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great divine and mathematician, who, as
the inscription shews, was Chaplain to King
Charles II. Head of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge; Professor of Geometry at Gresham
College in London, and of Greek and Ma-
thematics at Cambridge.  He died on the
14th of May 1677, aged forty-seven.
19.  A table monument of white marble,
erected to the memory of Sir Richard Cox,
who was taster to Queen Elizabeth, and
King James I. and to the latter steward of
the houshold.
20.  A neat monument erected to the
memory of the learned Isaac Casaubon, by
Dr. Moreton, Bishop of Durham.  That
profound scholar and critic whose name is
inscribed upon it, was born in France, and
in his younger years was keeper of the royal
library at Paris; but at length being dis-
satisfied with the Romish religion, he, up-
on the murder of his great patron Henry IV.
quitted his native country, and at the
earnest entreaty of King James I. settled in
England, where he died in 1614, aged
forty-five.
21.  Above this last monument, is an-
other for John Earnest Grape, a person well
skilled in oriental learning, who is repre-
sented as large as the life, sitting in a
thought-
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thoughtful posture upon a marble tomb, as
if contemplating on death.
22.  Next to the west corner of the south
cross is an ancient monument to the me-
mory of that great antiquarian William
Camden, who is represented in a half
length, in the dress of his time, holding a
book in his right hand, and in his left his
gloves.  He rests on an altar, on the body
of which is a Latin inscription, which men-
tions his indefatigable industry in illustrat-
ing the British antiquities, and his candour,
sincerity, and pleasant good humour in pri-
vate life.  He died Nov. 9, 1623.
In this south cross are several stones to
be met with on the pavement, worthy of
notice.  Among these is one over the body
of Thomas Parr, of the county of Salop,
born in 1483.  He lived in the reigns of
ten Princes, King Edward IV. King
Edward V. King Richard III. King
Henry VII. King Henry VIII. King
Edward VI. Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth,
King James I. and King Charles I. and was
interred here Nov. 15, 1635, aged an hun-
dred and fifty-two.
At a small distance from Parr, is a small
white stone, over the body of Sir William
Davenant, who succeeded Ben Johnson as
Poet