bloody Queen Mary. Since that, she married Adrian Stokes, Esq. and died in 1563. The next that presents is a stately monument of white marble, representing a youth in Grecian armour, sitting on a Greek altar, and erected, as the Latin inscription sets forth, to the memory of Francis Hollis, by John Earl of Clare, his afflicted father. This brave youth, after returning home from making a campaign in Flanders, died August 12, 1662, aged 18. His epitaph is thus written: What so thou hast of nature or of arts, On an altar in the same style, but differently ornamented, sits, in a sleeping posture, the figure of Lady Elizabeth Russel, daughter of Lord Russel, in alabaster. Your guides will tell you that she died with a prick of her finger, which is apt to raise pity in the minds of the spectators; but this story has no other foundation than the misapprehension of the statuary's design; for having represented her as asleep, and pointing with her finger to a Death's-head under her right foot, it has been supposed that her finger bled, and that the bleeding had closed her eyes in death; whereas the design of the artist seems rather to allude to the composed situation of her mind at the approach of death, which she considered only as a profound sleep, from which she was again to awake in a joyful resurrection; of which the motto under her feet is a clear illustration, " Dormit, non mortua est; She is not dead, but sleepeth." The Latin inscription on the scroll beneath only tells that her afflicted sister Ann erected this monument to her memory. The device is an eagle, the emblem of eternity, standing on a foliage of roses, &c. Within the rails which enclose this last monument, is one of various-coloured marble and alabaster, painted and gilt, erected to the memory of John Lord Russel (son and heir to Francis Earl of Bedford), and his son Francis, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, Knt. and widow of Sir Thomas Hoby, Knt. He is represented in a cumbent posture, habited in his coronation robes, with his infant son at his feet. His lady was esteemed the Sappho of her age, being well versed in the learned languages, and an excellent poet; five of the epitaphs on this tomb are of her composition, of which three are in Latin, one in Greek, and the other in English, which is here transcribed as a specimen, the rest being to the same purport: Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth, John was his name (ah, was!) wretch, must I say? Affixed to the wall, near this monument, are two others, one to the memory of Lady Jane Seymour, daughter of Edward Duke of Somerset, who died March 19, 1560, aged 19. The other to the Right Honourable the Lady Katharine Knollys, chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth, and wife to Sir Francis Knollys, Knt. Treasurer of her Highness's House hold. hold. She died January the 15th, 1568. This Lady Knollys and Lord Hunsdon, her brother, were the only children of William Carey, Esq. by Lady Mary, his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas Bulleyne, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and sister to Ann Bulleyne, Queen of England, wife to Henry VIII. father and mother to Queen Elizabeth. What is farther remarkable, Lady Knollys' only daughter was mother of the favourite Earl of Essex. Under the window that fronts you when entering, is a very ancient monument, representing a Gothic chapel, and in it the figure of a Knight in armour, in a cumbent posture, with his feet resting on a lion's back. This was erected for Sir Bernard Brocas, of Baurepaire, in the county of Hants, (Guthrie calls him Brokehouse), Chamberlain to Ann, Queen of Richard II. But this Princess dying, and Richard falling under the displeasure of his people, who deposed him, Sir Bernard still adhered to his royal master in his misfortunes, which cost him his life. He was publicly beheaded on Tower Hill, January 1399, and here buried. Next adjoining to the west side of this is the monument of Sir Richard Peckfall, Knt. Master of the Buckhounds to Queen Elizabeth; first married to Alianer, the daughter of William Paulett, Marquis of Winchester, by whom he had four daughters; and afterwards to Alianer, daughter of John Cotgrave, who erected this monument to his memory, as appears by the inscription. On the bases of the pillars are Latin verses thus translated :— Death can't disjoin whom Christ hath join'd in love; Near Near this is an ancient monume ble, on which, in plated brass, is Knight in armour, his head reclined met, and one of his feet placed up the other on an eagle. By the Lati 26 .-ption, this Knight was Humphrey Bourgchier, son and heir to John Bourgchier, Lord Berners, who, espousing the cause of Edward IV. against the Earl of Warwick, was slain in the battle of BarnetField, on Easter-day 1471, though the King was victorious. On the right hand, as you enter this chapel, is the ancient monument of William de Valence, lying in a cumbent posture on a chest of wainscot, placed upon a tomb of grey marble; the figure is wood, covered originally with copper gilt, as was the chest in which it lies; but the greatest part has been filched away, and of 30 small images that were placed in little brass niches round it, not one remains. In 1296 he was slain at Bayonne treacherously. His body was afterwards brought to England, and honourably buried in this chapel, and an indulgence of 100 days granted to all devout people who should offer up prayers for his soul. Near to Valence is a most magnificent monument, partly enclosed, to the memory of Edward Talbot, eighth Earl of Shrewsbury, and his lady, Jane, eldest daughter and coheiress of Cuthbert, Baron Ogle, whose effigies in their robes lie on a black marble table, supported by a pedestal of alabaster. This monument is finely ornamented, and the carving on the various-coloured marble is exquisite. The inscription contains nothing more than his titles and character, which is indeed very high he was honourable without pride, poteut without ostentation, religious without superstition; liberal both in mind and bounty; warded ever B against against Fortune, his whole life was a path of justice, and his innocence escaping envy, continued through the whole course of his life. He died February 8, 1617, in the 57th year of his age. On the floor of this chapel is a tomb two feet high, on which is a lady in a widow's dress, with a barb and veil, cut in brass, round which is an inscription in old French, importing that Alianer de Bohun, daughter and heiress of Sir Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hertford, Essex, and Northampton, and wife to the mighty and noble Prince of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Essex, and Buckingham, son of Henry III. lies interred here. This lady, who was the greatest heiress in England, was deprived of her husband by the cruelty of his nephew, Richard II. who, jealous of his popularity, most treacherously betrayed him by a show of friendship; for coming to visit him at Plashy, a pleasant seat of his in Essex, and staying supper, in duty, he thought to attend his Majesty to town; but at Stratford was suddenly surrounded by an ambush of armed men, who privately hurried him on board a ship, and carried him to Calais, where, by the King's order, he was stifled between featherbeds. After this melancholy accident, his lady spent the rest of her days in the Nunnery at Barking, and died October 3, 1399; from whence her remains were brought, and here interred. The duke, her husband, was murdered in 1397. She Mary, Countess of Stafford, wife to the unfortunate Viscount Stafford, beheaded in the reign of King Charles II. on Tower Hill, has also a table monument of white marble near the above. was lineally descended from the noble personages just mentioned, and from the Barons and Earls of Stafford, and was daughter and heiress to the noble House of Buckingham. Lord Stafford was be headed |