five marks and a half, to defray his expences in bringing from the city a certain brafs image to fet upon the tomb of his daughter Catherine, and for paying to Simon de Glocefter, the king's goldfmith, 70 marks for a filver image for the like purpose.

Of the chapel of St. EDMUND.

Next in order you will be shewn the chapel of St. Edmund, at the entrance of which, on your left hand, is a monument fcred to the memory of John of Eltham, fecond son of K. Edward II. and fo called from Eltham in Kent, the place of his nativity, where our English kings had once a palace. His ftatue is of white alabafter, the head encircled in a coronet of greater and leffer 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 nineteen, 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 confummate it. His funeral was fo magnificent and coftly, that the prior and convent demanded iocl. (a vaft fum then) for horfe and armour present there on the day of his burial. This monument is by fome authors faid to belong to H. Holland, Duke of Exeter, who perished at fea in the reign of Edward IV.

At the foot of this is lately erected a handsome monument of white marble, with the following infcription.

"In this chapel lies interred all that was mortal of the moft illuftrious and moft benevolent John Paul Howard, Earl of Stafford, who in 1738 married Elizabeth daughter of A. Ewens, of the county of Somerfer, Efquire, by Elizabeth his wife, efdeft daughter of John St. Albin, of Alfoxton, in the fame county, Esquire.

"His heart was as truly great and noble as his high descent. Faithful to his God. Faithful to his God. A lover of his country. A relation to relations. A detefter of de

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traction. A friend to mankind. Naturally generous and compaffionate: His liberality and his charity to the poor were without bounds.

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

Being fnatched away fuddenly by death, which he had long meditated and expected with conftancy, he went to a better life the 1ft of April, 1762; having lived 61 years, 9 months, and 6 days.

The Countefs Dowager, in teftimony of her great affection and refpect to her Lord's memory, has caused this monument to be placed here."

The figures round the infcription are the antient badges of honor belonging to the Stafford family, who defcend 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, fixth son of Edward III. who died in his infancy; and of Blanch of the Tower, fifter to William, who likewife died young, having obtained their firnames from the places of their nativity. What is remarkable, they are dreffed in the habits of their time, the boy in a fhort doublet, of the indecency whereof Chaucer's parfon complains; the girl in a horned head-drefs, which Stowe fays was frightful.

Between the monuments of Lady Frances, Duchefs of Suffolk, and John of Eltham Earl of Cornwall, against the eaft wall, is a monument erected to the memory of Nicholas Monck, Provott of Eton, Bishop of Hereford, and brother to George Monck, Duke of Albemarle, &c. He died December 11th, 1661, aged 50. His grandfon, Chriftopher Raw, linfon, Efq. of Cark, in Lancashire, caused this to be erected in 1723.

On another tomb, raifed from the floor, lies the effigy of Lady Frances, Duchefs of Suffolk, in her proper robes. She was daughter of the famous

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Charles Brandon, (of whofe gallant actions fee a more particular account in the hiftory of the Tower, already mentioned) by Mary, the French Queen, daughter to Henry VII. and became herself Duchefs of Suffolk, by marrying Henry Grey, then Marquis of Dorfet, but upon her father's decease created Duke of Suffolk, and afterwards beheaded for being concerned in Wyat's attempt for dethroning the bloody Queen Mary.

The next that prefents is a ftately monument of white marble, representing a youth in Grecian armour, fitting on a Greek altar, and erected as the Latin infcription fets 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 12th, 1622, aged 18. His epitaph is thus written :

What fo thou haft of nature or of arts,

Youth, beauty, ftrength, or what excelling parts Of mind and body, letters, arms, and worth, His eighteen years, beyond his years, brought forth Then ftand and read thyfelf within this glass, Haw foon thefe perish, and thyself may pass; Man's life is meafur'd by the work, not days, No aged floth, but active youth hath praise. On an altar in the fame ftyle, but differently or namented, fits, in a fleeping pofture, the figure of Lady Elizabeth Ruffel, daughter of Lord Ruffel, in white alabafter. Your guides will tell you that the died with a prick of her finger, which is apt to raise pity in the minds of the fpectators; but this story has no other foundation, than the mifapprehenfion of the ftatuary's defign; for having reprefented her as afleep, and pointing with her finger to a Death's head under her right foot, it has been fuppofed that her finger bled, and that the bleeding had closed her eyes in death; whereas the defign of the artift feems rather to allude to the compofed fituation of her mind at the approach of death, which fhe confidered only

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as a profound fleep, from which he was again to awake in a joyful refurrection; of which the motto under her feet is a clear illuftration; dormit, non mortua eft; "fhe is not dead, but fleepeth." The Latin infcription on the fcroll beneath, only tells that her afficted fifter Ann, erected this monument to her memory. The device is an eagle, the emblem of eternity, ftanding on a florilege of rofes, &c.

Within the rails which enclose this last monument is a moft magnificent one of various-coloured marble and alabafter, painted and gilt, erected to the memory of John Lord Ruffel, (fon and heir to Francis Earl of Bedford,) and his fon Francis, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Cook, Knt. and widow of Sir Thomas Hoby, Knt. He is reprefented in a cumbent pofture, habited in his coronation robes, with his infant fon at his feet. His lady was efteemed the Sapho of her age, being well verfed in the learned languages, and an excellent poet; five of the epitaphs on this tomb are of her compofition, of which three are in Latin, one in Greek, and the other in English, which is here tranfcribed as a fpecimen, the reft being to the fame import:

Right noble twice, by virtue and by birth,
Of beaven lov'd, and honour'd on the earth;
His country's hope, his kindred's chief delight,
My husband dear, more than this world's light,
Death hath me reft. But I from death will take
His memory, to whom this tomb I make.

John was his name (ah, was!) wretch, muft I say;
Lord Ruffel once, now my tear-thirsty clay.

Affixed to the wall near this monument are two others, one to the memory of Lady Jane Seymour, daughter to Edward Duke of Somerfet, who died March the 19th, 1560, aged 19.

The other to the right honorable the Lady Katharine Knollys, chief lady of the bed-chamber, to Q Eliz. and wife to Sir Francis Knollys, Knt. treasurer of her highness's houfhold. She died January the

15th, 1568. This Lady Knollys and Lord Hunfdon, her brother, were the only children of William Carey, Efq. by Lady Mary his wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas Bulleyne, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, and fifter to Ann Bulleyne, Queen of England, wife to Henry VIII. father and mother to Queen Elizabeth. What is farther remarkable, Lady Knollys's only daughter was mother to the favourite Earl of Effex.

Under the window that fronts you when you enter, is a very antient monument, reprefenting a Gothic chapel, and in it the figure of a knight in armour, in a cumbent pofture, with his feet refting 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 to Richard II. But this princefs dying, and Richard falling under the difpleasure of his people, who depofed him, Sir Bernard ftill adhered to his royal mafter in his misfortunes, which coft him his life. He was publicly beheaded on Tower Hill, January 1399, and here buried.

Next adjoining to the weft fide of this is the monu ment of Sir Richard Peckfall, Knt. mafter of the buck-hounds to Q. Elizabeth; firft married to Alianer, the daughter of William Powlet, Marquis of Winchester, by whom he had four daughters; and afterwards to Alianer, daughter to John Cotgrave, who erected this monument to his memory, as appears by the infcription. On the bafis of the pillars are Latin verfes thus tranflated:

Death can't disjoin whom Chrift hath join'd in love.
Life leads to death, and death to life above.
In heaven's a happier place, frail things defpife,
Live well to gain in future life the prize.

Near this is an antient monument of grey marble, on which, in plated brafs, is the figure of a knight in armour; his head reclined upon his helmet, and one of his feet placed upon a leopard, the other on