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On the right Side of the Choir is the Marble Tomb of Nicholas Bacon, with his Wife. Not far from this is a magnificent Monument, ornamented with Pyramids of Marble, and Alabaster, with this In fcription:fre

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Vad Sacred to the Memory ofni smo bluos Sir Chriftopher Hatton, Son of William, Grandfon of John, of the most ancient Family of the Hattons; one of the 50 Gentlemen Penfioners to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Gentleman of the Privy-chamber; Captain of the Guards; one of the privy Council, and High Chancellor of England, and of the Univerfity of Oxford: Who, to the great Grief of his Sovereign, and of all good Men, ended this Life religiously, after baying lived unmarried to the Age of 51, at his House in Holbourn, on the 20th of November, A. D. 1591.

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William Hatton, Knight, his Nephew by the Sif ter's Side, and by Adoption his Son and Heir, moft forrowfully raised this Tomb, Mark of his Duty. g&M bng softs V of bolestors bonibs-9: 30. On the left Hand is the Marble Monument of William Herbert Earl of Pembroke, and his Lady: And pear, it, that of John Duke of Loncaster, with this Infcription:

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Here fleeps in the Lord, Fahn of Gant, fo called from the City of the fame Name in Flanders, where he was born, fourth Son of Edward III. King of England, and created by his Father, Earl of Richmond. He was thrice married, firft to Blanch, Daughter and Heiress of Henry Duke of Lancafter; by her he received an immenfe Inheritance, and became not only Duke of Lancaster, but Earl of Leicester, Lincoln, and Derby, of whofe Race are defcended many Emperors, Kings, Princes, and Nobles. His fecond Wife was Conftance, who is here buried, Daughter and Heiress of Peter, King of Caftile and Leon, in whofe Right he moft + justly took the Stile of King of Castile and Leon. She brought him one only Daughter, Catherine, of whom, by Henry, are defcended the Kings of Spain. His third Wife was Catherine, of a Knight's Family, a Woman of great Beauty, by whom he had a numerous. Progeny; from which is descended by the Mother's Side, Henry VII the most prudent King of England, by whofe most happy Marriage with Elizabeth, Daughter of Edward IV. of the Line of York, the two Royal Lines of Lancaster and York, are united, to the moft defired Tranquillity of England.

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The most Illuftrous Prince, John, firnamed Plan tagenet, King of Caftile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, Leicester, and Derby, Lieutenant of Aquitain, High-Steward of England, died in the 21ft Year of Richard II. A. D. 1398.1, shit to am2 gtsd vialois + This is not true, for her Legitimacy, was with good Reafon eptefted,

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Here lies Seba, King of the Eaft Saxons, who was converted to the Faith by St. Erkenwald, Bishop of London, A. D. 6775,ousinedal stasıgımi as boven to foredroflnonwl to a On the Others A sodw to

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Here lies Ethelred, King of the Angles, Son of King Edgar; on whom St. Dunstan is faid to have denounced Vengeance, on his Coronation-day, inc the following Words dans dest ylfurj i ftonz suo had suguone on

"In as much, as thou haft afpired to the Throne " by the Death of thy Brother, against whofe Blood "thes English, along with thy infamous Mother,

confpired; the Sword fhall not pafs from thỹ "House! but rage all the Days of thy Life, afflicting all thy Generation, till thy Kingdom shall be tranflated to another, whofe Manner and Land guage; the People under thee knoweth not. Nor fhall thy Sin be done away till after long Chastise "ment, nor the Sin of thy Mother, nor the Sin of “those Men, who aflifted in thy wicked Council." annomad to oxuños pas ${5} to gald

All which came to pass, as predicted by the Saints for after being worfted and put to Flight by Suena King of the Danes, and his Son Genute; and at laft clofely befieged in London, he died miserably A. D.

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omnisno s Thomas Linacre, an eminent Physician, John Cains placed this Monument. On the lower Part of it, is this Infcription in Gold Letters:

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Thomas Linacre Phyfician to King Henry VIII. a Man learned in the Greek and Latin Languages, and particularly fkilful in Phyfick, by which he restored many from a State of Languifhment and Despair to Life. He tranflated with extraordinary Eloquence many of Galen's Works into Latin; and published, a little before his Death, at the Request of his Friends, a very valuable Book on the correct Structure of the Latin Tongue. He founded in Perpetuity in Favour of Students in Phyfick, two public Lectures at Oka ford, and one at Cambridge. In this City he Brought about, by his own Industry, the establishing of a Col lege of Phyficians, of which he was elected the first Prefident. He was a Detefter of all Fraud and De.

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There are many Tombs in this Church, but with. out any Inscriptions. It has a very fine Organ, which, at Evening Prayer, accompanied with other Inftruments, is delightful.

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In the Suburb to the Weft, joined to the City by a continued Row of Palaces belonging to the chief Nobility, of a Mile in length, and lying on the Side next the Thames, is the fmall Town of Westminster; originally called Thorney from its Thorn Bufhes, but now Westminster, from its Afpect and its Monastery. The Church is remarkable for the Coronation, and Burial of the Kings of England. Upon this Spot is faid formerly to have ftood a Temple of Apollo which was thrown down by an Earthquake in the Time of Antoninus Pius; from the Ruins of which Sebert King of the East-Saxons erected another to St. Peter: This was fubverted by the Danes, and again renewed by Bishop Dunstan, who gave it to a few Monks Afterwards, King Edward the Confeffor built it entirely new, with the Tenth of his whole Revenue, to be the Place of his own, Burial and a Convent of Benedictine Monks; and enriched in with EBates difperfed all over England.

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