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XXIII. Observations on some of the Tombs in the Abbey Church at Tewkesbury, by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F. R. S. Director
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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There are few of our churches which contain a greater number of antient tombs, or such as are more likely to be interesting to an antiquary, both on account of the richness of their decorations, and eminence of the persons to whose memory they have been erected, than the abbey church of Tewkesbury. Many of them have been so erroneously described in the printed accounts of that church, and so frequently assigned to wrong persons that I flatter myself an attempt to ascertain them, will not prove unacceptable to this Society; especially as frequent opportunities of examining them leisurely, and of seeing several of them opened, have given me some advantages over those who have only been enabled to form their opinions from a more hasty view.
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page 144 note [a] There is a pretty accurate engraving of this tomb, and another of the two figures, by Wale, in 1745, the plates of which formerly belonged to Smart Lethieullier, Esq. and are now in the possession of Edward Hulse, Esq. F. A. S.
page 144 note [b] Sepulchral Monuments, Vol. II, p, 256.
page 144 note [c] Genealogical History. p, 140.
page 148 note [b] Carter's Antient Sculpture and Painting, Vol. II. p. 32, 33.
page 149 note [c] See PI. XXXVII. fig. I.
page 149 note [d] In the Parliament holden the fourth year of king. Edward'the Third “Wil
“liam le Zouch of Mortimer, and Elinor his wife, prayed to be restored to their
“lands in Glamorgan, &c. and the manor of Tewkesbury in Glbucestershire, being
“the inheritance of the said Elinor, the which they, by the extort means of the
“late earl of March, were ensorced to pass the same to the king by fine. In con-
sideration of 10,000 l. to the king he restoreth them to their former estate,”
Cotton's Tower Records, p. 8. Prynne's edit.
The family of Zouch of Haringworth appears also to have been connected with this monastery. Sir Robert Atkyns in his History of Gloucesterslhire says, “that William lord le Zouch of Haringworth lies buried in St. Mary's chapel there” p. 380, 2d edit. And Sir W. Dugdale says that Eliz. wife of William lord le Zouch of Harringwortb, by her testament, bearing date 1408, bequeathed her body to be buried in the Abbey of Tewkesbury, where the corpse of her brothers lay interred, with 201 to that house. Bar. i. p. 691.