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His wife, whom we have just mentioned, and with 

 whom he had spent the greater part of his life, lay buried 

 in the churchyard here in Chelsea, where Sir Hans 

 Sloane had erected a handsome monument of hewn stone 

 over the grave, which was on the S.E. side of the church 

 against the wall. Round about this carved grave was an 

 iron railing, jarn-galler. On the east and west sides 

 were Sir Hans Sloane's arms, vapen. On the south 

 side there was nothing written, but the hewn stones were 

 there quite smooth. Doubtless Sir Hans Sloane wished 

 to leave others freedom to engrave there his InMemoriam 

 and laudatory Epitaph, aminnelse OCh laford, after 

 his dust once comes to be preserved beneath it together 

 with that of his wife. [Sir Hans Sloane died Jan. nth, 

 I 753> nearly five years after Kalm's visit, and just before 

 this Tome was published.] 



On the north side of this monument there were these 

 words, quite free from show and flatUrie : 



" Here lyeth the body 

 Of Dame Elizabeth Sloane, 

 Wife of Sr. Hans Sloane, Baronet, 

 Who departed this life 

 The 27th of September, 1724, 

 Aged 67."* 

 [T. I. p. 390.J 



* This Epitaph having perished with the slab on which it was written 

 has disappeared and has been replaced by another on a substituted slab. 

 ' ' Here lies interred 

 Elizabeth Lady Sloane, 

 Wife of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., 

 Who departed this life 

 In the year of our Lord, 1724, 

 And the 67th of her age." Copied April 14, 1888. 

 Thus not only the original Epitaph, but the date of her death, and her 

 age, had been forgotten, fj. L.] 



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