of the interments had 
 been guaranteed by the corporation, and after it had been shown 
 that the total net proceeds of the burial-ground during the period 
 of the current lease amounted to £24,001 7s. Id. 
 
 " If the matter were to Le regarded from the broad point of view 
 of strict legal principle, the Commissioners would of course be 
 entitled to be put into possession by their outgoing tenant, under 
 the lease about to expire, of the whole estate, without diminution 
 of or detriment to its corptcs. 
 
 " The acceptance, therefore, of a position resting in any way on 
 the shares or proportions of interest taken under the lease by the 
 corporation and the late prebendaries respectively is an act of 
 grace on the part of the Board. 
 
 " That, however, which is called in the first part of your letter a 
 misapprehension is, in fact, a substantial difference between the 
 views of the corporation and those of the Commissioners. Both 
 parties agree that the three-sixths of the annual rental taken by the 
 corporation do not reckon as part of the interest of the Church; 
 but the Commissioners deny, while the corporation assert, that the 
 two-sixths granted in 1768 by the Prebendary to his own personal 
 representatives, and subsequently sold by them to the corporation, 
 should be reckoned as having been enjoyed by the Church. Both 
 the three-sixths and the two-sixths stand in an identical relation to 
 the interests of the Church ; and the Commissioners cannot concur 
 in the assertion contained in your letter of the 1 5th Fehrua/ry last, 
 and now repeated, that one moiety of the net proceeds have been 
 applied in connection with the prebend, and that (only) the re- 
 maining moiety had been received by the coi'poration. 
 
 " The letter signed by the Board's Assistant Secretary on the 
 27th March was settled with a full cognizance of the whole of the 
 correspondence which has taken place between the corporation and 
 the Commissioners upon the subject, and the Commissioners have 
 all along dealt with the questicm under the assumption and belief 
 that no distinction could practically be taken between the receipts 
 of the City for one description of interment, and those obtained for 
 other descriirtions ; the objection to desecration applies equally to 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 23 
 
 all parts of Bunhill-fields Burial-ground, and the reversionary 
 interest of the Church has been equally prejudiced with respect to 
 all parts of the ground. 
 
 " The Board adhere to the terms of their letter of the 27th March, 
 and, as stated in their letter of the 3rd March, are willing to give 
 every facility for the amicable adjustment of their claim, and either 
 to enter into discussion as to the exact poi-tion of the £24,001 to 
 which they may be entitled, or to concur in the settlement contem- 
 plated by them in the communication with Mr. Ivimey. 
 " I am, sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 " James J. Chalk. 
 
 - "The Town Clerk of London, Guildhall, E.G." 
 
 Having met to consider the position in whicli we 
 were placed by this unusual and unexpected course 
 of procedure on the part of the Commissioners, we 
 decided that any further correspondence with that 
 body would be undesirable, and we resolved unani- 
 mously to report all our proceedings to, and take 
 the further instructions of your Honourable Court. 
 We expressed our view to the Commissioners in the 
 following communication : 
 
 "Guildhall, July 31st, 1866. 
 
 " Sir. —I am desired by the BunhiU-fiflda Committee of the 
 Corporation to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st 
 instant, and to reply thereto. 
 
 " The Committee are much surprised at the contents of your 
 communication, as they have repeatedly disclaimed any cognizance 
 of the agreement stated to have been made by the Commissioners 
 to accept a sum of £10,000 as a waiver of certain rights over the 
 property of the burial-ground. 
 
 "The Committee again reiterate that they have no knowledge 
 of or connection with Mr. Ivimey, or with any negociations which 
 that gentleman may have hfid with the Commissioners. 
 
 " The Committee instrui^t me to say they repudiate any claim, 
 legal or otherwise, on the part of the Commissioners to any 
 proportion whatever of the sum of £24,001 alluded to in the 
 
24 PROCEEDINGS IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 correspondence, and the Committee must decline to enter into 
 discussion with the Commissioners on that subject, or to consider 
 any proposal for the adjustment of a claim which they are advised 
 is groundless. 
 
 " It is a matter of deep regret to the Committee on public 
 grounds that the Commissioners do not adhere to their own 
 distinct proposal to accept, as the consideration for leaving the 
 burial-ground undisturbed, ' five-sixth parts of the purchase monies 
 paid for the sales,' an offer which, as stated in my letter of the 
 10th instant, the Committee, although recognising no claim moral 
 or legal on the part of the Commissioners, were nevertheless 
 prepared to accept on behalf of the corporation as trustees for 
 the public. 
 
 " Under the circumstances, the Committee feel that no other 
 course remains open to them but to report to the Court of Common 
 Council the result of the negociation, together with the correspond 
 dence which has taken place, 
 
 " I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 " F. WoODTHORPE, Town Clerk. 
 
 "To the Secretary, Ecclesiastical Commissioners." 
 
 We have subsequently received a letter from the 
 Commissioners, oflFering to refer the whole matter to 
 arbitration ; but as we had arrived at the conclusion 
 that there existed no ground whatever for any legal 
 claim upon the corporation on the part of the Com- 
 missioners, and as they had in fact advanced nothing 
 beyond a vague intimation of a possible claim, it 
 appeared to your Committee that there was in fact 
 no issue to arbitrate, and, beyond an acknowledg* 
 ment of its receipt, we have taken no notice of such 
 letter. We append a copy as follows ; 
 
 " 10, Whitehall place, S.W. 4th August, 1866, 
 
 " Sir. — I have laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
 Englcmd your letter of the 31st ultimo, repudiating any claim, 
 legal or otherwise, on the part of the Commissioners to any portion 
 
THE BUNHILL-EIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 25 
 
 ■whatever of the sum of £24,001 alluded to in our correspondence 
 relative to BrmhUl.fields Burial-ground, and declining to consider 
 any proposal for the adjustment of a claim which the corporation 
 state they are advised is groundless. 
 
 "In reply, I am directed to state that the Commissioners are 
 willing to refer the whole matter to the arbitration of some person 
 of high character and legal experience. 
 
 " I am, sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 "James J. Chalk. 
 "The Town Clerk oi London." 
 
 Researches which we caused to be made in the 
 Eecords of the corporation have resulted in finding 
 many entries which throw light upon the subject, to 
 a period antecedent to the Fire of London. A rare 
 tract, printed in 1716, in the possession of Mr. 
 Deputy Charles Reed (The Inscriptions upon the 
 tombs, gravestones, &c. in Bunhill-Jields)^ contains 
 information likely to be of interest to the descendants 
 of many buried in the ground. We believe that, 
 with the exception here mentioned, this tract is out 
 of print, and we recommend that a copy of this tract 
 should be printed by way of appendix to this report. 
 
 It may be desirable once more to place upon 
 record some of the associations which render this 
 spot of ground peculiarly interesting as containing 
 the dust of a greater number of notabilities whose 
 memories have become the historic property of the 
 nation than perhaps any similar place of interment, 
 if we except the venerable abbey of Westminster. 
 
 It has been very usual to regard this ground as 
 solely occupied by the remains of deceased Noncon- 
 formists, and it was termed accordingly by Southey 
 " the Campo Santo of the Dissenters." This it is to 
 
26 PROCEEDINGS IN HEFERENCE TO 
 
 a great extent, but not exclusively so, for probably 
 every denomination of Cliristians has here found a 
 resting-place for its dead, including the Roman 
 Catholic, and certainly the Established Church. 
 
 In Strype's Stow, we read that in 1549, more than 
 one thousand cart loads of human remains were 
 removed from the charnel of St. Paul's cathedral 
 and deposited here. This is conclusive as to the 
 fact of its being regarded at that date as consecrated 
 to the burial of churchmen. 
 
 It was termed a '•'■churchyard" in 1665, in the 
 inscription then placed over the western gates, the 
 term implying that the ground was regarded as 
 consecrated for episcopal interments at that date. 
 Maitland in his "Survey," confirms this view; in 
 1739, he says expressly that it had been consecrated 
 as a common cemetery for the relief of the parochial 
 burial grounds during the plague. This is also 
 borne out by the fact that dignitaries and clergymen 
 of the established church, during a period of at 
 least 200 years, officiated in the ground. Doctors 
 Tillotson and Stillingjleet, dean and canon respec- 
 tively of St. Paul's Cathedral, attended a faneral 
 there in 1682. The late Bishop of Durham more 
 than once so officiated ; and, in consequence of the 
 frequent applications for the services of clergymen 
 to bury episcopalians, the coi'poration, with the 
 approval of the late Bishop of Carlisle, Prebendary 
 of Finsbury, appointed a clergyman of the Establish- 
 ment as permanent salaried chaplain. 
 
 It ought to be sufficient to create an interest in 
 preserving this ground from any possible spoliation,' 
 
THE BUNHILL- FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND, 27 
 
 to say that here lie the bodies of John Bunyan and 
 Daniel Defoe, the writers of the two most popular 
 works in the English language. A new tomb and 
 monument for the immortal dreamer were erected 
 recently, when the Earl of Shaftesbury took a prin- 
 cipal part in their public inauguration. 
 
 Hither were borne the remains of Lieut. -general 
 Charles Fleetwood., CromweWs son-in-law; of Lady 
 Erskine and Dame Mary Pugh., pious and devoted 
 women, eminently adorning their high stations; 
 of Mrs. Susannah Wesley, the mother of the 
 Wesleys ; of Dr. Isaac Watts; of Dunton, the 
 bookseller ; of Ritson, the antiquary ; of Stothard 
 and Blake, the painters ; of Thomas Hardy and 
 John Home Tooke, the reformers ; and of David 
 Nasmith, the founder of City Missions. 
 
 The most honoured names among the leading 
 denominations of Nonconformists find their memo- 
 rials here. The Independents claim Dr. John Owen, 
 chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, Dr. Thomas Goodwin, 
 Dr. Isaac Watts, the Kev. Daniel Neal, historian of 
 the Puritans, the Rev. Nathaniel Mather, Roger 
 Morrice, Richard Fairclough, William Orme, Dr. 
 Richard Winter, Thomas Bradbury, Matthew Wilks, 
 Dr. R. Simpson, George Burder, John Clayton, Sfc. 
 
 The Presbyterians olaim Rev. William Jenkyn, 
 M.A., elected minister of Christchurch, whose body 
 was followed by a funeral procession, including 
 150 carriages, in 1686 ; the Rev. Thomas Doolittle, 
 Theophilus Gale, Rev. Dr Daniel Williams, 
 founder of Williams's valuable library. Rev. Na- 
 thaniel Vincent, Dr. Richard Price, F.R.S., Dr. 
 
28 proc:eedings in reference to 
 
 Alexander Waugh, Dr. Evans, Revs, PF. Sheiion, 
 Thomas Belsham, SfC. 
 
 The Baptists regard the following as of their 
 commuuiou : John Bunyan, " the immortal dreamer," 
 Vavasour Powell, William Kiffin, Hanserd Knollys, 
 Dr. Andrew Gifford, Dr. Gill, the Rev. Joseph 
 Ivimey, Rev. Joseph Hughes, founder of the Bible 
 Society, Drs. Stennett and Rippon, SfC. 
 
 Of Unitarians of note the following are laid here : 
 Dr. Grosvenor, Dr. Nathaniel Lardner, author of 
 "The Credibility," &c., Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, 
 Dr. Abraham Rees, editor of the " Encyclopaedia," 
 Dr. Caleb Fleming, Dr. George Benson, Dr. Kippis, 
 Rev. John Coates, Rev. J. B. Dewhurst, Dr. 
 Thomas Morgan, Spc. 
 
 It was matter of continual regret to your Com- 
 mittee, throughout the proceedings which have been 
 narrated in the earlier part of this Report, that 
 our frank endeavours to obtain a fair settlement 
 of the matter at issue did not seem to be appreciafted, 
 and were not met with the ingenuousness which 
 your Committee had expected. Whether this pain- 
 ful impression was well founded, your Honourable 
 Court, having the whole correspondence before you, 
 wiU be able to decide. It certainly appeared to 
 your Committee that the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
 sioners had either been misled as to the true bearings 
 of the case, or that they altogether failed to appre- 
 ciate the importance of the social and historical 
 considerations involved. They appear to have 
 desired to fix the corporation with an agreement 
 with which it had not the remotest connection, or, 
 
THE BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 29 
 
 failing to establish its responsibility in that respect, 
 to set up a legal claim of the most indefinite and 
 unsubstantial character. The corporation has not 
 been wont to ignore any legal obligation, and has 
 ever been prepared to satisfy every valid claim ; and 
 if, as we can scarcely suppose possible, the Commis- 
 sioners are seriously advised that their rights as 
 reversioners . had been invaded, there would be no 
 indisposition upon the part of your Honourable 
 Court to consider such a question, when presented, 
 not by way of insinuation, but in a direct form. 
 The only tangible proposal made by the Commis- 
 sioners was frankly met, and accepted by your 
 Committee; and we feel that it would be in the 
 highest degree inconsistent and unsuitable to treat 
 further with parties who make proposals only to 
 withdraw fi'om them, and who persist in presenting, 
 as bases for negociation, an agreement which we 
 utterly repudiate, and a claim which it is impossible 
 to define. Your Committee did not at all anticipate 
 that a great public question would be thus treated 
 by gentlemen of the highest position in Church 
 and State, who profess a sacred regard to the rights 
 of Christian sepulture. 
 
 Under the circumstances reported, it appears to 
 your Committee that no useful result can be obtained 
 by further correspondence ; and we recommend your 
 Honourable Court to reafiirm your readiness to 
 undertake the charge of the burial-ground as 
 trustees for the public, defraying the cost of watch- 
 ing, maintaining, and keeping it in a proper con- 
 dition, planting trees and shrubs, keeping up the 
 
30 BUNHILL-FtELDS BURIAL-GROUND. 
 
 gravel walks and preserving the tombs, so that it 
 may form, within proper hours, and under proper 
 regulations, a decent aud ornamental " open space " 
 of the metropolis, covenanting that, in the event 
 of failure in these respects, it should revert to the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners. We further recom- 
 mend that we should be authorized to second the 
 endeavours of any of the parties interested should 
 they apply to Parliament, or make appeal to the 
 public, with the view of securing the ground in 
 perpetuity from the possible perversion to other 
 uses than those to which it has been for centuries 
 sacredly devoted. 
 
 All which we submit to the judgment of this 
 Honourable Court. 
 
 Dated this sixth day of December^ 1866. 
 
 CHAELES REED, 
 G. R. LONGDEN, 
 JOHN SEWELL, 
 BENJAMIN BOWER, 
 BLOMFIELD BURNELL, 
 GEORGE J. COCKERELL, 
 ARTHUR S. RIDLEY, 
 H. H. HEATH, 
 JOHN RICHARDSON, 
 RICHARD N. PHILIPPS. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor^ Alder- 
 men^ and Commons of the City of London in 
 Common Council assembled. 
 
 The Humble Memorial of the undersigned, 
 
 SHEWETH, — Your Memorialists having a deep 
 personal interest in securing Bunhill-fields Burial- 
 ground from disturbance and desecration, crave per- 
 mission to make a representation to your Honourable 
 Court upon that subject. 
 
 They are informed that the leases under which 
 the Corporation of London have held the Finsbury 
 Prebendal Estate for more than 300 years, will finally 
 run out at Christmas, 1867, and that the estate will 
 then pass into the hands of the Ecclesiastical Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Of this estate the Bunhill-felds Burial-ground 
 forms a part, and your Memorialists pray your 
 Honourable Court to make such arrangements before 
 the expiry of the lease as may prevent the perversion 
 of that ground to common uses. 
 
 D 
 
34 APPENDIX. 
 
 This ground was set apart as a place of interment 
 by the direction of the Corporation of London, 200 
 years ago, and it was enclosed at the cost of the 
 City, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lawrence, knight, 
 A.i>., 1&65, as an inscription over one of the 
 entrances still records. During the 190 years that 
 the ground continued to be used as a burial-place 
 — thait isy until the year 185^2, when it was closed by 
 Order of Council — more than 120,000 corpses were 
 interred in it ; enlargements having been made from 
 time to time by the direction of the Court of Common 
 Council. 
 
 Until the year 1781, the ground appears to have 
 been managed by various persons,, to whom the Cor- 
 poration granted leases of the same, but from that time 
 forward it remained under the immediate direction ot 
 the Council who appointed a keener and received their 
 fees. These for many years yielded no inconsider- 
 able income, and even so late as the year 1830, it 
 would seem that the gross amount of fees exceeded 
 £600 per annum. 
 
 In this burying -ground are interred men whose 
 memory and writings are among the most precious 
 of our national heirlooms j some of the- most fearless 
 asserters of civil and religious liberty at critical 
 periods of our history, notable men of all professions, 
 and of all religious communities. Divines, Artists, 
 Reformers ; a crowd of worthies and confessors whose 
 learning, piety, and public services, not only adorned 
 the age in which they lived, but have proved a per- 
 manent blessing to the land^ and whose names the 
 
APPENDIX. 35 
 
 world will not willingly let die. The Nonconformist 
 Bodies, especially, look upon this as the holy field 
 of their illustrious dead, because here lie buried 
 those whose remains were refused interment in the 
 grave-yards of the churches in which they had long 
 faithfully ministered, and whose memory is reverently 
 cherished in the hearts and homes of their religious 
 descendants. 
 
 Any disturbance of a spot so hallowed could not 
 but be resented as an injury to the nation, an insult 
 to posterity, and a personal offence to many thousands 
 of our fellow-countrymen. 
 
 But your memorialists would respectfully urge 
 upon your Honourable Court that there are special 
 reasons, apart from public considerations, which 
 should induce you to accede to their request. 
 
 The numerous individuals who have bought graves 
 and family vaults in this ground did so under the 
 impression that they were securing a perpetual and 
 irremovable place of sepulture. Not only was the 
 lease under which the Corporation held this ground 
 a very long one, but there can be little doubt that 
 the predecessors of your Honourable Court regarded 
 it as practically renewable for ever. If your 
 memorialists are rightly informed, the records of the 
 Corporation will yield abundant proof that this was 
 the purpose of the Council when the last lease was 
 negotiated. The Corporation, evidently under the 
 impression that it could never be alienated, have at 
 various times, and especially in the year 1787, given 
 assurance that the ground should not be built over, 
 
 D 2 
 
36 APPENDIX. 
 
 and in order to allay apprehensions which had arisen 
 that it might be perverted to other uses, they declared 
 by public advertisement that every part of it should 
 at all times, hereafter, " remain a burial ground, and 
 be used for that purpose only." Upon the faith of 
 these engagements, numbers have been induced to 
 prefer this ground, and to purchase vaults in it. 
 Nor is this an obligation which can be held in any 
 respect discharged by the lapse of time, for some 
 among your present memorialists, have within thirty- 
 five years of this present date, purchased family 
 vaults, at an expense of £50 and upwards. There 
 have they deposited the remains of beloved relatives, 
 supposing they had secured for them a permanent 
 resting-place with which no rude hands would ever 
 be allowed to meddle, and though now that the 
 ground has been closed, they must forego the hope 
 which they had cherished of lying down in their last 
 sleep side by side with their Fathers, yet they feel 
 that they have a right to appeal to the Corpora- 
 tion from whom they bought these graves, to take 
 care that they are not obliterated, covered, or dis- 
 turbed. 
 
 Your memorialists respectfully request that you 
 will be pleased to cause inquiry to be instituted into 
 the circumstances under which Bunhill-fields Burial- 
 ground has been opened and used, and if they shall 
 prove to be such as your memorialists believe them 
 to be, they cannot doubt that you will be of opinion 
 that the honour of the Corporation is engaged to 
 take whatever steps may be necessary to secure the 
 ground for ever against any possible perversion to 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 37 
 
 other uses than those to which for two centuries it 
 has been sacredly appropriated. 
 
 And your Memorialists will ever pray. 
 
 J. REMINGTON MILLS, 
 SAMUEL MORLEY, 
 TRAVERS BUXTON, 
 H. M. MATHESON, 
 T. BINNBY, 
 EDWD. WILSON, 
 S. SMITH TRAVERS, 
 ROGER CUNLIFFE, 
 GEORGE UNWIN, 
 THOMAS PRICE, 
 JOSH. TRUEMANN, 
 THOS. SCRUTTON, 
 GEO. HADPIELD, 
 FRANCIS CROSSLEY, 
 S. MORTON PETO, 
 EDW. BAINES, 
 JAMBS HEYWOOD, 
 P. C. JOBSON, 
 RICHARD MARTINEAU, 
 JOHN ALBRS HANKEY, 
 WM. M'ARTHUR, 
 JAMES DUNCAN, 
 
 B. SMITH, 
 
 W. FLEXMAN VOWLER, 
 JOHN TOWGOOD, 
 THOS. P. WARREN, 
 ALFRED PRESTON, 
 PETER CARTHEW, 
 EBENR. HERNE, 
 W. B. BOURN, 
 
 C. E. MUDIE, 
 JOHN WARREN, 
 JAMES YATES, 
 
 THOS. BARNES, 
 
 P. F. LBCKIE, 
 
 D. POWELL, 
 
 JAS. RISDON BENNETT, 
 
 HENRY SPICER, 
 
 W. R. SPICER, 
 
 WILLIAM EDWARDS, 
 
 D. WESTLEY, 
 
 EDW. B. UNDERHILL, 
 
 THO. M. CHALLIS, 
 
 WILLM. HY. WATSON, 
 
 WALTER C. VINNING, 
 
 JNO. GLOVER, 
 
 J. HOBSON, 
 
 JNO. MICHL. MORRIS, 
 
 EDWD. EDWARDS, 
 
 JOHN MORLEY, 
 
 JOSEPH IVIMEY, 
 
 JAMES ESDAILE, 
 
 THOMAS SPALDING, 
 
 R. J. KITCHENER, 
 
 JOHN PROCTER, 
 
 JAMES CARTER, 
 
 JOSPH. CHAMBERLAIN, 
 WM. COOKE, 
 THOMAS MADGE, 
 JOHN T. HART, 
 HENRY J. PRESTON, 
 E. J. NETTLEFOLD, 
 D. MARTINEAU, 
 R. BROOK ASPLAND, 
 T. C. TURBERVILLE, 
 EDWARD SMITH PRYCE. 
 
38 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 11. 
 
 THE MEMORIAL 
 
 OF CERTAIN INHABITANTS OF THE 
 
 PARISH OF ST. LUKE, MIDDLESEX. 
 
 We, the undersigned inhabitants of the parish of 
 St. Luke, Middlesex, fiiUy concurring in the senti- 
 ments expressed in the Memorial to be presented to 
 the Common Council of the City of London^ praying 
 ttiat for reasons therein stated the site of Bunhill- 
 Jields Burial-ground may not be converted to other 
 and common uses, hereby join in the prayer of the 
 said Memorial, and venture to express a hope that 
 further measures may be hereafter taken, and some 
 plan adopted by which this large open space may be 
 improved and made a convenience to the public, and 
 also a means of preserving and improving the general 
 health of the locality. 
 
 \^^^^}7^' 1 Churchwardens of the Parish of St. Luke. 
 JOHN DALE, I 
 
 CHARLES EYULL, 1 
 ROBERT FISHER, I 
 
 ^' ^^^^^' ^Overseers of the Parish of St. Luke. 
 
 G-. MURJNJliX, I 
 
 ALFRED DAY, | 
 
 JOSEPH DANIEL, J 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 39 
 
 THOMAS HILL, 
 E. LAWRENCE, 
 THOMAS LOVITT, 
 EDWARD MEDLEY, 
 JOSEPH MORELAND, 
 WILLL4.M STARLING, 
 J. CLITHEROW, 
 JOHN YOUNG, 
 RICHARD LBAGE, 
 . JOHN BROWN, 
 T. B. JOHNSON, 
 GEORGE 6ARR, 
 THOMAS HILL, 
 J. G. LONDON, 
 GEORGE KING, 
 WALTER WILLIAM KING, 
 JAMES TELFER, 
 JOHN WILLIAM WYATT, 
 EDWARD C. P. TRACEY, 
 T. NICHOLLS, 
 DAVID DAVIES, 
 PHILIP ATKINS, 
 GEORGE LOVE, 
 THOMAS DURKLEY, 
 ALEXANDER SHAW, 
 R. WILLS, 
 
 BENJAMIN GODDARD, 
 T. DE LA RUE & CO., 
 ULMHEW & LASCELLES, 
 
 M. A. C. LAWSON, 
 
 W. & C. CHIPPINDALL, 
 
 J. S. MASTERS, 
 
 CHARLES DAVISON, 
 
 GRANT & DANIEL, 
 
 ROBERT HENRY OBBAED, 
 
 JOHN S. SNUKE, 
 
 COOPER & HOLT, 
 
 M. GEE, 
 
 JOHN EYRE, 
 
 JOHN THOMAS, 
 
 C. RICE, 
 
 T. MARCHANT, 
 
 C, SINCLAIR, 
 
 ROBERT BERRY, 
 
 H. HISCOATE, 
 
 T. KNIPPEL, 
 
 T. JACKSON, 
 
 JOHN C. TACEY, 
 
 JOHN ENDERS, 
 
 JOHN ROGERS, 
 
 JOHN MOSS, 
 
 THOMAS ROBERT WALTER, 
 
 JOHN HANCOCK, 
 
 WILLIAM KEEN, 
 
 CLUSE & BOSE, 
 
 T. J. DAVIES, 
 
 K. C. DAVIS, 
 
 CHARLES GOTJLDEN. 
 
40 APPENDIX. 
 
 in. 
 
 EESOLUTION OF THE COURT OF COMMON 
 COUNCIL, Nov. 16, 1865. 
 
 PHILLIPS, Maycyr. 
 
 A Common Coiincil holden in the Chamber ot the 
 Guildhall of the City of London^ on Thursday^ 
 the 16th day of November^ 1865. 
 
 Resolted UNAiJiMOtTSLY, That this Court learns 
 with regret that in the communications with the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Committee have 
 not found any disposition to concur in an arrange- 
 ment for the preservation of the Bunhill-fields 
 Burial-ground, except upon terms of sale and 
 purchase. That having regard to the antiquity 
 of this spot, as a place of extra-mural sepulture ; 
 that it has been held by this Corporation for 
 more than five hundred years; that it has been 
 set apart and used for centuries as a place of 
 interment; that a public pledge has been given by 
 the conjoint authority of the ecclesiastical authorities 
 and the Corporation that the " ground should at aU 
 times hereafter remain for the purposes of burials 
 only," and that up to the year 1832, upon these con- 
 ditions and assurances, vaults have been sold ; this 
 Court protests against this ground or any part thereof 
 being applied to secular uses. 
 
APPENDIX. 41 
 
 That considering tlie high historic interests 
 attaching to the Bunhill-Jields Burial-ground, in con- 
 sequence of the interments of so many distinguished 
 and honoured men of all creeds and parties, this 
 Court is willing to accept the care and preservation 
 of the ground on behalf of the public, and to assist 
 in promoting any well-advised scheme for securing 
 against molestation and disturbance the final resting- 
 place of so many thousands of their fellow-citizens. 
 
 Ordered, That a copy of the foregoing Resolution 
 be transmitted to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. 
 
 IV. 
 
 LETTER FROM THE ECCLESIASTICAL 
 COMMISSIONERS, Nov. 28, 1865. MOTION 
 THEREON, AND APPOINTMENT OF A 
 SPECIAL COMMITTEE. 
 
 PHILLIPS, Mayor. 
 
 A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the 
 GuUdhall of the City of London, on Thursday 
 the 7th day of December, 1865. 
 
 A Letter of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, upon 
 the subject of the Bunhill-Jields Burial-ground, and 
 requesting to be informed what are the amounts of 
 the annual receipts from, or the capital sums paid for 
 vaults and interments, or otherwise, and received by 
 the Corporation during the current lease, and in what 
 
42 APPENDIX. 
 
 way the same have been appropriated, and also to 
 what charges or outgoings the land comprised in the 
 Cemetery is subject, was laid before the Court and 
 read as follows :— 
 
 " 10 Whitehall place, S.W., 38th November, 1865. 
 "Thb Btjnhill-pields Buhial-gkound. 
 " Sir. — I have laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 
 Ungland your communication of the l7th instant, and I am 
 directed, prior to the consideration of the Memorial, to request 
 you to be so good as to inform me what are the amounts of the 
 annual Teoeipts from, or the capital sums p0.id for, vaults and in- 
 terments or otherwise, and received by the corporation duiing 
 the current lease, and in what way the same may have been 
 appropriated; and also to what charges or outgoings the land 
 comprised in the cemetery is subject 
 
 " I am, sir, your very obedient servant, 
 
 James J. Chalk. 
 "The Town Clerk, Guildhall, E.C." 
 
 Motion, That the Eeturn now asked for be pre- 
 pared by the proper officers, subject to the direction 
 of a Committee to be now appointed, on the subject 
 of the preservation of the Bunhill-Jields Burial- 
 ground ; and that the Memorial of John Remington 
 Mills and others, presented to this Court on the 9th 
 June, 1864, be referred to the said Committee, who 
 shall be empowered to watch the proceedings in 
 reference to this question, and to take such steps 
 therein as they may think requisite, reporting the 
 same to this Court? 
 
 Amendment, To substitute in lieu of the words 
 "a Committee to be now appointed," the words 
 " City Lands Committee? " 
 
 On the Question being put, the Lord Mayor 
 declared the same to be negatived; and a Division 
 
APPENDIX. 43 
 
 being demanded and granted, there appeared — 
 
 For the Affirmative 59 
 
 For the Negative 87 
 
 Majority for the Negative . . 28 
 
 Original Motion about to be put — 
 
 Further Amendment, To omit the words "and 
 to take such steps therein as they may think 
 requisite? " 
 
 Negatived. 
 
 Original Motion, Resolved in the Affirmative, 
 and ordered accordingly. 
 
 Eesolved, That the said Committee do consist of 
 twelve Members to be now appointed — 
 
 Whereupon this Court doth nominate and appoint 
 
 Charles Reed, Esq., F.S.A., Deputy. 
 
 James Clarke Lawrence, Esq., Alderman, 
 
 Benjamin Bower, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 Blomfield Burnell, Esq., Deputy. 
 
 Rifthard Nath^rniel Philipps, Esq., F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. George Roger Longden. 
 
 Mr. John Sewell. 
 
 Mr. Frederick Maynard. 
 
 George James Cockerell, Esq. 
 
 Mr. John Stewart. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Gibbins. 
 
 Mr. John Richardson. 
 
 Quorum any five. 
 
44 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 V. 
 
 STATEMENT ADDRESSED BY THE 
 
 COMMITTEE OF MEMORIALISTS, AND 
 
 OTHERS, TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL 
 
 COMMISSIONERS, 
 
 ON THE 11th of DECEMBER, 1865, 
 AND TO WHICH THE LETTER ON PAGE 4 WAS A REPLY. 
 
 Bunhill-Jields Burial-ground, after having been 
 held under lease by the Corporation of London for 
 more than 300 years is about to pass into the hands 
 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and 
 Wales as the representatives of the lapsed Finsbury 
 prebend. A committee of gentlemen interested in the 
 preservation of this Burial-ground has been formed 
 for the purpose of urging that an arrangement should 
 be entered into, by which the ground might be per- 
 manently secured from disturbance and desecration. 
 
 The whole Finsbwry estate is believed to cover 
 nearly 200 acres, and is almost entirely occupied by 
 valuable buildings. Bunhill-Jields Burial-ground is 
 not quite four acres in extent, and was only an open 
 field until it was inclosed for interments in the year 
 1665. It continued to be used as a Burial-ground 
 tiU the year 1852, when it was closed by order of 
 the Secretary of State. During the intervening 
 period of 190 years more than 120,000 corpses were 
 
APPENDIX. 45 
 
 interred in it, nor is theirs all ignoble dust. Some 
 were buried here whose names have always been 
 fondly cherished by the nation, and whose writings 
 are amongst the most popular in the English 
 language. Notable men of all professions and of all 
 religious communities, divines, authors and artists, 
 with a crowd of worthies and confessors, whose 
 learning and piety not only adorned the age in which 
 they lived,' but have proved a permanent blessing to 
 the land, are interred in this ground. Many thou- 
 sands of persons not in England only but in America 
 and the British Colonies have honoured ancestors 
 lying here, and not a few have, within a very recent 
 period, paid considerable sums for the purchase of 
 space in it for the construction of graves and vaults 
 in which to deposit the ashes of their immediate 
 relatives. The sums so paid were quite equivalent 
 to the charges for freehold graves in other cemeteries, 
 and they made these purchases in the belief that 
 they were securing the perpetual and indisputable 
 possession of the ground. The general impression 
 was that the corporation held this land under a per- 
 petual lease ; moreover the corporation had at various 
 times given assurances to the public that the ground 
 should never be built over or disturbed. Especially 
 did they do this in the year 1787 when, in order to 
 allay apprehensions which had arisen that the ground 
 was about to be perverted to secular uses, they de- 
 clared by public advertisement that every part of it 
 should " at all times hereafter " remain a burial- 
 ground, and be used for that purpose only. The 
 circumstances under which this notice was given 
 
46 APPENDIX. 
 
 should be particularly noticed. The receipts from 
 the fees charged for interments had considerably 
 fallen off, and a sub-committee of the corporation 
 was appointed to inquire into the causes of the 
 decrease. The diminution affected the income not 
 of the corporation only, but of the prebendary of 
 Finsbury, who, under the new lease which had just 
 been negotiated (in the year 1768), received one- 
 sixth part of the yearly revenue of th« estate. The 
 prebendary — then the Lord Bishop of Bristol — there- 
 fore attended the meetings of the Committee ; the 
 causes of the decrease were discussed in his presence, 
 and there is express proof that the advertisement 
 already alluded to was issued with his leave and 
 sanction. It may be presumed that the corporation 
 would not have felt themselves at liberty to give any 
 such assurance unless they had obtained his consent. 
 
 The following is a copy of the Minute of this pro- 
 ceeding upon the books of the corporation : 
 
 BURNELL, Mayor. 
 
 A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the 
 Guildhall of the City of London, on Friday, the 
 1st day oi February, 1788. 
 
 The Committee for letting this City's lands did this 
 day deliver into this Court a report in writing under 
 their hands for obtaining the register books, and 
 regulating the expenses of interment in Bunhill-Jields 
 Burying-grounds, &c. which was read in these 
 words : — > 
 
APPENDIX. 47 
 
 To THE Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c. 
 
 We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your 
 Committee for letting the City lands in the account 
 of the Chamberlain of London^ do humbly certify, 
 That in pursuance of an order of this honourable 
 Court of the 3rd day of May ^ 1786, we appointed Mr, 
 John Wilton to take care of Bunhill-fields Burying- 
 grounds, and to receive the fees, profits, and per- 
 quisites which had been usually taken there, and the- 
 said John Wilton being lately dead, we, on the 3rd 
 day of October last, referred it to a Sub-Committee 
 to consider whether any and what regulations were 
 necessary. 
 
 We have since received a report from the Sub- 
 Committee that they had been attended by Mr. James 
 Budgen and his wife (the niece of Mr. Wilton) who 
 produced the register books of burials from the year 
 1713 to the present time, which they claimed as their- 
 property, but at the Sub-Committee's request de- 
 posited with Mr. Comptroller, and Mr. Budgen soon 
 afterwards attended them and declared his consent to 
 relinquish all claims thereto on having such con- 
 sideration for the same as the Committee should 
 think reasonable. 
 
 The Sub-Committee thereupon requested a con- 
 ference with the Lord Bishop of Bristol, prebendary 
 of Finsbury, who met them on the 13th day of 
 December last, and after considering the nature of 
 Mr. Budgen! s claim and the fairness of his conduct, 
 concurred with them in opinion that a piece of plate 
 of the value of fifty pounds should be presented to 
 him as an acknowledgment for having delivered up 
 
48 APPENDIX. 
 
 the said books, and that Mr. Charles Aldridge should 
 be desired to provide the same at the expense of the 
 Finsbury estate, with which Mr. Budgen declared 
 himself perfectly satisfied. 
 
 The Sub-Coinmittee then proceeded to consider 
 the late decrease of burials in the said grounds, occa- 
 sioned, as they apprehended, by two causes : first, 
 by the improvement making on the Finsbury estate, 
 from which an idea has arisen that these grounds 
 may at some future time be built upon, or converted 
 to other uses; and, secondly, from the opening of 
 several new burying-grounds in which the charges 
 of interment are less than in Bunhill-Jields, for 
 although upon the expiration of the lease when these 
 grounds were taken into the City's hands, the usual 
 charges were continued without any increase; yet 
 the fees or gratuities allowed to be taken by the 
 keeper for his own use not being properly ascertained, 
 and the keeper having always been allowed the profits 
 of the brickwork of vaults, &c., it appejired to the 
 Sub- Committee from the list delivered by Mr. 
 Budgen that the total sums now taken are necessary 
 to be reduced. And the Sub-Committee having, 
 with the assistance of his Lordship, investigated these 
 causes, were of opinion that it should be recom- 
 mended to this honourable Court to resolve 
 
 First. — That no alteration shall at any time here- 
 after be made by or under the authority of this 
 Court by building on the said burying-grounds, or 
 either of them or any part thereof ; but that the 
 same and every part thereof shall at all times here- 
 after remain for the purpose of burials only in such 
 
APPENDIX. 49 
 
 manner as hath been accustomed for many years 
 past; and that this resolution be printed in the 
 morning and evening papers. 
 
 Second. — That the following fees shall be taken 
 for the use of this City and the prebendary of 
 Finsbury. 
 
 Third. — That a list of fees shall be painted on a 
 board, &c. 
 
 Fourth. — That a person shall be appointed as keeper, 
 &c. 
 
 Fifth. — That a proper number of cards shall be 
 printed with the resolution of this Court for con- 
 tinuing the grounds in their present use, on the 
 one side, and the list of fees and name of the 
 keeper on the other side, and that such printed 
 cards shall be properly distributed among the 
 several undertakersand ot her persons employed 
 in funerals in and near this city. 
 
 Sixth. — That the length and breadth of each ground 
 shall be described by figures in numerical order, 
 &c. 
 
 These regulations the Sub-Committee thought 
 would restore the confidence of the public, and con- 
 tinue and increase the revenue of the grounds, more 
 especially if they were followed by that attention 
 which might be found necessary to secure their 
 efiFect. 
 
 All which they submitted to us, and we, agreeing 
 in opinion, hereby submit the same, &c. 
 
 BRASS CROSBY, , 
 
 JOHN READE, I And others. 
 
 THOMAS HALIFAX, ) 
 
 E 
 
50 APPENDIX. 
 
 And a motion being made and question put, that 
 this Court doth agree with the Committee in their 
 said report, the same was resolved in the affir- 
 mative." 
 
 It is therefore contended that the public hold the 
 engagement not only of the lessees, but of the lessors 
 of the ground, that it shall never be appropriated 
 to secular uses. The ' Corporation oi London have 
 acknowledged the continued force of the obligation 
 incurred by their predecessors, and the Ecclesiastical 
 Commissioners will no doubt equally feel that their 
 honour is engaged to fiilfil the undertaking entered 
 into by the prebendary of Finsbury^ of whom they 
 are the legal heirs and representatives. 
 
 Any disturbance of a spot so hallowed could not 
 but be regarded as an injury to the nation, and in 
 the present state of public opinion could not be 
 attempted. 
 
 The ground has therefore no pecuniary value, 
 and the very large income arising from the rest 
 of the valuable estate which is shortly to pass into 
 the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners must 
 render it quite unnecessary to seek to make this small 
 portion of it a source of profit. 
 
 The reservation of this ground as an open and 
 ornamental space in a part of London which is so 
 thickly crowded with dwellings would be likely con- 
 siderably to enhance the value of adjacent property. 
 The Committee particularly desire to disavow all 
 knowledge of the oflTer which they are informed was 
 made to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the 
 
APPENDIX. 51 
 
 purchase of the ground by Mr. Joseph Ivimey. The 
 name of that gentleman was indeed attached to the 
 memorial addressed to the corporation on this subject, 
 but they have ascertained from him that he had 
 formally withdrawn the offer before he affixed his 
 signature. 
 
 The Committee have learnt with much satisfaction 
 that the Corporation of London are willing to under- 
 take the conservancy of Bunhill-Jields Burial-ground 
 if it is placed in their hands as trustees for the public, 
 and their request to the Commissioners is that they 
 would be pleased to consent to such an arrangement, 
 and to grant their assistance in expediting whatever 
 steps may be necessary for carrying it out. 
 
 London. Samuel Moeley 
 
 and others. 
 
52 APPENDIX. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Inscriptions on tf)e Eomhs 
 
 Df 
 
 THE DISSENTERS' BURIAL-PLACE, 
 
 NBAR 
 
 BUN HILL-FIELDS. 
 
 I%is is an exact reprint of a rare tract, printed, for E. Cfurll, 
 London, 1717, and in the possession of Mr. Deputy Cha/rles 
 Heed, F.S.A. 
 
 On a Stone, wMch, very likely, once was placed over the 
 Entrance into the Dissenters Burial-place, on the North Side 
 of the Artillery- Yard, now on the Ground within the Inside, 
 is this Inscription. 
 
 This Church • Yard was enchsed 
 with a Brich Wall at the sole 
 Charge of the City of London, 
 in tine Mayoralty of Sir John 
 Lawrence, Knight, Anno Dni 
 1665. And afterwards, the 
 Gates hereof were huilt and 
 jmished im, the Mayoralty of 
 Sir Thomas Bludworth, Knight. 
 Anno Domini 1666. 
 
 On a Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body 
 of Edwaed Tuckbb, late 
 of Weymottth, in Dorset- 
 shire, who (by his own 
 Peediction) departed 
 this Life March the 4th. 170 . 
 Aged 86 Tears. 
 
APPENDIX. 53 
 
 On another Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 Mr. John Game, 
 
 Who died the 15. T™ 1711. 
 
 This Stone is put up by 
 
 his loving Relict, in hope 
 
 of the first Resurrection 
 
 to Glory. Bev. 20. 6. 
 
 Blessed and holy is he that 
 
 hath part in the first 
 
 Resurrection: on such the 
 
 second Death hath no Power, 
 
 but they shall be Priests of 
 
 God and Christ, and shall 
 
 reign with him a thousand 
 
 Years. 
 
 On another Orave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 This Elizabeth 
 
 Oround Chapman. 
 
 6 foot long 
 Eastward, is 
 bought for 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb is this Inscription. 
 
 IN-Dom. Guli. Jenkyn, M.V.D. Lond. 
 
 Cupis Gratis, inter graves Eoclesiae 
 
 ProceUas, Novopylo iacarceratus. 
 
 Martyr obiit An. ^tat. LXXII. Ministerij 
 
 LII. Dom. MDCLXXXIV. 
 
 Ejusdemque filise Annse Gurdon, 
 
 Generiq; Dom. Geo. Scott, cum 
 
 filio suo Gul. Scott. 
 
 Dom. Eliz. Juyce, proles, sola 
 
 Superstes, Soror, Uxor, atque 
 
 Mater hteo sepulchralia D. S. P. L.M. 
 
 fieri curavit A.D. MDCXCV. 
 
 On another Stone Tomb, is this Inscription. 
 H. S. E. 
 
 DUI-CIBELLA BUTLEE 
 
 Nuper Uxor 
 
 Edw : BuTLEB, Gen : 
 
 Quse obiit 16° die Januarii, 
 
 An" Dni 1702. 
 
 & ^tat. suso 48. 
 
54 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Grave-stone flat on the Ground, is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Mr. 
 
 BoGGB MoEEicE, Master of Arts, 
 
 And Chaplain to the late Hon"' 
 
 Denzil Loed Holms, who 
 
 departed this Life the 17th Day 
 
 of January, 1701. .Sltat. 73. 
 
 On a black Marble Tomb, supported with Brick, is this 
 Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of 
 
 Sir James Collbtt, Kt. who departed 
 
 this Life the 24th of April, 1711. 
 
 in the 66. Year of his Age. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb is this inscription. 
 
 NATHANIEL UPTON, 
 Eximius dudum Medieinse Professor; 
 
 Artis sues ^sculapius : 
 
 Facetiarum & nrbanitatis probe gnarus : 
 
 Incnlpatse Vitse studiosus : 
 
 Vir suavissimi Moris, & notissimae Liberalitatis, 
 
 Amicis pariter, & Cognatis seque Charissimus : 
 
 Cujns vires, 
 
 Gravissima ilia Pestis, Anno MDCLXV. 
 
 Apud Londinenses violenter preedas agens, 
 
 Non prius sentit, quam obstupnit : 
 
 Jam tandem sub hoc Tumulo, 
 
 Inter charissimse Conjugis, & Liberorum 
 
 Utriusque Sexus reliquias, 
 
 Fseliciter obdormit : 
 
 In spem Beatissimse Eesurrectionia 
 
 Obiit Tertio Junii, Anno MDCXCVT. 
 
 JEtat. suEB LVI. 
 
APPENDIX. 55 
 
 Next Dr. Upton's, on a Stone Tomb, is this Inscription 
 
 M. S. 
 
 Elizabeths Hedwoeth, 
 
 Petei Haevet, Edwardstoniensia, 
 
 In Agro SuflRDlciensi, Generosi, 
 
 Filiffl. 
 
 Quae Corporis FormEl, Animi Prudentia, 
 
 Modestia, & Rei FamiKaris oura 
 
 Eximiis conspicua, 
 
 E vivis excessit 18° die Junii, A° Dni 1694. 
 
 ST^^'Agens annum. 
 
 Hbneictjs Hedwoeth Eichaedi Vico-Cestriensis 
 
 In Agro Dunelmensi, Armigeri, 
 
 Filius Quartus, 
 
 Optimse Maritse Conjugi 
 
 H. P. M. 
 
 On a Stone Tomb is this Inscription, and under a Coat of 
 Arms, this Motto : 
 
 Altior Fortuna Virtus. 
 
 Here lyetli interred the Body of Mr. 
 
 Francis Archer, Merchant, who 
 
 departed this Life October the 14th. 
 
 1673. aged 59 Years. 
 
 Also here lyeth interred the 
 
 Body of John Aechee, the Son of 
 
 Feancis Aechee, who departed 
 
 this Life the XIII. of August, MDCLXXXIX. 
 
 Aged XLIII. Years. 
 
 On a low Altar Tomb-stone at the East-end, is this In- 
 scription. 
 
 THOMAS GOODWIN, S.T.P. 
 Agro Norfoloienci oriundus 
 Ee antiquaria, prsesertim Ecclesiasticae 
 Neo angustsB Lectionis, neque inexpeditse 
 Sacris, si quis alius scripturis prsepotens 
 Inventione admodum feraoi, 
 Neo solido minus subaotoq; judioio, 
 Variis inter se loois accurate collatis 
 Keconditos Spiritus sancti sensus 
 Mira cum faelicitate elicuit 
 Mysteria Evangelii nemo mortalium 
 
56 APPENDIX. 
 
 Aut peritius iUo introspexit, 
 Aut aliis clarius exposuit 
 [Materiam, formam, Kegimen, Omnia, 
 Ecclesianun a Christo inatitutarum, 
 Solertia parum vulgari, indagavit ; 
 
 Si non & invenit.] 
 Theologia, quam voeant, Casuum versatissimuB, 
 [Conscientiis turbatis pacem conciliavit, 
 
 Erroruin tenebris involutas 
 
 Veritatis luce, irradiaTit, 
 
 Impeditisque scrupulos exemit.] 
 Cognitione, Prudentia, dicendi facultate, 
 Ecclesise Pastor omnimode Evangelicus 
 Multos tain privato quam publico Ministerio 
 Christo lucrifaetos porro ^Sdificavit, 
 Donee qua agendo qua patiendo 
 Omnibus exantlatis pro Christo laboribus, 
 Placidam affequutus est in Christo quietem 
 Ab Editis, Edendisque Operibus ; 
 (Viri maxLmi optimo Monumento) 
 Nomen reportaturus, nngnento pretiosius, 
 Ipsoq ; cui inscribitur, marmore perennius. 
 
 The Lines between. Crotchets tlius, [ ] were not suffered to be engraved on the 
 Stone. 
 
 Anno Mix Chr" MDCLXXIX. 
 
 ^tat. LXXX. Die Febr. 
 
 Sanctos cum Goodwino oineres charissimus Uli commiscnit 
 
 Thankful Owen, S. T. B. elapsa vix horula post absolutum 
 
 Proloquium ad magnimi illud Goodwini, in E. P. ad Ephes. Opus, 
 
 Cujus Editione accuraverat, Eadem, qua vixerat, ^quanimitate. 
 
 Absque ullo, prseterquam cordis ad Christum anhelantis, suspLrio, 
 
 Animam expiravit die April. An" Sal. MDCLXXXI. iEtate . . . 
 
 Hie jacet 
 
 Maeia THOMa; Goodwin, S.T.P. in tertiis nuptiis Uxor, 
 
 Ex antiqua Hamondoeum familia in Salopia oriunda : 
 
 Omnibus foeminsB vere Christians officiis defuncta 
 
 Optima Eilia, Coniux, Mater. 
 
 Obiit Maij 10. A. D. 1693. ^t. suse 60. 
 
APPENDIX. 57 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, supported with Brick, is this 
 Inscription. 
 
 Hebe iteth the Body of 
 
 John Eowb, sometimes 
 
 Pkbachee in the Abby at 
 
 Westminstek, who died Oct. 
 
 XII. IN the 52nd Ybab of his 
 
 Age. An" 1677. 
 
 Next to this Tomb, lies interred the 
 Body of the late Learned and Pious 
 Mr. Theophilus Gale. 
 
 Under this Stone is also buried 
 The Body of Mr. Thomas Eowe, 
 the Eldest Son of Mr. John Eowe, 
 and late Minister of the Gospel in 
 London, who departed this Life 
 the 18th Day of August, in the Year of 
 our Lord 1705. and in the 48th 
 Year of his Age. 
 
 Here also lyes the Body of Mr. 
 Benoni Eowe, Minister of 
 the Gospel in London, who 
 departed this Life the 30th of 
 March, in the Year of our Lord 
 1706. and in the 48th Year of his Age. 
 
 On another Tomb, supported with Brick, is this Inscription. 
 
 Dame Elizabeth Foche, (late 
 
 Wife of Sir John Foche) Obiit 
 
 XIII. June, MDCXCIII. ^tatis 
 
 su^ XXXII. 
 
58 APPENDIX. 
 
 Near the former, on a Tomb-stone, is this Inscription. 
 
 Jacobus Lambertus hie sepultus jacet, 
 
 Ille, olim, dum esset in vivis 
 
 TheologuB Orthodoxus, Pastor fidelissimus, 
 
 Doctrinse luminibus, VitsBque resplendens. 
 
 Laboribus indefessus, 
 
 Sub Cruce invictissimus, 
 
 In Morte triumphavit. 
 
 Quo adeo Terris emicuit coelestis. 
 
 In Coelis quam refulgebit gloriosus . 
 
 Obiit Augusti die IX. 
 
 ( SalutiB MDCLXXXIX. 
 ^^° I ^tatis suffi XLV. 
 
 Here lyetb Anne his Wife, Daughter of 
 
 Sir GiLBBET CoEKWALi, Baron of Bmfard, 
 
 Who departed this Life the 14th of April, 
 
 1709. 
 
 On a Tomb, supported with Brick, is this Inscription. 
 
 Mortale quod habuit, hie deposuit Johannes Faldo, 
 Vir Ule Dei qui Evangelium Christi voce, scriptis, 
 Vita exornavit vixeritne sanctius an concionatus sit 
 Incertum est, paterna Christi gregem cura pavit 
 Concordiam fratrum, propagationem Evangelii 
 Assiduo labore foeliciter procuravit, qui zelo in 
 Terris arsit Seraphico refulget nunc adscriptus 
 Choro Angelorum. Obiit VII. Idus Eebruarias, 
 Anno Salutis MDCXC. ^tatis sua LVII° 
 
APPENDIX. 59 
 
 On a Tomb- Stone near Mr. Faldo's, in double columns, is 
 this Inscription. 
 
 JOHANNES OWEN, S. T. P. 
 
 Agro Oxoniensi oriundus, 
 Patre ins^ni Theologo Theologus insfgiiior, 
 Et sseculi hiijas insignissimis annumerandus : 
 Communibus humaniorum literarum supperiis, 
 Mensura parum oommuni instruotus ; 
 Omnibus quasi bene ordinata ancillarum serie. 
 
 Su8B jussis famulari Theologise, 
 Theologise, Polemioee, Practicse, & quam vocant casuum, 
 Harum enim omnium, quae magis habenda erat. ambigitur. 
 In ilia, viribus plusquam Herculeis, serpentibus Tribus, 
 Arminio, Sooino, Cano yenenosa strinxit guttura 
 •In ista, suo prior, ad verbi amussin expertus pectore 
 Universam Sp. Scti. Oeconomiam aliis tradidit, 
 Et, missis CEeteris coluit ipse sensitque 
 Eeatam, quam soripsit, cum Deo communionem, 
 Interiis viator comprehensori in coelis proximus. 
 In Casuum Theologise singulis oraculi instar habitus. 
 Quibus opus erat & oopia consulendi : 
 Soriba ad regnum coelorum usque quaq; institutus 
 Multis priyatos inter parietes a suggesto pluribus, 
 A prselo omnibus ad eundem scopum collineantibus 
 Pura DoctrinsB Evangelicse Lampas prseluxit, ■ 
 Et sensim, non sine aliorum, suoque senau, 
 Sio prseluoendo periit. 
 Assiduis inSrmitatibus obsiti, 
 Morbis creberrimis impetiti, 
 Durisque laboribus potissimum attriti corporis 
 Fabricse, donee ita quassatse spectabilis ruinas. 
 Deo ultra serviendo inhabiles, sancta anima ; 
 Deo ultra fruendi cupida deseruit 
 Die, a terrenis potestatibus, plurimus facto fatali, 
 Illi a ceelesti Numine foelici reddito. 
 
 Mensis set. Augusti XXIV. Anno a Pastu Virgino. 
 
 MDCLXXXIII. 2Etat. LXVII. 
 
60 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a low Tomb-Stone, is ttis Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of 
 
 Mr. Richard Fairclongh, the worthy Son of the late Eererend 
 
 Divine Mr. Samuel Fairchugh -of Svfollc ; 
 
 "Was sometime Fellow of JEmwnuel College in Cambridge 
 
 afterwards Rector of Mells is. Somersetshire. 
 
 A Person, like his Father, eminent 
 
 For his natural Parts, acquired Learning, and infused Grace : 
 
 Indued with 
 
 A most piercing Judgment, rich Fancy, and clear Expression ; 
 
 And therefore 
 
 A good Expositor, a rare Orator, an excellent Preacher. 
 
 His Spirit and Temper was 
 
 Most £ind and Obliging, 
 
 Most Publick and Generous, 
 
 A great Contemner of Eiches, 
 
 And Despiser of Vain-Glory ; 
 
 Chearful, yet Watchful ; Zealous, yet Prudent : 
 
 A pleasant Companion, and a most faithful Friend ; 
 
 A pious Guide and Instructor, 
 
 By Doctrine and Example. 
 
 Ohiit July 4. 1682. Anno Mtat. 61. 
 
 To the most deaerring Memory of him and his Family, 
 
 This Monument was erected, 
 
 As a Testimony of Gratitude for many Obligations, 
 
 By Thomas Fercivall, of the Middle- Temple, Gent. 
 
 Anjio Dom. 1682. 
 
 Hebe Ltbth the Body of Mbs. Jane Peecival, 
 
 Who Dyed Mabch the 10th. In the Ybae 98. 
 
 Aged 52 Years. 
 
APPENDIX. 61 
 
 On a Stone Tomb is this Inscription. 
 
 Here restetli in Hope the Body of Sanndh, Wife 
 
 to NeJtemiaJi Sourne, Senior, sometime a Commander 
 
 at Sea, and Commissioner for the Navy. By whom 
 
 he had 4 Sons and one Daughter. 
 
 Who after she had lived with him as a most 
 
 Affectionate Wife, above 52 Years, during which 
 
 Time she was a most suitable Companion to him in 
 
 various and extraordinary Paths of Divine 
 
 Providence by Sea, and Land, at Home, and in 
 
 remote Parts, and an eminent Example and 
 
 Pattern to all that knew her, as well in the several 
 
 Excellencies of a natural Temper, as those of the 
 
 Spiritual and Divine Life : being ripen'd for a 
 
 Better, she departed this World at Ebisham in 
 
 Surrey, upon the 10th of June; from thence was 
 
 brought to this Place, and buried the 21st, in the 
 
 Y ear of our Lord 1684. and of her Age 68. 
 
 On another Tomb rais'd on Brick, is the following In- 
 scription. 
 
 The Body of Sambel Oket, 
 
 the Son of Samuel Oket is 
 
 here intombed : He was born 
 
 Bee. the 11th 1706. and dyed July the 4th. 1711. 
 
 Here lyes for Adam's first Offence, 
 Beauty, Wit, and Innocence : 
 E'er such another turns to Earth, 
 Time shall throw a Dart at Death. 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, rais'd on Brick, is this Inscrip- 
 tion, in Capitals. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Elizabeth 
 
 Jhvisleton, the Eldest Daughter of 
 
 the Eight Honourable the Lord Viscount 
 
 James Fynes, Say and Seale, Wife to 
 
 John Twisleton, Esq ; at DartforA in 
 
 Kent. She dy'd on the 28th Day of 
 
 March, Anno Dom. 1673. 
 
62 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Graye-stone is ttis Inscription. 
 Hie situs est 
 
 EOBEETUS BOSTEB, 
 
 De Over, in Comit. Cestr, 
 
 Generosus qui ad 
 
 logenii cultum hue adreniens 
 
 Post trimestre spatium, 
 
 Mortem prsematuram obiit 
 
 Optimae spei juvenis, 
 
 Sept. 13. 1680. 
 
 .aitat. 22. 
 
 On a Grave-Stone, like the former, is the following In- 
 scription. 
 
 Here 
 Lyeth the Body of 
 John Penntman, who 
 was requir'd [by Abraham's God] 
 to offer up (as Abraham did) 
 An unusual Sacrifice at the Royal 
 Exchamge in London, upon the 28th 
 Day of July, 1670. (An Account 
 of which he then caused to be 
 Printed, and hath ordered it to 
 be Reprinted in the Book of his 
 Life) And for a perpetual Me- 
 morial of which, he order'd 
 this Inscription to be set in 
 this Place. He departed this 
 Life the 2nd Day of July, 1706. 
 in the 78th Year of his Age. 
 
APPENDIX. 63 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb rais'd on Brick, is this Inscription. 
 
 Sub hoc reconditur tumulo Vir admodum Eeverendus 
 
 Nathaniel Mathbe, 
 
 Eichardi Mather filius, utriusqtie Anglic decus 
 
 Edidit hsec Nostea in Agro Lancastrienei : 
 
 Imbuit Literature, & Magistrati Laurea honestavit 
 
 Alteea ilia transmarina. 
 
 Qua, propter Temporum acerbitatem, 
 
 Parvulus adhuc, cum patre recesserat: 
 
 Inde rerersus EcclesijB quse est Dublinii apud Hibernos 
 
 Communi suffragio prseficiatur. 
 
 TJnde ad hanc Uebem accersitus, 
 
 Pastorali munere cum vita defunctus eat. 
 
 , Si laudes quseris, paucis accipe ; 
 
 Animi dotibus fait dives, Literis eruditissimus, 
 
 Judicio perpolitus, Ingenio acer, 
 
 Cujusque Muneris Naturae, & Doctrinse Potens : 
 
 Sacravit omnia inserriendo Deo. 
 
 Omnino instructissimus ad Officium, 
 
 Beati Seevatoeis Bvangelium sincere promulgavit ; 
 
 Ornavitque vita decora; 
 
 Comitate, Modestisi, Patientisi mixta, 
 
 Pietatis Exemplar maxime illustre ; 
 
 Semper sibi par, & sibi constans, 
 
 Christianus E,eligio8iB8imu8, 
 
 Maritus Indulgentissimus, 
 
 Concionator aptus & operosus, 
 
 Pastor fidelis & vigilans. 
 
 In sacrsB functionis exercitiia, arte pia celavit Hominem 
 
 Ut solus conspiceretur DEtrs, 
 
 Omni denique virtute prseditus, & laude dignissimus. 
 
 Sed, ab ! quantus dolor P mortuus est ; 
 
 Pleropboria tamen Fidei, coelestem adiit gloriam & triumphum ; 
 
 26 Julii, ^rsB Christian* MDCXCVII. ^tat. LXVII. 
 
 Maeia TTxoe ejusdem Nath. hie etiam sepulta est, 1° Martii, 1705. 
 
64 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Grave-stone near the former, is this Inscription. 
 
 Michael Cox, 
 
 Olim Coll. Magd. Oxon, Linguse 
 
 Grsecse & Latinas Prseceptor 
 
 LoBdini per annos 40. & ultra 
 
 Notissimus, fidei verd Eeformatae 
 
 Lucidum exemplum; senio 
 
 & laboribus confractus obiit 
 
 21 Julii, A" Mt. 69. Chriati 1707. 
 
 Optimo Patei saxum hoc 
 
 posBuit J. Cox, Fil. 
 
 On a low Stone-Tomb, rais'd on Brick, is this Inscription; 
 
 Zucia Smith dyed Octob. the 6. 1682. within a Day of 12 years ; who 
 lived much beloved, and dyed greatly lamented by all her Acquaint- 
 ance; as not having known her Equal for Natural Endowments, 
 
 at her Age. 
 
 EPITAPH. 
 
 Here lyes embalmed in careful Parents Tears, 
 A Virgin Branch, oropt in its tender Years : 
 
 Seader, as in a Glass, thou perfectly may'st see, 
 
 How all things here below vain and uncertain be. 
 Dear Virgin Child, Farewel ! thy Mother's Tears 
 Cannot advance thy Memory (who wears 
 A Crown above the Stars) yet I must mourn 
 And show the World mine Offerings at thy Urn. 
 'Tis not (Dear Child !) a Stone can deck your Herse, 
 Or can your Worth lodge in a narrow Verse. 
 No, no, blest Virgin ! this engraven Breath 
 Is not to speak your Life, but weep your Death. 
 
 This Herse is only layed by th' careful Trust 
 
 Of a sad Mother, in Honour of your Dust. 
 
APPENDIX. 65 
 
 EPITAPH. 
 
 Reader, pay thy Tribute here, 
 A Tear, a 'Rose, and then a Tear. 
 Grief may make thee Marble too ; 
 - Yet weep on, as Marbles do. 
 Gently let the Dust be spread 
 O'er a gentle Virgin's Head i 
 Press'd by no rude Passer by, 
 Nothing but a Mother's Eye. 
 Sacred Tomb, with whom we trust, 
 Precious Piles of lovely Dust ; 
 Keep them safely, sacred Tomb, 
 'TUl a Mother ask for Room.^ 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Ebancis Sitiia, 
 
 Bookseller, who in his Youth was settled in a separate Congregation, 
 where he sustained, between the Years of 1659, & 1688, great Perse- 
 cution by Imprisonments, Exile, and large Fines laid on Ministers 
 and Meeting Houses, and for printing and promoting Petitions for 
 calling of a Parliament, with several Things against Popery, and after 
 near 40 Imprisonments, he was fined 5002. for printing and selling the 
 Speech of a Noble Peer, and Three Times || Corporeal Punishment. 
 For the said Fine, he was 5 Years Prisoner in the King's Bench : His 
 hard Duress there, utterly impaired his Health. He dyed House- 
 keeper in the Custom'House, December the 22nd. 1691. 
 
 Sufferedi 
 
66 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth 
 
 interred the Body of 
 
 Thomas Eawlinsost, 
 
 Senior, Citizen, and Distiller 
 
 of London, who departed 
 
 this Life, April the 16th, MDCXCI. 
 
 Aged LXYIII. Years IX Months. 
 
 Here also lyeth interred the 
 
 Body of Elizabeth, late 
 
 Wife of the above-named 
 
 Thomas Kawlinson, who 
 
 departed this Life, May, XVI. 
 
 MDCXCI. Aged LX Years IIL 
 
 Months. 
 
 On another Grave-stone next thfe former, is this In- 
 scription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred 
 the Body of Thomas 
 
 E.AWLIK80N, Junior, 
 
 Citizen and Distiller of 
 
 London, who departed 
 
 this Life the XXI. of October, 
 
 MDCXCVII. in the XXXII. Year 
 
 of his Age. 
 
 On another Grave-stone, is the following Inscription. 
 
 Henet Sewbll, 
 
 Ob. Jun. IQth. 1708. 
 
 ^tatis suse 52. 
 
APPENDIX. 67 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb supported with Brick, underneath is this 
 Inscription. 
 
 M.S. 
 Hoc Conditorium imprimis incoluit Meecia 
 Joannis Smith, M. D. TJxor. Joanuis Jackson,. 
 Mercatoris filia, CLuae obiit quarto Novembris, 
 Anno Dom. MDCLXXV. ^tatis suk. XXXIV. Eiq; 
 duodecies peperisset Liberoa, novem superstites 
 reliquit, Joannem, Edvardxim, Gulielmxim, filios; 
 filias vero Lydiam, Merciam, Mariam, Martham, 
 Eatharinam, Elizabetham, qui omnes defunctam 
 matrem ad haac sedem usque prosequebantur, 
 Nov. IX. atque hie intus in spem beatee Eesurrectionis 
 repositam reliquerunt. 
 
 Quot menses abeunt utero dum prodeat infans 
 
 Legatum, natos tot dedit Ula viro 
 HsBc famulis, natis, sponsoque, parente, secunda 
 
 NuUi ; nunc tantus non reperitur amor. 
 Queis vivens placuit, dubios jam mortua fecit 
 
 Mater erat, domina, an filia, sponsa, prior. 
 Offioium Virtute, suis prsenobile amicis ; 
 
 Sed pietate magis praestitit ilia Deo. 
 
 Pater, Maritus, filius primogenitus hunc 
 
 Xerotophum mserentes posuerunt expectantes 
 
 (Cum reliqua famUiee) ilico hie colligi, & in 
 
 Sternum una habitare. 
 
 f2 
 
fi8 APPENDIX. 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, rais'd on Brick, is this Ifl*' 
 scription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of EmzabetS 
 Wife of Edmond !P©etman8, of Land. Gent* 
 Who dyed in the 70th Tear of her Age, Xbbe^ 
 22. 1693. and in the 45th Year of her Marriage, 
 by whom he had 2 Sons and 5 Daughters : 
 In Memory of whom, this Monument was 
 by him erected, and in whom was that 
 Question of SOLOMON's answered, 
 Prov. 31 & 10. 
 
 As also the Body of Elizabeth, Eldest 
 
 Daughter of the said Edm. and Elizabeth 
 
 Who dyed in the ISth Tear of her Age* 
 
 NOVEMBEE 12. 1669. 
 
 As also the Body of Nehemiah Cox, Doctor in 
 
 (Physick, who married Maeoaeet, second 
 
 Daughter of the said Edm. and Elizabeth, wha 
 
 departed this Life 5th Mat, 1689. 
 
 As also the Body of Edmund, the only Son of 
 
 the said JITehemiah and Mabqabet Cox, 
 
 who dyed 11th Attgust, 1688; 
 
 Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo', 
 Et subit occasu quse valuere ruunt. 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, supported with Brick, is the fol- 
 lovdng Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Mr. Abel Collteb, 
 Minister of the Gospel, and Pastor of a 
 Congregation at Hoisted in. Essex, who 
 departed this Life the 29th Day of May, 
 1695. in the 66th year of his Age. 
 
 He was for Self-Denial- eminent, 
 To seek his Master's Glory fully bent : 
 In Gospel Truths of deep Insight ; 
 Win Souls to Christ was his Delight: 
 
 Poor in Spirit, Eich in Faith, 
 Christ was his Wish, and Him he hath. 
 
APPENDIX. 69 
 
 On a Grave-stone, near the Artillery-Ground Wall, is this 
 Inscription. 
 
 Tumulus Dnse. 
 
 Eliz. Cablile, 
 
 hac vita decessit, 
 
 Mar. 13. A. S. 1710. A. 
 
 iE. 45. Vos eatote 
 
 parati. Mar. 24. 44. 
 
 On a Grave-stone adorned with Warlike Trophies, is .this 
 Inscription. 
 
 Near this Place lyeth. 
 
 interred the Body of 
 
 Lt. Coll. William Blenner 
 
 Haysell, who was a Lover 
 
 of Arms, and of Christian 
 
 and Enfflish Liberties. 
 
 Obiit 6° Jan. 1699. .Sltate 
 
 76. in Hope of the 
 
 Sesurrection Qf the Just. 
 
 On a Grave-stone, next the former, is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyes interred the Body of Mr. 
 Thomas Holmes, Citizen and Haberdasher 
 of London, and Son of Mr. Thomas Holmes, 
 of Wigson, in the County of Leicester, who 
 yielded to Nature the 4th Day of December, 
 1694. in the 3Sth Year of his Age. 
 
 Dear Holmes hath found 
 A Home amongst the Blest, 
 His wearied body for to rest : 
 For no where can his Flesh 
 
 True Slumber hare ; 
 But in this Trust Home on Homely Grave, 
 His Soul in Heavenly Tunes doth sing, 
 
 HoU, where's thy Triumph P 
 
 Death, where is thy Sting ? 
 
70 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Grave-stone, near the former, is this Inscription. 
 
 Here rests the 
 
 Body of Mr. Samuel Ean d, 
 
 A most Learned, Pious, 
 
 and Judioions Gentleman, wlio 
 
 left this Life for a Better, 
 
 April tbe 10th. 1712. in the 78th 
 
 Year of his Age. 
 
 This Stone was erected 
 
 by his loving and tender Nephew, 
 
 Dai^iel Meckween. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb, on the Top, is this Inscription. 
 
 In this Vault lyeth interr'd the Body of 
 
 Capt. John Smith, 
 
 late of London, Merchant, and Treasurer of 
 
 St. Thomas's Hospital many Tears ; whose 
 
 Study was to imitate his Redeemer 
 
 here by doing Good, and departed on the 
 
 7th Day of March, 1698. at Clapham, 
 
 in the 69th Tear of his Age, 
 
 with a joyful Hope to meet 
 
 him in Glory hereafter. 
 
 On the side is also this Inscription. 
 
 Here also lyeth interred the Bodies 
 
 of Ann and Ellenob, Daughters of 
 
 the above Capt. John Smith, who 
 
 departed this Life, the former, the 14th Day 
 
 of April, 1689. Aged 5 Tears, 10 Months ; 
 
 the latter, the 2nd Day of Mb. 16^. 
 
 Aged 3 Tears, 10 Months. 
 
 On a Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 This is Dr. 
 Sampson's Vault. 
 
APPENDIX. 71 
 
 On the Side of a very handsome Tomb, of a particular 
 Form, is this Inscription. 
 
 MoEDECAi Abbott, Esq ; Receiver-General of His 
 Majesty's Customs, Obiit 29. Feh. 1699. Mtat. 43. 
 
 Here Abbott, Yirtae's great Example, lies. 
 
 The Charitable, Pious, Just, and Wise. 
 
 But how shall Fame, in this small Table, paint 
 
 The Husband, Father, Master, Friend and Saint P 
 
 A Soul on Earth so ripe for Glory found ; 
 
 So like to theirs, who are with Glory crown'd ; 
 
 That 'tis less strange such Worth so soon should go 
 
 To Heaven, than that it staid so long below. 
 
 On a fair Stone-Tomb is this Inscription. 
 
 Near this Place lyeth interr'd the Body 
 
 of the Eeverend Mr. Eobbet Beagg, 
 
 who departed this Life April the 14th. 
 
 1704. 
 
 Under this Tomb lieth interred the 
 
 Body of Mr. John Bkagg, Eldest Son of 
 
 Mr. Eobbet Beagg, who by his Will 
 
 caused this Monument to be erected, 
 
 in Memory of his Father and himself. 
 
 He departed this Life Auffust the 19th. 1711. 
 
 in the 55th Year of his Age. 
 
 On a Grave-stone at the Head of the last-mentioned Tomb, 
 is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the 
 
 Precious Dust of Eeverend 
 
 Mr. Beagg, Minister of the 
 
 Gospel. He went to Eest the 
 
 14th of April, 1704. Aged 
 
 77 Years. 
 
72 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb near the Artillery-Ground Wall, is this 
 
 Inscription. 
 
 In Commemoration of 
 EoEEET Thbtbe, Citizen and Merchant- 
 Taylor of London, who departed this 
 Life January the 8th, 1697. Aged 53. 
 And also of Hannah Thetbe, Daughter 
 of the said Eobebt, and Saeah his Wife, who 
 departed this Life March the 1st. 1696. 
 Aged 11 Years, and 2 Months. 
 
 Near the former, on the same Side, on a Stone-Tomb, is 
 the following Inscription. 
 
 Underneath this Tomb, in a Vault, 
 
 lyeth interred the Body of 
 
 DoEOTHT FoEWAED, late Wife of 
 
 Jonathan Foewaed, of the Parish 
 
 of St. Olav^, Silver-street ; she departed 
 
 this Life, Nov. 24. 1706. 
 
 Here are also interred Six Children 
 
 of the said Jonathan and Doeotht, 
 
 vie. Doeotht, Njwhanibl, Samuel, 
 
 Anastatiah, Jonathan, and John. 
 
 On another low Tomb-stone, is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Lieut. 
 
 Collonel Samuel Bache, Esq ; who 
 
 dyed the Third of September, 
 
 1687. in the Sixty second Year 
 
 of his Age. 
 
 On another Grave-stone, in Form of a Curtain Oval, is the 
 following Inscription. 
 
 Hebe 
 lteth 
 
 tNTEEEED THE 
 
 Body of Mb. John 
 
 Gammon, late Minister 
 
 OP the Gospel. He 
 
 dbpaetbd this Lipe 
 
 THE 8. Day op August, 
 
 1699. in THE 47. 
 
 Ybae op his 
 
 AOE. 
 
APPENDIX. 73 
 
 At the Foot of the former, in small Capitals, is this In- 
 Bcription. 
 
 This is the Poot-stone 
 of Mr. John Gammon, 
 Minister of the Gospel. 
 Though dead I lye ; I 
 Speak to you that live : 
 Your Heart, your AU, 
 To Christ be sure to give. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyes interred 
 
 the Body of 
 
 Mr. Edwa/rd Sagshomi, 
 
 Minister of the Gospel, 
 
 who received from God 
 
 Faith to embrace it. 
 
 Courage to defend it, 
 
 and Patience to suffer for it j 
 
 When by the most despised, and by many persecuted, 
 
 Esteeming the Advantages of Birth, and Education, 
 
 and Learning (all eminent in him) as Things of Worth, 
 
 To be accounted Loss for the Knowledge 
 
 of Christ ; 
 
 Erom the Heproaches of professed Adversaries, 
 
 He 
 
 Took Sanctuary 
 
 by the WiU of God, 
 
 in 
 Eternal Best, 
 the 28th of December, 
 1671. 
 
 Here also lyes the Body of Mrs. Margaret, late Wife 
 
 of Mr. EdM. Bagshaw, who departed this Life the 20th 
 
 of Fehruwry, 1692. 
 
 Here the Wicked cease from Troubling, 
 And here the Weary be at Best ; 
 Here the Prisoners rest together, 
 They hear not the Voice of the 
 Oppressor. 
 
74 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyetli the Body 
 
 of Mr. JosHiTA Beooee, 
 
 late Merchaat-Taylor of London, 
 
 wko departed this Life Jan. 16th. in the 
 
 68th Tear of his Age, A.B. 1696. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Mrs. Mabt 
 
 BsooEE, late Wife of Mr. JosHUi. Bbooee, 
 
 of London, Merchant-Taylor, who 
 
 departed this Life the 4th of August, 
 
 1687. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body 
 of Mrs. Rebecca QodolpMn, 
 Widow of John GodolpMn, 
 
 late Doctor of Law, 
 
 who dyed the 4th of June, 
 
 1697. 
 
 in the 56th Year of her Age. 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb is the following Inscription. 
 
 Jana Baeton, Vidua Johasnis 
 
 Babtoit, Theologi, hie sepulta 
 
 expectat donee mortui resurgant 
 
 Obiit Aug. 20. Anno Dom. 1679. 
 
 Anno ^tat. 67. 
 
 On another Tomb-stone, in Capital Letters, is this In- 
 scription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Mr. John 
 
 Oosnold, a faithful Minister of 
 
 the Gospel, who departed this Life 
 
 Octoh. the 3d. 1678, and in the 53rd Year 
 
 of his Age. 
 
 They that turn many to Kighteousness, 
 Shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever, 
 Dan. 12. 3. 
 
APPENDIX. 75 
 
 On a Grave-stone is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body ■ 
 
 of Mrs. Hannah Stltestee, 
 
 Who left this Life, April the XII. 
 
 A.B. MDCCI. aged LVII. Years, 
 
 "Who lired in faithful and endearing 
 
 Wedlock XXX Years with Mr. 
 
 Matt. Stltestee, too unworthy of 
 
 so great, and meet an Help and Blessing. 
 
 Plens veni in terras : sperans disoedo, fuitque 
 
 Yita mihi Christus ; qui mihi vita manet : 
 Pallida mors rapuit animam, subduxit & artus ; 
 Pars potior ooelo est reddita ; corpus humo. 
 
 On a Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 Johannes Anteum, 
 
 Obiit 15. Jan. 1704. 
 
 Behold thy self by me, 
 
 Such one was I,' as thou; 
 And thou in Time shalt be 
 Even Dust, as I am now. 
 .^tatis susB 54. 
 
 On a Tomb-stone rais'd on Brick, is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of 
 
 Maet Godfeet, Eelique of John 
 
 GoDFEEY, late of Canterbury, Gent. 
 
 She dyed the 30th of September, 
 
 Anno Bom. 1689. 
 
 ^tat. su(B 63. 
 
76 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Grave-stone near the afore-mentioned Tomb, is the 
 following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyes the Body of 
 
 Ann Johnson, 
 
 who liy'd Seligionsly, and 
 
 dyed Piously, the 4th 
 
 of JanvMry, I69|. in the 14th 
 
 Year of her Age. 
 
 The Body's here, the Sonl is fled 
 
 To Regions which are pure and bright. 
 And tho' the meaner Fart Ues dead. 
 
 The noblest's gone to Heavenly Light. 
 She did request, that she might be 
 
 To her blest Saviour's Bosom ta'en, 
 And now she dwells where she doth see. 
 
 What does exceed Eeports of Fame. 
 
 On a Stone- Tomb is the following Inscription. 
 Here lyeth the Body of 
 
 Mrs. DOBCAS BSNTLEY, 
 
 the faithful, tender Wife 
 
 of Jonathan Beniley, Citizen 
 
 and Coach-Maeeb of London ; 
 
 who lived much desired, 
 
 and dyed much lamented, 
 
 August the 3d. 1693. 
 
 My Dear, 
 Thy zealous Care to serve thy God, 
 
 And constant Love to Husband dear. 
 Thy harmless Heart to every one, 
 Eemaius still, tho' thy Corps lye here. 
 J. B. 
 
APPENDIX. 77 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, near the fofmer, is this Inscrip- 
 tion. 
 
 Corporis exuvias uno posnere sepulohro 
 Et Pater, & Natus, natus uterque Deo : 
 
 If on toti moriuntur, adit para altera Christo, 
 Altera surgendi spem requiescit agens. 
 
 D. Johannes Loder, Minister Evangelii. 
 D. Sam. Loder, filius, annum agens 16. 
 Utrique Lector gratnlare mortem 
 placidam, & beatam 
 immortalitatem, 
 1674 
 
 Too from his mourning Friends, 
 
 lla dispatch'd his Work, ascends. 
 
 W he came a Divine to see, 
 
 Or 1. . . .Divinity. 
 
 ei behind, 
 
 find. 
 
 The Spirits T and here lies, 
 
 God's and his Church's Sacrifice. 
 
 The Body of the Eeverend Mr. JoAn Lodgr; 
 
 Minister of the Gospel, who dyed 30th 
 
 Decemb. 1673. Anno Mtatis 
 
 4,°.... 17.... 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, in Capitals, is this Inscription. 
 
 To the Memory of Lieut. Coll. William 
 
 Style, late Citizen and 
 
 Leatherseller of London. A Man 
 
 From his Youth devout toward 
 
 God, and pious to his Parents, 
 
 Singularly just, industrious and 
 
 Diligent ; second to none in 
 
 Courage ; Kind to his Friends, and 
 
 Charitable to All : Who on his 
 
 Death-Bed enjoyed plentifully 
 
 The Conscience and Joy of 
 
 a Good Life. Dyed 2 March, 
 
 1670. 
 
78 APPENDIX. 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Mrs. Anne Knollts, 
 
 Daughter of John . . eney. Esq ; and Wife 
 
 of ManseM JSkollys (Mmister of the Gospel) 
 
 by whom he had Issue 7 Sons and 3 Daughters ; 
 
 who dyed April 30th.-1671. and in the 63d 
 
 Year of her Age. 
 
 My only Wife, that in her Life, 
 
 LiVd Forty Tears with me, 
 Lyes now in Kest, for ever blest 
 
 With Immortality. 
 My Dear is gone, left me alone. 
 
 For Christ to do, and dye ; 
 Who did for me, and dy'd to be 
 
 My Sa,Tiour God most High. 
 
 On another Stone-Tomb, is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of 
 
 Mrs. Feancbs Woolaston, the Wife of 
 
 EiCHAED Woolaston, Esq; who 
 
 departed this Life July 25th. 1688. in 
 
 the 86. Year of her Age. 
 
 On a Grave-stone, near the last Stone-Tomb, is this In- 
 scription. 
 
 Here lyeth 
 
 interred the Body of that 
 
 Faithful Minister of .Christ 
 
 Benjamin Holme, who 
 
 went to his Kest, Octoher 
 
 the Fifth, 1691, in the Twenty 
 
 fourth Year of his 
 
 Age. 
 
APPENDIX. 79 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb, near the Artillery-Qround Wall, is this 
 Inscription. 
 
 Heeb ltbth Geace, the only Dattgh- 
 TEB OF Thomas Cloudlet ob Leeds, 
 
 IN THE COTTNTT OF ToEK, WHO WAS 
 riEST MAEEIED TO PbTEE JaCKSON OP 
 
 Leeds, to whom she baeb 3 Sons 
 AND 2 Daitghtees. Aftbewaeds 
 
 MAEEIED TO JoHN DiCKONSON OP LON- 
 DON, TO WHOM SHE BAEE OnE DaITGH- 
 TEB, OP WHICH SHE DTED, 15th FeBETJAET, 
 
 1688. IN THE 31st Yeae of hek Age. 
 Chace was her Name, and Grace she had ; 
 But now Grace is with Glory clad. 
 
 Here lyes the Body of Mr. John Diceonson, 
 
 who dyed Bee. XXII. A.D. MDCLXXXIX, 
 
 aged LV. an Israelite indeed, exem- 
 
 plarily pious, humble, useful, labouring 
 
 for Acceptance with God, not the 
 
 Praise of Man. 
 
 X. Prov. VII. The Memory of the Just is 
 
 Blessed. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb, rais'd on Brick and much broken by 
 the Mob (who rose on the Report of Mr. Eeme's intended 
 Resurrection) is the following Inscription. 
 
 Hebe lteth the Body op Me. Nath. Vincent, 
 
 MiNISTBE op the GoSPEL, 
 who DEPAETED THIS LiPE JuNB 22d. 1697. 
 
 IN THE 5bth Yeae of his Age : 
 
 In Hopes op a Blessed and Gloeious 
 
 Kesiteeection unto Eteenal Lipb. 
 
 Though dead I lye, I speak to you that live, 
 Your Heart, your All, besure to God you give : 
 At Death the Day of Grace will fully end ; 
 In Grief for Bad, in Good Works your Time spend. 
 Earth is Vanity ; Christ's Worth, and of his Cross, 
 The Virtue know, and Greatness of Soul's Loss. 
 
 Immortal Sovds to benefit and save, 
 
 I have thus made a Pulpit of my Grave. 
 
80 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Stone-Tomb, rais'd on Brick, and abused in like 
 manner as the former, is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyes interred the Body of 
 
 the Beverend Mr. AskaHam Httme, 
 
 Minister of the' Gospel, who departed 
 
 this Life the 29th of Jan. 1706. Aged 
 
 about 92 Years. 
 
 And near this Place lyes the Body of 
 
 Mrs. LucT Httmb, his first 
 Wife, who dy'd Nw. the 10th, 1681. 
 
 And also the Eeverend 
 
 Mr. Wm. GitLCHKisT, his Son-in-Law, 
 
 who dy'd Oct. 26. 1684. 
 
 And his Grandson Wm. GilIiCHeisTj 
 * who dy'd March 18. 1683. 
 
 On a Grave-stone, near the last mentioned, is this la-' 
 scription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of John Dbnt, 
 
 Son of John and Ann Dbnt, who 
 
 dyed April the 5th. 1710. aged One Year 
 
 and a Half and Six Months. 
 
 After a short, but sharp Affliction here, 
 I take my Leave of you, my Parents dear. 
 Low here I lye, in this soft Bed of Dust, 
 Waiting the Kesurrection of the Just. 
 I, Phoenix like, have my first Bising known, 
 And on the Wings of Love am upward flown : 
 My Heavenly Part's ascended up on high, 
 
 Whilst on Earth my Earthly Part doth 
 
 'Till it shall rise again in Glory blest. 
 With all the Saints, in their eternal Eest. 
 My Parents dear, my Time was short, you see : 
 So live and dye, that you may rest with me. 
 
APPENDIX. 81 
 
 On another Grave-stone, is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeti. the Body of Peter 
 Finch, Gent, born in Shevington, 
 
 in Lancashire, dyed Oetoh. 
 
 the 12tJi, 1709. in tjie Forty eighth 
 
 Year of his Age. 
 
 Sanctus Sf Sapiens. 
 
 On another Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 Caleb Mat, 
 
 Ob. Dec. 13. Anno 
 
 ^tat. suae 46. 
 
 Dom. 1694. 
 
 Ann Mat dyed 
 
 February the 19th. 1710. 
 
 .^tatis snsB 59. 
 
 On a Grave-stone near Mr. Bragg's Tomb-stone, is this 
 Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of 
 
 Mr. Tho. Brand, Minister 
 
 of the Gospel, who 
 
 departed this Life the 
 
 First of December, 
 
 1691. 
 
 On another Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 In Memoriam CALEB HEAD. 
 
 O.Jurenis dilecte Deo ! oui non dedifc annos 
 LongsBvos Pater Omnipotens, sad chara futurse 
 Post obitmn, certse, & melioris pignora vitse, 
 Misceo dum cineres lacrymis funebribus horas, 
 Ploro tuasque breves objurgant gaudia luctum. 
 O utinam plures similes tibi chare nepotes : 
 Sint mihi, sint grati tales, sit talis amicus, 
 Sint servi tales, talis mihi denique finis. 
 
 G 
 
82 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a Tomb-Stone is this Inscription. 
 
 Here lyetH interred the Body of 
 
 Mr. Thomas Tryon, late of Sachney, 
 
 Merchant, who departed this Life the 
 
 2lBt of August, 1703. in the Sixty ninth 
 
 Year of his Age. 
 
 On a Grave-stone is this Inscription. 
 
 JA. NAYLOE, 
 
 MINISTEE OF THE 
 
 GOSPEL, DYED JULY 
 
 23, 1708. AGED 
 
 29 YEAES. 
 
 On a Grave-stone, near the Door, is this Inscription. 
 
 Here they laid Maet Thomas, 
 
 when Death snatched her from 
 
 her Husband Ben. Thomas. 
 
 Her Name, both. Maid and Wife ; 
 
 And his the same throughout Lis Life. 
 
 Deceased the 22d of Nov. 
 
 17n. Aged 35. 
 
 On another Grave-stone, near the former, is this Inscrip- 
 tion-. 
 
 Hie jacet 
 
 Debora Warr, Uxor 
 
 Charissima Johan. Warr, Jun. Gen. 
 
 QusB obiit Novemb. 10, 1623. una 
 
 cum Elizabetha utriusque FUia 
 
 In cunis exanimi. 
 
 Tlie remainder of this is so far sunk in the Qround, that it cannot 
 be easily recovered. 
 
APPENDIX. 83 
 
 On another Grave-stone, near the former, is this Inscrip- 
 tion. 
 
 Here lyeth 
 
 the Body of Nicholas 
 
 Latimer, Glover, who 
 
 departed this Life the 
 
 25th Day of April, 1677. 
 
 and in the 70th Year of 
 
 his Life. 
 
 He was poor Widows Advocate, 
 And many Pounds for them he gate. 
 Which he them gave without fail : 
 His Loss therefore they much bewail. 
 
 On- the Plank of an Altar-Monument of Free-stone, at the 
 West, was the following Inscription engraven, made by Mr. 
 Ed. Bagshaw beforementioned ; but now, by the Injury of 
 the Weather, worn out. 
 
 Vavasoe Powell, a successful Teacher of the past, 
 A sincere Witness of the present, and an useful Example 
 to the fature, Age, lies here interr'd, who in the Defection 
 
 of so many, obtained Mercy to be found Faithful; for 
 which being called to several Prisons, he was there tried, 
 
 and would not accept Deliverance, expecting a better 
 
 Eesurrection. In hope of which, he finished this Life, & 
 
 Testimony together, in the 11th Year of Ms Imprisonment, 
 
 and in the 53d Year of his Age, Octoh. IT. An. 1671. 
 
 In vain Oppressors do themselves perplex 
 To find out Arts how they the Saints may vex : 
 Death spoil's their Plots, and sets the Oppressed free ; 
 Thus Vavasoe obtained true Liberty. 
 Christ him released, and now he's joyned among 
 The martyred Souls, with whom he cries, Sow long. 
 
 Beu. 6. 10. 
 
 On another Grave- stone is the following Inscription. 
 
 Johannes Seaman, 
 natus 6. Feb. 1665. 
 Obiit 23. Julii 1665. 
 
84 APPENDIX. 
 
 On a black Marble Tomb, inclosed with Iron Ballusters is 
 the foUowing Inscription. 
 
 M. S. 
 
 DANIELI8 WILLIAMS, S.T.P. 
 
 Wrexamiae in Comitatu Denbigensi 
 
 inter Cambro-Britannos nati, 
 
 Qui a primis cunis 
 
 Pietate ; aeque ac bonis Literis feliciter imbutuB, 
 
 Divini Verbi Praeeonis mnnus admodum juvenis 
 
 in multis Angliae partibus, non sine laude peregit 
 
 deinde apnd Hibernos, praecipue Eblanae, 
 
 TJbi media setate consnmpta, magnum sui desiderium 
 
 inter omnes reformatae fidei Cultores reliquit, 
 
 Tandem Pontificia Tyrannide Londinum se oonferre coactus, 
 
 Magna ibi celebritate Famae per mnltos annos 
 
 ad mortem usque floruit. 
 
 Vir amplissim& mente, 
 
 in quo aoutissimum Ingenium cnm judicio subactissimo 
 
 quod paucis contigit, conjunetum videbatur. 
 
 In omnibus Theologise 
 
 partibus, si quisquam alius, versatisBrmus, 
 
 ConcionatoT vehemenB idem & acer, gravis & copiosns, 
 
 assiduus & felix, ad docendum, probandum, pennovendum 
 
 prout res postnlabat, aeque accommodatus. 
 
 Pastor dubium peritior, an vigUantior, 
 
 ad Christianam fidem promovendam, opera, se, gratia, 
 
 Non in Patria solum, sed etiam apud exteros, 
 
 semper paratissimus ; 
 
 ad consolia sive danda, 
 
 sire exequenda pariter instructissimus : 
 
 Idemq ; in arduis aeque diffioiUimis rebus, turn publicis 
 
 turn privatis, peragendis non minori prudentia 
 
 & diligehtia, quam integritate conSpicuus, 
 
 In omnes chafitate, 
 
 atque candore animi SingUlari : 
 
 Sibi in re atnplissima parous, in alios vero, pauperes 
 
 praecipue, ao rempublicam, nt semper alius, 
 
 ita testamento muniflcentiBsimus. 
 
 Denique omnis virtutis, 
 
 quantum mortalium capit conditio, 
 
 dum visit studioaissimus ; eorum, quae iUa non admittit, 
 
 annis jam & laude plenus, in coelesti coctu 
 
 particeps factus, VII. Kal. Feb. 
 
 ANNO 
 
 Aclatis suae LXXII. Cliristi MDCCXVI. 
 
APPENDIX. 85 
 
 On another black Marble Tomb-stonej is the following 
 Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of the 
 
 Eeverend and Learned Divme, Mr. 
 
 ANTHONY FIDOE, who 'tiU the Year 
 
 1660, was a Fellow of Trinity College 
 
 in Cambridge; but Boon after (his 
 
 Conscience not permitting him to comply 
 
 with the Act commonly known by the 
 
 Name of The Sartholomew Act) he 
 
 resigned not only his Fellowship, but a 
 
 considerable Living he was then in 
 
 Possession of, in the County of Cambridge ; 
 
 and since that Time, has continued a 
 
 Minister of the Gospel in several 
 
 Parts of England; but for the last 
 
 Thirty Years of his Life, in the City 
 
 of London. He dyed a Batchelor. 
 
 on the 17th Day of Janua/ry, 1715. 
 
 Aged 75 Years. 
 
 On a standing Grave-stone, is tlie following Inscription. 
 
 Here resteth 
 
 the Body of the late Bevd. 
 
 Mr. JAMES CONINGHAM, 
 
 M. A. Minister of the Grospel, 
 
 who dyed 8^t, 1. 1716. 
 
 in the 47th Year of his 
 
 Age. 
 
 And Three Children ; 
 
 May 5. \ 1713. \ 15 Years. 
 
 dyed Aug. 23. ' 1713. > Aged 23 Days. 
 
 Jan. 7. ) 171{. ) 4 Years. 
 
86 APPENDIX. 
 
 On another Grave-stone is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here rests the 
 
 Body of the Eeverend 
 
 Mr. GEOEGB SENDAXL, 
 
 who dyed March the 15th. 
 
 171i. Aged 51 Years. 
 
 On another Grave-stone is the following Inscription. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of 
 JAMES, Son of the Eeverend 
 
 Mr. DANIEL WILCOX, 
 "Who dyed April the XL 1714. 
 
 Aged 5 Months and 5 Days. 
 
 On another Grave-stone is the following Inscription. 
 
 Memento Mori. 
 
 Here lyes interr'd the Body of 
 
 MAET LILBUEN, 
 
 the Wife of NATHANIEL LILBTJEN, 
 
 of Cripplegate Parish, who 
 
 departed this Life Nov. 12. 1713. 
 
 Aged 38. 
 
 Lo here she lyes interr'd, who hnmbly gave 
 Her Soul to God, her Body to the Grave. 
 Throughout her Passage to a better Life, 
 She prov'd a pious, virtuous, loving Wife. 
 She dy'd to live, and humbly liv'd to dye ; 
 So God remov'd her to compleat her Joy : 
 And her surviving Spouse in Christ doth trust, 
 To mix his Ashes with her sacred Dust. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbot (Mordeoai) 
 
 Antrum (John) 
 
 Archer (Francis) 
 
 John 
 
 Bache (Samuel) 
 
 Bagahaw (Edward) 
 
 : — Margaret 
 
 Barton (Jane) 
 
 Bentley (Dorcas) 
 
 Blenner (William) 
 
 Bosyer (Robert) 
 
 Bourne (Hannah) 
 
 Bragg (John) 
 
 Egbert 
 
 Brand (Thomas) 
 
 Brooke (Joshua) 
 
 Mary 
 
 Butler (Dulcibella) 
 Chapman (Elizabeth) ... 
 CarUle (Elizabeth) 
 
 Cloudley (Grace) 
 
 Collett (Sir James) 
 
 CoUyer (Abel) 
 
 Coningham (James) 
 
 Cox (Edmund) 
 
 Nehemiah 
 
 Michael 
 
 Dent (Anne) 
 
 John 
 
 Dickonson (Grace) 
 John 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 71 
 . 75 
 . 55 
 .ibid. 
 . 72 
 . 73 
 .ibid. 
 .. 74 
 .. 76 
 .. 69 
 .. 62 
 .. 61 
 .. 71 
 . .ibid. 
 ,. 81 
 .. 74 
 ..ibid. 
 .. 53 
 ..ibid. 
 .. 69 
 .. 79 
 .. 54 
 „ 68 
 .. 85 
 .. 68 
 ..ibid. 
 .. 64 
 .. 80 
 ..ibid. 
 .. 79 
 ..ibid. 
 
 Fairclough (Richard) 
 
 Faldo (John). 
 
 Fidoe (Anthony) ... 
 
 Finch (Peter) 
 
 Foche (Elizabeth)... 
 Forward (Dorothy) 
 Jonathan 
 
 Gale (Theophilus)... , 
 Gammon (John) ... 
 
 Game (John) 
 
 GiUchrist (WiUiam) 
 Godfrey (Mary) ... 
 Godolphin (Rebecca) 
 Goodwin (Thomas) 
 Gosnold (John) 
 
 Head (Caleb) 
 
 Hedworth (Elizabeth) 
 Holme (Benjamin) 
 Holmes (Thomas) ... 
 Hume (Abraham)... 
 Lucy ... 
 
 Jenkyn (William).. 
 JTohnson (Anne) .. 
 Knollys (Anne) 
 Lambert (Anne) .. 
 
 James . . 
 
 Latimer (Nicholas) 
 LUburn (Mary) 
 Loder (John) 
 
 (Samuel) 
 
 Mather (Nathaniel) 
 
 PAGE 
 ... 60 
 ... 58 
 ... 85 
 ... 81 
 ... 57 
 .. 72 
 ...ibid. 
 ... 57 
 ... 72 
 ... 53 
 ... 80 
 ... 75 
 ... 74 
 ... 55 
 ... 74 
 ... 81 
 ... 55 
 ... 78 
 ... 69 
 ... 80 
 ...ibid. 
 ... 53 
 ... 76 
 ... 78 
 ... 58 
 ...ibid. 
 ... 83 
 ... 86 
 ... 77 
 ...ibid. 
 ... 83 
 
88 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 PAG 
 
 May (Caleb) 81 
 
 Morrice (Roger) 54 
 
 Naylor (James) 82 
 
 Okey (Samuel) 61 
 
 Owen (John) 59 
 
 Thankful 56 
 
 Pennyman (John) 62 
 
 Percival ( Jane) 60 
 
 Portmans (Elizabeth) 68 
 
 Powell (Vavasor) 83 
 
 Hand (Samuel) 70 
 
 Rawlinson (Elizabeth) 66 
 
 Thomas ibid. 
 
 Thomas junior ibid, 
 
 Eowe (Benoni) 57 
 
 John ibid. 
 
 Thomas ibid. 
 
 Sampson (Br.) ... 70 
 
 Seaman (John) 83 
 
 Sendall (George) 86 
 
 SeweU (Henry) 66 
 
 Smith Anne) 
 
 Eleanor 
 
 Francis 
 
 John 
 
 Lucia 
 
 Mercia 
 
 Style (William) ... 
 Sylvester (Hannah) 
 Theyer (Hannah) ... 
 Eobert 
 
 Thomas (Mary) 
 
 Tryon (Thomas) 
 
 Tucker (Edward) 
 
 Twialeton (EUzabeth) . 
 Vincent (Nathaniel) ,. 
 Upton (Nathaniel) 
 
 Warr (Debora) 
 
 Wilcox (Daniel) 
 
 Williams (Daniel) D. D. 
 Woolaston (Frances) ... 
 
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 ...ibid. 
 
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 ... 70 
 
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 ... 75 
 
 ... 72 
 ...ibid. 
 
 ... 82 
 ...ibid. 
 
 ... 52 
 
 ... 61 
 
 ... 79 
 
 ... 54 
 
 ... 82 
 
 ... 86 
 
 ... 84 
 
 ... 78 
 
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