On the north side of Henry the Seventh's chantry, in a chapel, is a very antique monument, decorated with several emblematical figures in brass, gilt, the principal of which is Neptune, in a pensive posture, with his trident reversed, and Mars with his head crouched. These support the tomb on which lies the effigies of GEORGE VILLIERS, Duke of Buckingham, the great favourite of King James I. and King Charles I., who fell a sacrifice to national resentment, and perished by the hands of an assassin, August 23, 1628, who had no other motive of action but the clamours of the people.

NORTH AISLE.

From hence you pass to the north aisle, by a door on the right hand, where is a monument to the memory of CHARLES MONTAGUE, the first of this family that bore the title of Lord Halifax, son of George Montague, of Horton. In the reigns of William III. and George I. he was placed at the head of the Treasury, where, undertaking the reformation of the coin, which in those days was most infamously clipped, to the great loss of the public, he restored it to its proper value. For these, and other public services, he was first created Baron and then Earl of Halifax, and died May 19, 1715.-In front of this monument was buried Joseph Addison, Esq.

There are likewise some monuments of less grandeur and magnificence in this aisle, particularly one to the memory of Sir GEORGE SAVILLE, created by King Charles I. Baron of Eland, and Viscount Halifax, afterwards Earl, and lastly Marquis of Halifax. He was Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal for some time in the reigns of King Charles II., of King James II., and King William; and at the beginning of the reign of King James II., he was, for a few months, Lord President of the Council. He died April 5, 1695.

Here is the lofty and magnificent monument of QUEEN ELIZABETH, erected to her memory by King James I., her successor. The inscription speaks her character, high descent, and the memorable acts of her glorious reign:-"That she was "the mother of her country, and the patroness of religion and 66 learning; that she was herself skilled in many languages, "adorned with every excellence of mind and person, and endowed "with princely virtues beyond her sex; that in her reign religion 66 was restored to its primitive purity; peace was established ; 66 money restored to its just value; domestic insurrections 66 quelled; France delivered from intestine troubles; the Nether"lands supported; the Spanish Armada defeated; Ireland, "almost lost by the secret contrivances of Spain, recovered; the 66 revenues of both Universities improved, by a law of provisions, "and, in short, all England enriched :-that she was a most

"prudent Governess, forty-five years a virtuous and triumphant "Queen, truly religious, and blessed in all her great affairs; and "that, after a calm and resigned death, in the seventieth year of "her age, she left the mortal part to be deposited in this church, "which she established upon a new footing. She died March "24, 1602." QUEEN MARY, whose reign preceded that of Queen Elizabeth, was interred here likewise. She died Nov. 17, 1558.

At the farther end is a vault, in which are deposited the bodies of King JAMES I. and his Queen, ANNE, daughter of Frederick II., King of Denmark. This Prince reigned over Scotland fifty-nine years, and over England twenty-two years. He was son to Lord Darnley, by Mary, Queen of Scots, who fell a sacrifice to the policy of Queen Elizabeth. He died March 16, 1625, aged sixty-one, after a long and peaceable reign, which added nothing to the glory of these realms. She died March 2, 1618.

Over this vault is a small tomb, with the figure of a child, erected to the memory of MARY, third daughter of King James I., born at Greenwich, in 1605; and soon afterwards committed to the care of Lady Knevet, in whose house at Stainwell she died, December 16, 1607, at two years old.

The next monument, representing a child in the cradle, erected to the memory of SOPHIA, fourth daughter to the same King, born at Greenwich in 1606, and died in three days.

Against the end wall is an altar, raised by King Charles II. to the memory of EDWARD V. and his brother, who, by their treacherous uncle, Richard III., were murdered in the Tower. The inscription, which is in Latin, gives a particular account of their sad catastrophe, and is, in English, thus :-" Here lie the "relics of Edward V., King of England, and Richard, Duke of "York, who, being confined in the Tower, and there stifled with "pillows, were privately and meanly buried, by order of their 66 perfidious uncle, Richard the Usurper. Their bones, long "inquired after and wished for, after laying 190 years in the "rubbish of the stairs (i. e. those lately leading to the chapel of "the White Tower), were, on the 17th of July, 1674, by un"doubted proofs, discovered, being buried deep in that place. "Charles II., pitying their unhappy fate, ordered these unfor"tunate Princes to be laid among the relics of their predecessors, "in the year 1678, and the thirtieth of his reign." It is remarkable that Edward was born Nov. 4, 1470, in the sanctuary belonging to this church, whither his mother took refuge during the contest between the houses of York and Lancaster; at eleven years of age, upon the death of his father, he was proclaimed King; and, on the 23rd of June, 1483, about two years after, was murdered in the manner already related. Richard, his brother,

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was born May 28, 1474, and married, while a child, to Ann Mowbray, heiress of Norfolk.

V.-Chapel of St. Paul.

On your left hand is a monument to the memory of Sir HENRY BELASYSE, Knight, Lieutenant-General, some time Governor of Galway, in Ireland, and afterwards of Berwick-on-Tweed, in the Reign of King William III. He died December 16, 1717, aged sixty-nine. Bridget, wife of his only son, W. Belasyse, Esq., died July 18, 1735, aged twenty.

Near this are two other monuments, one-" To the memory of "Lieutenant-Colonel CHARLES MACLEOD, who fell at the siege "of Badajos, aged twenty-six years. This monument is erected 66 by his brother officers. In Lieutenant-Colonel Macleod, of the "forty-third Regiment, who was killed on the breach, His Majesty "has sustained the loss of an officer who was an ornament to his "profession, and was capable of rendering the most important "services to his country."-Vide Marquis Wellington's Dispatch, 8th of April, 1812.-Nollekins, sculptor.

The other is erected to the memory of Sir JOHN PUCKERING, Knight, remarkable, as his inscription sets forth, for his knowledge in the laws, as well as piety, wisdom, and many other virtues. He was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England four years, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in which office he died, April 20, 1596. His epitaph, in Latin, over his effigy, is thus translated :The public cares and laws engaged my breast;

To live was toilsome, but to die is rest.

Wealth, maces, guards, crowns, titles, things that fade,
The prey of time and sable death are made.

VIRTUE INSPIRES MEN.

His wife this statue rears to her loved spouse,
The test of constancy and marriage vows.

"I trust I shall see the Lord in the land of the living."

Sir JAMES FULLERTON and his lady, with an epitaph, has something of quaintness, not unfrequent in the writings of those days :-"Here lie the remains of Sir James Fullerton, Knight, "First Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First "(Prince and King), a generous rewarder of all virtue, a severe 66 reprover of all vice, a professed renouncer of all vanity. He 66 was a firm pillar to the Commonwealth, a faithful patron to "the Catholic Church, a fair pattern to the British Court. He "lived to the welfare of his country, to the honour of his Prince, "to the glory of his God. He died fuller of faith than of fear, fuller of resolution than of pains, fuller of honour than of days."

In the middle of this chapel is a table monument, on which lie the effigies of Sir GILES DAUBENY, created Lord Daubeny in the first year of the reign of Henry VII., and dame Elizabeth, his wife. He seems to have been a man of great authority, in the reign of Henry VII., as he was Lord Lieutenant of Calais in France, Lord Chamberlain to his Majesty, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Father of Henry Lord Daubeny, the first and last Earl of Bridgewater of that surname, by Elizabeth, of the ancient family of the Arundels, in Cornwall. He died May 22, 1507, and his lady in 1500.

On your left is a colossal monument to JAMES WATT: he is represented with compasses forming designs, seated on an oblong pedestal. The figure, by Chantry, is particularly expressive; the inscription as follows:-" Not to perpetuate a name, which "must endure while the peaceful arts flourish, but to show that "mankind having learned to honour those who best deserve their “gratitude, the king, his ministers, and many of the nobles and 66 commoners of the realm, raised this monument to James Watt; "who, directing the force of an original genius, early exercise "in philosophic research, to the improvement of the steam-engine, "enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of 66 man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious "followers of science, and the real benefactors of the world. "Born at Greenock, 1736; died at Heathfield, in Stafford"shire, 1819."

Behind you is a monument to the memory of Sir THOMAS BROMLEY, Knight, Privy Councillor to Queen Elizabeth, and eight years Chancellor, in which office he died, April 12, 1587, to the grief of all good men. The eight children depicted on this tomb were all by his lady, Elizabeth, of the family of Fortescue.

There is also a monument, whereon lays the effigy of Sir DUDLEY CARLETON, afterwards made Viscount Dorchester, for his eminent services to King Charles I. and his father, both abroad and at home. He was a person versed in the languages, customs, and laws, of most of the European nations, and was entrusted, both by King James I. and his successor, with the most important foreign negociations. After the death of King James, he was sent into Holland, and was the last deputy who voted in the Assembly of the States, which great privilege the crown of England possessed from the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign to this period. He died in his fifty-eighth year, in 1631.

To the east of this monument is another, to the memory of FRANCES, Countess of Sussex. This great lady was the wife of Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Knight of the Garter, &c., and daughter of Sir William Sidney, of

Pensehurst, Knight. By her last will, having outlived her husband, she instituted a divinity lecture in this Abbey, gave £5000 towards the building of a new College in Cambridge, now called Sidney Sussex College; and left a sufficient yearly revenue for the maintenance of one master, ten fellows, and twenty scholars, either in the said new College, or else in Clare Hall. She died April 15, 1589, aged fifty-eight.

Next to this is a monument of black marble, very remarkably different from every other in the Abbey. On the top of it is a circular frame of gilt brass, enclosing the bust of ANN, Lady Cottington, wife of Francis Lord Cottington, Baron of Hanworth, so created by King Charles I. She was daughter of Sir William Meredith, of Denbighshire, by Jane, his wife, of the family of the Palmers, in Kent, and died February 22, 1633, in the thirty-third year of her age, having had four daughters and a son, all of whom died before their father, who, on a table monument beneath, lies in effigy, resting on his left arm; and over a satyr's head, is this inscription in English :-" Here lies Francis Lord Cottington, of "Hanworth, who, in the reign of King Charles I., was Chancellor "of his Majesty's Exchequer, Master of the Court of Wards, Con" stable of the Tower, Lord High Treasurer of England, and one "of the Privy Council. He was twice Ambassador in Spain, once "for the said King, and a second time for King Charles II., now "reigning, to both of whom he most signally showed his allegiance "and fidelity, during the unhappy civil broils of those times; "and for his faithful adherence to the Crown (the Usurper prevailing) was forced to fly his country; and during his exile, died at Valladolid, in Spain, June 19, 1652, in the seventy-fourth 66 year of his age, whence his body was brought, and here interred, by Charles Cottington, Esq., his nephew and heir, in 1679.”

The next is a very old Gothic monument, erected to the memory of LEWIS ROBERT, or ROBSART, a foreigner, but standard-bearer to Henry V., a Knight of the Bath and afterwards of the Garter, and at length created Lord Bourchier. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of St. Bartholomew Bourchier, and probably a relation to Geoffrey Chaucer, the old English poet.

On leaving this chapel, opposite to you, is the monument of ESTHER DE LA TOUR DE GOUVERNET, the Lord Eland's lady. It is of curious white marble, representing a lady on her deathbed with a mourner weeping over her, done finely in relief, The inscription is in Latin and English, and contains an encomium on her many excellent virtues. She died in 1694, aged twentyeight.-Nadaud, sculptor.

On your right hand is a monument to the memory of Mrs. CHRISTIAN KER, wife of William Ker, Esq., and daughter of