_Weever's Funeral Monument_ (Vol. iv., p. 474.).--Weever was buried in
the old church of St. James, Clerkenwell, which was formerly part of the
Priory called _Ecclesia Beatae Mariae de Fonte Clericorum_, for nuns of
the order of St. Benedict. The inscription, on a plate shaped to a
pillar near the chancel, has been preserved by Stow, in his _Survey of
London_, p. 900., 1633; and by Strype, in his edition of the _Survey of
London_, book iv. p. 65. Fuller, in his _Church History_, vol. ii p.
208., edit. 1840, informs us that--
"Weever died in London in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was
buried in St. James, Clerkenwell, where he appointed this epitaph
for himself:
"'Lancashire gave me breath
And Cambridge education,
Middlesex gave me death
And this church my humation.
And Christ to me hath given
A place with him in heaven.'
"The certain date of his death I cannot attain; but, by proportion,
I collect it to be about the year of our Lord 1634."
The date supplied by Storer, in his _History of Clerkenwell_, p. 186.,
is "Anno Domini 1632." The epitaph given by Fuller, Strype has appended
to the original inscription. Mr. Storer adds:
"When the church was taken down, the Society of Antiquaries gave
orders for a diligent search to be made after this tablet, but
without success; which is accounted for by a correspondent in the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ [see vol. lviii. part 2. p. 600.], that it
had been stolen a few years previously, but was perfectly
remembered by an inhabitant to have occupied the situation which
has been described."