. 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. ^9 MATILDA OF FLANDERS. II'U. ft. ill ii I thereon in letters of gold, sotting forth in pompous language the lofty birth and noble qualities of the illustrious dead. The folloAAnng is a translation of the quaint monkish rhymes, which defy the imitative powers of modem poetry:— " Hero rests
. 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. ^9 MATILDA OF FLANDERS. II'U. ft. ill ii I thereon in letters of gold, sotting forth in pompous language the lofty birth and noble qualities of the illustrious dead. The folloAAnng is a translation of the quaint monkish rhymes, which defy the imitative powers of modem poetry:— " Hero rests within this fair niiJ stately tonih, Matilila, scion of a regal line; The Flemish (hike her sire,' and Ailelais Her mother, to great llobert king of Franco Daughter, and sister to his royal heir. In wedlock to onr mighty William joined, She built this holy temple, and endowed With Iain's and goodly gil'l**. She, the true friend Of piety and soother of distress, Enriching others, indigent herself, Reservuig all her treasures for tho poor; And, by such deeds as these, she merited To l)e partaker of eternal life: To which she iiass'd Novemlwr 2, ; Matilda's >vill, which is in the register of the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Caen," fully bears out the assertion of her epitaph, touching her poverty; since, from the items in this curious and interesting record, it is plain that the first of omy Anglo-Norman queens had little to leave in the way of personal property: the bulk of her landed possessions was already settled on her son Henry. " I give," says the royjJ testatrix, " to the abbey of the Holy Trinity my tunic, worked at Winchester by Alderet's wife; and the mantle embroidered with gold, which is in my chamber, to make a cope. Of my two golden girdles, I give that which is ornamented with emblems, for the purpose of suspending the lamp before the great altar. I give my large candelabra, made at St. Lo, my crown, my sceptre, my cups in their
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