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with very lively Carvings and Paintings, and 

 Figures both of Men and Women, as for as 

 the Breaft and Shoulders^ but miferably de- 

 facM and broken. Under thefe Statues, 61^ 

 by their fides, are 'in the unknown Chara- 

 der, the Names probably of the Perfbns 

 there buried, or by them reprefented i or 

 elfe fome other Memorials of them^ Wc 

 *• entred one of thefe by a Door on the South 

 fide, from which was a Walk crofs the whole 

 Building jull: in the middle. But the Floor 

 was broke up, and fo gave us a fight of a 

 Vault below, divided after the fame man- 

 ner. The Spaces on each Hand were agaia 

 fub-divided into fix Partitions by thrck Walls, 

 each Partition being capable of rieceiving 

 the largeft: Corps : And piling them one 

 above another, as their way appears to have 

 been, each of thole Spaces might contain at 

 leail fix or feven Bodies. For the loweft, 

 fecond and third Stories, thofe Partitions 

 were uniform, and altogether the fame ; fave 

 from the fecond Floor, which anfwered the 

 main Entrance, one Partition was referved 

 for a Stair-Cafe. Higher thaii this, the 

 Building , being fomething contraded to*-, 

 wards the top, would not afford fpace for thd 

 continuation of the fame Method : There^ 

 for^e the two uppermoft Rooms were not fo 

 parted, nor perhaps ever had any Bodies 

 lain in them. Unlefs it was that of the 

 Founder alone, whofe Statue wrapt up in 

 Funeral Apparel, and in a lying Pofture, is 

 placed in a Nich, or rather Window in the 

 Front of the Monument, fo as to be vifible 



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