The Queen's College . Sf*l»o BRASS OF ROBERT LANGTON QUEEN PHILIPPA 13 servant told me that he had seen the casket when the \ault wasopened in 1827 for the burial of Provost Collinson. In 1903the vault was again opened, and on a sort of catafalque, at theextrenae north arm of the mortuary chamber under the apse, wasa leaden casket on which was inscribed Reliquiae Fundatoris .-The brass once supposed to be his and engraAed as such inSkeltons Pietas Oxoniensis - is indubitably that of RobertLangton, the builder of the fine ante-chapel of the old chapel/A similar brass, probably of some local cle
The Queen's College . Sf*l»o BRASS OF ROBERT LANGTON QUEEN PHILIPPA 13 servant told me that he had seen the casket when the \ault wasopened in 1827 for the burial of Provost Collinson. In 1903the vault was again opened, and on a sort of catafalque, at theextrenae north arm of the mortuary chamber under the apse, wasa leaden casket on which was inscribed Reliquiae Fundatoris .-The brass once supposed to be his and engraAed as such inSkeltons Pietas Oxoniensis - is indubitably that of RobertLangton, the builder of the fine ante-chapel of the old chapel/A similar brass, probably of some local clergyman, in the churchof Dowdeswell near Cheltenham, has also with even less prob-ability been supposed to be Eglesfields, The Foundress The child-wife of Edward III ^ was married before she wasfourteen, and was only eighteen when Bishop Kirkby gave the same place. The coffins of the other persons laid in the new chapel lie intwo rows in front of the founders casket. ^ George Evans. 2 Skelton (Pietas Oxoniensis, p. 27
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