Walks in London . ancy, on whom we will pre-sume to bestow this epitaph— Wakt from the wombe, she on this world did peep,Dislikt it, closd her eyes, fell fast asleep.—Fuller s Worthies. In the pavement of the aisle are the tombs of Robert Tounson,Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Salisbury (1621) ; of Cicely Rat-cliffe (1396); of Thomas Bilson (1616), Bishop of Winchester, the deepand profound scholar ;:i and of Sir John de Bewerley, and his wife, 1 Weev-rs Funeral Bishop Nicholson, Scot. Hist. 3 Fullers Worthies. Chapel of St. Edmund I 01) Anne Buxall, which once bore brasses. Ben
Walks in London . ancy, on whom we will pre-sume to bestow this epitaph— Wakt from the wombe, she on this world did peep,Dislikt it, closd her eyes, fell fast asleep.—Fuller s Worthies. In the pavement of the aisle are the tombs of Robert Tounson,Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Salisbury (1621) ; of Cicely Rat-cliffe (1396); of Thomas Bilson (1616), Bishop of Winchester, the deepand profound scholar ;:i and of Sir John de Bewerley, and his wife, 1 Weev-rs Funeral Bishop Nicholson, Scot. Hist. 3 Fullers Worthies. Chapel of St. Edmund I 01) Anne Buxall, which once bore brasses. Beneath the tomb ofRichard II. is believed to lie Queen Anne of Warwick, the unhappyAnne Neville, who married first the Prince of Wales, Edward, sonof Henry VI. After his murder at Tewkesbury she fled from the ad-dresses of his cousin, the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III.,but was discovered disguised as a kitchenmaid, and married to himagainst her will. She died in less than two years after her corona-. TOMB OF THE DEAF AND DUMB PRINCESS. tion, of grief for the loss of her only child, Edward, Prince olWales. St. Edmunds Chapel (the first of the hexagonal chapels), dedi-cated to Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, is separated from theaisle by an ancient wooden screen. It is crowded with interestingmonuments. In the centre are three tombs. *That in the midst bears a glorious brass in memory of Eleanor de Bohun,Duchess of Gloucester, daughter of the Earl of Hertford, and wife of Thomas of 200 Walks in London Woodstock, youngest son of Edward III., buried in the Confessors her husbands arrest and assassination, she became a nun of BarkingAbbey, where she died in 1399. Her figure, in a widows dress, lies under atriple canopy. Beyond Eleanor, on the south, are the tomb and cross of Robert de Waldcby,Archbishop of York (1397), the friend of the Black Prince and tutor of Richard the north is Mary Villiers, Countess of Stafford (1694), wife of William Howar
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