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And close at hand are other signifi- cant names too : Harthacnut : Richard, son of the Conqueror, fated, like his brother Rufus, to meet a violent death in the New Forest, but otherwise un- known to history : Duke Beorn, murdered at sea by Sweyn, son of Earl Godwine. These and other striking names can be found graven on the stone-work which carries the mortuary chests above. 153 20 Winchester Of former bishops of Winchester the majority are buried here. Some of these and among them some of the ...most famous have no visible sign to mark their tomb ; these include such names as Birinus, Swithun, jEthelwold, Walkelyn, Henry of Blois. There are many others too over whom we should like to linger : Peter de Rupibus, for instance, the evil genius of Henry Ill. 's reign, and Ethelmar or Aymer, the absentee bishop, who died in Paris, but desired his heart to be placed in a casket for interment in the Cathedral, though when alive his affections seem to have been centred anywhere but here. His monument is more picturesque than his life was edifying.
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