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to represent his wives, Alice Bothe and Isabel Ludlow. 

 Originally, names were painted beneath these figures, as well 

 as below all those on the sides of the tomb. In 1871, on the 

 occasion of my first note-taking visit to this church, fragments 

 of the lettering could still be detected, as well as traces of 

 red, blue, green, and gold on various parts of the monument. 

 Below one of the two figures at the west end the letters " Al — " 

 could be plainly read. The sides of the monument are panelled 

 into numerous niches to contain, beneath crocketed ogee 

 canopies, small figures of the large family born to Nicholas 

 Fitzherbert. On the south side are the eight sons of Nicholas 

 by his first wife Alice. They are represented as (1) a man in 

 armour, with a mauble having a cross patee on the left shoulder ; 

 (2) a lawyer, with a scroll in his left hand ; (3) a monk, with 

 a book under the left arm ; (4) a figure in a long gown, but 

 the head gone; (5) a man, bare-headed, in a long gown; (6) a 

 man in civilian dress, with gypciere at the girdle ; (7) a civilian 

 like the last, but wearing a collar of roses ; (8) the same as 

 the last, but the head gone. Of these eight sons, the following 

 are to be found in old pedigrees : — Ralph, the eldest son and 

 heir ; John Fitzherbert, of Etwall, who married Dorothy Babing- 

 ton ; Robert, of Uphall, Hertford, who married Elizabeth 

 Jocelyn ; Roger, the fourth son ; and William, the fifth. 



There were also five daughters by Nicholas's first wife, and 

 two sons and two daughters by the second wife. These nine 

 appear on the north side of the tomb — the two sons in civilian 

 dress, six of the daughters in the usual dress of ladies of the 

 period, and one daughter as a nun, with veil and rosary.''' 

 Beneath the nun are (or were) traces of the name Millicent. 

 The five daughters of the first marriage were : Joan, the wife 

 of John Cotton ; Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Crosby ; Isabel, 

 the wife of Anthony Babington; Dulcibella, and Anne. 



* I have just (March, 1903) found, in searching the London diocesan 

 registers, the name of Dorothy Fitzherbert, in a 1489 list of nuns of the 

 important ahlicy of Barking, Essex, and have little or no doubt that she was 

 another of the daughters of Ralph Fitzherbert. 



