The collegiate church is stately enough: in it is buried the restless king John; not where now his monument stands in the choir before the high altar, but under a little stone before the altar of the eastermost wall of the church; on each side him, upon the ground, lie the effigies of the two holy bishops and his chief saints Wolstan and Oswald, from whose vicinity he hoped to be safe from harm: the image of the king likewise I suppose formerly lay here upon the ground, now elevated upon a tomb in the choir as aforesaid. There is a large and handsome stone chapel over the monument of prince Arthur, son of Henry VII. on the south side of the high altar. The cloysters are very perfect, and the chapter-house is large, supported, as to its arched roof, with one umbilical pillar: it is now become a library well furnished, and has a good many old manuscripts. There is a large old gate-house standing, and near it the castle, with a very high artificial mount or keep nigh the river. We met here with an odd instance of a prodigious memory, in a person the powers of whose soul are run out (as we may speak) intirely into that one; for otherwise his capacity is very weak: if we name any passage in the whole Bible, he will immediately tell you what book, chapter, and verse, it is in; a truly living concordance. Here are a great many churches, and in good repair: one steeple is octangular, another is remarkable for its lofty spire. A large bridge of six arches over the beautiful Severn, enriched on both sides with pleasant meadows. This is a large city, very populous and busy, and affords several fine prospects, particularly from Perry wood. No doubt but this was a Roman city; yet we could find no remains, but a place in it called Sidbury, which seems to retain from its name some memorial of that sort. [Illustration: 18 _King_ Johns _Monument before the Altar in Worcester Choir._ _Præhonorabili Dⁿᵒ. Eduardo Dⁿᵒ. Harley bonarum Artium cultori & fautori Tabula votiva._ _J. Pine sculp._ _W. Stukeley designat_] [Illustration: 85 +Ariconivm+ _9ᵗʰ. Sept. 1721._ _Tempus edax Rerum Tuqᵤₑ Invidiosa Vetustas Omnia destruitis. Vitiataqᵤₑ dentibus Ævi Paulatim lenta consumitis Omnia Morte._ +Ov.+ Jacobo Hill Ar. J. C. Vicinæ Civitatis formam consecrat W. Stukeley. _Stukeley delin._] [Sidenote: +Ypocessa.+] [Sidenote: +Salinis.+] [Sidenote: +Malvern.+]