The tomb is composed of a curious pedestal whose sides are adorned with various figures, as the north with those of six men, the east with those of two cupids supporting the king’s arms and an imperial crown; on the south side, also, six figures, circumscribed—as those on the north side—with circles of curious workmanship, the most easterly of which contains the figure of an angel treading on a dragon. Here is also a woman and a child, seeming to allude to Rev. xii.; and on the west end the figure of a rose and an imperial crown, supported with those of a dragon and a greyhound: on the tomb are the figures of the king and queen, lying at full length, with four angels, one at each angle of the tomb, all very finely done in brass. The screen or fence is also of solid brass, very strong and spacious, being in length 19 feet, in breadth 11, and the altitude 11, adorned with forty-two pillars and their arches; also, twenty smaller hollow columns and their arches in the front of the former, and joined at the cornice, on which cornice is a kind of acroteria, enriched with roses and portcullises interchanged in the upper part, and with the small figures of dragons and greyhounds (the supporters aforesaid) in the lower part; and at each of the four angles is a strong pillar made open, or hollow, composed in imitation of diaper and Gothic archwork; the four sides have been adorned with thirty-two figures of men, about a cubit high, placed in niches, of which there are only seven left, the rest being stolen away (one Raymond, about the 11th of Queen Elizabeth, having been twice indicted for the same); and about the middle of the upper part of each of the four sides is a spacious branch adorned with the figure of a rose, where might on occasion be placed lamps. This admirable piece of art is open at top, and has two portals, one on the north, the other on the south side, all of fine brass. This Royal founder’s epitaph: _Septimus Henricus tumulo requiescit in isto_, _Qui regum splendor_, _lumen et orbis erat_. _Rex vigil et sapiens_, _comes virtutis_, _amatur_, _Egregius forma_, _strenuus atque potens_. _Qui peperit pacem regno_, _qui bella peregit_ _Plurima_, _qui victor semper ab hoste redit_, _Qui natas binis conjunxit regibus ambas_, _Regibus et cunctis fædere junctus erat_. _Qui sacrum hoc struxit templum_, _statuitque_; _sepulchrum_ _Pro se_, _proque sua conjuge_, _proque domo_. _Lustra decem atque_; _annos tres plus compleverit annos_, _Nam tribus octenis regia sceptra tulit_; _Quindecies Domini centenus fluxerat annus_, _Currebat nonus_, _cum venit atra dies_; _Septima ter mensis lux tunc fulgebat Aprilis_, _Cum clausit summum tanta corona diem_. _Nulla dedere prius tantum sibi sæcula regem_ _Anglia_, _vix similem posteriora dabunt_.