On the east side, where stood the altar
of St. Benedict, is a monument of various
kinds of marble, in memory of Lady
Frances Countess of Hertford, who died on
the 14th of May 1598, in the forty-fourth
year of her age.  It is of various kinds of
marble, and the Countess is in the old taste
represented in her robes, lying with her
head resting on an embroidered cushion,
and her feet on the back of a lion.

On the south side of this chapel is a table
monument of white marble to the memory
of George Sprat, the second son of Dr.
Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, an infant of a
year old.

Near it is the monument of Dr. Gabriel
Goodman, the first Dean of this church,
who founded an hospital, and instituted a
school at Rathven in Denbighshire, where
he was born.  He was a person of great
piety, and was the first who raised the
learned Camden from obscurity.  He is
represented kneeling, in his proper habit.
He died in 1601.

The Tombs in the open parts of the Abbey.
1.  At the corner of the last mentioned

2.  High on a pillar is a neat table mo-
nument to the memory of Mrs. Martha
Birch, who died in 1723, in the fiftieth
year of her age.  The inscription also in-
forms us, that she was daughter to Francis
Viner, Esq; and was first married to Francis
Millington, Esq; and after his death to
Peter Birch, Prebendary of this Abbey;
and that she was pious, chaste, and
prudent.

3.  At a small distance is a plain neat mo-
nument, to the memory of Abraham Cow-
ley, on which is placed a flaming urn, begirt
with a chaplet of laurel; expressive em-
blems of the glory he acquired by the spirit
of his writings.  The Latin inscription and
epitaph on the pedestal have been thus
translated.