Chapter XVII

Our author enjoyed through life a good state of health, but somewhat impaired it by intense application to study. Some years before his decease he had a slight stroke of the palsy, which affected his speech. He died on the 15th of May, 1773, in the sixty-third year of his age. A decent monument of marble was raised to his memory in the chapel of the English college at St. Omer's, with the following inscription upon it, composed by Mr. Bannister:

Hic jacet R. D. Albanus Butler (Bouteillier) Praenobilis Angius. Sacerdos et Alumnus Collegii Anglorum Duaci. Ibidem S. T. Professor, Postmodum Missionarius in Patria. Praeses II. Collegii Regii Anglorum Audomari. Vicarius Generalis Illustrissimorum Philomelien. Deboren. Atrebaten. Audomarea Ex vetusta Ortus prosapia In utrisque Angliae et Galliae Regnis Ampla et Florente. Suavissimis Moribus, Summis acceptissimus, Infimis benignus, Omnium necessitatibus inserviens, Pro Deo.

Propter Doctrinam et Ingenium, Doctissimis, Propter Pietatem, Bonis omnibus, Percharus.

Nobilissimaee Juventutis Institutionem, Sacrarum Virginum curam, Reverendissimorum Antistitum negotia, Suscepit, promovit, expedivit, Opera, Scriptis, Hortatubus. Sanctorum rebus gestis a Puentia inhaerens, Acta omnia pernoscens, Mentem et Sapientiam alte imbibens. Multa scripsit de Sanctorum vitis, Plena Sanctorum Spiritu, librata judicio, polita stylo, Summae ubertatis et omnigenae eruditiouis. Apastolicae sedis et omnis officii semper observantissimus. Pie obiit 15 Mensis Maii 1773. Natus annis 63. Sacerdos 39. Praeses 7 Hoc m[oe]rens posuit Carolus Butler Monumentum Pietatis sum in Patruum Amantissimum.

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