The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-10
WOMEN IN wEsTMINsrER ABBEY.
Mrs. Gladstone Among Queens md
Many Women Royal in Race.


Mrs. Gladstone shall not be divided from
her husband. No precedent will here be
created, for Of the 5000 people who have
been buried within the Abbey and its clois-
tors, about 100 haze been women. Neither
will Mrs. Gladstone be the first of the
Glynne family TO find a last sanctuary an
that church of tombs" for Mrs. Helen
Glynne, q grand-n!ece of John Glynne Ca
famous CromWenan, whose ashes are in
ST. Margarets church, close by) was bur
led in Monks vault in the chapel of Henry
VII, 1888 Curously, too, it was the cof-
fin of a woman that had to be slightly
moved to accommodate that Of Mr. Glad
stone. The widow Of Sir Robert Rich, she
died on the 18th and was buried on the
10Th of October, 1873, aged 81. She was
the seventh daughter and co-heiress of Ed
ward Griffith, one Of the clerks Of the
board of Green Cloth, by Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Dr.. Thomas Laurence first physi-
clan TO Queen Anne.
In the chapels radiatihg round the high
altar lies many a royal and courtly lady
not to mention more particularly Mary and
Elizabeth. Queens of England. and Mary,
Queen Of Scots. Here you find Eleanor Of
Castle, surnamed the Faithful, who even
accompanied her husband upon one of his
perilous crusades tenderiy nursing him
back 10 life after the treacherous blow
he received from an assassin. The last of
the twelve crosses erected to her memory
between Lincolnshire and London indi-
Gates the kings affection for her, for
Charing Cross is a corruption Of 'chere
refine" as he always called her.
Philppa OF Halnault, whose affection for
Edward III dated from the time when
they were each about Is, was, like Eleanor,
always ready for a campaign. She il was
who at the siege of Calais, begged for the
lives Of the chief citizens. Her dying re-
quest was, I'VE have, my husband, enjoy
ed our long union I'm happiness, peace and
prosperity. When IL shan please God to
call you hence, you will choose no other
sepulcher than mine, and you will rest By
my side in Westminster abbey" Her stat
ne of aiabaster Is quite in keeping with
the stories of her bcauty-indeed, when the
Black Prince was a boy In arms, she was
a frequent model for the Virgin and Child.
The monument In the Confessors chapel
to Anne of Bohemia, patron of the Wick
lfntes, fttngly represents her lying at
the side of her husband, Richard II, with
her hand clasped la his.
Perhaps the most notable example the
abbey affords of the happy marriage OF
two persons and two causes was that OF
Henry VII with Elizabeth of York, thus
concluding the civil wars by joining the
Red and White Roses 1t was at their
coronation that the anthem was sung
which, both in words and music would
seem to be the direct hneal ancestor 70
our national anthem:
God save King Henrye wheresoe'er he
bee
And for Queene Elizabeth now pray wee
And for all her noble pragenye.' etc.
She Is said to have been the last queer
who used as residence the tower of Lon
don, where her child was born week be
fore her death. From thence she wa:
brought 10 the abbey, and six years later
we find husband and wife together agar
beneath the tomb In the beautiful chape
which the king erected, and which serves
as her monument as well as his own. Her,
also lies his mother, Margaret Beaufort
whose etigy utly pOrtrays the retinemen
and noble character of this venerable Ole
lady. patron Of Caxton and printing, Il
whose worth it is 10 slight testimony e
| say that she was devotedly loved by tn,
! Queen, her daughter-in-law.
| In sad contrast TO the marriage of thes,
queens is that of Anne of Cleves, the con
| sort of Henry VII. Owing possibly to hei
| friendship with Queen Mary, her remaini
| We're brought to the abbey, where they liz
| to the right of the high altar, al the feet o
! King Sebert under bench-ifIe tomb. II
| allusion 70 this Fuller says: Not one o
| Henrys wives, except Anne of Cieves
had monument, and hers was but half {
| one As il happens, however, Catherine
! Parr has since had a beautiful recumben
efigy Of herself placed over her body il
the chapel of Sudeley castye the lord o
which became her second husband.
/ Caroline of Anspach, though she proceed
| ed her husband, George II, by twent,
| years, was at length reunited with him
for their ashes actually intermingle il
! one sarcophasus in Henry WIS chapel
| Besides having a place among the imnior
tails In the abbey, she Is immortalized else
( where in fiction, for she was the sympa
| thetic recipient of Jeanne sDean's sad tai.
in ''The Heart of Midlothian" And i
was for her funeral that Handel com
posed the anthem, when the Ear Hear
Her. Then 1t Blessed Fer"
tiere, too are buued the Countess o
LennoX, niece of Henry VIII. after a lif
Of straitened means; and Augusta, mothc
of George III; aud Queen Anne, with he
| eighteen children, and the infants o
James ! Zone Of them under tomb repre-
seutlng a tiny Cradle), and James II an,
| OF Charles II; also the unfortunate Lad,
Arabella Stuart, whose close succession L
the throne subjected her TO a constant sys
lem of espionage her secret marriage &
Sir William Seymour 0welve years he
junior, les discovery, their separate i'm
prsonment his escape to France and he
languishing in the tower til her mind be
came unhinged, ana her burial by nigh
In the abhey-all this surely constitute
one Of the most pathetic romances tina
| royalty affords.
The abbey has also offered a Resin,
place to such simple maideus as elizabeth
| Russell maid of honor TO Queen Bess. an,
known as the ''ch,d Of Westminster" TO
she was born in the deanery, chrlstened Il
the abbey and spent the twenty years o
her life practically under It's shadow. He
monument is curious for she is sitting in
an osier chair, pointing to the skull OF