. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 158 & {. .'iff MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. In the abbye which there he founded so. Of monkes black, whenever they ride or go, T)iat pray for him and queen Maude his wife. Who either other loved withouten ; Another chronicler says, " Nothing happened to trouble the king, save the d
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 158 & {. .'iff MATILDA OF SCOTLAND. In the abbye which there he founded so. Of monkes black, whenever they ride or go, T)iat pray for him and queen Maude his wife. Who either other loved withouten ; Another chronicler says, " Nothing happened to trouble the king, save the death of his queen Matilda, the very mirror of piety, humihty, and princely ;* The same causes that had withheld the king from attending Matilda in her d3ring illness, prevented him from honouring her obsequies with his presence. Matilda was biuied on St. Philip's-day in Westminster-abbey, on the right side of her royal uncle, Edward the Confessor.' Great disputes, however, have existed as to the place of her interment,' which has been contested with almost as much zeal as was displayed by the seven cities of Greece, in claiming the honoiu* of having given buih to Homer. The monks of Reading averred that theii- royal patroness was buried in her own stately abbey there, where her illustrious consort was afterwards interred. The rhyming chroniclers insist that she was buried in St. Paul's cathedral, and that her epitaph was placed in Westminster- abbey. These are the words of Piers of Langtoft,— "At London, in St. Paul's, in tomb she is laid, Christ, then, of her soul have mercie! ' If any one will wiften [know] of her storie, At Westminster it is written rcodtZy,-" that is to say, so that it may be plainly read. Tyrrell declares that she was buried at Winchester, but that tablets to her memory were set up in many churches,—an honour which she shares with queen Elizabeth. The following passage from Weever testifies that the mortal remains of Matilda, * th
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