the son of the gallant John Vassall, who, in 1588, at his own expense, fitted out and commanded two ships of war, with which he joined the royal navy to oppose the Spanish armada. This monument was erected by his great grandson, Florentius Vassall, esq. of the island of Jamaica, now residing in England, May, 1766. Note The foregoing inscription is from an elegant marble monument, within the walls of King's Chapel, surmounted with the head of mr. Vassall neatly wrought, and furnished with various emblematick appurtenances and devices. BOSTON, MASS. 546. Note-The principal incidents in the life, with the leading traits in the character, of Ezekiel Cheever, the learned, and celebrated master of the ancient Latin grammar school in Boston, are brought to view in the following epitaph, probably, written by doctor Cotton Mather, which was designed to perpetuate a remembrance of his sterling worth. EZEKIEL CHEEVERUS, ludimagister, primo, Neo portensis; deinde, Ipsvicensis; postea, Carolotenensis; postremo, Bostonensis; cujus doctrinam ac virtutem nostri, si sis Novanglus, colis, si non Barabus; gram maticus, a quo, non pure tantum, sed et pie, loqui; rhetori us, a quo non tantum ornate dicere coram hominibus, sed et orationes coram Deo fundere efficacissimas; poeta, a quo non tantum carmina pangere, sed et cælestes hymnos, odasq. angelicas canere, didicerunt qui discere voluerunt; lucerna, ad quam accensa sunt, quis qucat numerare, quot ecclesiarum lumina? et qui secum corpus thcologia abstulit, peritissimus theologus, corpus hic suum sibi minus charum, deposuit. Vixit annos 94. Docuit annos 70. Obiit A. D. 1708, et quod mori potuit, heic expectat exoptatq. primam sanctorum resurrectionem ad immortalitatem. Exuviis debetur honos immortalitatem primam. Doctor Cotton Mather preached his funeral seranon, which abounds in learned and apposite quotations from ancient authors and high encomiums upon his much revered preceptor, from the close of which the subsequent paragraplis are added. "Out of the school he was one, antiqua fide priscis moribus, a christian of the old fashion, an old New English christian; and, I may tell you, that he was as venerable a sight as the world since the days of primitive christianity has ever looked upon. "He was well studied in the body of divinity, an able defender of the faith and order of the gospel, notably conversant and acquainted with scriptura) prophecies, and, by consequence, a sober chiiiast. "He lived, as a master, the term, which has been, for above three thousand years, assigned for the life of man. He continued, unto the ninety-fourth year of his age, an unusual instance of liveliness; his intellectual force as little abated as his natural. He exemplified the fulfilment of that word, as thy day so shall thy strength be, in the gloss, which the Jerusalem Targum has put upon it; as thou wast in the days of thy youth, such thou shalt be in thy old age, the reward of his fruitfulness, for fructus liberat arborem; the product of his temperance, rather, than what my lord Verulam assigns as a reason for vivacious scholars. "Death must now do its part. He died longing for death. Our old Simeon waited for it, that he might get nearer to the consolation of Israel. He died leaning, like old Jacob, upon a staff; the sacrifice and the righteousness of a glorious Christ, he let us know, was the golden staff which he leaned upon. He died mourning for the quick apostacy, which he saw breaking in upon us; very easy about his own eternal happiness, but full of distress for a poor people here under the displeasure of heaven, for former iniquities he thought, as well as later ones. To say no more, he died a candidate for the first resurrection. And verily our land is weakened when those fly away, at whose flight we may ery out, my father, my father, the chariots of New England and the horsemen thereof.” BOSTON, MASS. 547. Here lyeth the body of major ТноMAS SAVAGE, aged 75 years, deceased the 15 of February 1681-2. Repaired by Isaac Winslow, 1809. Note.-Major Savage left England in the reign of Charles I. and was an officer in the colonial wars with the aborigines of this country. He had two brothers, one of whom was the rev. Arthur Savage, dean of Carlisle. After his arrival in Massachusetts, he married, for his first wife, Faith Hutchinson, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. His second wife was a daughter of the rev. Zechariah Symmes of Charlestown, by whom he had several children. BOSTON, MASS. 548. Note.-Rev. THOMAS THACHER, Son of rev. Peter Thacher of Sarum, in England, was born, 1 May, 1620. He arrived at Boston, & June, 1635, and married, for his first wife, a daughter of the rev. Ralph Partridge of Duxborough. He was ordained at Weymouth, 2 January, 1644, and in 1669, was removed to Boston, where he became the first minister of the Old South Church. By his first wife he had two sons, rev. Peter Thacher of Milton and rev. Ralph Thacher of Martha's Vineyard. Mather in speaking of him says that he was one, who, with his prayers, did calun tundere et misericordiam extorquere. BOSTON, MASS. 549. Here lyeth interred the body of JACOB SHEAFE, of Boston, who for sume time lived at Crambrock, in Kent, in Ould Ingland. He deceased, the 22 of March, 1658, aged 58 years. 550. BOSTON, MASS. ELISHA BROWN, of Boston, who in October, 1769, during 17 days, inspired with a generous zeal for the laws, bravely and successfully opposed a whole British regiment, in their violent attempt to force him from his legal habitation. Happy citizen, when called singly to be a barrier to the liberties of a continent ! Note. This inscription seems to exhibit something more like the fictions of romance, than real history. The fact, however, is, that mr. Brown, in 1769, when the British troops were quartered in Boston, possessed a valuable estate at the south part of the town. These troops, having selected mr. Brown's situation, as peculiarly advantageous for their use, and his mansion, as a convenient edifice for a barrack, surrounded it, and continued their siege for seventeen days; but, all other occupants being withdrawn, he secured the doors, and windows in the lower story, with bolts and bars, and |