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In the middle of the chapel is a fine raised
monument of polished marble, to the memory
of Sir George Villars and his Lady, whose
son was raised by King James I. to the dig-
nity of Duke of Buckingham.
In this chapel are two beautiful pyramids;
the largest erected to the memory of
Nicholas Bagnal, a child of two months old,
overlaid by his nurse; the other to the
memory of Anna Sophia Harley, a child of
a year old, daughter to the Hon. Christo-
pher Harley Embassador to the French King.
She died in the year 1600, and her father,
as appears by the inscription, caused her
heart to be inclosed in a cup, and placed upon
the top of the pyramid.
There are also in this chapel, a monument
to the memory of the Lady Elizabeth Fanes,
and one or two others, scarcely worth
notice.
The Chapel of St. Edmund, has at the en-
trance a lofty monument with Gothic spires
erected to the memory of John of Eltham,
second son to King Edward III. and so called
from Eltham in Kent.  His statue in ar-
mour is of white alabaster, the head in-
circled by a coronet.  He died in Scotland
at nineteen years of age, unmarried, tho'

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three different matches had been proposed
to him, the last of which, to Mary daughter
of Ferdinand King of Spain, he accepted,
but lived not to consummate it.
Next to this is a small table monument,
on which lie the effigies of William of
Windsor, and Blanch of the Tower, the son
and daughter of Edward III.  They took
their surnames from the places of their
birth, and both died in their infancy.  They
are dressed in the habits of the times, the
young Prince in a short doublet, of the in-
decency of which Chaucer's parson com-
plains, and the Princess in a horned head-
dress, which Stow says, was frightful.
On another tomb lies the statue of the
Lady Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, repre-
sented dressed in her robes.  She was the
daughter of the famous Charles Brandon by
Mary the French Queen, daughter to Henry
VII. and became Duchess of Suffolk by
marrying Henry Grey, Marquis of Dorset,
who, upon her father's decease, was created
Duke of Suffolk.  On her tomb are two in-
scriptions, the first in Latin verse in praise
of her virtues, and the other in English,
shewing her different marriages.
The next is an elegant monument of
white marble, erected by John Earl of
D 3Clare,