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
them confirmed by the Bishop of Rome whose Bull was inserted in the body of the Great Charter according to the custom of that Age. After all which he fell sick and soon after died and was buried according to his desire in this his new Church of Westminster § 7. One hundred and threescore years had now passed from the time of King EDWARD the Confessor during which space all the Kings and Queens of England had not been sparing in their Liberalities whilst living nor forgetful by their Legacies when dead to increase and multiply the Revenues of this Monastery when HENRY III. King of England commanded the old Fabrick of King EDWARD to be taken down and out of the largeness of his Princely mind began part of that work which is now standing laying the first stone thereof in the year 1220. and as an addition thereunto built a particular Chappel at the East end and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary But such was his misfortune at this time that having begun a work so ample and large that it exceeded the bounds and incomes of his revenue he was forced to have recourse to means not altogether so honourable as he could have wished to finish the same For by a wile or stratagem he procured money of the Citizens of London with which and by the help of the Monks who very much enlarged it towards the West at length after fifty years time and a wonderful charge it was finished § 8. But long had not this Church of King HENRY continued when a sudden fire hapning in the Palace hard by and the wind driving the devouring flames towards the Abby it took hold of the Church whereby the Roof which was then covered with Lead and all the Timber therein was consumed leaving nothing but the bare Walls as a mournful remembrance of its former splendour which by the assistance of King EDWARD I. and II. with the help of the Abbots was again repaired some of whom were especial Builders and Benefactors to this Monastery § 9. As SIMON LANGHAM who being Abbot and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury he discharged a debt of 2200 marks owing by this Covent to some Merchants he gave 400 pounds towards the finishing the body of the Church Books to to the value of 830 pounds And forgave this Church a debt which was owing him of 3954 pounds § 10. NICOLAS LITLINGTON Abbot who from the foundation built the Hall and great Chamber called Hierusalem with the West and South side of the great Cloister his Arms remaining there at this day viz. Quarterly Argent and Gules in the second and third a Fret Or on a Bend B. 3. Flowersde-lucies of the third He also erected the Granary which is now the dormitory for the Kings Scholars with the Tower adjoyning and a Water Mill for the use of the same Abby § 11. JOHN ESTNEY eased this Church of 3070 pounds which was owing to the See of Rome for the confirmation of their Abbots and built the great West Window at his own charge § 12. And JOHN ISLIP who was a man of great Authority in the time of HENRY the Seventh King of England He built that which is now the Deans House repaired much of the Church and other buildings belonging to this Monastery renewing all the Butteresses and placing in the Niches thereof the Statues of all the Kings and Queens that had been Benefactors to the same § 13. In this Abbots time it was that HENRY VII before-mentioned in the year 1502. intending a more sumptuous and curious Chappel to the honour of the Blessed Virgin than what King HENRY III. had already built pulled down that Structure so reared by him and erected that stately Edifice now called by his name which by LELAND and other learned Antiquaries is stiled not unworthy Orbis Miraculum or the wonder of the World The King himself laid the first stone thereof and forbad by his last Will and Testament that any but the Bloud Royal should be interred therein expending in the raising and finishing this curious Fabrick the sum of â—1400 pounds only § 14. From hence as to the buildings about the Church all things have continued without any eminent alteration or change until these our days But the Government thereof hath participated of divers variations and turns of Fortune For after it had remained almost a Thousand years under the regiment of Abbots and Monks It was resigned up by WILLIAM BENSON the Abbot and seventeen Monks into the Kings hands in pursuance of an Act of Parliament on the sixteenth day of January in the 31. year of the Reign of King Henry VIII being able to expend by the year 3471 pounds and two pence farthing so great were then her constant revenues Soon after the resignation in the year 1539. and that the Abbot was preferred but the Monks sent abroad to seek their fortunes the King took the Revenues into his own possession and ordered the Church to be governed by a Dean and Prebendaries placing therein BENSON who had been the last Abbot to be the first Dean But in the year 1541. this Government was dissolved and the Church turned into an Episcopal See having Middlesex for its Diocess and THOMAS THURLEBY for its Bishop who having much dilapidated and spent the Revenues allotted for its maintenance after nine years he was removed from thence to the Bishoprick of Norwich whereby a second time it reverted to be governed by a Dean and Prebendaries But when MARY Queen of England came to the Crown after the death of her Brother King EDWARD VI. it again changed its condition for the Queen having procured a Licence from her kinsman REGINALD POLE who was Archbishop of Canterbury a Cardinal and the Popes Legate here in England for disanulling the former institution of a Dean and Prebendaries setled therein JOHN FECKNAM Abbat and fourteen Monks in the year 1556. But with her life this Government likewise ended And with the entrance of Queen ELIZABETH into the Throne it reassumed to be governed by a Dean and twelve secular Canons and Prebendaries who turned it into a Collegiate Church placing therein besides petty Canons and others of the Quire to the number of thirty Ten Officers belonging to the Collegiate Dyet two Schoolmasters forty Scholars and twelve Alms-men with plentiful maintenance for all besides Stewards Receivers Registers a Library-Keeper Collectors and other Officers the Principal being the High Steward of Westminster who is usually one of the prime Nobility Most of these Revenues were embezled and â—â—crilegiously disposed of in the late Usurpation after the Martyrdom of King CHARLES I. his present Majesties most Royal Father as Dean and Chapters Lands But upon the happy Restauration of our King to his Crown and Kingdoms they return'd again to their former Proprietors and the Government continues the same at this day § 15. As the Abbots of this Monastery in
countenance from despising her § 21. For the figure of this Church you will find it built in the form of a Cross whose Vault and side Isles are supported by eight and forty Pillars of Grey Marble each distant from the other eight foot and from thence another row of lesser Pillars double the number of the first and of the same Marble to the upper Roof or Vault sixty foot The Vault it self being supported by these Pillars whose Arches turn not upon the Semy-Circle according to the Roman manner of Architecture practised in our days but meet in acute Angles in imitation of the Gothick way of building and dividing themselves into several Squares compose a most stately Roof wrought with divers figured stands and in some places curiously gilt with Gold The length being 360 foot onely to the Stairs of the Chappel of our Lady or HENRY VII within the Walls The breadth of the Nave 75 foot of the Cross 195 from the Chappel of St. BENEDICT on the South to that of St. ERASMUS on the North 114 foot from the Chappel of S. EDMUND to that of St. JOHN BAPTIST 126 foot and from that of St. NICOLAS South to that of St. PAUL on the North 95 all being in your view as you enter the Church and adding thereto the Chappel of the Blessed Virgin or King HENRY VII which contains 122 foot in length and 62 in breadth The whole Fabrick will be no less than 482 foot long within the Walls thereof as I have measured it by a Line a very noble and large Structure almost equalling in length St. PETERS in Rome St. PETERS in York c. and surpassing many famous Churches and Temples as that of Solomon only 60 Cubits long the Temple of DIANA in Ephesus 425 foot and the great Moske at FEZ long 150 Cubits § 22. There are in this Church no less than ten Chappels besides those two of the Kings or the Chappels of St. EDWARD and the Blessed Virgin and those of St. KATHERINE and St. ANNE of whose situation I am ignorant viz. on the South four those of St. BLASE St. BENEDICT St. EDMUND and St. NICOLAS on the North six those of St. ANDREW St. MICHAEL St. JOHN EVANGELIST St. ERASMUS St. JOHN BAPTIST and St. PAUL which serve to flanck up this Church notably to its advantage and credit On each side the body or Nave under every Window and between each Pillar you have the names in antient English or Saxon Letters and under them the Coats of Arms of the several Kings Princes and Noblemen who flourished when HENRY III. re-edified this Church On the South 1. S. Edwardus Rex Confessor B. a Cross Patonce between five Martlets Or. 2. Henricus Tertius Rex Angliae Gules three Lions passant gardant O. 3. Alexander Tertius Rex Scotorum Or a Lion rampant within a double Tressure flory counter-flory Gules 4. Raimundus comes Provinciae Or four Pallets Gules 5. Rogerus de Quincy comes Wintoniae Gules 7. Mascals conjoyned 3. 3. 1. Or. 6. Henricus de Lacy comes Lincolniae Quarterly Gules and Or a Bendlet Sab. and file of five Lambeaux Arg. 7. Richardus comes Cornubiae Arg. a Lion rampant Gules crowned Or. within a bordure Sab. bezanty 8. R. comes Rothesaiae Gules three Lions rampant Argent 9. Guilielmus comes de Ferrariis Derbiae Vaire Or and Gules 10. Guilielmus de Longaspata comes Sarum B. six Lions rampant Or. 3. 2. 1. 11. Guilielmus de Valentia comes Penbrochiae Barry of 10. Argent and B. an Orle of Martlets Gules 12. Rogerus de Mortuo-mari Barry of 6. Or and B. an Inescucheon Arg. on a chief of the first a Pale between two Esquires based dexter and sinister of of the second 13. Guilielmus de Percy Or. a Lion rampant dublee quevee B. 14. Rogerus de Clifford Checkie Or and B. a Fess Gules 15. Rogerus de Somerey Or two Lions passant B. 16. Iohannes de Verdon Or fretty of eight pieces Gules 17. Robertus de Thwenge Argent a Fess Gules between three Birds vert collared of the second 18. Fulco filius Warini Quarterly per Fess indented Argent and Gules 19. Rogerus de Monte Alto. B. a Lion rampant Argent crowned Or. 20. Rogerus de Venables B. 2. Bars Argent On the North 1. Fredericus Secundus Imperator Or an Imperial Eagle Sable 2. S. Lodovicus Rex Franciae B. Semi de Flowers de Lucies Or. 3. Richardus Clare comes Glocestriae Or three Cheverons Gules 4. Rogerus Bigod comes Norfolciae Or a Cross Gules 5. Simon de Monteforti comes Leicestriae Gules a Lion rampant double quevee Argent 6. Io. comes Warennae Surriae Checkie Or B. 7. Humfridus de Bohun comes Herefordiae Essexiae B. a Bend Arg. cottised between six Lioncels rampant Or. 8. Guilielmus de Fortibus comes Albemarlae Gules a Cross Patonce Varry 9. Edmundus comes Lancastriae Gules three Lions passant guardant in Pale barways Or a file of five Lambeaux B. each charged with three Flower-de-Luces of the second 10. Hugo de Vere comes Oxoniae Quarterly Gules and Or. in the first quarter a Mullet Argent 11. Iohannes de Dreux comes Richmondiae Checkie Or. and B. a bordure of England and Canton Ermine 12. Henricus de Hastings Or a Manch Gules 13. Rogerus de Mowbraye Gules a Lion ramp Arg. 14. Robertus de Stafford Or a Cheveron Gules 15. Robertus de Ross Gules three Waterboudgets Argent 16. Robertus filius Walteri Or a Fess between two Cheverons Gules 17. Iohannes de Balliol Gules an Orle Arg. 18. Gilbertus Talbot Bendy of ten Argent and Gules 19. Warinus de Vernon Or a Fess B. 20. Guilielmus de Malpas Gules three Pheons Argent § 23. About fifty and five foot from the great West Door in the midst of the body or Nave to the Screen that separates the high Altar from the Shrine of St. EDWARD and the Chappel of the Kings being near 152 foot in length and 32 in breadth is a place set apart for the Quire with all decent conveniences for the celebration of divine Service and preaching the Word of God where by the Pulpit is a most comely Picture of one of our Kings sitting in the Ornaments and Chair of Coronations which is said to be the Picture of RICHARD II. King of England it is very beautiful to behold and well done considering the distance of years since it was made And that it was designed for him is greatly confirmed by the report our Historians give of his incomparable beauty and admirable features and that his Picture placed in the Kings Collection at his Royal Palace of Hampton-Court differs very little therefrom Ascending from this Picture by two or three Greeses or steps until you come to the Rails that compass in the High Altar you there behold that noble and most glorious inlaid Floor still remaining intire that was done by the command and charge
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
a Child in a Cradle made of Alabaster finely engraven and gilt with Gold being set on a Pedestal of black Marble and was placed here likewise by the order of King James for his Daughter Sophia an Infant who was born on the 22 day of June anno 1606. and died three days after § 85. The other towards the South is a neat raised Tomb of Alabaster and Touch adorned with Arms and gilt with Gold whereon is placed the Image of a Child lying at length and leaning on her left Arm composed of white Marble and lively painted for another Daughter of King James Monarch of Great Britain viz. Mary who died on the sixteenth day of December anno 1607. being two years five months and eight days old § 86. Between these is the third where in the Wall is a Nich cut on purpose and a curious Altar of black and white Marble admirably polished with two Crowns and as many golden branches of Palm with an Epitaph engraven on the Pedestal informing us that his present Majesty Charles II. Monarch of Great Britain commanded this to be erected to revive and perpetuate the remembrance of his Kinsmen those Princely Youths who were most barbarously smothered to death with Pillows in the Tower of London by the cruelty of their unnatural Uncle King Richard III. viz. Edward V. King of England and Richard Duke of York his Brother whose bodies so long sought for but in vain by reason of the sudden death of the Priest who buried them were lately found by undoubted circumstances on the seventeenth day of July 1674. after 196 years obscurity For some alterations being ordered to be made in the Tower of London about this time and â—hâ— Workmen taking up the steps enâ—â—ring the Chappel belonging to the White Tower they found these bodâ—â—s there-under deposited which our most Royal Sovereign out of his noble and compassionate nature pitying their unjust punishment and hard fortune commanded with all decency and reverence to be translated and reinterred here among ashes equally as Royal as their own which was performed accordingly anno 1678. § 87. At the head of Mary and Elizabeth Queens of England in a small Vault capable of no more than two Coffins are deposited in leaden Chests George Monke Duke of Albemarle and Edward Mountague Earl of Sandwich These loyal and most worthy Gentlemen who as yet have no Monuments erected for them but their Banners Pennons Guidons and other Ensigns of honour are hung up here as Trophies of their incomparable fame The Statue of the Duke of Albemarle in compleat Armour with his Parliament Robes as a Mantle covering them with the Collar of the Order of St. George round his neck a Battoon in his hand and a Coronet on his head is likewise placed in a Press of Wainscot further to remember him § 88. This George Monke was Son to Sir Thomas Monke of Potheridge in the County of Devon Knight who having much delighted from his youth and practised a military course of life as well in forain parts as at home after the Martyrdom of King Charles I. and the expulsion of his Royal Issue was intrusted by the Usurpers with the command of one of their Armies and made General in the North. But such was the integrity of this illustrious Hero and true loyalty to his Masters Children that he held correspondency with the King during his exile and only waited the opportunity which was afterwards put into his hands of restoring him to his Kingdoms for which good services and that by the Lady Frances Daughter and Coheir to Arthur Plantagenet natural Son to King Edward IV. Wife of Thomas Monke Esquire his lineal Ancestor he was descended from Edward Grey Viscount Lisle Son to the renowned John Talbot sometime Earl of Shrewsbury by Margaret his Wife of that valiant Earl from the famous Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Aumarle Regent of France whose eldest Daughter and Co-heir she was he had by Letters Patent bearing date the seventh day of July in 12 Car. 2. these several Dignities and Titles of honour conferred upon him and the Heirs Males of his body viz. Baron Monke of Potheridge Beauchamp and Teyes Earl of Torrington and Duke of Albemarle and shortly after instauled Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter He married Anne the Sister of Sir Thomas Clarges Knight and died on the fourth of January 1669. leaving Christopher his Son and Successor A Cenotaph was here erected with his Statue thereon standing many days in the body of this Church and on the day of his interment there was a most solemn Funeral Pomp with all the Nobility and chief Gentry of the Kingdom attending him to the Grave by the express order and at the charge of our present Sovereign to whom he was most dear § 89. Edward Mountague his Companion both in life and death was Son and Heir to Sir Sydney Mountague de Hinchinbrooke in the County of Huntingdon Knight who was youngest Brother to Edward the first Lord Mountague of Boughton This Edward no less than his fâ—llow-Souldier the Duke of Albemarle by land became intrusted with the like power of being Admiral by Sea and by the same Usurpers where for a time both of them were forced to disguise their honest thoughts by a seeming compliance with their unjust tyranny By which means they became the chief and happy Instruments without any opposition of restoring again the Laws Liberties Peace and Tranquillity of these Kingdoms and their lawful Sovereign after twelve years exile to his undoubted Right and Inheritance For which good services he was made Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Mountague of S. Neots in Com. Hunt Viscount Hinchinbrooke and Earl of Sandwich But being Vice-Admiral to his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany in the Sea-fight between the English and the Dutch on the twenty eighth of May Anno 1672. had his Ship called the Royal Iames most unfortunately set on â—irâ— where he lost his life in the forty seventh year of his age his body being afterwards found on the Sea Coast was taken up and brought to Westminster in great state and here honourably interred He married Semina Daughter to John Lord Crew de Stene in Com. North. and had Issue six Sons Edward Sydney Oliver John Charles and James and four Daughters Jemina Paulina Anne and Katharine § 90. On each side of the Founders Tomb are two small Chappels In that on the North is a most Magnificent and stately Monument for George Villers that Great Duke of Buckingham who was slain at Portsmouth with a Ponyard in his Expedition to the Isle of Rea by the impious hands of Felton a Lieutenant under his Command in the year 1634. â—e married Katharine the Daughter and Heir of the Earl of Rutland and had several Children by her viz. Mâ—ry Charles who died in their iâ—â—â—ncy George the
under which lies Thomas of Woodstock sixth Son to King Edward III. who was Earl of Buckingham and Duke of Glocester a man of great Nobility and Renown whom Richard II. his Nephew betrayed and afterwards caused him to be barbarously murthered at Calis anno 1397. He married Elenore one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex who lieth buried in St. Edmunds Chappel as I have declared before by whom he had Issue one Son and three Daughters viz. Humphrey who died without Issue Anne who was Wife of Edmund Earl of Stafford Joan who died unmarried and Isabel who was a Nun at the Minoresses in London § 153. Towards the North side of this Chappel at the foot of the Tomb of King Edward I. is another large grey Marble stone fairly set forth with fine ingraved brass whereon is the Effigies of a Bishop in the Vestments of his Office with a Miter on his head and a Pastoral staff in his right hand with the Pictures of the twelve Apostles divided and embroidered on either side of him and other artificial Imagery work about it the Epitaph round the Ledge being worn away but was here placed by the command of Richard II. whose Favourite he was to the memory of John Waltham the twenty sixth Bishop of Salisbury anno 1388. He was constituted Master of the Rolles 1382 then Keeper of the Privy Seal and in the year 1391. Lord High Treasurer of England in which Office he continued until his death which hapned in the year 1395. and was buried in this place § 154. Here is likewise on the West side the Feretory of St. Edward hard by the Skreen that separates the High Altar from this Chappel the Chair or Seat whereon our Kings are accustomed to be Inaugurated and Crowned It appears extreamly antient both in its fashion and materials being made of solid hard firm wood with a back and sides of the same under whose Seat supported by four Lions curiously carved insteed of feet lies that so much famed stone whereon the Patriarch Jacob is said to have reposed his head in the Plain of Luza it is of a blewish steel-like colour mix'd with some eyes of red triangular rather than any other form and being broken resembles a Peble The ruines of the Chair it self shews that heretofore it hath been fairly painted and gilt with Gold but at present it is much defaced you have a small Table of Verses hanging thereon but by reason they give us little light concerning the antient story of this stone and Chair I shall trouble your patience with a short Narrative thereof which is reported to have been first in Gallicia of Spain at Brigantia where Gathel King of Scots there sate on it as his Throne Thence it was brought into Ireland by Simon Brech first King of Scots who transplanted it into that Isle about seven hundred years before Christ It was brought out of Ireland by King Ferguze abut 370 years afterwards into Scotland and in the year of our Lord 850 was placed at the Abby of Scone in the Sheriffdom of Perth by King Kenneth where the Coronation of his Ancestors usually had been celebrated who caused this Distich to be ingraven upon it Ni fallat vatum c. And to be inclosed in this wooden Chair Afterwards when Edward I. King of England had overcome John Balliol King of Scots in many Battels he returned in the year 1297 to England bringing with him great Spoyls among which this Throne with the Crown and Scepter of their Kings were likewise taken and offered by him here at the Shrine of St. Edward and ever since hath been made use on as the accustomed Throne whereon our Kings do usually â—it on the days of their Inauguration As to the Prophesie insculpt on this Stone it seems happily to be accomplished sometime since when James VI. King of Scotland came to the Imperial Crown of England whose Grandson and Heir King Charles II. our present Sovereign now enjoys it § 195. The North side of this Chappel is taken up by three noble Tombs That towards the West is a plain Monument of grey Marble raised about five foot from the ground being on the right hand of the entrance without any Inscription or adornments more than a Table of Verses hanging by to inform you that Edward I. King of England Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine Lord of Ireland and Son to King Henry III. by Eleanor Daughter to the Earl of Province lies there intombed He took to Wife Eleanor Daughter to Ferdinand III. King of Castile and Lions who warred often with the Scots and that successively won Barwick c. and in the years 1308. died and was buried here § 156. Eleanora first Wife to this Edward King of England lies under that neat Tomb Northeast of the Feretory of St. Edward whose Pedestal is composed of Freestone and grey Marble whereon are the Arms of England Castile Leon and Pontois ingraven with a Sepulchre painted on the backside to be seen in the Area with divers Monks praying thereat all in plano on this Tomb is her Image in curious wrought Brass gilt with Gold her hair dishevelled and falling in very comly order on her shoulders her head crowned under a â—ine Canopy supported by two Cherubims of the same curious gilded Brass half encompassed on her left side with a screen of Iron wrought through in divers pleasant forms and delightful figures an Epitaph carved on the ledge in French and a Table hanging by in Latine and English Rhime to tell us further that she was only Daughter to Ferdinand III. King of Castile and Leon by Joan his second Wife Heir to Guydo Earl of Ponthieu by which the Earldom of Ponthieu devolved of right to the Kings of England She was Mother of King Edward II. and died in the year 1298. § 157. Between these two lie the Father of this Edward King of England viz. Henry III. under a most sumptuous Monument made Altar-wise of three ascents the first containing only a plain Pedestal of grey Marble wherein there be several Ambries and Lockiers made use of heretofore to lay up the Vestments and rich Copes belonging to the Altar of St. Edward The other is a composure of curious work framed of diverse coloured Marbles and glittering stones resembling those on the Feretory of S. Edward chequered and gilt with Gold supported at each corner by four twisted or Serpentine Columns of the same speckled Marble all brought from beyond the Seas by his Son Edward on purpose to adorn this his Fathers Sepulchre on the top whereof is placed his Image in his Royal Habiliments of solid Brass curiously wrought and gilt with Gold having a Lion at his feet an half Canopy over his head and an Epitaph in French round the ledge all of the same gilded Brass with a Table of Verses hanging by to let us know that this Henry King of England
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
Dominiorum ac suditorum protectoris dignissimi exercituumque Praefecti lâ—cum-â—enentis Generalis Thesaurarii Comitis Mariscalli Angliae Gubernaâ—â—ris Capitanei insularum de Garnesey Iersey sub cujus prospero auspiâ—â—o toties tam foeliciter de Scotis Edinburgi Lethae Musselburgi praelio devictis gloriosè triumphatur Heroina quidem natalium splendore illustrissima utpote filia praeclari Equitis Edwardi Stanhoppe suae conjugis Elizabethae filiae Fulconis Bourchier Domini Fitz-Warini à quo Bathoâ—â—â— Com 〈…〉 erm sunt orti Filius 〈…〉 Gulielmi Fitz-warini Baronis fratris germani Henrici Comitis Essexiae Johannis à Berneriis dynastae Quos Gulielmus Oxinensis 〈…〉 in Normannia Comes eorum genitor susceperat ex Anna filia sola Haerede Thomae de Woodstock Ducis Gloucestriae junioris filii magni Regis Edwardi tertii Alâ—onâ—rae conâ—ortiâ— suae cohaeredis Humfredi decimi de Bohun Comitis Herefordiae Essexiâ— Northamptoniae Constabulariâ— Angliae Pulchram maritâ— numâ—rosam â—â—â—â—triâ—sque sexus prolem â—â—ixa esâ— Edwardum scilicet Hertfordiae Comitem Hâ—nricum alterum Edwardum Annam Warwicensent Comitissam Margareâ—â—m Jaâ—am Marâ—am Katharinam Elizabetham ad fatalâ—m maturae sâ—nâ—â—â—â—tis â—oram cum 〈…〉 â—â—nâ—gâ—naâ—â—a pâ—rveniâ—â—â—â— aâ—erno nuâ—â—â—i sp 〈…〉 firma in Ch 〈…〉 â—ide plâ—â—â—dâ— â—◠〈…〉 reddidit 16. Kalend Aprilis die Pas â—al◠〈…〉 â— salutis 1587. Edwardus 〈…〉 Hertfordiae Comes acerbo in 〈…〉 s d 〈…〉 â—â—renti hoc mâ—â—â—mâ—ntum 〈…〉 â—â—â—oris â—rfâ—o quo abundavit viv◠〈…〉 sed amoris causa pro 〈…〉 dâ—votissimè consecravit Here lieth intombed the noble Dutchess of Somerset Anne dear Spouse unto the renowned Prince Edward Duke of Somerset Earl of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp and Baron Seymour Companion of the most famous Knightly Order of the Garter Uncle to King Edward VI Governour of his Royal Person and most worthy Protector of all his Realms Dominions and Subjects Lieutenant-General of all his Armies Treasurer and Earl-Martial of England Governour and Captain of of the Isles of Guernesey and Iersey under whose prosperous conduct glorious victory hath been so often and so fortunately obtained over the Scots vanquished at Edenburgh Leith and Musselborough field A Princess descended of noble Linage being Daughter to the worthy Knight Sir Edward Stanhoppe by Elizabeth his Wife that was Daughter to Sir Foulk Bourchier Lord Fitz-warin from whom our modern Earls of Bath are sprung Son was he to William Lord Fitz-warin that was Brother to Henry Earl of Essex and John Lord Berners whom William their Sire sometime Earl of Ewe in Normandy begat on Anne the sole Heir of Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Gloucester younger Son to the mighty Prince King Edward III. and of his Wife Eleonore Co-heir unto the tenth Humfrey de Bohun that was Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton High Constable of England Many Children bare this Lady unto her Lord of either sort to wit Edward Earl of Hertford Henry and a younger Edward Anne Countess of Warwick Margaret Jane Mary Katharine and Elizabeth and with firm faith in Christ and in most mild manner rendred she this life at 90 years of age on Easter day the sixteenth of April anno 1587. The Earl of Hertford Edward her eldest Son in this doleful duty careful and diligent doth consecrate this Monument to his dear Parent not for her honour wherewith living she did abound and now departed flourisheth but for the dutiful love he beareth her and for his last testification thereof Arms. Boyle viz. Parted per bend crenelle Seymour viz. Two wings conjoyned in lewre pendant 72. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the honourable the Lady Jane Clifford youngâ—st Daughter to Williaâ— Duke of Somerset Grand Daughter to Edwâ—r◠〈…〉 â—â— Hartford and great Gâ—â—nd-Daughter to Edward Duke of Somerset c. Uncle to King Edward VIâ—â—rotector of his Realms and Governour of his Royal Person She was married to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Clifford and Dungarvan Son and Heir apparent to Richard Earl of Burlington in England and Cork in Ireland Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and to Elizabeth his Countess sole Daughter and Heireâ—s to Henry late Earl of Comberland Lord Clifford c. the last Male of that noble Family She had Issue five Sons and six Daughters of whom two Sons and and three Daughters are now living She lived an honour to the Family she was descended from and the great comfort of that into which she was married and died much lamented on the twenty third day of Navember in the year 1679. aged 42 years 4 months and 17 days Arms. Fane With quarterings viz. 1. and 4. B. three left-hand Gantlets Or. 2. and 3. Gules on a saltire Arg. a Rose of the field Impâ—ling Spencer With quarterings viz. â— and 4. quarterly Arg. and Gules in the second anâ— third quarter a fret Or on a bend sab three escalop shells of the first â—and Or on two bars Gules three water budgets Arg. Crest to the first on a Torce of his colours a Gantlet Or holding a Sword Arg. Hilt and Pomel Or Crest to the second out of a Ducal Crown Or a Griffons head coped with wings Arg. gorged with two bars gemells Gules 73. Epitaph viz. Domina Elizabeth Fane antiquiss nobilitata natalitiis propria virtute clarior Filia Roberti Baron Spencer de Wormleighton praenobilis Georgii Fane de Buston Com. Cant. militis uxor casta pudica pia spiritum Redemptori suo ardentissimis votis voceque forti saepiâ—sque iterata commendavit Anno Dom. 1618. magna fama Aetat 28. superstite Conjug 10. prole nulla Moestissimus Conjux conjugi incomparabili P. L. M. Qui sui corporis figuram tanquam illa mortuus junxit cineres ossa socianda spondit Arms. â—aâ—â—w Three Lions passant in pale barwayâ— impaling Dâ—â—hâ—â— vâ—z A Fess of four fusils Ermine 74. Epitaph viz. Orate pro animabus Nicolai Baronis quondam de Carew Dominae Margaretae uxoris ejus filiae Iohannis Domini Dinham militis qui quidem Nicolaus obiit sexto die mensis Decembris Anno Dom. 1470. praedicta Domina Margareta obiit 13. die mensis Decembris Anno 1470. Arms. Cecill viz. Barry of ten Arg. and B. six Escutcheons sable each charged with a Lion rampant of the first all within a Garter of the Order of St. George Crest on a Torce of his Colours a Garb Or supported by two Lions rampant the one â— the other Arg. Supporters two Lions rampant Ermine Motto Corunum via una On one side Vere viz Quarterly Gules and Or in the first quarter a mullet Argent Impaling Cecill as before On the other Cecill As before Impaling Coke viz. Or a Cheveron compony G. and B between three Cinq'foyles of the last 75. Epitaph viz. Si quaeratur quis sit hic vir senex genua flectens canitie venerabilis toga Parliamentaria amictus ordinis Garteriani Eques quae etiam sunt illae duae foeminae nobiles
former times had divers high Priviledges and Honours annexed to their Function as to be intrusted with the custody of the Regalia for the Coronation of our Kings and Queens and to have a place of necessary Service on those days of Solemnity to exercise Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction in their Liberties and to sit as Spiritual Lords in Parliament c. so in all those Rights except that of Parliament the present Deans of this Collegiate Church succeed who is likewise in Commission of the Peace within the City and Liberties of Westminster and with the Chapter is invested with all manner of Jurisdiction both Ecclesiastical and Civil not only within the City and Liberty of Westminster but within the Precinct of St. Martins le Grand which was first annexed thereunto by HENRY VII within the Walls of London And in the other from that of the Archbishop of Canterbury And when the Convocation is adjourned from St. PAULS for the conveniency of being nigh the Parliament when they sit at Westminster hither the Bishops first declare upon a Protestation made by the Dean there that they intend not thereby to violate that high priviledge which was granted to this Church by King EDWARD the Confessor viz That no Bishop or Archbishop may come there without leave of the then Abbot but now Dean first obtained § 16. And as the Abbots in antient time were men generally well esteemed although chosen by the Monks and no small Fa-vorites of their Princes as may be gathered by the several places of great trust and honour that were bestowed on them As to be Archbishops of Canterbury Bishops of other Dioceses Lord Treasurers and Chancellours of England c. so likewise have the Deans since the Reformation not come much behind them in the like dignities and special honours § 17. By all which we may see how from Age to Age especially for these last eight hundred years what care hath been taken to add to the reputation of this our Church by the several new erections reparations and bounteous gifts that have been heaped thereon the great priviledges and immunities that have been granted thereto with the particular favours of our Kings in advancing the Governours thereof and all this as well since as before the Reformation and the continuance thereof to this day A Catalogue of the Abbots of Westminster Silvardus Ordbrutius Alswynus Alfgarus Adymerus Alfnodus Alsricus S. Wulsinus Alswinus Wolnothus Edwinus Galsridus Vitalis Gislebertus Herebertus Gervasius de Blois Laurentius Walterus Gulielmus Pos 〈…〉 Radulphus P 〈…〉 Gulielm de Humes Richard de Barking Rich. de Crokesley Philippus Levisham Richardus de Ware Walter de Wenlock Rich. de Kedington Williel Curlington Thomas Henley Sim. de Burcheston Simon Langham Nicolas Litlington Guliel de Colchester Rich. Harounden Georgius Flaccet Richardus Sudbury Edmundus Kirton Thomas Milling Johannes Estney Johannes Islip Guilielmus Benson Johannes Fecknam The Bishop of Westminster Tho. Thurleby A Catalogue of the Deans of Westminster Gulielmus Benson Richardus Coxe Hugo Weston Guilielmus Bill Gabriel Goodman Lancelot Andrews Richardus Neyle Georgius Monteine Robertus Tompson Johannes Williams Johannes Earle Johannes Dolben now Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester A description or survey of the Abby Church of St. Peters Westminster with the Monuments Tombs and Grave-stones therein as they are now standing c. § 18. Having in the preceding discourse given you an information of the rise progress and continuance of this our famous Abby in its buildings in its Buildings Government and names of her Governours in general I shall now enter into the particular description thereof by observing what is most worthy our remembrance and therein I care not if for once I play the Mystagogus my self and lead my noble Traveller from one Tomb to another from one monument to a second and so to a third until we have gone over them all that his curiosity may not want a plenary satisfaction § 19. If then we intend to take a view of her outward shape and proportion before we come to behold her beautious entrails we shall see it best and least confused on the North and South-east parts thereof as being less incumbred with private buildings by which she seems in some places altogether hid and obscured On the South-East part you behold that curious Chappel of the Blessed Virgin built by King HENRY VII whose Battlements Windows Supports and Adornments speak no less the Magnificence of the Founder than the Mastership of the Inventer and skill of the Workmen as being of that exact composure that nothing in the whole world of the same kind is said to exceed if equal it On the North part you rather behold the Skeleton of a Church than any great comeliness in her appearance being so shrivelled and parcht by the continual blasts of the Northern Winds to which she stands exposed as also the continual smoaks of Sea-Coal which are of a coroding and fretting quality which have added more furrows to her declining years that little of her former beauty now remains On this side is a most noble Door or Portal with a Porch thereunto that opens into the cross of the Church and on each side thereof two lesser Portico's one of which only serves at present for the convenience of entering therein This Porch in former times hath been of great esteem and reputation assuming to its self no less a name than that of the Porch of Solomon that it hath been a curious neat and costly Porch in foregoing times the remains thereof at this day do in some measure declare for therein were placed the Statues of the twelve Apostles at full proportion besides a multitude of lesser Saints and Martyrs to adorn it with several intaglio's devices and fret-works that helped to the beauty thereof But that it came in any proportion to the stately rich and noble Porch of King Solomon is not to be imagined nor can we think that those who christened and gave it that name were so ignorant or vain as so to believe but as a thing excellent in those times and far surpassing any of the same kind it was looked upon as a piece of work well deserving no common name and therefore had the title of Solomons Porch appropriated thereunto § 20. But leaving the outward view of this ruinous building let us see whether her entrails the inside be altogether as decayed and forlorn For though she seems by her outward shape and appearance to be cloathed with the disconsolate veil of Widowhood yet if we enter by the great West door which leads you into the body thereof you will behold her sound at heart not adorned with the gayeties of a new made Bride yet endowed with all the graces of a noble Matron sufficient at once to attract the eyes and contemplations of the Ingenious to admire her and frighten away the vanity of Idle Fools by her venerable
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
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
annos singulari integritatis aequitatis prudentiae laude sedisset ex Sarah uxore charissima filia una haeredum Humfredi Baskervile quinque filios totidem filias suscepisset Alicia fideli uxore secunda superstite piâ— in Christo obdomivit 21. die Decemb. Ann. salutis 1598. Rogerus Owen filius moestissimus Patri optimo charissimo officiosae pietatis memoriae ergô hoc monumentum posuit Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt Spes vermis Ego Arms. viz. Gruffith Gules a Cheveron Ermine between three old mens heads coped prop. their Perewigs Or. quartering eight Coats 1. Gules a Saracens head erased prop. banded about the forehead with a Wreath Or and B. 2. B. three Mullets Or. 3. B. a Lion rampant Argent 4. Ermine a Lion rampant sable 5. Per bend sinister Ermine and Ermiues a Lion rampant Or. 6 B. a Lion rampant per Fess Or and Argent within a bordure of the last 7. Gules a Fess Ermine between three Bucks heads Cabossed parted per pale Argent and Or. 8. Gules a Lion rampant and six cross Croslets Argent 18. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the Body of Peeres Gruffith Esquire Son and Heir to Sir Ree Gruffith and Grandchild to Sir William Gruffith Chamberlain of North-wales who died the eighteenth of August 1628 Arms. viz. Radley Argent a Cheveron Gules between three Adders sable Impaling vert on a bend indented Or three Martlets sable 19. Epitaph viz. Here lies the body of Mistriss Bridget Radley the most deservedly beloved Wiâ—e of Charles Radley Esquire Gentleman Usher daily Waiter to his Majesty which place he parted withal not being able to do the duty of it by râ—â—son of his great indisposition both of body and mind occasioned by his just sâ—â—row for the loss of her she charged this life for a better the twentieth of November 1679. Arms viz. Moâ—land Sable a Leopards head jessant a Flower-de-luce and Lion of England in the Dexter Chief all Or with Ulster Impaling H 〈…〉 B. two â—aâ—s Danzette Ermine between six cross Croslets Arg. 3. 2. 1. 20. Epitaph viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Carola Daughter of Roger Harsnet Esquire and of Carola his Wife the truly loving and truly beloved Wife of Samuel Morland Knight and Baronet bare a second Son October 4. died October 10. Anno Dom. 1674. aetatis 23. 21. Epitaph viz. To preserve the memory of two faithful Friends who lost their lives at Sea together May 28. 1672. Arms viz. Harbord Quarterly three Lions rampant a Crescent difference Sir Charles Harbord Kt. third Son of Sir Charles Harbord Knight his Majesties Surveyor general and first â—ieutenant of the Royal James under the most noble and illustrious Captain Edward Earl of Sandwich Vice-Admiral of England which after a terrible â—ight maintained to admiration against a Squadron of the Holland Fleet for above six hours near the Suffolk Coast having put off two Fire-ships at last being utterly disabled a few of her men remaining unhurt was by a third unfortunately set on fire But he though he swome well neglected to save himself as some did and out of perfect love to that worthy Lord whom for many years he had constantly accompanied in all his honourable imployments and in all the engagements of the former War died with him at the age of 32. much bewailed of his Father whom he never offended and much beloved by all for his known piety virtue loyalty fortitude and fidelity Arms. viz. Cotterel A bend between three Escalop shels a fille of three difference Clement Cotterell Esquire eldest Son of Sir Charles Cotterel Knight Master of the Ceremonies and his Assistant to have succeeded in that Office for which he was very fit having a tall haâ—some pâ—rson a graceful winning behaviour and great natural parts much improved by study and by converse in most Courts of Europe were firm to the Church of England he learned not their Vices but Customs and Languages understanding seven and speaking four of them as his own though but 22 years old Yet not content to serve his King and Country at home only his excess of courage excited by a deep sense of honour could not be kept from going Volunteer with the Earl of Sandwich with whom he had been in Spain when his Excellence was there Embassadour Extraordinary and with whom after having returned unwounded into his Ship from being the first man who had boarded a Dutch one of 60 Guns and pulled down the Ensign of it with his own hands he also perished universally lamented Arms. viz. Bingham Gules a bend cottised between six crosses formy Or quartering Ermine a Lion rampant Gules crowned Or Crest on a Torce of his colours a Rock prop. thereon an Eagle preparing to fly prop. 22. Epitaph viz. To the Glory of the Lord of Hosts Here under resteth Sir Richard Bingham Knight of the ancient Family of the Binghams of Bingham Melcombe in the County of Dorset who from his Youth trained up in military affairs served in the time of Queen Mary at St. Quintins in the Western Isles of Scotland and Conquet in Britain In the time of Queen Elizabeth â—â— Lieth in Scotland in the Isle of Candy at the burning of Cabochrio in Turkie in the Civil Wars of France in the Netherlands and at Smerwick in Ireland After he was made Governour of Connaght where he overthrew the Irish Scots expelled the traiterous Ororcke suppressed divers Rebellions and that with very small charge to her Majesty maintaining that Province in a flourishing estate by the space of thirteen years Finally for his good service he was made Marshal of Ireland and General of Leinster where at Dublin in an assured faith in Christ he ended this transitory life the nineteenth of January Anno Dom. 1598. aetat 70. This is done by Sir John Bingley sometime his Servant Arms. viz. Offic. Regis Armor Tit. Clarentieux Argent St. Georges Cross on a chief Gules a Lion of England Impaling Camden Argent a Fess ingrailed between six cross Croslets fitchy sable 23. Epitaph viz. Qui side antiquâ opera assidua Britannicam Antiquitatem indagavit simplicitatem innaâ—â—m honestis studiis excoluit animi sâ—lertiam candore illustravit Gulielmus Camdenus ab Elizâ—betha Regina ad Regis Armorum Clarentii titulo dignitatem evâ—catuâ— hic spe certa resurgendi in Christo S. E. Q Obiit Anno Dom. 1623. 9. Novemb. aetatis suae 74. Arms. viz Triplet An Hind currant regardant shot through the neck with an Arrow and chief indented 24. Epitaph viz. Hic requiescit vir reverendus Dr. Thomas Triplet ex agro Oxoniensi Praebendarius hujus Ecclesiae qui postquam ad annum aetatis septuagesimum pietate cultus assiduitate Deo Graecae linguae peritia non vulgari
July 1676 and died the 21. of Feb. 167 8 9. Arms. Baber viz. On a Fess three birds heads erased a Mullet difference Impaling Erm. on a Cheveron three Foxes heads erased a file of three over all Crest on a Torce a Cock the Wings erect 194. Epitaph viz. Here lieth the body of Stephen Baber Gent. only Son and Child of Benjamin Baber Gent. one of the Aldermen of the City of Bath by Elizabeth his Wife who was born Octob. 19. 1663. and departed this life March 23. 1679. In the Little Cloyster 195. Epitaph viz. In memory of Mr. Thomas Smith of Elmely Lovet in the County of Worcester and Batchelour of Arts late of Christ Church Oxford who through the spotted vail of the small Pox rendered a pure and unspotted Soul to God expecting but never fearing death which ended his days March the tenth Anno Dom. 1663 4 aetatis suae 27. The virtues which in his short life were shown Have equall'd been by few surpass'd by none 196. Epitaph viz. John Wilson Doctor in Musick here interred died the 22. of February 1673. aged seventy eight years ten months and seventeen days FINIS These Monuments and Grave-Stones following have been Erected in Westminster-Abbey since the first of April Anno Domini 1681. viz. in the Chappel of King Henry VII IN the great Vault on the South-side the same Chappel was lately Interred in a Coffin of Lead covered with black Velvet the Body of Charlotta Maria seventh Daughter of his Royal Highness James Duke of York and Albany c. only Brother and Heir to his present Majesty by his second Lady Maria d' Este who died at S. James's the sixth day of Octob. Anno Dom. 1682. aged only seven weeks and three days Her Coffin stands on that of her Brothers Charles Duke of Cambridg In the Chappel of S. Edmund Lies Edward Lord Herbert Baron of Cherbury having a Grave-Stone of Black Marble laid over him just before the sumptuous Monument of Edward Earl of Shrewsbury He died on the 9th of December 1678. Before the Door of the Chappel of S. Nicholas Lies Ann Lady Apseley who was Wife to Sir Peter Apseley She died on the 5th day of September Anno Dom. 1681. and was Buried under a Black Marble Stone before the entrance into this Chappel In the Body of the Church On the South-side are these Monuments and Grave-Stones between the Arms of Johannes de Dreux comes Richmondiae and Henricus de Hastings is a noble Monument of White Marble environed with a Grate erected by the Right Honorable Robert Viscount Cholmondeley for to remember his two Sons Robert and Richard Robert died on the 10th of Febr. 1678. and Richard on the 5th of June 1680. There is a Grave-Stone hard by the same Monument of Black Marble farther to remember them Next to this is an other curious Monument of White Marble encompassed with a Grate for Edward the Son of Sir Edward Mansel Baronet who died on the 20. of June 1681. Not far from which Monument but more towards the East is a Stone of Black Marble to remember Margaret the Wife of Dr. George Stradling who died Sept. 19. Ann. Dom. 1681. And then at the lower end of this North Isle you have a Grave-Stone of Black Marble placed on the remains of Col. Rand. Egerton of whose Quality and Employments his Epitaph gives you a particular He died on the 20th of October 1681. On the South-side by the Monument of Bridget Radley is a most curious Monument of White and Black Marble with some Figures in Basso relievo for Sir Palmes Fair-born Knight Governor of Tangier who was shot by the Moors on the 24th of October 1680. Not far from this is an other comely Monument of Black and White Marble for the Lady Ann Morland with an Epitaph in Hebrew Ethiopick and English She died on the 20. of Feb. 167 9 8 0. To the Monument of Sir William Sanderson in the North Cross there is an addition for to remember his Lady who died on the 17. of Jan. 1681. in the 88th year of her Age and Mother of the Maids of Honor to her present Majesty In the Cloysters On the North side the great Cloyster is lately revived an old Inscription which for some years hath not been legible for one William Lawrence who died Anno Domini 1621. and by which Stone in the Wall is another Inscription placed to the Monument of Edward John and Stephen Fox Sons of Sir Stephen further to inform us that two other Children William and James lie likewise there interred the old Epitaph being wholly taken away There is a little Stone on the West-side for John Banester a man curious in the Composition of Musick another on the South for John Collins and Grave-Stones for Nicholas Johnson Esq Mrs. Ann Tufton and Sackvil Whittle Esq who all lie on the North-side this great Cloyster Their Qualities and times of their Deaths you will find in their respective Epitaphs c. Arms. Morland viz. Sable a Leopards-head jessant a Flower-de-luce and Lion of England in the dexter chief point all Or with the Escutch of Ulster Impaling Fielding viz. Argent on a Fess B. 3. Lozenges Or a cressant difference Gules 197. Epitaph viz. Being in Hebrew and Ethiopick Characters is here left out ANNE Daughter of George Fielding Esq and of Mary his Wife the truly loving and as truly beloved Wife of Samuel Morland Knight and Baronet died Feb. 20. Anno Dom. 167 9 8 0. Aetat 19. Arms. Fairborne viz. An Hawk preparing to fly with Bells within a bordure Ermine Crest An armed Hand or Gantlet holding a Dagger erect thereon a Turks head with a Turbant The Word Tutus si fortis 198. Epitaph viz. Sacred To the immortal memory of Sir Palmes Fairborne Knight Governor of Tangier in execution of which Command he was mortally wounded by a Shot from the Moors then besieging the Town in the 46th year of his Age. October 24th 1680. Ye sacred Relicks which your Marble keep Here undisturb'd by Wars in quiet sleep Discharge the trust which when it was below Fairborne's undaunted Soul did undergo And be the Towns Palladium from the Foe Alive and dead these Walls he will defend Great Actions great Examples must attend The Candian Siege his early labor knew Where Turkish Blood did his young hands imbrew From thence returning with deserv'd Applause Against the Moors his well-flesh'd Sword he draws The same the Courage and the same the Cause His Youth and Age his Life and Death combine As in some great and regular design All of a piece throughout and all Divine Still nearer Heaven his Virtues shone more bright Like rising flames expanding in their height The Martyr's Glory crown'd the Soldiers Fight More bravely Brittish General never fell Nor Generals Death was e're reveng'd so well Which his pleas'd Eyes beheld before their close Follow'd by
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