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Identifier: historyofhampshi04doub (find matches)
Title: A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Doubleday, Herbert Arthur, 1867-1941
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Westminster (Constable)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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all modern. On the south side of the chancel is a redessedand canopied tomb which bears the following in-scription : Hereunder lyeth the body of John Gyf-ford Esquyer heyre aparant of Sir Wyllm GyffordKnyghtI06a who had to wyfe Elizabethe one of thedawghters of Sir George Throkmarton Knightand had by her issue fyve sonnys and viii davygh-ters and so changyd this mortall lyfe the fyrst dayof May in the yere of our Lorde God 1563^ onwhose soule Jesu have mcy. The base of the tombhas on its face three lozenge-shaped traceried landcusped panels inclosing defaced shields, and a mouldedcornice and base, all in grey marble. The niche overhas octagonal angle-shafts with moulded capitals dndbases supporting a flat four-centred arch ; the jan bsand soffit of the recess have cinquefoiled panels. !the back is the inscription in brass, above whichGiffards kneeling figure in armour facing the ind 10*a So in inscription, but he had in reality succeeded his grandfather Sir William Giffard in 1549. 12
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\ CRONDALL of that of his wife ; behind him is the indent of theirsons, and behind her their daughters ; between themis a shield of GifFard, and over it a mantled helmand a crest of a hand holding a bunch of flowers, ap-parently single pinks ; over the arch is a frieze offeathered quatrefoils alternating with blank shields ;the cornice finishes with a cresting of Tudor flowers. The north altar tomb is that of Sir George Pauletof Crondall, younger brother of the first Marquess ofWinchester. It has had most of its painted inscrip-tions obliterated, some of the obliterations beingobviously intentional. It closely resembles in designand inscriptions the tomb of Sir Thomas White atSouth Warnborough, 1568. It is a recessed altartomb with a canopy ; on the base are three quatrefoilpanels inclosing carelessly repainted shields ; the recesshas panelled jambs and a four-centred arch, and in itare three painted shields much defaced ; the inscrip-tions are in panels below them. A shield of Paulet

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