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guft the 11tli, with a warrant, figned by lord Sidmoutli, 
as fecretary of Hate for the home department, at this cha¬ 
pel ; and proceeded to afcend a ladder, placed for that 
purpofe, to remove the banner of lord Cochrane from its 
lunation, which was the fourth from the top on the right 
lide of the chapel, between thofe of lord Beresford and fir 
Brent Spencer. His lordfhip’s arms were afterwards un- 
icrewed front his Hall. The helmet, creft, mantling, and 
fword, and all his lord (hi p's infignia of the order, were 
then taken down from the top of the flail. The mod de¬ 
grading part of the ceremony then took place, that of his 
lordfhip’s banner being- kicked out of the chapel, and 
down the fteps, by Mr. Tovvnfend. 
Underneath the body of this chapel is the vault pre¬ 
pared in 1737, on the death of queen Caroline, for the 
reception of fhe prefent royal family. It confifts of a 
double range of arched chambers, three on each fide, open 
to the middle walk between them. This middle walk ter¬ 
minates with the principal vault in front, where, in a large 
marble farcophagus, lie the two coffins of the late king 
George II. and his queen Caroline; the fide-boards of 
which were, by the exprefs command of the king, focon- 
ftrudted as to be removed, in order that their dud might 
intermingle. The coffins of Frederic prince of Wales, 
his princefs, two dukes of Cumberland, the duke of York, 
prince Frederic William, the princefl'es Amelia, Caroline, 
Elizabeth, and Louifa-Anne, and two infant.fons of their 
prefent majedies, the princes Alfred and Octavius, alfo 
lie here. This vault filling up perhaps quicker than the 
projecter had forefeen, his prefent majedy, who has al¬ 
ways fliown a predileftion for Windfor, caufed a vault to 
be conftruded there, in which feveral of his neared rela¬ 
tions are already depofited ; viz. the duke of Glouceder his 
brother, the princei's Amelia his daughter, and the duchels 
of Brunfwick his filter. But we underdand that a more 
capacious one is preparing under Wolley’s tomb-houfe, 
behind St. George’s chapel. 
Such an important abbey as this could not, of courfe, 
have been built without the common and necellary ap¬ 
pendage of cloiders, where the monks in rainy weather 
might walk and fay their rofary; meditate upon given 
themes ; or preconceive the grand ideas of the beautiful fa¬ 
brics which are dill admired as rifingto the highelt pitch of 
gothic architecture. From the fouth aifle of the abbey, 
there are two entrances into thefe cloiders, which are en¬ 
tire, and confid of four arched walks on the fides of an 
open quadrangle, anciently fet with turf and fhrubs, but 
now occafionally covered with fragments of dones pre¬ 
pared for the repairs of various parts of the abbey. 
The walls are nearly covered with ftnall monuments, 
and the ground with tomb-ftones. Among the lad we 
remark four very ancient ones, under which lie the re¬ 
mains of four abbots of Wedminder.—The fird is of black 
marble, called Long Meg, from its extraordinary length 
of eleven feet eight inches, and covers the afhes of Ger- 
vafius de Blois, natural fon to king Stephen, who died in 
sioS.—The fecond is a raifed done of Suflex marble, un¬ 
der which lies interred the abbot Laurentius, who died 
•in 1176, and is faid to have been the fird who obtained from 
pope Alexander III. the privilege of ufing the mitre, 
ring, and globe.—The third is a done of grey marble, to 
the memory of Geflebertus Crifpinus, who died in the 
year 1114.. His effigy may be dill traced on his grave- 
ttone by the fragments of his mitre and paftoral ftaff.— 
The fourth is the mod ancient of all, and was formerly 
covered with plates of brafs infcribed to the abbot Vitalis, 
who died in 1082..—All thefe feem to have had their 
names and dates cut afredt ; and are indeed fragments 
worthy of prefervation. 
Among the monuments in the cloiders, we cannot pafs 
over a medallion containing the profile of Dr. Buchan, 
with a tablet beaming his name, and the dates of his birth 
and death. Seep. 411.—We were pleafed alfo to fee a 
Tnall memento dedicated to one of the bed engravers of 
the lad century, Mr. Woolktt. His bud is above a fort 
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of bas-relief containing feveral figures, in which, as in 
many other indances, allegory is united with truth, and 
fancy-beings with the individuality of real exidence. 
We have remondrated againd this branch of thriving in¬ 
congruity, creeping from ancient fprouts to modern com- 
pofitions, in another part of this article. The fculptor, 
Mr. Banks, has certainly exerted himfelf as far as his ima¬ 
gination could conceive and his chifel achieve, to em¬ 
body the following given theme, upon which we think 
he fat down to work ; for, were the infcription beneath, 
not the datum, but the explanation, of the defign, we 
flionld not be much roufed to admiration at the light of 
the bas-relief.—In the inelegant attitude of digging into 
copper, the artid is meanly reprefented feated at his work 
with his tools about him ; vvhild, around this home-found 
reality, heavenly angels, with fanciful wings, are feen 
trumpeting over one of Mr. Adams’s terredrial globes, 
as identically fold in Fleet-dreet ; and, under fuch trails 
as would have foftened the deel of Woollett’s burin into 
a leaden dump, we read the following explanation, if it 
were not an ill-underdood and midaken original theme, laid 
down for the artid to work upon. The words are thefe ; 
“ The Genius of Engraving, handing to poderity the 
works of painting, fculpture, and architecture; whillfc 
Fame is didributing them over the four quarters of the 
world.”—Several other little monumental pieces, duck 
againd the walls, whifper modedly to the idler in thefe 
arcades, that their owners were of fome fame and of fome 
worth ; hut that they were cloidered there, not for want 
of individual merit, but of money. 
The Chapter-houfe, the door opening into which is well 
worth attention, is of an odangular form, and was ori¬ 
ginally very lofty, with a cludered column riling from 
the floor to lupport it, the groins arching towards the 
feveral angles of the drufture. From what remains un¬ 
covered and unmutilated of the ancient part of this build¬ 
ing, there can be no doubt that it was decorated with 
every degree of excellence which the endlefs variety of 
gothic ornament could afford ; but, fince the place has 
been employed as a repofitory lor the public records be¬ 
longing to the Treafury of the Exchequer, all the lower 
parts are fo hidden by prefles and galleries, filled with rolls 
of parchment, that very little of its original magnificence 
can be feen. This druflure owes its foundation to that 
magnificent monarch Henry III. and was ufed for the 
meetings of the commons in the time of Edward III. and 
feveral tucceeding monarchs. Among the ancient records 
at prefent depofited here, the curious enquirer will find 
thofe of the court of Star-chamber, and the original 
Domefday-book, as to which fee vol. vi. p. 14 and 561.— 
Beneath the Chapter-houfe is a very Angular crypt.- The 
roof, on which refts the floor of the former, is fupported 
by a Ihort round pillar, quite hollow, and fpreads into 
plain maffy ribs. The walls are not lefs than eighteen 
feet thick, and form a fecure bafe to the fuperftrufture. 
They were formerly pierced with feveral final 1 win¬ 
dows, which are now concealed by the vaft increafe of 
earth on the outfide : one only is juft vifible in the gar¬ 
den of an adjoining houl'e, and from this alone the crypt 
is acceffible. 
Againft the fouth-weft part of the weft front of the 
abbey is the north front of thejerufalem Chamber, which 
was built by abbot Littlington, and was parr of the ab¬ 
bot’s lodgings. It is remarkable for being the place 
where Henry IV. breathed his laft. 
North from the abbey Itood the Satifluary, the place of 
refuge allowed, in old times, to criminals of a certain de- 
feription. The church belonging to it was in the forra 
of a crofs, and double; one being above the other. It 
was of vaft ftrength, and required great labour to demo- 
lifli it. Edward the Confeffor is fuppofed to have founded 
it. Within its precinft Edward V. was born ; and here 
his unhappy mother took refuge, with her younger fon 
Richard, to fecure him from his uncle, who had alreadw 
poffelfion of the king. The fite of this fanctuary was af- 
.7 £ ter wards 
