the monument of Sir James Fullerton,' his early instructor, whose quaint epitaph still attracts attention. The toleration of Cromwell in this instance was the more remarkable, because, in consequence of the Royalist plots, he had just issued a severe ordinance against all Episcopal ministers. The statesmen of Charles II. allowed the Archbishop to rest by his friend, but erected no memorial to mark the spot. Essex. 1645-6. Elizabeth Claypole escaped the general warrant, probably, Elizabeth Claypole. from her husband's favour with the court;2 the Earl of Essex, Earl of perhaps, from his rank; Grace Scot, wife of the regicide G Colonel Scot, perhaps from her obscurity; George Wild, the Scot, brother of John Wild, M.P., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer under the Parliament (the first judge that hanged ' a man for treason for adhering to his Prince'); and General Worsley. 6 With this violent extirpation of the illustrious dead the period of the Restoration forces its way into the Abbey. But its traces are not merely destructive. CHIEFS OF THE RES The funerals of the great chiefs of the Restoration- THE George Monk, Duke of Albemarle; Edward Montague, Earl of Sandwich; James Butler, Duke of Ormond-followed the TORATION. precedent set by the interment of the Duke of Buckingham in the reign of Charles I., and of the Parliamentary leaders under the Commonwealth. They were all buried amongst the Kings in the Chapel of Henry VII. At the head of Queen Elizabeth's tomb, in a small vault, probably that from which Dorislaus had been ejected, Monk was laid with Montague, 1 Sir James Fullerton was buried near the steps ascending to King Henry VII.'s Chapel, Jan. 3, 1630-1. (Register.) 2 See Chapter III. Her touching monument is in the North Transept, 1645-6. Her husband was executed in 1660. She lies close by in the vault of her own family, the Mauleverers. (See Register 1652-3, 1675, 1687, 1689, 1713.) He died Jan. 15, and was buried near St. Paul's Chapel door, Jan. 21, 1649-50. (Register.) 5 The Earl of Sandwich, in Pepys's Diary, as his chief, is always 'My lord.' For the programme of his funeral, see Pepys's Correspondence, v. 484. Evelyn was present. (Memoirs, ii. 372.) Monk, died 1 'it being thought reasonable that those two great personages Albemarle, should not be separated after death." Monk, who died at his lodgings in Whitehall, lay in state at Somerset House, and then, by the King's orders, with all respect imaginable, was brought in a long procession to the Abbey.' 'person named in the Gazette' as attending was Jan. 3, buried April 29, 1670. Montague, Earl of July 3, 1672. THE ORMOND The last Ensign Sandwich, Churchill,' who, after a yet more glorious career, was to be laid there himself." Dolben (as Dean) officiated. The next day a sermon was preached by Bishop Seth Ward, who had 'assisted in his last Christian offices, heard his last words and 'his dying groan." Ormond, with his whole race, was deposited in the more august burialplace at the feet of Henry VII., which had but a few years before held Oliver Cromwell, which then received the offspring of Charles II.'s unlawful passions, and which henceforth became the general receptacle of most of the great nobles who died in London, and who lie there unmarked by any outward memorial. The first who was so interred was Ormond's own son, the Earl of Ossory," over whom he made the famous lament: Nothing else in the world 'could affect me so much; but since I could bear the death of my great and good master, King Charles I., I can bear 'anything; and though I am very sensible of the loss of 'such a son as Ossory was, yet I thank God my case is not 'quite so deplorable as he who condoles with me, for I 'had much rather have my dead son than his living one.' 'him die erect in his chair, uti impera'torem decuit." Earl of Crull, p. 107.--In the interval between Monk's death and funeral his wife died, and was buried in the same vault, February 28, 1669-70. This twain were loving in their lives, and ' in their deaths they were not divided.' (Ward's Sermon, 29.) 2 Campbell's Admirals, ii. 272. See the whole account in Sandford's Funeral of Monk. The Dean and Prebendaries wore copes. Offerings were made at the altar. Ward's Sermon, p. 32. I saw Ormond, There his wife was buried, on a yet sadder day; and there Duchess of his own body, by long sickness utterly wasted and decayed,'' July 24, was laid quite privately, just before the fall of the House of Stuart, which he had so long upheld in vain. 4 1684; James Butler, Duke of Ormond, Aug. 4, It is highly characteristic of Charles II., who took to himself the grant given him for his father's monument,' that 1688. not one of these illustrious persons was honoured by any public memorial.3 Sandwich and Ormond still remain undistinguished. Monk, for fifty years, was only commemorated in the Abbey by his effigy in armour (the same that was carried on his hearse) in the south aisle of Henry VII.'s Chapel-a standing testimony of the popular favour and of the regal weight of the general and statesman on whom, during the calamities of the Great Civil War, of the Great Plague, and the Great Fire, the King and nation had leaned for counsel and support. His ducal cap, till almost within our own time, was the favourite receptacle of the fees for the showmen of the tombs, as well as the constant butt of cynical visitors. At length, in pursuance of the will of his son Christopher, who lies by his side, the present monument was Monument erected by the family, still without the slightest indication of the hero in whose honour it is raised. Charles II. used to say of him, that the Duke of Albemarle never overvalued 'the services of George Monk ;'6 the King himself did not overvalue the services of the Duke of Albemarle. 5 Much the same fortune has attended the memorials of the inferior luminaries of the Restoration who rest in the Abbey." of Monk, 1720. Earl of Jan. 4, Bishop 1661. Clarendon, its great historian, was brought from his exile at Rouen, and laid in his family vault, but without a stone or name to mark the spot, at the foot of the steps to Henry VII.'s Chapel. In St. Edmund's Chapel lies Nicholas Monk, 'the 'honest clergyman' who undertook the journey to Scotland to broach the first design of the Restoration to his brother the General, for whom he had always had a brotherly affection,' but who was sent back with such infinite reproaches 'and many oaths, that the poor man was glad when he was 'gone, and never had the courage after to undertake the 'like employment." His services, however, were not forgotten, and he was raised to the see of Hereford, and dying immediately afterwards was buried in the Abbey. The Duke, his brother, and all the bishops followed. Evelyn was present.3 But he also was left for sixty years to wait for a monument, which ultimately was erected by his last descendant, Christopher Rawlinson, in 1723. Two other prelates, like him, died immediately after the Restoration. Close to Nicholas Monk, under a simple slab, lies Ferne Bishop of Chester, and Master of Trinity, who had attended Charles I., during his imprisonments, almost to the last, and whose only fault it was that he could not be angry.' Brian Duppa, Bishop, first of Salisbury, and then of Winchester-who had been with Charles I. at the same period, and had been tutor to Charles II. and James II.-lies in the north Ambulatory, His monu- with a small monument, which recalls some of the chief points of interest in his chequered life:-how he had learned Hebrew, when at Westminster, from Lancelot Andrewes, then Bishop March 25, 1662. Bishop ment. The name was added in 1867. Here were laid his mother (1661), and his third son (1664–5), and afterwards his grandson, Lord Cornbury (1723), (who represented' Queen Anne, as Governor of New York, by appearing at a levée in woman's robes). His niece Anne Hyde, wife of Sir Ross Carey, was buried on July 23, 1660, in the centre of the Choir, with a quaint epitaph commemorating this memorable date. 2 Clarendon, vii. 383, 384. State Papers, 1662. Evelyn, ii. 184. Dean; how affectionately he had clung to Richmond, the spot where his education of Charles II. had been carried on; how, after the Restoration,' he had there built the hospital, which he had vowed during his pupil's exile; how there he died, REIGN OF almost in the arms of that same pupil, who came to see him II. a few hours before his death, and received his final blessingone hand on the King's head, the other raised to heaven.2 CHARLES Marl Lord Mus June 19; In the wake of the mighty chiefs who lie in Henry VII.'s Earl of Chapel, are monuments to some of the lesser soldiers borough, of that time. In the North Transept and its neigh- June 14; bourhood are five victims of the Dutch war of 1665-viz., kerry, William Earl of Marlborough, Viscount Muskerry, Charles Lord Lord Falmouth, Sir Edward Broughton, and Sir William Falmouth, Berkeley. Of these, all fell in battle except Broughton, Broughwho received his death-wound at sea, and died here at June 26, 'home.' Berkeley, brother of Lord Falmouth, was 'em- Berkeley, ' balmed by the Hollanders, who had taken the ship when he Aug. 6 June 22; ton, 1665. 1666. Le Neve, was slain,' and 'there in Holland he lay dead in a sugarchest for everybody to see, with his flag standing up by 'him.' He was then sent over by them, at the request and charge of his relations.' From the Dutch War of 1672 were brought, to the same North Aisle, Colonel Hamil- Hamilton, June 7; ton, Captain Le Neve,1 and Sir Edward Spragge, the naval favourite of James II., and the rival of Van Tromp, whose untimely loss his enemy mourned with a chivalrous regret 'the love and delight of all men, as well for his noble courage as for the gentle sweetness of his temper.' In the Nave, beside Le Neve's tablet, is the joint monument to Sir Charles Harbord and Clement Cottrell, 'to preserve and Harbord 6 Aug. 29; 1673. and Cot A monument of his namesake, Sir Thos. trell, |