Stothard, Charles Alfred; Kempe, Alfred John: The monumental effigies of Great Britain: selected from our cathedrals and churches ; for the purpose of bringing together, and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eight (London, 1817)

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i H]s efHgy lies on an aitar-tomb canopied by a gothic arch and pediment, on the south
side of Minster Churchy in the Isle of Sheppy. Sir Robert de Shurland, Lord of Shur-
land, in the parish of Eastchurch, adjoining Minster, was the son of Sir Geodrey de
Shurland, who was Constable of Dover Castle in the time of Henry the Third. Sir
Robert was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and was made a Knight Banneret by
King Edward the First, for his brave deportment at the siege of Carlaverock in 1300,
and was probably a benefactor of the monastery of Benedictine Nuns at Minster, in
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