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relation and bountiful benefactor, Z A CHARY BAY- 

 LY; by whose kindness he was enabled to spend the 

 remainder of his days in leisure and independency. 

 In the society of these valuable friends, chiefly under 

 the same roof, I passed the days of my youth, until 

 my amiable preceptor in the first place, and my gene- 

 rous benefactor a few years afterwards, (neither of 

 the mhaving reached his 50th year), sunk into an un- 

 timely grave! Of Zachary Bayly, the renown is fa- 

 miliar to every one who has resided in Jamaica at any 

 time during the last forty years. I endeavoured to 

 delineate his character on the stone which I inscribed 

 to his memory; and fondly hoping that my book will 

 be read where the stone cannot be inspected, I trans- 

 fer to this page what his monument imperfectly re- 

 cords: 



INSCRIPTION IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF 

 ST. ANDREW, JAMAICA. 



Near this place 



Lie the remains of 



ZACHARY BAYLY, 



Gustos and Chief Magistrate of the Precinct 



of St. Mary and St. George, and one of his Majesty's 



Hon. Council of this Island, 



Who died on the 13th Dec. 1769, 



In the 48th year of his age. 



He was a Man 

 To whom the endowments of Nature render's those 



of Art superfluous. 



e was wise without the assistance of recorded wisdom, 

 And eloquent beyond the precepts of scholastic 



Rhetoric. 



