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marble, at the foot of which the statue of
the deceased is placed, reclining upon a
tomb of elegant workmanship, with a
naked boy on his left side weeping over an
urn: the enrichments round the pedestal
on which he stands are just and proper;
and the inscription contains the following
short history of his life:
Sir THOMAS HARDY, to whose memory
this monument is erected, was bred in
the royal navy from his youth, and was
made a Captain in 1693.
In the expedition to Cadiz, under Sir
George Rooke, he commanded the
Pembroke; and when the fleet left the
coast of Spain, to return to England, he
was ordered to Lagos Bay, where he got
intelligence of the Spanish galleons being
arrived in the harbour of Vigo, under
convoy of seventeen French men of war:
by his great diligence and judgment he
joined the English fleet, and gave the
Admiral that intelligence which engaged
him to make the best of his way to Vigo,
where all the aforementioned galleons
and men of war were either taken or de-
stroyed.
After the success of the action, the Ad-
miral sent him with an account of it to
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the Queen, who ordered him a consi-
erable present, and knighted him.
Some years afterwards he was made a Rear-
Admiral, and received several other
marks of favour and esteem from her
Majesty, and from her Royal Consort
Prince George of Denmark, Lord High
Admiral of England.
44. The monument of John Conduit,
Esq; is allowed, in point of design, to be
not inferior to that last mentioned, and
there is something in the manner which
shews them both to be the workmanship
of the same hand. In the middle of
the pyramid is a large medalion of brass,
round which is a Latin inscription, thus
english'd, JOHN CONDUIT, MASTER OF
THE MINT; this medalion is suspended by
a cherub above, and rests on another be-
low. This gentleman succeeded his rela-
tion the great Sir Isaac Newton in that of-
fice, and desired to be interred near him,
as appears from a long Latin inscription on
the base. He died May 23d, 1727, aged
forty-nine. Catharine his wife died Jan.
20, 1739, and lies interred under the same
tomb.
45. The monument of William Hor-
neck, Esq; is enriched with books, plans,
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