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THE TOMB and the PORTRAITS of the DUTCHESS of NORTHUMBERLAND and her DAUGHTERS in CHELSEA CHURCH.

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To the Rer, Weeden Butter, Son: Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, this plate is respectfully inscribed

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by his most Obedient humble Servant,

Publish'd as the Act directs, Jan 18.1810.

Tho Faulkner.

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and was buried by her mother at Chelsea, August 14, as appears by the Parish Register, and the following inscription upon a marble slab:

Catharine,

Countess of Huntingdon 2a Daughter of John, Late Duke of Northumberland, Dyed without yssue, May 2d, 1620, Aged 72 & is below interd by Her Mother.

Margaret, her third daughter, died aged ten years. Frances, her fourth daughter, died when a year old. Temperance, her fifth daughter, died at seven years of age.

Arms. Or, a saltier between 4 martlets sab. for Guilford quartering arg. a bend ingrailed, gules, and a chief sab. for Halden, impaling arg. a fesse dauncettee sab. for West, Lord La War, quartering 1. Gules, a lion rampant within an orle of cross crosslets fitchée arg. for La War. 2 az 3 leopards' heads jessant lis arg. for Cantelupe. 3. Az. 3 bars or, an inescutcheon arg. on a chief between two cantons party per bend or, and az. dexter and sinister, as many pallets for Mortimer. 4 gules, 3 bendlets or, for Grelle.

On the south wall is the monument of Sir William Milman, thus inscribed:

D. O. M.

et

Memoriæ

Gulielmi Milman Equitis Aurati
De Interiore Templi Londini
Juris—cti.

Qui obiit Chelseæ Sebr. 3.
Auno Etatis 64.

Et reparate Salutis 1713

Posuit mæstissima conjuga

E. N.

Arms. Az. 3 sinister gauntlets arg. for Milman impaling sab. a chevron arg. between 3 boys' heads couped with adders about their necks proper born, by Vaughan.

Against the same wall is:

Near this place are deposited the Remains

of William Hart, Esq; of Stapleton in the County of Gloucester, Father in Law to Sir Francis Milman, Bart.

who departed this life the 13th January 1785, aged 85 years. Also the Remains of George Hart, Esq;

who died 19th September 1791, aged 86 years.

Also the Remains of John Dyer Milman,

who died 5th December 1786, aged two years and ten months; and Francis Sophia Milman died 11th December 1786, aged 11 months; and Charles Dyer Millman died 25 August 1790, aged 7 months. All three Children of Sir Francis Milman, Bart. and Lady Milman, Daughter of the abovementioned William Hart, Esq.

On the floor are the tombs of Mr. Ludar Lang, who died in 1791, and Richard Lamborne, Esq. who died in 1793.

Between Sir Thomas More's, chapel and the south aisle, there is a table monument of black and white marble to the memory of Arthur Gorges, Esq., with the following inscription :

Here lies interred the body of that generous and worthy gentleman, Arthur Gorges, Esq., eldest son of Sir Arthur Gorges, Knt. the last surviving branch of the first male line of that Honourable Family, who departed this life the eighth of April 1668. He married Dame Mary, one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Paul Viscount Bayning. She first married William Lord Grandison, afterwards Charles Earl of Anglesea, and thirdly to the said deceased Arthur Gorges, whom she survived and departed this life and lies here buried with her loving Husband; to whose, and to her own memory, she erected this Tomb.

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Several of this family, who resided in Chelsea, were here buried; their epitaphs are all defaced, except the one which relates to the person abovementioned; but they have been preserved by Stow and Bowack, from whence they are here transcribed.'

On a monument raised about four feet from the ground, are the effigies of Sir Arthur Gorges, his Lady, three Sons, and five Daughters, in brass plates fixed thereon:

I Bowack's Antiquities of Middlesex, p. 10. Stow's London, p. 786, 1667.

Transtulit Lucanum.

In obitum Illustrissimi viri Domini
Arthuri Gorges, Equitis Aurati
Epicidium

Te deflent Nati, Natæ,

Celeberrima Conjux ;
Te dolet argutæ, magna

Caterva Scholæ,

At Lucanus ait, se vivo, non

Moriturum

Arthurum Gorges, Transtulit
ipse decus

Æthereas Cupiens Arthurus

Adire per Auras,

Et nonus ex ejus Nomine
Natus adest.

For thee, dear Sir, thy Sons and Daughters weep;
For thee the learned tribe lament and mourn:
But Lucan says, He living, you can't dye;
It's God alone translates you to the sky,
Whilst Arthur flies to the Ætherial Seats,
His worthy Son makes great his noble name.

Near the same place, the following:

Here sleeps, and feels no pressure of the Stone,
He that had all the Gorges' Souls in one;
Here the ingenious Valiant Arthur lies
To be bewailed by Marble and our Eyes;
By most beloved, but Love cannot retrieve
Dead Friends; his power to kill, not to relieve.
Let him rest free from cares and toilsome pain,
When all the Gorges rise, he'll rise again.
This last retiring room, his own doth call,
Who after death, has that, and Heaven has all.
Live Arthur by the spirit of thy fame,
Chelsea itself must die before thy name.

Domini Arth.Gorg. Equ. Aurat Filius

ejus Natu

Maximus.

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