To wax burnt daily at the Duke’s Mass and torches at his anniversary, £6, 13s. 4d.
To the kitchen of the monastery ‘in relief of the great decay of the livelod of the said monasterie in the marches of Scotland, which before time had been appointed to the said Kechyn,’ £60 per annum.
In payment for these expenses, the Duke transferred to the monastery the alien Priory of Pembroke in his possession.
(This schedule is printed in Dugdale’s Monasticon, ii. 202, and in the notes to the English Chronicle, edited by J. S. Davies, p. 195.)
On the south wall of St. Alban’s shrine, close to Humphrey’s tomb, an epitaph was once written, but it is now lost owing to restoration. It was the work of Dr. John Westerman, Vicar of Bushey early in the seventeenth century, and was placed under Gloucester’s arms, which were surmounted by a coronet.
PIAE MEMORIAE V. OPT.
SACRUM
SEROTINUM
Hic jacet Humfredus dux ille Glocestrius olim
Henrici Regis protector, fraudis ineptae
Delector; dum ficta notat miracula caeci,
Lumen erat Patriae, columen venerabilis regni: