The Remains of Mr. Gibbon were deposited in Lord Sheffield's Family Burial-Place, in Fletching, Sussex; whereon is inscribed the following Epitaph, written at my request by a distinguished scholar, the Rev. Dr. Parr : EDVARDUS GIBBON CRITICUS ACRI INGENIO ET MULTIPLICI DOCTRINA ORNATUS IDEMQUE HISTORICORUM QUI FORTUNA M IMPERII ROMANI VEL LABENTIS ET INCLINATI VEL EVERSIET FUNDITUS DELETI LITTERIS MANDAVERINT OMNIUM FACILE PRINCEPS CUJUS IN MORIBUS ERAT MODERATIO ANIMI CUM LIBERALI QUADAM SPECIE CONJUNCTA IN SERMONE MULTA GRAVITATI COMITAS SUAVITER ADSPERSA IN SCRIPTIS COPIOSUM SPLENDIDUM CONCINNUM ORBE VERBORUM ET SUMMO ARTIFICIO DISTINCTUM ORATIONIS GENUS RECONDITE EXQUISITÆQUE SENTENTIÆ IT IN MONUMENTIS RERUM POLITICARUM OBSERVANDIS ACUTA ET PERSPICAX PRUDENTIA VIXIT ANNOS LVI MENS. VII DIES XXVIII MDCCLXXXXIV ET IN IIOC MAUSOLEO SEPULTUS EST EX VOLUNTATE JOHANNIS DOMINI SHEFFIELD QUI AMICO BENE MERENTI ET CONVICTORI HUMANISSIMO II. TAB. P. C. |