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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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ntle of the garter, etc. His hands are raised in prayer, and at his feetis the Warwick bear. The shields give his three marriages, Dudley, or,a lion rampant tail forked vert, impaling (t) Whorwood, (2) Talboys, and(3) Russell. At the. east end is a large shield with sixteen quarterings.Any who love the study of heraldry will find plenty to interest andinstruct them in this chapel. Historians will find the Earls life recordedin his effigy. He died in 1589. The tomb of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and would-be consortof Queen Elizabeth, is not of any special interest. The ornamentationwhen compared with that of the Beauchamp tombs is tawdry anddebased. His was a strange career. His good looks made him attractiveand his lack of principle dangerous to women. At one time Elizabethwould have married him to Mary Queen of Scots, and at another itseemed as though she would have taken him herself. He ill-treated all 1 See Trans. B. and G. Arch. Soc, vol. xxv.., p. 38.2 John Gough Nichols. 1
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Annual Summer Meeting. 3i the three women he is said to have married, and the little boy, whosemonument is hard by his parents, was taken from this transitoryunto the everlasting life at the age of four, perhaps because they wereunworthy of him. Impe, by the way, had no bad meaning inElizabethan times. It meant a shoot or scion, then an offspring. Hence a lad of life, and imp of fame. Shakespeare had perhaps seen thiseffigy and read the inscription. There is also a tablet to Lady Katharine Leveson, daughter of SirRobert Dudley and grand-daughter of the Earl and Lady Sheffield, whoshould have been his second wife. Her mother was the good Alice Leigh,created Duchess Dudley in her own right by Charles I in 1645, long afterher good-for-nothing husband had deserted her. I believe there is still afund, given by Lady Katharine, to maintain the chapel and itsmonuments. There are other parts of St. Marys Church which should be visited.Between the Beauchamp Chapel and the choir is a chantry cha

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