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Ducarel's description of it, which I have just seen in a copy of the "Anglo-Norman Antiquities," in a bookseller's shop, is sufficiently meager. His plates are also sufficiently miserable: but things are strangely altered since his time.
The costume of the oil painting is evidently that of the period of our Henry VIII.; and to suppose that the body of William even had it remained in so surprisingly perfect a state as Ducarel intimates, after an interment of upward of four hundred years could have presented such a costume, when, from Ducarel's own statement, another whole-length representation of the same person is totally different and more decidedly of the character of William's time is really quite a reproach to any antiquary who plumes himself upon the possession even of common sense.
Having gratified my curiosity by a careful survey of the subterranean abode, I revisited the regions of daylight, and made toward the large building, now a manufactory, which in Ducarel's time had been a nunnery.
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