The Collegiate church being intended as the mausoleum of his family, the founder supplied ample means to enrich it with examples of monumental splendour. The tomb of his son Thomas Fitz-alan and his wife Beatrix, daughter of John, King of Portugal, was the earliest of those placed in the church. It is of alabaster, finely sculptured.[50] It was formerly painted and gilt. It contains the effigies of the Earl and his Lady; at the feet of the Earl is a horse, the cognizance of the Fitz-alans, and at those of the Lady are two lap-dogs. Around, in niches, are small standing figures of ecclesiastics or pleureurs, with open books, as performing funeral obsequies, and above them as many escutcheons, the emblazoning of which is nearly obliterated. Other “stately tombs” are erected to the memories of John Fitz-alan and Eleanor his wife; Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and his wife, “one of the eyres of Richard Wodevyle Earl Rivers, sister to Elizabeth Queen of England, sometime wife to King Edward IV.”--recording the date of the Earl’s death, 1524; and to Henry, Earl of Arundel, the last of the Fitz-alans, erected by his son-in-law, John, Baron Lumley, with a Latin inscription, of which the following is a translation:-- “The magnanimous hero, whose effigy is here beheld, and whose remains are deposited beneath this monument, was the Earl of this place, the last of a family deriving its lengthened descent from the son of Alan. His name was Henry, Lord and Baron Maltravers, Clunne and Oswaldestre, senior knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, only son and successor of William, Earl of Arundel, and the worthy representative of his father’s virtues. To Henry, Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth, he discharged the duty of Privy Councillor. Under the first, he was Governor of Calais, Marshal of the army at the siege of Boulogne, and afterwards Lord Chamberlain. At the coronation of Edward, he officiated as Earl Marshal; at that of Mary, as Lord High Constable. To the former, as to his father, he was Lord Chamberlain: to the latter, as well as to her sister, Queen Elizabeth, he was Lord High Steward, and President of the Council. “Thus, this man, illustrious in his descent, more illustrious in his employments, and deemed most illustrious both at home and abroad, rich in honour, but broken with labour and worn out with age, having attained his sixty-eighth year, calmly and piously fell asleep in the Lord, in London, on the 25th of February, 1579.