At a little distance, the tomb of Henry V., with this legend:


Henry, the scourge of France, lies in this tomb. Virtue subdues all
things. A.D. 1422.


Near this lies the coffin of Catherine, unburied, and to be opened
by anyone that pleases. On the outside is this inscription:


Fair Catherine is at length united to her lord. A.D. 1437.
Shun idleness.


The tomb of Henry III., of brass, gilt, with this epitaph:


Henry III., the founder of this cathedral. A.D. 1273. War is
delightful to the unexperienced.


It was this Henry who, one hundred and sixty years after Edward the
Confessor had built this church, took it down, and raised an entire
new one of beautiful architecture, supported by rows of marble
columns, and its roof covered with sheets of lead, a work of fifty
years before its completion. It has been much enlarged at the west
end by the abbots. After the expulsion of the monks, it experienced
many changes; first it had a dean and prebendaries; then a bishop,
who, having squandered the revenues, resigned it again to a dean.