#like the idea that john beaufort was a little shorter than thomas??

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Clarence and Somerset are depicted wearing armour, tabard and a collar of esses. The armour is anachronistic: it is contemporary with the tomb rather than the deceased. The great basinet, double bevor, tassets and fluted, mitten gauntlets date the carvings to around 1440. John, Lord Roos was killed with Clarence at Bauge in 1421, and his effigy at Bottesford (Leics.) features glove gauntlets with gadlings, circular poleyns and couters, and a hip-belt typical of the period 1400-1425. The reinforcing plate on the right hand gauntlets suggests that the Canterbury carvings were modelled on an English suit of armour or its pattern. The two effigies are similar, but they are clearly identified by their heraldic footrests - Somerset has an eagle and Clarence a greyhound - together with points of detail: Clarence wears a ducal coronet, and Somerset a jewelled version of the orle. Somerset's effigy is slightly shorter, and the face more lined; Clarence's effigy has a collar of esses and tiret, while Somerset has a collar with tiret and ring pendant, a design repeated for the effigy of his son John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (d. 1444) at Wimborne Minster (Dorset).

Mark Duffy, "St. Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral: A Lancastrian Mausoleum", Archæologia Cantiana, vol. 123 (2003)