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D O N, 
Againft: the fouth wall of St. Erafmus's chapel is an 
antique ftone monument, on which, under a Gothic ca¬ 
nopy, lies the figure of a bifhop properly habited, and 
fuppofed to be Thomas Ruthal, made biflicp of Durham 
by king Henry VIII. He had been fecretary of ftate to 
Henry VII. and was made a privy-counfellor, and fent 
abroad on various embaffies by Henry VIII. He died in 
the year 1524. Bifhop Goodwin relates the following 
-circumflance, relative to the ’difcovery of his pofleflions, 
which occafioned his death : Being commanded to write 
down a true ftate of the kingdom in general, for his ma- 
jeltv’s private information, he took great pains in the 
performance; and, having fairly tranfcribed it, caufed the 
book to be bound in vellum, gilt, and varioufly orna¬ 
mented ; and, at the fame time, having taken an account 
of his own private eltate, with an inventory of his jewels, 
plate, and money, he caufed that likewife to be bound 
and ornamented exactly like the other, and laid them 
both carefully together in his clofet. It fo fell out, that 
the king, on fome occafion, fent cardinal Wolfey in hafte 
for the national tract which he had fo long expefted from 
Ruthal ; but, by miftake, Wolfey received the book con¬ 
taining the fchedule of the bifhop’s own wealth. The 
cardinal foon difcovered the miftake, but, being willing 
to do Ruthal, to whom he had no liking, an ill turn, he 
delivered the book to the king, juft as he received it, 
telling his majelty, that now, if he wanted money, that 
book would inform him where he might command a mil¬ 
lion; for fo much did the bifhop’s inventory amount to. 
When the bifhop difcovered his error, and the trick of 
liis enemy, it affeCted Iiim fo much, that he died foon after. 
In the middle of this chapel is a large table-monument, 
erected to the memory of Thomas Cecil, earl of Exeter, 
a privy-counfellor to king James ; on which is his effigy, 
in his robes, with a lady on his right fide, and a vacant 
fpace for another on his left. Dorothy Nevil, his firft 
wife, who was daughter of lord Latimer, lies on his right 
fide ; and the vacant place was intended for his fecond 
wife, Frances Bridges, of the noble.family of Chandois : 
this lady, however, gave exprefs orders in her will, that, 
as the right fide was taken up, her effigy fhould not be 
placed on the left ; but the bodies, agreeable to the 
infcription, are buried together in one vault.—On the 
fouth fde of this chapel is a monument to the me¬ 
mory of Col. Edward Popham, and his lady ; the ftatues 
of whom are in white marble, as large as the life, and 
Hand under a lofty canopy, refting their arms in a thought¬ 
ful pofition on a marble altar, on which lie the gloves of 
an armed knight. This gentleman was an aftive officer 
5 n Cromwell’s army, and his achievements were infcribed 
on his tomb. At the time of the reftoration, the inlcrip- 
tion was ordered to be defaced, and the whole monument 
deftroyed ; but at the interceffion of fome of bis lady’s 
relations, who had been particularly ufeful to his majelty, 
the ftone on which the infcription was engraved was only 
inverted, and the monument received no other injury. 
Nearly in the centre of St Paul’s chapel is a magnifi¬ 
cent monument of alabafter, w ith pillars of Lydian mar¬ 
ble, gilt ; on the table of which lies the effigy of an old 
man, in a chancellor’s habit, with the figures of his eight 
children, four tons and four daughters, kneeling on the 
bale. This monument was erefted to the memory of 
fir Thomas Bromley, privy-counfellor, and eight years 
chancellor, to queen Elizabeth, in which office he died 
April 12, 1587.—Here is alfo a monument of. black touch- 
ftcne, remarkably different from any other in the abbey. 
On the top is a circular frame of gilt brafs, which en- 
clofes the buft of Anne lady Cottington, wife to 
Francis lord Cottington. Beneath, on a table mo¬ 
nument, lies the effigy of her hufband, refting on his left 
arm ; and over the head of a fatyr is the following in- 
fcription : “ Here lies Francis lord Cottington, of Han- 
worth, who, in the reign of king Charles I. was chan¬ 
cellor of his majefty’s exchequer, matter of the court of 
wards, conftable of the Tower, lord high treafurer of 
England, and one of the priuy-council. He was twice 
ambafiador in Spain, once for the faid king, and a fecond 
time for king Charles II. now reigning, to both which he 
nioft fignally (hewed his allegiance and fidelity, during 
the unhappy civil broils of thofe times; and for his faith¬ 
ful adherence to the crown (the ufurper prevailing) was 
forced to fly his country, and during his exile died at 
Valadoiid in Spain, June 19th, 1752, in the 74th year of 
his age; whence his body was brought, and here interred, 
by Charles Cottington, efq. his nephew and heir, in 1679.’* 
This great man was fecretary to Charles prince of Wales, 
whom he attended on his journey to vifit the infanta of 
Spain. Lady Cottington died on 22d of February, 1633, 
in the 33d year of her age. 
Adjoining to the eaft wall of the chapel of St. Nicholas 
is a ftately monument of various-coloured marble, erected 
to the memory of Anne duchefs of Somerfet, wife to Ed¬ 
ward duke of Somerfet, brother to Jane Seymour, third 
wife of Henry VIII. uncle to Edward VI. and fometime 
regent during his minority ; from whom Somerl'et-houfe 
took its name, as related at p. 528 of this volume ; and 
of whofe dil'grace and death we have fpoken at large un¬ 
der the article England, vol. vi. p. 644, 5. The infcrip¬ 
tion on the tomb is in Latin and Englifh, and defcribes 
the noble lineage of this great lady, who died at Han- 
worth, the 16th of April, 1587, in the ninetieth year of 
her age.—At the door of this chapel lie the remains of 
that great and learned antiquary, fir Henry Spelman, who 
died at upwards of eighty years of age, in the year 1641, 
At the entrance of St- Edmund’s chapel, on the right 
hand, is the ancient monument of William de Valence, 
whofe effigy lies in a cumbent polture on a cheft of wainfcot 
placed upon a tomb of grey marble ; the figure is wood, 
covered originally with copper gilt, as was the cheft in 
which it lies ; but the greateit part has been taken away; 
and, of thirty fmall images that were placed in little brafs 
niches round, fcarcely one remains entire. He w’as trea- 
cheroufly (lain at Bayonne in the year 1296 ; but his body, 
being brought to England, was interred in this chapel, 
and an indulgence of one hundred days granted to all de¬ 
vout people who fhould pray for the welfare of his foul. 
—Near this is a moft magnificent monument, partly in- 
clofed, to the memory of Edward Talbot, eighth earl of 
Shrewfbury, who died February the 8th, 1617, aged fifty- 
feven ; and his lady, Jane, eideft daughter and coheirefs of 
Cuthbert baron Ogle, whofe effigies in their robes lie on 
a black marble table, fupported by a pedeftal of alabafter. 
This monument is finely ornamented, and the carving on 
the various-coloured marble is exquifite. The infcrip¬ 
tion contains nothing more than his titles and character, 
which is indeed very high : he was honourable without 
pride ; potent without olfentation ; religious without fu- 
perftiticn ; liberal both in mind and bounty ; warded ever 
againft fortune, his whole life was a path of juffice; and 
his innocence, efcaping envy, continued through the whole 
courfe of his life.— On the eaft fide of this chapel is a 
monument ereCtco to the memory of John of Eltham, fe¬ 
cond fon of king Edward II. and fo called from Eltham 
in Kent, the place of his nativity. His ftattie is of white 
alabafter, the head encircled in a coronet of greater and 
Jefs leaves, and his habit is that of an armed knight. He 
died in Scotland at the age of nineteen, unmarried, though 
three different matches bad been propofed to him ; the 
laft of which, to Mary, daughter of Ferdinand king of 
Spain, he accepted, but did not live to conlummate it. 
His funeral was fo magnificent and coltly, that the prior 
and convent demanded one hundred pounds (a great fqm 
at that time) for a horfe and armour prefented there on 
the day of his interment. 
On the eaft fide of St. Benedict's chapel, where once 
ftood the altar of St. BenediN, is a beautiful monument, 
compoftd of various kinds of marble, ereCted to the me¬ 
mory of Frances countefs of Hertford, who is here repre- 
fenled in her robes in a cumbent polture, with her head 
refting on an embroidered cufhion, and her feet on a lion’s 
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