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 148 ON A MONUMENTAL EFFIGY those in allusion to whom the great poet of the seventeenth century observes — " And they who, to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan thought to pass disguised." And Weeverin his " Funeral Monuments," published in 1631, tells us that many " having large portions in their own pos- sessions, out of zeal and devotion, would give all, with them- selves, to some cloister or other, and therein take upon them the habits of religion," and that " in regard of burial abbeys were most commonly preferred before other churches what- soever; and he that was buried therein in a friar's habite, if you will believe it, never came into Hell." So also the author of that witty, but coarse and profane satire, " The Beehive of the Roman Church," translated out of Dutch into English by Gilpin, and published in 1580, alludes to this subject in the following passage : — " Well, go to nowe, read the whole bible over and over, and I will be bound to give the theologians or divines of Louen a potle of wine to make mery withal if they can finde out there that either Christ or his Apostles did ever knowe that whosoever doothe die in a gray frier's cote shall neither come in purgatory nor in Hell ; and yet, notwithstanding, not onely Radulphus Agri- cola, Albertus Pius, the Prince of Carpi, and Pope Martinus woulde die in such an habite, and bee buried in it, but Ijke- wise many other Kinges, Dukes, Earles, and Barons, as in the' book of the Conformities of Saint Prancis is specified, and with the Pope's Bulles established." And elsewhere the same author, in his pretended reproof of the Heretikes, ob- serves : — " They do not greatly glorie to bee buried in a monke's greasie hood." In the " Defense of the Apologie of the Church of England," published in 1570, against "the Confutation and Detection of sundry Foule Errors," &c., written by that great controver- sialist and opponent to Bishop Jewell, Dr. Harding, who denied that the Catholics — that is, those of the Roman Church — put great holiness in mere outward observances, as in apparel, and taunted Jewell, apparently in allusion to the great controversy of 1564, Avith the diversity respecting appa- rel found among the " ministringe clergie" of the Reformed Church, asking him — "Doe not somme amonge you wear