. The ancient sepulchral effigies and monumental and memorial sculpture of Devon . alegh in your Chorche at Beddington, wher I desiai- to be berred. The lordes have given me his ded boddl, thouo-h they denied me his life. This nit he shall be brought you with two or tliree of my men : let me her presently. E. R. God hold me in my wites. (Nodate). It is scarcely to be supposed that such a request could have beenrefused ; but what ever was the reason, it appears certain that Sir WalterRaleghs body was bm-ied, not at Bedduigton, but in the Church of , Westminster, and that his head was
. The ancient sepulchral effigies and monumental and memorial sculpture of Devon . alegh in your Chorche at Beddington, wher I desiai- to be berred. The lordes have given me his ded boddl, thouo-h they denied me his life. This nit he shall be brought you with two or tliree of my men : let me her presently. E. R. God hold me in my wites. (Nodate). It is scarcely to be supposed that such a request could have beenrefused ; but what ever was the reason, it appears certain that Sir WalterRaleghs body was bm-ied, not at Bedduigton, but in the Church of , Westminster, and that his head was carried by his son toWest Horsley in SuiTey, and there interred. (Lysons.) CoURTENAY, Ticevton.—In Tiverton Church, the arch divitling thecliancel from the nave is paneled, and high up about the usual position 80 SEPULCHEAL EFFIGIES IN THE of the capital, on eacli side, there is boldly sculptured a representation ofan emjh on a bundle of stichs, flanked on either side by the hoars ofCourtenay, and below supported by angels is the shield of Courtenay,enciix-led by the chancel Arch, Tiverton Church. Over the south porch is a sliield, 6aro«, — quai-terly of four, ] and 4,Courtenay, 2 and 3 De Redvers ;-impaling femme, quarterly, 1. Franceand England quarterly; 2 and 3, a plain cross, Ulster. 4. Mortuner. Crest,an mgle on a bundle of sticks. Supporters, dexter, a man in armourtreading on a dragon, probably intended for St. George ; sinister, a femalein a lonp- robe. Just over the crest on each side is the double rose,and in the string-course above is the rose en soleil and eagle on thesticks, alternating with John Greenways monogram and mark. On the porch of Greenways Almshouses, on one side ai-e the arms ofEngland and France, quarterly, within the Garter, and on the otherCourtenay and De Redvers, quarterly, also within the Garter. Above isthe eagle on the bundle of sticks. The sliield on the poich is doubtless that of Katharine Courtenay, da,ughterof Edward the IV,
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