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tion is a recital of his military employments, and a record of his death, April 14, 1780, in the sixty-first year of

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There were formerly three very antient monuments; but now so greatly obscured or defaced, as not to be much no ticed. The first covered the remains of Aveline, countess of Lancaster, daughter of William de Fortibus, earl of Albemarle and Holdernesse, by Isabella, daughter and heiress of Baldwin, earl of Devon. This lady married Edmund earl of Lancaster, son of king Henry III. but died the very year of her marriage, November 4, 1293.

The second was of grey marble, to the memory of Aymer de Valence, second and last earl of Pembroke of that family; he was third son of William de Valence, earl of Pembroke, already mentioned; and was poisoned June 23, 1324.

The third antient monument was that of Edmund Crouchback, fourth son of Henry III. From this prince the house of Lancaster claimed their right to the crown. On the base, towards the area, are the remains of ten knights, armed, with banners, surcoats of armour, and cross-belted, representing, undoubtedly, his expedition to the Holy Land, the number exactly corresponding with what Matthew Paris reports, namely, Edward and his brother, four earls, and four knights, of whom some are still discoverable, particularly the lord Roger Clifford, as were formerly, in Waverly's time, William de Valence, and Thomas de Clare.

Admiral Holmes, represented in a Roman warlike habit, with his right hand resting on a cannon, mounted on a car. riage. Behind is an anchor, a flag staff, and other naval decorations, &c.

William Pulteney, earl of Bath Above, a medallion of the earl, in the centre of a large urn, with the family arms. The figures of Policy and Poetry placed on each side of the urn.

An old grave-stone, plated with brass, representing John of Windsor, nephew of Sir William of Windsor, lord VOL. IV. No. 89. lieutenant

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lieutenant of Ireland, in the reign of Edward III. He died April 4, 1414.

There are many persons besides those mentioned, whose remains lie in this area, particularly Ann of Cleve, married to Henry VIII. January 9, 1539, and in July following divorced, with liberty to marry again; but being sensibly touched with the indignity put upon her, she lived retired in England, with the title of Lady Ann of Cleve, and saw the rival who supplanted her, suffer a worse fate. She survived the king four years, and died in 1557.

Anne, queen of Richard III. and daughter of Nevil, the great earl of Warwick. This lady was poisoned by that monster of cruelty, her husband, to make way for his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of his brother Edward IV. and sister of the unhappy youths he had caused to be murdered in the Tower; which marriage he never lived to

consummate.

Here are also the remains of an old monument of Sebert, king of the East Saxons, who first built this church, and died July, 616; also of Athelgoda, his queen, who died September 13, 615.

MODERN MONUMENTS IN THE NORTH CROSS. CHARLES WATSON, Esq. Over the north door; in the centre of a range of palm trees, an elegant figure of the admiral in a Roman Toga, with a branch of palm in his right hand, receiving the address of a prostrate figure, representing the Genius of Calcutta, a settlement in the East Indies, memorable for the imprisonment of the English garrison in a black hole, where most of them perished, and where those that survived were released by the admiral, and the town retaken from the Nabob in January, 1757. On the other side is the figure in chains of a native of Chandernagore, another place taken by the admiral the March following. On the front is this inscription;

"To the memory of CHARLES. WATSON, Vice-Admiral of the White, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's naval Forces in the East Indies, who died at Calcutta the 16th of August, 1757.

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"THE EAST INDIA COMPANY,

"As a grateful testimony of the signal advantages which they obtained by his valour and prudent conduct, caused this monu ment to be erected."

Sir WILLIAM SANDERSON, knight. Against the wall, on a small tablet, is a bust with an inscription in Latin, shewing that he was gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles I. and wrote the lives of Mary, queen of Scots, James, and Charles I.; that he sustained great hardships from the ty ranny of the rebels; but that, having bravely surmounted all difficulties, he lived to the age of ninety, and died July 15, 1676.

GEORGE MONTAGU DUNK, earl of Halifax. His lordship's bust convey a very striking likeness of the original. It is supported by two emblematical figures, one holding a mirror, supposed to be Truth, with his foot on a mask, trampling on Falsehood; the other, Honour presenting the ensigns of the Garter. It is also decorated with various other emblems, alluding to the different public posts of honour and profit which his lordship held at different times, The inscription states bis preferments and qualifications, and has this remarkable conclusion:

"Among many instances of his liberal spirit, one deserves to be distinctly recorded. During his residence in Ireland he obtained the grant of an additional 4000l. psr annnm for all subsequent viceroys, at the same time nobly declining that emolument himself."

Sir CLIFTON WINTRINGHAM, baronet, is represented visiting a sick and distressed family; underneath is the figure of his lady, kneeling, bewailing her loss. He died much lamented, January 10, 1794, aged eighty-three.

JONAS HANWAY, Esq. On a sarcophagus the Marine Society is represented in bass-relief, viz. Britannia with her emblems of government, Peace, War, Trade, and Navigation, who, with benign countenance, distributes clothes to poor boys to be trained to sea; over this a medallion of the deceased is fixed on a pyramid, upon the top of which is a lamp, emblematic of perpetual light :

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"Sacred to the memory of Jonas Hanway, who departed this life September 5th, 1789, aged seventy-four; but whose name liveth, and will ever live, whilst active piety shall distinguish the Christian, integrity and truth shall recommend the British merchant, and universal kindness shall characterize the citizen of the world.

"The helpless infant nurtur'd through his care,
The friendless prostitute shelter'd and reform'd;
The hopeless youth rescu'd from misery and ruin,
And trained to serve and to defend his country,
Uniting in one common strain of gratitude,
Bear testimony to their benefactor's virtues:-
This was the friend and father of the poor."

Sir EYRE COOTE, K. B. commander in chief of the British forces in India, and in 1761, expelled the French from the la coast of Coromandel. In 1781 and 1782 he again took the field in the Carnatic, in opposition to the united strength of the French and Hyder Ally, and in several engagements defeated the numerous forces of the latter. Died 1783.

This monument, by BANKS, consists of two figures as large as life; one a Mahratta captive, weeping beside a trophy of Persian armour, represents a province subdued; he is holding a cornucopia inverted, the contents of which are falling into Britannia's shield. The other, a Victory having erected a trophy, is decorating it with the portrait of Sir Eyre Coote, by hanging it on a palm tree, which rises from behind the armour. The elephant on the sarcophagus marks the scene of action. The Mahratta figure is particularly admired.

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A most sumptuous monument in the broad part of this cross is to lord ROBERT MANNERS, aged twenty-four; captain WILLIAM BAYNE, aged fifty; captain WILLIAM Blair, aged forty-one.

Upon a rostral column, decorated with the hulks of a seventy-four gun ship, a second rate, Genius has hung three medallions, containing the portraits of the captains, whose bodies (by their order) were committed to the deep. Neptune, having surrendered up the captains from their

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watery grave, is sitting upon a sea horse, pointing them out as examples for posterity to Britannia, whose majestic figure, accompanied with a lion, supporting a shield of the arms of Great Britain, is standing on the opposite side, beholding them with a countenance, expressive of sorrow; Fame stands upon the top of the column, with a wreath of laurel to crown the heroes mortally wounded in the course of the naval engagements, under the command of admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, on the 9th and 12th of April, 172. The king and parliament of Great Britain caused this monument to be erected. The basement is adorned with different naval implements, and the whole executed by Mr. Nollckens,

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WILLIAM earl of MANSFIELD. From the love which he bore to the place of his early education, he desired to be buried in this collegiate church, and would have forbidden that instance of human vanity, the erecting a monument to his memory, but a sum, which, with the interest, has amounted to 2500l. was left for that purpose by A. Bailey, Esq. of Lyons Inn, which, at least, well-meant mark of esteem he had no previous knowledge or suspicion of, and had no power to prevent being executed. His lordship was born at Scone, 1704-died at Kenwood, 20th March, 1793. The earl is represented sitting on a seat of judgement; on his right hand Justice holds the statera, or balance, equally poized; on his left hand Wisdom opens the Book of Law. Between the statues of Wisdom and Justice is a trophy composed of the carl's family arms, surmounted by the coronet, the mantle of honour, the trasces or rods of justice, and curtana or sword of mercy. On the back of the chair is the earl's motto, in Latin "Alone equal to Virtue."-Enclosed in a crown of laurel, under it, is a figure of Death, as represented by the antients, a beautiful youth leaning on an extinguished torch: on each side of the figure of Death is a funeral altar, finished by a fir apple. This is the first of the iso lated monuments, and was executed by Flaxman.

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