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Cathedral, Its Monuments and Memorials, The Mortuary Chests on the North Side. BY JOHN VAUGHAN, M.A.[1]:

It will not be inappropriate to call attention in this place to almost the only naval monument in the Cathedral. It is of such vast size as to be properly described as a " mausoleum,"! and is composed of white marble, decorated with a man-of-war at full sail, and with naval and military trophies. It blocks up an entire recess in the south tran- sept ; and was erected to the memory of Sir Isaac Town- send, K.G., a Captain in the navy, and for many years resident Commissioner at Portsmouth. Sir Isaac died on May 26th, 1731, when his body was placed in a vault at Richmond in Surrey, until " a new vault under ye skreen in ye south ile of ye Cathedral ' ' should be prepared. The body was removed to Winchester in the following spring, and laid beneath the massive marble monument erected by Lady Townsend, in the south transept. Three years later, " the Lady Eliz. Townsend, relict of Sir Isaac, was deposited in the vault with Sir Isaac." In after years several other members of the family, who died at Portsea, were buried beneath the same monument. Sir Isaac Town- send must not be confused with his nephew* of the same name, who became senior admiral of the fleet, and Governor of Greenwich Hospital, in which position he had the custody of the unfortunate Admiral Byng. Our Sir Isaac Town- send married Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Storey, of London, and their coat-of-arms is emblazoned on the monument : az. a chevron erm. between three escallops arg., impaling Arg. a fess sable three storks proper. Sir Isaac's epitaph in Latin is inscribed on the front of the monument, while that of his widow in the vulgar tongue, and of a highly eulogistic character, occupies a similar position at