I N COMITIS EXONIENSIS CRISTAM, TRITICI FASCEM LEONIBUS SUSTENTATUM, LEMMA, "SUSTENTARE ET DEBELLARE." DUM tibi dat fortes Cybele veneranda leones, Sparge inopi fruges, & pelle leonibus hoftem; EP I EPITAPH I U M. M: S. CAROLI MONTAGUE, Honorabilis Georgii de Horton in agro Northantonienfi Filius natu fextus, Henrici Comitis de Manchester nepos, Scholia Regia Weftmonafterienfis Alumnus, Collegii S. S. Trinitatis Cantabrigienfis Socius. Literas humaniores feliciter excoluit, Et in difpari laudis genere clarus, İnter Poetas pariter ac Oratores Anglos excelluit: Magna ingenii indole ; Bonarumque artium difciplinis inftructus, Communi bono promovendo incubuit: Sua in fenatu folertia, in concilio providentia, Magno Reipublicæ detrimento imminutam De novo cudi fecit ; Et inter absolvendum tantæ molis opus, Impreffis chartulis Pecuniarum rationem pretiumque impertiit, His meritis et patriæ & principis gratiam confecutus, Familiam fuam diu illuftrem, illuftriorem reddidit; Baro fcilicet, deinde comes de Halifax creatus, Patruo de fe optimè merenti, & N ENGRAVEN ON THREE SIDES OF AN ANTIQUE LAMP, GIVEN BY ME TO LORD HARLEY. ANTIQUAM hanë lampadem E Mufeo Colbertinino allatam, This lamp which Prior to his Harley gave, Sperne dilectum Veneris facellum. Igne Camanas. E P I T A P H. Here lies Sir THOMAS POWYS, Knight: In accufing, cautious; in defending, vehement; Nothing equalled his knowledge, except his eloquence; Nothing excelled both, except his justice. He poffeffed, by a natural happiness, THE TREE IS KNOWN BY HIS FRUIT. He was a loving husband and an indulgent father, A conftant friend and a charitable patron; Frequenting the devotions of the church; Pleading the caufe, and relieving the neceffities, of the poor. What |