The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis . n of mine offences. Written at the Tower, withthe heavy heart and trembling hand of your highnesssmost miserable prisoner and poor slave, Thomas Crom- CHURCH OF ST. PETER. 13 well. And a little below, Most gracious Prince, I cryfor mercy ! mercy ! mercy ! lIt need scarcely be said, that No storied urn nor animated bust commemorates the unfortunate or the guilty individualswhose names and memories we have thus briefly mention-ed. There are some few monuments within the church,but these have rela
The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis . n of mine offences. Written at the Tower, withthe heavy heart and trembling hand of your highnesssmost miserable prisoner and poor slave, Thomas Crom- CHURCH OF ST. PETER. 13 well. And a little below, Most gracious Prince, I cryfor mercy ! mercy ! mercy ! lIt need scarcely be said, that No storied urn nor animated bust commemorates the unfortunate or the guilty individualswhose names and memories we have thus briefly mention-ed. There are some few monuments within the church,but these have relation to other and less notorious charac-ters. At the west end of the north aile stands an enrichedaltar tomb to the memory of Sir Richard Cholmondeley,Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, and his wife, LadyElizabeth, who died in the early part of the reign ofHenry VIII. The recumbent effigies, which appear onthe top, represent the knight in plate armour, (having acollar and pendant around his neck, with his handsclasped devotionally on his breast,) and the lady in a plainvest and pointed 1 Lyttletons History of England. Vol. ii. p. 210. 14 CHURCH OF ST. PETER. The tomb, as may be seen by the annexed engravinghas small twisted columns at the angles, and is divided onthe face into square compartments, which enclose blankshields and lozenges. This monument, it is said, formerlystood in the body of the church, but was removed, forconvenience-sake, to the dark corner it now Several mural tablets are disposed about the church ;and on the north side of the chancel stands a richly orna-mented marble monument to the memory of Sir RichardBlount, and Sir Michael, his son, who died in the six-teenth century. Within alcoves formed beneath an enta-blature supported on columns, and ornamented with che-rubim and shields, are seen figures, representing, in one,the knight and his sons clad in armour, and in the otherhis wife and daughters. On the floor, in the nave, is a smal
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