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agreeable stile.  On the base is a Latin in-
scription, setting forth his descent and
issue.
33.  Over the door that opens into the
cloisters is a noble and elegant monument
erected for General Wade.  In the center
is a beautiful marble pillar, enriched with
military tophies most exquisitely wrought.
The principal figures, are Fame pushing
back Time, who is eagerly approaching to
demolish the pillar, with all the ensigns of
honour, with which it is adorned; the
General's head is in a medalion, and the
whole is executed with great beauty and
elegance,  The inscription underneath
runs thus:
To the memory of George Wade, Field-
    Marshal of his Majesty's forces, Lieute-
    nant-General of the ordnance, Colonel
    of his Majesty's third Regiment of Dra-
    goon guards, Governor of Fort-William,
    Fort-Augustus, and Fort-George, and
    one of his Majesty's most honourable
    Privy Council.  He died March 14, 1748,
    aged seventy-five.
34.  A plain neat monument erected to
the memory of Robert Cannon, D. D.
Dean of Lincoln, and Prebendary of this

church,
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church, who died on the 28th of March
1722, aged fifty-nine.
35.  An elegant monument of Mrs.
Katharine Bovey.  Faith is here represented
with her book closed, and Wisdom lament-
ing the death of her Patroness, between
which is the Lady's head in relief enclosed
in an annulet of black marble curiously
veined.  The inscription, which is in Eng-
lish, gives an excellent character of the
deceas'd, who died on the 21st of January
1726, in the seventy-second year of her
age; and informs us that Mrs. Mary Pope,
who lived with her near forty years, in per-
fect friendship, erected this monument to
her memory.
36.  A small table monument to the
memory of Mr. Henry Wharton, which is
only remarkable an account of the distin-
guished character of the person whose name
is inscribed upon it.  Mr. Wharton was
Rector of Chartham in Kent, Vicar of the
church of Minster in the Isle of Thanet,
Chaplain to Archbishop Sancroft, and
one of the most voluminous writers of
his years.  He died on the 3d of March
1694, aged only thirty-one, and was so
universally respected by the Bishops and
Clergy, that Archbishop Tillotson, and se-
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