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9 William Mauduit died without issue and the Earldom was therefore transferred to the son of his sister Isabel (sole heir to William) who had married William de Beauchamp of Elmley, County Worcester. See Dugdale, , Warwickshire, 1, p. 368 Google Scholar; and Cocayne, Complete Peerage, p. 368.

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17 See Hearne, Historia vitae, p. 241; or Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 412.

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19 Harvey, J. H., The Perpendicular Style (London, 1978), p. 148 Google Scholar; based on T. F. Hobson’s study of the accounts this cost included that of the chancel building, the roof, the glazing and the pavement.

20 R. Marks, ‘Entumbid Right Princely: the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick and the Politics of Interment’, inaugural lecture York University (1996), forthcoming.

21 The figure £2,481 4s. 7d. is quoted by Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 445. It appears to be taken from the base of the list of accounts for the chapel, see further below. Styles, ‘Minister’s Accounts’, p. lii, however, suggests that the figure is £2,783 19s. 2d.

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28 Hick, ‘The Beauchamp Trust’, p. 140. Rody died in 1458 and Throckmorton in 1445: Hugford saw the chapel through to completion along with Berkswell, but they died in 1469 and 1470 respectively (note that Hicks says Berkswell died in 1469, whereas Fonge, quoting the Register of Bishop Carpenter, states that he had died by 11 March 1470, see Fonge, Cartulary, forthcoming), leaving the completion of the Trust’s accounts and the translation of the earl’s body to Thomas Hugford’s successor, the younger Thomas Hugford, who became sole executor, for which see Hicks, ‘The Beauchamp Trust’, p. 140.

29 Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry VI1436-41 (London, 1971), p. 574. The reason for the issue of a royal patent for this purpose appears to be as a result of the need to arrange for the money to be paid out of the chancery as the new earl, Richard Beauchamp’s son, Henry, was still a minor and therefore the estate was at that time in the king’s hands; see Chatwin, ‘Recent Discoveries’, p. 146.

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39 See Hicks, ‘The Beauchamp Trust’, for details of the extended process of completing the earl’s wishes, the delays in conveyancing the land, much of which was related to the building at the college, and other places named in his will for chantries, at Elmley and at Tewkesbury, for example. Hicks suggests that ‘until religious provisions of the Trust were complete it could not be wound up and the estates could not devolve on the heirs’ (p. 144); he goes on to suggest that Hugford prolonged the Trust in the interests of the heirs of Anne Neville. Note that his only son Henry had died in 1445 aged twenty-two, leaving his sister as sole heir, that is Anne, who married Richard Neville. Neville retained those men serving as executors in his own service: Marks and Williamson, Gothic, p. 220.

40 He requested that his body be laid in a clean chest afore the altar on the right side of his father: See Hearne, Historia vitae, p. 241. It seems likely that up until the construction of the Beauchamp Chapel a Lady Chapel had existed in the south transept for the daily celebration of the Mass of the Virgin: Styles, ‘Minister’s Accounts’, p. xliii.

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