sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, k n t.

" been yet acknowledg’d.” He is interr’d in the Vaults of the cathedralChurch of St. Paul, under t}ie South-aile of the Quire. Over the Grave isthis Inscription on a small Table of Marble :

Suit us conditur

Hujus Ecclcfia, & Urbis CcnditorChristophorus Wren,

^ui vixit annos ultra nonagintdNon fibi, fed Bono-publico.

Le 51 or, fi Monumentum requiris ,

Circumjpice.

Ohiit 25 Feb. Anno 1723. Ætat 91.

[Marmora parva quidem , fed non ceffura, viator,

Maujoli faxis Pyramidumque, legis.]

Martial.

\fJmbra dii tenuem dent , & fine pondere terram,

Spirants que crocos, & in urnd perpetuum ver.]

. . Juven. Sat. VII.

P. S.

An After-Thought for the Inscription.

H. S. E.

Christophorus Wren,

Hujus Ecclefia & Urbis Condi tor£{ui vixit annos ultrd Nestoreos,

' - • - ‘ - Non fibi, fed Patria.

Viator, Ji Vurmt/um rcfuirii: ■ • \ De/pice,

Si Monumentum ,

1 . Circumjpice.

I -a.

Ohiit 25 Feb. Anno 1723. Ætat. 91.

'. Blazonry of the Coat of Arms, viz. Argent, a Chevron between three LionsHeads erased Azure, on a Chief Gules three Crofs-Crostets Or.

Crest on the Helmet, A Lion's Head eraled Azure, transfix’d by a Spearbloody on the Ppint. ■ „ j . • , _

N. B. The Colours on the Modern Arms differ from the Antient.

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> Sufpice & Mirare.

Christophorus Wren Eques Auratus,

Fotius hujus Fabricœ

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Moh huic Immenja ,

Sacra, Eximia,

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£>uam Pcrfecerat,

Unius