. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. ied beside herdaughter ; she died, aged sixty-three, at Burghley Housein the Strand. The broken-hearted husband and fatherraised a fine monument over the graves of those whowere dear to him beyond the whole race of woman-kind. At the mothers feet kneels her son the daughters head are portrayed her three most pathetic figure is that of Lord Burghley him-self, kneeling above in his robes of state, a record of theaffection with which the old man clung to the memory ofthose he had loved so well. In the inscription he himselfrecords his w
. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. ied beside herdaughter ; she died, aged sixty-three, at Burghley Housein the Strand. The broken-hearted husband and fatherraised a fine monument over the graves of those whowere dear to him beyond the whole race of woman-kind. At the mothers feet kneels her son the daughters head are portrayed her three most pathetic figure is that of Lord Burghley him-self, kneeling above in his robes of state, a record of theaffection with which the old man clung to the memory ofthose he had loved so well. In the inscription he himselfrecords his wifes learning and also her charity. How shewas versed in the sacred writers, and those chiefly of theGreeks, and was a benefactress to several colleges in bothuniversities. How she took particular care of the poor ofRumford, where she was born (Giddy Hall was her fathershouse), and of Cheshunts, where she lived (at Theobalds),by leaving money and food to be distributed to the widowsand orphans every first Sunday in the month, besides. THE BURGHLEY MONUMENTIn the Chapel of St. Nicholas See /. COURT OF THE MAIDEN QUEEN 115 gifts of money to be given every year to poor wished to resign all his offices on his wifesdeath, but the Queen would not hear of it, so he livedon, a lonely old man in the midst of the stir of thecourt, for ten years longer, and, dying (August 4, 1598)at the age of seventy-six, five years before his Queen,was buried at Stamford. On the day of his burial agrand funeral service was held in the Abbey. Not far from here, in the south aisle of the choir is a finemarble alabaster figure of a judge, Thomas Owen (d. 1598),a noted counsellor who was much resorted to for advice,and was employed by Burghley to draw up various legaldocuments for the marriage settlement of one of hisgrand-daughters. In the same chapel, St. Nicholas, whereis the Cecil family tomb, are the graves of two otherElizabeth Cecils; one was Burghleys daughter-in-law,the other the
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