Gordon Memorial

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    This is the patent age of new inventions
    For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
    All propagated with the best intentions.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.”
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)