SIR HANS SLOANE. 
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was deposited in the same vault with her. A 
monument was erected to their memory, con- 
sisting of a pedestal, surmounted by a portico, 
which is supported by four pillars, under which 
is an urn, entwined with serpents, emblematical of 
his profession, with the following inscription : — 
“ In memory of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. President 
of the Royal Society and of the College of 
Physicians, who died in the year of our Lord 
1753, the ninety-second year of his age, without 
the least pain of body, and with a conscious 
serenity of mind ended a virtuous and beneficent 
life. This monument was erected by his two 
daughters, Elizabeth Cadogan and Sarah Stanley.” 
On the north side of the monument is a memorial 
of Lady Sloane. * 
In conformity with the custom of the time, a 
funeral sermon was preached by Dr Zachary 
Pearce, at that time Bishop of Bangor, but who 
had been expressly forbidden by the deceased to 
give way to the gross flatteries so prevalent on 
such occasions, Sloane very properly accounting 
it a degree of profanation to debase with the 
praises of human excellencies that pulpit which 
should be devoted to display to men the attributes 
of the Deity, and to instruct them in his laws. 
* “ 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. 
