prehending the side aisles, and 37 in height. The roof of the nave is of oak, curiously carved, and supported by eight octagonal pillars, four in a row, besides four demy ones lately painted in imitation of white marble, and veined. The interior is well paved and pewed, and contains a good organ, erected in 1708. The body of the church is supposed to have been built by the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk; but the chancel is of later date, being the work of the Howards, their successors: and its two aisles having been erected for the burial places of those families, are still maintained by the lords of the manors of Framlingham, Coggeshall, and Debenham, out of the revenue of their estates, formerly belonging to those dukes. Several persons of high distinction are interred in this church. In the north aisle of the chancel is a magnificent tomb of black and white marble, on which lie the figures of the Earl of Surry and his countess, with the palms of their hands conjoined; the former in his robes of state over armour, but without a coronet, which, as he was beheaded, is placed on the tomb by his side; the latter in sable, with a coronet at her head, and having their crests at their feet. The heads of these figures rest on double cushions, curiously wrought and gilt. At a little distance from the east and west ends of the pedestal, are represented the two sons and three daughters of the noble pair, all kneeling, the sons habited as their father, and the daughters in robes of state over mourning, like their mother. This monument is copiously enriched with trophy-work, admirably well cut in relievo, likewise painted and gilt, having on the south side the following inscription in gold letters: HENRICO HOWARDO THOME SECVNDI DVCIS MDXLVI ABREPTO, ET FRANCISCE VXORI EJVS FILIE IOANNIS COMITIS OXONIE, HENRICVS HOWARDYS HOWARDVS COMES NORTHAMPTONIÆ FILIVS IN PARENTES MONVMENTVM POSVIT, ANNO DOMINI 1614. On the west side of this inscription are the arms of Howard, with his quarterings, within a garter, and above them an earl's coronet; on the east, the arms of Vere within a chaplet of laurel leaves. For the maintenance and repair of this monument, the Earl of Nottingham directed the annual payment of forty shillings, by the hospital which he founded at Greenwich. This Earl of Surrey was son of Thomas, second duke of Norfolk, by Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. In 34 Henry VIII. he accompanied the army, commanded by his father, as lieutenant-general, which entered Scotland and burned several villages. Two years afterwards he was field-marshal of the English troops, in the expedition against Boulogne, in France, and after the reduction of the place, was appointed the king's lieutenant, and captain-general of all his army in that country. This nobleman, says Dugdale, was the most learned among the nobility, and the most noble among the learned, being also a person very gracious with the people, expert in the military art, and esteemed fit for public government. These virtues, and this popularity, however, proved his ruin by exciting the jealousy of the King. Treason was therefore alledged against him, and on this surmise he was committed, with his father, to the tower of London, the one by water, and the other by land, each ignorant of the other's apprehension, on the 12th of December, in the last year of Henry VIII. On the 15th of the following month the earl was arraigned at Guildhall, London; where the principal accusation brought against him was, that he had assumed the arms of Edward the Confessor, which, as it was alledged, belonged to the king and heir apparent alone, but the bearing of which he justified by the opinion of the heralds. The first witness that appeared against him was Sir Richard Southwell, who declared, that he knew certain things of the earl which affected his fidelity to the king. The earl, upon this, vehemently affirmed himself to be a true man, desiring to be tried by justice, or permitted to fight in his shirt with Southwell. Another witness was brought forward, who pretended, that in a discourse with the earl the latter used such high words that "a braving answer was returned," to which this gallant and high spirited nobleman made no other reply than, that "he left it to the jury to judge whether it were probable that this man should use such expressions to the Earl of Surrey, and he not strike him again." Though nothing like proof, even of the frivolous allegations against him, was produced, yet such was the jealousy which the tyrannical Henry entertained of this nobleman, that fully determined on his death, he caused him to be found guilty by a common jury, and beheaded on Tower Hill four days afterwards, which was but nine days before the death of the king himself, His remains were, at first, interred in the chapel of the Tower, but in the reign of James I. were removed hither by his second son, Henry, Earl of Northampton. He left issue by his countess, who survived, two sons, Thomas, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, who fell like his father, by the hand of the executioner, under Elizabeth, on account of Mary, queen of Scots; and the abovementioned Earl of Northampton; and three daughters, Jane, Margaret, and Catharine, the care and education of whom he committed to their aunt, the duchess dowager of Richmond and Somerset. The lady Jane was afterwards married to Charles, Earl of Westmoreland; the lady Margaret, to Henry, Lord Scrope, of Bolton; and the lady Catherine, to Henry, Lord Berkeley; and the countess their mother gave her hand to Francis Steyning, Esq. about the conclusion of the reign of Edward VI. A little to the eastward of this monument is a small tomb of freestone, adorned with seven fluted pilasters of the Ionic order, with a niche in the wall, having also two pilasters of the same order, erected for Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, Norfolk, by his second wife, the lady Margaret, daughter of Thomas, Lord Audley, Baron of Walden. She died in her infancy, and it is probable that the niche was formerly occupied by her effigies. Still farther eastward there is a spacious monument of freestone, enriched with the images of two of the duchesses of the above-mentioned Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, lying in their full proportions, with ducal coronets on their heads, in robes of state, having a vacancy capable of admitting another to be placed between them. The head of one rests on a horse couchant, with a hart at layer at her feet, made for the Lady Mary, daughter and heir of Henry Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel, the first wife. The head of the other reposes on a tiger collared and chained, with a wivern at her feet; this was for the duke's second wife, the Lady Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Audley, Baron of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England. These ladies were both widows, and their coats of arms are round the tomb, in some places single, and in others impaled with those of Howard, between thirteen fluted columns of the Corinthian order. At the four angles are as many lions seyant, supporting the arms of Howard. Southward from the last is another spacious tomb of freestone, erected for Henry Fitzroy, the natural son of King Henry VIII. The length of this tomb is nine feet two inches, it is five feet wide, and four feet nine inches high. On the top, which is now plain, but which is supposed to have been formerly adorned with effigies, are four small images standing erect at the corners, each supporting a trophy of the passion. The lower part of the four sides is adorned with sixteen fluted pilasters of the Ionic order, and between them are the duke's own arms impaled and differently quartered with those of Howard. In small pannels above these are represented, in basso relievo, several of the most remarkable events in the Old and New Testament, with Cariatides between them. The mother of Henry Fitzroy was Lady Elizabeth Talboyse, widow of Sir Gilbert Talboyse, and daughter of Sir John Blunt, a lady, who is described as being equally distinguished for beauty of person, and intellectual accomplishments. He was born at Blackamor, in Essex, in the tenth year of Henry's reign. At the age of six years, the king appointed him a Knight of the Garter, and created him Earl of Nottingham, Duke of Rich mond and Somerset, Lieutenant General beyond Trent, Wardengeneral of the borders of Scotland, and soon afterwards admiral of England. Not satisfied with conferring these honors, Henry, in the 22d year of his reign, gave him the important post of lord lieutenant of Ireland, but on account of his tender age, Sir William Skeffyngton was appointed his deputy. This youth made Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, his companion in his studies in England and France, and so strong was the friendship which they in consequence contracted for each other, that he married Lady Mary, the earl's sister, but their nuptials were not consummated, for the duke, to the great grief of the king, died at St. James's in 1536, aged about 17 years, and was interred here. He was a youth of great promise, and possessed superior endowments, both corporeal and mental. On the south side of the altar is a stately tomb of free-stone, nine feet long, six wide, and five high, with the effigies of Thomas Howard, second duke of Norfolk, and one of his duchesses, who was either his first wife, the Lady Anne, one of the daugh ters of King Edward IV. or the second, the daughter of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. They are represented at full length, in their robes of state, with coronets upon their heads. The sides and ends of this monument are adorned with eighteen columns of the Composite order, and the intercolumniations are fourteen niches, containing figures of the apostles and evangelists, finely executed in alto relievo. At each of the four angles is a strong detached pillar, on the top of which rest the arms of Howard within the Garter, supported by a lion seyant on the corner of the tomb. The helmet and crest are on the north side of the monument, upon an iron fastened in the wall, on the south |