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Tides of the altar are ranged fix chefts, containing the remains 
of EGBERT, ADOLPHUS, EDREDU3, EDMUND, CANUTE, and queen 
emma ; but it is confeffed, that the havock of inteftine broils 
have difturbed thefe repofitories, and fcattered thefe royal bones, 
perhaps with lefs regard than if they had been merely plebean. 
In this church is the monument of bifhop fox, who, in a 
foolifh vanity of p : • r is faid, attempted to imitate our sa- 
vior’s Lifting, an; ft-uved himfelf to death. This figure re- 
prefents a dt id man emaciated with hunger. The monument 
in the moil modern fiyle, is of the late bifhop willis : there 
are many of lefier note, which we will pafs over in filence. 
But we muft not forget the pompous fepulchre of william 
of wickham, which is yet perfect ; the countenance of the 
effigy is very comely ; he is drefs’d in his mitre and epifcopal 
robes ; kneeling at his feet are three fmall figures of friars, 
whofe faces you was bid to remark, reprefented as in a tranf- 
port of devotion. 
You have often heard the name of this eminent flatefman and 
prelate, in the reign of edward hi. He was born in 1324, 
and began very early to fhine in learning and politenefs, as one 
of the moft diflinguifhed perfons of the age he lived in. He 
was forty-three years old when he was nominated bifhop of 
winchester : foon after he was made lord high chancellor, 
and afterwards prefident of the council. In thefe ages of papal 
authority, churchmen having the management of moft fecular 
concerns, held the firft civil as well as ecclefiaftical offices in 
the ftate. A powerful party however obliged our bifhop, in 
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