Stothard, Charles Alfred; Kempe, Alfred John: The monumental effigies of Great Britain: selected from our cathedrals and churches ; for the purpose of bringing together, and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eight (London, 1817)

mg and hunting, and such tribes, than any thing that pertained to his salvation," trust-
ing to the soothing assurances of the Lady Perers that " he should well recover, and
not diewho, whilst the King had the use of speech to communicate his pleasure, sat at
his bed's head, " much like a dog that waited greedily to take or snatch whatsoever his
master would throw from the board." This authority also states, that as soon as she saw
the hand of death was on the King, she took the rings from his Ungers, and bade him
adieu! All his retainers and dependants also " forsook him, and bed." Thus he
lay deserted in his extreme hour by all those who had existed on his bounty, except a
single priest of the household, " who approached his bed, and boldly exhorted him to
lift up his heart in penitence to God, and implore mercy for his sins." The dying King,
touched with this simple, honest address, bursting into tears, faintly ejaculated, " Jesu!"
the last word God gave him power to pronounce. The priest continued his admonitions
that he would show, by such signs as he still might, his repentance, his forgiveness of
his enemies, and his trust in God. He replied by deep sighs, by lifting up his eyes and
hands to heaven in prayer, by laying his hand on his heart, in token of his forgiveness,
from his heart, of all who had ob'ended him. Then taking the crucihx in his hand, with
every sign of love and reverence of Him whose subering for his sake it represented, he
resigned his spirit to his Creator.
Edward the Third's death took place at his manor of Shene, near Richmond, in
Surrey, on the 21st June, 1377, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, he having reigned
bfty years and nearly bve months. He directed by his last will, dated from that ancient
seat of the English Monarchs, Havering-at-the-Bower, in Essex, 25th June, 1377, that
he should be interred at Westminster Abbey, among his ancestors of famous memory,
but without excessive pomp. With this view, he limited the number of waxen tapers
and mortaries that were to be placed during the ceremony about his corpse. He lies on
the south side of the Chapel of Edward the Confessor within a tomb of marble, on which
is his efbgy of copper, as represented in the plates ; it has originally been gilt. His
epitaph on the verge of his tomb is thus read by Sandford:
Hie decus Anglorum, Hos regum preteritorum.
Forma futurorum, rex clemens, pax populorum,
Tertius Edwardus, regni complens jubileum,
Invictus pardus, bellis pollens Machabeum.
Prospere dum vixit, regnum pietate revixit,
Armipotens rexit; jam celo, Celice Rex, sit.
The ebigy of the King is in a grand and simple style. The hair bows over the neck,
and he wears the forked beard of the time. The mantle is fastened to his shoulders by
a broad band, which extends across the breast. The dalmatic is underneath, gathered
in a few broad and beautifully-disposed folds. He has had a sceptre in either hand,
denoting his double dominion.
Details. Piate L 1. Band attaching the mantle to the body. 2. Pattern on the border of the dahnatic.
3. Front view of the ornamented boot. Piate II. Profile. 1. Portions of the sceptres. 2. Side-view of
the boot.

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