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English: A wall monument to Sir Robert Hyde (1595-1665) who was a benefactor to the cathedral. The memorial was erected by his wife.
The memorial on the white marble reads:

"A man of primitive manners, a protector of destitute Widows, most observant of the laws, and an avenger of them when broken: he was not dismayed at the disorder of the state; in public calms and storms the same. At length justice revisiting the land, emulous of his paternal uncle, and his exalted paternal cousin, he rose by due steps to the highest state of his profession. Chief Justice of England. Perhaps youmay enquire whether captivity in the Tower was more honorable to him, than the tribunal purple; where being intimately acquainted with the common and statute law, he was a faithful guardian to both, an asylum to the people, and protector of the clergy."

The lower inscription reads:
" Here lies interred, in the same rank as his Father and brother Sir Robert Hyde, Knt. second Son of Sir Laurence Hyde of the Close, at a time to be reckoned among the Preservers of the Cathedral and Spire from the destructive Malice of the Sacrilegious Roundheads; consulting especially the Advantage of his Native City, although a Resident of the Metropolis; having fulfilled his earthly Duty — ripe for heaven —struck by sudden death — he was removed thither on the Calends of May, in the year of our redemption 1665, aged 70. His disconsolate Widow erected this Monument in Testimony of her very severe loss."