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Our lady, following the steps of her illustrious mother, 1 

 "was a great benefactress to the university of Oxford, to 

 the canons of Oseney, the nuns of Godstow, and other 

 religious houses in Oxfordshire. She died very aged, in the 

 year 1300,2 and was buried before the high altar in the 

 abbey church of Oseney, at the head of the tomb of Henry 

 D'Oily, under a flat marble, on which was inlaid her 

 portraiture in the habit of a vowess, engraved on a copper- 

 plate." Edmondsoris History and Genealogical Account of 

 the Grevilles, p. 23. 



1 Ela Longspee, countess of Salisbury ', in 1232, founded a monastery at Lacock, 

 in the county of Wilts ^ and also another at Hendon, in the county of Somerset, in 

 her widowhood, to the honour of the Blessed Virgin and St. Bernard. CAMDEN. 

 -[G. W.] 



2 Thus she survived the foundation of her chantry at Selborne fifteen years. 

 About this lady and her mother consult Dugdatts Baronage, i. 72, 175, 177 ; 

 Dugdalfs " Warwickshire," i. 383 ; Lelana's " Itin." ii. 45. [G. W.] 



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