98 MEMOIR OF 



A.D. 1665, in the 76th year of his age * the other, 

 on the 25th of July, A.D. 1675." 



Mr Francis Willughbys Epitaph. 

 M. S." 



" Near this spot lies Francis, the truly illus- 

 trious son of the best of parents. If piety, probity, 

 truth, disinterested fidelity, a rigid observance of 

 virtue, resolute sobriety, sincere wisdom, great 

 learning without pedantry, religion without super- 

 stition, nobility without pride, have any thing 

 illustrious in them, let all good men revere his 

 worthy name ! 



" In the course of his life, after that he had 

 investigated by travel the various characters of 

 the nations of Europe, their languages, arts, 

 manners, and laws, he cultivated and perfected 

 the same in the retirement of his home. 



" He penetrated into the recesses of mathema- 

 tical science to others inaccessible. He searched 

 out the various secrets of medicine ; he so nicely 

 examined the whole system of philosophy, that 

 he restored its peculiar qualities and names to 

 every part; he gave also a new arrangement to 

 natural philosophy, and this he accomplished with 

 so much skill, diligence, and fidelity, that he still 

 appeared as a new, and unerring, and a faithful 

 interpreter of nature. He married Emma Ber- 

 nard, second daughter of Sir Henry Bernard, who 

 was the mother of Francis, Cassandra, and Thomas. 

 And now highly respected in life, and deeply 

 regretted in death, he was numbered with IIP- 



