Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . the firft NormanEarl of Chefter, whofe bones were transferred from the intothe Chapter-houfe in the reign of Henry I.: though it is much more • Hiftory of Nantwich, p. 0,%. Harl. MS. 2tjl. fol. i. There is a figure of this monument in Pennants Journey from Chefter to London, p. 22. This difcovery was made by Mr. Henchman, a fchoolmaftcr of Chefter. The Itone coffin is faid to have inclofed a bodywrapt in leather ; the flcuU and all the bones were very frtfli, and in their proper pofitio
Magna Brittanica; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain . the firft NormanEarl of Chefter, whofe bones were transferred from the intothe Chapter-houfe in the reign of Henry I.: though it is much more • Hiftory of Nantwich, p. 0,%. Harl. MS. 2tjl. fol. i. There is a figure of this monument in Pennants Journey from Chefter to London, p. 22. This difcovery was made by Mr. Henchman, a fchoolmaftcr of Chefter. The Itone coffin is faid to have inclofed a bodywrapt in leather ; the flcuU and all the bones were very frtfli, and in their proper pofition, and thefirings which tied the ankles together were entire. Simpfons Englifh Traveller, Vol. I. p. mention is here made of the ftone ornamented with a wolfs head, as being part of the cofRn,or found with it ; which renders the tradition of its having been then difcovered very improbable:the only reafon there affigned for its being the coffin of Hugh Lupus, is that the place whereit wft» found agretd w;ith the place of his re-interment, as mentioned in au ancient manufcript. > tS ^ i i be n CHESHIRE. 4419 likely to have been the work of a later age, when armorial devices were becom«common; which do not appear to have been introduced on works of art in thiscountry, before the reign of Richard the Firfl;, nor on fepulchral monumentstill the thirteenth century : the form of the letters in the cypher is exaftly thatwhich prevailed in the fourteenth century; and the initials of R. S. would fuitRichard Seynefbury, who became abbot in the year 1349. As he refigned in theyear 1363, and is faid to have been buried in Lombardy, this cannot be fuppofedto have been part of any fepulchral monument relating to him ; it is neverthelefsprobable that it was part of a crofs, or fome other work, executed in his time. XVih Century.—In the fouth wall of the fouth tranfeptof Over-Peover church,under an obtufe arch, ornamented with crockets, pinnacles, &c. is an altar-tombwi
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