And upon the pedestal the story of his
murder is finely represented in relief.

This last observation makes it necessary
to give the particulars of this murder, which
we shall do from a very accurate, tho' small
work, from which we have obtained con-
siderable assistance in the description of
many things relating to the Abbey.  The
above murder was conspired by Count
Koningsmark, and executed by three assas-
sins hired for that puirpose, who shot this
unhappy gentleman in Pall-Mall, in his
own coach.  The motive was, to obtain
the rich heiress of Northumberland in mar-
riage, who in her infancy had been be-
trothed to the Earl of Ogle, but left a widow
before consummation; and afterwards mar-
ried to Mr. Thynne; but being scarce fif-
teen, and her mother extremely tender of
her, and at the same time desirous of her
having issue, prevailed upon her husband to
travel another year before he bedded her,
in which time she became acquainted with
Koningsmark at the Court of Hanover.
Whether she had ever given him any coun-
tenance is uncertain; but having no grounds
to hope to obtain her while her husband
lived, he in this villainous manner accom-
plished his death: the Lady, however, de-

85.  The monument of Dame Grace
Gethin, is ornamented with a figure of a
Lady devoutly kneeling, with a book in
her right hand, and her left on her breast;
on each side is an angel, one holding over
her head a crown, and the other a chaplet;
and on the ascending sides of the pediment
are two female figures in a mournful pos-
ture.  It is adorned with three different
coats of family arms, and on the base is an
English inscription, which also lets us know
that she was married to Sir Richard Gethin