The 10th of June, his corse was brought thither, and received by the minister (in his surplice) at the Litch Gates, who, passing before the body into the church, read the first part of the Office for the Burial of the Dead.  In the reading desk he said all the evening service, and after performed the rest of the office (as established by law) in the chancel, at the interment, which was about eight o’clock in the evening, on the left side of the communion table, Mr. Ashmole assisting at the laying him in his grave; whereupon afterwards (9 July 1681) he placed a fair black marble stone, (which cost him six pounds four shillings and six-pence) with this inscription following: 

    Ne Oblivione conteretur Urna

    GULIELMI LILLII

    ASTROLOGI PERITISSIMI,

    QUI FATIS CESSIT

    Quinto Idus Junii Anno Christi Juliano

    M DC LXXXI.

    Hoc Illi posuit amoris Monumentum

    ELIAS ASHMOLE,

    ARMIGER.

Shortly after his death, Mr. Ashmole bought his library of books of Mrs. Ruth Lilly, (his widow and executrix) for fifty pounds:  he oft times, in his life-time, expressed, that if Mr. Ashmole would give that sum, he should have them.

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The following Epitaphs (Latin and English) were made by George Smalridge, then a scholar at Westminster, after Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.

  In Mortem Viri Doctissimi Domini GULIELMI
  LILLY, Astrologi, nuper defuncti.

  Occidit atque suis annalibus addidit atram
    Astrologus, qua non tristior ulla, diem
  Pone triumphales, lugubris Luna, quadrigas;
    Sol maestum picea nube reconde caput. 
  Illum, qui Phoebi scripsit, Phoebesq; labores
    Eclipsin docuit Stella maligna pati. 
  Invidia Astrorum cecidit, qui Sidera rexit
    Tanta erat in notas scandere cura domos. 
  Quod vidit, visum cupiit, potiturq; cupito
    C[oe]lo, & Sidereo fulget in orbe decus. 
  Scilicet hoc nobis praedixit ab ane Cometa,
    Et fati emicuit nuncia Stella tui
  Fallentem vidi faciem gemuiq; videndo
    Illa fuit vati mortis imago suo,
  Civilis timuere alii primordia belli
    Jejunam metuit plebs stupefata faniem
  Non tantos tulerat bellumve famesve dolores: 
    Auspiciis essent haec relevanda tuis. 
  In cautam subitus plebem nunc opprimat ensis,
    Securos fati mors violenta trahat. 
  Nemo est qui videat moneatq; avertere fatum,
    Ars jacet in Domini funera mersa sui
  Solus naturae reservare arcana solebat,
    Solus & ambigui solvere jura poti. 
  Lustrasti erantes bene fina mente Planeta
    Conspectum latuit stellata nulla tuum
  Defessos oculos pensarunt lumina mentis
    Firesias oculis, mentibus Argus eras. 
  Cernere, Firesia, poteras ventura, sed, Arge,
    In fatum haud poteras sat