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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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e granted by Philip and Mary,Elizabeth, Charles II 1664 and 1684, and William and Mary. Thecorporation possess a mace made in 1652 by Thomas Maundy. The mostinteresting literary possessions of the corporation are the Black Book ofWarwick and the Book of John Fisher, Town Clerk, Bailiff and M.P. Warwick and its castle have been visited by many kings and queensof England. Henry V was a guest and Edward IV a prisoner. RichardIII came here in 1483 and 1484. Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick,entertained Elizabeth in 1572 and 1575. The population then wasabout 2,600. St. Marys Church, Warwick.We learn from Domesday that a church existed at Warwick beforethe Norman Conquest. No traces of this remain. Early in the twelfthcentury Roger de Newburg, the second Earl, rebuilt it, and founded acollege of canons. Thomas Beauchamp, eleventh Earl, began to rebuildthe church in the latter half of the fourteenth century, but died in 1370before much was done. His son Thomas completed it in 1394, and laid i
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Annual Summer Meeting. 29 his parents beneath a magnificent monument in the middle of the choir.The Earl wears a gorget and shirt of mail over which is a surcoat onwhich are his arms, a fess between six crosslets. His right hand, which isbare, clasps the right hand of his Countess, Katherine Mortimer, who ishabited in a close gown with innumerable buttons and an immensebonnet with horse-shoe opening. At the Earls feet is the Warwickbear, at hers a lamb. The four sides of the tomb are adorned withstatuettes of their kinsmen and kinswomen, thirty-six in number. Thepainted shields which might have enabled us to assign them areobliterated. The choir, built as we have seen late in the fourteenth century,contains fifteenth-century additions. The vaulted roof is divided intofour bays and again by cross ribs. The central bosses bear the arms ofBeauchamp, Mortimer, and Ferrers. The flying ribs crossing one anotherbetween the windows are most unusual. The piscina and sedilia on thesouth side, a

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