to life. He translated with extraordinary eloquence many of Galen's works into Latin; and published, a little before his death, at the request of his friends, a very valuable book on the correct structure of the Latin tongue. He founded in perpetuity, in favour of ftudents in phyfick, two public lectures at Oxford, and one at Cambridge. In this city he brought about, by his own industry, the establishing of a college of physicians, of which he was elected the first prefident. He was a detefter of all fraud and deceit, and faithful in his friendships; equally dear to men of all ranks: he went into orders a few years before his death, and quitted this life full of years, and much lamented, A. D. 1524, on the twentieth of October.

There are many tombs in this church, but without any infcriptions. It has a very fine organ, which, at evening prayer, accompanied with other inftruments, is delightful.

In the fuburb to the weft, joined to the city by a continual row of palaces belonging to the chief nobility, of a mile in length, and laying on the fide next the Thames, is the small town of Westminster; originally called Thornep, from its thorn bushes, but now Westminster, from its afpect and its monastery. The church is remarkable for the coronation and burial of the kings of England. Upon this spot is faid formerly to have stood a temple of Apollo, which was thrown down by an earthquake in the

time of Antoninus Pius; from the ruins of which Sebert king of the Eaft-Saxons erected another to St. Peter: this was fubverted by the Danes, and again renewed by bifhop Dunftan, who gave it to a few monks. Afterwards, king Edward the Confeffor built it entirely new, with the tenth of his whole revenue, to be the place of his own burial, and a convent of Benedictine monks; and enriched it with estates difperfed all over England.

In this church the following things are worthy

of notice:

In the first choir, the tomb of Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII. without any infcription.

On the oppofite fide are two ftone fepulchres :

1. Edward, earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I. 2. Ademar of Valence, earl of Pembroke, fon of Ademar of Valence. Joining to thefe is, 3. that of Aveline, countefs of Lancaster.

In the fecond choir is the chair on which the kings are feated, when they are crowned; in it is enclosed a stone, faid to be that on which the patriarch Jacob flept, when he dreamed he faw a ladder reaching quite up into Heaven. Some Latin verfes are written upon a tablet hanging near it; the sense of which is:

That if any faith is to be given to ancient chronicles

a ftone of great note is inclosed in this chair, being the fame on which the patriarch Jocob repofed, when he beheld the miraculous defcent of angels. Edward I. the Mars and Hector of England, having conquered Scotland, brought it from thence.

The tomb of Richard II. and his wife, of brass, gilt, and these verses written round it :

Perfect and prudent, Richard, by right the fecond, Vanquish'd by fortune, lies here now graven in

ftone,

True of his word, and thereto well refound:

Seemly in person, and like to Homer, as one In worldly prudence, and ever the church in one Upheld and favour'd, cafting the proud to ground, And all that would his royal ftate confound.

Without the tomb is this infcription:

Here lies king Richard, who perished by a cruel death, in the year 1369.

To have been happy is additional misery.

Near him is the monument of his queen, daughter of the emperor Wenceslaus.

On the left hand is the tomb of Edward I. with this infcription:

Here lies Edward I. who humbled the Scots. A. D. 1308. Be true to your engagements.

He reigned forty-six years.

The tomb of Edward III. of copper, guilt, with this epitaph :

Of English kings here lieth the beauteous flower, Of all before paft, and myrror to them fhall fue: A merciful king, of peace confervator,

The third Edward, &c.

Vid. DART. ii. 44.

Befides the tomb are these words:

Edward III. whofe fame has reached to heaven. A. D. 1377. Fight for your country.

Here is shown his fword, eight feet in length, which they fay he used in the conqueft of France.

His queen's epitaph:

Here lies queen Phillippa, wife of Edward III. Learn to live. A. D. 1369.

At a little distance, the tomb of Henry V. with this legend:

Henry, the fcourge of France, lies in this tomb. Virtue fubdues all things. A. D. 1422.

Near this lies the coffin of Catherine, unburied, and to be opened by any one that pleases. On the outside is this inscription :

Fair Catherine is at length united to her lord.
A. D. 1437. Shun idleness.

The tomb of Henry III. of brafs, gilt, with this epitaph:

Henry III. the founder of this cathedral. A. D. 1273.

War is delightful to the unexperienced.

It was this Henry, who, one hundred and fixty years after Edward the Confeffor had built this church, took it down, and raised an entire new one of beautiful architecture, fupported by rows of marble columns, and its roof covered with fheets of lead, a work of fifty years before its completion. It has been much enlarged at the weft end by the abbots. After the expulfion of the monks, it experienced many changes; first it had a dean and prebendaries; then a bishop, who, having fquandred the revenues, refigned it again to a dean. In a little time, the monks with their abbot were re-inftated by queen Mary; but, they being foon ejected again by authority of parliament, it was converted into a cathedral church; nay into a feminary for the church, by queen Elizabeth, who inftituted there twelve prebendaries, an equal number of invalid foldiers, and forty scholars; who at a proper time are elected into the universities, and are thence tranfplanted into the church and state.

Next to be feen is the tomb of Eleanor, daughter of Alphonfo king of Spain, and wife of Edward I. with this infcription :

This Eleanor was confort of Edward I.

A. D. 1298. Learn to die.