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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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hese lines: Armigeri scutum nihil a modo fert tibi tutum;Reddidit immolutum morti generate tributum ;Spiritus erutum se gaudeat esse solutumEst ubi virtutum regnum sine labe statutum. On the ledge of the tomb was an inscription, now entirely gone : Hie jacet J. Gower, arm.Angl. poeta celeberrimus acHuic sacro edificio benefac. insignisVixit temporibus. Ed. III. et R. II. Adjoining the monument there hung originally a table granting1500 days of pardon, ab ecclesia rite concessos, for all thosewho devoutly prayed for his soul. Stowe tells us, that the monument was repaired in 1615,at the expense of the parish, the figures on the wall being thennearly washed out and obliterated, and the effigy despoiled ofits hands and nose. It was again repaired and beautified in1764, a circumstance which the gentlemen in authority at thatperiod have not failed to commemorate, by the introduction oftheir own names on a slab, from which we have no roomto transcribe them for the benefit of our readers. 16
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/ HENRY THE FOURTH, KING OF ENGLAND. BORN 1366. DIED 1412. MONUMENT AT CANTERBURY. In the present article we have collected from several manuscriptsand printed sources of no inconsiderable rarity, the most strikingfeatures and transactions of the reign of Henry the Fourth.These we have given in the exact words of our authors, retainingtheir orthography, and in some instances even their errors, whichare so easily detected and corrected, as to render them of less im-portance than that the fidelity of our excerpta should not havebeen preserved. We have been induced to adopt this plan froma conviction, that we should be enabled to offer a much morecurious and acceptable article, in these adversaria variorum, thanwould have been expected had we repeated the ten-times-toldtales of Richards murder, Percys treasons, and Owen Glen-dowers daring but ill-fated enterprise. The general history ofthe period is known to every reader of English history thelittle illustrations of that history, such as

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