Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-08-05

| able 10 ulftiNgulSu Inc ulNliiHS liht "
| tween firmness and mere obstinacy;
while the beautiful Scotch woman's face
shows in the high. narrow forehead
.ou. .h.n. tAe I.., mouth. and the lack of
/ width between the eyes all the suppleness
underlaid by tenaCi:y Of purpose, the
| love Of pleasure. the lack OF capacity TO
| reason, which brought her TO tragic
| end.
1t was in Elizabeth's reign that ths
| mobiles, statesmen. and poets began 10
| enter the abbey, and nothing SO beauu-
: fully expresses her real place as the
| sovereign Of the people, rather thah
! monarch of the realm as the fact that
| her servants and friends and great sub
! iects lie about her in death, and among
| these the women have large place. Here
! lies the mother Of Lady Jane Grey under
Il monument erected by her second hus-
/ band. Adrian stokes.
what" exclaimed Elizabeth on hear
| Ing the news. Have YOU married your
! hcrse-keeper, madam
| Yes your Majesty" retorted her spir-
| itod cousin. Il have; and it is said your
Majesty would fain do the same" re-
| fcrring to Leicester, who was then master
oc tho horse.
ANNE SEYMOUR.
! Another great lady came here in Eliza
/ hoth's reign Anne Seymour. heiress OF
/ Woodstock. widow of Protector Somerset.
! and sistcr-in-law Of Queen Jane Seymour.
! She lived TO be 30 years of age. and by
| her enemies was accused of being "a
lnannish. or rather devllish woman, for
! any imperfectablities intolerable, but for
J pride monstrous; exceeding subtle, and
j.. violent"
, one Of the ladies of the Russell family
; lies Hero. though her monument pictures
: her sitting at ease in an osier chair, and
her sister El'zabeth who Is said to have
died from the prick Of a needle. Is in the
I same chapel. This sister was born within
! the abbey precincts. where her mother
| had taken refuge from the plague: was
! chrlsjoneI there. and then came here 10
| rest at last after a short life ended by so
| slight a weapon.
! Here also lies Catherine Knolly. TO
! whose house Elizabeth granted right of
( interment in the abbey because OF her
faithful service TO Anne Boieyn, and the
| Norrises--their deadly rivals-had the same
! privilege because of that Henry Norris,
! who alone of her household went with
! her to the scafold, refusing 10 admit
| the hideOus charges Henry had brought
! against Elizabeth's mother.
! Lord Burleigh erected in the abbey a
! splendid towering monument to two wo-
men-hls wife and his daughter-the loss
/ Of whom so overwhelmed him with grief
that he. but for the earnest entreaties of
/ the Queen, would have abandoned his
! public duties altogether. He kneela here
| in robes of state. decorated with the Order
! Of the Garter. his eyes dim with tears
for the loss Of those dearer to him than
/ the whole race of womankind."
LAST OF THE LENNOXES.
One Of the most curious monuments to
women In the minister was that of the
beautiful Duchess Of Richmond, widow
! of the last of the LennoX family, whose
, onigy, by her own request, was done In
! wax. dressed in the robes she had worn
at the coronation, and accompanied by q
| stuffed parrot. which lived with her Grace
I for forty years, the whole in glass case
| This was not so startling method OF
/ perpetuatng ones memory as ii would
| seem at first glance, because the English
/ kings and queens were always accom-
/ uanied bv their wax efllgies in their last
| tourney To the abbey. 1t usually remained
1 several months near the grave that all
| nleht eaze their fiji upon this likeness 10
th,. dead sovereign, and then was stored
! away in the wainscot presses. Unfortu-
/ nately. for these were good portraits, ac-
[ curqtely costumed, they were robbed of
| their garments and generally destroyed
during the revolution. though some more
recent ONES are stili to be seen. as well