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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.
In the interior, the roof is admirably carved, and the pews belonging to the Earls of Oxford and the Springs, though now much decayed, were highly-finished pieces of Gothic work in wood. Some of the windows are still embellished with painted glass, representing the arms of the De Veres and others. Here also is a costly monument of alabaster and gold, erected to the memory of the Rev. Henry Copinger, rector of Lavenham, with alto-relievo figures of the reverend divine and his wife.
Dr. Fuller relates the following anecdote of this divine:--Dr. Reynolds, who held the living of Lavenham, having gone over to the Church of Rome, the Earl of Oxford, the patron, presented Mr. Copinger, but on condition that he should pay no tithes for his park, which comprehended almost half the land in the parish. Mr. Copinger told his lordship, that he would rather return the presentation, than by such a sinful gratitude betray the rights of the church. This answer so affected the earl, that he replied, "I scorn that my estate should swell with church goods." His heir, however, contested the rector's right to the tithes, and it cost Mr. Copinger ?1,600. to recover that right, and leave the quiet possession of it to his successors.
In the north aisle is a small mural monument, upon which are represented a man and woman, engraved on brass, kneeling before a table, and three sons and daughters behind them. From the mouth of the man proceeds a label, on which are these words:--In manus tuas dne commendo spiritum meum. Underneath is this inscription, which, like that of the label, is in the old English character:--
In the churchyard is a very old gravestone, which formerly had a Saxon inscription. Kirby, in his account of the monasteries of Suffolk, says that here, on the tomb of one John Wiles, a bachelor, who died in 1694, is this odd jingling epitaph:--
But as the point and oddity may not be directly evident to all, perhaps some of our readers will furnish us with a pithy translation for our next.
FIRE TOWERS AND BELFRIES.
I have often thought that antiquarians, and particularly our modern Irish antiquarians, have affected to be puzzled about what, to the rest of mankind, must appear to be evident enough; and this for the purpose of making a parade of their learning, and of astonishing the common reader by the ingenuity of their speculations.
BELLE SAVAGE INN.
LEONARD WILSON.
THE FLOWER AND THE OAK.
IMITATED FROM THE ITALIAN.
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