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The Hoby monuments are on the south wall. In the centre is the magnificent monument to Elizabeth Lady Hoby. She is kneeling under the canopy with the four children who predeceased her, facing her surviving daughter Anne who wears robes and a coronet as Countess of Worcester. Behind and outside the canopy are her two sons, Sir Edward Hoby and Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, so named since he was born after the death of his father. He was mocked by Shakespeare as the character of Sir Andrew Ague-cheek in Twelfth Night.
Author: M Bowker