tinian, eldest son died in 1663, aged twenty; Thomas, Lewin, Dorcas, Mary.

A black and white marble monument against the north wall, adorned with Ionic pilasters, cornice, and pediment, is inscribed thus:

Near this place lies interred the body of

EPHRAIM BEAUCHAMP,

Citizen and Mason of London,

and many years one of the Governors of CHRIST CHURCH, BETHLEHEM, and BRIDEWELL

Hospitals;

Which Offices he discharged with Honour and Integ:
He was a loving Husband, a tender Father,
and a kind Master,

Pious and charitable without Ostentation,
And in all his Dealings without Reproach.
He departed this Life the 16th day of September,
1728, in the 68th year of his age.

And here also lye interred his Three Children,
THOMAS, MARY, and LÆTITIA.

This Monument is erected to his Memory
by his mournful Widow LÆTITIA,
Daughter of JOHN COPPIN,

Of Pollux-Hill, in the County of Bedford, Esq.
Who, after a Life of exemplary Piety
and Charity, went to receive her Eternal
Reward the 16th day of March, 1739,

in the 72d Year of her Age.

Arms.-Gules a fess between six billets Or, a canton Ermine; impaling Or a chief vaire.

On the north side of the first pillar to the east, on a monument of veined marble, ornamented with cherubs and drapery, is this inscription :

Underneath

lies interred the Body

of JANE, the Daughter

of WILLIAM and

ELIZABETH SKInner,

of Whitby, in the County of York,
who died the 12th of March, 1787,
Aged 16 years.

A small veined marble tablet on the north wall is thus inscribed :

Near this place lyes
MRS. HANAH ESTWIKE,
the Daughter of
STEPHEN ESTWIKE,
ALDERMAN of LONDON,
who lived in Celibacy, and

dyed an Ornament to our
RELIGION the 10th of June,

1705, in the 64th year of
her age.

A heat marble tablet against a pillar on the north side of the chancel hath the following inscription :Superior Abilities & extensive Knowledge; Generosity & Humanity of Soul;

Constancy in Friendship;

Truth & Probity in Word & Action;
Charity proceeding from Goodness of Heart;
Modesty, from an humble Disposition;
Eminence in every Christian Grace & Virtue;
Distinguished the Life of

The Rev. JAMES DAVIES, A: M:
Late Curate of this Parish:

Who died, resigned to his Fate,

But inexpressibly lamented by his Friends,
The 26th of August, 1748,

In the 29th Year of his Age.

A white marble tablet on the north wall of the

nave hath this inscription :

THE REV. THOMAS COMYN, A. M.

(Vicar of this Parish

during Twenty-Seven Years),

Died February 20, 1798,

In the 52nd Year of his Age,

In Memory of

Whose Private Virtues
And Public Worth,

This Monument
(The Voluntary Tribute

of Parochial Esteem)
was Erected.

Also, the monument of Mr. Thomas Reynoldson, 1789; and of Mrs. Ann Reynoldson, his wife, 1792.

On a marble tablet on the south side of the altar is this inscription :

Neere unto this place

lyeth buried the body

of Richard James,
merchant, who departed
this life the 30th of March,

and was buried the 8th
day of Aprill, 1658.

A white marble monumental memorial, on the south wall, decorated with cartouches and festoons of flowers, crowned with a sepulchral urn, is inscribed thus :The Reverend Daniell Chadwicke, 2d Son of

Samuel & Elizabeth Chadwick, of good extract
in the County of Nottingham. A Person who by his
eminent Piety and Learning, his admirable Charity
and Humilitie, his most exempler holy Conversation
became an Ornament to the Sacred Ministry.
His Soul was endued with the most ardent and

seraphick Love of God, his delight on Earth

was to be Useful and Reneficial to all; his excell

ent Vertues cannot be express'd in this narrow
space: the hearts of the Poor whom he cordially

loved, of his friendly Neighbours and dear
Kelations, are the best memorials to perpetuate
his Worth by them he liv'd Belov'd & dyed no
less Lamented, the 28th of February, 1697, aged 39 yeares.

To whose pious memory, Martha, his disconsolate
Widow, daughter of Isaac King, in the County of
Hertford, Gent. as a Testimony of her intier
Affection, dedicates this humble monument, and

desires in her time to be gathered to his dust.

The rest of the inscription is hidden by the gallery which has been fixed against it; below which are these arms:-Gules, an escutcheon and orle of martlets Argent, impaling Azure a chevron Argent, in chief a lion rampant, in base a twig of myrtle fructed Or.

On the pavement were several brass plates and inscriptions. Many have been torn from the stones, as the remaining vestiges shew. A family of the name of Hynningham has several mementos of this sort, which are the most antient inscriptions remaining in the church. Of this family was George Hynningham (152) (a particular favourite with King Henry VIII) who founded an alms-house here for three poor widows, and lies buried in this church, with the epitaph (in black letters) given by Weever, p. 535, now gone.

Here lieth George Henningham esquire, sometime servant and greatly favoured of Kyng Henry the Eight, who founded here an hospitall or almeshouse for 3 poore widdowes, and died Anno 1536.

(152) Vide p. 25 ante.