. 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. it.' 446 ELEANORA OF CASTILE. The king endowed the abbey of "Westminster with many rich gifts, for dirges and masses to commemorate his beloved queen. Wax-hghts perpetually burnt around her tomb, till the Reformation extinguished them three hundred years after- wards, and took away the fun
. 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. it.' 446 ELEANORA OF CASTILE. The king endowed the abbey of "Westminster with many rich gifts, for dirges and masses to commemorate his beloved queen. Wax-hghts perpetually burnt around her tomb, till the Reformation extinguished them three hundred years after- wards, and took away the funds that kept them alight. " She hath," says Fabyan, " two wax tapers biuTiing upon her tomb both day and night, which hath so continued syn the day of her burying to this ;^ The tomb itself is of grey Petworth marble, and is designed in a style corresponding with the rich memorial-cross of Waltham, especially the lower range of shields, on which are seen embossed the towers of Castile and the purple lions of Leon, with the bendlets of Ponthieu. Various paintings by Walter de Durham once adorned the canopy and the base, of which some faint traces alone remain. Bound the metal table on which the statue reposes is a verge, embossed with Saxon characters, to this eflFect:— " Here lies Ahanor, wife to king Edward, forraerly queen of England, on whose soul God for pity have giace! ; This is at present the sole epitaph of Eleanora of Castile; but before the Reformation the hearse-tablet hung near the tomb, on which were some fimeral verses in Latin, with an English translation by some ancient rhymester/ transcribed here, not for their beauty, but their historical character:— " Queen Eleanora is here interred, a royal virtuous dame, < Sister unto the Spanish king, of ancient blood and fame; King Edward's wife, first of that name, and prince of Wales by right, Whose father Henry, just the third, was sure an English wight. He craved
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