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This is the oldest figure of an abbess on a sepulchral monument. The family of Hervey had in the earliest times property in Elstow ; for it appears from the register of the monastery of St. Edmund's, Bury, that Albert de Hervey, justice itinerant in the reign of Richard I. , held lands in " Helnfestune " or Elstowe. 30 Moiutmental Brasses in EvERSHOLT (St. John the Baptist). Only the small brass of six sons and six daughters ; 1450 (brass of parents lost). Eyworth (All Saints'). Richard Gadbury...e and his second wife, Margaret Anderson, and their daughter Magdalenna ; 1624, The Manor of Eyworth was bought by Sir Edmund Anderson, the judge that condemned Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringay Castle. The estate con- tinued in the family until 1773. On a small monument in the south side of the chapel an inscription to the daughter : " Here lieth the body of Magdalenna, sole and only " daughter of Richard Gadburye of Eyworth gentleman " and of Margaret his second wife, which said Mag- " dalenna lived to the age of 5 years and 7 days ; She " departed this transitorie life the 16"' day of February in "the year of our Lord God 1618 ; in whose sacred " memorie the aforesaid Richard Gadburye her father '■hath erected this monument.
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