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346 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.<br />

ordered it to be taken down, and, with his body, hastily interred at<br />

Pontefract, and that of his son, the Duke of Rutland, murdered at the<br />

same time, to be buried with great solemnity in Fotheringay churchyard,<br />

by the side of the Duchess Cicely. Here they rested until Queen<br />

Elizabeth's time, when she ordered the bones of father, mother, and son<br />

to be removed into the church. This was but a becoming act towards<br />

her own ancestors: for Edward IV.'s daughter, Elizabeth of York, married<br />

Henry Duke of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., grandfather of good<br />

Queen Bess. Yes, and through her aunt, Margaret, sister of Henry VIII.<br />

and wife of James IV. of Scotland, the barony of March has passed to<br />

our beloved Queen, who is still entitled to bear amongst her many<br />

quarterings, the shield which adorns our walls and window, of the historic<br />

house of Mortimer.

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