Thus he lived in high reputation, till, in his seventy-sixth year, he was seized with a colick, which, after having tortured him about a week, put an end to his life at Norwich, on his birthday, October, 19, 1682 [87].  Some of his last words were expressions of submission to the will of God, and fearlessness of death.

He lies buried in the church of St. Peter Mancroft, in Norwich, with this inscription on a mural monument, placed on the south pillar of the altar: 

  M. S.
  Hic situs est THOMAS BROWNE, M.D. 
  Et miles. 
  Anno 1605, Londini natus;
  Generosa familia apud Upton
  In agro Cestriensi oriundus. 
  Schola pritnum Wintoniensi, postea
  In Coll.  Pembr. 
  Apud Oxonienses bonis literis
  Haud leviter imbutus;
  In urbe hac Nordovicensi medicinam
  Arte egregia, et foelici successu professus;
  Scriptis quibus tituli, RELIGIO MEDICI
  Et PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA, aliisque
  Per orbem notissimus. 
  Vir prudentissimus, integerrimus, doctissimus;
  Obijt Octob. 19, 1682. 
  Pie posuit moestissima conjux
  Da.  Doroth.  Br.

  Near the foot of this pillar
  Lies Sir Thomas Browne, knt. and doctor in physick,
  Author of Religio Medici, and other learned books,
  Who practised physick in this city 46 years,
  And died Oct. 1682, in the 77th year of his age. 
  In memory of whom,
  Dame Dorothy Browne, who had been his affectionate
  Wife 47 years, caused this monument to be
  Erected.

Besides this lady, who died in 1685, he left a son and three daughters.  Of the daughters nothing very remarkable is known; but his son, Edward Browne, requires a particular mention.

He was born about the year 1642; and, after having passed through the classes of the school at Norwich, became bachelor of physick at Cambridge; and afterwards removing to Merton college in Oxford, was admitted there to the same degree, and afterwards made a doctor.  In 1668 he visited part of Germany; and in the year following made a wider excursion into Austria, Hungary, and Thessaly; where the Turkish sultan then kept his court at Larissa.  He afterwards passed through Italy.  His skill in natural history made him particularly attentive to mines and metallurgy.  Upon his return, he published an account of the countries through which he had passed; which I have heard commended by a learned traveller, who has visited many places after him, as written with scrupulous and exact veracity, such as is scarcely to be found in any other book of the same kind.  But whatever it may contribute to the instruction of a naturalist, I cannot recommend it, as likely to give much pleasure to common readers; for, whether it be that the world is very uniform, and, therefore, he who is resolved to adhere to truth will have few novelties to relate; or, that Dr. Browne was, by the train of his studies, led to inquire most after those things by which the greatest part of mankind is little affected; a great part of his book seems to contain very unimportant accounts of his passage from one place where he saw little, to another where he saw no more.