pattern to the great, a protectress to the poor, ever distinguished for the most tender affection for her family and friends, she died December 5, 1776, aged 60, universally beloved, revered and lamented. The duke of Northumberland, inconsolablefor the loss of the best of wives, hath erected this monument to her beloved memory."

Against the wall, on your right hand, as you enter, is a Gothic monument, with the effigy of a lady in robes, very antique. This lady, by the inscription, appears to be Philippa, second daughter and co-heiress of John Lord Mohun, of Dunstar; first married to Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York, and afterwards to Sir Walter Fitz-Walter, Knt. by neither of whom she appears to have had issue. She died in 1433.

In this chapel are two beautiful pyramids; the largest erected to the memory of Nicholas Bagenall, a child of two months old, overlaid by his nurse, March 7, 1688; the other to the memory of Anna Sophia Harley, a child of a year old, daughter of the Hon. Christopher Harley, Ambassador from the French King, whose heart, as appears by the inscription, he caused to be enclosed in a cup, and placed upon the top of the pyramid. She died in 1605.

In the middle of the chapel is a fine raised monument of polished marble, to the memory of Sir George Villers and his Lady, Mary Beaumont, created Countess of Buckingham in 1618. She died on April 19, 1632, aged 62, whose son, by the favour of King James I. was advanced to the dignity of Duke of Buckingham, and afterwards, in the third year of Charles I. stabbed by Felton, because he had, by his measures, brought upon himself the public hatred.

Near this tomb was buried a son of the Marquis of Hamilton, who died in 1638. The Mar

quis himself, after a life of strange vicissitudes, being engaged in the long and bloody civil war during the reign of Charles I. was at length, after the murder of his royal master, cut off by the Usurper; and together with the Lords Capel and Holland, fell a sacrifice to the policy of those unhappy times, when none were suffered to live who had courage to oppose the prevailing faction.

Near the before-mentioned tomb is interred Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, wife of William Stanley, Earl of Derby, eldest daughter of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, granddaughter of Lord Burleigh, who died in 1626.

In this chapel lies interred Algernon Seymour, Duke of Somerset, who died February 7, 1750.Also Frances, relict of the said Duke, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Honourable Henry Thynne, who died July 7, 1754. George Lord Viscount Beauchamp, who died of the smallpox in France, September 11, 1744, who was their only son, is likewise here interred.

As you leave this chapel, you tread upon the remains of that great and learned antiquary, Sir Henry Spelman, who, dying in a very advanced age, was buried at the door of this chapel in 1641.

For the sake of regularity, in viewing every place, that none may escape observation, as soon as you ascend the steps, enter in at a door on the right-hand side, which leads to the south aisle

OF HENRY THE SEVENTH'S CHAPEL.

This chapel, as has been said, was designed as a sepulchre, in which none but such as were of blood-royal should ever be interred; accordingly the will of the founder has been so far observed, that all that have hitherto been admitted are of the highest quality, and can trace their descent from some or other of our ancient kings.

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Here is a handsome table monument, enclosed with iron rails, on which lies a lady finely robed, the effigy of Margaret Douglas, daughter of Margaret, Queen of Scots, by the Earl of Angus. This lady, as the English inscription expresses, had to her great-grandfather King Edward IV. to her grandfather King Henry VII. to her uncle King Henry VIII. to her cousin-german King Edward VI. to her brother King James V. of Scotland, to her son King Henry I. of Scotland, to her grandson King James VI. having to her greatgrandmother and grandmother two Queens, both named Elizabeth; to her mother, Margaret Queen of Scots; to her aunt, Mary, the French Queen; to her cousins-german, Mary and Elizabeth, Queens of England; to her niece and daughter-in-law, Mary Queen of Scots. This lady, who was very beautiful, was privately married, in 1537, to Thomas Howard, son of the Duke of Norfolk, upon which account both of them were committed to the Tower by King Henry VIII. her uncle, for affiancing without his consent, and he died in prison: but this Margaret being released, was soon after married to Matthew Earl of Lenox, by whom she had the handsome Lord Darnley, father of King James I. whose effigy is the foremost on the tomb, in a kneeling posture, with the crown over his head, having been married some time to Mary Queen of Scots, but, in the 21st year of his age, murdered, not without some suspicions of foul practices in the Queen. There are seven children besides round the tomb of Margaret, of whom only three are mentioned in history, the rest dying young. This great lady died March 10, 1577.

Near the tomb just mentioned is a very magnificent one, erected to that unhappy Queen we have been now speaking of, and who, being daughter to James V. of Scotland, was, in her infancy, pro

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claimed Queen of that kingdom, and married to Francis, then Dauphin of France, who, in a few months after, dying without issue, Mary returned into Scotland, and married Lord Darnley, as has been said, by whom she had one son, afterwards King of England as well as Scotland.

The next is a table monument, on which is the effigy of Margaret Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII. by Edmund Tudor, son of Owen ap Tudor, who married the widow of Henry V. of England, and daughter of Charles VI. of France. This lady was afterwards married to Humphrey Stafford, a younger son of Humphrey Duke of Buckingham, and lastly to Thomas Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby; but by the two last had no children. The inscription mentions the charities of this excellent Princess; such as giving a salary to two Monks of Westminster, founding a Grammar-school at Winbourne, and two Colleges, one to Christ, the other to St. John his disciple, at Cambridge. Of this lady's bounty forty poor women partake every Saturday forenoon, at a long table, in the south cross of this Abbey; each of them hath twopence, one pound and a half of beef, and a fourpenny loaf of bread. She died in July 1509, in the reign of her grandson, Henry VIII.

Near this is a figure of uncommon delicacy, to the memory of Lady Walpole, brought from Italy by her son Horace, with the following inscription:

To the memory of CATHERINE Lady WALPOLE,
eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esq. of
Bybrook, in Kent, and first wife of
Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford,
Horace, her youngest son, consecrated

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She was devout, though without bigotry to any sect; and was without prejudice to any party, Though the wife of a Minister, whose power she esteemed

But when she could employ it to benefit the
miserable, or to reward the meritorious;
She loved a private life,

Though born to shine in public; and was an
Ornament to Courts,
Untainted by them.

She died August the 20th, 1737.

Also a monument erected to the memories of George, and Christopher Monck his son, both Dukes of Albemarle; also Elizabeth, Duchess Dowager of Albemarle and Montague, relict of Christopher Duke of Albemarle.

At this end is the royal vault, as it is called, in which the remains of King Charles II. King William III. and Queen Mary, his consort, Queen Anne, and Prince George, are all deposited.Over them, in a wainscot press, is the effigy of King Charles II. in wax-work, resembling life, and dressed in the robes he wore at Windsor, at the installation of the Knights of the Garter.

From this aisle you enter the nave of the chapel, where are installed, with great ceremony, the Knights of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, which order was revived in the reign of King George the First, in 1725. In their stalls are placed brass plates of their arms, &c. and over them hang their banners, swords, and helmets.Under the stalls are seats for the Esquires; each Knight has three, whose arms are engraved on brass plates. The small shelving stool, which the seats of the stalls form when turned up, is called a miserere. On these the Monks and Canons of ancient times, with the assistance of their elbows on the

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