ilpec.' She was the sister and heiress of Alan Plonknett or
Plugenet of Kilpec, in the county of Hereford, a name distinguished in the
annals of his times; and of his possessions, his sister doing her homage,
had livery 19 Edward II.

"In 1327 Johanna de Bohun gave to the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, the
church of Lugwardyne, with the chapels of Llangarren, St. Waynards and
Henthland, with all the small chapels belonging to them, which donation
was confirmed by the king by the procurement and diligence of Thomas de
Chandos, Archdeacon of Hereford; and the Bishop of Hereford further
confirmed it to the Dean and Chapter by deed, dated Lugwas, 22nd July,
1331 (ex Regist. MS. Thomae Chorleton, Epi.): And afterwards the Bishop,
Dean and Chapter appropriated the revenues of it to the service peculiar
to the Virgin Mary, 'because in other churches in England the Mother of
God had better and more serious service, but in the Church of Hereford the
Ladye's sustenance for her prieste was so thinne and small, that out of
their respect they add this, by their deeds, dated in the Chapter at
Hereford, April 10th, 1333.' (Harl. MS. 6726, fol. 109.)

"Johanna de Bohoun died without issue, 1 Edward III., 1327, the donation
of Lugwardyne being perhaps her dying bequest. On the 17th of October in
that year, she constituted John de Badesshawe, her attorney, to give
possession to the Dean and Chapter of an acre of land in Lugwardine, and
the advowson of the church with the chapels pertaining to it. This
instrument was dated at Bisseleye, and her seal was appended, of which a
sketch is preserved by Taylor, in whose possession this document appears
to have been in 1655, and a transcript of it will be found Harl. MS. 6868,
f. 77 (see also 6726, f. 109, which last has been printed in _Shaw's
Topographer_, 1. 280).

"In the tower is preserved the patent 1 Edward III., pro Ecclesia de
Lugwarden cum capellis donandis a Johanna de Bohun ad inveniendum 8
capellanos et 2 diaconos approprianda (Tanner's _Notitia Monast._).

[Illustration: SEAL OF JOHANNA DE BOHUN.]

SEAL OF JOHANNA DE BOHUN.

"The circumstances above mentioned appear sufficiently to explain why the
memorial of Johanna de Bohoun is found in the Lady Chapel, to which
especially she had been a benefactress. They also explain the original
ornaments of this tomb, the painting which was to be seen not many years
since under the arch in which th