That is,
The founder of the church, about the year 793.
Whom you behold ill-painted on his throne
Sublime, was once for Mercian Offa known.
On the east side stood the shrine of St. Alban, where the following short inscription is still to be seen;
S. Albanus Verolamensis, Anglorum Protomartyr, 17 Junii 293.
In the south isle near the above shrine is the monument of Humphry, brother to King Henry V. commonly distinguished by the title of the Good Duke of Gloucester. It is adorned with a ducal coronet, and the arms of France and England quartered. In niches on one side are seventeen Kings; but in the niches on the other side there are no statues remaining. The inscription, which alludes to the pretended miraculous cure of a blind man detected by the Duke, is as follows:
Piæ Memoriæ V. Opt. Sacrum.
Hic jacet Humphredus, Dux ille Glocestrius olim,
Henrici Sexti protector, fraudis ineptæ