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Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur.
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To William Dane, that sometime was An ironmonger; where each degree He worthily (with praise) did passe. By Wisdom, Truth, and Heed, was he Advanc'd an Alderman to be; Then Sheriffe; that he, with justice prest, And cost, performed with the best. In almes frank, of conscience cleare; In grace with prince, to people glad; His vertuous wife, his faithful peere, MARGARET, this monument hath made; Meaning (through God) that as shee had With him (in house) long lived well; Even so in Tombes Blisse to dwell.
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Bread Street, says Stow,
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St. Augustine, in Watheling Street was destroyed by the Great Fire, but rebuilt in 1682. Stow informs us that here was a fraternity founded A.D. 1387, called the _Fraternity of St. Austin's_, in Watling Street, and other good people dwelling in the City.
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They were, on the eve of St. Austin's, to meet at the said church, in the morning at high mass, and every brother to offer a penny. And after that to be ready, _al mangier ou al revele; i.e., to eat or to revel_, according to the ordinance of the master and wardens of the fraternity. They set up in the honour of God and St. Austin, one branch of six tapers in the said church, before the image of St. Austin; and also two torches, with the which, if any of the said fraternity were commended to God, he might be carried to the earth. They were to meet at the vault at Paul's (perhaps St. Faith's), and to go thence to the Church of St. Austin's, and the priests and the clerks said _Placebo_ and _Dilige_, and in matins, a mass of requiem at the high altar.
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There is a flat stone, says Stow,
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At the upper end of the chancel, says Strype,