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of it remained, must have disappeared with the others. As late, 

 however, as 1590, an inscription to his memory was placed 

 against a column near the chapel of St. Appian on the right side 

 of the church,-'^ as being the site of his tomb. The inscription 

 was due to Charles Parker (b. Jan. 28, 1537), who also erected 

 in the cloister at Pavia monuments to Francis, Duke of Lorraine, 

 and Richard de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who had been slain at 

 the battle of Pavia in 1525. Having entered the Roman Catholic 

 church, he went to Pavia in 1560,-^ and there remained in exile 

 for thirty years. "- 



The inscription reads-^ : 



D. O. M. Leonello Clarentife Duci Edouardi tertii Regis 



Angliae Fil. ducta Violanta Joannis Galeatii primi Ducis 



Mediolani sorori Albas mortuo atque hie anno saluti MCCCLXIIX 



Honorihcentissime in area condito sublata postea 



Concilii Tridentini decreto Carolus Pacherus de Morley 



Anglus Clarentium stirpe ortus anno salutis MDXC 



Exilii vero sui pro fide catholica XXX p. 



By 1464 the place of his sepulture was in doubt in England, 

 for Hardyng says-* : 



Some sayen he is buried at Melayn, 

 And otlier some saye at Clare certayn. 



'" Bossi, in his unpublished Memories Ticinenses, p. 86, quoted by 

 Magenta, p. 135 : 'In columna sive pila prope sacellum S. Appiani in 

 latere dextero Templi.' 



-^Dict. Nat. Biog. 43. 239. 



" How baseless was his claim to belong to the descendants of Clarence 

 may be gathered from the following genealogical notes. 



Charles' mother was, before marriage, Alice St. John, whose father was 

 Sir John St. John, whose mother was Margaret St. John, nee Beauchamp. 

 By her second marriage, to John, first Duke of Somerset, grandson of 

 John of Gaunt, she had a daughter, Margaret Beaufort, who, by her 

 marriage to Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became the mother of 

 Henry VH. Henry VH's queen, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Edward 

 IV, who was the son of Richard, Duke of York, who was the son of 

 Anne, Countess of Cambridge, who was the daughter of Roger, Earl of 

 Llarch, who was the son of Philippa, daughter of Lionel. 



The inscription, as printed, gives his name as 'Pacherus,' doubtless for 

 'Parkerus,' since he was a younger son of Henry Parker, himself son of 

 Henry Parker, Baron INIorley. 



'' Magenta, p. I35- 

 '^Chronicle, ed. Ellis, p. 334. 



