Shakespeare's England . e of Gloster, on the day when hecondemned the accomplished Hastings. Stand-ing there, I could almost hear the resolute,scornful voice of Richard, breathing out, inclear, implacable accents: Ely with Richmond troubles me more nearThan Buckingham and his rash-levied strength. The astute Morton,—when the battle of Bos-worth had been fought and the royal causehad been lost, and Richmond had assumed thecrown, and Bourchier had died,—was madeArchbishop of Canterbury, and as such, at agreat age, he passed away. Not far from hisplace of rest, in a vault beneath the Churchof St.
Shakespeare's England . e of Gloster, on the day when hecondemned the accomplished Hastings. Stand-ing there, I could almost hear the resolute,scornful voice of Richard, breathing out, inclear, implacable accents: Ely with Richmond troubles me more nearThan Buckingham and his rash-levied strength. The astute Morton,—when the battle of Bos-worth had been fought and the royal causehad been lost, and Richmond had assumed thecrown, and Bourchier had died,—was madeArchbishop of Canterbury, and as such, at agreat age, he passed away. Not far from hisplace of rest, in a vault beneath the Churchof St. Dunstan, is the head of Sir ThomasMore (the body being in St. Peters, at theTower of London), who, in his youth, hadbeen a member of Mortons ecclesiastical house-hold, and whose greatness that prelate hadforeseen and prophesied. Did no shadow ofthe scaffold ever fall across the statesmansthoughts, as he looked upon that handsome,manly boy, and thought of the passions thatwere raging about them? Morton, aged ninety,. .//.// /?//.!,, RICHARD THE THIRD, KING OF ENGLAND And all complexions act at once confusedly in him: He xtitdieth, striketh, threats, entreats, and looketh mildly (/rim, Mistrustfully he trusteth, and he dreadingly doth dare, And forty passions in a trice in him consort and square. WAR NEE. CANTERBURY. 331 died in 1500; More, aged fifty-five, in fate, indeed, was that, and as inscrut-able as mournful, which gave to those who, inlife, had been like father and son such aghastly association in death! St. Dunstans church was connected with theConvent of St. Gregory. The Roper family,in the time of King Henry the Fourth, foundeda chapel in it, in which are two marble tombs,commemorative of them, and underneath whichis their burial vault. Margaret Roper, SirThomas Mores daughter, obtained her fathershead, after his execution, and buried it vault was opened in 1835,—when a newpavement was laid in the chancel of this church,—and persons desc
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