The antiquities of England and Wales . e reign of Queen Elizabeth, eredled by his lady,who is alfo interred with him : the monument is of alabafter,with pillars of porphyry. Another, within a neat fcreen of brafswork, is erefled to the memory of Charles Somerfet, earl of W or-cefter, and knight of the garter, who died in 1526, and his lady,daughter to William, earl of Huntingdon. A flately monumentof white marble ere6led to the memory of Henry Somerfet, dukeof Beaufort, and knight of the garter, who died in 1699. Thereare here alfo the tombs of Sir George Manners, Lord Roos, thatof the Lord Ha
The antiquities of England and Wales . e reign of Queen Elizabeth, eredled by his lady,who is alfo interred with him : the monument is of alabafter,with pillars of porphyry. Another, within a neat fcreen of brafswork, is erefled to the memory of Charles Somerfet, earl of W or-cefter, and knight of the garter, who died in 1526, and his lady,daughter to William, earl of Huntingdon. A flately monumentof white marble ere6led to the memory of Henry Somerfet, dukeof Beaufort, and knight of the garter, who died in 1699. Thereare here alfo the tombs of Sir George Manners, Lord Roos, thatof the Lord Haftings, chamberlain to Edward IV. and feveralothers. Before we conclude our account of this ancient chapel, itwill be proper to obferve, that King James II. made ufe of itfor the fervice of popery; and mafs being publickly performedthere, it has ever fmce been negletSled and fuftered to run to ruin jand being no appendage to the collegiate church, waits the royalfavour to retrieve it from the difgrace of its prefent fituation. READING. BERKSHIRE. 13 READING ABBEY. (Plate I.) J. HIS was a mitred parliamentary abbey, and one of the moftconfiderable in England, both for the magnificence of its build-ings and the richnefs of its endowments. King Henry I. beganto lay the foimdations anno 1121, having pulled down a fmalldeferted nunnery, by fome faid to have been founded by Elfrida,mother in law of King Edward, called the martyr, in expiationof the murder of that king at Corfe Caftle. The new monafterywas completed in four years; but the church was either not con-fecrated till the reign of Henry II. or elfe that ceremony was, forthe fecond time, performed in the year 1163 or 1164, by Arch-bifliop Becket, the king and many of the nobility being was dedicated to the honour of the Holy Trinity, the BlefledVirgin Mary, and St. John the Evangelift. Browne Willis, fromdivers good authorities and reafons, to thefe adds St. James, ma-king its tutelars ftand in the following order
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