her Character, high Defcent, and the memorable Acts of her glorious Reign, "That fhe was the "Mother of her Country, and the Patronefs of 66 Religion and Learning; and she was herself skill"ed in many Languages, adorned with every Ex"cellence of Mind and Perfon, and endowed with "princely Virtues beyond her Sex; that in her "Reign Religion was refined to its primitive Pu"rity; Peace was established; Money restored to

its juft Value; domeftic Infurrections quelled; "Frane delivered from inteftine Troubles; the "Netherlands fupported; the Spanish Armada de"feated? Ireland, almoft loft by the fecret Contri"vances of Spain, recovered; the Revenues of both Univerfities improved by a Law of Provifions; and, in fhort, all England enriched: That fhe was a moft prudent Governefs, 45 Years a "virtuous and triumphant Queen; truly religious, "and bleft in all her great Affairs; and that after a

calm and refigned Death in the 70th Year of her "Age, fhe left her mortal Part to be depofited in "this Church, which fhe established upon a new "Footing, till by Chrift's Word fhe is called to Immortality" She died March 24, 1602.

The bloody Queen Mary, whofe Reign preceded that of Queen Elizabeth, was interred here likewife. Her Name is ftigmatized for her Cruelty to Proteftants.

In this Ifle you will fee a lofty Pyramid, of a stupendous Height, fupported by two Griffins of Brass gilt, on a Pedestal of the moft curious Marble, erected to the Memory of Charles Montague, the first of this Family that bore the Title of Lord Hallifax, Son to George Montague of Horton In the Reign of William III. and George I. he was placed at the Head of the Treafury, where undertaking the Reformation of the Coin, which in those Days was moft infamoufly clipped, to the great Lofs of the Public,

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Public, he reitored it to its proper Value. For thefe and other public Services, he was first created Baron and then Earl of Hallifax, and died May 19, 17 5

There are likewife fome Monuments of lefs Grandeur and Magnificence in this Ifle, particularly one to the Memory of George Saville, created by King Charles I. Baron of Eland, and Vifcount Hallifax, afterwards Earl, and laftly Marquis of Hallifax. He was Lord Keeper of the Privy-Seal for fome Time in the Reigns of King Charles II. of King James II. and King William, and at the Beginning of the Reign of King James II. he was for a few Months Lord Prefident of the Council. died April 5, 1695.

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At the Eaft End of this Ifle is a Vault, in which are repofited the Bodies of King James I. and his Queen, Anne, Daughter to Frederick II. King of Denmark. This Prince reigned over Scotland 59 Years, and over England 22 Years. He was Son to Lord Darnly by Mary Queen of Scots, who fell a Sacrifice to the Policy of Queen Elizabeth. He died March 16, 1625, aged 60, after a long and peaceable Reign, which adds nothing to the Glory of thefe Realms.

Over this Vault is a small Tomb with the Figure of a Child, erected to the Memory of Mary, third Daughter to King James I. born at Greenwich in 1605; and foon afterwards committed to the Care of Lady Knevet, in whose House at Stanwell fhe died Dec. 16, 1607, at two Years old.

There is alfo another Monument, reprefenting a Child in the Cradle, erected to the Memory of S.phia, fourth Daughter of the fame King, born at Greenwich in 1606, and died in three Days.

In the South Inle of this Chapel is a Table Monument, on which is the Effigy of Margaret Countess of Richmond, Mother to Henry VII. by Edmund I u

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dor, Son of Owen ap Tudor, who married the Widow of Henry V. of England, and Daughter to Charles VI. of France. This Lady was afterwards married to Humphry Stafford, a younger Son to Humphry Duke of Buckingham; and laftly to Thomas Lord Stanly, Earl of Derby; but by the two laft had no Children. She was a great Encourager of the noble Art of Printing when firft brought into England, as appears by a Book printed by Wynk, who files himself Printer to her Highnets's Grace Margaret, the King's Grandame. The Infcription mentions the Charities of this excellent Princess; fuch as giving a Salary to two Monks of Weftminfier, founding a Grammar School at Winbourne, and two Colleges, one to Chrift, the other to St. John his Difciple at Cambridge. She died in July 1509, in the Reign of her Grandfon Henry VIII.

At the Weft End of this Ifle is a handfome Table Monument inclofed with Iron Rails, on which lies a Lady finely robed, the Effigy of Margaret, Douglas, Daughter of Margaret Queen of Scots, by the Earl of Angus. This Lady, as the English Infcription expreffes, had to her great Grandfather, King Edward IV. to her Grandfather, King Henry VII. to her Uncle, King Henry VIII. to her CoufinGerman, King Edward VI. to her Brother, King James V. of Scotland; to her Son, King Henry I. of Scotland; to her Grandfon, King James VI. having to her great Grandmother and Grandmother two Queens, both named Elizabeth; to her Mother, Margaret Queen of Scots; to her Aunt, Mary the French Queen; to her Coufins-German, Mary and Elizabeth, Queens of England; to her Niece and Daughter-in-Law, Mary Queen of Scots.

This Lady, who was very beautiful, was privately married in 1537 to Thomas Howard, Son of the Duke of Norfolk, upon which Account both of them were committed to the Tower by King Henry VIII. her

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Uncle, for affiancing without his Confent. And he died in Prifon, but this Margaret being releafed, was foon after married to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, by whom she had the handfome Lord Darnly, Father to King James I. whofe Effigy is the foremost on the Tomb in a kneeling Posture, with the Crown over his Head; having been married fome Time to Mary Queen of Scots, but in the 2 ft Year of his Age murdered, not without fome Sufpicion of foul Practices in the Queen, tho' late Hiftorians have taken upon them to clear her Memory of that Reproach. There are feven Children, befides, round the Tomb of Margaret, of whom only three are mentioned in Hiftory, the reft dying young. This great Lady died March 10, 1577.

Near the Tomb juft mentioned is a very magnificent one, erected to that unhappy Queen we have been now fpeaking of; and who being Daughter to James V. of Scotland, was in her Infancy proclaimed Queen of that Kingdom, and married to Francis then Dauphin of France, but afterwards King, who in a few Months after dying without ITue, Mary returned into Scotland and married Lord Darnly, as has been faid, by whom he had one Son, afterwards King of England as well as Scotland. The principal Error of this Queen's Life, was marrying the Earl of Bothwell, the fuppofed Murderer of her fecond Hufband, which raifed fuch powerful Enemies against her, as forced her to refign the Crown to her young Son James, yet an Infant of three years old; and to commit the Regency of the Kingdom to her mortal Enemy, by whom he was' imprifoned, and her new Hufband driven out of the Kingdom. Having escaped out of Prifon, fhe endeavoured to re-affume the Reins of Government by Force, but miscarried in the Attempt, and was obliged to feek for Shelter in England; where, after an eighteen Years Confine

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`ment in Chatfworth-Caftle, in Derbyshire, now one of the Seats of the Duke of Devonshire, the was brought to a judicial Trial, and condemned of Treafon, in confpiring the Death of Elizabeth, Queen of England; for which fhe was afterwards. executed. She was a rigid and profeffed Papift, and being next Heir to the Crown of England, perhaps the Policy of thofe Times, when the Proteftant Religion was but in its Infancy, judged it a neceffary Expedient to cut her off. Tho' he had made no great Figure in her Life, fhe appeared great and illuftrious at her Death, behaving with all the Heroifm that the most renowned Martyr for our moft holy Religion had ever displayed. On the 8th of February 1587, fhe was beheaded at FotheringhayCaftle in Northamptonshire, upon a Scaffold erected in the Hall of that Caftle, the Earls of Shrefbury, Kent, Derby, and Cumberland being commiffioned to fee the Execution performed.She was after

wards pompously interred by Order of Queen Elizabeth, in the Cathedral Church of Peterborough; but upon the Acceffion of her Son to the Throne of England, he ordered her Remains to be removed from thence, and placed among her Ancestors near this Monument.

At the East End of this Ifle is the Royal Vault, as it is called, in which the Coffins of King Charles II, King William III. and Queen Mary his Confort; Queen Anne, and Prince George are all depofited. Over them in a Wainscot Prefs is the Effigy of King Charles II. in Wax-work, resembling Life,` and dreffed in the Robes he wore at Windfor at the Installation of the Knights of the Garter.

Alfo a Monument erected to the Memory of George, and Chriftopher Monk his Son, both Dukes of Albemarle; alfo Elizabeth, Dutchefs Dowager of Albemarle and Montague, Relict of Chriftopher Duke of Albemarle.