for his excellent parts, bountifully rewarded both: with honours and fortune; being made Master of the Requests and of the Wardrobe, President of the Court of Wards, and Privy Counsellor. The new and illustrious, as well as difficult province of Lord Treasurer of England, he filled; which services how indefatigable he underwent, his titles of Knight, Baron Cranfield, and lastly Earl of Middlesex, with various other honours, abundantly. testify. From hence Envy, rising, her utmost efforts were exerted to raise storms against him, whilst he, boldly standing on his guard, encouraged by the consciousness of his innocence, was grievously tossed about; but happily escaping shipwreck, in a composed winter of life, cast anchor, and finished his course in a retired leisure.Here lying concealed, being wearied out first, and wasted afterwards, this pilot was roused up to undertake a safer voyage, and made the port of Heaven. He died the 6th of August 1645, aged about 70. He was twice married. By his first wife he had three daughters; Elizabeth, Countess of Mulgrave; Martha, Countess of Monmouth; and. Mary, who died unmarried. By the second, who survived him, he had three sons and two daughters; James, heir to the honour of Earl Middlesex; Lyonel and Edward; Frances, Lady Buckhurst; and Susannah, who died an infant."

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Near Bishop Langham's tomb is another about 18 inches from the ground, on which is engraven, on a brass plate, the figure of an old man in a Doctor's habit, designed for Dr. William Bill, Dean of Westminster,: Master of Eton College, Head of Trinity in Cambridge, and Chief Almoner to Queen Elizabeth, as appears by his inscription. He died July 5, 1561. On a brass plate are some Latin verses, setting forth, "that he was a good and learned man, and a friend to

those

those that were so; that he was just and charitable; and that the poor, as well as the three Colleges over which he presided, sustained an irreparable loss by his death."

On the east, where stood the altar of St. Benedict, is now a fine monument of various kinds of marble, to the memory of Lady Frances, Countess of Hertford, who is here represented in her robes, in a cumbent posture, with her head resting on an embroidered cushion, and her feet on a lion's back. The sculpture of this monument is extremely curious, and well worth attention. It seems to represent a stately temple, where the ensigns and devices of the noble families of Somerset and Effingham appear to be the chief ornaments. The Latin inscriptions set forth," that she was wife to the noble Earl of Hertford, son to the renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, and Baron Seymour ; that she was daughter to the noble Lord William, Baron Howard of Effingham, Knight of the Garter, High Admiral to Queen Mary, and Lord Chamberlain and Privy Seal to Queen Elizabeth, &c. that, for her many graces, both of mind and body, she was highly favoured by her gracious Sovereign, and dearly loved by her noble Lord, who in testimony of his inviolable affection, consecrated to her memory this monument

She died in the 44th year of her age, May 14, 1598.

On the south side of this chapel is a monument affixed to the wall, to the memory of Dr. Gabriel Goodman, who is here represented kneeling in his proper habit. The Latin inscription intimates,

that he was the fifth Dean of this church, over which he presided for forty years with much ap plause; that he founded an hospital, and instituted a school at Ruthin, in Denbighshire, where he was born; that he was a man of regular

and

and devout life, and that he died in 1601, aged 73."

On the same side, and under the adjoining arch, is a neat table monument of white marble, to the memory of George Sprat, second son of Dr. Thomas Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster, by his wife Helena, descended from the ancient and honourable family of the Wolseleys, in Staffordshire, who lies interred in the chapel of St. Nicholas. He died an infant, of a year old, in 1683.

Besides those above recited, there lie interred in this chapel, Catherine, daughter of Dr. Dolben, Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster, and afterwards Archbishop of York; a Countess of Kildare, in Ireland; and Dr. John Spotswood, Lord Archbishop of St. Andrews, Primate and Lord Chanceller of Scotland, who died in 1640.

Between this chapel and the next, you will observe, affixed in the wall, a monument of Mosaic work, the sides in plain panels, but the top of the table wrought in figures, said to be done with the same kind of stones as the floor before the altar, and erected for the children of Henry III. and Edward I. Over this tomb is something which seems to have been a piece of church perspective, but now almost defaced. This certainly was once a rich and costly monument; for in the records of the Tower, there is the King's order for erecting such a one in this place, and for allowing Master Simon de Wells five marks and a half, to defray his expences in bringing from the city a certain brass image to set upon the tomb of his daughter Catherine, and for paying to Simon de Glocester, the King's goldsmith, seventy marks, for a silver image for the like purpose.

OF THE CHAPEL OF ST. EDMUND.

. Next in order you will be shewn the Chapel of

St.

St. Edmund, at the entrance of which, on your left hand, is a monument, sacred to the memory of John of Eltham, second son of King Edward II. and so called from Eltham in Kent, the place of his nativity, where our English Kings had once a palace. His statue is of alabaster, the head encircled in a coronet of greater and smaller leaves, remarkable for its being the first of the kind. His habit is that of an armed Knight. He died in Scotland, at the age of 19, unmarried, though three different matches had been proposed to him; the last of which, to Mary, daughter of Ferdinand, King of Spain, he accepted, but lived not to consummate.it. His funeral was so magnificent and costly, that the Prior and Convent demanded £100 (a vast sum then) for horse and armour present there on the day of his burial.

At the foot of this is a handsome monument of white marble, with the following inscription:

"In this chapel lies interred all that was mortal of the most illustrious and most benevolent John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford, who, in 1738, married Elizabeth, daughter of A. Ewens, of the county of Somerset, Esquire, by Elizabeth his wife, eldest daughter of John St. Albyn, of Alfoxton, in the same county, Esq.

A lover of

"His heart was as truly great and noble as his high descent. Faithful to his God. his country. A relation to relations. A detester of detraction. A friend to mankind. Naturally generous and compassionate: his liberality and his charity to the poor were without bounds.

"We therefore piously hope that, at the last day, his body will be received in glory into the everlasting tabernacles.

Being snatched away uddenly by death, which he had long meditated and expected with constancy, he went to a better life the 1st of April

1762, having lived 61 years, nine months, and six days.

"The Countess Dowager, in testimony of her great affection and respect to her Lord's memory, has caused this monument to be placed here."

The figures round the inscription are the ancient badges of honour belonging to the Stafford family, who descend by ten different marriages from the royal blood of England and France.

Next to this is a small table monument, on which lie the figures of William of Windsor, sixth son of Edward III. who died in his infancy; and of Blanch, of the Tower, sister to William, who likewise died young, having obtained their surnames from the places of their nativity. What is remarkable, they are dressed in the habits of their time; the boy in a short doublet, of the indecency whereof Chaucer's parson complains; the girl in a horned head-dress, which Stowe says was frightful.

Between the monuments of Lady Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, and John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, against the east wall, is a monument erected to the memory of Nicholas Monck, Provost of Eton, Bishop of Hereford, and brother to George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, &c. He died December 11, 1661, aged 50. His grandson, Christopher Rawlinson, Esq. of Cork, in Lancashire, caused this to be erected in 1723.

On another tomb, raised from the floor, lies the effigy of Lady Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, in her proper robes. She was daughter of the famous Charles Brandon, by Mary, the French Queen, daughter of Henry VII, and became herself Duchess of Suffolk, by marrying Henry Grey, then Marquis of Dorset; but, upon her father's decease, created Duke of Suffolk, and afterwards beheaded for being concerned in dethroning the

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