Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments . k, the coveringof whose coffin must have been removedand the body pushed along in order tomake room for the burly Scotchman.*The vault is only seven and one-half bytwo and one-half feet, and the floor onlya few feet below the pavement. The mother of James, the unfortunateQueen of Scots, by whose side he mightnaturally find burial, was sleeping underthe noble monument provided by his filialcare in the south aisle of this chapel: andin that same aisle had one of his lovedsons, Henry, Prince of Wales, and hisdaughter, Elizabeth, been bu
Westminster abbey, its architecture, history and monuments . k, the coveringof whose coffin must have been removedand the body pushed along in order tomake room for the burly Scotchman.*The vault is only seven and one-half bytwo and one-half feet, and the floor onlya few feet below the pavement. The mother of James, the unfortunateQueen of Scots, by whose side he mightnaturally find burial, was sleeping underthe noble monument provided by his filialcare in the south aisle of this chapel: andin that same aisle had one of his lovedsons, Henry, Prince of Wales, and hisdaughter, Elizabeth, been buried. In thenorth aisle rested his two infant daugh-ters, one in the well-known Cradle queen, Anne of Denmark, lies alonein a spacious vault made for her in thenortheast chapel of the apse close the husband and father wished ratherto be remembered as King in his death, ?Stanley: As if, almost foreigner as he was, hewished to ingraft his family and fate on that ofthe ancient English stock through which he derivedhis title to the crown. 502. Part of Torki;gianos Altak, calleu the Tomb of Edward VI Other Tombs in Henry YIFs Chapel and by posterity, and chose his resting-place—if indeed he did choose it—closeto the king whose hardly-won title to thecrown he must have known.* His burial was stately and sumptuous,said by some to be the greatest Englandhad ever seen. Spices and odors filled hiscoffin. There was a wonderful hearse,designed by Inigo Jones, having a domedroof and supported by pillars. Littleflags, gilt crowns, coats-of-arms andcrests decorated the structure in such pro-fusion that it would seem to have resem-bled a gigantic wedding cake, and it re-mained standing for a long time, probablyuntil the Commonwealth, with the well-made, richly dressed effigy. The funeralchariot and the running footmen who pre- *Stanley thus describes the finding of the Kingsbody: It was with a feeling of breathless anxietyamounting to solemn awe that caused the humblestof t
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