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WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 271
A tablet to Sir John Kempe, Baronet, who died at the age of seventeen, Jan.
16, 1771, was erected by two of his young friends, who loved and lament him.
Another interesting monument, to an amiable youth, the son of Albany Wallis,
Esquire, of Norfolk-street, London, is thus inscribed :—" Infra sepultus erat, veras
*■* inter condiscipulorum lacrymas, Albanius Carolus Wallis, amantissimi patrisunica
" spes; qui vetitis Thamesis fluvii illecebris heu nimium captus, indomita ejusdem
" vi abreptus, periit 29 die Martii, A. D. 1776, setatis 13. Siste, juvenis, hujus-
" que finem contemplare."
'To Jane Lister, 1688, a tablet with this inscription: —" M. S. Christopheri
" Steigher, nobilis Bernensis, e Collegio Universitatis apud Oxonienses sup. ord.
" commensalis, eximige spei juvenis, et ob ingenii elegantiam morumque suavi-
" tatem plane suam Britannis seque ac suis percari. Pater e concilio supremo
" reip. Bernensis, comitatus Thunensis prrefectus, qui ad filium dilectissimum
" natuque maximum morbo diutino languentum ab Helvetiis usque Londinum
" anxius properaverat, perfunctus ma;stissimo paterni amoris officio, hoc tandem
" monumento perpetuse memoriae commendat egregii adoloscentis merita suosque
" luctus. Obiit ille die 23 Dec. A. D. 1772, setatis autem 20."
The monumental tablets on the wall of the north ambulatory are as follows:—
To Owen Wynne"-; Ellen Bast, 1697;--Fox, 1680; William Laivrence*
1621; Elizabeth Palmer,-; Thomas Eudford, Esquire, 1776, aged sixty-six;
Ann Playford, 1743, aged seventy-two; and Ann her daughter, wife of the Rev.
Thomas Fitzgerald, A.M. one of the Ushers of Westminster School, 1739-40,
aged forty-live, with an infant; Rachael Taylor, relict of the Rev. Edward
Taylor, Rector of Finningley, in the county of Nottingham, 1740, aged sixty-five;
Ann Ludford, her only daughter, 1748, aged fifty; .Elizabeth Atkinson, Body
Laundress to Queen Anne,-; Elizabeth Gates, wife of Bernard Gates, Master
of the children of the Chapel Royal, 1737, aged forty-eight; Bernard Gates,
A tablet to Sir John Kempe, Baronet, who died at the age of seventeen, Jan.
16, 1771, was erected by two of his young friends, who loved and lament him.
Another interesting monument, to an amiable youth, the son of Albany Wallis,
Esquire, of Norfolk-street, London, is thus inscribed :—" Infra sepultus erat, veras
*■* inter condiscipulorum lacrymas, Albanius Carolus Wallis, amantissimi patrisunica
" spes; qui vetitis Thamesis fluvii illecebris heu nimium captus, indomita ejusdem
" vi abreptus, periit 29 die Martii, A. D. 1776, setatis 13. Siste, juvenis, hujus-
" que finem contemplare."
'To Jane Lister, 1688, a tablet with this inscription: —" M. S. Christopheri
" Steigher, nobilis Bernensis, e Collegio Universitatis apud Oxonienses sup. ord.
" commensalis, eximige spei juvenis, et ob ingenii elegantiam morumque suavi-
" tatem plane suam Britannis seque ac suis percari. Pater e concilio supremo
" reip. Bernensis, comitatus Thunensis prrefectus, qui ad filium dilectissimum
" natuque maximum morbo diutino languentum ab Helvetiis usque Londinum
" anxius properaverat, perfunctus ma;stissimo paterni amoris officio, hoc tandem
" monumento perpetuse memoriae commendat egregii adoloscentis merita suosque
" luctus. Obiit ille die 23 Dec. A. D. 1772, setatis autem 20."
The monumental tablets on the wall of the north ambulatory are as follows:—
To Owen Wynne"-; Ellen Bast, 1697;--Fox, 1680; William Laivrence*
1621; Elizabeth Palmer,-; Thomas Eudford, Esquire, 1776, aged sixty-six;
Ann Playford, 1743, aged seventy-two; and Ann her daughter, wife of the Rev.
Thomas Fitzgerald, A.M. one of the Ushers of Westminster School, 1739-40,
aged forty-live, with an infant; Rachael Taylor, relict of the Rev. Edward
Taylor, Rector of Finningley, in the county of Nottingham, 1740, aged sixty-five;
Ann Ludford, her only daughter, 1748, aged fifty; .Elizabeth Atkinson, Body
Laundress to Queen Anne,-; Elizabeth Gates, wife of Bernard Gates, Master
of the children of the Chapel Royal, 1737, aged forty-eight; Bernard Gates,