"... distaining any vain glorious monument (Stukeley) was interred in an unmarked grave on either the north or the south side of St Mary Magdalene churchyard in East Ham, Essex. Stukeley died of a stroke. A year or two earlier he had visited a friend, Joseph Sims, vicar of East Ham, "When I die"' he asked, "may I have a grave under the green turf, and will you see to it that no stone or other memorial is raised above me?" It is a fitting coincidence that, though their graves cannot be identified both John Aubrey in Oxford and William Stukeley in East Ham lie in the bounds of churches dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, patroness of students and men whose lives have been spent in contemplation."*

Stukeley's 'Stonehenge'. Pages 19 & 20.