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Rex," ''Edgams Rex," ''Emma Regina," " Alwidus 

 Epc." Ethelredus Rex," " SCS Edwardus Rex, filius 

 ejus," " Cnutus Rex," Hardecnutus Rex, filius ejus." 

 Under the forementioned Saxon kings this distich : 



" Copora Sanctorum sunt hie in pace sepulta, 

 Ex meritis quorum fulgent miracula multa." 



King Hardeknute's tomb, whereon is this distich : 



Qui jacet Mc regni sceptra tulit Hardecanutus, 

 Emmse ac Cnutonis natus et ipse fuit,'^ 



On another tomb-stone these verses : 



" Corpus Ethelmari cujus nunc Cor tenet istnd 

 Saxum, Parisiis morte datur tumulo." 



His heart is said to be found in an ewer. A monument 

 of Stephen Gardiner's, his effigies hke a skeleton. 



Bishop Wickham (who founded the coUege here, and 

 New-college in Oxford, both dedicated to St. Mary) is 

 buried in a little chapel in the body of the church. 

 There were verses about his tomb, which are now 

 almost quite defaced ;* there remains only as follows : 



" Jugiter oretis tumulum quicunque videtis 

 Pro tantis meritis," &c. ■ 



Bishop Edington's monument. On either side of the 

 entrance into the choir are the statues in brass of King 

 James I and King Charles I. On a tomb-stone in the 

 choir is this inscription : 



" Prsesulis egregij pausant hie membra E-ichardi 

 Eociuns, cui summi gaudia sunto poll." 



Here is also a monument of WiUiam de Basing, prior of 

 this church. 



The cloister is entirely pulled down. The following 



* This tomb must have been repaired since Mr. Ray's time, as the 

 learned Dr. Lowth, in his very ingenious ' Life of William of Wickham,' 

 has given this epitaph complete. 



