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Jaime
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An indenture of 1 March 1476, preserved at Arundel Castle, records the acquisition by John Dudley of Atherington of a marble tomb in Arundel collegiate church. The tomb had originally been commissioned for the use of Richard Dallingridge, who had died five years before. The article identifies the tomb as the lower of the two currently supporting the effigies of the 9th Earl of Arundel and his wife in their chantry chapel on the south side of the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel. It is suggested that Dudley acquired the tomb for the use of his wife Elizabeth, whose interment at Arundel is referred to in his will of 1500. The article concludes by identifying the circumstances which could have led Richard Dallingridge, the last of the Dallingridges of Bodiam, to seek burial in a church at the opposite end of the county from his family's base.