Earth, though on earth be stout and gay,
Shall from earth pass poore away.
Be merciful and charitable,
Relieve the poor as thou art able;
A shrowd to thy grave
Is all thou shalt have.
St. Martin’s Orgars, a rectory, the church of which was situated on the east side of St. Martin’s lane near Canon street, in Candlewick ward, and is so named from its dedication to St. Martin; and the additional epithet of Orgars, from Odgarus or Ordgarus, who was probably its founder or patron: but this church being destroyed with the rest of the public edifices in the fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt, the parish was annexed to the church of St. Clement Eastcheap. Newc. Rep. Eccles. Paroch.
In this church was a tomb with the following epitaph, mentioned by Mr. Strype in his edition of Stowe’s Survey, on Sir Allen Cotton, Knt. Alderman, and sometime Lord Mayor of London, who died on the 24th of September 1628, leaving three sons and two daughters; and these sons caused his monument to be erected,
When he left earth, rich bounty dy’d,
Mild courtesie gave place to pride: