year 1679-at the age of 23 years he enlisted into his Majesty's service, under Sir George Rook, and was at the taking of the Fortress of Gibraltar, in 1704. He afterwards served under the Duke of Marlbro', at the ever memorable Battle of the Ramillies, fought on the 23rd of May, 1706, where he was wounded by a musket shot in the thigh: afterwards he returned to his native country, and with manly courage defended his Sovereign's Rights at the Rebellion in 1715, and 1745. He died within the space of 150 yards of where he was born, and was interred here the 30th of January, 1791, aged 112 years.

Billeted by Death, I quarter'd here remain,

When the Trumpet sounds, I'll rise and march again."

A few remarkable instances of longevity :

LOUISA TRUXO, a negress, died at Tucumen,

"Near this place lies the body of ELIZABETH MONK,

who departed this life the 27th day of August, 1758, aged 101. She was the widow of James Monk, late of this parish, Blacksmith, her second husband, to whom she had been a wife near fifty years, by whom she had no children, and of the issue of her first marriage none lived to the second. But Virtue would not suffer her to be childless: an Infant, to whom and to whose father and mother she had been nurse (such is the uncertainty of temporal prosperity), became dependent on Strangers for the necessaries of life.

To him she afforded the protection of a mother. This parental charity was returned with filial affection, And she was supported in the feebleness of age By him whom she had cherished in the helplessness of infancy.

Let it be remembered

That there is no situation in which industry will not obtain power to be liberal, nor any character in which liberality will not confer Honour. She had long been prepared by a simple and unaffected piety for that awful moment, which, however delayed, is universally sure. How few are allowed an equal time of probation! How many by their lives appear to presume upon more! To preserve the memory of this person,

But yet more to perpetuate the lesson of her life, This stone was erected by voluntary contribution."

In Battersea church, on a brass plate :

"HUGH MORGAN, late of Battersea, Esq., Sleepeth here in peace: Whom men did late admire for worthful parts.-To Queen Elizabeth he was chief 'pothecary, till her death.

And in his science as he did excel,

In her high favour he did always dwell.
To God religious, to all men kind,
Frank to the poor, rich in content of mind.
These were his virtues, in these dyed he,
When he had liv'd an 100 years and 3."

By a Latin plate it appears that he died Sep. 13, A.D. 1613.

On a very old man :

"Of no distemper, of no blast he died,

But fell like Autumn fruit that mellowed long
Even wondered at because he dropt no sooner;
Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years,
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more,
Till, like a clock, worn out with beating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still."

Nat. Lee.

In Mellis churchyard, Suffolk, WM. HURN, died March, 1813, aged 90:

"Reader, if God should give thee length of days,
Devote the blessing to the Giver's praise.
If short the span, yet keep the heavenly road,
That life is long enough which pleases God."

In St. Michael's churchyard, Lichfield, an ancient tombstone was lately discovered, which had been buried in the earth a great number of years. Upon it are deeply cut the following inscriptions:

"Here lyes the Body

of WILLIAM CLARKE,
who was Clarke of this
Church 51 years, and buried
March 25th, 1525, aged 96.
Here lyes the Body
of WILLIAM CLARKE
Clarke of this Church 71

years, who died Septem. 26,

1562, and aged 86.

The father lived in the reigns of six different kings, viz. Henry 6th, Edwards the 4th and 5th, Richard 3rd, and Henrys 7th and 8th. The Son in seven reigns from Edward the 4th to Mary the 1st."-Morning Chronicle, Oct., 1822.

On STEPHEN RUMBOLD, at Brightwell, Oxon. :— "Born Feb., 1582.

He lived one hundred and five,

Sanguine and strong;

An hundred to five

You live not so long.

Dy'd March 4, 1687."

PARENTS OF MANY CHILDREN.

At Aberconway, in Carnarvonshire, in Wales:

"Here lies the body of NICHOLAS HOOKER, of Conway, gent., who was the one-and-fortieth child of William Hooker, Esq., by Alice his wife, and the father of twenty-seven children.

He died on the 20th of March, 1637."

On WILLIAM RICH, the father of 40 children :

"Beneath this stone, in sound repose

Lies WILLIAM RICH, of Lydeard Close;
Eight wives he had, yet none survive,
And likewise children eight times five;
From whom an issue vast did pour-
Of great grand-children five times four,
Rich born, rich bred, but fate adverse,
His wealth and fortune did reverse;
He lived and died extremely poor,
July the tenth, aged ninety-four."

In St. Paul's churchyard, Bedford.-An old gravestone, in the above churchyard, has lately been renovated; it bears the following inscription :

"Here lies interred the body of PATIENCE, the wife of Shadrack JOHNSON; by her he had twelve sons and twelve daughters; she died in childbed, the 6th day of June, 1717, aged 38 years.

Shadrach! Shadrach !
The Lord granted unto thee
PATIENCE,

Who laboured long and patiently
In her vocation;

But her patience being exhausted
She departed in the midst of her labour
Etat 38.

May she rest from her labours!'

In the churchyard of Eyrie, Aberdeenshire:

"Erected to the memory of ALEXANDER GRAY, some time farmer in Mill of Burns, who died in the 96th year of his age, having had thirty-two legitimate children by two wives."

In the old burying-ground of Dundee :

"Here I lie

EPPITIE PYE

My twenty bairnies-my gudeman and I."

At Wolstanton, on ANN JENNINGS :

"Some have children-some have none-
Here lies the Mother of twenty-one."