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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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g since disappeared, although visiblewhen Camden and Weever made their collections. Nobilis Hispani jacet hie soror inclita Regis, Eximii consors Aleonora thori,Edwardi primi. YVallorum principis uxor, Cui pater Henricus tertius Anglus erat.Hanc ille uxorem gnato petit; omine princeps Legati munus suscipit ipse bono.Alphonso fratri placuit felix Hymeneus Germanam Edwardo nec sine dote dedit:Dos prseclara fuit, nec tali indigna marito, Pontivo princeps munere dives erat.Fcemina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata, Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum. Disce mori. Which was thus Englished,fit of the unlearned reader: Queen Elenor is here interrd, A worthy, noble dame,Sister unto the Spanish king, Of royal blood and fame.King Edwards wife, first of that name, And Prince of Wales by right; on the same tablet, for the bene- Whose father Henry, just the third,Was sure an English wight, Who cravd her wife unto his son:The Prince himself did go On that embassage luckilyAs chief, with many mo. 6
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effect ©if (QnuneiEW iE)leass@tr. Fublish/J, New Jj$2/,,by Harding. Triphook ScLepard.Finsbury Square, Lcmdon. QUEEN OF ENGLAND. This knot of linked marriageHer brother Alphonso likd, For Pontive was the marriage gift,A dowry rich and great. And so tween sister and this Prince, A woman both in council wise, The statue of Queen Eleanor is an excellent specimen of art,both in design and execution. The features are those of ayoung and beautiful female; the countenance, open, mild, in-genuous, and noble. The head reposes on a double cushion,decorated with the arms of Castile and Leon, and bears acoronet of simple form, consisting of fleurs-de-lis and trefoils,from which the hair flows, in large ringlets, over each shoulder.The hands are very gracefully disposed, the left passing overthe bosom, whilst the right formerly contained a sceptre, whichnow no longer remains, although the groove in which it once wasfixed plainly indicates the original design. The drapery is longand flowing, very

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