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Title: The roll-call of Westminster Abbey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, A. Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder, & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e was aStuart by birth, a left-handed descendant of the royal house,for she was an illegitimate daughter of James the Second.The widow of John Sheffield, Duke of Bucks, she re-sembled the mother of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, inher pride. She had an effigy made of her last surviving son,Edmund, Duke of Bucks, who died of Roman fever, agedonly nineteen, and it lay in state at her house, where shebade all her friends come and see it; and a violent quarrelwith Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, ensued, because thatequally haughty lady refused to lend the great Dukeshearse to convey the youths wax effigy to the Abbey,whereupon Catherine said she would commission a finerone from her undertaker. This funeral is noticeable asthe last occasion when an effigy was carried in the pro-cession. John Sheffield (d. 1721), son of Lord Mulgrave,was distinguished under Charles and James II. for hispolitical and military services. He took the oath ofallegiance to William and Mary, and was created Marquess
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THE WAX EFFIGY OF LA BELLE STUART See p. 207 THE LAST STUART KINGS 209 of Normanby and Duke of Buckinghamshire, but was sus-pected of Jacobitism as the leader of the Tory party underQueen Anne, whose suitor he had been in her youth, andended his life in political disgrace just after the accession ofGeorge I. A man of letters himself, he is chiefly remem-bered now as a patron of literature, and was a friend ofsuch poets as Pope and Dryden ; he erected a monumentto the latter in Poets Corner. Pope wrote an epitaph inmemory of his friend, but it was never placed on histomb, upon which is a Latin inscription written bythe Duke. The concluding lines are characteristic of theman : I lived doubtful but not dissolute ; I died unre-solved not unresigned. Ignorance and error are incidentto human nature ; I trust in an Almighty and All-goodGod. O thou Being of Beings have compassion on me.The words Christum Adveneror were to have stood be-fore Deo Confido, but were forbidden by Dean Atterburyon

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