. The New England magazine. was atrue prophet, for Johnhad indeed ceased toreign in doing fealty tothe Pope. Two yearslater came the GreatCharter, wrested fromJohn by the barons, whose patience was exhausted by thetrain of evils that the submission ofthe king to Pandulph had broughtupon England. Thus, turn which waywe will, some event of supreme im-portance in English history is broughtto our minds in the choir of Win-chester. Leaving the choir and passing upthe south aisle towards the east, onour right we see in the middle of thesouth transept a beautiful monumentto Bishop Wilberforce, who di
. The New England magazine. was atrue prophet, for Johnhad indeed ceased toreign in doing fealty tothe Pope. Two yearslater came the GreatCharter, wrested fromJohn by the barons, whose patience was exhausted by thetrain of evils that the submission ofthe king to Pandulph had broughtupon England. Thus, turn which waywe will, some event of supreme im-portance in English history is broughtto our minds in the choir of Win-chester. Leaving the choir and passing upthe south aisle towards the east, onour right we see in the middle of thesouth transept a beautiful monumentto Bishop Wilberforce, who diedabout twenty-five years ago, a manuniversally admired as well as univer-sally known. His episcopate left onthe whole Church of England theabiding impress of his own earnestspirit and extraordinary genius. Hewas not buried here, nor at West-minster, as some supposed would bethe case, by the side of his illustriousfather, the great philanthropist, but inthe village churchyard, on the sameslope where many years before he had. TOMB OF BISHOP WILBERFORCE. WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL. 49 laid the remains of his beloved this transept is also the grave ofone whose name is a familiar one,Izaak Walton, whose genial soul is soclearly seen in the CompleteAngler and the Lives. We pass on through the gate whichopens into the space behind the space was once a chapel, but isnow occupied by the splendid chantryof Bishop Fox on the south and thesimilar one of Bishop Gardiner on thenorth side. Fox was the bishop whopreceded the famous Wolsey in thesee of Winchester. This chantry wasbuilt by him to serve as his tomb. Wecan see his effigy lying in the recessin the second compartment of histomb, representing him as in the laststages of emaciation, the feet restingagainst a skull and the head on- amitre. This would show, he thought,the nothingness of the body when de-prived of the animating spirit. ToFox the cathedral owes not only thisexquisite chantry, but the completionof the great s
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