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st. geokge's chapel.
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of Lord Braybrooke. In it are tablets to the memory of Bruno Ryves, author
°f "Mercurius Rusticus," who died in 1677; and to the learned critic Francis
Junius, who died in 1678, aged 90 years.
I. The South Transept, or Bray Chapel, has been already adverted to by
Mr. Bray, who says it was built by Sir Reginald; yet in his Will, as quoted by
Potc, p. 375, the Knight specifies a spot "at the west end of the south aile," as
the place for interment. In the centre of the south transept is a modern font;
it contains also several monuments and tablets. One of these, represented in Plate
XII. commemorates William Fitzwilliam who died October 13, 1659. This
tomb corresponds, in design and material, with that of Chaucer's, in Westminster
Abbey Church, which Gough says was "the work of Mr. Nicholas Brigham, of
Caversham, in Oxfordshire," and erected by him in 1556.* The design and mode
of workmanship shew the decline —the last struggle—of the Tudor style of church
architecture, and is therefore worthy of preservation. Other monuments display
the names, and some of them the effigies, of Dr. Giles Thomson, Bishop of
Gloucester, Dean of Windsor, &c. who died 1612:—Ralph Brideoake, Bishop of
Chiehester, who died 1678:—Richard Wortley, of Yorkshire, ob. 1603:—Dr.
^ aterland, who died 1740: — and Dr. John Douglas, the late Bishop of
Salisbury, who died May 1807- In different parts of St. George's Chapel, are
°thcr monumental memorials; and beneath its pavement have been interred
other royal and eminent personages. The remains of King Henry VI. are
said to have been deposited in a vault on the south side of the altar, in the
Reign of Richard III. after having lain some years in Chertsey Abbey.f
King Edward IV. was interred in a vault north of the altar, where a curious
and unique monument, in iron or steel, as some writers call it, was raised to his
memory.j Gough says the tomb is "all of copper gilt, said to have been the
work of Quintin Matsis, the blacksmith painter of Antwerp." In the same vault
lt is related by some authors, that the Queen of Edward IV. her daughter Mary,
and her son George, Duke of Bedford, were interred. This, however, is not posi-
tively ascertained : and from the discovery of two coffins with the bodies of a
* Sepul. Monu. vol. II. p. 1.
t See a long and interesting disquisition on this si
Monu. vol. II. p. 231.
+ Sepul. Monu. vol. II. 278, wherein are several
subsequent discovery of the coffin, &c. of Edward IV.
bject, also a design for the King's tomb, in Gough's Sepul.
particulars, respecting the character, and funeral; also a
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of Lord Braybrooke. In it are tablets to the memory of Bruno Ryves, author
°f "Mercurius Rusticus," who died in 1677; and to the learned critic Francis
Junius, who died in 1678, aged 90 years.
I. The South Transept, or Bray Chapel, has been already adverted to by
Mr. Bray, who says it was built by Sir Reginald; yet in his Will, as quoted by
Potc, p. 375, the Knight specifies a spot "at the west end of the south aile," as
the place for interment. In the centre of the south transept is a modern font;
it contains also several monuments and tablets. One of these, represented in Plate
XII. commemorates William Fitzwilliam who died October 13, 1659. This
tomb corresponds, in design and material, with that of Chaucer's, in Westminster
Abbey Church, which Gough says was "the work of Mr. Nicholas Brigham, of
Caversham, in Oxfordshire," and erected by him in 1556.* The design and mode
of workmanship shew the decline —the last struggle—of the Tudor style of church
architecture, and is therefore worthy of preservation. Other monuments display
the names, and some of them the effigies, of Dr. Giles Thomson, Bishop of
Gloucester, Dean of Windsor, &c. who died 1612:—Ralph Brideoake, Bishop of
Chiehester, who died 1678:—Richard Wortley, of Yorkshire, ob. 1603:—Dr.
^ aterland, who died 1740: — and Dr. John Douglas, the late Bishop of
Salisbury, who died May 1807- In different parts of St. George's Chapel, are
°thcr monumental memorials; and beneath its pavement have been interred
other royal and eminent personages. The remains of King Henry VI. are
said to have been deposited in a vault on the south side of the altar, in the
Reign of Richard III. after having lain some years in Chertsey Abbey.f
King Edward IV. was interred in a vault north of the altar, where a curious
and unique monument, in iron or steel, as some writers call it, was raised to his
memory.j Gough says the tomb is "all of copper gilt, said to have been the
work of Quintin Matsis, the blacksmith painter of Antwerp." In the same vault
lt is related by some authors, that the Queen of Edward IV. her daughter Mary,
and her son George, Duke of Bedford, were interred. This, however, is not posi-
tively ascertained : and from the discovery of two coffins with the bodies of a
* Sepul. Monu. vol. II. p. 1.
t See a long and interesting disquisition on this si
Monu. vol. II. p. 231.
+ Sepul. Monu. vol. II. 278, wherein are several
subsequent discovery of the coffin, &c. of Edward IV.
bject, also a design for the King's tomb, in Gough's Sepul.
particulars, respecting the character, and funeral; also a