dedicated to Saint Blase in which Chappel Nicolas Lâ—â—lington Abbot of Westminster whom I have mentioned before was buried in the year 1386 after he had governed this Monastery twenty five years And Edward a Monk of Westminster who was Son of Owen Tuddor by Queen Katharine the Widow of Henry V. and Daughter of Charles VI. King of France he was Brother to Edmund Earl of Richmond and Uncle to King Henry VII There is neither Inscription or Epitaph remaining to distinguish their Grave-stones from the rest From hence going to the East-side of this Cross and next to Cowleys Tomb is a little Chappel of St. Benedict § 18. Which is sometimes called the Deans Chappel by reason some of the Deans of Westminster have been buried therein for whom there are two Tombs remaining On the South side that of Gabriel Goodman S. T. D. and Dean of this Church forty years he founded an Hospital and School at Ruthin in Denbighshire the town where he was born but dying on the Seventeenth day of July in the year 1601. aged 73. was buried here and had a Monument of black and white Marble with his Statue kneeling thereon erected to his memory and is yet in being On the North side one of his Predecessors under a raised Tomb of grey Marble having his Effigie engraven thereon in Brass with Arms and Epitaphs was interred viz. William Bill S. T. D. who was Master of Trinity College in Cambridge President of Eaton Dean of this Collegiate Church and grand Almoner to the Queen a man liberal in his gifts to this Colledge by several pieces of Silver Plate and other Largesses bestowed thereon he died on the fifteenth of July in the year 1561. Next to him on the same North side is an antient Tomb of Free-stone mixed with grey Marble and Brass with the Image of Alabaster representing an Archbishop in his Pontificalibus under a Canopy of the same stone placed there to remember Simon Langham that famous Monk Prior and Abbot of this Monastery afterwards Bishop of Ely London and Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of Praenest in Italy Cardinal S. Sextus Chancellour and Lord High Treasurer of England and the Popes Legat here he died in the year 1367 at Avenion and was buried in the House of the Carthusians there which himself had founded but afterwards his bones were translated and interred here hard by the Altar of St. Benedict Against the East Wall of this Chappel is a most stately Monument above twenty six foot high most nobly adorned with Corinthian Columns and Pyramids of Alabaster Porphyry Lydian and diverse coloured Marble variously wrought and curiously gilt with Gold on whose Pedestal is the Image of a Countess in her Robes of estate cumbant at full proportion being erected by the command of Edward Earl of Hertford and Baron Beauchamp Son of Edward Duke of Somerset c. Vncle to King Edward VI. to the memory of his Wife the Lady Frances who was Daughter of William Baron Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter High Admiral to Queen Mary Lord Chamberlain and Privy Seal to Queen Elizabeth and Son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk she died in the year 1598. In the midst of the Area of this Chappel is a noble Tomb of black and white Marble whereon are placed the Images of Lyonel Cranfield Earl of Middlesex who was Lord High Treasurer of England with that of the Lady Anne his second Wife he died in the year 1645. § 47. Next to this Chappel you are let into the Area or passage that leads you round the Chappel of the Kings by an Officer of the Church who attends there to wait upon all persons that are desirous of seeing the Monuments within whose Fee is what the particular bounty of each Gentleman shall think convenient to give him you may therefore save the civil Officer that trouble and better inform your self by taking these directions The first place you are led into on this South side will be the Chappel of St. Edmund the Archbishop but before you enter therein I would not have you overpass a little Monument between the Chappel of St. Benedict and this of St. Edmund being a small raised Tomb adorned with diverse coloured stones and Arched under which are the Effigies of four Children painted thereon in plano but there is no Inscription or Table belonging thereto in this Tomb are inclosed the bones of Richard John and Katharine Children of King Henry III. and was set up by Edward I. King of England for three of his Sons and a Daughter which he had by Eleanor his Queen Daughter of Ferdinand III. King of Castile viz. John Henry Alphonsus and Eleonore From this Tomb we go into the Chappel of St. Edmund § 48. On the right hand of the entrance you have a very antient Tomb of grey Marble about three foot high adorned with divers Coats of Arms which serves as a Pedestal to support a Wainscot Chest covered over with plates of Brass richly enamelled and thereon the Image of William de Valence Earl of Pembroke with a deep Shield on his left Arm in a Coat of Male with a Surcoat all of the same enamelled Brass gilt with Gold and beset with the Arms of Valence viz. Bar-rule Ar. B. an orle of Martlets Gules round about the inner ledge of this Tomb is most of the Epitaph remaining in the antient Saxon Letters and the rest of the Chest covered with Brass wrought in the form of Lozenges each Lozenge containing either the Arms of England or that of Valence alternately placed one after the other enamelled with their colours Round this Chest have been thirty little Brazen Images some of them still remaining twelve on each side and three at each end divided by certain Arches that serve as Niches to inclose them And on an outward ledge at the foot of each of these Images are placed a Coat of Arms in Brass enamelled with their colours This William de Valence for whom this curious Tomb was made was Son of Hugh le Brun Earl of March in the Confines of France and Poictiers by Isabel his Wife Widow of King John c. as I have said before in the description of his Sons Monument and being half Brother to King Henry III. was by him advanced to great honours who having married Joan the Daughter of Warren de Montechensey died in the year 1304 and had this Monument erected to his memory § 49. On the West side of this Chappel and next to the Tomb of William de Valence Earl of Pembroke is a most noble Monument for one of the Successors of that renowned Family of the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury viz. Edward the eighth Earl thereof who died on the eighteenth of February 1617. aged 57 years and the Lady Jane his Countess who was the eldest Daughter and one of the Co-heirs of the last Lord Ogle of that name On a large Table of black Marble supported
Nich were as many brazen Statues gilt with Gold with other Images of the Apostles Fathers and Doctors of the Church which in great part are now stolen away The work that fills up the spaces and squares between each of these Pillars from the bottom to the top is all Grate-work representing the nature of a Vine curling and twining its branches to and fro for the conveniency of the Dragons and Greyhounds to encounter or chase on the other with which Figures the whole work is interlaced Round about the cross bars which go quite round the midst of this Tonument is an Epitaph in Latine Verse made to the commendations of the Founder On the North and South side of this Case or Fence or rather small Chappel to the noble Tomb within you have two brazen doors which are seldom opened by reason the Grate-work gives Spectators a sufficient view of the Tomb Which Tomb is a Pedestal of about five foot from the ground of black Marble every way adorned with gilded brass of admirable workmanship on which Pedestal are placed the Images all of solid Brass and gilt with Gold in their Royal Habiliments of that great King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth his Queen Daughter of Edward IV. under each of whose Images are divers Inscriptions in Brass gilt to inform you from whence they derived their Linage and Descent On the outside of this brazen Monument there be two antient Tables in writing with many Verses composed by Skelton the Kings Orator and Poet Laureat as he stiles him in which he blazons forth the commendations and virtues of that excellent Prince and Queen which I have transcribed for your satisfaction and you may find among the Monumental Inscriptions § 79. At the head of his Grandfather King Henry VII was Edward VI. K. of England France and Ireland interred under a brazen Altar artificially wrought and gilt with Gold of which there is nothing now remaining He was Son to Henry VIII by Jane Seymour his Queen being crowned the twenty eighth of January 1546. and died the sixth of July 1553. as it is supposed of an untimely death The Altar and Sepulchre before mentioned wherein the body of King Henry VII resteth was made and finished in the year 1519. by one Peter a Painter of Florence for which he received no more than one thousand pounds sterling for the whole stuff and workmanship so cheap and so excellent was work in those days § 80. On either side of the same Chappel you have several of the Ancestors and Successors of the Founder interred On the South side behind the staules of the Quire towards the East is a noble raised Tomb of black Marble curiously wrought and adorned with gilded Brass Arms an Epitaph round the Verge and environed with a Grate whereon is placed the Image of a Lady in her Robes of Estate all of solid Brass and gilt with Gold with the model of two Pillars on each side her after which form she caused the noble structures which she erected to be composed under which lies Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Duke of Somerset by Margaret the Daughter of the Lord Beauchamp of Powick She was first married to Edmund the Son of Owen Tuder by whom she had Henry VII King of England and afterwards to Edward Stanley Earl of Derby She built two Colledges at Cambridge Christchurch and St. Johns instituted a Divinity Lecture in either University gave much to religious Houses and indowed her Foundations with ample Revenues and after she had seen her Grandson King Henry VIII crowned she died in the year 1509. § 81. At the lower end towards the West of this side of the Chappel is a comely Tomb of Alabaster black and diverse coloured stones and on the Pedestal six little Images of young men kneeling with two women all of the same Alabaster set about with Arms and gilt with Gold lies the Image at full proportion in her Robes of Estate curiously painted and gilt with Gold of Margaret Countess of Levenox Daughter and sole Heir of Archibald Earl of Auguise by Margaret Queen of Scots his Wife eldest Daughter to King Henry VII She married Mathew Stuart Earl of Levenox by whom she had Henry Lord Darly Father to King James VI. of Scotland and first Monarch of Great Britain She died anno 1578. § 82. Between these two Monuments of Margaret Countess of Richmond and Margaret Countess of Levenox is a most stately Monument erected by the order of King James for his Mother Mary Queen of Scots whose Image in her Royal Habiliments painted and gilt with Gold is placed on a noble Pedestal of curious wrought Alabaster overshadowed by an arched Canopy supported by eight Corinthian Pillars of black Marble the Capitals and Pedestals gilt the Architrave adorned with Arms and the whole of an admirable composure This Lady for whom this Monument was framed was Daughter and Heir to James V. King of Scotland the Son of James IV. and Margaret his Queen eldest Daughter to King Henry VII of England She was married to Francis the Dauphin afterwards King of France by the name of Francis the Second after whose death she married the Lord Darly by whom she had James her Son and Heir during whose minority being driven by her rebellious Subjects from her Kingdom and casting her self upon the protection of Queen Elizabeth she underwent the hard fortune to be imprisoned almost twenty years and at last was beheaded in the forty sixth year of her age anno 1587. being buried at Peterborough but upon the coming of King James to the Crown of England he commanded her body to be translated from thence and here honourably to be intombed in a Vault underneath her Monument § 83. On the North side of this Chappel behind the Staules you have another most Magnificent and Royal Monument made altogether after the same fashion with that of Mary Queen of Scots the Canopy supported by Corinthian Pillars set about with Arms with the Image thereon of Elizabeth Queen of England in her Royal Habiliments painted and gilt with Gold which was erected likewise by the order of King James for Mary Queen of England France and Ireland Daughter to Henry VIII by Katharine Daughter to Ferdinand King of Spain who succeeded her Brother King Edward VI. to his Crown and Kingdoms anno 1553. who after her marriage with Philip II. King of Spain died in the year 1558. and Elizabeth â—er Sister Daughter likewise of King Henry VIII by his second Wife Anne Bullen who after she had reigned forty four years four Months and eight days died on the twenty fourth day of March anno 1602. and was buried in the same Vault by her Sister just under this Tomb. § 84. At the upper end of this North side towards the East within a Baluster or Rail of Iron you have three small but curious Tombs that towards the North is
Thomas the first Lord Wentworth Richard Knevet Esquire one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth who died on the first day of November anno 1559. Sir Edward Rogers Knight Controller of the Houshold to Queen Elizabeth who died anno 1568. William Rogers his Grandson anno 1593. Sir James Crofts Knight Controller of the Houshold likewise to Queen Elizabeth who died anno 1590. Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Fortescue Knight who died on the twenty first of May 1597. And Sir Edward Spragge Knight who lost his life at Sea against the Hollander anno 1673. Next to this is The Chappel of St. Michael § 177. Where there is only on the East side one Monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones with the Image of a Lady in her Robes of Estate lying at full length with two Children kneeling on the Pedestal all of the same Alabaster adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold for the Lady Katharine St. John's the Daughter of Sir William Dormer Knight and Widow of John Lord St. John's of Bletso by whom she had Oliver who died an Infant and Anne married to William Lord Howard of Effingham eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord High Admiral of England This Lady caused this Monument to be made in her life time not long surviving after who died on the twenty third day of March anno 1614. § 178. There were likewise buried in this Chappel without any Monuments Sir Hugh Vaughan Knight with Anne his Wife who was the Daughter of Henry Earl of Northumberland and Widow of Thomas Hungerford Sir Thomas Wharton Knight afterwards Lord Wharton who married the Daughter of Robert Earl of Sussex and was buried here Anno 1572. Elizabeth the Wife of Sir John Boorn Knight Secretary to Queen Mary she died on the twenty second day of June anno 1576. And Sir William Trussel Knight who was Speaker to the House of Commons at the deposition of King Edward II. § 179. This Chappel with part of the Chappels of St. Iohn Evangelist and St. Andrew are now taken up and the Monuments almost covered by the Scaffolds placed here being made use of at present for the lower Convocation House for the Deans Prebends and Doctors c. as that of King Henry VII is for the Archbishops and Bishops when the Parliament sits at Westminster which I should before have informed you as likewise that in the same Chappel Divine Service is celebrated theâ—e every Morning at six of the Clock for the conveniency of the Scholars and the devout people thereby inhabiting The Chappel of St. Andrew § 180. Which is the last yet not the least for beauty and comliness the Skreen thereof being richly adorned with curious carvings and ingravings and other Imagery work of Birds Flowers Cherubims Devices Mottoes and Coats of Arms of many of the chief Nobility painted thereon as Dukes of York Bedford Cambridge c. The Earls of Lancaster Exeter Derby c. The Lords Beaâ—champ Bardolph Mohun Huâ—gerford Stafford Ormond Nevil Grey Perâ—y Molineux Fitz-John all done by the command and at the charge and cost oâ— Edmund Kirton Abbot of Westminster about the time of King Edward IV. who lies buried on the South side of the Chappel under a plam grey Marble Tomb with an Epitaph in brass round the Verge who died anno 1466. § 181. Against the East Wall is a slight Monument of Alabaster and black Marble adorned and gilt with Gold for Sir John Bourgh Knight Son of William Lord Bourgh descended from the noble Hubert de Bourgh Lord Chief Justice of England and Earl of Kent in the time of King Henry III. and the Lady Katharine Daughter of Edward Clinton Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England This Sir John was eminent â—or his martial prowess having been twice Knighted in the Field first by the Earl of Leicester Captain General and Governour of the United Netherlands afterwards at the Battel of St. Andrews by Henry IV. King of France and Navarre but boarding a Spanish Caract laden with Gold Spice and Pretious stones he was most unfortunately slain on the seventh day of March anno 1594. in the thirty second year of his age and had this little Memorial placed here for him § 172. Here was likewise buried Thomas Lord Boroughs Knight of the honourable Order of the Garter and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who died prosecuting the War against the Earl of Tyroen then in rebellion anno 1597. And Henry Noel one of the Gentlemen Pentioners to Queen Elizabeth who died on the twenty sixth of February anno 1596. both without any Monuments or Gravestones § 183. In the midst of this Chappel is a most magnificent and noble Monument erected for Sir Francis Norris Knight afterwards Baron Norris of Rycote memorable for his warlike actions in the Spanish Netherlands On the Pedestal raised on three ascents composed of black Marble and Alabaster is his Effigies curiously carved and ingraved all in Armour of white Marble richly gilt and adorned with Gold on each side of whom are the Images of three young men kneeling in Armour framed of the same Alabaster and gilt with Gold over-shadowed by a glorious Arched Canopy supported by eight Corinthian Pillars of divers coloured stones set forth with Arms and other adornments but there is no Inscription or Epitaph belonging thereunto § 184. Many more persons of note have been interred in this Church whose Monuments are decayed and gone or the Inscriptions worn or torn off from their Grave-stones as Rachel Brigham Daughter of Nicolas Brigham who had a marble stone laid over her hard by Chaucers Tomb anno 1557. William Benson Abbot of Westminster and first Dean of this Church after King Henry VIII had disowned the Supremacy of Rome was buried as you go into the Revestry William Bedell who was Treasurer to Cardinal Woolsey Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellour of England with Cicely his Wife and Sir Francis Allen Knight a famous Souldier in the Low-Country Wars all these lying in the South Cross In the North Cross lies John Redman S. T. D. who was Master of Trinity College in Cambridge and a Prebend of this Church he died anno 1551. Bartholomew Dodington a learned man and Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge who died on the twenty second of August anno 1595. George Burden Receptor of this Collegiate Church John Gryffith descended of an antient Family in Wales he died anno 1597. And Thomas Brown first chief Master of the School then a Prebend and afterwards Sub-dean of this Church who died anno 1585. May 2. § 185. There were likewise buried here other memorable persons for whom I cannot ascertain any particular place ziz Harold base Son of King Câ—ute after the death of his Father was elected King of England by the Danes who caused Queen Emma his Fathers Wife after he
G. B. A. M. P. Anno Dom. 1595. Gladius meus non salvabit me Psal 43. Tu es enim Domine qui vitae mortis habes potestatem deducis ad portas mortis reducis Sap. Cap. 6. 139. Epitaph viz. Labilitas brevitas mundanae prosperitatis Coelica praemia gloria gaudia danda beatis Sebertum certum jure dedere satis Hic Rex Christicola verax fuit hac regione Qui nunc coelicola gaudet mercede coronae Rex humilis docilis scius pius inclytus iste Sollicitè nitidè tacitè placidè bone Christe Vult servire tibi perficiendo sibi Orâ—at mores spernit flores lucis avarae Glâ—â—cens multùm Christi cultum latisâ—care Ecclesiam nimiam nimio studio fabricavit Haeâ— illaesa manus quae fundamenta locavit Hic sâ—ptingentis annis terra cumulatus Christi â—lemenâ—is instinctibus inde levatus Isto sub lapide nune jacet ipse vide Atque domum Christo quia mundo fecit in isto Nunc pro mercede coeli requiescit in aede Respiâ—e mortalis promissio sit tibi talis Accipies si des nil capies nisi des Es Christo qualis Christus erit tibi talis Dapsilis esto sibi largus eritque tibi Effectus non affectus si reddere possis Debet censeri si nihil reddere possis Tunc bonus affectus pro facto debet haberi Sicut de lignis per aquam depellitur ignis Sic mala commissa fiunt donando remissa Reddet ad usuram quod quis dat nomine Christi Nam vitam puram pro parvo dat Deus isti 140. Epitaph viz. Memoriae sacrum Hic jacet Thomas Bilson Wintoniensis nuper Episcopus serenissimo Principi Jacobo Magnae Britanniae Regi â—otentissimo à sanctioribus consiliis qui quum Deo Ecclesiae ad â—nnos undeviâ—inti fideliter in Episcopatu deservisset mortalitatem sub certa spe resurrectionis â—xuit decimo octavo die mensis Junii Anno Dom. 1616. aetatis suae 69. 141. Epitaph viz. Here lieth Cecill Ratcliff sometime chief Gentlewoman with my Lady of Dudley one whose soul God have mercy upon Amen Mercy grace and forgiveness Arms. Alton viz. on a Cross ingrailed between four Crescents a Rose 142. Epitaph viz. M. S. Clarissimi omnigenaque virtute eruditione praesertim Poësi ornatissimi Equitis Domini Roberti Aitoni ex antiqua illustri gente Aitona ad castrum Kinnadinum apud Scotos oriundi qui à Sereniss R. Jacobo in cubicula interiora admissus in Germaniam ad Imperatorem Imperiique Principes cum libello Regio Regiae authoritatis vindice legatas ac primum Annae demum Mariae serenissimis Britaniarum Reginis ab Epistolis Consiliis Libellis supplicibus necnon Xâ—nodochio Sanctae Katharinae Praefectus anima Creatori reddita hîc depositis mortalibus exuviis secundum Redemptionis adventum expectat Carolum linquens repetit parentem Et vale dicens Mariae revisit Annam aulai decus alto Olympi mutat honore Obiit Coelebs in Regia Albaula non sine maximo bonorum omnium luctu moerore aetatis suae 68. salut humanae 1638. Hoc devoti gratique animi testimonium optimo paâ—râ—â—o Jo. Aitonus M. L. P. Musarum decus hic patriaeque aulaeque domique Et foris exemplar sed non imitabile honesti Arms. Ingram viz. A Cheveron between three Talbots passant Impaling Bâ—llâ—siâ— viz. A Cheveron between three Flower-de-luces 143. Epitaph viz. Here lieth interred in full assurance of a glorious Resurrection the body of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Ingram Knight who for his eminent loyalty sufferings and services to and for their Majesties King Charles I. and II. was by the later made Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster and one of his most honourable Privy Council He married Frances Daughter of Thomas Lord Viscount Fawconberge by whom he had Issue Mary his only Child who died in the twelfth year of her age Anno Dom. 1651. and lies likewise here interred he was primitively religious and eminently without ostentation charitable an excellent Subject a most affectionate Husband and a faithful Friend and to the great grief of his Lady and Relations and loss to his Prince and the Publick he exchanged his earthly for an heavenly habitation the thirteenth day of Febr. 1671. to whose dear memory this Monument was erected by his disconsolate Lady Arms. Tufâ—oâ— With quarterings viz. 1. and 6. Sab. an Eagle displayed Ermine within a bordure Arg. 2. Gules a Cross Arg. and file of five B. 3. Gules a Cheveron between three Lions gambs erected and erased in bend within a bordure all Argent 4. B. a Cheveron Or between three Swans Arg. 5. Per bend sinister Sab. and Or a Lion ramp counterchanged over all an Escutcheon of pretence quarterly 1. and 4 Sab. three Leopards heads Or jessant as many Flower-de-luces Arg. 2. G. a Fess Ermine 3. Arg. on a bend B. between two Lions ramp Gules three bezants Cresâ— on a Torce of his colours a Lion marine Sâ—jant Arg. 144. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Richard Tufton Esquire third Son of Sir John Tufton of Hothfield in Kent Knight and Baronet by Christian Brown his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Humphrey Brown Knight one of the Justices of the Common-pleas and Anne his Wife Daughter to George Earl of Kent Which Sir John Tufton left Issue married by the aforesaid Christian his Wife Nicolas Baron of Tufton and Earl of Thanet Humphrey Tufton Knight the aforesaid Richard Tufton and William Tufton Baronet of Ireland Cicely Countess of Rutland and Mary Viscountess of Dunbar the rest died unmarried This Richard married Crisogon youngest Daughter and Coheir of Herbert Morley of Gline in Sussex Esquire The other Daughter of the said Morley being Margaret and the eldest was married unto Sir Humphrey Tufton before named who occasioned this Monument to be erected in memory of his Brother Mr. Richard Tufton who departed this mortal life leaving isâ—ue John Mary and Christian the fourth of October Anno Dom. 1631. Arms. Cranfield viz. On a pale three Flower-de-luces Crest out of a ducal Crown an Antelops head coped 145. Epitaph viz. Near interred lieth the body of Lyonell Earl of Middlesex Baron Cranfield of Cranfield in the County of Bedford one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bedchamber He was second Son to Lyonel Earl of Middlesex Lord High Treasurer of England the last of that honourable Family he died the 26 day of October in the year of our Lord 1674. 146. Epitaph viz. Under this Marble lieth the body of Anne Countess Dowager Wife to Lyonell Earl of Middlesex Lord High Treasurer of England She departed this life the third day of February in the year of our Lord 1669. 147. Epitaph viz. Here lieth James Cranfield Earl of Middlesex who died the sixteenth of September Anno Dom. 1652. 148. Epitaph viz. Mr. Edw. Cranfield lieth here
of RICHARD de Ware Abbot of Westminster in the year 1260. where in most artificial Work and delightful Figures you have the Jasper the Porphyry the Lydian the Touch the Alabaster and the Serpentine stones so laid and wrought to the Spectators satisfaction that you are unwillingly drawn from the sight thereof round the Squares and great Circles in Letters of Brass are some of the Verses still remaining which when entire were thus to be read concerning the duration of the World Si lector posita prudenter cuncta revolvat Hic finem primum mobilis inveniet Sepes trina canes equos homines super addas Cervos corvos aquilas immania cete Mundi quodque sequens pereuntis triplicat annos Sphaericus Archetypum globus hic monstrat Microcosmum Christi Milleno bis centeno duo deno Cum sexageno subductis quatuor anno Tertius Henricus Rex urbs Odericus Abbas Hos compegere Porphyreos lapides § 24. On the North-side of this Area was this Abbot buried next to the Tomb of AIMERY de VALENCE Earl of Pembroke after he had been Lord Treasurer of England and Abbot of this Monastery twenty three years he died on the Second of December 1283. but nothing now remains on his Grave-stone to distinguish it from the rest Not far from him was THOMAS HENLEY Abbot of Westminster interred And RICHARD SUDBURY another Abbot of this Monastery with Sir THOMAS CLIFFORD Governour of Berwick but all the Brass and Inscriptions are torn away On the South-side was Queen ANNE Wife to King RICHARD III. and Daughter to RICHARD NEVILL Earl of Warwick interred who died not without suspition of Poyson anno 1484. By whom lies WALTER WENLOCK Abbot of Westminster and Lord Treasurer of England who died at his Mannour of Pireford in Gloucestershire on the twenty fifth day of December 1307. after he had governed this Church twenty six years having a decent Marble-stone plated and laid over him by the South Door entering the Chappel of St. EDWARD of which there is nothing continuing at this day save a guess at the stones only There are five noble Monuments still remaining three on the North and two on the South part of this Sacriste but no Inscriptions or Epitaphs on any of them nor are they visible but by withdrawing the Hangings which are hung before them for the better adorning this place § 25. The first on the South is a Tomb of Freestone unfinished with these two Letters insculpt thereof A. C. and this 1557. and a little Ballister or Rail thereto adjoyning which was designed to remember ANNE of Cleve Queen of England Sister to WILLIAM Duke of Cleve and Gulich whom King HENRY VIII repudiated when he took to Wife the Lady KATHARINE HOWARD she died in the year 1557. and lyeth buried here at the head of King SEBERT § 26. The next is an antient Sepulchre of stone Arched where in a leaden Chest enclosed in Touch lie the remains of SEBERT King of the East-Saxons and ETELGODA his Queen who in the year 605 began the foundation of this Monastery as I have declared elsewhere he died on the last day of July in the year 616. and she the thirteenth of September 615. after they had finished this worthy design and therefore in the year 1307 their bodies were removed by the Monks of this Abby from the old Church erected by King EDWARD the Confessor and placed here hard by the Sepulchre of the Kings The Canopy erected over this Tomb of eight panes of delicate carved Wainscot contained as many painted Figures of St. PETER St. JOHN BAPTIST King SEBERT King EDWARD the Confessor c. with divers Verses of Questions and Answers under each of them which are all defaced and washed away and only a Table of Verses adjoyning to the Tomb which you will find among the Mounmental Inscriptions is still remaining to inform you who it is that lies there deposited § 27. On the North side next to the Chappel of St. EDWARD in a most noble Monument of Freestone canopied painted and adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold his Image thereon cross legged lies EDMUND CROUCHBACK Earl of Lancaster and younger Son of HENRY III. who was born at London on the sixteenth day of January anno 1245. about eight years after he was invested by the Pope into the Dominion of Sicily made Earl of Chester and Lord High Steward of England during life and after the death of his first Wife AVELINE went into the Holy Land afterwards returning he was by his Brother King EDWARD I. made Earl of Champaigne he founded the house of Nuns called the Minoresses without Algate in the Suburbs of London and going into France he died at Bayon from whence his body was brought and honourably interred in this place and this Monument erected to his memory This great Earl by BLANCHE his second Wife Daughter to ROBERT Earl of Artois third Son to LEWIS VIII King of France Widow of HENRY King of Navarre Earl of Champagne and Bry had Issue three Sons THOMAS HENRY and JOHN and a Daughter who died with her Brother JOHN in France without Issue § 28. Next to this Tomb of EDMUND Earl of Lancaster is such another like Monument very beautiful to behold Canopied and gilt with Gold with an Image thereon for AYMER de Valence third Son to WILLIAM Earl of Pembroke who was Son of HUGH le BRUN Earl of Marche in the Confines of France and Poictiers by ISABEL his Wife Widow of King JOHN and sole Daughter to the Earl of Angolesme who took his Surname from the place of his Nativity and being Brother to HENRY III. by his Mother in June 1247 was sent for into England c who was a great Souldier in the Wars of Scotland Flanders France c. he was Guardian of the Mâ—rches of Scotland Lieutenant and Captain General of all the Souldiers there General of the Kings Forces from the River of Trent Northwards unto Roxborough in Scotland But going to Rome he was taken prisoner by JOHN MOILLEY a Burgundian and sent to the Emperour being obliged to pay 20000 pounds for his ransom After which he was again in the Scotch Wars and Governour of Rockingham Castel and at the taking of THOMAS Earl of Lancaster at Borough Brigge in the County of York but being one of those who gave sentence of death upon him at Pomfrat as he was attending Queen ISABEL into France anno 1323. he was murthered on the twenty third of June the same year his body being afterwards brought and buried here He had three Wives but had no Issue by any His first was BEATRIX Daughter to RALPH de NEAL Constable of France his second one of the Daughters of the Earl of Barr and his last was MARY Daughter to GUY de CASTILION Earl of St. Paul § 29. At the head of AYMER de VALENCE is the third and last Monument on this North side which is likewise
by a stately Pedestal of Alabaster and six Corinthian Pillars lie their Images at full proportion in their Mantles of Estate painted and gilt with Gold at his feet is placed a Talbot passant and at hers a Griffons head coped with the Effigies of a female Child beneath them all under a sumptuous arched Canopy of curious wrought and diverse coloured stones adorned with large Columns warlike Trophies Cherubims Stems of that illustrious Family Coats of Arms and Epitaphs § 50. Beyond which more towards the South is a comely Monument of Alabaster and various coloured Marble adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold with three little Images on their knees under as many arched Canopies of black Marble and figured Alabaster In the midst is that of Sir Richard Pecksal Knight in Armour who was Master of the Buck-hounds to Queen Elizabeth On one side of whom is that of his first Wife the Lady Eleonore who was Daughter of William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Lord High Treasurer of England by whom he had four Daughters whose Statues help to beautifie the Pedestal of this Monument on the other his second Wife who was likewise named Eleonore the Daughter of J. Cotgrave who after the death of this her first Husband was remarried to Sir John Savage of Cheshire Knight and caused this Monument to be erected to his memory § 51. Next to this within the Wall directly South between two Pillars of the Chappel Windows is an antient Canopied Tomb adorned and enriched with Gold according to the fashion of those times under which is an embattelled Pedestal of grey Marble having thereon the Image of a Knight in Armour reposing his head on his Helm ensigned with a Blackamores head for a Crest and his feet supported by a Lion couchant with a deep Shield on his left arm almost broken away with eight lesser Escutcheons placed on the breasts of as many Cherubims diversly set about the Tomb but all the painting wholly decayed and worn away nothing remaining but a piece of a broken Inscription in Brass on the ledge of the imbattelled Pedestal whereby we may understand that this Monument was erected for one Sir Bernard Brocas Knight Chamberlain to Anne Queen of England who was Wife to King Richard II. § 52. Against the same Wall but more towards the East is a noble Monument of Alabaster black and various coloured Marble Canopied and adorned with Corinthian Pillars Coats of Arms and gilt with Gold on whose Pedestal is placed the Image of a man at full proportion leaning on his left side and supporting his head by his left Arm in his Robes of Estate with another little Image of an Infant at his feet all in curious wrought Alabaster painted and gilt with Gold environed with a Grate and an Epitaph in Latine Greek and English set up here to remember John Lord Russel and his Son Francis a Child by the Lady Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sir Anthony Coke Knight and Widow of Sir Thomas Hobby he was Son and Heir to Francis Russel who was the second Earl of Bedford of that surname but dying before his Father in the year 1584. and his Son Francis anno 1580. was buried here leaving behind him only two Daughters viz. Anne and Elizabeth § 53. Which Elizabeth is said to have bled to death by a prick she received in the fore-finger of her left hand by a Needle but with what truth I know not Yet the Monument placed here for her within the same Grate with her Father by the Lady Anne her Sister seems not obscurely to point out as much For on a Pedestal of black and white Marble shaped after the figure of a Roman Altar made Column wise is set the Statue of this young Lady reposing her self in a curious wrought Osier Chair all of polished Alabaster melancholily inclining her cheek to her right hand and with the fore-finger of her left only extended directs us to behold the deaths head placed at her feet silently intimating that from thence sprung the Malady that brought her to the grave wherefore we may not irrationally conjecture that having touched an Artery with the invenomed Needle the infection might so suddenly disperse it self well known to able Physicians that in a short time it might occasion her death which by the Ignorant might be imputed to the simple prick of her finger a thing altogether unlikely and absurd § 54. Next to this Columnial Monument is another of the same form but somewhat larger composed of Alabaster and white Marble with the Statue of a noble Youth thereon furnitured and equipped like a Roman Hero with Helm Shield Coat of Male Buskins Sandals c. of polished Marble which the illustrious Earl of Clare caused to be erected for his third Son Francis Holles who returning sick from the Wars in Flanders and the Low-Countries died at the age of eighteen years and was buried here anno 1622. § 55. Between these two Altar-like Monuments are two little Tombs fixed to the Wall above them against the East side of the Chappel both of Alabaster and black Marble adorned with small Corinthian Pillars set about with Arms and gilt with Gold The one which is next to the door for the Lady Katharine Knowles chief Lady of the Bed-chamber and Cousin German to Queen Elizabeth and Wife to Sir Francis Knowles Knight Treasurer of the Houshold to the same Queen she died at Hampton-Court on the fifth day of January 1568. and was honourably buried in the floor of this Chappel The other for the Lady Jane Seymour Cousin-German to Edward VI. King of England and Daughter of Edward Duke of Somerset Earl of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp and Baron Seymour who dying a Virgin on the nineteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1560 at the age of nineteen years was buried here and had this small Monument erected by her Brother the Earl of Hertford to her memory But the Latine Verses mentioned by Stow and Camden to have been placed on this little Tomb are not here now but only the English Inscription § 56. In the Area or floor of this Chappel not far from the Monument of Francis Holles is a raised Tomb of Alabaster about five foot from the ground adorned with Arms and Inscriptions and gilt with Gold joyning to the four corners thereof are as many Corinthian Pillars supporting a Table of black Marble whereon is placed the Image at full proportion in her Robes of Estate and at her feet a Lion couchant with a rich Jewel pendant at the end of a Chain encompassing her neck and falling between her breasts all curiously wrought and admirably pollished in white Marble erected here for the Lady Frances Dutchess of Suffolk anno 1563. she was a Lady of great extraction being Daughter to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen who was the Daughter of Henry VII King of England she was married first to Henry Grey Marquess
of Dorchester who by King Edward VI. was created Duke of Suffolk and afterwards to Adrian Stokes Esquire who set up this Monument to remember her she had a Daughter named Mary by her former Husband the Marquess of Dorcet who died in the year 1578. and was buried by her without any Monument Tomb or Grave-stone § 57. By this of the Dutchess of Suffolk is a little raised Tomb of grey Marble on the top of which are placed the Images of two small Children a Boy and Girl in Alabaster neither of them being above sixteen Inches in length at the feet of the Girl is a Lion couchant but part of the Boys feet and Tomb under him is broken away there being no Inscription or Epitaph thereon but are reported to be two Children of Edward III. King of England viz. William of Windsor so called because born at the Kings Castle of Windsor with his Sister Blanch of the Tower for that in the Tower of London her Mother was delivered of her both lying under this little Tomb. § 58. On the left hand of the door of this Chappel and not far from this little Tomb is a most noble raised Monument of grey Marble set about with twenty four little Images of various coloured Alabaster and white Marble under each of which are the blank Escutcheons remaining whereon had been as many several Coats of Arms depicted which are now wholly wholly worn away and decayed On this Tomb is an Image of admirable wrought Alabaster in his Coat Armour and a deep Shield on his left arm whereon is graven the Arms of England within a bordure of France and was placed here for John of Eltham Earl of Cornwal having two Angels on each side supporting his head and a Lion couchant at his feet carved and finely pictured of the same Alabaster with a Canopy covering the whole with delicate wrought Spires and Masons work every where intermixed and adorned with little Images and Angels according to the fashion of those times supported by eight Pillars of white stone of the same curious wrought work But there is no Epitaph or Inscription further to inform us He was the second Son of King Edward II. by Isabel Daughter to Philip le Bell King of France and took his Surname from the place of his birth viz. at Eltham in Kent he was advanced to the title of Earl of Cornwall by his Brother King Edward III. made twice Lieutenant of all England by the same King upon his Expeditions first into France and then into Scotland during his absence But attending his Brother in the tenth year of his Reign into Scotland he fell sick at St. Iohnstones Town and there died without Wife or Issue and was afterwards brought into this Chappel and here honourably buried and had this Monument erected to his Memory § 59. In the midst of the Area of this Chappel under a large grey Marble Tomb about two foot from the ground with her Effigies engraven thereon in Brass under a Canopy artificially pourtrayed adorned with Arms and devices of the same Brass with an Epitaph circumscribed in French all remaining intire at this day lies Elenore Dutchess of Glocester who was one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Essex Northampton and High Constable of England and Wife of Thomas de Woodstock Duke of Glocester Son to King Edward III. by whom she had a Son who died in his Infancy and a Daughter named Anne who was Wife first to Edward Earl of Stafford and afterwards to Sir William Bourchier Knight from this Anne by her first husband the atinent Dukes of Buckingham were descended and by her last the Bourchiers Earls of Essex she died on the third of October 1399. § 60. There is another raised Tomb of grey Marble somewhat higher than that of the Dutchess of Glocester adjoyning to Sir Bernard Brocas whereon is portrayed the Effigies of a man in Armour with his head on his Helm ensigned with a Crest and his feet supported the one by a Leopard the other by an Eagle with divers antient fashion'd Shields and Coats of Arms all engraven on curious wrought Brass fixed to the Marble and remaining intire at this day with an Epitaph in Latine Verse insculpt on the same brass plates just under his Effigies to inform us that Humphrey Bourchier Son and Heir of John Lord Berners lies there interred who married the Daughter and Heir of Frederick Tilney and lost his life in those Civil Broyls of the Houses of York and Lancaster taking part with Edward IV. against Henry VI. in the Battel of Barnet from whence he was brought and here intombed I know not how it came to pass but certainly there is a mistake in Mr. Camdens Collection of these Monuments where he places this Tomb to another Humphrey Bourchier who was Lord Cromwell and Son to Henry Earl of Essex who was slain at the same time at the Battel of Barnet and interred in this Chappel hard by the Monument of William de Valence without any further remembrance of him And for a confirmation that this Tomb was made for the former Humphrey Son of the Lord Berners not only the Verses of his Epitaph specifie in part as much but is most evident by his impaling the Coat of Tilney with quarterings remaining very visible at this day on the same Tomb. § 61. On the Floor or Pavement of this Chappel adjoyning to the foot of the Tomb of Elenore Dutchess of Glocester is a large grey Marble stone adorned with most excellent workmanship of Brass whereon is lively pictured as he was accustomed to sing or say Mass with a Miter on his head and a Crosier Staff in his hand the Effigie of a Bishop with so much of an Epitaph round the Verge still in being to inform us that Robert Walby Bishop of Durham afterwards of Chichester and then Archbishop of York died on the fourth day of January in the year 1390. and was buried here § 62. More towards the East on the same Pavement is another grey Marble stone with five Plates of Brass whereon are engraven as many Coats of Arms with a Miter in the midst and round about the Verge an Epitaph insculpt on the like Plates of Brass giving us to understand that Henry Ferne who was the eighth Son of Sir John Ferne Knight was Master of Trinity College in Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Chester who died in the year 1662. at the age of fifty nine years and was here deposited The Chappel of St. Nicolas § 63. On the right hand as you come into this Chappel is an antient decayed Tomb of Freestone with the Image of a Lady lying thereon at full proportion in her Robes of Estate under a wooden Canopy curiously painted with Azure and decked with Stars of Gold with our Saviour on the Cross Supported by Wainscote Pillars and neatly adorned with excellent carved Spires and Coats of Arms
present Duke of Buckingham and Francis This Tomb for its admirable composure of Lydian Touch and divers rich Marbles and curious Statues of solid Brass and gilt with Gold is scarce to be equalled in all Europe for on the East Wall of this Chappel there runs up a Compartment from the Pavement to the Roof of black and white Marble richly adorned wherein all that is excellent in Architecture Carving Masons work or Sculpture is there to be seen the variety of noble Columns Embattlements Arches Niches Pedestals Architraves Statues and infinite other Figures all wrought in stone or burnished Brass gilt with Gold make â— sweet harmony of composure the little Hymens extinguishing their Torches and weeping Cupids neglecting their imployments with those largeâ— Statues of Mars Neptune Pallas and Bounty that are placed at the four corners of the Pedestal before as many noble Pyramids of black Marble set about with Warlike Trophies and supported from their Pedestals by sixteen Deaths heads of gilded Brass are subjects expressing an universal mourning But when we behold the Statue of this illustrious Hero himself with that awful Majestick countenance mixt with greatness and affability and the Image of his Lady lying by him with a Fame at their feet even bursting her self and Trumpets to tell the news of his so sudden fall we cannot but be concerned yet pleased to see such lively representations and speaking figures which seem really to be affected with a sense of sorrow and disconsolation § 91. On the South side of the aforesaid Founders Tomb is the other Chappel wherein is another Majestick and Prince like Monument little inferiour to that of the Duke of Buckingham but of another manner of composure for on a large raised Pedestal of black Marble richly adorned with curious wrought Brass gilt with Gold and set about with Arms are placed the Images of of Lodowick Stuart Duke of Richmond and Levenox Earl of Newcattle upon Tine and Lord Darnley Lord High Chamberlain of Scotland and hereditary Admiral Lord High Steward of his Majesties Houshold first Gentleman of the Bedchamber Privy Counsellour and Cousin German to King James and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter with the Lady Frances his Wife Daughter of Thomas Lord Howard of Bindon Son to the Duke of Norfolk c. The Statues of these two illustrious persons all of solid Brass gilt with Gold in their Robes of Estate lying upon the aforesaid Pedestal under a stately Canopy thorough wrought and curiously engraven of the same gilded Brass resting it self on an Architrave of black Marble supported at the four corners by the Statues of Faith Hope Charity and Prudence which serve as mourners in their Cypress Vails continually to attend and seem to lament their departure in which posture their Figures are lively expressed all of the same Brass on the top of this Canopy is a Fame and round about divers Cencers Angels Hymens Cupids and other Imagery work by which the whole becomes very curious and magnificent § 92. At the feet of this Duke and his Dutchess against the East Wall is a small Pyramid of black and white Marble with an Urn placed on the top and a Coronet encompassing the 〈…〉 gilt with Gold for Esme Stuart Duke of Richmond and Levenox who was Son of James Stuart Duke of Richmond c. And the Lady Mary his Wife only Daughter of George Duke of Buckingham This Esme died at Paris on the fourteenth day of August 1661. in the eleventh year of his Age from whence he was brought and interred here § 93. These are all the Monuments and Tombs that we meet with above ground in this stately Chappel except the Image of Lodowick Stuart Duke of Richmond as above and his Dutchess which are placed in a Press of Wainscot not far from their Monument in their Robes of Estate But under-ground and in the Vaults there are many more § 94. In a Vault on the North side the Tomb of King Henry VII was James King of England Scotland France and Ireland interred in a Chest of Lead covered with black Velvet with Anne Queen of England his Wife Grandfather and Grandmother to our present Sovereign § 95. At the East end of this Chappel under the great East Window is another large Vault with a light belonging thereto wherein are deposited in Chests of Lead covered with Velvet these persons following viz. § 96. Charles Earl of Doncaster eldest Son of James Duke of Monmouth Baron of Tinedale Viscount Doncaster and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter natural Son to his present Mâ—jesty by the Lady Anne Daughter â—nd sole Heir to Francis Earl of Bucklugh in Scotland he died on the ninth of February 1673. aged one year five months and fifteen days § 97. Next to him lies the Dutchess of Southampton Daughter of Sir Henry Wood and Wife of Charles Fitz-Roy natural Son to King Charles II. Duke of Southampton Earl of Chichester Baron of Newbery and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter § 98. By whom is posited Charles Fitz-Charles natural Son to his presâ—â—t Majesty Earl of Plymouth Viscount Totnes and Baron Dartmouth who in the Expedition of Tangier 1680. against the Moors fell sick of a Fever and died there but was afterwards brought and interred here § 9â— By him lies the noble Earl of Ossery one of the Privy Council to our Royal Sovereign Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and eldest Son to James Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland § 100. On the North side of this Chappel is another spacious Vault wherein are these following persons interred viz. The Lady Arabella Stuart whose Coffin wherein her Corps do repose is the furthest next the North Wall of this Vault much shattered and broken that her Skull and great part of her body may be seen she was only Daughter and Heir to Charles Earl of Levenox by the Daughter of Sir William Cavendish Knight and Cousin-German to King James § 101. Upon this of the Lady Arabella is placed the Chest or Leaden Coffin wherein Mary Queen of Scots Mother to King James who was decollated by Queen Elizabeth and was brought from Peterborough hither as I have said before lies intombed § 102. Nigher the entrance of the Vault by the same North Wall is the leaden Chest of Henry Duke of Glocester fourth Son to King Charles I. and youngest Brother to his present Majesty who died of the small Pox soon after the restauration anno 1660. § 103. On this Coffin of Prince Henry Duke of Glocester lies Henry Frederick his Uncle â—ho was the â—â—dest Son of King James and Prince of Wales the lâ—â—â— or case wherein â—is body â—â— unwrapped is shaped after the figure of his body and so to be distinguished â—â—om the rest of the Coffins iâ— th◠〈…〉 Vault he died in the 〈…〉 bowels arâ— buried in 〈…〉 of the Vault aâ— the
of England and Henault and several Sentences intermixed in letters of Gold § 120. On the South side of this Chappel next to this Tomb of Lodowick Robsert Lord Bourchier is a stately Monument above twenty six foot high of admirable Workmanship composed of Lydian Alabaster and Touch The joyning of the Compartments with the Capitals and Pedestals of the Ionick and Corinthian Columns are framed of artificial wrought Brass The demy Effigies of a Lady is placed towards the top of curious Statuary work of the same brass gilt with Gold within an Oval of black Marble below which is an Altar of the same stone sweetly carved with other adornments and was erected by that Loyal Gentleman Francis Lord Cottington Baron of Hanworth to remember the no less honourable and virtuous Lady Anne his Wife who was the Daughter of Sir William Meredith of the County of Denbigh Knight and dying on the twenty second day of February anno 1633 in the thirty third year of her age was buried here leaving Issue behind her only one Son and one Daughter viz. Charles and Anne § 121. At the foot of this Monument is another noble Tomb lately erected for her Husband the Lord Francis Cottington of Hanworth where on a Table of black Marble supported by six Columns of Lydian and white placed on an ascent of three Greeses and environed with a Grate lies his Statue at full proportion on a Quilt with the Staff of his Office and covered with a Cloak all well designed and insculpt in fretted Alabaster He was Chancellour of the Exchequer to King Charles I. Master of his Court of Wards Constable of the Tower Lord High Treasurer of England and twice Embassadour in Spain where at length he died in Exile soon after the bloudy Rebels had murthered his Royal Master and usurped his Inheritance but by the pious care of that worthy Gentleman his Nephew and Heir Charles Cottington Esquire his body was in the year 1679 translated from Valadolid in Spain where he died and honourably interred here who gratefully erected this Monument to his memory § 122. More to the Southeast Angle of this Chappel is another noble Monument twenty four foot in height of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones set about with Corinthian Pillars supporting a stately Canopy all curiously wrought and gilt with Gold under which lies the Image of a Lady at full proportion in her Robes of Estate painted and gilt with Gold for Frances Countess of Sussex who was the Daughter of Sir William Sydney Knight and Wife to Thomas Ratcliff Earl of Sussex whose bounteous liberality to all sorts of people but especially to Schools of learning and learned men hath gained her a never dying fame she died and was buried here anno 1589. with this comely Monument erected over her § 123. Next to this against the East Wall is a well composed plain Monument of black and white Marble having but an half Canopy supported by Dorick Pillars with the Image of a man in his robes of Estate and Viscounts Coronet leaning on a Pedestal all formed of the like black and white Marble for a remembrance of Sir Dudley Carleton Knight Baron of Imbercourt and Viscount Dorcester who after many imployments and frequent Embassies wherein he had served his Prince with great faithfulness and honour died at Westminster and was buried here anno 1631. § 124. Beyond which is a curious Monument with his Image cumbant in an embroydered Gown at full proportion his feet supported by a Pheasant Cock and on the Pedestal the Images of four Sons and as many Daughters all on their knees covered with a large Canopy supported by Corinthian Pillars adorned with Arms of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones painted and gilt with Gold for Sir Thomas Bromley Knight Lord High Chancellour of England and Privy Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth who died in the year 1587. § 125. By this on the North Wall is another neat Tomb of black and white Marble adorned with Arms with a Pedestal of the same whereon are placed the Images of a Knight in Armour cumbant on a Quilt with his Lady whose feet are supported by a Bear couchant all of white polished Marble with an Epitaph informing us that Sir James Fullerton Knight Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to King Charles I. lies there interred but the blank Table whereon if I conjecture aright his Ladies Epitaph was designed to be ingraved leaves us in the dark concerning her and hath been neglected by those who had the charge thereof § 126. There is a more stately Monument on this North side about twenty four foot in height on whose Pedestal of white Marble lie the Images at full proportion of Sir John Puckering in his embroydered Gown and his Lady with eight lesser Figures of three Boys and five Girls kneeling at the foot of the said Pedestal all of various coloured Alabaster painted and gilt with Gold with a large Canopy overshadowing them finely wrought and supported by Corinthian Pillars with other Statues of the Purse and Mace-bearer Coats of Arms Pyramids and adornments of the same coloured Alabaster Lydian Porphyry and white Marble T is Sir John was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Privy Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth who died anno 1596. § 127. On the Pavement of this Chappel is a noble raised Tomb encompassed with an iron Grate where on a curious Pedestal of Alabaster set about with Arms painted with Gold and blue are the Images of a Knight in Armour with the Collar Jewel and Mantle of the Garter reposing his head on his Helm and supporting his feet by a Lion couchant and his Lady all of white pollished Marble under which lies buried Sir Giles Dawbney Knight who was Lord Lieutenant of Calis Lord Chamberlain to King Henry VII Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and Father to Henry Lord Dawbney the first and last of that surname Earl of Bridgwater with Elizabeth his Wife descended from the antient Family of the Arundels in Cornwall he died anno 1507. and she 1500. § 128. There lie buried likewise in this Chappel Charles de Granada a noble Spaniard Elizabeth Countess of Ormond Daughter of Thomas Lord Barkley John Viscount Thurles a Child of Thomas Earl of Ormond by the Daugter of John Lord Sheffield Michael Bishop of St. Asaph Sir Arthur Gorge's Lady who was the Daughter and Heir of Henry Howard Viscount Bindon And Katharine Countess of Northumberland one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of John Nevil Lord Latimer who was the Wife of Thomas Percy Earl of Northumberland none of them having any Monuments Tombs or Grave-stones From this you are led to The Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist § 129. Where on the right hand of the Entrance along the South side are three ancient Marble Tombs and a stone Coffin The first is a plain raised Tomb of grey Marble about a yard from the ground
regit pro principe tanto Funde preces quisquis carmina nostra legis Rifrigerii sedem quietis Beatudinem Luminis habeat claritatem Amen Arms. France and England quarterly Impaling semi de Flower-de-luces France and England quarterly Impaling Quarterly 1. France and England quarterly 2. and 3 A Cross 4. Barry of six an Escutcheon on a chief a pale between two Esquires based dexter and sininister France and England Impal Quarterly 1. and 4. Quarterly 1. and 4. A Castle 2 and 3. A Lion ramp 2. and 3. Three Pallets Impal four Pallets and two Flanches each charged with an Eagle displayed Quarterly 1. and 4. Quarterly 1. and 4. on a bend three Bucks heads cabosed 2. On a chief indented three roundles 3. Cheque 2 and 3. Three armed Legs conjoyned in triangle over all an Escutcheon of pretence thereon a Lion rampant all these Impaling France and England quarterly within a bordure Gobony 83. Epitaph viz. Margaretae Richmondiae septimi Henrici matri Octavi aviae quae stipendia constituit tribus hoc câ—nobio monachis doctori Grammatices apud Wimborn perque Angliam totam divini verbi praeconi duobus item interpretibus literarum sacrarum alteri Oxoniis alteri Cantabrigiae ubi collegia duo Christo Iohanni ejus discipulo struxit Moritur An. Dom. 1509 tertio Calend. Iulii Elegia In serenissimae Principis Dominae Dominae Margaretae nuper Comitissae de Derby strenuissimi Regis Henrici septimi Matris sunebre ministerium per Skeltonida laureatum Oratorem Regium 16 die mensis Augusti Anno salutis 1516. Aspirate meis Elegis pia turma sororum Et Margaretam collacrimate piam Hac sub mole latet Regis celeberrima mater Henrici magni quem locus iste fovet Quem locus iste sacer celebri celebrat Polyandro Illius en genitrix hac tumulatur humo Cui cedat Tanaquil Titus banc super astra reportet Cedat Penelope carus Ulissis amor Haec Abigail velut Hester erat pietate secunda En tres jam procerâ—s nobilitate pares Pro domina precor implora pro principe tanta Flecte Deum precibus qui legis hos apices Plura referre piget calamus torpore rigesâ—it Dormit Moecenas negligitur probitas Nec juvat aut modicum prodest nunc ultima versu Fata recensere mortua mors reor est Quaeris quid decus est Decus est modo dicier hircus Cedit honos hirco cedit honorque capro Falleris ipse Charon iterum surrexit Abyron Et Stygios remos despicit ille tuos Vivitur ex voto mentis praecordia tangunt Nulla sepulchra ducum nec monumenta patrum Non Regum non ulla hominum labentia fato Tempora nec totiens mortua turba ruens Hinc statuo certè periture parcere chartae Seu Juvenalis ovat eximius Satyrus Distichon execrationis in fagolidoros Qui lacerat violatque rapit praesens Epitoma Hunc laceretque voret Cerberus absque mora Hanc tecum statuas Dominam precor O sator orbis Quo regnas rutilans Rex sine fine maneâ—s CALON AGATON CUM ARETA RE IN PA. Arms. Quarterly 1. and 4. quarterly 1. and 4. France within a bordure Gules semi de fâ—rmaulx Or. 2 and â— Or a Fess Chequee Arg. and B. within a bordure ingrailed Gules Over all an Escutcheon of pretence Arg. thereon a Saltire ingrailed between four Cinq'soyles Gules Over all a file of three Argent 2. Gules three armed Legs joyned in triangle prop. 3. Gules three Lions rampant Argent Impaling Scotland Supporters a Fox and a Unicorn Motto In my defence At the feet in a Lozenge Shield these Arms viz. Quarterly 1. B. a Lion ramp Arg. crowned Or. 2. Or a Lion rampant Gules 3. Or five piles meeting in point B. 4. Or a Fess Chequee Arg. B. on a bend Gules three Fermaux of the field Over all an Escutcheon of pretence Arg. Thereon a mans heart Gules on a chief B. three Mullets Or. Supporters a Savage man and a Buck. Motto Jamaiâ— Darâ—iere 84. Epitaph viz. Margaretae Duglasiae Matthaei Stuarti Levonisiae comitis uxori Henrici VII Angliae Regis ex filia nepti potentiss Regibus cognatione conjunctissimae Jacobi VI. Scotorum Regis Aviae matronae sanctissimis morib invicta animi patientia incomparabili P. Margareta Potens virtute potentior ortu Regibus ac proavis nobilitata suis Inde Caledoniis australibus inde Britannis Edita principibus principibusque parens Quae mortis fuerant solvit laetissima morti Atque Deum petiit nam fuit anâ—e Dâ—i Henry second Son to this Lady was King of Scots and Father to James VI. now King This Henry was murthered at the age of 21 years and is here entombed Absolutum cura Thomae Fowler hujus Domini Executoris Octob. 24. 1578. Here lieth the noble Lady Margaret Countess of Levenox Daughter and sole Heir of Archibald Earl of Angus by Margaret Queen of Scots his Wife that was eldest Daughter to King Henry VII who bare unto Matthew Earl of Levenox her Husband four Sons and four Daughters This Lady had to her Great-Grandfather King Edward IV. to her Grandfather King Henry VII to her Uncle King Henry VIII to her Cousin-German King Edward VI. to her brother King James of Scotland the Fifth to her Son King Henry I. and to her Grandchild King James VI. Having to her Great-grand mother and Grand-mother two Queens both named Elizabeth to her Mother Margaret Queen of Scots to her Aunt Mary the French Queen to her Cousin-Germans Mary and Elizabeth Queens of England to her Niece and Daughter-in-law Mary Queen of Scots Arms. Scotland viz. Or a Lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter flory Gules within the Order of St. Andrew Supported by two Unicorns chained c. Motto In my defence Scotland Impaling France and England Quarterly Scotland Impaling quarterly 1. Barry of 8. Arg and Gules 2. B. semy de Flower-de-luces Or 3 Arg. a cross potent between four Croslets Or. 4. Or three Pallets Gules 5. France within a bordure ingrailed Gules 6. Parted per pale Or and Arg. two Lions ramp combatant The one fable crowned Argent the other Gules crowned Or. 7. B. crusilly and two Dolphins hauriant endorsed Or. 8. As the first over all an Escutcheon of pretence Gules on a bend Or three Eagles displayed sab Scotland Impaling Or three bars wavy Gules Scotland Impaling France and England quarterly within a Bordure Gobony Arg. and B. 85. Epitaph viz. D. O. M. Bonae Memoriae Mariae Stuartae Scotorum Reginae Franciae dotariae Jacobi V. Scotorum Regis filiae haeredis unicae Henrici VII Ang. Regis ex Margareta majori natu filia Jacobi IV. Regni Scotorum matrimonio copulata proneptis Edwardi IV. Angliae Regis ex Elizabetha filiarum natu maxima abneptis Francisci II. Gallorum Regis conjugis coronae Angliae dum vixit certae indubitatae haeredis Jacobi
a very beautiful Tomb of Alabaster and gray Marble Canopied with curious worked stone and gilt with Gold her Image lying thereon at full proportion for AVELINE Countess of Lancaster first Wife of EDMUND CROUCHBACK Earl of Lancaster and fourth Son of HENRY III. as is before said in the description of his Monument She was esteemed a Lady in her time far surpassing all others in beauty and was the Daughter and Heir of WILLIAM de FORTIBUS Earl of Albemarle she was Countess of Holderness and by her Mother Countess of Devon and the Isle of Wight leaving her Inheritance to the House of Lancaster and her body to be buried in this place dying in the year 1269. without any Issue § 30. The rest of the Monuments about this Church are very numerous and noble Persons of the greatest dignity and honour being permitted by the Licence of the Prince only to be buried in the Chappels thereof of whom we shall speak when we come to the particular places wherein they are deposited In the mean time we will take a survey round the body of the Church and beginning on the East-side of the North Cross the first Monument we meet with will be that of the Lady MARY JAMES Wife of Sir JOHN JAMES and Daughter to Sir ROBERT KILLIGREW Vice-chamberlain to Queen MARY who died in the year 1677. being a neat Monument composed of a large Pedestal of black Marble on which is the Epitaph and an Urn of white admirably polished encompassed with an Iron Grate garnished and adorned with Gold By which on a Pillar adjoyning to the Chappel of St. Michael is a small Monument of white Marble for GRACE SCOT Daughter of Sir THOMAS MAULEVERER Baronet who died in the year 1645. And against the Screen of the said Chappel of St. Michael is a most noble Tomb and Monument of black and white Marble garnished and adorned with Arms and warlike Trophies on whose Pedestal are placed the Images at full proportion of WILLIAM Baron Cavendish Viscount Mansfield Earl of Ogle Earl Marquess and Duke of Newcastle with MARGARET his Dutchess Daughter of Sir CHARLES and Sister to the Lord LUCAS of Colchester who was esteemed in her time a Lady of great learning and bountiful Magnificence beyond the usual qualifications of her Sex The Duke caused this Tomb to be made in his life-time soon after the death of his Dutchess and being scarce finished he died himself on the twenty fifth day of Decemb. in the year 1676. aged 84 years and was buried here § 31. On the North side of this Cross are two small Monuments placed against the Wall The one towards the West for Sir WILLIAM SANDERSON of Alabaster with the Busto or head of the same he was Gentleman of the Chamber to the King and writ the History of MARY Queen of Scots King JAMES and King CHARLES the First worthily vindicating them from the vile aspersions of some virulent Pens of those times he died in the year 1676. The other towards the East or black Marble for Collonel THOMAS BLAGGE an eminent and faithful server of his King and Country in the late unhappy Wars and since made Governour of Yarmouth in which Office he died in the year 1660. § 32. On the West side of this Cross is a small black Marble stone to remem Doctor WILLIAM JOHNSON one of the Kings Chaplains many of whose learned Writings are abroad in the world he died in the year 1666. § 33. On the North side the Nave is a little Monument of black Marble and Alabaster adorned with Arms for ELIZABETH EDMONDS of Sussex who died in the year 1667. Next to whom are two Tablets of black Marble with an Epitaph and Arms for PETER HEYLYN D. D. a Prebendary and Sub-dean of this Church who among many others writ that famous Cosmography and Geography of the whole World he lies here without any date of his death Beyond whom is a very curious Monument of black and white Marble set up by Sir Edward de Carteret Knight to the memory of his Son Edward a Child of seven years of Age who died in the year 1677. Below this you have another neat Monument of white Marble adorned with warlike Trophies for RICHARD le NEVE Esquire Captain of one of his Majesties Ships of War called the Edgar wherein he lost his life valiantly fighting against the Hollanders in the year 1673. Hard by this under the Arms of Iohan. de Dreux comes Richmondie is a small Monument of white Marble adorned with Arms for GILBERT THORNBURGH one of the Kings Servants who died in the year 1677. The next is a little Monument of black Marble with the Image of a woman kneeling in Alabaster to remember SARAH STOTEVILE first Wife to EDWARD ELLIS Esq and then to Doctor OTHOWEL HILL J. C. who died in the year 1631. And lastly under the Arms of Guilielmus de Malpas is one large intire black Marble stone veined and streaked with white set up without a Pedestal against the Wall to commemorate PENELOPE the Wife of RANDOLPH EGERTON and Daughter of ROBERT NEDHAM Viscount Kilmurray in the Kingdom of Ireland who died in Childbed in the year 1670. § 34. On the South side the Nave is a Table of Arms placed to remember one Peers Gruffith Esq who died in the year 1628. Next to which on the East side the great South door that enters the Cloisters is a comely Monument of black and white Marble with an Epitaph in Hebrew Greek and English for Carola Daughter of Roger Harsnet and Wife of Sir Samuel Morland Baronet who died in the year 1674. A little higher is another Monument of black and white Marble adorned with several warlike Trophies and on the Pedestal the representation of a Sea-fight well designed in basso relievo to remember two Friends who lost their lives together with the valiant Earl of Sandwich in the year 1672. viz. Sir Charles Harbord and Clement Cotterel Esquire Not far from this is a little Monument erected for Bridget the Wife of Charles Radley Esquire of white Marble adorned with Arms. A small Monument by the little South door of the Cloister is placed for Sir Richard Bingham a man famous for his warlike Acts at home and abroad of which his Epitaph gives you a particular he died in the year 1598. § 35. On the West side the South Cross is a small Monument of black and white Marble set up to remember that learned Antiquary William Camden Clarentieux King of Arms with his demy Effigies leaning on a Book on whose leaves are insculped Britannia his Writings are highly esteemed by all men of Learning he died in the year 1623. Next to him lies that Magazine of Literature but especially for his experience in the Oriental Tongues Isaac Casaubon J. C. who died in the year 1634. Then have you a Monument of white Marble placed for Thomas Triplet D.
D. and one of the Prebendaries of this Church who died in the year 1670. Beyond whom is another small Monument of white Marble for Sir Richard Coxe Knight who died anno 1623. A little lower are two other Monuments of white Marble the one for Isaac Barrow S. T. P. and one of the Kings Chaplains The other for William Outram S. T. P. Canon of this Church and Archdeacon of Leicester an eminent and learned Writer who died in the year 1679. and Dr. Barrow in the year 1677. § 36. On the South side of this Cross hard by the little East door is a decayed Tomb of grey Marble very much defaced and nothing of the antient Inscription remaining which was in Latine but of late there is another in English to inform you that Edmund Spencer a most excellent Poet lies there intombed who indeed had a sweet and luxuriant fancy and expressed his thoughts with admirable success as his Fairy-Queen and other Works of his sufficiently declare and pity it was such true Poetry should not have been imployed in as true a subject he died in the year 1596. § 37. Next to him on the East side of the same Cross is a little Monument of white and black Marble with a Busto or head crowned with a Laurel for Michael Drayton another memorable Poet who rectified the fault committed by Spencer in applying his Genius to the Histories and Antiquities of his own Nation and native Country witness his Poly-Olbyon which the learned Selden hath worthily embellished with his notes he died in the year 1631. And now come we to the first and last best Poets of the English Nation Geffrey Chaucer and Abraham Cowley the one being the Sun just rising and shewing its self on the English Horizon and so by degrees increasing and growing in strength till it came to its full Glory and Meridian in the incomparable Cowley whose admirable Genius hard to be imitated but never equalled hath set the bounds to succeeding times Chaucer lies in an antient Tomb Canopied of grey Marble with his Picture painted thereon in plano with some Verses by he died in the year 1400. And Cowley hath on a curious Pedestal of white Marble a stately Urn placed thereon and environed with a Grate by the command and charge of the noble and illustrious Duke of Buckingham he died in the year 1667. universally lamented § 38. On the South side of the Quire are three stately Monuments the first Westward is that of Thomas Owen one of the Justices of the Common Pleas who died in the year 1597 being a noble Monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold his Image lying thereon in his Scarlet Robes in full proportion The next for Sir Tho. Richardson Speaker of the House of Commons and afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England who died in the year 1634. being a fair Tomb of black Marble neatly adorned with curious wrought Brass with his demy Effigies in his Judges Robes and Collar of S's all of the same Brass gilt The last is an Alabaster Tomb adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold where on a Quilt is placed the Image in Armour of William Thynne a famous Commander at Muscelborough Field and in the Scots Wars who died in the year 1600. § 39. On the North side of the same Quire you have a noble Monument of Alabaster Marble and divers coloured stones whereon is placed the Image at full proportion in his black tufted Gown of Sir Thomas Hesket the Queens Attourney for the Court of Wards and Liveries and one of the Council of the North who died in the year 1600. § 40. And thus you have what Tombs and Monuments are to be found round about the Body Alleys and the Cross of this Church We will now see what persons are deposited under the several Grave-stones that have any Inscriptions thereon And first in the midst of the Body or Nave there lies Gilbert Thornburgh whose Tomb I have mentioned before who was Servant to the King and died in the year 1677. § 41. In the North Alley the body of Anne Wife of Sir George Radcliffe and Daughter of Sir Francis Trappes who died in the year 1659. Ben. Johnson a Poet Laureat and so universally famous for the Dramma that at this day his Works are in great estimation Martha Wife of Gervase Price Esquire one of the Kings Servants who died in the year 1678. There are Grave-stones likewise placed for Edward de Carteret Carola Morland Mary James Bridget Radley William Outram and Abraham Cowley nigh their Monuments § 42. In the South Alley lies Judith Daughter of Sir Justinian Isham Baronet who died in the year 1679 having a grey Marble stone placed here for her And a little lower the Lady Anne Morland under a stone of black Marble who died in the year 1680. § 43. In the North Cross is a Grave-stone for Sir Henry de Vic Baronet and Chancellour of the Garter who died in the year 1672. Another antient grey Marble stone for Didacus Sanchez a Spaniard he died in the year 1557. And one more for Mary the Wife of Thomas Willis M. D. and Daughter of Samuel Fell S. T. D. Dean of Christchurch and now Bishop of Oxford who died in the year 1670. and with her lies her Daughter Catharine who died in 1667. § 44. In the South Cross over-against Cowleys Tomb are some remains of a man in Armour with a broken Inscription round the Verge ingraven on Brass whereby may be gathered that one Robert Haule lies there who was murthered in this Church on the eleventh of August Anno Dom. 1378. In the same Southern Cross lies John Osboldston Esquire one of the Kings Servants he died in the year 1666. Another Grave-stone for Samuel Bolton D. D. one of the Kings Chaplains and a Prebend of this Church he died in the year 1668. Another to Sir William Davenant a Poet Laureat and memorable for his excellent Poems natural fancy and Dramatick Poesie in our time Another for Thomas Chiffinch Servant to his Majesty he died in the year 1666. And lastly Thomas Parr a man remarkable for his long life who had lived in the Reigns of ten Kings and Queens of England being born in the year 1483. in the time of Edward IV. and died in the year 1635 in the Reign of King Charles I. being of the age of 152 years The Chappel of St. Blase § 45. Having informed you of all the Tombs and Grave-stones and to whose memory they were there posited that you meet with in any part of the body and side Iles of this so famous Church we will now enter into the particular Chappels thereof and beginning in the South Cross where the Dial and Clock stands and the place made use on at present as a Revestre was formerly a Chappel
depicted thereon erected here to continue the remembrance of Philippa one of the Daughters and Coheirs of John Lord Mohun of Dunster who was first married to the Lord Fitz-Walter afterwards to Sir John Golosre Knight and lastly to Edward Plantagenet Duke of York Son of Edmund of Langley fifth Son of King Edward III. who was killed at the Battel of Agincourt she died and was buried here in the year 1474. § 64. Beyond this Tomb towards the West under an Arch in the Wall lies the Image of a woman at full proportion leaning on her left Arm in a Cypress vail all of a mouldering stone which being decayed by reason of its brittleness and that the Monument is very plain seems to be of much greater Antiquity than really it is having no Inscription Paintings or adornments but a Coat of Arms where Cecill with quarterings Impaling Mannors is to be seen and was here placed for the Lady Elizabeth sole-Daughter and Heir of Edward Mannors Earl of Rutland by Isabel his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft of the Vale Royal in the County of Chester Knight she was Wife of Sir William Cecill Knight commonly called Lord Burleigh Son and Heir apparent to Thomas Earl of Exeter by whom she had Issue William called Lord Ross she departed this life the eleventh of May anno 1591. and lieth here as the entering thereof in the Heralds Office and those Arms above placed over her Effigies do sufficiently testifie § 65. Next to this is a Monument of Alabaster Porphyry and diverse coloured stones adorned and gilt with Gold having on the Pedestal the Image of a young man and woman kneeling with a little Babe in swadling bands between them and on a Table supported by this Pedestal is a large Statue of a Lady at full proportion combant in her Robes of Estate of the same Alabaster painted and gilt with Gold and environed with a Grate where the Lady Winifrid Marchioness of Winchester is said to be intombed she was descended from the antient Family of the Bruges first married to Sir Richard Sackvile Knight Chancellour of the Exchequer by whom she had the Lord Buckhurst and the Lady Dacres of the South with other Children afterwards to John Paulet Marquess of Winchester whose Widow she died in the year 1586. § 66. On the South side of this Chappel is an antient Tomb in the Wall of grey Marble with his Portraiture ingraven on Brass in his Episcopal habit with a Miter on his head and a Crosier Staff in his hand canopied with an Arch of curious wrought stone under which William Sutton alias Dudley Bishop of Durham lies interred he was the Son of John Lord Dudley and died about the year 1482. as may be gathethered from part of an Epitaph still remaining in Brass round the Verge of his Tomb. § 67. Here is a most noble and Magnificent Monument towards the Southeast part Angle of this Chappel set up against the same Wall by the command and charge of William Cecill Lord Burlegh to the remembrance of his Wife and Daughter being twenty four foot high containing divers Arches and Canopies supported by Corinthian Pillars and adorned with Pyramids of Porphyry Lydian Touch and various coloured Marble curiously carved and gilt with Gold On the upper part of this Monument under a small Arch is a little figure of an antient man praying on his knees and in his Parliament Robes with the Collar and Jewel of the Order of St. George about his neck to represent the aforesaid William Cecil Lord Burlegh Lord High Treasurer of England Privy Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter who died on the fourth day of August in the year 1598. and lay in state in this Church six days afterwards he was translated to Stamford where in St. Martins Church his body was interred On the Pedestal are two Images at full proportion cumbant in their Robes of Estate of Alabaster painted and adorned with Gold the furthermost of Mildred Lady Burlegh Wife of the above-said William she was the eldest Daughter of Sir Anthony Coke Knight by Anne the Daughter of Sir William Fitz-Williams Knight who was a Lady of no less eminent in her time for her extraordinary Charity than for her Piety and great Learning being well versed in the Greek and Latine Tongues she had many Children by her Husband all dying in their Infancy except Anne Robert and Elizabeth She died in her grand Climacterick year on the fourth day of April 1589 and was buried from her house at Westminster in this Chappel The other of her Daughter the Lady Anne Countess of Oxford who maried Edward Vere Lord High Chamberlain of England and the seventeenth of the name of Vere Earl of Oxford by whom she left Issue only three Daughters who dying at the Queens Palace of Greenwich on the fifth day of June 1588. was brought and interred in the floor of this Chappel On each side of this Pedestal are two Canopies supported by some little Corinthian Columns curiously painted with Azure and gilt with Gold underneath each of which is a Deaths-head enchased in Crystal with with these words Mors Janua vitae and Mors mihi Lucrum by the latter at the head of their Mother and Grandmother are three little Images of female Children kneeling the Lady Elizabeth the Lady Bridget and the Lady Anne Vere and by the former at the feet of his Mother and Sister the figure only of a Youth kneeling for Robert Cecill Son of the above-mentioned William and the Lady Mildred his Wife who married Elizabeth Brook Daughter of the Lord Cobham all living when this Monument was erected § 68. Beyond this against the East Wall is another comly Monument where under an Artificial Canopy the Curtains withdrawn and held up by two Corinthian Pillars of divers coloured Alabaster and Marble adorned and gilt with Gold are two Images kneeling at a Table the one of a Knight in Armour placing his left hand on a Deaths-head The other of his Lady with a Book lying before her on the same Table praying and lifting up their eyes towards the Azure Sky representing an Artificial Heaven painted on the roof of the Canopy beset with Cherubims little Angels and gilded Stars On the out-side of the same Monument are many larger figures of Angels naked Youths and Cupids all of polished Alabaster with a Fame standing on a bleeding heart with a device and Motto being set up here by Sir George Fane of Buston Knight in the County of Kent for the Lady Elizabeth his Wife who was Daughter of Robert Baron Spencer of Wormleighton who died in the year 1618. § 69. Under this Monument close to the Wall is an antient plain raised Tomb of grey Marble with an Inscription in Brass round the ledge still remaining and some Coats of Arms on the Pedestal whereby may be gathered that Nicolas Baron Carew and his Wife the Lady Margaret who was
the Daughter of Sir John Dinham Knight were here intombed he dying on the sixth day of December in the year 1470. and she on the thirteenth day of the same month and year following § 70. Next to this Tomb is a most noble Monument twenty four foot high admirably adorned with curious wrought stones Pyramids and Corinthian Columns of Porphyry Lydian and various coloured Marble where under a large Arch set forth with divers ingenuities Coats of Arms and other Adornments and rich gildings is the Image of a Lady lying at full proportion in her Robes of Estate painted and gilt with Gold and environed with an Iron Grate being erected by Edward Earl of Hertford to the remembrance of his Mother the Lady Anne Dutchess of Somerset who was the Wife of Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset Earl of Hertford c. Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and Vncle to King Edward VI. She was the Daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope Knight by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sir Foulke Bourchier Lord Fitz-warin who by his Father was descended from Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester Son to King Edward III. She died on the sixteenth day of April anno 1587. in the ninetieth year of her age having Issue by her Husband three Sons and six Daughters and was here interred § 71. Before this Monument of the Dutchess of Somerset on the Area is a late erected Tomb of a curious form whose Pedestal is composed of four large Cherubims of rough Alabaster which support a square Table of admirable polished black Marble rising every way from the Superficies to a convenient height whose Angles are all conjoyned and covered by a Ducal Coronet of white Marble encompassed with an Iron Grate and gilt with Gold under which lies the Lady Jane Clifford Wife of Charles Lord Clifford and Dungarvan Son and Heir apparent to Richard Earl of Burlington c. She was the Daughter of William Duke of Somerset Grand-daughter to Edward Earl of Hertford and Great-grand-daughter to Edward Duke of Somerset who was Uncle King Edward VI. and therefore had this Monument erected for her hard by her Great-grandmothers She had Issue five Sons and six Daughters departing this life on the twenty third of November 1679. in the 42. year of her Age. § 72. On the left hand of the door as you come into this Chappel is a little Table Monument of one intire black Marble stone placed on a Pedestal of Alabaster adorned with Arms Epitaphs and gilt with Gold for Elizabeth the Wife of Sir Robert Cecill Knight Son of William Lord Burlegh Lord High Treasurer of England and Privy Counsellour to Queen Elizabeth She was the Daughter of William Brooke Lord Cobham and as a remembrance of her had this Tomb placed here by her Husband in the year 1591. § 73. In the midst of the Pavement of this Chappel is a most noble Tomb composed of a black Marble Table of one intire Lydian stone curiously polished and supported by a Pedestal of black and white Marble embellished with divers carved Figures Coats of Arms and Masons work On this Table is placed the Image of a Knight in â—ompleat Armour Cap à Piè supporting his feet by a Lion couchant with â—nother of his Lady her feet resting on the like Lion vested with a Mantle of Estate and having on her head the Coronet of a Countess all wrought and graved out of curious white Marble and was set up here by George Villers the first Duke of Buckingham of that surname to the remembrance of Sir George Villers Knight his Father and the Lady Mary Beaumont Countess of Buckingham his Mother § 74. On the South side of this Tomb is a small Pyramid of white Marble on the top of which is placed a golden Cup whose Pedestal of black Marble adorned with Arms Epitaphs and gilt with Gold informs us that the heart of Anna Sophia an Infant Daughter to Christopher Harlee Count Bellomont Praefect of Paris Privy Counsellour to the French King and his Embassadour here in England by the Lady Anne Robota his Wife is posited in the aforesaid Chalice who died in the year 1605. § 75. On the East side the Pavement of this Chappel by the base of the Tomb of the Lady Jane Clifford and not far from that of the Lord Carew is a plated Grave-stone of grey Marble whereon the Effigies of a Knight in Armour is lively engraven with an Epitaph and at each corner a Coat of Arms informing us that under that Stone lies the body of Sir Humphrey Stanley Knight one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-chamber to King Henry VII who died on the twelfth day of March anno 1505. § 76. Leaving this Chappel and keeping straight forward we go up by an easie ascent of twelve Greeses or steps of Freestone thorough three Portico's which lead us to as many brazen doors nobly and richly adorned with Grate-works Roses Portcullises and Flowers de Liz the several badges of the Founder which lets us into the Chappel of the B. Virgin Mary § 77. Or King Henry VII as it is vulgarly called by reason that he commanded it to be erected and was at the charge thereof This Chappel so much admired by Strangers and esteemed by us rather exceeds in beauty and excellent contrivance than equals the same thereof for if we respect the admirable Architecture and most noble Roof we there behold a most delightful sight On either side we are entertained with no less than 120 several Statues of the Primitive Saints and Martyrs and round about other lesser Images and Antick figures so excellently carved and curiously ingraven that many experienced in the Art of Painting have not neglected the copying them the curious workmanship of the Staules with the rest of the fine wrought Wainscot that serves to adorn this Chappel ought not to be passed over without your observation nor are the Windows where with this Chappel is further embellished to be neglected every light composed of Diapered and well painted glass each Pane containing either a Red Rose the Badge or Cognizance of the House of Lancaster or a Text H the Initial Letter of this Kings name each crowned with a Royal Diadem But above all the magnificent and glorious Monuments and noble Tombs of those illustrious Princes who have been interred and deposited here deserve a more particular description § 78. To begin then with that of the Founder of this admirable Fabrick which stands at the upper end of this his Chappel being all of solid Brass about eighteen foot in length six in breadth and nine in depth open on the top with a continual Battlement going quite round where in the midst of every Square and at each Angle is a great Rose representing so many Bulwarks encompassing a Royal Fort whilst on the under part of this stately Structure supporting these Battlements are divers Pillars full of Niches and in each
head of the Princess Royal as may be 〈…〉 by an Inscription graven thereon in 〈…〉 § 104. On the South side of this 〈…〉 at the lower â—nd is a large 〈…〉 of Lead covered with black Velvet wherein the Corps of Anne first Wife to his Royal Highness Prince James Duke of York only Brother and Heir now living of his present Majesty do repose She was Daughter to Edward Earl of Clarendon and sometime Lord Chancellour of England who died at her Palace of St. Iames 's on the last day of March anno 1671. in the 34 year of her age § 105. In the midst of the Vault between the Lady Arabella Stuart and this Anne Dutchess of York lies the Princess Royal in a large Coffin or Chest of Lead the Lady Elizabeth eldest Sister to his present Majesty and Mother to Henry now Prince of Orange and Nassau She died on the twenty first of December anno 1660. § 106. On this is another leaden Chest for the Princess Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia she was the only Daughter of King James the sixth of Scotland and first of England Wife to Frederick King of Bohemia and Prince Elector of the Empire Sister to King Charles the First Aâ—â—â— to his present Majesty and Mother to his Highness Prince Rupert Count Palatine and Duke of Cumberland she died at Leicester-house on the thirteenth of Februarr anno 1661. in the sixty sixth year of her age § 107. Charles Duke of Cambridge eldest Son to his Royal Highness James Duke of York only Brother to his present Majesty by Anne his first Wife who died at Whitehall on the fifth day of May anno 1661. aged seven months his leaden Coffin covered with black Velvet is placed on his great Aunts the Queen of Bohemia § 108. James Duke of Cambridge second Son to James Duke of York c. by Anne his first Lady who died at Richmond on the twentieth day of June anno 1667. being four years old whose leaden Coffin covered with Velvet is likewise placed on his great Aunts the Queen of Bohemia § 109. Charles Duke of Kendale third Son of James Duke of York c. by Anne his Wife who died at St. Iames 's the twenty second of March anno 1677. bâ—ing scarce a year old he lies in a Chest of lead covered with Velvet on his Uncle Henry Duke of Glocester § 110. Edgar Duke of Cambridge fourth Son of James Duke of York c. by the Lady Anne his first Wife who died at Richmond on the eighth day of June anno 1671. and in the fourth year of his age he lies in a leaden Coffin covered with Velvet on that of the Lady Anne Hyde his mother § 111. Charles Duke of Cambridge fifth Son of James Duke of York c. by the Lady Mary D'Este his second Wife who died at St. Iames on the twelfth day of December anno 1677. aged only thirty five days he lies in a leaden Coffin covered with Velvet on the feet of his great great Grandmother Mary Queen of Scots § 112. The Lady Henrietta third Daughter of James Duke of York c. by Anne his first Wife who died at St. Iames 's on the fifteenth day of November anno 1669. aged about ten months and is deposited in a leaden Coffin covered with black Velvet on her great Uncle Henry Frederick Prince of Wales § 113. The Lady Katharine fourth Daughter of James Duke of York c. and Anne his Dutchess who died at St. Iames 's on the fifth day of December anno 1671. scarce ten months old and is placed in a leaden Coffin covered with Velvet on that of her Mothers the Lady Anne Dutchess of York § 114. Katharina Laura eldest Daughter of James Duke of York c. by his second Wife the Lady Mary D'Este who died at St. Iames 's on the third day of October anno 1675. scarce nine months old her Coffin of Lead covered with Velvet is set on that of her Sister the Lady Katharine § 115. Isabella the sixth Daughter of James Duke of York c. by his second Wife the Lady Mary D'Este who died at St. Iames 's the second day of March anno 1680. in the fifth year of her age and her leaden Coffin covered with Velvet is placed on the Area by the side of her Uncle Prince Henry Duke of Glocester § 116. Note that at the feet of most of these leaden Chests except those of the smallest Children are several Urns or Pots of lead covered with black Velvet wherein their bowels are conserved § 117. There is a small Vault adjoyning to this wherein are only two Coffins of lead the one on the other the undermost of which is very much shaken and decayed so that the Skeleton and perched skin of the interred is to be seen being the remains of Charles Earl of Levenox youngest Son to Matthew Earl of Levenox and the Lady Margaret his Countess Grandfather and Grandmother to King James he died anno 1576. § 118. In the other Capsula or Chest of lead is the body of the aforesaid Margaret Mother to Charles Earl of Levenox and Grandmother to King James of whom I have said more in the description of her Monument under which this Vault is made she died anno 1578. § 119. Coming down the stairs of this Chappel the same way we went up the first place we meet with on the North side is The Chappel of St. Paul Wherein are these Monuments viz. on the right hand of the door as you come in is an ancient Tomb of Freestone on whose Pedestal are several Coats of Arms carved and encompassed with the Garter on each side of which are two Lions sejant and as many Eagles each of them supporting a Standard or Banner with the Arms of Robsert and Bourchier with quarterings On this Pedestal are two Coffins of lead inclosed and covered with Wainscote and Oaken boards of a coped form under a low arched Canopy of the foregoing stone without any Inscriptition Table or Epitaph but therein are deposited the remains of Lodowick Robsert Lord Bourchier and his Lady This Lodowick or Lewis being an Alien born in the parts of Henault and succeeding Sir John Robsert Knight in the Captainship of St. Saviour le Viscount in Normandy was made a free Denizen of this Realm in the sixth of Henry V. created Knight of the Bath in the eighth year of his Reign and was by Letters Patents at Trois in Champaine constituted the Kings Standard-bearer and afterwards Knight of the Garter and one of the Executors to that King He married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Bartholomew Lord Bourchier Widow of Sir Hugh Stafford Knight and had summons to Parliament by the Title of Lord Bourchier in the 3 4 5 and 7 of Henry VI. he died anno 1431. and had this Monument erected to his memory being adorned and set out with many Arms of the Nobility both
Canopied with a comely Arch of Freestone adorned with Arms and Masons-work which was made for George Flaccet Abbot of this Monastery but the Inscription and Epitaph round the ledge is torn away § 130. On this Tomb is placed a stone Coffin with a lid of the same and a Crucifix carved thereon wherein is yet to be seen the bones and Skelliton of an embalmed body much defaced as it should seem by the removal of this Capsula from some other place but whose body it is that lies therein I will not aver as meeting no evidence sufficient to confirm it But that it cannot be the body of Humfrey de Bohun Earl of Essex Hereford and Northampton who was Lord High Constable of England and the last of that name as the Officers of the Church have received it by Tradition is evident for that he was buried with his Father Grandfather and great-Grandfather in the Abby Church of Walden in Essex the antient repository of that noble Family as may be seen more at large in the Monasticon Anglicanum and in Sir William Dugdales Baronage of England yet two of his Children which he had by Elizabeth the Daughter of Edward I. were buried here viz. Hugh and Mary And there is a little Monument against the North Wall of grey Marble under that of Thomas Curey erected for them from whence this story might take its original I am inclined therefore to think that it were not improbable to believe it the body of Thomas Mylling Abbot of Westminster and Bishop of Hereford Privy Counsellour and Favourite to King Edward IV. and Godfather to his eldest Son Prince Edward who dying about the year 1493. was buried in the midst of this Chappel and that when the large Vault and Tomb which takes up a great part of the Area of this Chappel was made for Thomas Earl of Exeter and his Ladies this Coffin might be taken up and set by here and the rather for that in Camdens Collection of this Churches Monuments which were taken before the erection of the said Tomb there is no mention of such a Coffin as this which had it been here in his time I am persuaded he would not have overpassed without some observation thereon Yet further if we diligently take notice of the Coffin it self with the form of the Cross on the Cover and compare it with many more of the like fashion both at Canterbury York Durham c. wherein are conserved the bodies of some Bishop or Archbishop it will add to the confirmation of this opinion but I submit to the more Judicious in Antiquities of this nature § 131. The next to George Flaccet Abbot of Westminster lies Thomas Ruthall Bishop of Durham who was Secretary to King Henry VII and died in the year 1524. in a comely Tomb of Freestone with an arched Canopy variously adorned and set forth with Arms both of his See and Family under which is his Image in his Episcopal habit with a Miter on his head and a Pastoral staff in his left hand placing his feet on the back of a Lion couchant but there is no Epitaph or Table belonging thereto § 132. At whose feet is the third ancient Monument without a Canopy or any Inscription where on a raised Pedestal of Freestone lies the Image of a Mitered Abbot in the Vestments wherein he was accustomed to sing or say Mass with a Miter on his head a Crosier staff in his hand and a Ring on his finger a Spaniel Dog at his feet and two Angels supporting his Pillow all of the same Freestone curiously ingraved under which William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster is said to be interred § 133. Against the East Wall of this Chappel is a most magnificent and stately Monument about twenty six foot high where by an ascent of Greeses of black and white Marble you are led to a curious fashioned Tomb of an admirable composure framed of the Porphyry the Lydian Touch Serpentine Agate Alabaster and divers coloured stones finely wrought and adorned with Gold At the four corners whereof are as many Pyramids of black Marble Supported by Pedestals of the same whereon are placed threescore and four Shields of Arms painted in their proper colours with the names matches and quarterings belonging to that noble Family These Pyramids and the Tomb are overshadowed by a glorious arched Canopy every where beset with Coats of Arms Golden Slips Branches Pomegranates Roses c. with other flory and fruit-work very pleasant and delightful to behold on each side of the outward part of this arched Canopy are two Magnificent Pyramids of black Marble adorned with Shields Banners Pennons Cannon Culverins Musquetons Halberts Half-pikes Drums Fifes with other Instruments of War and warlike Trophies carved on the same Marble and gilt with Gold Over the Canopy are no less than twenty several Corinthian Columns supporting and composing various forms of Architecture diversly placed on the noble Arch whereby the whole becomes very beautiful and magnificent which was erected here by George Carey Lord Hunsdon Governour of the Isle of Wight Knight of the Garter Privy Counsellour and Lord High Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth for his Father the Lord Henry Carey Baron of Hunsdon Governour of Berwick Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners Justice in Eure on this side Trent Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Lord High Chamberlain Privy Counsellour and Cousin German to Queen Elizabeth who died in the 71 year of his age anno 1596. and for his Mother the Lady Anne Daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan Knight § 134. By these two illustrious persons in the same Vault lies Thomas Carey second Son to Robert Lord Carey of Leppington Earl of Monmouth and Brother to the last Earl of that surname he was of the Privy Chamber to King Charles I. and greatly favoured by him but upon the death of that Royal Martyr he fell suddenly sick and died in the thirty third year of his age having a little Monument of white Marble against the North-east Angle of this Chappel placed of late to his memory § 135. Next to which directly North are two large Statues at full proportion The one of a man in Armour The other of a Lady in a Cypress Veil of white Marble both reposing themselves and resting their arms on a Table of black under a Canopy the Curtains withdrawn with an Atchievement of Arms all of curious wrought Alabaster but there is no Inscription or Epitaph which was ordered to be defaced upon the restauration of his Sacred Majesty by reason it was set up for one Collonel Edward Popham an opposer of his Majesties undoubted right to his Kingdoms but by the intercession of some of his Ladies Friends who had eminently served his Majesty the stone was only turned whereon the Epitaph was insculpt and the Monument permitted to remain Sed Nigro carbone notanda § 136. On the left hand of the door of this Chappel
towards the West being the first Tomb on that side you have under an antient large Arch in the Wall a little Monument of grey Marble on which is portraitured and finely ingraven the Effigies of a Knight in Armour reposing his head on his Helm crested with an Unicorns head coped and crowned and at each of the four corners a Coat of Arms insculpt of the same brass with several Caskets and Coffers with an Inscription in part remaining round the Verge of the Tomb whereby may be gathered that Sir Thomas Vaughan Knight who was first Chamberlain to Edward Prince of Wales and afterwards Treasurer to his Father King Edward IV. lies underneath § 137. Here is a most noble Tomb in the midst of this Chappel raised about five foot from the Pavement of black and white Marble the Pedestal set about with fourteen Escutcheons of Arms and on the top the Images at full proportion of an Earl in his Parliament Robes with the Collar George and Mantle of the Garter and his Countess in her Robes of Estate with a Garb supported by two Lions rampant placed on a Torce under the feet of the Earl and a Griffon passant under those of his Countess all of the aforesaid white Marble admirably polished and curiously ingraven with an Epitaph round the Verge expressing that Thomas Cecill Earl of Exeter and Baron Burleigh Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and Privy Counsellour to King James lies there interred together with his first Wife whose Image that is on the Tomb the Lady Dorothy Nevill Daughter and one of the Co-heirs of the Lord Latimer As likewise his second Wife the Lady Frances Bridges of the noble Family of the Lord Shandois whose Effigies is not here though there be left room on the North side of her Husband as it should seem for that purpose § 138. On the South side by the foot of this Tomb at the head â—f the entrance into the Lord Hunsdons Vault was Charles Howard a Child of two years old interred anno 1670. having a little stone placed over his Grave he was the third Son of Charles Earl of Carlile § 139. Coming from this Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist on each side the entrance are two little Monuments of Alabaster black and white Marble with some small Figures thereon adorned with Arms and Epitaphs That on the West for Juliana Crew Daughter of Sir Randolph Crew Knight Lord Chief Justice of England â—y Juliana Clepesby his Lady who was the Daughter and Heir to that antient Family in the County of Norfolk She died on the twelfth of April anno 1621. § 140. The other on the East for the Lady Jane Crew one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir John Pultney of Mistertonpultney in the County of Leicester Knight and Wife of Sir Clyppesby Crew Knight she died in the thirtieth year of her age anno 1639. and had this little Monument erected by her Husband for her Passing from these Monuments we are led to The Chappel of St. Erasmus § 141. Where by opening a door on your right hand you are let into the undercroft being something dark by reason of the vicinity of the houses erected in the Church-yard almost adjoyning to the Windows Yet you may see a plain Marble Table supported by four small Pillars of wrought Brass and fixed to a Pedestal of the same stone where formerly had been placed the Skeleton in his shrowd curiously insculpt and composed of Alabaster with an Epitaph circumscribed and several Verses thereon which are all now taken away except the Table c. under which was John Islip Abbot of Westminster interred The fame of this Abbot with his benefactions to this Church I have discoursed on elsewhere yet I forgot to tell you how he designed a stately Tower and Lanthorn with a goodly Chime of Bells to be placed therein over the midst of the Cross of this Church but finding the foundation of the old Pillars too weak to support his Structure the Bells were set up in one of the Western Towers where they remain to this day Moreover he caused this Chappel to be made and dedicated to St. Erasmus and adorned the Roof with curious Masons work and neat Carvings with several devices and intaglio's and many rebus's a fancy much in esteem about that time alluding to his name as sometimes you have one slipping boughs in a tree otherwhile an Eye with a slip of a tree and again a Youth slipping from a bough of a tree with a Label proceeding out of his mouth with I slip thereon and the like The whole Vault being interlaced with his Coat of Arms viz. Erm a Fess between three Weesels Gules and such like devices as are the Windows in the Oratory above full of the same But before we take our leaves of this obscure place yet well deserving our pains of seeing we must not let pass the memory of a noble Gentleman who hath a Monument placed here for him § 142. Against the East Wall whereof is a comly Tomb of black and white Marble on whose Pedestal is the Epitaph and on one side the Image of a Knight in Armour lively representing the Original with his Lady on the other excellently figured in curious wrought Alabaster adorned with weeping Cupids and mournful Hymens extinguishing their Torches with Arms and Paintings which was erected by the Lady Alice Daughter of Thomas Fanshaw Esquire the Kings Remembrancer for Sir Christopher Hatton Knight of the Bath her Husband Son and Heir to Sir Christopher Lord High Chancellour of England by whom she had twelve Children He died on the tenth day of September 1619. There is a small Table of black and white Marble against the Wall on the East side of this Chappel nigh the Windows that let in light from the South side of the Church containing a further Encomium of this worthy Gentleman § 143. There was likewise buried here without any Tomb or Grave-stone the Lady Anne sole Daughter and Heir of John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk Wife to Richard Duke of York Son to King Edward IV. but she dying without Issue the Dukedom of Norfolk came to the Family of the Howards § 144. Ascending from this undercroft by a pair of stone Stairs into the Oratory it self wherein nothing remains but some of the rebus's in the Windows as I have said before It being at present made use of before It being at present made use on as a repository for those Statues of our Kings Queens and Princes of the Bloud Royal which lay on their Cenotaphs when their Exequies were celebrated in this Church being here preserved in their Robes of Estate with their Royal Habiliments and other Ensigns of Majesty in Presses of Wainscote viz. Edward III. King of England and Philippa his Queen Henry V. and Queen Katherine Henry VII with Elizabeth his Queen and Henry Frederick Prince of Wales in one Press with Queen Elizabeth King James and Queen Anne
his Wife in the other Descending again by the same Stairs and leaving this Chappel on our right hand we cross over the Area to a wooden frame of four or five steps that brings us into that other most noted Chappel of this Church viz. The Chappel of St. Edward the Confessor § 145. Because his body was translated hither from the old Church of his own erection to this of King Henry III. where he had a new Tomb and Shrine covered with Gold built for him in the midst of this Chappel by the same King a great part thereof to be seen at this day It is likewise called the Chappel of the Kings for that many of our Kings and Queens until the time of King Henry VII were accustomed to be buried therein But before I shall enter into a description of any of their particular Monuments I shall take leave to say something concerning this religious King and the Feretory made here for him § 146. He was the Son of King Etheldred and Emma his Queen who being long deprived of his Inheritance by the usurpation of Canutus Harold and Hardiâ—nute the Danes that had murthered his Brother Edmund and occasioned his flight into Normandy for his protection at lengâ—h was restored to his Crown and Kingdom where he became so eminent for his sanctity and remarkable for his holiness that he was observed to be the first who obtained that extraordinary priviledge from God in curing a disease of swelling in peoples throats which was afterwards thereof called the Kings Evil and hath since been derived to all his Successors He was so compassionate and pitiful towards his Subjects sufferings and oppressions that he remitted the annual Pension of 4000 pounds called Danegelt to the English Legates So chaste that he is said not carnally known his own Wife and so patient that he was scarce ever seen to be angry But after his death the many infirmities and cures of all sorts of diseases which are reported immediately to have followed at his Tomb was the chief motive that persuaded William the Conquerour to adorn his Sepulchre with a rich Shrine sparkling with Gold and Silver Six and thirty years after this his body being taken out of the ground and being found intire and uncorrupt with his joynts as flexible as if they had been alive and his Garments preserving their former freshness struck such an admiration in the beholders that every where the news thereof â—ung for a miracle and therefore his body on the thirteenth day of October in the year 1163 was translated by Thomas of Becket Archbishop of Canterbury in the presence of King Henry II. and another costly Shrine prepared wherein to place it and on which day he was solemnly Canonized by the Bull of Pope Alexander III. § 147. After this upon the rebuilding of this Church by King Henry III. his body was removed out of the old Church of his own erection into this Chappel prepared for him on which day a magnificent and Royal Feast was kept in the Palace hard by as a commemoration of it and a third Shrine prepared whereon to place the other two and inclose his sacred body part whereof is remaining at this day The upper part of this Feretory which we now behold was all covered with Plate of the purest Gold so artificially wrought by the most cunning Goldsmiths and set about with pretious stones that it amounted to an inestimable value the under part which is still in being was framed by the command and at the charge of Richard de Ware Abbot of Westminster with a part of those stones and by the same workmen which composed the Pavement before the High Altar curiously adorning it with chequered and fine shining coloured Marble On each side the Base of this Feretory are three small Niches divided by Serpentine Columns supporting the Arches for the sick and infirm to repose themselves when they came hither and I have seen a large Chest or Coffin bound about with strong bands of Iron lying about the midst of the inside of this Shrine where I suppose the body of that pious King may still be conserved There is now an Inscription in Letters of a late hand gilt with Gold round the midst of this Marble frame which you will find among the Monumental Inscriptions but heretofore there were other Verses ingraven on the same stone after this manner Anno milleno Domini cum septuageno Et bis centeno cum completo quasi deno Hoc opus est factum quod Petrus duxit in actum Romanus civis homo causam noscere si vis Rex fuit Henricus sancti praesentis amicus The Floor of this Chappel was likewise at the same time and by the same Abbot inlayed with the like stones a great part remaining though something defaced at this day § 148. Under which Pavement on the North side the Feretory of St. Edward lies Editha Queen of England his Wife who was Daughter to Goodwin that treacherous Earl of Kent she was a Lady of a singular piety and sweet modesty died in the year 1074. but hath no Monument or Grave-stone erected for her § 149. On the South side the same Shrine under this beautious Floor was Matilda Queen of England interred she was the Daughter of Malcolme King of Scots and Wife to King Henry I. who brought unto him divers Children viz. William Richard and Mary who perished by shipwrack and Maud the Empress Wife to Henry V. Emperour and Mother to King Hen. II. of England This Queen would every day in Lent walk from her Palace to this Church barefoot and bare-legged and wearing a Garment of hair she would wash and kiss the feet of the poorest people and give them Alms she founded the Priory of Christchurch without Aldgate and the Hospital of St. Giles in the Fields nigh London she built the Bridge at Stratford over the River Lea and repaired many of the Highways and afterwards anno 1118. dying was buried in this Church without any Tomb or Monument § 150. Under the same Pavement was John and Margaret two Children of William de Valence Earl of Pembroke interred having two small stones of grey Marble placed over them without any Inscription between the Shrine of St. Edward and the Tomb of King Henry V. § 151. Henry Son to Richard King of the Romans and Earl of Cornwall who was the Second Son of John King of England returning from the Holy Land whilst he was hearing Mass at Viterbium in Italy was slain by Simon and Guido Sons to Simon Mountford Earl of Leicester Anno 1269. his body being buried in the Monastery of Hailes but his heart placed in the Coffin with St. Edward § 152. On this Pavement is a large grey Marble stone beautifully adorned and set about with fine Imagery work in curious wrought Brass between the Shrine of St. Edward and the Tomb of Philippa his Mother the Inscription being torn away
Son of King John by Isabel Daughter to the Earl of Angolesme was a pious Prince and highly to be commended for all virtues He built the Chappel of our Lady as I have said elsewhere pulled down the Church of K. Edward and erected that which is now standing giving thereto many Royal Gifts of Copes Jewels and rich Vessels that it equalled in Riches all the Churches on this side the Alps he made a golden Chest and Coffin wherein to repose the Reliques of St. Edward adorned his Shrine translated his body into this Chappel prepared for him and was himself after he had reigned fifty six years and eighteen days buried on the North side thereof under this stately Monument anno 1273. § 158. There is another small Tomb of black and grey Marble on the North side of this Chappel at the feet of King Henry III. which hath formerly been adorned with Brass and a little Image thereon but at present there is nothing remaining but part of the Model being one Pillar thereof of the Chappel of King Henry VII to whose Daughter the Lady Elizabeth which he had by his Queen the Daughter of King Edward IV. this little Monument was placed who died in the year 1493. being not much above one year old and was buried under § 159. There are likewise on the South side of this Chappel or the Feretory of St. Edward three stately Monuments and one little Tomb. Towards the East lies Philippa Queen of England Wife to King Edward III. She hath a curious neat black Marble Tomb with her Image thereon of polished Alabaster her head crowned and supported by two Angels of the same round about the Pedestal are thirty sweetly carved Niches wherein had been placed as many Images with their Coats of Arms at their feet expressing who they were in Alabaster painted and gilt with Gold as the remains of some of them at this day declare which when intire were as follows At the head William Earl of Henault Father to the said Queen John King of France Edward III. King of England her Husband Lodowick the Emperour and Edward Prince of Wales her eldest Son At the feet the King of Navarre the King of Bohemia the King of Scotland the King of Sicily and the King of Spain On the left side of the Tomb Jone Queen of Scotland John of Eltham Earl of Cornwall Jone Princess of Wales Lionel Duke of Clarence Isabel Countess of Bedford John Duke of Lancaster Jone Dutchess of Clarence Edmund Earl of Cambridge Jone Dutchess of Lancaster and Thomas Earl of Buckingham On the right side the Empress Mother to the said Queen her Brother also Marcus Duke of Gelderland Eleanora Dutchess of Gelderland John Earl of Henault Mary Dutchess of Britain Lodowick Duke of Bavaria the Countess of Pembroke Charles Son to the King of France and the Duke of Brabant There is no Inscription or Epitaph about this Tomb but a Table of Verses in Latine and English Metre declaring her exemplary piety and virtues and that she was Daughter of William of Bavaria Earl of Henault who died in the year 1369. and was buried here § 160. By her in another sumptuous and noble Monument lies Edward III. her Husband whose Image all of solid Brass and gilt with Gold in his Royal Robes is placed on a frame of the same Brass circumscribed with an Epitaph in Latine and fixed to a Pedestal of grey Marble round about which are many little Images still remaining all of solid brass richly enamelled and gilt with Gold representing the Sons and Daughters of this mighty Prince on the right side was Edward Prince of Wales Jone of the Tower given in marriage to the King of Spain Lionel Duke of Clarence Edmund Duke of York Mary Dutchess of Britain and William of Hatfield On the left side Isabel Lady of Coucy William of Windsor John Duke of Lancaster Blanch of the Tower Margaret Countess of Pembroke and Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester This Edward the third of that name King of England since the Conquest was Son to Edward II. by Isabel Daughter to Philip le Bell King of France whose Brother dying without Issue and she being the next Heir this King Edward first laid claim to the Crown of France in right of his Mother notwithstanding their Salique Law by which the Females are barred from the Inheritance and prosecuted the War so successfully that he won Calais recovered Aquitaine and Normandy took John King of France and David King of Scots Prisoners and adding the Arms and Title of France to his own after he had reigned fifty years he died and was buried here under this noble Monument having a Table of Verses affixed thereunto in English and Latine meeter § 161. At the head of King Edward III. is the other stately Monument on this South side the Feretory of St. Edward composed much after the like form with that foregoing having two Images placed on a frame and circumscribed with an Epitaph all of solid brass gilt with Gold on a Pedestal of grey Marble meanly adorned whereunto is a Table affixed informing us that Richard II. King of England and France and Lord of Ireland with his first Wife Anne who was Daughter to Wenceslaus King of Bohemia and Emperour of the Germans who died anno 1394. lie there interred This Richard was Son to Edward Prince of Wales by Jone Daughter to the Earl of Kent After he had reigned twenty two years he was deposed by Henry of Lancaster and not long after anno 1399. was murthered and buried at Langley among the Dominicans but in the year 1414. his body was removed from thence by Henry V. King of England and nobly intombed here at Westminster who caused to be erected this Monument over him § 162. Between this Tomb of King Richard and that of Edward III. is a little small raised Monument of grey Marble whereon hath been the Effigies of a Child engraven on Brass now taken away but so much of the Epitaph remaining whereby may be gathered that under that small Tomb lies Margaret Daughter and fifth Child to Edward IV. King of England and France and Lord of Ireland by the Lady Elizabeth his Wife who was born the nineteenth day of April Anno Dom. 1472. and died the eleventh of December following § 163. On this Tomb stands an old rusty Sword seven foot in length and eighteen pounds in weight with a Buckler or deep Shield which are reported to be made use on by Edward III. in his Wars in France and are placed on this Tomb adjoyning to his Monument as a remembrance thereof § 164. The East side of this Chappel of St. Edward is taken up by that magnificent Monument of Henry V. King of England enclosed within a small Chappel by it self arched of curious worked stone and set about with admirable carvings Intaglio's and devices as trees of Palm Harts Royal and Swans gorged with Crowns and chained
Mother the Lady Anne who died anno 1669. and Edward Cranfield who died anno 1649. Not far from these is a grey Marble stone with a plate of brass thereon for Thomas Bilson Bishop of Winchester and Privy Counsellour to King James obiit anno 1616. There is a large grey Marble stone with a little part of an Inscription and a Coat of Arms still remaining in the brass whereby so much light may be gathered that it was placed there for Sir John Golofre Knight who was second Husband to Philippa Lady Mohun afterwards Dutchess of York he died anno 1396. By him is another plated stone for Cecill Ratcliff chief Gentlewoman to the Lady Dudley For the rest of the stones I can be at no certainty to whom they belong and therefore I shall leave them without troubling you with my conjectures only giving you the names of some who are said to be here deposited Rich. de Barking Abbot of Westm chief Baron of the Exchequer and Lord Treasurer of England who died anâ—o 1246 he was buried in our Ladies Chappel and had a Tomb of Marble set up for him before the Altar there which in the time of William de Colchester Abbot likewise of this Monastery was taken down by Frier Combe a Sacrist of this Abby who laid a fair plain Marble stone over him with an Epitaph inscribed in brass which stone among many others was removed at the time when King Henry VII built the new Chappel and was placed at the foot of the steps ascending towards the same on the East side of this Area Henry eldest Son of King Henry VIII by Queen Katharine of Spain died an Infant and was buried at the entrance into the Chappel of St. Edward Ralph Selby Doctor of Laws who died anno 1420 was buried under a plated stone of grey Marble on the South part of this Area Anne Buxal Daughter of Sir Alain Buxal Knight and Wife to Sir John de Beverley she died on the second day of October anno 14â—6 and was buried under a plated Marble stone not far from Ralph Selby By her likewise lies her Husband Sir John Beverley Knight under a like stone § 170. In the Chappel of St. Edmund were buried Margaret Dâ—ughter of Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland Wife of Henry Earl of Derby who died anno 1596. and George Brideman Custos of the Queens Palace at Westminster he died anno 1580. By whom is likewise interred his Wife who died anno 1590. Before the high Altar was buried one John Leeke said to be an Archbishop but I can find no such man in my Catalogues of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and therefore I can say no more of him And now leaving this part of the Church by the Monument of Brian Duppa Bishop of Winchester we are let into the North Cross again where on the right hand and against the East side are three small Chappels The first is The Chappel of St. Iohn Evangelist § 171. The Skreen whereof was made and adorned with several Carvings and Coats of Arms by John Estney Abbot of this Monastery painted and gilt with Gold who lies on the South side under a grey Marble Tomb with his Effigies thereon curiously engraven on brass in the Vestments of his Office with a Miter on his head and a Pastoral Staff in his right hand having an Epitaph round the Verge some part only remaining at this time sufficient to inform us that he died on the twenty fourth day of May anno 1438. § 172. Next to this is another grey Marble Tomb adjoyning to the head of Abbot Estney whereon is the Effigies of a Knight in Armour curiously engraven on brass and reposing his head on his Helm with several Coats of Arms about the Tomb wrought in the same brass but the Epitaph round the ledge is torn away under which lies Sir John Harpedon Knight who died anno 1457. § 173. On the South side of this Monument is another grey Marble Tomb covered with a large stone being nine foot long and four foot broad where round the Ledge is still remaining in brass an Epitaph but the Verses and Coat of Arms wherewith the top of this Marble stone was further adorned are wholly perished under which lies Sir Thomas Parry Knight Treasurer of the Houshold and Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries to Queen Elizabeth who died on the fifteenth day of December anno 1560. § 174. In the midst of the floor of this Chappel is a most stately and Souldier-like Monument every way sutable to the person for whom it was made viz. for Sir Francis Vere Knight descended from the illustrious Family of the Veres Earls of Oxford He was Captain General of the English Forces in the united Netherlands in the time of Queen Elizabeth and Governour of the Briel and Portsmouth whose learned Commentaries set forth by himself in the English Tongue shews him no less a Master in the Art of War than learned in other Sciences he died anno 1698 and had this noble Tomb erected for him by the Lady Elizabeth his Wife where on a Pedestal of well polished black Marble and an Epitaph in gilded letters round the Verge lies his Image wrapped in a Night-gown and reposing himself on a quilt all of figured Alabaster over which is a Table of Lydian or Touch shadowing this Image in the nature of a Canopy supported at the four Corners by as many Martial Knights in Armour inclining their right knees towards the ground and resting the Tomb on their shoulders whereon is placed his Helm Corsset Curiass Vibrace Gauntlet Spurs and Shield which together with the Statues themselves at full proportion are all composed of admirable white Marble That for curiosity and neatness this Tomb seems little inferiour to any of the more magnificent Monuments I have described elsewhere § 175. Against the East Wall of this Chappel at the feet of his fellow Souldier and Kinsman Sir Francis Vere is another 〈…〉 nument erected by John Earl of Clare to the remembrance of his Broâ—â—er Sir George Holles Knight a great Souldier and Serjeant Major General over the English Forces in the Low-Countries who dying at London anno 1626. was buried here On a Pedestal whereon is the Epitaph with a Town beleaguered well designed in basso relievo and two weeping Pallas's in dejected postures lying on each side thereof with Owls the Emblems of Sagacity and Vigilance standing by them is a commanding Statue of curious white polished Marble boldly insculpt and altogether furnitured like a Roman Hero one of his eyes supposed to be lost covered with Sables a Mantle falling from his shoulders a Shield on his left Arm whereon are depicted the Matches of his Family and a Commanders Battoon in his right hand seeming like old Nestor to be directing his Battallions even after his death § 176. In this Chappel without any Monuments Tombs or Grave-stones lie
had spoyled her of her riches to be banished deprived Prince Aelfred the Son of King Aethelred and Brother to King Edward the Confessor of his eyes and after he had reigned four years died at Oxford anno 1040. and was buried here saith Matthew of Westminster John Lord Wells Knight of the Garter who married Cecily the Daughter of King Edward IV. and died without Issue was also here interred Sir Fulk de Novo-Castro or New-castle a famous Knight whose body for its Nobility and relation to the Bloud Royal of England was commanded by King Henry III. in his own presence to be buried here anno 1247. Richard de Wendover Bishop of Rochester having the reputation of an holy man was interred here by the Kings Order anno 1250. § 186. Here was likewise buried Hugolin who was both Chamberlain and Treasurer to King Edward the Confessor Edwin Abbot of this Monastery in the time of the same King Sir Geoffrey Mandevile Knight Seniâ—ur and Athelarda his Wife and Geoffrey Man devile Junior Sir James Berners Knight Oliver de Durdens a Baron of this Realm and Brother to King Henry III. Peter Calhan a Citizen Thomas Peverell Sub-Prior Sulcardus that learned Monk and Chronographer who writ the History of this Church The Lady Aeleonore Countess of Barre and Daughter to King Edward I. Richard Harounden Abbot of Westminster Sir William Stoner Knight William Atclyffe Secretary to King Edward IV. The Lady Katharine Daughter to the Dutchess of Norfolk married to Edward Aylmer Walter Hungerford Son of Sir Edward Hungerford Knight The Lord Salisbury William Haverell Thomas Bounflower and Philippa his Wife Thomas Romayne John Alyngreth Roger Braharsen Sir Richard Rous Knight Geoffrey Haspall Sir John Shoreditch Knight and the Lady Helene his Wife James Palmer Clerk and Joan his Sister And John Blockley § 187. According to my promise I have now given you what information you could reasonably expect in a subject of this nature without imposing any thing upon you for truth that hath not the stamp and evidence of antiquity to confirm it I shall therefore trouble you a little longer by leading you out of the Church into the adjoyning Cloysters which you are let into by two Doors on the South side thereof by that towards the West was the Picture of our Saviour Christ nailed to the Cross the B. Virgin standing on one side and S. John on the other curiously painted and very pitiful to behold and round about the sides of these Cloysters were other noble Paintings with variety of Verses alluding to the History of the foundation and the Figures thereon on every side opposite to the Walls where now are only frames of wood was fine glazed Windows of tinctured glass of divers colours and over the entrance into the Chapter-house on the East-side of this Cloyster which is now the way likewise into the Library was placed the Statue of the blessed Virgin with our Saviour in her arms and two Angels on each side all richly enamelled and set forth with Gold and blue some Vestigia or footsteps of all which are still remaining whereby to judge of the former splendour and beauty thereof § 188. For those Monuments of the dead which are to be found about these Cloysters I shall not observe the like order and method as I did in the recital of the foregoing Monuments in the Church and Chappels esteeming most of them of that inferiour nature that reading their Epitaphs and Inscriptions you will receive light enough concerning them To which I shall refer you and you will find towards the latter end of this Book among the Monumental Inscriptions But there are four Grave-stones on the South side of this great Cloyster that deserve our particular inspection and for that they have no manner of Epitaph or Inscription now remaining I shall not only inform you to whom they belong but give you the antient Verses formerly insculpt about them § 189. The first is a plain white Marble stone heretofore covered with Plates of brass under which lies Vitalis Abbot of Westminster in the time of William the Conquerour who died anno 1082. and had this Epitaph ingraved thereon Qui nomen traxit è vita morte vocante Abbas Vitalis transiit hicque jacet § 190. At the feet of Abbot Vitalis is a grey Marble stone the Effigies of an Abbot carved deep thereon a Pastoral Staff in his right hand but no Miter on his head under which Gislebertus Crispinus Abbot of Westminster who died anno 1114. in the time of King Henry I. was interred with these Verses formerly inlaid round the ledge in brass Hic Pater insignis genus altum virgo senexque Gisleberte jaces lux via duxque tuis Mitis eras justus prudens fortis moderatus Doctus quadrivio nec minùs in trivio Sic tamen ornatus nece sexta luce Decembris Spiramen Coelo reddis ossa solo § 191. There is another stone of white Marble at the feet of Gislebertus whereon is carved the Image of an Abbot with a Miter Ring and Pastoral staff in his right hand of the same Marble under which lies Laurentius another Abbot of this Monastery who first obtained from Pope Alexander III. to him and his Successors Abbots the priviledge to use the Miter Ring and Gloves he died anno 1176. and had these Verses ingraven round his Tomb. Clauditur hoc tumulo vir quondam clarus in orbe Quo praeclarus erat hic locus est erit Pro meritis vitae dedit illi laurea nomen Detur vitae laurea pro meritis § 192. That large and stately plain black Marble stone which is vulgarly known by the name of Long Megg of Westminster on the North side of Laurentius the Abbot was placed there for Gervasius de Blois another Abbot of this Monastery who was base Son to King Stephen and by him placed as a Monk here and afterwards made Abbot who died anno 1160 and was buried under this stone having this Distich formerly thereon De regum genere pater hic Gervasius ecce Monstrat defunctus mors rapit omne genus § 193. There were likewise buried in this Cloyster P. Vowel who died anno 1557. Gabriel the Son of Gawin Goodman by Helena his Wife a Child he died anno 1576. Anne Birkhed aged 102 years died anno 1568. and Christopher her Son anno 1596. Edward Bernard a Kings Scholar died anno 1584. Edward Grant a Child anno 1587 And William Punter anno 1597. whose Epitaphs are all worn away The Epitaphs Inscriptions and Coats of Arms on the Monuments Tombs and Gravestones c. Over the Monument these Arms c. viz. Cavendish Three Bucks heads Cabosed a Mullet difference quartering Ogle A Fess between three Crescents all within a Garter Crest on a Torce a Snake nowed Supporters a Bull gorged with a Crown and
that wonder to me it is How he might compass such deeds excellent And yet for that his mind nothing detent All ghostly health for his soule to provide Out of this world ere he fatally should slide So though I had Tully his eloquence Or of Seneca the grave morality Or of Solomon the perfect sapience Or the sweet Ditties of Dame Calliope Yet might I not in Prose or other ditty Accordingly advance this Princes fame Or with due honour to enhance the same Considering his Acts whereof parcel appear In this rude work with many more left out The time also was less than ten year That he so shortly brought all things about By divine grace furthered out of doubt That mightful Lord he holy his ghostly knight With grace honour to pass this worlds â—ight And to have reward double and condign And first for martial Aâ—ts by â—im done To be advanc'd amonâ—st the Worthies nine And for his virtues us'd by him eftsoon done With many good deeds which he on earth had Above the Hierarches he is I trust now stallâ—d That was in earth King of Kings callâ—d 115. Katherinae Reginae uxoris Henrici quinti Epitaphium Hic Katherina jacet Francorum filia Regis Haeres regni Carole sexte tui Henrici quinti thalamo bis laeta jugali Nam sic vir duplici clarus honore fuit Jure suo Anglorum Katherinae jure triumphans Francorum obtinuit jus decus imperii Grata venit laetis foelix Regina Britannis Perque dies celebrant quatuor ore Deum Edidit Henricum gemebunda puerpera Regem Cujus in imperio Francus Anglus erat Non sibi nec regno foelici sidere natum Sed patri matri religione parem Post ex Owino Tiddero tertia proles Nobilis Edmundus te Katherina beat Septimus Henricus quo non praestantior alter Filius Edmundi gemma Britanna fuit Foelix ergo uxor mater ter filia foelix Ast Avia haec foelix terque quaterque fuit Otium fuge Obiit Anno Domini 1437. The Epitaph Of Queen Katherine Wife of Henry V. Here lies Queen Katherine clos'd in grave The French Kings Daughter fair And of thy Kingdom Charles the Sixth The true redoubted Heir Twice joyful Wife in marriage match'd To Henry Fifth by name Because through her he nobl'd was And shin'd in double fame The King of England by descent And by Queen Katherines right The Realm of France he did enjoy Triumphant King of might A happy Queen to English men She came right grateful here And four days space they honoured God With mouth and reverend fear Henry the Sixth this Queen brought forth In painful labours plight In whose Empire a Frenchman was And eke an English wight Vnder no lucky Planet born Vnto himself nor Throne But equal with his Parents both In pure Religion Of Owen Tiddor after this Thy next Son Edmund was O Katherine a renowned Prince That did in glory pass H 〈…〉 the Sâ—vâ—â—th a Britain Pearl A 〈…〉 of Englands joy A 〈…〉 ss Prince was Edmunds Son A good and gratious Roy. Therefore a happy Wife this was A happy Mother pure Thâ—iâ—e happy Child but Grandam she More than thrice happy sure 116. Solium Regni Scotici Rex Edwardus I. cùm devictis Scotis triumphator 1297. rediisset Sceptrum coronam Regum Scotiae unà cum solio in quo Scotorum Reges inaugurati solebant in Ecclesia Westmonasteriensi Deo obtulit Si quid habent veri vel chronica cana sidesve Clauditur hac Cathedra nobilis ecce lapis Ad caput eximius Jacob quondam Patriarcha Quem posuit cernens numina mira poli Qâ—â—m tulit ex Scotis spolians quasi victor honoris Edwardus Primus Mars velut armipotens Scotorum domitor noster validissimus Hector Anglorum decus gloria militiae Arms. viz. Carteret A Fess of four Lozenges cress on a Cressant diff 117. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Edward de Carteret Son of Sir Edward de Carteret Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. 118. Epitaph viz. Dedicated to the Memory of Anne the pious and beloved Wife of Francis Lord Cottington Baron of Hanworth in the County of Middlesex Daughter of Sir William Meredith of the County of Denbigh Knight and of Jane his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer of Wingham in Kent Knight and Baronet who having lived in long and perfect conjugal affection died full of Christian comfort the twenty second day of February 1633. aetatis 33. having had one Son and four Daughters of which Fâ—ances Elizabeth and Anne died before her Charles and Anne now living 1635. Arms. Cottington viz. A Fess between three Roses Crest a Bucks head coped Supporter two Eagles 119. Epitaph viz. Here lies Francis Lord Cottington of Hanworth who in the Reign of King Charles I. was Chancellour of his Majesties Exchequer Master of his Court of Wards Constable of the Tower Lord High Treasurer of England and one of his Majesties Privy Council He was twice Embassadour in Spain once for the said King and a second time for King Charles II. now reigning To both which he most signally shewed his allegiance and fidelity during the unhappy Civil Broyls of those times and for his faithful adherence to the Crown the Usurpers prevailing was forced to fly his Country and during his Exile died at Vallidolid in Spain on the nineteenth day of June Anno Dom. 1652. aetatis suae 74. whence his body was brought and here interred by Charles Cottington Esquire his Nephew and Heir Anno Dom. 1679. Arms. Sidney With quarterings viz. Or a Pheon B. 2. â—arry of ten Arg. and Gules a Lion rampant Or crowned parted per pale of the first and second 3. Arg. two bars and three Escutcheons in chief sab 4. Arg. three Cheverons Gules and file of three B. 5. Arg. on a bend sab three Lozenges of the field 6. Quarterly Arg. and G. an Eâ—carbuncle pomette and Horette Or. 7. B. a Chev. between three Mullets Or. 8. Argent three Lions rampant Gules Impaling Raâ—clâ—â—fe With quarterings viz. Arg. a bend ingrailed sab 2. Or a Fess between two Chev. G. 3. Arg. a Lion ramp sab crowned Or within a bordure B. 4. Or a Saltire ingrailed sab 5. Gules three Fishes hauriant Arg. 6. Arg. three barrulets G. 7. Or semy de Flower-de-luces sab 8. Arg. an Eagle sab perching on a Child in swadling bands Gules Crest on a Torce of his colours a Porcupine B. Quils Collar and Chain reflexed over the back all Or. 120. Epitaph viz. Inclytae Heroinae Franciscae Comitissae Sussex ex nobili Antiqua Sydneiorum familia ortae illustrissimo sapientissimo bellicosissimo viro Domino Henrici Ratcliffe Comiti Sussex nuptae faeminae multis rarissimisque dotibus tum animi tum corporis ornatae in sanguine conjunctos in amicos in pauperes in captivos praecipuè in verbi divini ministros liberalitate charitate prae caeteris
insigni quae lectionem sacrae Theologiae in Ecclesia Westmonasteriensi Collegiata legendam instituit quinque millia librarum per testamentum legavit quibus vel extrâ—â—retur Collegium novum in Academia Cantabrigiensi vel ad augmentum Aulae Clarensis in eadâ—m Academia perquireretur annuus census de quo perpetuò ali pâ—ssint magister unus decem socii Scholares viginti Opus certè praeclarum nunquam satis laâ—datum â—ixit annos 58. moâ—t est 9. Mart. sepulta fuit die 15. Aprilis Anno Dom. 1589. Here lieth the most honourable Lady Frances sometimes Countess of Sussex Daughter of Sir William Sydney of Pensehurst Knight Wife and Widow to that most noble most wiâ—e and most martial Gentleman Thomas Ratcliâ—â—e Earl of Sussex a woman whilst she lived adorned with many and most rare gifts both of mind and body towards God truly and zealously religious to her Friends and Kinsfolk most liberal to the poor Prisoners to the Ministers of the Word of God always most charitable By her last Will and Testament she instituted a Divinity Lecture to be read in this Collegiate Church and by the same her Testament gave also 5000 lib. towards the building of a new College in the Vniversity of Cambridge with sufficient yearly revenue for the continual maintenance of one Master ten Fellows and twenty Schollars either in the same College or else in another House in the said Vniversity already builded commonly called Clare-Hall She lived 58 years and died the ninth of March and was buried the fifteenth of April 1589. Misericordia Charitate Pietate Prudentia Fide Conjugali Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur Omnia plena malis fert Deus unus opem Veni Domine Jesu veni citò Arms. Câ—rleâ—on With quarterings viz. 1. and 4. on a bend three Mascals 2. On a bend three Martlets 3. A Pallet wavy between six Roses and canton Ermine Crest out of a ducal Crown an horse-head coped Supporters an Horse and Mastive Motto Non ad perniciem On one side Carleton Impaling Garrard viz. On a Fess a Lion passant On the other Carleton Impaling a Cheveron between three roundles 121. Epitaph viz. AE M. S. Dudleius Carleton Antonii ex Jocosâ Goodwin filius secundus Martii Anno Christ 1573. Brightweili in agro Oxoniensi natus exactâ variarum Europae nationum linguarum morum jurium legum notitiâ quaesitâ frequentibus pro serenissimis suis Regibus Jacobo inclytissimae memoriae atque Carolo qui diutissime regnet ad Christianos Reges Principes Republicas legationibus susceptis absolutis primario negotiorum secretiorum maximè arduorum munere sanctiorumque consiliorum arcanis fideliter aequè ac prudenter administratis atque ob multam virtutem primum Equitis aurati post Baronis ab Imbercourt tandem vicecomitis Dorcestriae titulo honore quod multo majus omnium quotquot vidêre amore ornatus Bino ferente vitae curriculo conjugio priori diuturniori cum Annâ Garrardâ posteriori breviori cum Annâ Vice-comite Bayning utrâque genere formâ splendida viduâ contracto alterutro nec sterili nec tamen fertili donatus Tandem die 15. Febr. Anno Christi 1631. Westmonasterii denatus animam Deo exuvias terrae reddens triste sui desiderium Regi regno bonis omnibus reliquit ex priore conjuge quae in aliquibus defunctis legationibus fida viro vivo fuit atque etiam mortuo hic sepulta manet comes tulit puâ—rum paucis diebus hâc luce fruentem ex posteriore conjugio quod jam Regis Caroli secretarius primarius vix â—iennio ante obitum subiit in utero reliquit nâ—â—â—â—turam posthumam quae ipsa paucis mâ—nsâ—bus genitorem ex hac vita in meliorem est subsecuta Arms. Puckering With quarterings viz. 1. and 6. Sab a bend of five Fusils cottised Arg. 2. Arg. a Mullet peined Sab. 3. Erm. on a Fess G. three Annulets Or. 4. Arg. three Pallets Vert 5. Arg. two bends the one ingrailed the other plain sab Crest on a Torce of his colours a â—uck springing forward Or. On each side in Lozenge Shields Gules three Rakes in pale bar-ways Arg. Handles Or. 122. Epitaph viz. Juris prudentia pietate consilio multisque aliis virtutibus insignis Johannes Puckering miles à sâ—reniss Elizabetha Angliae Regina in secretius consilium ac summum magni sigilli Angliae Custodiis munus ascitus cùm 4. annis singulari fide aequitate jus dixisset placidè in Domino obdormiens hîc situs est Vixit annos 52. Obiit 30. Aprilis anno 1596. Causarum Imperii curarum pondere fesso Vivere poena fuit mors mihi somnus erat Divitiae fasces legiones stemmata honores Temporis haec spolium praedaque mortisatrae Virtus incendit vires Hanc posuit statuam dilecto sponsa marito Foederis fidei testem pignusque jugalis Spero videre Dominum in terra viventium Arms. â—romley With quarterings viz 1. and 4. Quarterly per Fess indented G. and Or. 2. Arg. on a Chev. within a bordure ingrailed Gules five Bezanâ—s 3. Gules on a Fess Arg. between six Flower-de-luces Or three cross Croslets sable Over all a Crescent difference Or. Crest on a Torce of his colours a Phesant Cock prop. On the Pedestal these Arms. â—romley Impaling Arg. a Cheveron Gules fretty Or. Bromley Impaling Arg. on a Cheveron sab three Besants Bromley Impaling Arg. a bend ingrailed B. cottised Or. 123. Epitaph viz. Consilio Pietate ac jurisprudentia insignis Thomas Bromley Miles à serenissima Elizabetha Angliae Regina in secretius consilium ac summum Cancellariae munus ascitus cùm octo annos singulari â—ide animi moderatione ac aequitate jus dixisset praepropero â—ato lugentibus bonis omnibus ereptus hic situs est Vixit annos 57. obiit 12. Aprilis anno 1587. reliquit ex Elizabetha è Fortescuorum familia â—xore superstites liberos octo Henricus filius patri optimo posuit Justicia Aequitate Labore Industria Studio Diligentia Arms. Fullerton Quartering viz. 1. and 4. Or three Bears heads coped Gules 2. and 3. Arg. on a Fess sab three Mullets of the first annulet difference Impaling a bend inâ—railed Crest on a Torce of his colours A Bears head coped 124. Epitaph viz. Here lies the remnants of Sir James Fullerton Knight first Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to King Charles I. Prince and King a gracious rewarder of all virtue and severe reprover of all vice a profess'd renouncer of all vanity He was a firm Pillar to the Common-wealth a faithful Patron to the Catholick Church a fair Pattern to the British Court He lived to the welfare of his Country to the honour of his Prince to the glory of his God He died fuller of faith than of fears fuller of resolution than of pains fuller of honour than of days Arms. Quarterly 1. and
Resurrection the fourth day of January in the 75. year of her age Anno Dom. 1675. Arms. Waâ—drâ—n viz Argent three Bulls heads trunked sable armed Or. 172. Epitaph viz. Elizabeth Waldron the third Daughter of Dr. Thomas Waldron Physician in Ordinary to King Charles II. and his Houshold died Feb. 5. 167 5 6. being aged nineteen years four months and four days and here underneath was buried the ninth day of the same month being Ashwednesday Arms. Man On a Fess battelle counterbattelle between three Goats passant three roundles 173. Epitaph viz. Here underneath lies buried Thomas Man Gentleman Sewer to the King who died the twenty first day of January 1676. beloved by all good men that knew him for being ever loyal to his Prince and faithful to his Friend aged 55 years 174. Epitaph viz. M. S. Hic jacet quicquid mortale fuit Mariae Bulmer Guil. Greene de Lanmoth in Comitatu Eboracens Armig. filia quae tamen virtutum magis quam natalium splendore claruit habuit Gulielm Bulmer Generosum quem nullo unquam dolore affecit praeterquam moriendo Guil. tantum peperit sed instar multorum filium probae spei adolescentem aedis Christi Oxoniensis brevi nimis alumnum juxta quem immatura prius morte abrept sentiri voluit amantissima mater ut quem vivum unicè dilexerat vel mortuè amplecteretur mortuum pridiè Calendas Feb. anno salutis 1661. aetatis suae ..... Animam Deo reddidit corpus sepulchro famam posteris Arms. Bulmer viz. A Lion rampant billette 175. Epitaph viz. M. S. Charissimi juvenis Gulielmi Bulmer è Comitatu Eboracensi quem ob ingent corporis animi vires nativo candore morum suavitate conjunctas sed dum Londini parentes reviserat febre sublatus studiosi omnes aedis Christi Oxoniensis inter quos literis incumbens medicinae designatus fuerat unicè deflent iidem moestissimi parentes Gulielmus Maria Bulmer P. P. 1658. Arms. Humphrey On a Cross botony charged with Escalop shells â—ans number Impaling three Lions heads erased collered 176. Epitaph viz. Here lieth interred the body of Mr. Pelham Humphrey who died the fourteenth of July Anno Dom. 1674. and in the twenty seventh year of his age Arms. Coke viz. Per pale three Eagles displayed 177. Epitaph viz. Clemens Coke Collegii Westmonasteriensis Alumnus Regius filius Roberti Coke armig filii Clementis Coke de Langeforde in Comitatu Derbiae interioris templi socii filii natu minimi Edw. Coke Equ aurati nup. capitalis Justiciarii ad placita coram Rege tenenda assignati Diem suum clausit extremum octavo Augusti 1668. aetatis suae 18. 178. Epitaph viz. Hic jacet Tho. Nurse M. D. fide spectator hoc spectaculum judica sed ut tu judicaberis discede cogita Obiit anno Dom. 1668. mensis Jun. die 19. aetatis suae 69. Though he kill me yet will I trust in him Job 13. 15. Pater noster mortuus est nec fuit in seditione Corae quae concitata est contra Dominum Num. 27. 3. Quando Dathan Abiran contra Dominum rebellarunt Ch. 26. 9. 179. Epitaph viz. Donec expergiscetur è somno suo sub hoc mormore requiescit quicquid mori potuit Thomae Legat ex agro Essexiensi Armig. mariti patris subditi amici vicini ah quid dicam viri profectò undequaque desideratiss qui placidè obdormivit in Domino Aprilis 15. anno salutis reparatae Milless Sexcentess sexagessimo aetatis suae 63. 180. Epitaph viz. Here lie the bodies of three Sons of Mr. Thomas Knipe the first Thomas who died the twenty fourth of Febr. 1670. being six days old the second also Thomas who died the second of Nov. 1674. being a year and nine months old the third Gilbert Knipe who died the 25 of January 1677. being eight months old 181. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Anne Fitch who departed this life June 12. 1670. 182. Epitaph viz. Mary Tucker 1670. 183. Epitaph viz. Here lieth interred the body of William Blount a Kings Schollar Son of Anthony Blount Gent. who departed this life the sixth day of May 1670. aged eighteen years 184. Epitaph viz. Here lies the body of John Oxenham of the Inner Temple London Esq his life was most eminent and death truly pious he was married almost five years to the youngest Daughter of Richard Newman Esquire he was near thirty years of age and departed this life the third of October 1680. one Brother and three Sisters of his Wives lie by him 185. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Lewkenor Halsey a Kings Scholar Son of Richard Halsey of the County of Sussex Clerk who departed this life the 28. day of Septemb. 1676. aged 19 years 186. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Mr. Edward Woodrooof who deceased Nov. 16. Anno Dom. 1675. in the 54 year of his age and of Margaret his Wife who departed this life the tenth of Feb. 1665. 187. Epitaph viz. Under this stone lies buried the bodies of Mary and Dorothy Pipe Mary died in the year 1665. and Dorothy the sixteenth of June 1676. 188. Epitaph viz. Mrs. Elenor Lyne June 5. 1648. 191. Epitaph viz. John Gavan of St. Pauls Covent-Garden departed this life the 21. of Aug. 1666. aged 58 years His flesh interred here contain'd a spirit Who by Gods mercy and his Saviours merit Departed in that constant hope of dust Eternally to reign among the Just To live die well was his whole endeavour And in a span di'd to live for ever 190. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Frances and Elizabeth the Daughters of Edmund Riggs Gent. which said Frances died the 31. of Octob. 1659. of the age of four years And Elizabeth the ... April 1660. aged three years 191. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of ..... Aston Clerk of her Majesties Robes he ended this mortal life the eighth of May 1644. 191. Epitaph viz. Depositum Johannis Evans Gen. qui vitam hanc pro aeternitate foeliciter mutavit Jan. 26. Anno Dom. 1657. virtus pro Pyramide Arms. Faireborne viz. An Hawk or Falcon with Bells and Wings expansed within a bordure invect Erm. Crest on a Torce a Gantlet holding a Sword on the point of which a Moors head 192. Epitaph viz. Here lieth John Faireborne the sixth Son of Sir Palmes Faireborne Knight and Dame Margaret his Wife who died at the age of two months and two weeks and was buried here Feb. 25. 167 8 9. Arms. Thompson viz. On a Fess wavy three Estoyles on a Canton a Sun in its glory Crest on a Torce an hand and arm coped at the elbow holding three Ears of Genny Wheat 193. Epitaph viz. Here lieth interred the body of John Son of John Thompson of St. Martins in the fields Gent. and Anne his Wife who was born upon the fifth of
thousand Victims of his Foes To his lamented loss for time to come His pious Widow consecrates this Tomb. Arms. Cholmondeley viz. Two close Helmets in chief and a Garb in base a cressant diff And again the same Arms with a Martlet difference 199. Epitaph viz. Hic jaceâ—t sepulti duo ex filiis nobilissimi Domini Roberti Vice-comitis Cholmondeley qnorum alter Robertus natu secundus annorum nondum quatuordecim Puer optimae spei Virginalis vericundiae Ingenii virilis hujusce Collegii Regius Alumnus nobile ornamentum laudabiles in literis Latinis Graecis Hebraicis progressus generosâ indole honestavit Scires antiquâ Cholmondeleiorum familiâ ortum Obiit 4. Non. Feb. An. Salutis 2678. Alter Richardus natu quartus annorum duodecim tanta bonae indolis edidit specimina ut facile agnoscas fratrem Obiit Non. Jun. An. Dom. 1680. Arms. Cholmondeley twice with the same Arms and difference as before c. 200. Epitaph viz. Here lieth interred the Bodies of Robert and Richard Cholmondeley Sons to the Right Honorable Robert Lord Cholmondeley 1682. Arms. Mansel A Cheveron between three Manches Crest on a torce an Eagle preparing to fly 201. Epitaph viz. Here under is buried the Body of Edward Mansel eldest Son of Sir Edward Mansel of Morgan in the County of Glamorgan Baronet who died the 20th day of June 1681. and in the 15th year of his age 202. Epitaph viz. Huic adjacet lectissima matrona Domina Brigitta Prosapiâ connubio nobilis nobilior virtutibus erga Principes fide pietate in conjugem beneficentiâ omnibus cui Jan. 17. Anno Aetatis 88. Christi 1681. vitâ defunctae Christianâ Domina Esthera Nurse ex sorore Neptis testamento haeres dignatione regali nobilium virginum Praefecturae succedaneo H. M. S. P. Arms. Egerton A Fess Ermine between three Pheons Over all an Escutcheon of pretence with Banning and Murray Quarterly viz. 1 and 4. 2 Bars on each as many Escalop-shells 2 and 3. Three Mullers within a double treasure flory counterflory Crest on a Torce a plume of â—ive Ostrich-feathers Motto Supra spem spero 203. Epitaph viz. Randolph Egerton of Betley in Staffordshire Esquire Major-General of Horse to King Charles the First and eldest Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Colonel of his Majesty Charles the Second's own Troop of Guards under the Command of his Grace James Duke of Monmouth First Married to Penelope Daughter of the Right Honorable Robert Viscount Kilmurrey of the Kingdom of Ireland and now to Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Henry Murray Esq one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bed-chamber King Charles the First by Ann Vicountess Banning Obiit 20. Octob. 1681. Arms. Herbert Parted per pale Three Lions Rampant Motto Fortitudine Prudentia 204. Epitaph viz. Edward Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury in England and Castle-Islands in Ireland died the 9th of December 1678. in the 46th year of his Age and lies Buried under this Stone 205. Epitaph viz. Ann the Wife of Sir Peter Apseley Knight who departed this life September 5. 1681. 206. Epitaph viz. Depositum Illustrissimae Dominae Charlottae-Mariae filiae septimo-genitae serenissimi Principis Jacobi Ducis Eboraci c. ex conjuge Maria D'Este Quae in Aula Regia St. Jacobi Dicta sexto die Octobris anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo octogesimo secundo in Dimino obdormivit Aetatis suae septimâ hebdomade tertio die Annoque Domini MDCLXXXII 207. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the Body of Margaret Stradling Wife to Dr. George Stradling Prebendary of this Church who died September 19. Anno Dom 1681. In the Cloysters 208. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Mr. John Banester who departed this life the Third of October 1679. 209. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the Body of John Collins born the 7th day of Sept. Anno Dom. 1657. and deceased the 18th day of May 1681. Arms. Fox Ermine on a Cheveron three Foxes heads erased A Canton charged with a Flower-de-luce 210. Epitaph viz. Hic juxta obdormiunt inter Edwardi Johannis Stephani trium fratrum cineres Gulielmus Jacobus Fox honoratissimi Domini Stephani Fox Equitis aurati Elizab. uxoris filii parentes filiis filii parentibus quà m dignissimi Quos vivos amor morientes morbus mortuos sepulchrum conjunxit uterque variâ literaturâ excultus admiranda sui floruit Antithesis sub juvene maturans virum patriae honoribus nasci habebatur quos major natu ardâ—is par negotiis in regiarum copiarum quaesturâ per totam Angliam sibi conciliavit Vterque in vitae cunabulis in morte alter Hercules dum morbillorum perfidiâ sublatus ex igne tunicâ molesta ad â—oelos evolâsse videatur Gulielmus Obiit Apr. 17. 1680. Aet An. 20. Jacobus Obiit Nov. 19. 1677. Aet An. 13. 211. Epitaph viz. With diligence and trust most exemplary Did William Lawrence serve a Prebendary And for his pains now past before not lost Gain'd this remembrance at his Masters cost O read these Lines again you seldom find A Servant faithful and his Master kind Short-hand he wrote his Flower in prime did fade And hasty Death short hand of him hath made Well couth he Numbers and well measur'd Land Thus doth he now that Ground whereon you stand Wherein he lies so Geometrical Art maketh some but thus will Nature all Obiit Decemb. 28. 1621. Aetat suae 29. Arms. Iohnson A Fess of five Lozenges between three Lions heads erased Crest out of a Ducal Crown an Horse head coped 212. Epitaph viz. Here lieth Nicholas Johnson Esq Pay-master of his Majesties Land-Forces who died the 20th of Apr. 1682. 213. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the Body of Mrs. Ann Tufton Daughter of Sir Richard Tufton and Margaret his Lady his second Wife who died in the Year of our Lord 1680. 214. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the Body of Sackvil Whittle Esq Chirurgeon to his Majesties Person who departed this Life the 19th of February 1680. being in the 50th year of his Age. FINIS THE TABLE Note that Abb. after a name stands for Abbot Ar. Episc for Archbishop Bar. for Baron or Bâ—roness Com. for Countess D. for Duke or Dutchess Dom. for Lord E. for Earl Episc for Bishop Ebor. for York Fil. for Son or Daughter Marq. for Marquess R. for King or Queen S. for Saint and Visc for Viscount A. ADymerus Abb. Page 20 Aelianore Vide Elianor Agard 351 Aiton 160 337 Albemarle E. 29 39. D. 96 Alexander III. R. Scot. 28 Alfgarus Abb. 20 Alfnodus Abb. ibid Alfricus Abb. 20 Alfwinus Abb. ibid. Allen 174 Alphonsus fil E. I. 56 Alyngreth 176 Amundisham 159 347 Anduren Episc 243 Andrewes 21 Angus E. 89 275 Angolesme E. 37 147 Ann R. Angl. uxor R. II. 301 Ann R. Angl. uxor R. III. 33 Ann Cleve R Angl. uxor H. VIII 34 Ann Bullen R. Angl.