BIB_ID
80495
Accession number
MA 3609
Creator
Arlington, Henry Bennet, Earl of, 1618-1685.
Display Date
1674/5 February 18.
Credit line
Purchased, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29.2 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to Christopher Wren as Surveyor General of His Majesty's Works.
Docketed.
Docketed.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund from J.F.T. Rodgers, London in June 1971.
Summary
Commissioning him to design a "White Marble Coffin for the supposed bodies of the two Princes [Edward V and Richard, Duke of York] lately found in the Tower of London: and that you cause the same to be interred in Henry the 7th's Chapel in such convenient place as the dean of Westminster shall appoint."
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