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MEMOIR OF 
a.d. 1665, in the 76th year of his age ; the other, 
on the 25th of July, a.d. 1675.” 
Mr Francis Willughby's 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 im- 
