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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
Some five years ago I read before the Society some portion of a paper concerning the shields of arms which are to be found in the vault of the cloisters at Canterbury cathedral. The whole of this paper was afterwards published in Archaeologia, vol. lxvi, pp. 447 seqq. At that time I was urged to proceed farther and deal with the shields in the vault of the south porch. I was quite ready to do this; but my photographers who, fortunately for themselves, were of military age, found themselves, as heralds would say, in their proper colours, namely khaki, and had business more important in hand. They are now all safely back intheir various employments, and this year (1920) I have been able to carry forward my plan to completion. I made due acknowledgement before of what I owed them for their excellent photographs; and the photographs from which the present illustrations are prepared do not, I think, show any falling off, though the materials they can now get may not be of pre-war quality.
page 127 note 1 The great alabaster tomb in the Warriors' Chapel, also known as St. Michael's Chapel, completed in 1439 a few days before this duchess Margaret died, has on it her effigy between the effigies of her two husbands, whose remains had previously rested in the monks' cemetery.Thence, when the tomb was completed, they were removed, as noted by John Stone inhis chronicle, to this altar tomb, where the body of the duchess was also buried.On the bosses of the vault above the tomb are the shields of Clarence impaling Holand, of Clarence alone, and of Beaufort, with the badges of the Fair Maid and ofSomerset.