The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-20
WOMEN IN WESTMINSTER,
Mrs. Gladstone Will Be Buried Among
 A Goodly Company of Her Sex.

| Mrs. Gladstone shall not be divided | from her husband. No precedent will here be created, for of the three thous- and people who have been buried with in the abbey and it's cloisters about one hundred have been women. Nei- ther will Mrs. Gladstone be the first of the Glynne family to find a last sanc- tuary in that church of tombs," for Mrs. Helen Glynne, grandniece of John | Glynne, Ca famous Cromwellian, whose ashes are in St. Margaret's church close by0 was buried in Monks vault in the chapel of Henry VII, 1739. Gu riously, too, it was the coffin of a wo- man that had to be slightly moved to accommodate that of MT. Gladstone. The widow of Sir Robert Rich, she died on October Is and was buried on October 20, 177S, aged eighty-one. She was the seventh daughter and co-heir- ess of Edward Griffith, one of the clerks of the Board of Green Cloth, by Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Thomas Laurence, first physician to Queen l Anne. Her husband, who died some i five years before, was fourth baronet of London and field marshal. Her sister Anne married William Stanhope, first earl of Harrington. She died at her house, Cleveland Row, St. James,, l Westminster.
 In the chapels radiating around the high altar lies many royal and court ly woman-not to mention more partic- ularly Mary and Elizabeth, queens of England, and Mary Queen of Scots. Here you find Eleanor of Castle, sur named the Faithful, who even accom- panied her husband upon one of his perilous crusades, tenderly nursing him back to life after a treacherous blow he received from an assassin. The last of the twelve crosses erected to her memory between Lincolnshire and London indicates the kings affection for her. for Charing Cross is a corrup- tion of chere refine, as he always called her. Philippa of Hainault, whose af- lection for Edward IT. dated from the time when they were each only about fifteen, was, like Eleanor, always ready for a campaign. She it was who, at the siege of Calais, begged for the lives of the chief citizens. Her dying re- quest was: We have, my husband, enjoyed our long union in happiness, peace and prosperity When it shall please God to call you hence you will choose no other sepulchre than mine, and you will rest by my side in Vest minister Abbey" Her statue of ala baster is quite in keeping with the sto- ries of her beauty-indeed, when the Black Prince was boy in arms, she was a frequent model for the Virgin ood (SbiI5 rNbo ir, tho Cop- fessors chapel to Anne of Bohemia, patron of the Wicklifites, fittingly rep resents her lying at the side of her husband, Richard IT., with her hand clasped in his.
 Perhaps the most notable example the abbey affords of the happy mar riage 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 It was at their coronation that the an- them was sung which, both in words and music, would seem to be the direct lineal ancestor to our national anthem: God save King Henrye. whereso'er he
 bee,
 And for Queene Elizabeth now prov
 wee
 And for all her noble progenye, etc.
 She is said to have been the last queen who used as residence the Tower of London, where her child was born a week before her death From thence she was brought to the abbey, and, six years later, we find husband and wife together again beneath the tomb in the beautiful chapel which the king erected, and which serves as her monu- ment, as we'll as his own. Here also lies her mother, Margaret Beaufort, whose effigy fitly portrays the refine ment and noble character of this ven- erable old lady, patron of Caxton and printing, to whose worth it is no slight testimony to say that she was devot- edly loved by the queen, her daughter in-law.
 In sad contrast to the marriages of these queens is that of Anne of Gloves, the consort of Henry VIII. Owing possibly to her friendship with Queen Mary, her remains were brought to the abbey, where they lie to the right of the high altar, at the feet of King Se- bert, under a benchlike tomb. In al- fusion to this Fuller says: Not one of Henry's wives, excepting Anne of Gloves, had a monument, and hers was but half a one." As it happens, how ever, Catherine Parr has since had a beautiful recumbent effigy of herself placed over her body in the chapel of Sudeley Castle, the lord of which be- came her second husband.
 Caroline of Anspach, though she pre- ceded her husband, George IT., by , twenty years, was at length reunited with him, for their ashes actually in- termingle in one sarcophagus in Henry VII.'s chapel. Besides having a place among the immortals In the abbey she is immortalized elsewhere in fiction, for she was the sympathetic recipient of Jeanie Deans sad tale in "The Heart of Midlothian" And it was for her funeral that Handel composed the an- them, When the ear heard her, then it blesses her"
 Here, too, are buried the Countess of LennoX, niece of Henry VIII, after a life of straitened means; and Augusta mother of George TIL; and Queene , Anne, with her eighteen children: and the infants of James I. Gone of them under a tomb representing a tiny cra- dle), and of James II. and of Charles TT alec tho nm fort,,pot te, ad,y A ro lolIo