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"ROBERTO LANG
"TON ET MILONI
"SPENSER QVI
"APPLEBIAE F: F.
"HANC SC
"H. M. OBM. P.R.B.P."

"R. BAINEBRIG
"HOC AED. HIPOD
"IDASCALS D.D.
"IN P P. 1606."
Margaret, Countess of Cumberland The church is at the lower end of the street, sufficiently signalized by containing the remains of Anne Clifford and her excellent mother. The last lies beneath a fine tomb, on which is her recumbent image. She is dressed in a long cloak, which quite covers her to the feet, leaving only her face and her buttoned jacket visible: on her head is a coronet, and round her neck a small ruff. She was the mistreated wife of the celebrated George Clifford earl of Cumberland, a hero above the tender feelings of relationship or conjugal affection, devoted to deeds of arms, or feats of chivalry in honour of his great but romantic mistress. He paid the debt to Nature several years before his Lady, and with a penitence for his harsh usage of her, which did honour
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