The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-23
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There is plenty of precedent for
making Westminster Abbey place to
commemorate, as well as to bury,
strangers in. The second person of pri-
vate rank recorded to have been buried
in the older church was that of Geoffroy
of Manneville, or Vaudeville, who was
among the followers of William the Nor
man, and who gave to the Abbey the
great estate of Hyde, of which parts still
remain to the Dean and Chapter. One
of the oldest monuments in the whole
church is that of William de Valence,
Earl of Pembroke, in st. Edmund's
Chapel. He was step-brother of Henry
III, and was born, as his name signifies, at
Valence, and died also abroad-namely,
at Bayonne, 1896.
His son made the tomb, which is be-
loved of heralds, and remarkable in the
history of art for its enameled ornaments.
The etfigy itself is curious, for it is of oak
covered with bronze in plates. The Earl
is believed to repose within the stone
base of the monument. The Register,
which commences in 1907, furnishes
the names of something like
score of foreigners of all ranks inferred
here during the last three centuries.
There are Ambassadors, like Dorislaus,
whose tragical death at The Hague, when
representing the Commonwealth, was fol-
lowed by his funeral in Henry Wis
chapel, Il few months only after the exc
cution of Charles |. Dorislaus was him.
self a Dutchman by birth. His body did
not rest here long, but at the Restoration
was removed to st. Margaret's Church
yard.
In 1710 Spanheim, the Ambassador
from Prussia, and 10 years latter one
'Don Hyacinth Borges Pereira de Cas-
tro," the Portuguese Ambassador, were
likewise laid in the Abbey, as was also st.
Evremond. Foreign divines, too, are to
be found in plenty. Such was Anthony
Horneck, who, as preacher at the Savoy
attracted the crowds noticed by Evelyn.
Such, too, were the Ex-Capuchin De
Breval and Isaac Casaubon. Nicholas
Oudart, who was Latin Secretary to
Charles II, should perhaps be mentioned
in this connection; but the greatest of
the foreigners were soldiers. We have
forgstten Field Marshal DE la Roche
foucald, who, after spending lifetime
in the English army, was buried here in
1889; but an unpleasant SAVIOR seems to
attach itself to the name of Louis De
Duras, Earl of Feversham, the victor of
Sedgemoor
He was originally buried in the French
chapel at the Savoy; but his remains,
thirty years later, with those of his
nephew, Armand De Bourbon, and
niece, Charlotte, were disinterred and
reburied Gin the north cross of the Alb
bey." They were all Protestants, even
Feversham, which may be one reason
why he did not follow his master to exile
to st. Germans. The next reign brought
a large crop Of foreigners to the Abbey.
There in 1909 was borne the body of the
faithful Bentinck, whose name was the
last word William III was heard to utter.
There are Schombergs and Nassaus and
Auverquerques in the Tudor Chapel, and
among them young Prince Eugene Of
Savoy--not the hero, but his nephew,
who died of smallpox while visiting Eng
land in 1712. There are some Hanove-
rian names, too, little later, the great
est of which il Handel