With diligence and trust exemplary, Did William Laurence serve a Prebendary; And for his pains, now past, before not lost, Gain’d this remembrance at his master’s cost. O! read these lines again, you seldom find A servant faithful, and his master kind. Short-hand he wrote, his flower in prime did fade, And hasty death short hand of him hath made. Well couth he numbers, and well measur’d land, Thus doth he now that ground whereon we stand, Whereon he lies so geometrical, Art maketh some, but thus will Nature all. Ob. Dec. 28. 1621. Ætat. 29. [Illustration: _S. Wale delin._ _E. Rooker sc._ _Henry the Seventh’s Chapel._] _Henry the Seventh’s Chapel._ As this is a separate building from Westminster Abbey, we did not think proper to confound it with the other chapels; and as it is joined to the Abbey, we did not chuse to render it so distinct an article as it would have been, had we given it the place it would have demanded in the order of the alphabet. It is to be examined at the same time with that edifice, and we have followed the example of the architect in uniting them. This chapel, which was founded by Henry VII. in the year 1502, and the succeeding years, is styled by Leland the wonder of the world. It is situated to the east of the Abbey, to which it is so neatly joined, that on a superficial view it appears to be one and the same building. It is supported by fourteen Gothic buttresses, all beautifully ornamented, and projecting from the building in different angles, and is enlightened by a double range of windows that throw the light into such a happy disposition as at once to please the eye, and afford a kind of solemn gloom. These buttresses extend up to the roof, and are made to strengthen it by their being crowned with Gothic arches. In these buttresses are niches, in which formerly stood a number of statues; but these being greatly decayed, have been long taken down. This chapel is one of the most expensive remains of the ancient English taste and magnificence; there is no looking upon it without admiration: yet, perhaps, its beauty consists much more eminently in the workmanship than the contrivance. The plate shews the outside, where it joins to the Abbey, and gives some idea of the fine taste of Gothic architecture in that age, which seems to have been its meridian; but it soon fell into the bad taste practised in the time of Queen Elizabeth, as may be seen in the tomb of this Queen and her predecessor in the side aisles of this chapel.