terred in the old Church of St. James, Clerkenwell. His Epitaph, as written by himself, has been thus printed :

Lancashire gave me Breath, and Cambridge Education : Middlesex gave me Death, and this Church my Humation : And Christ to me hath given

A Place with him in Heaven.

Another Epitaph, by a friend, was inscribed

upon a

tablet, and placed against a column near his grave. WEEVER, who labor'd in a learned strain,

To make Men long since dead to live again,
And, with Expence of Oyle and Ink, did watch
From the Worm's mouth the sleeping Corse to snatch,
Hath, by his Industry, begot a way

Death, who insidiates all things, to betray;

Redeeming freely, by his Care and Cost,

Many a sad Herse, which Time, long since, gave lost; And to forgotten Dust such Spirit did give

To make it in our Memories to live.

Where Death destroy'd, when He had power to save,
In that he did not seek to rob the Grave;

For where so e'er a ruin'd Tomb he found,
His Pen hath built it new out of the Ground.

posed to have been written by Weever, (vide " Censura Literaria," Vol. 11.) and some of his original MSS. are in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries. A 2d edition of the Funeral Monuments appeared in 1661, fol. with a head of Weever; and a 3d, in 4to. was published in 1766, with some ovements by the Rev. William Tooke, F. R. S.-The

the present article has been long preparing a new

rected and enlarged from his own notes made in Gurneys to almost every part of the kingdom.

: "Twixt Earth and Him this interchange we find,
She hath to Him, he bin to Her, like kind.
She was his Mother, he, (a grateful Child,)
Made her his Theme, in a large work, compil'd
Of Funeral Reliques, and brave Structures rear'd
On such as seem'd to her the most indear'd:
Alternately a Grave to Him she lent,

O'er which his Book remains a Monument.

Although the custom of Gentlemen, and of others aping them, to wear Swords, still lives in the recollection of our more aged Citizens, and is occasionally a subject of discourse, it is not so commonly known that, in king William's reign, even Footmen had been tolerated to wear side arms. Yet this fact is rendered evident by an official notice published in the London Gazette for New Year's Day, 1701, of which the following is a copy.

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By the right hon. Charles, Earl of Carlisle, Earl Marshal of England during the minority of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. Whereas many mischiefs and dangerous accidents, tending not only to the highest breach of the Peace, but also to the destruction of the lives of his Majesty's subjects, have happened and been occasioned by Footmen wearing of Swords:-for prevention of the like accidents and disturbances for the future, I do hereby order that no Footmen attending any of the Nobility or Gentry of his Majesty's realms shall wear any Sword, hangér, bayonet, or such other like offensive weapon, during such time as they or any of them shall reside or be within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the liberties and precincts of the same, as they will an

swer the contrary hereof.-Given under my hand, and the seal of the Earl Marshal of England, the 30th day of December, 1701, in the 13th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King William the Third, of England, &c. CARLISLE, E. M.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.-MONUMENTS OF FOX AND

PITT.

Those eminent Statesmen, and great political rivals, Charles James Fox, and William Pitt, lie buried within a few yards of each other, in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. To that circumstance the northern wizard,' Sir Walter Scott, most feelingly alludes in his "Lay of the Last Minstrel ;”— Drop upon Fox's Grave the tear

"Twill trickle to his Rival's Bier!
On PITT's the mournful requiem sound,
And Fox's shall the notes rebound!
The solemn echo seems to cry,—

"Here let their discord with them die".
Speak not for those a separate doom,
Whom fate made Brothers in the Tomb;
But search the land of Living Men,

Where wilt thou find their like again!

Both graves are distinguished by the respective initials of their names cut on small stones in the pavement. The remains of Pitt are deposited in a vault first made for the great Earl of Chatham, his father; and it may be mentioned as a remarkable fact, that the leaden coffin of that illustrious nobleman was found completely overturned after the fire in the

bey Church, on the 9th of July, 1803, it hav