New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-19

Here also lies his mother. Margaret Beaufort.
whose efiGy fifty portrays the refinement ana
noble character Of this venerable old lady.
patron Of CaxtCn and printing. to whose worm
it is no slight testimony 10 say that she was
dcvotedly loved by the Queen, her daughter-in-
law.
In sad contrast to the marriages Of these
Oueers is that OF Anne Of Cleves. the consort
Of Henry VIII. Owing possibly to her friend
ship with Queen Mary. her remains were
brought to the Abbey. where they lie to the
wight Of the high altar. at the feet or King
Se\ert. under benchlike tomb. In alluson
to tf>>s Fuller says: Not on" Of Henrys wives,
excepting Anne OF Cleves had monument
and hers WAS but half a one" As it happens
how ever Catherine Parr has since had beauti-
full recumbent cfIgy Of herself placed over her
body in the chapel Of Sudeley Castle. the lord
Of which became her second husband.
Caroline of Anspach. though she preceded her
husband. George IL, by twenty years, was at
length reunited with him. for their ashes actu-
ally interminglc in one sarcophagus in Henry
WIS chap" BESIDES having place among
the lmmOrtals i'm tn, Abbey she IS immOrt allied
elsewhere in fiction. for she was the sympa-
thetic recipient Of Jeanne Dcans's sad tale in
The Heart Of Midlothian" And it was for her
funeral that Handel composed the anthem,
when tie ear heard her, then it blessed her"
SOME ROYAL DANES.
Here. too, are buried the Countess Of Lennox.
niece OF Henry VIII after a life Of straitened
means. and Augusta mother Of George III, and
Quccne Anne. with her eighteen children, and
the infants Of James tone Of them under a
tomb representing tiny CRADLE and o. James
II and Of Charles II. also the unfortunate Lady
Arabclla Stuart. whose close succession TO tho
throne subjecting her to a constant system or
espionage. her secret marriage to Sir William
Seymour twelve years her junior. its discovery.
their separate impris onment. his escape to
France. and her langushinS in the Tower till
her mind became unhnged. and her burial by
night in the Abbey-all this surely constitutes
her one Of the most pathetic romances that
royalty affords.
Among the women In such vaults those
Of the Cecils and the Percys the first place must
be given To Mildred. the wife. and Anne. tho
daughter Of Lord Burlegh. fayorite Minister to
Queen Elizabeth and the direct ancestor Of tho
present Prime Minister Near at hand is the
old Duchess of Newcastle. Who though her
contemporaries regarded her as something OF
bucstOcking deserves we'll of posterity for hav-
ing nOated the Percy Rcques" into the world.
Addison makes the Inscription on the monu-
ment to her and her husband-"A noble family.
for all the brothers were valiant and all the
sisters vlrtuous''-the text for n paper in The
Spectator on the chief characteristics OF men
and women.
Yet the Abbey has also offered resting place
TO such simple maidens as Elizabeth Russell
maid of honor to Queen Bess. and known as
the Child Of Westminster" for she born
In the dcanery. christened in the Abbey and
spent the twenty years OF her life practically
under It's shadow. Her monument is curious
for she is sitting in an Osier chair pointing to
the Skull on WllCn ltT rlEUl LOOT rests ,lOfii-
Wells favorite daughter. Elizabeth, was buried
In the Abbey. also Grace Gethn. a very piouS
young lady with great preference for sermonsI
But the monument which always leaves the
greatest impression upon the casual visitor II
that in 81 Andrews Chapel to Lady Elizabeth
Nightingale sister Of the Countess Of Hunting
don Ghe friend u Wesley and WhitetielD. where
Death is repIs scented emerging from tomb
while the husband is trying to ward off his
Grewsome dart from The young wife reclining in
his arms.
THE WIFE OF RICHARD STEELE
Why Dame Mary Stcclc-"my dearest Prue."
as her husband Richard steele always called
her-came 20 be buried in the Abbey, ana
among the poets too. 1t is difficult 10 iathom
especially rs her husband was not laid by her
side when. eleven years later. in lI2?. he also
died Not far of lies old Mrs. Garrick. who was
not placed wrapped in her wedding sheets. be-
side her husband. David Garrck. I'LL lN22;
that is fOrty-thrce years after her husbands
death when she was "a little bowed down old
woman who went about leaning on a gold
headed cane. dressed in deep widows MOURN
ing and always talking OF her dear Davy."
The play David Garrick' is founded upon the
romance OF this devoted couple. for they fell
madly in love with each other when she was
Eva Maria Niolette. dancing u.'d"r the patron
egc u the Countess OF Burlington Thc lcsend
goes that in Difference To the wish or tho
Countess that he should let the young lady so
heart free again h. assumed drunkenness 70
shock her feelings. These two are not tn" onIy
actors and actresses buried in our Abbey.
Among the noblrst of the illustrious women
buried in the Abbey was Lady Augusta Stanley.
who died in 1876 Descended from Robert
Bruce and the daughter 10y his second wife of
Lord Elgin OF Elgin marbles fame. Lady Au-
e,Ista was a great friend of the Queen. whose
maid Of honor she had been. For twelve years
she was as an angel of light. not only IN the
deanery 10 Or Stanley and visitors from all
narts ~ the world but also to the poor Of West
minister 1t was by the specially expressed wish
Of the Queen that she was laid To rest in Henry