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death soon afterwards, he was obliged to enforce by a suit in 

 Chancery, upon his succeeding in which, Mrs. Tradescant 

 drowned herself. A monument to the three Naturalists is in Lam- 

 beth Church Yard. It was repaired in 1773, and the following 

 epitaph engraved upon it, as had been intended at its erection. 



Know, stranger, e'er thou pass, beneath this stone 



Lie John Tradescant, grandsire, father, son. 



The last died in his Spring ; the other two 



Liv'd, till they had travelled art and nature thro*. 



As by their choice collections may appear, 



Of what is rare in land, in seas, in air : 



Whilst they (as Homer's Iliad in a nut) 



A world of wonders in one closet shut. 



These famous Antiquarians that had been 



Both gardeners to the rose and lily Queen, 



Transplanted now themselves, sleep here ; and when 



Angels shall with their trumpets waken men. 



And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise 



And change their gardens for a Paradise.* 



Grainger mentions the following portraits of the Tradescants. 



Johannes Tradescantus, pater, rerum select arum insignem 

 supellectilem, in reconditorio Lambethiano prope Londinum, 

 etiamnum visendam, primus institutit ac locupletavit. Hollar 

 fecit. 12mo. 



John Tradescant, with his Son, and their monument. J. T, 

 Smith, 1793. 



Johannes Tradescantus, filius, genii ingeniique paterni verus 

 hreres, relictum sibi rerum undique congestarum Thesaurum, 



* Wallsn'i complete Angler by Havrkin's. Edit. 5th, p. 25. 



