Seventh, and Elizabeth of York, stands in the body of the chapel, in a curious chantry of cast brass, most admirably executed, and interspersed with effigies, armorial bearings, and devices, alluding to the union of the red and white roses. The tomb was executed, according to Stowe, by Peter T., a native of Florence; and in this obscure appellation antiquaries have discovered Pietro Torregeano, a sculptor once the competitor of Michael Angelo. That artist's pre-eminence he had resented by a hasty blow, for which he was expelled or departed from Florence, and after some vicissitudes of life, was retained as a sculptor by Henry the Seventh, and employed in erecting his father's monument for a sum of one thousand pounds, equivalent to five thousand present money. The small statues that embellish the sepulchre are partly decayed, but the bronze effigy of Elizabeth, said to be a correct likeness, is in excellent preservation.

Elizabeth of York, by her marriage with Henry the Seventh, had three sons, Arthur, Henry, and Edmund; and four daughters, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, and Katherine. The birth, marriage, and death of Arthur have been already mentioned. Henry succeeded his father, as

Henry the Eighth, and Edmund who was born in 1495, died five years afterwards, at Bishop's Hatfield, and was buried at Westminster. Margaret, Elizabeth's eldest daughter, was thrice married; first, to James, the Fourth King of Scots, then to the Earl of Angus, and after being divorced from the Earl, to Harry Stewart. She took a leading part in the affairs of Scotland, and was the mother of a numerous family. Her first son succeeded his father as James the Fifth, and her second son by her second marriage, was the celebrated Lord Darnley, who married the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scots. She died in October, 1541, and was buried with pomp in the monastery of St. John, in Perth. The Queen's second daughter, Elizabeth, entered the world on the second of July, 1492, and ended her life on the fourteenth of November, 1495; Mary. her third daughter, remarkable for the clearness and beauty of her complexion, became the wife of Louis the Twelfth of France, and on his death married the man of her choice, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Katherine, the Princess who cost Elizabeth her life, quitted the world a few weeks after entering it, and was interred in Westminster abbey.

ATHERINE OF ARRAGON, one of our most learned and virtuous Queens, was born at the small town of Alcala de Henares, on the fifteenth of December, 1485. She entered the world about a fortnight before she was expected, her mother, Isabella of Castile, being brought to bed with her whilst on the road from the victorious Christian camp at the Moorish city of La Ronda to Toledo, then the capital of Spain, where she had intended to pass her Christmas.

Ferdinand, the father of Katherine, was the son of John, King of Arragon and Sicily; and although unlearned, his sound sense, energy, and valour were such, that he rendered Spain one of the most wealthy and prosperous nations in Christendom. By his marriage with Isabella, who was sole sister and heiress to Henry the Fourth, King of Castile and Leon, he became monarch of those important possessions. Ferdinand and his wife lived together in great har

mony, "and together did many admirable things and holy works." They expelled the Moors out of Granada and part of Andalusia, and throughout their victorious career they destroyed the moslems of the Mahomeds, and built Christian temples of worship in their place. The magnitude of their operations may be imagined, when it is known that the wealthy city of Granada, which did not surrender till after it had sustained a siege of ten years, was encompassed by a wall twelve miles round, in which there were twelve gates and one thousand towers, and that, at last, it took an army of twelve thousand horse and one hundred thousand foot to conquer this stubbornly-maintained city. Nor was it war against the pagan Moors only that Ferdinand and his energetic consort so successfully engaged. It was their munificence that enabled Columbus to cross the Atlantic, and discover that land where freedom and progress have taken so firm a root, and which has been rather inappropriately named America.

Katherine was the youngest child of a family of five. Her mother was a