Note 44 — PLATES XXI.—XXIII. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. STEPHEN. (WEST FRONT, AND ELEVATION OF COMPARTMENTS OF THE NAVE.)
Reading edition
Sepulchral Monuments, I. p. 247, t. 30.—The epitaph, which, in the original, is full of contractions, it is supposed by the Abbé De la Rue, should be read as follows:—
“Guillelmus jacet hic, petrarum summus in arte: Iste novum perfecit opus; det premia Christus. Amen.”