Combe, William: The history of the abbey church of St. Peter's Westminster: its antiquities and monuments ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1812) [Cicognara, 3926-2]

.50 HISTORY OF

" parentum optime de se meritorum memoriae, sacrari jussit superstes filia, Ho-
" norabilis Johannes Wallop, Honoratissimi Johannis Vicecomitis de Lymington,
* filii natu maximi uxor. Obierunt, ille 23 Maii, 1737, annus natus 49; ilia
" 20 Januarii, 1739, annum agens 59."

This, as well as the preceding monument, is by Cheere.

(33) . John Methuen, Esquire, and Sir Paul Methuen.-In an elevated

situation in the window is an handsome monument, by llysbrack. A tablet,
surmounted with an entablature, a pediment, and weeping boys on either side,
appears in the front of a pyramid. The inscription informs the reader, that near
it are interred the remains of John Methuen, Esquire, some time a master in
Chancery, afterwards lord high chancellor of Ireland, and lastly envoy extraor-
dinary to the King of Portugal, in which country he died, the 13th day of July,
1706, and was buried here the 17th of September, 1708.

It also perpetuates the memory of his son, Sir Paul Methuen, of Bishop's
Canning, in the county of Wilts, one of his majesty's most honourable privy
council, and knight of the most honourable order of the Bath, who died April
11, 1757, aged eighty-six.

(34) . Thomas Knipe, D. D.-Beneath is an upright tablet, containing an

epitaph. It is supported by Doric columns of veined marble, and their entabla-
ture, on which is an ornamented urn, with a central flame.

Thomas Knipe, S. T. P.
II ujusce Ecclesice Prcbendarius,
In claustrornm parte marmori opposita
Reliquias suas jacere voluit,
Ubi uxorem Axnam
Cum quinquc ex eadem liberis tumulaverat.
In schola reoria Weslmonusteriensi
Per quinquagihta annos