cherub, urn, volutas, palm branches, and the arms, viz. Five paly of six or and azure on a bend sable, three mullets of the first impaled with azure, an anulet and fish between two bends wavy argent; with the following inscription: *

Here lyeth interred the Body of Dame Rebecca Berry, the -Wife of Thomas Elton of Stratford Bow, Gent. who departed this Life April 26, 1696. Aged 52.

Come, Ladies you that would appear

Like Angels fair, come dress you here;
Come dress you at this Marble Stone
And make that humble Grace your own;
Which once adorn'd as fair a Mind,

As e'e yet lodg'd in Woman kind.
So she was dress'd; whose humble Life
Was free from Pride, was free from Strife.
Free from all envious Brauls and Jars
(Of human Life the Civil Wars)

These ne're disturb'd her peaceful Mind,

Which still was gentle, still was kind.

* Mr. Lysons has inserted a Note on this coat of arms, which we shall insert: "This coat of arins, which exactly corresponds with that borne by Ventris of Cambridgeshire (as described in the Visitation of that county at the Herald's College, c. xi. p. 23.), has given rise to a tradition, that lady Berry was the heroine of a popular ballad, called "The Cruel Knight, or fortunate Farmer's Daughter;" the story of which is briefly this: A knight, passing by a cottage, hears the cries of a woman in labour; his knowledge in the occult sciences informs him, that the child then born was destined to be his wife; his endeavours to elude the decrees of fate, and avoid so ignoble an alliance, by various attempts to destroy the child, are defeated. At length, when grown to woman's state, he takes her to the sea side, intending to drown her, but relents; at the same time throwing a ring into the sea, he commands her never to see his face again, on pain of instant death, unless she can produce that ring. She afterwards becomes a cook, and finds the ring in a cod fish, as she is dressing it for dinner. The marriage takes place of course. The ballad, it must be observed, lays the scene of this story in Yorkshire. The incident of the fish and ring occurs in other stories, and may be found in the Arabian Night's Entertainment," Vol. III. p. 433.

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Her very Looks, her Garb, her Mien,
Disclosed the humble Soul within.
Trace her through every Scene of Life,
View her as Widow, Virgin, Wife.
Still the same humble she appears,

The same in Youth, the same in Years;

The same in low and high Estate;

Ne're vext with this, ne're mov'd with that.

Go Ladies now and if you'd be

As Fair, as Great, as Good as she;

Go learn of her Humility.

Under a stone south from the church, was interred the Pilgrim, as he was commonly called; it had this inscription:

Here remains all that was Mortal of Mr. Roger Crabb, who entred into Eternity the 11th Day of Septemb. 1680. In the 60 Year of his Age.

Tread gently Reader near the Dust
Committed to this Tomb Stones trust;
For while 'twas Flesh it held a Guest,
With universal Love possest;
A Soul that stemn'd Opinion's try'd,
Did over Sects in Triumph ride,
Yet separate from the giddy Croud
And paths Tradition had allow'd.
Through good and ill Report he past
Oft censur'd, yet approv'd at last;
Wouldst thou his Religion know
In brief, 'twas this: To all to do
Just as he would be done unto.
So in kind Natures Laws he stood,
A Temple undefiled with Blood,
A Friend to ev'ry thing was good.
The rest Angels alone can fitly tell,

Hast then to them, and him, and so Farewel.*

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* Mr. Lysons has given a long account of this singular character, who imbibed the strange notion, that it was a sin against his body and soul to eat any sort of flesh, fish, or living creature, or to drink wine, ale, or beer; and is said to have lived on three farthings a week; his food being bran, herbs, roots, dock leaves, mallows, and grass: his drink, water.

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On a tomb, in gold letters on black, this inscription:

H. S. E.

Quicquid mortale fuit Matthaei Mead, V. D. M. Honesta inter Cattieuchlanos Familia Orti, à Pietate Doctrina Facundia praeclari.

Qui Assiduis & Insignibus laboribus Patria Religione Libertate invicto animo defunctus, Vita tandem & Laudis Satur, ad Coelitum Domum quam Diu optaverat lassus & anhelus placidissime adscendit An. Ætat. suæ 70. 17 Kal. Nov. MDCXCIX. E. T.

Boni Civis amantissimi, Conjugis; optimi Patris, Theologi vere Christiani, Clarum reliquit posteris Exemplum.

A memorial to the rev. WILLIAM VICKERS, 1719, the pious author of The Companion to the Altar.

Sir JOHN LEAKE, knt. with this inscription:

To the memory of the Honourable Sir John Leake, Knt.. Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, Admiral and Commander in Chief of her late Majesty Queen Anne's fleet, and one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty: departed this life the 21st of Augast, 1720, ætat. 64 years, one month, 17 days; who, anno 1689, in the Dartmouth, by engaging Kilmore Castle, relieved the city of Londonderry, in Ireland; also, anuo 1702, with a squadron at Newfoundland, he took and destroyed 51 sail of French, together with all their settlements. Anno 1704, he forced the van of the French fleet at the Malaga engagement; relieved Gibraltar twice, burning and taking 13 sail of French men of war: likewise, anno 1706, relieved Barcelona, the present Emperor of Germany besieged therein by Philip of Spain, and took 90 sail of corn ships; the same year taking the cities of Carthagena and Alicant, with the islands of Ivica, Majorca, Sardinia, and Minorca." This gen. tleman did such eminent services for his country, that he was denominated THE BRAVE AND FORTUNATE.

In the churchyard were also buried capt. Richard Swan. ley, late admiral of the Irish seas," 1650; Richard Mead, Esq. 1762, son of Dr. Mead; several of the family of Bigland, late Garter king at arms; John Shakespeare, Esq. 1775, alderman, and sheriff of London with Sir

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Thomas Halifax; Alexander Johnston, 1775, famous for his performance of Gibby, in the Wonder, at Drury Lane Theatre; rev. John Entick, 1773, author of a Naval History; History of the War of 1756, five vols. History of London, &c. four vols. Continuation of Maitland's London. Spelling Dictionary; Latin and English Dictionary; and other voluminous works.

The living of Stepney is an impropriation, formerly belonging to the see of London; it afterwards belonged to the noble family of Wentworth; from, whom it came to lord Montgomery, son of the marquis of Powis; of whom it was purchased, in 1708, by the principal and scholars of Brazen-nose College, Oxford. It is a rectory and vicarage: among the rectors were STEPHEN SEGRAVE, archbishop of Armagh, 1333. MARMADUKE LUMLEY, 1427, successively bishop of Carlisle and Lincoln, and lord high treasurer. Vicars. RICHARD FOX, 1475, afterwards lord privy seal, bishop of Winchester, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Dean COLET. RICHARD PACE, dean of St. Paul's, secretary of state, &c. 1519. WILLIAM JEROME, who was executed in 1540, on a charge of heresy. WILLIAM STAMPE, D. D. a great sufferer during the Civil Wars. JOSHUA HOYLE, D. D. one of the assembly of divines, master of University College, and regius professor of divinity at Oxford, died 1654. WILLIAM GREENHILL, appointed by parliament to be chaplain to the children of Charles I. He was a silenced minister, and the first dissenting teacher at Stepney; he was succeeded by Mr. Matthew Mead, as a dissenting clergyman.

Among the eminent characters inhabiting Stepney at various periods were, Sir Robert Stapleton, the most accomplished gentleman, except Sir Philip Sidney, in the court of queen Elizabeth. The pious John lord Harrington, of Exton, in the reign of James I. Sir Walter Raleigh. Ed ward lord Morley, father of lord Monteagle, to whom the Gunpowder Plot was discovered. Judge Doddridge. Sir Willliam Dethick, Garter king at arms, and his family, in the reign of queen Elizabeth. Sir Charles Castleton, bart.

1749.

LIMEHOUSE,

LIMEHOUSE, is a parish taken from that of Stepney. The church, a massy inelegant structure, is one of the fifty new churches built in the reign of queen Anne. Its tower has a remarkable appearance, and seems to want a spire for its completion. A new cut from the river Lea enters the Thames at this place, and saves the circuitous navigation round the Isle of Dogs: it was made about the year 1767.

LIMEHOUSE HOLE, part of the hamlet of Poplar, has two considerable yards for shipbuilding; one belonging to Mr. Batson, and the other to Messrs. Hill and Mellish.

POPLAR, is so called from the trees with which it once abounded, and lies near the Thames, to the east of Limehouse, in the parish of Stepney,, to which it is a considerable hamlet. Here are two almshouses, and an hospital belonging to the Fast India Company, who maintain the minister of a chapel, built by the inhabitants in 1654.

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there while the court was at Greenwich. The extent of
Poplar Marsh is about one mile either way, but is rather an
isthmus than an island; for, though it is encompassed by the
Thames on the east, south, and west, there is nothing that
separates it on the north from the land.

Here are the immense buildings, denominated THE WEST INDIA Docks, intended to receive the whole of the ships in the West India trade. They were undertaken according to an act of parliament, passed in 1799, entitled, "The Wet Dock Act." The entrances are at Blackwall and Limehouse Hole.

The northern dock for unloading inwards, covers a space of thirty acres, and is capable of containing from two to three hundred sail of ships. The smaller dock, situated to the south of the other, covers an area of twenty-four acres, and is devoted solely to the business of loading outwards. Both docks are surrounded by a series of immense warehouses.

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