usal, I believe you, and shall correct that
mistake in myself, and endeavour to rectify it in
others, if any, upon this occasion, have misunderstood
you. In the mean time I shall desire your charitable
opinion of myself, which I shall be willing to deserve
upon any opportunity that is offered me to do you
service, being, sir,

Your very humble servant,

JO. EARLES."

"To my honoured friend, Mr. Richard Baxter, These."

No. X.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION

IN STREGLETHORP CHURCH, NEAR NEWARK-UPON-TRENT, IN LINCOLNSHIRE.

[From Le Neve's _Monumenta Anglicana_[BT]. 8vo. Lond. 1718. vol. iii. p.
182.]

Stay, reader, and observe Death's partial doom,
A spreading virtue in a narrow tombe;
A generous mind, mingled with common dust,
Like burnish'd steel, cover'd, and left to rust.
Dark in the earth he lyes, in whom did shine
All the divided merits of his line.
The lustre of his name seems faded here,
No fairer star in all that fruitful sphere.
In piety and parts extreamly bright,
Clear was his youth, and fill'd with growing light,
A morn that promis'd much, yet saw no noon;
None ever rose so fast, and set so soon.
All lines of worth were centered here in one,
Yet see, he lies in shades whose life had none.
But while the mother this sad structure rears,}
A double dissolution there appears--}
He into dust dissolves, she into tears.}

RICHARDUS EARLE[BU], Barn^{tus}.
Obijt decimo tertio die
Aug^{ti} Anno Dom. 1697.
AEtatis suae 24.

FOOTNOTES:

[BT] Two other epitaphs appear in this collection, on the Earles of
Norfolk, with whom I cannot find our author to have had the least
connection. A full account of this family may be seen in Blomefield's
_History of Norfolk_, vol. iii. p. 531.

[BU] The title was created by Charles the First, July 2, 1629, and, I
believe, became extinct at the decease of this person.

No. XI.

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BOOKS OF
CHARACTERS.

No. i.

_A Caueat
for commen Cvr
setors vulgarely called
Uagabones, set forth by Thomas Harman.
Esquier. for the vtiliteand proffyt of hys
naturall Countrey. Newly agmented
and Jmprinted Anno Domini._
M.D.LXUjj.

[P] _Vewed, examined, and allowed, according vnto the
Queenes Maiestyes Iniunctions_

[Roughly-executed wood-cut, of two pers