Eheu festine satis reliquias mortales prætorum (Sed plaude) micis cætera scilicit in cœlum raptus, Qantas in hoc elato marmore relinquitur, Vos videtis Es vos etiam qui vitâ functum desideretis Sic ille stetit olim, ut erecta imago stet, Adversus impetus incivilis belli et rigidas minas Sic enim ille cecidit ut stantem putes Et mente saltem immobilem Qui nimo superstitium voluit amicorum subinde lachrimis Fecit eloquentem Obiit pridie Iduum April auno CID. IOC. XLV. Adjoining to the communion table, on the south, is a magnificent and costly monument, in honour of SIR JOHN ST. JOHN, his two wives, and several of their children. On the top is the supine statue of the Knight, in armour, between those of his ladies, one of whom holds a new born infant in her right arm, to denote the occasion of her death. At their feet is a spread eagle crest, and three figures of girls kneeling with books in their hands; aud at their heads are five boys in the same attitude, but only four of them have books. From the tomb rise eight Corinthian columns of black marble, supporting an arch and entablature with several figures and armorial bearings. On the entablature is the following inscription: D. S. John St. John Miles et Baronett. anno Agens XLIX. mortalitatis svae memor H. M. M. P. C. A. M,D,XXXIIII. et sibi etm, ux Annæ et Margaretae. Anna Filia fuit. Th. Leyghton Margaretta Eqs. On the north side of the above tomb are the figures of four children, two of them in recumbent postures, and two in kneeling attitudes, with this inscription: "Sr John St. John had issue by Anne his 1st Wife Febry. 9 1612 married Cathae. daur & heir of horace Lord Nov. 5 1614 married Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley Co. Oxford Oliver Anne This lady afterwards married Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and was mother to the celebrated wit and poet, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. God formed a mold of clay which then begarme We raise this pile of stone and in its wombe Of women, mothers, and of wives doth rest Father and children, and you (reader) too.” • Against the south wall is a marble monument bearing a black sarcophagus to the memory of JOHN, LORD VISCOUNT ST. JOHN, who died in 1748, and of Ann, his wife, who died July 1744. Over the chancel door is a large monument of stone with a male and female figure, represented sitting under arched cano-pies. Another stone monument painted black and white, and gilt, consists of a pedestal, supporting a sarcophagus, on which is represented the figures of an old man and woman kneeling. The man is habited in armour, and the lady in black. Round the sarcophagus rise four Corinthinian columns, ornamented with quarterings of the family. On the pedestal is the following in scription: Jacent hic, optime lector, sub spe beatæ Resurrectionis re posita, On comparing the accounts given of this Sir John St. John, and his family, by Collins and Sir Egerton Brydges, with the above inscriptions, we found them at variance with it, and with each other. Collins in his edition of the peerage published in 1768, says that Sir John had " issue seven sons and a daughter Anne," and Sir Egerton, in the edition of 1812, gives the same number of sons, but adds two more daughters. It is strange that neither of these laborious genealogists should have thought of consulting the tamily epitaphs, which would have prevented these errors: and it is still stranger that they should omit mentioning the time and place of Sir John's death, though they mention the death of several of his children. posita corpora Nicholai Seynt John Armigeri, & Elizabethæ Nobis est Christus & in vita & in Morte lucrum Tempora qui longæ speras fœlicia vitæ Spes tua te fallit, testes utroqve svmvs, In this church, and in the church yard, are several other moaumental erections, not unworthy of notice, but our limits will only permit us to mention one more, which is an altar-tomb, inscribed thus: "Siste Viator Vir non mentionis hic jacet Prænobilis Culmioru. Devonensiu. familiæ Singulare ornamentuin S. S. Theologiæ Doctor S. Patricii Dubliniensi Decanus, postremus, non Ultimus Utriusque Utriusque fortunæ particeps, utreamque honestavit, Antiquæ fidei pietatis patientiae mortaminis Nec inaudita Hybnorum feritate Pterritus Rerum mundanarum vanitatem exptus plus satis An. Dom. MDCLVII Et. LXXVI. Oct. XXI." Adjoining to the church is LIDDIARD-PARK, the seat of Lord Bolingbroke. The attached grounds are extensive, and contain many large clumps of trees, among which is a great number of old oaks. At one extremity a portion of the park is cut off by a fine pond of water. The annexed print shews the south and east sides of the house from this pond. The interior of the mansion contains, among others, a Sea-piece by Wovermans, a large picture, representing a horse-race at Newmarket, and some other pictures of horses, by Stubbs; several originals and copies in crayons, by Lady Diana Beauclerk; a few pieces in water colours, by Lady Bolingbroke; a portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, in oil, and various family portraits of the St. John's in the same manner. As several of the ancestors of the present noble proprietor of Liddiard-Tregoze were men of great celebrity in the respective ages in which they lived, it may be interesting to many readers to give a sketch of the family, and to notice more particularly such |