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NEAR THIS PLACE ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF
THE REV. JOHN CLARKE, M. A.

FORMERLY FELLOW OF

TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND SUCCESSIVELY MASTER

OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS OF

SHIPTON, BEVERLEY, AND WAKEFIELD IN THIS COUNTY.
HE WAS BORN IN THIS VILLAGE, MÁY iii. 1706.
AND DIED FEBRUARY viii. 1761.

TO AN ACCURATE AND EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF
CLASSIC LITERATURE,

HE JOINED A CORRECT JUDGEMENT,

A REFINED AND ELEGANT TASTE.

THE MILDNESS AND UNAFFECTED HUMILITY
OF HIS DISPOSITION,

THE GUILELESS SIMPLICITY OF HIS LIFE AND MANNERS,
HIS DIFFIDENCE AND GENUINE MODESTY
ENDEARED HIM TO HIS PUPILS:

WHILST A FAITHFUL ATTENTION TO

THEIR IMPROVEMENT IN LEARNING COMMANDED THEIR ESTEEM AND VENERATION. THEY HAVE CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED, AS A TESTIMONY OF THEIR

AFFECTION.

A plain marble tablet, executed at York, is also placed in each of the schools over which he presided, with the subjoined inscription, varying

Williamson, T. Esq. Welton near Hull.

Williamson, W. Esq. Hull.

Willoughby, Rev. Henry, Guiseley.

Wilsford, Richard, Esq. Pontefract.

Wilson, Rev. Henry, Haversham near Kendal

Wilson, Joshua, Esq. Pontefract.

Wilson, Daniel, Esq. Dalham Tower, Westmorland.

Wood, Loftus near Wakefield.

Wright, Rev.

i

Bewick near Ferrybridge.

Zouch, Rev. T. Wycliffe near Greta Bridge, Yorkshire.

in some inconsiderable passages from the one

originally proposed *.

M. S.

JOANNIS CLARKE, A. M.

QUI

HUIC SCHOLÆ PRÆPOSITUS

SUMMA CUM OMNIUM LAUDE AC PREDICATIONE
JUVENTUTIS INSTITUENDÆ PROVINCIAM ADORNAVIT:
INTIMA LATINARUM ET GRÆCARUM LITERARUM
COGNITIONE INSTRUCTUS,

IN OPTIMIS UTRIUSQUE LINGUÆ SCRIPTORIBUS EXPLICANDIS
ET ILLUSTRANDIS DILUCIDUS, SOLERS, PERSPICAX:
MULTIPLICI SCIENTIA,

JUDICII SUBTILITATE,

ET INGENII ELEGANTIA PERPOLITA
UBERRIME LOCUPLETATUS.

MORES HUMANITATE ADEO TEMPERAVIT,
UT DISCIPULOS SUOS, IN GLORIÆ SPEM EDUCATOS,
INCREDIBILI QUADAM FACILITATE AD DOCTRINAM ALLICERET,
INDUSTRIAM EXCITARET ATQUE ACUERET.

HINC FREQUENTISSIMAM ADOLESCENTIUM CORONAM
SIBI CONCILIAVIT ET DEVINXIT,

QUI EUM QUASI PATREM BENIGNUM ATQUE DILECTISSIMUM
ENIXE AMARUNT ET COLUERUNT.

EX VULTU MODESTO, OBTUTUQUE SUAVI ET PLACIDO
ANIMI CANDOREM LUBENTISSIME CONJICERES:
ERAT ENIM, SI QUIS ALIUS,

INCULPABILI VITÆ INTEGRITATE ORNATISSIMUS ; IMMO PERPULCRUM PRIMEVE INNOCENTIÆ EXEMPLUM. PIGET EHEU! REFERRE QUAM VIRUM HUNC OPTIME DE REPUBLICA MERITUM

INGRATA ETAS NEGI.EXERIT,

ÆRUMNIS CONFECTUM, SINE HONORE, SINE PRÆMIO PAUPERTATE ET INOPIA TANTUM NON OPPRESSUM VIDERIT. NATUS IN VILLA DE KIRBY MISPERTON,

IN COMITATU EBORACENSI,

iii MAII, A. D. 1706,

IN EADEM VILLA HUMATUS EST

xi FEBRUARII, A. D. 1761.

*

They were both drawn up by Dr. Zouch, who received the Thanks of the Meeting above-mentioned for his "elegant and

pathetic composition."

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