Mr Monkey found the rather flat tomb of Admiral William Penn in the south transept, and spotted a monument to the same Admiral on the wall of the nave. Admiral Penn had lent Charles II £16,000; after he died his son, a different (but possibly more famous) William Penn, got a large chunk of America instead of the money and went off to found Pennsylvania.
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