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the kings of England are crowned and buried. We 

 saw here the royal tombs, among which Queen Eliza- 

 beth's and the beheaded Scottish Queen Mary's, King 

 Henry VIII.'s and King William III.'s tombs were well 

 worth seeing. An old chair, stol,* was shown in this 

 church, which was very badly made, on which all the 

 later English kings, for a period of several centuries, 

 have sat when they were crowned. Many a poor old 

 woman with only one room has a better and more hand- 

 somely made chair, stol, than this ; but for the sake of 

 its great age, because it had been brought from Scotland 

 as long ago as the 13th century by King Edward I., and 

 on account of the prophecy about the stone, sten, which 

 lies in this chair, stol : 



Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocunque locatum, 

 Invenient lapidem Regnare tenentur ibidem. 

 it is held in so high esteem. There is seldom anyone, 

 who now sees it, who has not the curiosity to sit upon 

 it. At the coronations this chair is overdrawn with costly 

 cloths. Another chair stands beside it, which was made 

 when King William III. and his Queen Mary were both 

 crowned at one time. Besides this we saw Sir Isaac 

 Newton's tomb, graf, and the monument erected near it 

 to his memory. One thing struck me particularly — 

 [T. I. p. 368] — that they not only erected here monuments 

 and epitaphs to such well-deserving men as had been buried 

 in this church, but also in honour of such as had their 

 resting place elsewhere ; even for such as had not been 

 of the English nation, and perhaps had never been in 

 England, but either through heroic actions, or their 

 learned writings, had won the love and esteem of the 

 English nation. 



We afterwards saw both Houses of Parliament, the 

 upper and the under. The place where they impeached, 



*" Solium regale" Ov. Fasti. VI. 353, and in four other places. [J. L.] 



