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prevent provision for the six children of
Capt. Etherege, left without means of sup-
port until the grandfather transfers to their
use his property in Kent at the instigation of
their uncle, John Powney, and uncle by
marriage, John Whitfield, who are to hold it
in trust.
The fine old grandfather is by this time
a man of about 80 years, sick in body,
distressed in mind. There is a very human
appeal in his depositions when he states
his plans and provisions for his two sons
and their frustration, and his making pro-
vision for his grandchildren " as in nature
and conscience he thought he was bound
to do."
By 1664 his grandson, the young drama-
tist, has seen his first play successfully pro-
duced and is taken into the courtly group of
gentlemen wits and boon companions of
Charles II. Thereafter his life in London
is what we should expect of the companion
of Rochester and Sedley. In 1670 he is
secretary to the English Ambassador to
Constantinople, Sir Daniel Harvey, and
writes from there a colourful description
of the arrival of the Grand Signior ( The
Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 10, 1921).
His finest play, ' The Man of Mode,'
produced in 1676, was dedicated to the
Duchess of York and represented actual
gallants of the courtly group in thinly
veiled disguise upon the stage. His knight-
ing and marriage belong to 1679 apparently.
By 1685 he is made English Ambassador to
Ratisboii, well provided for financially by
allowance and pension, but exiled from
London and his friends, and conscious, as he
says in his letter to Dry den, that " Nature
no more intended me for a Politician than she
did you for a Courtier " (' Letter Book,' p.
65, Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 11,513). One loses
sight of him after January, 1689. His sense
of his own uselessness at Ratisbon, after
the governmental change in England, prob-
ably led to his flight to Paris reported by
his secretary. Only Luttrell, in his ' Diary,'
records his death by February, 1691, in Paris
(see also The Times Literary Supplement,
Feb. 23, 1922).
This investigation of the family history is
not without value as proof of the excellence
of the stock and the respectability . of the
Etherege family prior to that age of licence,
the Restoration. D. FOSTER.
Mount Holyoake College, South Hadley,
Mass., U.S.A.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN
BEDFORD CHURCHES, CHAPELS
AND BURIAL-GROUNDS.
ST. PETER DE MERTON.
(See ante, p. 325.)
17. 2yds. e. from 16 on a m.u.s. ; w.f.w.
Sacred to the memory of Grace, daughter of John
and Mary Ann Little, of the Crescent, Bedford,
and late of Pitchcombe House, Gloucestershire.
She died January 7th, 1838.
" Thou art gone to the grave, but 'twere wrong
to deplore thee,
When God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and
guide ;
He gave thee, He took thee, and He will
restore thee.
And death hath no sting, for the Saviour hath
died."
18. 2ft. n. from 17 on a med. bath s. ; w.f.w.,
rapidly perishing. In affectionate remembrance
of Sarah Cowlgrave,* who departed this life
D ... 25, 185(1?), aged 43 years. ..so Henry
Cowlgrave, who departed this life June 5, 1841~.
aged 11 years.
19. 2yds. e. from 18 on a m.u.s. ; w.f.w. In
memory of Mary, relic of Richard Barker, late
of St. Mary's Parish, departed this life October
17th, 1832, aged 61 years.
" The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ;
blessed be the name of the Lord."
20. lft. s. from 19 on a m.u.s. ; w.f.w. In
memory of Charles (son of) Benjamin and Mary
Clay, died June 28th, 1811, aged 1 year and 3
months. Also of John Clay, son of the above,
died August 10th, 1832, aged 10 years.
21. lO^yds. e. from 20 on a m.u.s. ; w.f.w.
Sacred to the memory of James Robert Storrs,
many years Captain in the Bedford Militia, and
late of the First Royal Veterans, who died July 7,
1828, aged 67 years.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from
henceforth yea saith the spirit, that they may rest
from their labours and their works do follow them."
22. Close to 21 n. from it on a m.u.s. ; w.f.w.
In memory of William Drew, who died Deer. 23,
1810, aged 44 years.
23. If yds. from 21 on a t.u.s. ; w.f.w. In
memory of Elizabeth, daughtr. of Willm. and
Margaret Tucker, who died Jany. 28th, 1851,
aged 34 years. Also the above Margaret Tucker,
who died May 6, 1852, aged 72 years.
24. 3yds. n.e. from 23 on a t. and broad u.s. ;
w.f.w. In memory of John Horn Gow, Esqr.,
who departed this life on the 7th of November,
1844, aged 47 years.
"His life was hid with Christ in God; when
Christ who was his life shall appear, then shall he
also appear with him in glory." Colossians iii. 34.
25. 1ft. s. from 24 on a very s.u.s. ; w.f.w.,
13Jins. w., 13Jhigh. To the memory of Elizabeth
Willes, who died July llth, 1840, aged 5 months.
26. lyd. e. from 25 on a m.u.s. ; w.f.e. and w.
Ici reposonfc les restes mortels do Jean Frangois
Dupont, natie de la ville de Dijon en France,
- 1851. Sarah Colgrave, St. Peter's, Deer., 28;
44 years. G. A. Burnaby, Rector.
