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Title: The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons : comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Blore, Edward, 1787-1879 Le Keux, Henry, 1787-1868
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments Nobility
Publisher: London : Harding, Lepard and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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was originally painted is very clear, 3 GERVASE ALARD. although the colours are now so nearly effaced as to render thedecorations on the surcoat unintelligible. It is without a shield,and has the mutilated remains of two large angels supportingthe double cushion on which the head reposes. The paintedpattern on the cushions remains, in some parts, tolerably per-fect : that of the upper cushion consisting of a blue ground,on which are drawn dark lines, forming lozenges, enclosingquatrefoils ; and on the lower are the same, with the exceptionof the quatrefoil, instead of which small roses are inserted atthe intersection of the lines. The sword-belt has been deco-rated with painted ornaments, now nearly effaced, if we excepttwo dark lines running parallel to the sides; the knee-cap,which terminates in a fringe, and is decorated with a row ofraised escalops surrounding the knee, has the centre of eachescalop enriched with a lozenge in colour, with a semi-circle in-scribed on every face. 4
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IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.Published Mai) 1SZ6. fy Ilwduuj t lepard. Pall Malt East. London. PHILIPPA, QUEEN TO EDWARD THE THIRD. ob. 1369. monument at westminster. Philippa, the youngest daughter of William, Count of Hollande,and Hainault, by Jane de Valois, was married to Edward theThird King of England, at the conclusion of the first year of hisreign, 1327- The marriage was celebrated in the city of York inthe evening of the feast of the conversion of St. Paul. Hardinghas preserved an anecdote respecting the choice of Philippa, inpreference to her other sisters, which if true would be sufficientlycurious. He says that she was selected by the Bishop of Co-ventry, and gives the peculiar formation of her person as thereason of the prelates preference. He sent forthe than to hcnalde for a wifeA bisshopp and other lordes temporallWhare in chambre pryve in secretifeAt discouert deschevely als in alleAs semyng was to estate virginallAmong liem self oure lordes for high prudenceOf the bisshopp a

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