of St. Germain:

"REGIO CINERI PIETAS REGIA.

"Ferale quisquis hoc monumentum suspicis
Rerum humanarum vices meditare
Magnus in prosperis in adversis major
Jacobus 2. Anglorum Rex.
Insignes ærumnas dolendaque nimium fata
Pio placidoque obitu exsolvit
in hac urbe
Die 16. Septemb. anni 1701.
Et nobiliores quædam corporis ejus partes
Hic reconditæ asservantur."

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Qui prius augustâ gestabat fronte coronam
Exiguâ nunc pulvereus requiescit in urnâ
Quid solium--quid et alta juvant! terit omnia lethum,
Verum laus fidei ac morum haud peritura manebit
Tu quoque summe Deus regem quem regius hospes
Infaustum excepit tecum regnare jubebis."

But a different inscription formerly was placed over the king's remains in
this church, which has now disappeared; at all events, I could not discover
it; and I suppose that the foregoing was preferred and substituted for
that, a copy of which I subjoin:

"D.O.M. Jussu Georgii IV. Magnæ Britanniæ &c., Regis, et curante Equite