lumber-yard; far different was its former use. Over it, without the cloisters, is a range of brackets that supported the roof of the refectory, and below them many pointed windows that lighted the hall. There are one or two statues in these windows, which are now filled up; but as a brick wall divides the carpenter's yard from Dr. Bell's garden, I could but imperfectly see them. Through this door the monks passed to their meals; those are the only ones that remain to shew us the situation and length of the dininghall, which was that of the cloister.

Returning to the cloisters, in the arch on the right, are four lancet-shaped niches, said to have been used as a lavatory. A tablet to Francis Legonier, another to Elizabeth Waldron. A square topped door with a pointed arch over it which once contained cinquefoils, opens from this arch into Dr. Bell's garden. A tablet to Mary Peters in the next arch; in the next, one to Elizabeth Jennings, 1734, aged 74. In the next, one to Capt. W. Roberts, who died in 1811, another to Mrs. Jane Rider, 71. A large one to John Hay, third son of George, Earl of Kinnoul, born 1719, died 1751. Further east, a tablet to Peter Francis Courayer, and in the same arch, another to the Hon. Henry Pomeroy. The next is a large monument with a bust of Edward Tufnel, the architect. The last, or open, arch has one or two tablets illegible.

The east side. In the first division is a pedestal, sarcophagus, and reclining reading statue, erected to Daniel Pultney. Near it is a memorial to James Broughton, 1710. A very strong and handsome iron gate crosses the cloisters on this spot. There is not an arch in the cloister but would admit twenty persons to the four sides, who understand the art of climbing. In the second arch is a strong prison-like door, and over it a tablet to Lieutenant General Henry Withers, not legible. Another to Lieutenant Colonel Richmond Webb, who died the 27th of May, 1785, aged 70. Sarah, his widow, the 8th of June, 1789, aged 66. In the next division a strong pointed arch; and near it a tablet to Michael Robert Van Millin-gen, 1773, aged 13. In a recess where was a door, a tablet for John Savage, S. T. P.

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The ancient Chapel house has, or rather had, the arch over its entrance most magnificently adorned with carving, gilding, and painting. On each side are three pillars, between them foliage. One range of the mouldings contain circular scrolls which have been gilt, and the depths covered black, another scarlet. A third space is divided into small niches by waved scrolls; within thein are twenty imperfect statues. Here are the Blessed Virgin and infant Jesus, and King David, much broken. Fragments of the paint and gilding adhere on various parts of them, enough to shew their former splendour; the centre is divided into two arches; one containing a door and window, and the other a window lettered and glazed. The mouldings of those are scrolls, and are supported by a head; a plane between them has been painted with white foliage on a red ground, and the outside ones in compartments of golden flowers. Between the arches is a broken carved bracket without a statue. On each side are two others, the right sustains a headless, and almost wingless angel, whose right arm has been elevated; the left is nearly destroyed, but its outline is like the other; they appear to have been exceedingly correct figures. Directly before this door-way the vaulted roof of the cloisters has a greater number of ribs than the rest, and some of the key-stones are rich in carving and gilding, but beyond they are fewer than before. On the spot where the centre statue stood over the door, a tablet has been erected to Elizabeth Moore, who died in 1720› aged thirty-five. She was wife to Thomas Moore, librarian to the church. The outward wall opposite contains three pillars within its arch, which is filled with thirteen pierced quatrefoils, almost destroyed by the weather. Others of those arches have three trefoils, and four ovals. The remainder of the divisiors on the east wall are alike, and have three arches within each, with a string of gold, once about three inches broad, extending horizontally about three yards from the pavement. The wall was painted of a dark faded colour, on which are numbers of white trefoils. Tablets placed on it are, to Lieutenant General George Walsh, Esq. Colonel of the 49th regiment of foot; died October 23, 1761, aged 73. 8 Edward

Edward Godfrey; one now illegible; Mrs. Addison, who died the 30th of September, 1715. Opposite, over a door leading into a buttress, one for Lieutenant General, the Honourable William Barrell, Governor of Pendennis Castle, and Colonel of the King's own regiment of foot. On the east wall, Elizabeth Hollingworth 1785, aged 60; Elizabeth West, 1710; George Whicher, 1681. Scipio Duroure, Esq. Adjutant-General, Colonel of the 12th regiment of foot, and Captain of the Castle of St. Maws. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Fontenoy; and died on the 10th of May, 1745, aged 56; Alexander Duroure, Esq. Lieutenant-Ge neral Colonel of the 4th regiment of foot, and Captain of St. Maw's, died at Toulouse on the 2d of January, 1765, aged 73; Sir John Kempe, Baronet, died at the age of 17, upon the 16th of January, 1771. The two last arches are filled by eight tablets to Sir John Kemp, Jane Lister, Charles Wallis, Gaulter Hawkes, (a new one,) Christ. Steigher, Bonnell Thornton, T. R.Winstanley, Bonnell George Thornton, son of the other.

The north side. A very strong arch crosses the east end. The mouldings over the arch of the great door leading to the south aisle are numerous, and richly carved. All the key-stones of the roof are scrolls. Quatrefoils have embellished the outward arches, but they are now reduced to imperfect circles by the weather. Nine pointed windows filled up, may be seen from this side over the roof of the south cloister, which belonged to the refectory before noticed. The first four divisions on the side of the church are like those mentioned on the East side, except in the painting and gilding. The tablets are to Owen Wynue; Ellen Bust, 1697; Susanna Fox, 1610; William Lawrence, 1621; Elizabeth Palmer; Thomas Ludford, Esq. 1776, aged 66. Ann Playford, 1743, aged 72.; Ann, her daughter, wife of the Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald, A. M. one of the ushers of Westminster School, 1739-40, aged 45, and an infant. Rachael Taylor, relict of the Rev. Edward Taylor, rector of Finningley, in the county of Nottingham, 1740, aged 65; Anne Ludford, her only beloved daughter, 1748,

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aged 50; Elizabeth Atkinson, Body Laundress to Queen Anne; Elizabeth Gates, wife of Bernard Gates, master of the children of the Chapel Royal; Elizabeth Gates, 1737, aged 48, and Bernard Gates, 1733, aged 88; Elizabeth Atkinson, died 1725, aged 64; Humphrey Langford; John Coleman, Esq. 1709; Richard Gouland, 1659:

Frances Goodall, 1705; Frances Newman, 1649; John Collier, 1732, aged 13; Rachel Field, 1718; John Stagg; a new one, by Bacon, inscribed, "Honoratissimæ Dominæ. Domina Mariæ Markham. Ob. Feb. 1814. Annos nota, 35." Thomas Jordan, son of the Rev. George Jordan, 1736; Owen Davis, Esq., 29 years receiver-general of this church, 1759, aged 60; his wife Mary, 1778, aged 72; Mary Davies, their daughter, 1786, aged 46; George Jewell, A. M. 1725, anno ætatis tricesimo primo. Susannah Bernard, daughter of Sir Edw. Bernard, Knt. 1721, aged 53; Anne Gawen, 1659; Francis Meyrick, 1734, aged 49; Guyon Griffith, of Westminster School, youngest son of the late Rev. Guyon Griffith, D. D. rector of St. Mary-at-hill, in the City of London, 1789, aged 11; William Wynne, Esq. Serjeant at Law, who died May 16th, 1765, aged 72 years and 10 months. He was the son of Owen Wynne, Doctor of the Civil Law, under secretary of state to Charles II. and James II. By Dorothy his wife, who lies near this place, sister of Narcissus Luttrele, Esq. of Little Chelsea, September the 30th, 1728. He married Grace, one of the coheiresses of William Bridges, Esq. Serjeant at Law; by whom he had six sons and two daughters, three of whom, Susannah, Edward, and Luttrele, with his widow, survived him; Grace Wynne, 1779, aged 79, and Edward Wynne, Esq. Barrister at Law, died Dec. 26, 1784, aged 50.

I have now gone through the whole of this venerable structure, and with as much care and circumspection as possible. I believe few, if any, monuments of interest have escaped observation; nor have I failed to call in the assistance of such authors as have gone before me, in this pleasing, but laborious undertaking: