Of the MONUMENTS, &c. in the CHAPEL of St. PAUL.

HO' you are generally fhewn by your Guides

Tthis Chapel before that of Henry VII. yet to preferve the Order of Place, I have proceeded as they will appear regularly one after another upon the Range; and here as you enter upon your Left Hand, you will fee a lofty Monument erected to the Memory of Sir John Puckering, Knt. remarkable, as his Infcription fets 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 tranflated:

The public Care and Laws engaged my Breaft,
To live was toilfome, but to die is Reft;
Wealth, Maces, Guards, Crowns, Titles, Things,
that fade,

The Prey of Time and fable Death are made.

VIRTUE INSPIRES MEN.

His Wife this Statue rears to her loved Spouse,
The Test of Conftancy and Marriage Vows.
I trust I shall fee the Lord in the Land of the Living.

Adjoining to this is an ancient Monument, now pretty much decayed, on which are the Effigies of Sir James Fullerton and his Lady, with an Epitaph upon a Table of black Marble, which has fomething of a Quaintness not unfrequent in the Writings of thofe Days:

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Here lies the Remains of Sir JAMES FULLERTON, Kut. firft Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to King Charles the First (Prince and King) a generous Rewarder of all Virtue, a fevere Reprover of all Vice, a profeft Renouncer of all Vanity. He was a firm Pillar to the Commoʊawealth, 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 Refolution than of Pains, FULLER of Honour than of Days.

In the Middle of this Chapel is a Table Monument railed in, on which lie the Effigies of Sir Giles Daubeny, created Lord Daubeny in the firft Year of the Reign of Henry VII. and Dame Elizabeth his Wife. He feems 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 Majefty, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Father to Henry Lord Daubeny, the first and last Earl of Bridgewater of that Sirname, by Elizabeth of the ancient Family of the Arundels in Cornwall. He died May 22, 1507, and his Lady in 1500.

Here alfo is a magnificent Monument of Alabaster with Pillars of Lydian Marble gilt, on the Table whereof lies the Effigy of a venerable Perfon in a Chancellor's Habit, with four Sons and four Daughters kneeling on the Bafe; this Monument appears by the Infcription to have been erected to the Memory of Sir Thomas Bromley, Knt. PrivyCounsellor to Queen Elizabeth, and eight Years Chanceller, in which Office he died, April 12, 1587, to the Grief of all good Men. The eight Children depicted on his Tomb were all by his Lady Elizabeth, of the Family of Fortefcue.

Stow in his Antiquities of London and Westminfter, printed in the Year 1663, takes Notice of a Monument

Monument erected to the Memory of Ann Gerrard, Wife of Dudley Baron Carleton, of Imbercourt, who died April 18, 1627, aged 42, having been the Wife of Sir Dudley Carleton 20 Years.

There is also a very ftately but plain Monument, whereon in a half-raifed Pofture fits the Effigy of Sir Dudley Carleton, afterwards made Viscount Dorchefter, for his eminent Services to King Charles F. and his Father, both abroad and at home. He was a Perfon, as appears by the Infcription on his Monument, well verfed in the Languages, Customs, and Laws of moft of the European Nations, and was entrusted both by King James I. and his Succeffor, with the most important Foreign Negociations. He was first made Secretary to Sir Harry Nevil, on his Embassy into France; then fent Embaffador to Venice; and on his Return from thence, to the States General, where he refided when that Synod was affembled at Dort which has made fo much Noise in the learned World; and where, fays Lord Clarendon," he was not thought fo equal a "Spectator or Affeffor as he ought to have been,

but by the Infufions he made into King James, "and by his own Activity, he did what he could to "discountenance that Party that was most learn. "ed, and to raise the Credit and Authority of "the other." After the Death of King James he was fent again into Holland, as Ambaffador Extraordinary, and was the last who voted in the Affembly of the Sates under that Character, of which great Privilege the Crown of Eng and had been poffeffed from the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign, to the Period of which we are speaking. On his Return home he was made Secretary of State, a Peer of the Realm, and a Meinber of the Privy Council, but was lefs acquainted with the Genius of his own Country than with that of other Nations. He was twice married, first to Ann Gerrard,

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and afterwards to Ann, Viscountess Bayning, by both of whom he had iffue, and died Feb. 15, 1631, aged 57.

To the Eaft of this Monument is another very ftately one of Alabaster, to the Memory of Frances Countess of Suffex, whofe Effigy lies in a cumbent Pofture with a Coronet on her Head, refting on an embroidered Cufhion, and her Body beautifully robed. This great Lady was Wife to Thomas Rat cliffe, Earl of Suffex, Lord-Deputy of Ireland, and Knight of the Garter, &c. and Daughter to Sir William Sidney of Penfeburft, Knt. By her laft Will, having out-lived her Husband, fhe instituted a Divinity Lecture in this Abbey, gave 5000l. towards the building of a new College in Cambridge, now called Sidney Suffex College, and left a fufficient yearly Revenue for the Maintenance of one Mafter, ten Fellows, and twenty Scholars, either in the faid new College, or elfe in Clare-Hall. To her Relations fhe was moft kind, to the Poor and Prisoners moft liberal, and to the Ministers of the Word of God moft charitable, as her Infcription fhews. She died April 15, 1589, aged 58.

In this Chapel is a Monument erected to the Memory of Sir Henry Belafyfe, Knt. Lieutenant-General, fome Time Governor of Galway in Ireland, and afterwards of Berwick upon Tweed, in the Reign of King William III. He died Dec. 15, 1717, aged 69. Bridget, Wife to his only Son William Belafyfe, Efq; died July 28, 1735, aged 20.

Next to this is a Monument of black Touchftone, very remarkably differing from every other in the Abbey. On the Top of it is a circular Frame of gilt Brafs, enclosing the Buft of Ann, Lady Cottington, Wife to Francis Lord Cottington, Baron of Hanworth, fo created by King Charles I. She was Daughter of Sir William Meredith, of Denbighshire, by Jane his Wife, of the Family of the

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Palmers in Kent, and died February 22, 1633, in the 33d Year of her Age, having had four Daughters and a Son, all of whom died before their Fa ther, who, on a Table Monument beneath lies in Effigy, refting on his left Arm, and over a Satyr's Head is this Infcription in English: "Here lies "Francis Lord Cottington, of Hanworth, who in the "Reign of King Charles I. was Chancellor of "his Majefty's Exchequer, Master of the Court of

Wards, Conftable of the Tower, Lord High« Treasurer of England, one of the Privy Council. "He was twice Ambassador in Spain, once for the faid King, and a fecond Time for King Charles II. now reigning, to both which he moft fignally fhewed his Allegiance and Fidelity, during the unhappy Civil Broils of thofe Times; and for his faithful Adherence to the Crown (the Ufurper prevailing) was forced to fly his Country, and during his Exile died at Valadolid in Spain, June 19, 1652, in the 74th Year of his Age, whence "his Body was brought and here interred by Charles Cottington, Efq; his Nephew and Heir, in 1679."

He was at firft fetting out a private Gentleman, and Agent in Spain, for the Affairs of England; afterwards made a Baronet in Feb. 1624, and made Secretary to Charles Prince of Wales, whom he accompanied in his Journey to vifit the Infanta, when upon the Point of marrying that Princefs. On the Death of the Duke of Buckingham, he rofe to great Favour; and though he had the Honour to be confulted in all the King's Affairs, yet he had the Addrefs to keep himself clear of that popular Odium, which others fell under who had a lefs Share in the Measures that produced the Disorders of thofe Times.

There is here also a very old Gothic Monument erected to the Memory of Lewis Robert, or Robfart, a Foreigner, but Standard-Bearer to Henry V. a Knight