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with a canopy of velvet, and velvet curtains. Here the 

 king sits when he conies to St. George's chapel. Every 

 other seat is reserved for the knights companions of the 

 order. In the backs of some of these seats are several 

 brass plates with inscriptions on them, and some only 

 have the coats of such as have been of the order, with the 

 time of their installation. Over their seats are the 

 banners of the present knights of the order. In the body 

 of the choir were buried King Henry VIII, and King 

 Charles 1. In this chapel are the following tombs, to 

 wit, one of the earl of Rutland, and his countess ; another 

 of Sir Thomas St. Lieger, and his lady, daughter of King 

 Edward IV, and dutchess of Exeter. A tomb of the 

 first earl of Worcester, and his lady ; she lies on his right 

 hand, because daughter to a king and queen, he being 

 only son of a king. The tomb of Henry Wood, doctor 

 of law, that of J. Dent, Esq., of Thornbury in Glouces- 

 tershire ; William Eitz Wilham's tomb. Sir Richard 

 Wortley's, Dr. Thompson's, he was bishop of Gloucester, 

 and dean of this chapel ; by his tomb is his effigies, a 

 skeleton well cut in stone. A. monument, whereon for- 

 merly lay a bible, on which these words were inscribed, 

 " Who laid this here ? The reverend father in God, 

 Richard Beauchamp, bishop of Salisbury, &c., vide." 

 The rest intimates, that he who should read in that book, 

 and look stedfastly on a stone cross carved in the roof, 

 should have forty years' pardon. King Henry VI is 

 buried here, without any other monument than his coat 

 of arms on the roof, and a chain hanging on the necks of 

 the two supporters, which are antelopes. A fair monu- 

 ment of the good earl of Lincoln and his countess. One 

 Oliver King buried in his own little chapel, he was secre- 

 tary to four kings, viz., Edward IV and V, Richard HI, 

 and Henry VII. It is so vn-itten under these kings' 

 pictures on the wall. Charles Brandon, his atchievement 

 hanging up. Here also lies a Lord Bray, who built a 

 great part of this chapel ; he caused a brake, wherewith 

 hemp is dressed, to be wrought in the stone work, and 



