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in 1631 as "a faire marble tombe, with the portraiture of a dead man lying upon his shroud: the most artificially cut in stone that ever man beheld". In 1788, prior to the complete rebuilding of the church, the monument was dismantled and its parts dispersed. However, its cadaver effigy was
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