is almost peculiar to these; and in England it has no parallel, except in the nave of Waltham Abbey.  Within the aisle you observe a singular combination of small pillars, attached to the columns of the nave:  they stand on a species of bracket, which is supported by the abacus of the capital; and they spread along the spandrils of the arches on either side.  These pillars support a kind of entablature, which takes a triangular plan.  The whole bears a near resemblance to the style of the Byzantine architecture.  Above the second row of arches are two rows of galleries.  The story containing the clerestory windows crowns the whole; so that there are five horizontal divisions in the nave.—­I give these details, because they indicate the decided difference of order which exists between the Norman and the English Gothic; a difference for which I have not been able to assign any satisfactory cause.

The tombs that were originally in the choir, commemorating Charles Vth, of France; Richard Coeur de Lion; his elder brother, Henry; and William, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, were all removed in 1736, as interfering with the embellishments then in contemplation.  The first of them alone was preserved and transferred to the Lady-Chapel, where it has subsequently fallen a victim to the revolution.  The others are wholly destroyed; nor could Ducarel find even a fragment of the effigies that had been upon them; but engravings of these had fortunately been preserved by Montfaucon[81], from whom he has copied them.  The monument of the celebrated John of Lancaster, third son of our Henry IVth, better known as the Regent Duke of Bedford, had been previously annihilated by the Calvinists.  Lozenge-shaped slabs of white marble, charged with inscriptions, were inserted in the pavement over the spots that contain the remains of the princes, and they have been suffered to continue uninjured through the succeeding tumults.  On the right of the altar, you read,—­

     COR
     RICHARDI, REGIS ANGLIAE,
     NORMANNIAE DUCIS,
     COR LEONIS DICTI. 
     OBIIT ANNO
     MCXCIX.

On the opposite side:—­

     HIC JACET
     HENRICUS JUNIOR,
     RICHARDI, REGIS ANGLIAE,
     COR LEONIS DICTI, FRATER. 
     OBIIT ANNO
     MCLXXXIII.

And in the choir behind the altar:—­

     AD DEXTRUM ALTARIS LATUS
     JACET
     JOHANNES, DUX BEDFORDI,
     NORMANNIAE PROREX. 
     OBIIT ANNO
     MCCCCXXXV.

Of Prince William nothing is said; it was found, upon opening his place of sepulture, that he had not been interred here.—­Richard strangely received a triple funeral.  In obedience to his wishes, his heart was buried at Rouen, while his body was carried to Fontevraud, and his entrails were deposited in the church of Chaluz, where he was killed:—­this division is commemorated in the quaint, yet energetic lines, which are said to have been inscribed upon his tomb:—­