Here lies he, who, not long since,
Kept a table like a prince,
Till Death came, and tooke away.
Then ask't the old man, What's to pay?
[707]Memorandum:--at the hall in Wellington[AW] in the countie of
Somerset (the ancient seate of the Pophams), and which was this Sir
John's, Lord Chiefe Justice, (but quaere if he did not buy it?) did
hang iron shackells, of which the tradicion of the countrey is that,
long agoe, one of the Pophams (lord of this place) was taken and kept
a slave by the Turkes for a good while, and that by his ladie's great
pietie, and continuall prayers, he was brought to this place by an
invisible power, with these shackells on his legges, which were here
hung up as a memoriall, and continued till the house (being a garrison)
was burn't. All the countrey people steadfastly beleeve the trueth
hereof.
[708]Lord Chief Justice Popham first brought in (i.e. revived) brick
building in London (scil. after Lincolne's Inne and St. James's);
and first sett-afoote the Plantations,--e.g. Virginia (from Fabian
Philips)--which he stockt or planted out of all the gaoles of England.
_Notes._