ments. To decide the matter, it was ordered by the benchers that the artists should affix an organ at each end of the church; which having been done, lord chancellor Jefferys decided in favour of the foreign artist. The discarded organ, by Harris, is the fine-toned instrument which graces the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn. Length of the church from the altar to the screen, eightythree feet; breadth sixty, altitude thirty-four; and that of the round tower at the west end forty-eight feet; its diameter at the floor fifty-one feet; circumference one hundred and sixty feet. MONUMENTS. On the south side of the altar, a white marble monument to the memory of JAMES SLOANE, Esq. 1704. CLEMENT COKE, of Langford, in the county of Derby, Esq. youngest son of Sir Edward Coke, knight, lord chief justice of England; of the honourable society of the Inner Temple, 1629. ANN LITTLETON, wife of Edward Littleton, Esq. of the Inner Temple, 1623. Sir JOHN WITHAM, of that family in Yorkshire, baronet, 1689. On the south side of the chancel, lies in full proportion (on a stone chest) a figure habited, as a bishop, with a crosier staff in his left hand, and a mitre on his head, but neither arms, date, nor name, or other inscription: to the memory of SILVESTER DE EVERDON, bishop of Carlisle, archdeacon of Chester, and lord chancellor of England; bishop from 1246 to 1253. Sir THOMAS ROBINSON, baronet, treasurer, and prothonotary in the court of Common Pleas, 1683. His monument is on the south side of the church, near the chancel, composed of black and white marble, of the Corinthian order, with enrichments of cherubims, laurel, &c. Sir WILLIAM MORTON, near the middle of the south of the church, of white marble; with a Latin inscription, implying that he was one of the judges in the court of King's Bench; a man of learning, piety, and justice, and a true a true son of the church of England; and a colonel of horse and foot in favour of Charles I. He died 1672. In another column of the same monument, Here lieth, under the Hopes of a glorious and blessed Resurrection, the Body of the Lady ANN MORTON, late Wife of Sir William Morton, Knt. one of his Majesty's Justices of the King's Bench, Daughter and Heir of John Smith of Kidlington in the County of Oxford, Gent. &c. JOHN DENNE, of the Inner Temple, barrister, 1648. Mrs. MARY GAUDY; her monument is on a pillar, thus inscribed: In the middle Ile of this Church lies buried, the Body of Miss Mary Gaudy, only Daughter of Sir William Gaudy of Westtherling, in the County of Norfolk, Baronet, who died 11th October 1671, aged about 22 Years; whose virtuous and unblamable Conversation here, gave her great Hope, if not Assurance, through the Mercies of God in Christ, to obtain Eternal Life. Her Desire was to be buried here by her 2 Brothers; Basingburn the eldest died the 23d of Feb. William the 21st, and Framlingham her Couzen the 26th of the same Month, 1660, all within 6 days of each other, of the Small Pox; nor could this innocent Virgin escape the same Disease now growing the common Fate of the Family. She is lineally descended from Thomas Gaudy Serjeant at Law, eldest of the 3 Brothers, who were all eminent Lawyers of this honourable Society. This Monument sacred to her memory, was erected by Framlingham Gaudy, Esq. her Uncle and Executor. This fair young Virgin for a Nuptial Bed More fit, is lodg'd (sad Fate!) among the Dead, SIR JOHN VAUGHAN, knight, of Troescoed, in the county of Radnor, chief justice of the Common Pleas, at the south end of the screen, 1674. MONUMENTS on the north, or Middle Temple side. JAMES HOWEL, Esq. historiographer to the king, 1666*. *See Vol. I. p. 173. THOMAS THOMAS AGAR, Esq. clerk of the crown, 1673. Sir GEORGE TREBY, knight, recorder of London, lord chief justice of the court of Common Pleas, 1700. EDMUND PLOWDEN, Esq. the learned commentator on the laws, 1584. Sir WILLIAM WILD, knight and baronet, 1679. Sir TIMOTHY LITTLETON, knight, one of the barons of the Exchequer, 1679. MONUMENTS westward of the Screen, under the Round Tower. ROGER BISHOP, sometime student of the Inner Temple, 1597. On the south side, a monument in memory of the learned antiquary JOHN SELDEN, dated 1654. ROWLAND JEWKES, one of the executors of the great Selden. This is a handsome white marble monument, adorned with columns entablature, &c. of the Ionic order, enriched wish cherubims, festoons, urn, &c. Sir JOHN SYMPSON's monument farther westward from the screen, on the south side. A neat monument of black and white marble, adorned with two pilasters, entablature, &c. of the Composite order, to the memory of HENRY WYNN, Esq. tenth son of the eleventh son of Sir John Wynn, knight and baronet, of Gwyder, in the county of Carnarvon, 1671. Sir THOMAS HANMER, knight, solicitor general to queen Catharine, and one of the judges in the sheriff's court, Lon-. don, 1687. EDWARD EATON, Esq. 1688, a great ornament to li terature. Sir SAMUEL BALDWYN, knight, serjeant at law, 1683. Sir John KING, knight, 1677. See his character, Granger's Biograph. Hist. III. 372. EDMUND GYBBON, Esq. 1677. GRAVE-STONES in the Area, within the Round Tower. Thomas Heyhoe, Esq. Pope North, Esq. George Cole, Esq. John Roope, Esq. Tobias Newcourt, Esq. William Dickenson, Esq. William Langstone, Esq. John Fitz James, James, Esq. Abel Gower, Esq. Peter Honywood, Esq. Hopton Shuter, Esq. John Hare, Esq. Robert Thorn, Esq. A black marble stone in memory of JOHN WHite, second son of Henry White, a member of the House of Commons, and bencher of the Middle Temple, 1644. Here lies a Jolm, a burning shining light, Whose name, life, actions, were alike, all WHITE. Charles Compton, Esq. John Tacham, Esq. Nicholas Hare, Esq. Richard Lemster, 1420. Edward Osburn, Esq. Richard Norden, Esq. Robert Leventhorpe, Esq. 1426. Daniel Lisle, Esq. But this church is most remarkable for the tombs of eleven of the Knights Templers. The figures consist of two groups; five are cross-legged, and the remainder are straight. In the first groupe are four knights, each crosslegged; and three in complete mail, in plain helmets, flat at the tops, and with very long shields. One of these is Geoffry de Magnaville, earl of Essex, in 1148; the other three are conjectured, by Camden, to be in memory of William, earl of Pembroke, who died in 1219; and his sons William and Gilbert, both earls of Pembroke, and earls marshal of England. One of the stone coffins also, of a ridged shape, is supposed, by the same antiquary, to be the tomb of William Plantagenet, fifth son of Henry III.* The dress and accoutrements of these knights are very singular though all clothed in mail, they are varied in dress as well as in position; there is still sufficient expression in the faces to shew that personal resemblance was aimed at, and, in some degree, successfully. One figure is in a spirited attitude, drawing a broad dagger; one leg rests on the tail of a cockatrice, the other is in the action • Weever mentions a fragment of a funeral inscription, once engraved on one of these monuments, and preserved in manuscript in the Cottonian library, which proves it to have been placed there to the memory of one Robert Rosse (or Roos,) otherwise called Fursan, a Templar, who died about the year 1245, and who gave to his brother knights his manor of Ribston, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. VOL. IV. No. 78. E of of being drawn up, with the head of the monster bencatir. Another is bareheaded and bald, the legs armed, the hands mailed, and the mantle long; round the neck a coul, as though, according to the custom of the times in which he lived, he had desired to be buried in a monastic habit, lest the evil spirit should take possession of the body. On the shield is a fleur de lys *. The earl of Pembroke bears a lion on his shield, the arms of that powerful family. The helmets of all the knights are similar, but two of them are mailed. The figure of these knights are finely engraved and accurately described in "Gough's Sepulchral Monu ments." There have been also buried in this church, without memorial, the following eminent persons: Dr. LITTLETON, master. Sir JOHN PETTUS, 1685. Sir EDMUND SAUNDERS, lord chief justice of the King's Bench, 1683.† Sir WILLIAM WREN, of the Middle Temple, 1689. Sir JOHN TATE, knight, recorder of London, 1690. Sir WILLIAM DOLBEN, knight, one of the justices of the King's Bench, 1693. Serjeant TREMAIN, 1693. RICHARD WALLOP, Esq. bencher and cursitor baron of the Exchequer, 1697. Mr. Serjeant CARTHIEU, 1704. Mr. Serjeant KILLINGWORTH, 1704; and EDWARD, lord THURLOW, formerly lord high chancellor, 1806. The being represented cross-legged is not always a proof of the deceased having had the merit either of being a Crusader, or of having made a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, if two modern instances, mentioned by Pennant, of persons who died in the seventeenth century, and are thus represented at the church of Mitton, in Yorkshire, may be admitted as a contradiction of the common received opinion. This, however, they scarcely can, as it was the opinion of Stow, Camden, and other writers, who lived long prior, and whose information must have been derived from authentic historical sources, or very remote tradition. Herbert's Inns of Court. For an account of this man, see Vol. I. |