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 Buckingham, John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick.

Another grand marble monument, on the north side of the chapel, bears the finely-sculptured statues of Robert Dudley Marl of Leicester and Lettice his wife. To the memory of the latter a tablet attached to the wall is inscribed with the following lines by Gervas Clifton, no mean poet of the day. The lines are full of those concertos which made the wit of the times, and partake much of the manner of Cowley, whose offspring is always injured by the efforts of parturition. She died upon Christmas-day in the morning, 1634: