_Septimus hic situs est Henricus gloria regum_ _Cunctorum_, _ipsius qui tempestate fuerunt_; _Ingenio atque_; _opibus gestarum et nomine rerum_, _Accessere quibus naturæ dona benignæ_: _Frontis honos facies augusta heroica forma_, _Junctaque ei suavis conjux per pulchra pudica_, _Et fæcunda fuit_; _felices prole parentes_, _Henricum quibus octavum terra Anglia debet_. Under the figure of the king. _Hic jacet Henricus ejus nominis septimus_, _Anglicæ quondam rex_, _Edmundi Richmondiæ comitis filius_, _qui die_ 22 _Aug._ _Rex creatus_, _statim post apud Westmonasterium die_ 30 Octob. _coronatur_ 1485. _Moritur deinde_ 21 _die Aprilis anno ætat._ 53, _regnavit annos_ 23, _menses_ 8, _minus uno die_. Under the queen’s figure. _Hic jacet regina Elizabetha_, _Edvardi quarti quondam regis filia_, _Edvardi quinti regis quondam nominatur soror: Henrici septimi olim regis conjux_, _atque_; _Henrici octavi regis mater inclyta_; _obiit autem suum diem in turri Londoniarum die secund_. _Feb. anno Domini_ 1502, 37 _annorum ætate functa_. The modern tombs in the abbey, best worth the viewing, are those of the duke of Newcastle, on the left hand as we enter the north door, of Sir Isaac Newton, at the west end of the choir, of Sir Godfrey Kneller, and Mr. Secretary Craggs at the west end of the abbey, of Mr. Prior among the poets at the door which faces the Old Palace Yard, of the Duke of Buckingham in Henry VII.th’s chapel, and that of Doctor Chamberlain on the North side of the choir: most of these are admirable pieces of sculpture, and show that the statuary’s art is not entirely lost in this country; though it must be confessed the English fall short of the Italians in this science.