. In the old paths: memories of literary pilgrimages . are buried inthe church of the famous Elegy. In the south chancelchapel at Penn still remain splendid brasses fixed onblue stone. One is a finely cut brass to the memoryof John Pen of Pen, who died in 1597, aged 63. Heand his lady are dressed in Elizabethan Court brasses are dedicated to the memory of a laterJohn Pen, his wife Sarah, five sons and five daughters,dating from 1641, and to a William Pen and Marthahis wife, a son, and two daughters, also of the seven-teenth century. From Penn to Stoke Pogis is only some seven oreig
. In the old paths: memories of literary pilgrimages . are buried inthe church of the famous Elegy. In the south chancelchapel at Penn still remain splendid brasses fixed onblue stone. One is a finely cut brass to the memoryof John Pen of Pen, who died in 1597, aged 63. Heand his lady are dressed in Elizabethan Court brasses are dedicated to the memory of a laterJohn Pen, his wife Sarah, five sons and five daughters,dating from 1641, and to a William Pen and Marthahis wife, a son, and two daughters, also of the seven-teenth century. From Penn to Stoke Pogis is only some seven oreight miles—nine, perhaps, if you follow the windingsof the highways and byways of this sylvan church and churchyard of Stoke Pogis can neverbe described too often. Throughout the length andbreadth of England there are many more beautifulshrines. One thinks, for example, of the noble chancelof the Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-on-Avon,where Shakespeare lies : the great and beautiful churchof St. Mary Redcliffe, in which Admiral Penn was. PENN CHURCH, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE :In the ancient homeland of the Penns, 44 IN ENGLAND S PENNSYLVANIA interred ; and the parish church of Berkhampstead justacross the border into Hertfordshire, where the poetCowpers father was rector, and in the pastoral houseof which the gentle bard was born. But Gray hasthrown around this old parish church a spell that is allits own. Stoke Pogis has no long-drawn aisles, norfretted vaults, where pealing anthems swell the noteof praise. Rather has it old-fashioned pews in whichthe Sir Roger de Coverleys of the eighteenth century-might gently slumber. It was while I was seated inGrays pew that I observed a slab recording the factthat in a vault in this church are deposited the remainsof Thomas Penn of Stoke Park, son of William Penn,founder of Pennsylvania. Thomas Penn, it appeared,had returned to the bosom of the Church of visited Pennsylvania in 1732, and was presentedwith an address by th
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