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His brass in St Edmund’s chapel has disappeared leaving only the inscription plate, his crest of a Saracen’s head on a helm, four engraved shields and six elbow-cops with the “Bourgchier knot” above them. He was killed at the battle of Barnet. Part of the inscription can be translated “…sprung from the glorious line of King Edward called the Third, the son and heir of John [Bourgchier] Lord Berners. And lo, Edward the Fourth has the triumph in the battle, in which Humphrey dies as a true servant of the king…”.

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