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Title: London and its environs, including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc.: handbook for travellers
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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beth. Recumbent figure ; below, his eight children. 6. Sir Dudley Carleton (d. 1631), diplomatist under James I.,semi-recumbent figure. 7. Countess of Sussex (d. 1589); at her feet is a porcupine. 8. Lord Cottington, statesman in the reign of Charles I. (d.1652), and his wife. Handsome black marble monument, withthe recumbent figure of Lord Cottington in white marble, and, atthe top, a bust of Lady Cottington. *9. James Watt (A. 1819), the celebrated mechanician andimprover of the steam-engine; colossal figure in a sitting posture,by Chantrey. *10. Sir Oiles Daubeney (d. 1507), Lord-Lieutenant of Calaisunder Henry VII., and his wife. Recumbent effigies in alabaster,painted. 11. Lewis Bobsart (d. 1431), standard-bearer of Henry V.; aninteresting old monument, without an effigy. To the right, on leaving this chapel, is a monument to WilliamPulteney, Karl of Bath (1767), by Wilton, and beside it another tolie,ir-Admiral Charles Holmes (d. 1761), also by Wilton. 18. WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 193
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•VI. Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, forming the endof the choir, to which we ascend by a small flight of narrowsteps. (The followiiig chapel,No. VII., is sometimes shownbefore this.) \.* Henry III. (d. 1272), arich and artistic monument ofporphyry and mosaic, withrecumbent bronze effigy ofthe King, by William Torell(1290). 2. Queen Eleanor, wife ofEdward I. (d. 1290), by To-rell. The inscription is inquaint old French: — lei gistAlianor, jadis reyne dAngle-terre, femme a Rey EduardFiz. Recumbent metal effigy. 3. Chantry of Henry V.(d. 1422). On each side alife-size figure keeps guardby the steps. The recumbenteffigy of the King wants thehead, which was of solidsilver, and was stolen duringthe reign of Henry VII. In1878 the remains of Katherine of Valois, queen of Henry V. (thebeautiful Kate of Shakspeares Henry V.) were re-interred inthis chantry, whence they had been removed on the building ofHenry VII.s. Chapel. On the bar above this monument areplaced the saddle and helmet

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