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WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 193
are their six sons kneeling and in armour. Those in particular on the north side
display the superior power of the chisel which formed them. It is surmounted
by a tabernacle, enlivened with military scenes in relief As it is without an in-
scription, its date is uncertain*.
(205) . Sarah Duchess of Somerset.-The figure of this excellent lady,
arrayed in attire of her own time, reposes on a sarcophagus, with a canopy above
her, beneath which appears a group of cherubs. Two lateral pilasters support an
entablature surmounted by urns, the family arms, and a ducal coronet. On either
side a receding pedestal bears the statue of a charity boy.
" Hie jacet Sarah, illustrissima nuper Ducissa Somersetensis sempiterna in
" pauperes benignitate celeberrima, quae puerorum ergo scholam gramrnatices
" Tottenham. Com. Midd. instituit.-Proventum Hospitii viridito gatorum
" Westm. longe adauxit.-Ad juvenes spei optima? in pietate et literis promo-
*' vendos Collegia iEnei nasi Oxon. et D. Johannis Cantabr. in perpetuum ditavit.
" Necnon alios Mechanicis artibus aptandos curavit. Senectutis studiosa hospitium
" extruiet dotari fecit in subsidium 30 viduarum apud Froxfield, Com. Willes._._
" Egenis de Paroch. D. Margareta Westm. unde melius alantur vectigal perenne
" constituit. Nonnullas insuper ecclesias ornamentis permagnificis splendide
" decoravit. Obiit 25 die Octobr. anno Domini 1692."
(206) . Joseph Gascoigne, and his Lady Elizabeth, Nightingale.-This
wonderful tomb, the superior effort of a great mind, is most affectingly charac-
teristic from the key-stone of the grey marble rustic niche to the base of the
yawning sepulchre, whose heavy doors have unfolded themselves to release a
skeleton arrayed in the vestment of death: such astonishing truth of expression
and correctness of arrangement, is, perhaps, without example in monumental
* Behind this monument are some fragments of arches on the wall; and to the left, a large
angular-roofed door, the mouldings resting on foliaged capitals of slender columns.
Vol. II. C c
are their six sons kneeling and in armour. Those in particular on the north side
display the superior power of the chisel which formed them. It is surmounted
by a tabernacle, enlivened with military scenes in relief As it is without an in-
scription, its date is uncertain*.
(205) . Sarah Duchess of Somerset.-The figure of this excellent lady,
arrayed in attire of her own time, reposes on a sarcophagus, with a canopy above
her, beneath which appears a group of cherubs. Two lateral pilasters support an
entablature surmounted by urns, the family arms, and a ducal coronet. On either
side a receding pedestal bears the statue of a charity boy.
" Hie jacet Sarah, illustrissima nuper Ducissa Somersetensis sempiterna in
" pauperes benignitate celeberrima, quae puerorum ergo scholam gramrnatices
" Tottenham. Com. Midd. instituit.-Proventum Hospitii viridito gatorum
" Westm. longe adauxit.-Ad juvenes spei optima? in pietate et literis promo-
*' vendos Collegia iEnei nasi Oxon. et D. Johannis Cantabr. in perpetuum ditavit.
" Necnon alios Mechanicis artibus aptandos curavit. Senectutis studiosa hospitium
" extruiet dotari fecit in subsidium 30 viduarum apud Froxfield, Com. Willes._._
" Egenis de Paroch. D. Margareta Westm. unde melius alantur vectigal perenne
" constituit. Nonnullas insuper ecclesias ornamentis permagnificis splendide
" decoravit. Obiit 25 die Octobr. anno Domini 1692."
(206) . Joseph Gascoigne, and his Lady Elizabeth, Nightingale.-This
wonderful tomb, the superior effort of a great mind, is most affectingly charac-
teristic from the key-stone of the grey marble rustic niche to the base of the
yawning sepulchre, whose heavy doors have unfolded themselves to release a
skeleton arrayed in the vestment of death: such astonishing truth of expression
and correctness of arrangement, is, perhaps, without example in monumental
* Behind this monument are some fragments of arches on the wall; and to the left, a large
angular-roofed door, the mouldings resting on foliaged capitals of slender columns.
Vol. II. C c