St. Michael’s, Crooked Lane
Here lyeth, wrapt in clay,
The body of William Wray;
I have no more to say.
St. Anne’s, Soho
On Theodore, King of Corsica, written by Horace Walpole.
Near this place is interred.
Theodore, King of Corsica,
Who died in this parish Dec. 11, 1756,
Immediately after leaving the King’s Bench prison,
By the benefit of the Act of Insolvency,
In consequence of which he resigned
His Kingdom of Corsica
For the use of his creditors.
The grave great teacher to a level brings
Heroes and beggars, galley slaves and kings,
But Theodore this moral learn’d ere dead,
Fate pour’d its lessons on his living head,
Bestowed a kingdom and denied him bread.