108 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. PARTI. 



others added by ray friend Elias Ash mole, Esq. \vho 

 now keeps them carefully and methodically at his house 

 near to Lambeth, near London * ; as may get some be- 



of Oxford, and so became the Founder of the Ashmolean Musrum. A 

 monument for all the three Tradescants, very curiously ornamented with 

 sculptures, is to be seen in Lambeth Church-yard; and a representation 

 thereof, in four plates, and also some particulars of the family, are given 

 in the Philosophical Transactions, Volume LXIII Part I. p. 79, et seq. 

 The monument, by the contribution of some friends to their memory, 

 was, in the year 1773, repaired; and the following Lines , formerly in- 

 tended for an epitaph, inserted thereon : 



Know, stranger ! ere thou pass, beneath this stone 

 JLie JOHN TRADE SCANT, grandsire, father, son. 

 The last dy'd in bis spring : the other two 

 Liv'd till they had travell'd 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 lilly, 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. 



The Tradescants were the first collectors of natural curiosities in this 

 kingdom ; Ashmole, and Sir Hans Sloane, were the next : the generous 

 spirit of these persons seems to have been transfused into, and at present 

 (1784) to reside in, a. private Gentleman of unbounded curiosity and 

 liberality, Sir Ashton Lever ; whose collections for beauty, variety, and 

 copiousness, exceed all description, and surpass every thing of the kind in 

 the known world. Haivkins. After Sir Ashton Lever's death, the collection 

 was disposed of by public Lottery, and came into the hands of Mr. Par- 

 kinson, who, two years ago, (1806,) sold the whole, in separate lots, 

 by public auction. Editor- 



* Ashmole was, at first, a Solicitor in Chancery : but marrying a lady 

 with a large fortune, and being well skilled in history and antiquities, he 

 was promoted to the office of Windsor Herald, and wrote the History of 

 the Order of the Garter, published in 1672, in folio. But addicting him- 

 self to the then fashionable studies of chemistry and judicial astrology ; 

 and associating himself with that silly, crack-brained enthusiast, John 

 Aubrey, Esq. of Surrey, and that egregious impostor, Lilly the Astro- 

 loger, he became a dupe to the knavery of the one, and the follies of 

 both ; and lost in a great measure the reputation he had acquired by this, 

 and other of his writings. Of his weakness and superstition, he has left 

 on record this memorable instance : " llth April, 1681, I took, early in 

 " the morning, a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my 

 " neck ; and they drove my ague away." Deo gratias. See Memoirs of 

 the Life of that Antiquarian, Elias Ashmole, Esq. dra'wn up By himself by 

 way of diary, published by Charles Burman, Esq. 12mo. 1717. 



