London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It — John Shaqi
London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
In this chapel is likewise a very expensive monument, erected by the
great Lord Burleigh, to the memory of his wife Mildred, and their
daughter the Lady Anne, Countess of Oxford, representing a stately
temple built with porphyry, and other kinds of marble gilt. It is
divided into two compartments, one elevated over the other. In the
lower lies Lady Burleigh, in a recumbent posture, with her daughter
Lady Jane in her arms; and at her head and feet are her children and
grand-children kneeling. In the upper compartment is the figure of a
venerable old man, supposed to be the Lord Burleigh, on his knees, as
if at fervent prayer. The Lady Burleigh died April 4, 1589, aged
sixty-three, after being forty years married, and her daughter, the
Lady Oxford, June 5, 1588. On the tomb is a long Latin inscription,
explaining the figures, and displaying their respective virtues and
accomplishments.
The next monument I shall mention in this chapel, is that of the Lady
Winifrid, married first to Sir Richard Sackville, Knt. and afterwards
to John Paulet, Marquis of Winchester. On the base are the figures of
a Knight armed and kneeling, and facing him a Lady in mourning also on
her knees; behind whose back lies an infant on a baptismal font with
its head supported by a pillow.
In the middle of the chapel is a fine raised monument of polished
marble, to the memory of Sir George Villars and his Lady, whose son
was raised by King James I. to the dignity of Duke of Buckingham.
In this chapel are two beautiful pyramids; the largest erected to the
memory of Nicholas Bagnal, a child of two months old, overlaid by his
nurse; the other to the memory of Anna Sophia Harley, a child of a
year old, daughter to the Hon. Christopher Harley Embassador to the
French King. She died in the year 1600, and her father, as appears by
the inscription, caused her heart to be inclosed in a cup, and placed
upon the top of the pyramid.
There are also in this chapel, a monument to the memory of the Lady
Elizabeth Fanes, and one or two others, scarcely worth notice.
_The Chapel of St. Edmund_, has at the entrance a lofty monument with
Gothic spires erected to the memory of John of Eltham, second son to
King Edward III. and so called from Eltham in Kent. His statue in
armour is of white alabaster, the head incircled by a coronet. He died
in Scotland at nineteen years of age, unmarried, tho’ 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.
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