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vered, being buried deep in that place. Charles II. pitying 
their unhappy fate, ordered thole unfortunate princes to 
be laid afnongft the reliques of their predeceffors, in the 
year 1678, and in the 20th of his reign.” 
At the ea(l end of the fame aide is a vault, in which 
are depofited the remains of king James I. And here we 
mull notice a very curious piece of coincidence in heraldic 
connection, which has been communicated to us by a 
friend. If the dead, as we may religioufly fuppofe, take 
any concern in the tranfaClions of this fublunary planet, 
it mull have been truly gratifying for Janies I. to fee, from 
the eternal manfions, two of his illuftrious defcendants giv¬ 
ing each other the refpedtive accolade of knighthood ; the 
prince-regent of England inverting Louis XVIII. king of 
France with the ribbon of the Garter, and his mod Chrif- 
tian majerty inverting the prince with the ribbon of the 
Holy Ghoft ; both ilfuing from him, and (landing in the 
fame degree of confanguinity. This curious pedigree is 
as follows: 
James I. King of England. 
( _A---^ 
Charles I. K. of England, mar- Elizabeth of England, married 
tied Henrietta Maria of France, Frederic V. count palatine, K. 
daughter of K.. Henry IV. K. G. of Bohemia. 
Henrietta Maria of England, Sophia, princefs palatine, mar- 
married Philip duke of Orleans, ried Erneft-Auguftus, eleftor of 
Brunfwick-Lunenburgh. 
Anna Maria of Orleans, mar- George I. K.. of Great Britain, 
vied Vidlor Amadeus II. of Savoy, See. &c. 
K. of Sardinia. 
Maria Adelaide of Savoy, mar- George II. K. of Great Bri- 
vied Louis of France, duke of tain, &c. See. 
Burgundy, Dauphin. 
Louis XV. K.. of France, 
Frederic-Louis, prince of Wales. 
George III. K. of the United 
Louis of France, Dauphin. Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Ireland. 
Louis XVIII. K. of France, George Prince of Wales, and 
K.G. Regent, K.G. and K.H.G. 
We cannot help remarking, that Louis XVIII. and 
his elder and unfortunate brother Louis XVI. bring up 
their pedigree to James I. through Charles I. from whom 
none of our prelent royal family defeends ; fo that the 
protection given to James II. and his defcendants by 
France may afl'ume a Itronger plaufibility, on account of 
the kings of France being nearer related to the pretender, 
by one degree, than was the houfe of Brunfwick. Louis 
XV’s grandmother was firrt coufin to the pretender, fort 
of J.mies II. We need not apologize to our readers for 
this digreflion, fince the degree of confanguinity between 
the royal families of England and France is fo little known 
in both countries.—In the fame vault are alfo the remains 
of Anne, daughter to Frederic II. king of Denmark, and 
queen to king James I. Hence the confanguinity be¬ 
tween the Danilh dynaftyand thofe of England and France. 
In this aide is a lofty and beautiful monument, with a 
eanopy over it, eredled to the memory of queen Elizabeth, 
by her fucceffor king James I. The infeription deferibes 
her character thus : “ She was the mother of her country, 
and the patronefs of religion and learning: (lie was (kill¬ 
ed in many languages, adorned with every excellence of 
mind and perfo'n, and endowed with princely virtues be¬ 
yond her fex ; in her reign religion was refined to its pri¬ 
mitive purity ; peace was eltablilhed ; money reftored to 
its juft value ; domeftic infurretlions quelled 5 France de¬ 
livered from intelline troubles; the Netherlands fupport- 
ed ; the Spanilit armada defeated.; Ireland, almoft loll by 
the fecret contrivance of Spain, recovered ; the revenues 
of both univerfities improved by a Law ot provifions ; 
and, in (liort, all England enriched. She was a moll pru¬ 
dent governefs j forty-live years a virtuous and trium¬ 
phant queen; truly religious, and blefied in all her great 
affairs; and, after a calm and refigned death in the feven- 
tieth year of her age, (he left her mortal part to be depo- 
fited in this church, which Ihe ertablilhed on a new foot¬ 
ing, till by Chrift’s word (lie is called to immortality.” 
Awful as it is to think upon the works of that great le¬ 
veller Death, yet it foothes the noble pride of a juft man 
to find the arrogant by the humble, the rich by the poor, 
the perfecutor by the perfecuted, and the tyrant rotting 
by the bones of his (lave.—Had Elizabeth thought that 
her remains would lie fo clofe to thofe of Mary queen of 
Scots, her hand would have trembled when (he figned the 
death-warrant, and the fine flouriffi (he ufed to adorn her 
name with would have been (haken into a wavering 
fcrawl. Elizabeth had ordered her murdered rival to be 
pompoully interred in the cathedral of Peterborough; 
but James, on his accefiion to the throne of England, im¬ 
mediately ordered his mother’s remains to be removed, 
with all poffible care and decency, and brought to Weft- 
minlter-abbey, in order that they might be depolited 
among thofe of her anceftors ; and he fubfequentry eredled 
a magnificent monument to her memory in the louth aide 
of this chapel. 
Near this, inclofed with iron rails, is a handfome table- 
monument, on which lies, finely robed, the effigy of Mar¬ 
garet Douglas, daughter of Margaret queen of Scots by 
the earl of Angus. Her ton, the murdered lord Darnley, 
father to king James I. is repreiented foremort on the 
tomb, kneeling, with the crown over his head ; and feven 
others of her children are reprefented round the tomb. 
This great lady, though the herfelf never fat on the throne, 
had, according to the Englifh infeription, king Ed¬ 
ward IV. Tor her great-grandfather; Henry VII. for her 
grandfather; Henry VIII. for her uncle; Edward VI. for 
her coufin german ; James V. of Scotland for her brother ; 
Henry king of Scotland for her fon ; and James VI. for 
her grandfon. She had for her great-grandmother and 
grandmother, two queens, both named Elizabeth ; for her 
mother, Margaret queen of Scots; for her aunt, Mary the 
French queen ; for her coufins german, Mary and Eliza¬ 
beth, queens of England ; and for her niece and daughter- 
in-law, Mary queen of Scots. She died March 10th, 
1 577 - 
At the eaft end of this aide is the royal vault, in which 
are depofited the coffins of Charles II. William and Mary, 
queen Anne, and prince George of Denmark. 
The nave of this chapel is ufed for the ceremony of the 
inftallation of the knights of the Bath. In their flails, 
which are ranged on each fide of the nave, are brafs plates 
of their arms, &c. and over them hang their banners, 
fwords, and helmets. Under the flails are feats for the 
efquires, of whom each knight has three: their arms are 
alfo engraved on brafs, and placed upon the back of the 
feats. Of the ancient ceremonies with which the knights 
were inftalled we have given an account under the article 
Knighthood, vol. xi. p. 819. and of a recent inftallation, 
at p. 891 of the fame article. But a contrail, of which an 
inrtance had not occurred fince the revival of the order in 
1725, has lately prefented itfelf to us—a degradation !— 
and we are forry to fay, that of a man every one was in¬ 
clined to admire for his talents and bravery.—Lord Coch¬ 
rane was convidted in the court of King’s Bench of be¬ 
ing concerned in a confpiracy to difteminate falfe news, 
(on the 21ft of February, 1814,) in order to raife the price 
of omnium. He was fentenced to fine, imprifonment, and 
the pillory. The latter part of the fentence has been remit¬ 
ted ; but it was thought fit to expel him from the houfe 
of commons, (though he has been fince re-eledled,) and 
to degrade him from being a knight of the Bath. At a 
meeting, therefore, of the knights of the order, the degra¬ 
dation was carried into effedt; and a warrant was agreed 
upon, authorifing Francis Townfend, efq. deputy Bath 
king of arms, to remove the infignia of fir Thomas Coch¬ 
rane, commonly called lord Cochrane, from the chapel. 
Mr, Townlend accordingly attended, on Thurfday, Au- 
guffe 
