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chancel, is called the Confessional. The Beauchamp Chapel was 
built 1443, in the reign of Henry VI., and completed 1464. In 
the centre are the gorgeous tombs of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of 
Warwick, who died 1439, and of Ambrose, the good Earl of 
Warwick, elder brother to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. 
Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, lies also here buried, his 
body having been brought from Rouen, and also Robert Dudley, 
Earl of Leicester, with a splendid monument on the north wall. 
An extraordinary monument stands to the south of the altar, 
which. is inscribed, ‘‘ The Royal Impe,” with a clothed figure of a 
boy or dwarf. It is said to be Lord Denbigh, son and heir of the 
Earl of Leicester. The chapel is 58ft. by 25, and 32 high, and 
with the exception of Henry VII. Chapel at Westminster, is the 
finest in the kingdom. The cost of its erection was £2,481 4s. 74d., 
-at the present value of money £40,000. Before leaving the church, 
the tomb of the founder of the present noble family of Warwick, 
Sir Fulke Greville, created Lord Brooke by King James I., who 
died 1628, and built himself a tomb in his lifetime, amused the 
members of the Field Club by its quaint epitaph and bad Latin :-— 
Fulke Greville, 
Servant to Queen Elizabeth, 
Councellor to King James 
And Friend to Sir Philip Sidney, 
Trophzeum peccati. 
‘Time was progressing, and the choir boys robing in the vestry 
proclaimed the hour of Evensong, 5 p.m., so a start was made for 
the West gate of the town, over which stands the chapel of St. 
James, belonging to the Leicester Hospital. This Alms House | 
for wounded and aged soldiers was originally the Hall of the 
United Guilds of the Holy Trinity and St. George, turned into a 
Hospital by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1571, whose crest, 
-a bear and a ragged staff, is oft repeated in the building, and is 
worn on the left arm of the blue robe of the brethren. Originally 
it was instituted for a master and 12 brethren, who were not 
