On the south side of this shrine lies
Editha, daughter to Goodwyn, Earl of
Kent, and Queen to St. Edward, with
whom she lived eighteen years, and tho'
she was the most accomplished woman of
that age, confessed on her death-bed, that
he suffered her to live and die a virgin;
and, as an ancient manuscript in the Cotton
library has it, " nathelees, tho' the Kinge
" had a wyfe, he lived ev'moe in chastete,
" and clennes, wythowten any fleshley
" dedes doynge wyth his wyfe the Queen,
" and so dyd the Queen on her syde."  She
survived her husband eight years, and be-
held all the miseries consequent upon his
dying without issue.  She was however
treated with great respect by William the
Conqueror, who allowed her an apartment
in the King's palace at Winchester, where
she died, and was interred here, by his
express orders.

Near the remains of this Princess lie