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258 HISTORY OF
Sic juvenis, sic pcne puer septem imbibit artes,
Granta ubi Castaliis praedominatur aquis.
Moribus hand tetricis, nec pectore (urpis avaro,
Non etenim nimias pone reliquit opes.
Hugo Holsandus Jlevit.
Georgio Montaigneo honestis hoc in oppido penatibus oriundo, Cantabrigia
per cunctos disciplinarum gradus provecto, et academise procuratori, initio D.
Jacobi, hospitio quod Sabaudiam vocant, et ecclesise Westmonast. prsefecto ; ab
eodem rege ad preesulatum Lincoln, ac inde post aliqua temporum spiramenta
Londinensem promoto: a Carolo divi F. ad Dunelmensem honestissimi senii et
valetudinis secessum translato: moxque, h. e. infra spatium trimestre, ad archiepis-
copat. Ebor. benigniter sublevato: viro venerabili, aspectu gravi, moribus non
injucundis, ad beneficia non ingrato, injuriarum non ultori unquam, nec (quantum
natura humana patitur) memori, amborum principum Dora, suoque eleemosy-
nario*.
Isaacus Motaigneus testamenti curator, frater. B. M. M. P. vixit annos 59.
M.6-D.2.
ROBERT TOUNSON
Was installed dean of this church December 16, 1617, on the promotion of
his predecessor to the bishopric of Lincoln. He Avas born at Cambridge, and
had been, as well as Montaigne, a fellow of Queen's College in that university.
It is not known that he possessed any ecclesiastical preferment previous to the at-
tainment of the deanery; nor does any particular occurrence respecting the Church
of Westminster appear to have happened during the short space of two years and
an half, which was the term of his retaining the principal office in it.
He was advanced to the see of Salisbury July 9, 1620, and died some time
* This inscription is minutely copied from the monument.
Sic juvenis, sic pcne puer septem imbibit artes,
Granta ubi Castaliis praedominatur aquis.
Moribus hand tetricis, nec pectore (urpis avaro,
Non etenim nimias pone reliquit opes.
Hugo Holsandus Jlevit.
Georgio Montaigneo honestis hoc in oppido penatibus oriundo, Cantabrigia
per cunctos disciplinarum gradus provecto, et academise procuratori, initio D.
Jacobi, hospitio quod Sabaudiam vocant, et ecclesise Westmonast. prsefecto ; ab
eodem rege ad preesulatum Lincoln, ac inde post aliqua temporum spiramenta
Londinensem promoto: a Carolo divi F. ad Dunelmensem honestissimi senii et
valetudinis secessum translato: moxque, h. e. infra spatium trimestre, ad archiepis-
copat. Ebor. benigniter sublevato: viro venerabili, aspectu gravi, moribus non
injucundis, ad beneficia non ingrato, injuriarum non ultori unquam, nec (quantum
natura humana patitur) memori, amborum principum Dora, suoque eleemosy-
nario*.
Isaacus Motaigneus testamenti curator, frater. B. M. M. P. vixit annos 59.
M.6-D.2.
ROBERT TOUNSON
Was installed dean of this church December 16, 1617, on the promotion of
his predecessor to the bishopric of Lincoln. He Avas born at Cambridge, and
had been, as well as Montaigne, a fellow of Queen's College in that university.
It is not known that he possessed any ecclesiastical preferment previous to the at-
tainment of the deanery; nor does any particular occurrence respecting the Church
of Westminster appear to have happened during the short space of two years and
an half, which was the term of his retaining the principal office in it.
He was advanced to the see of Salisbury July 9, 1620, and died some time
* This inscription is minutely copied from the monument.