Richard Busby, schoolmaster of Westminster, has his MSS.; quaere what they are.
He dyed[1075] <July>, 167<2>; and lies interred in the north-east angle of Westminster cloysters, next to the grave-stone of <Thomas> Nurse, M.D., a piece of a blew marble stone on him but yet no inscription.
He made his own inscription which is mentioned by Mr. Andrew Marvell in his Rehearsall Transpros'd, viz.:—
Hic jacet corpus Herberti Thorndike
praebendarii hujus ecclesiae, qui vivus
veram Reformatae Ecclesiae
rationem et modum precibus
studiisque persequebatur.
Tu, Lector, requiem et beatam
in Christo resurrectionem precare.
A parallel written by the bishop[1076] and found under his owne hand and appointed for his epitaph, but I heare that Dr. <William> Lloyd his successor will have it altered to avoyd offence:—
Exuviae[1077] Isaaci, Asaphensis episcopi,
In manus Domini depositae,
In spem laetae resurrectionis
per sola Christi merita.
O vos transeuntes[1078] domum[1079] Domini,
Domum orationis,
Orate pro conservo vestro
Ut inveniam misericordiam die Domini.
June 30, 1680.
John Tombes (1603-1676).
[1080]Mr. John Tombs, B.D. (quaere A. Wood's Antiq. Oxon.) was borne at Beaudley in Worcestershire; his father was a....