Historical Traditions at Wells, 1464, 1470, 1497

describing the tomb of' William de Marchia in the south transept, made the very probable suggestion that " the fine canopy now immediately to the east of the tomb, and labelled as the monument of Lady de Lisle, was intended to be the canopy of the altar of the chantry of Bishop William to stand at the head of the tomb, and he based this suggestion not only on its likeness in relative position to the later canopy of Bishop Bekington's altar, but on account of its nearness in architectural date to the tomb of Bishop William, which it adjoins."But even if this inscription is wrongly affixed, yet it rightly describes, according to Dugdale's Baronage, the family history of a member of the de Lisle family closely connected with Somerset, and with some of the leading personages in the civil and military history of these times

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