and we must hope that Providence is designing, in this respect, fresh blessings on this our hitherto favoured Land.

We have now mentioned the last of the benevolent deeds of this truly Good Man. He was now approaching to the end of his mortal career. His Will, (Appendix A.). which is annexed to this Memoir, is dated the 2nd of March, 1600, and he departed this life the 17th of June in the year following, in the seventy-third year of his age. His remains were deposited in St. Benedict's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, on the South side of which, under the second Arch, is a mural Monument to his memory. He is represented in his Doctor's Robes, kneeling upon a cushion before a desk, with a book open before him, and the following inscription is annexed:

D. O. M.

GABRIEL GOODMAN,

SACRE THEOLOGIE DOCTOR DECANUS HUJUS ECCLESIE QUINTUS,

CUI CUM SUMMA LAUDE XL. ANOS PRÆFUISSET ET RUTHINIÆ, IN COMITATU DENBIGHENSI UBI NATUS HOSPITALE FUNDASSET SCHOLAMEQUE INSTITUISSET VITÆ SANCTIMONIA DEO BONISQUE CARUS IN CELESTEM PATRIAM PIE MIGRAVIT 17mo. DIE JUNII, ANNO SALUTIS MDCI.

ETATIS SUE LXXIII.

Arms of Goodman impaling those of Westminster College.

Another Monument with his Bust, in a Gown, was erected in St. Peter's Church, Ruthin, with a Latin inscription similar to the foregoing, which has lately been removed from the North Wall to the Chancel, together with another magnificent Marble one to the memory of some later members of his Family, in which his merits are also repeated. His Monument was repaired some years ago, out of respect to his memory. It then presented some marks of the "Sterilis mala robora ficûs," a fate which the Satyrist long ago denounced on such frail memorials of departed worth. But his good works have raised for him a memorial more lasting than these. The good things, which, according to the words of the Brass Tablet to his Father's memory, first

obtained him the name of Goodman, and make it not mere sounding brass, were liberally dispersed by this worthy descendant, and have left behind him a Monument "ære perennius." Inditing of these good matters, the pen has run on to a greater length than was anticipated at the commencement of this feeble tribute, which we will therefore conclude in the quaint language of his fond Panegyrist Fuller, who we have so often quoted: "Though fixed to the Deanery of Westminster forty years, by his facts and his Friend's power, he might have been what he would in the Church of England. Abigail said of her Husband, "Nabal is his name, and folly is with him," but it may be said of this worthy Dean, Goodman was his name and Goodness was in his nature," an assertion, which, it is hoped, has now been amply justified by the foregoing detail of the deeds which emanated from that goodness.

Finis.