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Workmen and rich porphyry ftones for Ed- 

 ward the ConfefTor's feretory; and for the 

 pavement of the chapel f : This abbat was 

 lord treafurer to his death in 1283, and was 

 buried on the north fide of the great altar : 

 Over him was anciently this epitaph con- 

 firming the circumflances above mentioned. 



Abbas Richard us de Wara, qui requiefcit 

 Hie, portat lapides, quos hie portavit ab Urbc. 



Vafari's filence on Cavalini's journey to 

 England ought to be no objedlion ; he 

 not only wrote fome hundred years after 



t Before Henry III. began the prefent church, there 

 had been a rich fhrine for the confeffor ereded by Wil- 

 liam I. as the latter fays exprefly in his charter. Ed- 

 ward had bellowed Windfor on the Abbey of Weftmin- 

 fter ; the conqueror, on his acceffion, prevailed on the 

 abbat and convent to reftore Windfor, in exchange for 

 other lands, being delighted with the fcite ; ** Maxime 

 utilis & commodus eft vifus propter contiguam aquam 

 ct filvam venationibus aptam," fays he ; and after 

 naming the lordihips he gave them, he mentions the 

 gift of an hundred pounds of filver to compleat and 

 iinifti the building of the Abbey, and then adds, •* Ob 

 reverentiam nimii amoris quem ego in ipfum inclitura 

 regem Edwardum habueram, Tumbum ejus & reginac 

 juxta eum pofitae, ex auro et argento fabrili opere arti» 

 ficiofi decoris mirifice operiri feci." 



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