The annals of StHelen's, Bishopsgate, London . er, 7*. 6d. to the parish clerk, and 56^. to thesexton. Passing from the consideration of Francis Bancroft and histomb, the eye is caught by a plain tablet— En i^lcmorp of JOHN SMITH, Esq of this Parish who died June 29* 1783 Aged 80 By Strict Probity Sincerity and Benevolence he endeared himself to ALL who knew him. But more especially to the Poor and Needy by kind Condesension & boundless CHARITY. Reader Go and do thou likewise. Adjoining the above is another equally plain and simple tablet,bearing the following inscription :— Near this Spot are
The annals of StHelen's, Bishopsgate, London . er, 7*. 6d. to the parish clerk, and 56^. to thesexton. Passing from the consideration of Francis Bancroft and histomb, the eye is caught by a plain tablet— En i^lcmorp of JOHN SMITH, Esq of this Parish who died June 29* 1783 Aged 80 By Strict Probity Sincerity and Benevolence he endeared himself to ALL who knew him. But more especially to the Poor and Needy by kind Condesension & boundless CHARITY. Reader Go and do thou likewise. Adjoining the above is another equally plain and simple tablet,bearing the following inscription :— Near this Spot are deposited the remains of HENRY PETER KUHFF, Esquire* who departed this life October the 10* 1796 in the 70* year of his age of PETER KUHFF, his Son who died January the 10* 1786 in his 7* year of FREDERICK CHARLES KUHFF, Esquire who died March 11* 1792 Aged 50 Years * 1796, Oct. 10, at Highgate in his 70tli year, Henry Peter KuhfE, eminent merchant, and many years a Director of the Eoyal AssuranceCo.—Gentlemans Mag., p. BOND, 1C43. Captain Martin Bond. 63 We next approach one of the most remarkable amongst themany remarkable monuments for which this Church has obtainedthe appellation of ^The Westminster Abbey of the City—thatof Martin Bond, Captain of the City Train-bands in 1588, whenthat body of citizen soldiers were reviewed by Queen Elizabeth atTilbury, in preparation against the threatened invasion of theSpanish Armada, It is placed on the north wall of the Nuns^ choir,and represents an encampment. In the foreground is a largeopen tent, within which he is represented sitting in a thoughtfulposture at a table. At the side of the tent a page holds his horse,and in the front are two sentinels with partisans, in largeboots and slouched hats. The whole is enclosed in a frontispiece,consisting of two composite columns, sustaining an enta-blature and pediment, the cornice broken to admit the arras;below the sculpture is the inscription, from whi
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