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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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d immediately behind that ofBrian Fitzalan, is another of a knight, in complete armour, of themiddle of the fifteenth century, but not possessing sufficientinterest to deserve particular description. All the aboveeffigies are in stone. Besides those already described, the church of Bedale con-tains other monuments of great interest and antiquity; but inthe same arrangement of the church, by which, such as wehave hitherto mentioned, have all been confounded together,the others have been entirely buried under the new pews, acircumstance which may, with great propriety, be mentioned,in the hope of inducing their removal, from their present ob-scurity, to some more appropriate situations in the church.One of these, an ecclesiastic of the family of Fitzalan, isrepresented in Gale; and, judging from the plate given bythat intelligent antiquary, as well as the description affordedby persons resident on the spot, it is in all probabibility equal,if not superior, to any of those now noticed. 7
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in Westminster Abbey.,. PROOF. J ScpC29.J825 iy Jfurdinq. Triphasic i-lcpard TOlshuy Square iondm AYMER DE VALENCE, EARL OF PEMBROKE. DIED 1324.MONUMENT AT WESTMINSTER. Audomare or Aymer de Valence, third son of William deValence, succeeded his father in the Earldom of Pembroke in1296, his two elder brothers, John and William, dying beforetheir father. Of his early years we know nothing. The firstwe hear of him in public life is, that he accompanied KingEdward the First in his expedition into Flanders, in thetwenty-fifth year of that monarchs reign; that he was appointeda commissioner, to ratify an agreement between the King andFlorence, Earl of Holland, touching certain auxiliary forceswith which the latter had agreed to supply the English mo-narch ; and that he was also sent as ambassador, to treat con-cerning a truce between Edward and the King of France. He appears, however, to have been principally concerned inthe border wars between England and Scotland. Havingpreviously obtaine

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