The proximity of Henry and Edward in
death suggested the following lines to Pope--
"Here, o'er the martyr-king the marble weeps,
And fast beside him once-fear'd Edward sleeps;
The grave unites, where e'en the grave finds rest,
And mingled here the oppressor and the opprest."
In the royal vault in the choir repose Henry the Eighth and his third
queen Jane Seymour, together with the martyred Charles the First.
Space only permits the hasty enumeration of the different chapels and
chantries adorning this splendid fane. These are Lincoln Chapel, near
which Richard Beauchamp, Bishop of Salisbury, is buried; Oxenbridge
Chapel; Aldworth Chapel; Bray Chapel, where rests the body of Sir Reginald
de Bray, the architect of the pile; Beaufort Chapel, containing sumptuous
monuments of the noble family of that name; Rutland Chapel; Hastings
Chapel; and Urswick Chapel, in which is now placed the cenotaph of
the Princess Charlotte, sculptured by Matthew Wyatt.
In a vault near the sovereign's stall lie the remains of the Duke of
Gloucester, who died in 1805, and of his duchess, who died two years
after him. And near the entrance of the south door is a slab of grey
marble, beneath which lies \one who in his day filled the highest offices
of the realm, and was the brother of a king and the husband of a queen.
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