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gency before him, the earl desired that he might be buried in the abbey of Wahlen in Essex, near the body of Elizabeth his late wife {jadijs ma cnmimignc), and bequeathed the magnificent sum of one thousand marks for the general ex- penses of his funeral, charging his executors that the bodies of his father, mother, and wife, should be as honourably covered'^ as his own, and that there should be but one herce, of one course of lights over all their bodies. It may be observed that this natural and amiable desire of the testa- tor to repose beside his nearest relatives was not eventually gratified. After the conflict at Boroughbridge, his corpse was conveyed to York, and interred in the church of the Friars Preachers. Among the numerous legacies in his will may be enumerated the gift of his " black charger, which he brought from beyond sea," to Bartholomew lord Badlesmere of Leeds castle in Kent, who Avas also one of the partizans of the earl of Lancaster, was captured like his chief at Boroughbridge, and hanged at Canterbmy : his ignominious death may be partly attriljuted to the resentment of Queen Isabella, whom lady Badlesmere had refused to admit into the castle of Leeds, during her lord's absence. To his sons Elumphrey, Edward, William, afterAvards earl of Northampton, and Eneas, he bequeaths tAvo thousand marks each, to be employed according to the discretion of his executors. At the period of the Avill, tAvo only of the earl's daughters Avere living, Alianore, afterwards the wife of James Butler, earl of Ormond, and ^Margaret, who Avas con- tracted to Hugh Courtenay, son of Hugh lord Courtenay subsequently first earl of Devon of his name. To Alianore he left tAvo hundred pounds, for her " apparel" against her marriage, and to JNIargaret two hundred marks for the same purpose. Among the miscellaneous objects bequeathed by the earl are — to his eldest son all his armour, and " an entire bed of green poAvdered Avith Avhite SAvans," the Bohun badges To master John WalcAvayn, one of his executors, a cup " stamped {emjjrenic) and embossed Avith fleurs-de-lis," which Covertz. That is, that their tombs seal of Thomas, earl of Gloucester — en- should be hung vith rich cloths. graved in Sandford's Genealogical History ^ In 139!), Eleanor de Bohun, duchess of England — the ground ot which is a of Gloucester bequeathed, to her son diaper of ostrich feathers and swans. The Humphrey, a psalter richly illuminated, seal of his duchess on the same plate may with clasps of gold enamelled with white be remarked, swans. Royal AVills, p. 181. See also the VOL. II. Y V