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62.  The next is the monument of Wil-
liam Croft, Doctor in music.  On the pedestal
is an organ in bas relief, and on the top, a
bust of the deceased.
63.  The tomb of John Blow, Doctor in
musin, is adorned with cherubs, flowers,
and a canon in four parts set to music.  In
the center is an English inscription, by
which it appears he was organist, composer,
and master to the children in the chapel
royal thirty-five years, and organist to this
Abbey fifteen years; that he was scholar
to Dr. Christopher Gibbons; and master
to the famous Mr. Purcell, and to most of
the eminent masters of his time.  He died
Oct. 1. 1708, in his sixtieth year; and his
epitaph observes, that his own musical com-
positions, especially his church music, are
a far nobler monument to his memory than
any other that can be raised to him.
64.  We come now to the neat and ele-
gant monument erected to the memory of
Dr. Boulter, Archbishop of Armagh in
Ireland.  It is of the finest marble beautified
with an admirable new invented polish.
The bust of this worthy Archbishop is
finely executed; his long flowing hair has
all the gracefulness of nature, without the
smallest degree of that stiffness which be-
longs
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longs to stone; and his venerable counte-
nance strikes the beholder with reverence.
The ensign of his dignity wherewith the
monument is adorned, are most exquisitely
fine, and every part about it discovers a
masterly genius in the sculptor.  The in-
scription is inclosed in a beautiful border of
porphyry, and is as follows:
Dr. Hugh Boulter, late Archbishop of Ar-
  magh, Primate of all Ireland, a Prelate
  so eminent for the accomplishments of
  his mind, the purity of his heart, and the
  excellence of his life, that it may be
  thought superfluous to specify his titles,
  recount his virtues, or even erect a mo-
  nument to his fame.  His titles he not
  only deserved, but adorned; his virtues
  are manifest in his good works, which
  had never dazzled the public eye, if they
  had not been too bright to be concealed;
  and as to his fame, whosover has any
  sense of merit, any reverence for piety,
  any passion for his country, or any cha-
  rity for mankind, will assist in preserving
  it fair and spotless, that when brass and
  marble shall mix with the dust they
  cover, every succeeding age may have the
  benefit of his illustrious example.  He
  was born Jan. 4, 1671, was consecrated
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