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Nuncius é cœlo, tandem componcre lites,
Fati, descendens, ultima jussa refert.
Tum moriens animam cœlo, corpusque sepulchro,
Nobis ingenii clara trophæa dedit.

[TRANSLATION.]
Heaven, earth and men, for one thing do contend,
Each one doth Fowler challenge as his own;
God's messenger from heaven, the strife to end,
Descends; and thus his will performs, and's gone!
His soul to heaven; his body to the grave;
To us the trophies of his wit he gave.

No. 104. Near this place are deposited the remains of Robert Porteus, Esq., a native of Virginia and a member of His Majesty's Council or Upper House of Legislature in that Province, from thence he moved to England, and resided first at York, afterwards in this Town, where he died August 8, 1758, aged 79 years.

No. 105.-To the memory of Edmund Jennings, formerly of this place, and of the Middle Temple London, Esquire, who was born at Anapolis, in the then British Province of Maryland, in the month of August, 1731, and died at Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, on the 29th of July, 1819, aged nearly 88 years. His widow and only surviving child grateful for his conjugal and parental tenderness erect this marble.

No. 106. Here lieth the body of Sir Roger Beckwith, Bart., late of Aldborough, who dyed at Ripon, 6th of December, 1700.