had taken up his residence in 1609, and in spite of recurring
illnesses he continued to work at material for the improvement of the
_Britannia_ and kindred subjects. He died at Chislehurst on the 9th of
November 1623, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument now
stands to his memory.

The _Britannia_, the first edition of which is dedicated to Burghley, is
a survey of the British islands written in elegant Latin. It was first
translated into English in 1610, probably under the author's direction,
and other translations have subsequently appeared, the best of which is
an edition edited by Richard Gough and published in three volumes in
1789, and in four volumes in 1806. The _Annales_ has been translated
into French, and English translations appeared in 1635, 1675 and 1688.
The Latin version was published at Leiden in 1639 and 1677, and under
the editorship of T. Hearne at Oxford in 1717. In addition to these
works Camden compiled a Greek grammar, _Institutio Graecae Grammatices
Compendiaria_, which became very popular, and he published an edition of
the writings of Asser, Giraldus Cambrensis, Thomas Walsingham and
others, under the title, _Anglica, Hibernica, Normannica, Cambrica, a
veteribus scripta_, published at Frankfort in 1602, and again in 1603.
He also drew up a list of the epitaphs in Westminster Abbey, which was
issued as _Reges, Reginae, Nobiles et alii in ecclesia collegiata Beati
Petri Westmonasterii sepulti_. This was enlarged and published again in
1603 and 1606. In 1605 he published his _Remains concerning Britain_, a
book of collections from the _Britannia_, which quickly passed through
seven editions; and he wrote an official account of the trial of the
Gunpowder Plot conspirators as _Actio in Henricum Garnetum, Societatis
Jesuiticae in Anglia superiorem et caeteros_.

Camden, who refused a knighthood, was a man of enormous industry, and
possessed a modest and friendly disposition. He had a large number of
influential friends, among whom were Archbishop Ussher, Sir Robert
Cotton, John Selden, the French jurist Brisson, and Isaac Casaubon. His
correspondence was published in London in 1691 by Dr Thomas Smith under
the title, _Vita Gulielmi Camdeni et Illustrium virorum ad G. Camdenum
Epistolae_. This-volume also contains his _Memorabilia de seipso_; his
notes of the reign of James I.; and other interesting matter. In 1838
the Camden Society was founded in his honour, and much valuable work h