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THE 
 
 iMomiinnital UrasQcs of QUiltsljtre : 
 
 A SERIES OF EXAMPLES OF THESE MEMORIALS, 
 
 RANGING FROM THE 
 
 THIRTEENTH TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES ; 
 
 ACCOMPANIED WITH 
 
 NOTICES DESCRIPTIVE OF ANCIENT C0S7VME, 
 
 AND GENERALLY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE 
 
 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY 
 
 DURING THIS PERIOD. 
 
 Bv EDWARD KITE, 
 
 Assistant-Secretary to ihe Wilts Arch^ological Society. 
 
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" Now, generous reader, let me intreate thy furtherance thus farre, that, in 
 thy neighbouring churches, if thou /halt finde any ancient funerall infcriptions, or 
 antique obliterated monuments, thou wouldft be pleafed to copie out the one, and 
 to take fo much relation of the other as tradition can deliver; as alfo to take the 
 infcriptions and epitaphs upon tombes and graveftones, which are of thofe times; 
 and withall to take order that fuch thy colledlions, notes, and obfervations may 
 come fafely to my hands ; and I fliall reft ever obliged to acknowledge thy paines 
 and curtefie."— Weever's Ancient Funerall Monuments, a.d. 1 63 1. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 npHE limited notice which the various examples of Monu- 
 mental Brafles remaining in Wiltfhire have hitherto met 
 with, induced the Author to coiled: rubbings of and informa- 
 tion relating to them. This was, at firft, intended to form 
 a feries of fhort papers in the Magazine of the WiltfKire 
 Archaeological and Natural Hiftory Society ; but, on con- 
 (ideration, it feemed defirable that it fhould rather, if pofTible, 
 appear in a feparate form. A Profpedlus was accordingly 
 ifTued, inviting Subfcribers' names for this purpofe ; and the 
 very kind manner in which it was refponded to has led to 
 the publication of the prefent work. 
 
 As it is intended chiefly for a book of reference, the 
 greatefl poffible care has been taken to enfure accuracy, both 
 in the illuftrations and letterprefs. The former (with one 
 exception) are produced from, the Author's own drawings, 
 either by the Anafliatic procefs or on wood ; and fome of 
 the more difficult fubjeds reduced by the aid of photography. 
 Being the produdlions of an amateur they have no great 
 pretenfions, but are offered as corred fubfl:itutes for more 
 
vi Preface. 
 
 elaborate and highly-finifhed engravings, the introdudion of 
 which would have confiderably increafed the coft of the work. 
 
 Each infcription is printed in the letterprefs as nearly as 
 poflible in its original and contrafted form ; and a tranflation 
 is, in many inftances, fuggefted as a guide to the reader. 
 The fources which have fupplied additional information are 
 mentioned, either in the text or in an accompanying note. 
 
 To thofe gentlemen who have in any way aflifted him, 
 the Author defires to offer his moft fincere thanks ; and in 
 fo doing, he is bound to exprefs his fpecial obligation — 
 
 To Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., through whofe cour- 
 tefy he is enabled to introduce various unpublifhed details 
 from the Public Records : 
 
 To the Rev. Caxon Jackson, for examining and cor- 
 recting the proof-fheets : 
 
 To the Council of the Society of Antiquaries, of 
 London, for the loan of the Plate of Bifhop Hallum's brafs, 
 engraved for Vol. XXX. of the " Archasologia," and trans- 
 ferred to ftone for the ufe of the prefent work : 
 
 To Augustus W. Franks, Escu, by whom the partially- 
 defaced infcription on the Ramlbury flab, engraved at p. lo, 
 was deciphered : 
 
 To Charles Edward Long, Esq^, for information re- 
 fpefting the arms and pedigree of Coffer and Synclere at 
 p. 68, and for other fimilar affiftance : 
 
 To the Rev. John Ward, for corredling the notices 
 relating to the Seymour family : 
 
Preface. vii 
 
 To the Rev. Thomas Miles, for the pedigree of Poticary 
 at p. 76, and for other particulars relating to that family : 
 
 To FiTZHERBERT Macdon ALi), EsQ^, for acccfs to the 
 Regifter of Bifhop Wyvil ; and to T. Duffus Hardy, Esq^, 
 of the Public Record Office, for the tranflation of the Bifhop's 
 letter, printed at p. 15: 
 
 To the Rev. E. C. Awdry ; the Rev. W. C. Lukis ; 
 the Rev. Edward J. Phipps ; the Rev. E. Wilton; J. 
 Edwards, Esq^ ; H. N. Goddard, Esq_; William Hardy, 
 Esq^ ; and Mr. George A. Howitt ; for affiftance on various 
 points : 
 
 But more efpecially to Frederic Augustus Carrington, 
 EsQi, for the loan of rubbings, and for much valuable in- 
 formation and affiftance throughout the work. 
 
 To thofe gentlemen whofe names appear in the annexed 
 Subfcription Lift he alfo defires to return his moft fincere 
 thanks, trufting that the work which he has the pleafure 
 of laying before them may not be deemed unworthy of their 
 patronage. 
 
 Devizes, 
 
 February, i 860. 
 
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 The Most Hon. the Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G. 
 
 The Right Hon. the Earl of Mornington. 
 
 The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. 
 
 The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and 
 Bristol. 
 
 Anftie, Edward Benjamin, Efq., Devizes. 
 
 Atherton, C. B., Efq., Taynton, near Gloucefter. 
 
 Atkins, Edward Martin, Efq. F.S.A., Kingfton Lifle, Wantage. 
 
 Auften, Rev. J. H. (Hon. Sec. of the Purbeck Archs^ological Society), 
 
 Enfbury Houfe, Wimborne. 
 Awdry, Rev. Edward C, Kington St. Michael. 
 
 Badger, Thomas, Efq., Devizes. 
 
 Baron, Rev. J., Upton Scudamore. 
 
 Bartlett, William, Efq., Burbagc. 
 
 Bradford, James, Efq., Swindon. 
 
 Bradley, Rev. G. G., Mafler of Marlborough College. 
 
 Brooke, Samuel Bendry, Efq., Cowbridge Houfe, Malmefbury. 
 
 Brown, Meflrs., Canal, Salifbury. 
 
 Brown, James, Efq., Salifburv. 
 
 Brown, Mrs., South View Houfe, Aldbournc. 
 
 Bruges, William, Efq., Marden. 
 
 Buckley, Lieut -General, M.P., New Hall, Salifl^urv. 
 
 Bull, Mr. Henry, Devizes. 
 
 Burrows, William., Efq., Devizes. 
 
 h 
 
X Lift of Suhjcrihers. 
 
 Caillard, C. F. D., Efq., Wingfield Houfe, Trowbridge. 
 
 Carrington, F. A., Efq., Ogbourne St. George. 
 
 Champ, John, Efq., Nurfteed Houfe, Devizes. 
 
 Clark, Thomas, Efq , Trowbridge. 
 
 Conolly, C. J. T., Efq., Cottles Houfe, Melkfham. 
 
 Copner, Rev. James, Devizes. 
 
 Coward, Richard, Efq., Roundway, Devizes. 
 
 Coxe, F. Lovelock, Efq., Eddington Houfe, Hungerford. 
 
 Crawley, Rev. Richard (Prebendary of Salifbury), Steeple Afhton. 
 
 Crook, Rev. H. S. C, Upavon. 
 
 Crowdy, W. Morfe, Efq., ChiHedon. 
 
 Cunnington, William, Efq., Devizes. 
 
 Curling, T. B., Efq., F.R.S., Grofvenor Street, Grofvenor Sq., London. 
 
 Dowding, Rev. Townley Ward, Marlborough. 
 
 Edwards, Job, Efq., Amefbury. (2 Copies.) 
 
 Ellis, Mr. George, Devizes. 
 
 Eflcourt, the Right Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron, M.P. D.C.L. F.S.A., 
 
 Eftcourt Houfe, Tetbury. 
 Eftcourt, Edward D. Bucknall, Efq., Newnton Houfe, Tetbury. 
 Eftcourt, Rev. W. J. Bucknall, Newnton Re£lory, Tetbury. 
 Evans, George, Efq., Devizes. 
 Ewart, William, Efq., M.P., Broadleaze, Devizes. 
 
 Fane, Rev. Arthur (Prebendary of Salifbury), Boyton. 
 
 Fefting, Michael John, Efq., Maiden Bradley. 
 
 Flower, T. Bruges, Efq., M.R.C.S., F.L.S., &c., Beaufort Buildings 
 Weft, Bath. 
 
 Franks, Auguftus W., Efq. M.A. (Direftor of the Society of Anti- 
 quaries), Upper Seymour Street, London. 
 
 Gladftone, Capt. John Neilfon, R.N. M.P., Bowden Park. 
 
 Goddard, Horatio Nelfon, Efq., Manor Houfe, Clyffe Pypard. 
 
 Goddard, Rev. G. Afhe, ClyfFe Pypard. 
 
 Goddard, Rev. Francis, Hilmarton. 
 
 Griffith, C. Darby, Efq., M.P., Padworth Houfe, Reading. 
 
Lift of Subjcribers. xi 
 
 Haines, Rev. Herbert, Paddock Houfc, (jlouceftcr. 
 
 Halcomb, John, Efq., Hungerford. 
 
 Hall, Marfhall, Efq., Blacklands Park, Calne. 
 
 Hamilton, the Very Rev. Henry Parr, P\R.S,, Dean of Salilbury. 
 
 Haftings, Rev. J. D. (Prebendary of Salifbury), Trow^bridge. 
 
 Hayward, William P., Efq., Wilsford. 
 
 Hill, Mifs, Rock Houfe, Bath. 
 
 Hony, the Ven. William Edw^ard (Archdeacon of Sarum), Baverftock. 
 
 Hovi^ard, Henry, Efq., Thornbury Caftle, Briftol. 
 
 Howitt, Mr. George A., Bow^ood Park. 
 
 Jackfon, Rev. John Edward, F.S.A. (Hon. Canon of Briftol), Leigh 
 
 Delamere. 
 Jones, Rev. William Henry, Bradford on Avon. 
 
 Kemm, William Cove, Efq., Amefbury. 
 
 Kerflake, A4r. Thomas, Park Street, Briftol. 
 
 King, James, Efq., High Holborn, London. 
 
 King, W. W., Efq., King Street, Cheapfide, London. 
 
 Knight, Rev. John, Heytcft)ury. 
 
 Lambert, John, Efq., Prieftgate, Peterborough. 
 
 Lear, Rev. Sidney, The Palace, Salift)ury. 
 
 Lew^is, Thomas Noyes, Efq., Wedhampton. 
 
 Long, Charles Edw^ard, Efq., M.A , Chapel Street, Grofvenor Square, 
 London. (2 Copies.) 
 
 Long, Walter, Efq., M.P., Rood Aftiton. 
 
 Long, Richard Penruddockc, Efq., M.P., Dolforgan, Newtown, Mont- 
 gomery ftiire. 
 
 Long, Walter, Efq., M.A., Preftiaw Houfe, Biftiop's Waltham, Hants. 
 
 Long, William, Efq., M.A., Lanfdown Place, Bath. 
 
 Lowther, Rev. Gorges Paulin (Prebendary of Salift)ury), Orchefton 
 St. George. 
 
 Lukis, Rev. William CoUings, F.S.A., Collingbournc Ducis. 
 
 Macdonald, the Venerable William (Archdeacon of ^Vilts), Bifhop's 
 Cannings. 
 
xii Lijl of Subfcr iters. 
 
 Markland, James Heywood, Efq., D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S.A., Lanfdown 
 
 Crefcent, Bath. 
 Mafkelyne, Edmund Story, Efq., Baflett Down Houfe, Swindon. 
 May, Rev. G., Lyddington Re6lory, Swindon. 
 Medlicott, Rev. Jofeph, Potterne. 
 
 Merewether, H. Aldworth, Efq., Bowden Hill, Chippenham. (2 Copies.) 
 Merriman, Thomas Baverftock, Efq., Marlborough. 
 Merriman, William C, Efq., Marlborough. 
 Methuen, Rev. Henry H., Allcannings. 
 Meyler, Mrs , Devizes. 
 Miles, Rev. Thomas, Stockton, 
 Morrice, Rev. W. D., Longbridge Deverill. 
 Mailings, Jofeph R., Efq., Eaftcourt, Malmefbury. 
 Mailings, Richard, Efq., Stratton, Cirencefter. 
 
 Neeld, Sir John, Bart., Grittleton Houfe, Chippenham. 
 
 Nichols, John Gough, Efq., F.S.A., Upper Harley Street, London. 
 
 Noyes, John, Efq., Lanfdowne Road, Kenfington Park, London. 
 
 Noyes, Meflrs., Chippenham. 
 
 Noyes, Air. James, Chippenham. 
 
 Noyes, Mr. John, Chippenham. 
 
 Nightingale, James E., Efq., Wilton. 
 
 Ouvry, Frederic, Efq. (Treafurer of the Society of Antiquaries), Upper 
 Gower Street, London. 
 
 Parfitt, Very Rev. C. Canon, Cottles, Melkfham. 
 
 Parker, Meflrs. John Henry and James, Oxford. (2 Copies.) 
 
 Penruddocke, Rev. J. H., South Newton. 
 
 Phipps, Rev. Edward James, Stansfield, Suffolk. 
 
 Phipps, John Lewis, Efq., Leighton Houfe, Wefl:bury. 
 
 Phipps, Charles Paul, Efq., Chalcot Houfe, Wefl:bury. 
 
 Phipps, Arthur C, Efq., Whitllone Houfe, Shepton Mallett. 
 
 Popham, Francis Leybourne, Efq., Littlecote Park. 
 
 Poynder, Thomas Henry Allen, Efq., M.A., Hartham Park. 
 
 Price, R. E., Efq., Marlborough. 
 
 Prower, Rev. J. Mervin (Hon. Canon of Briflol), Purton. 
 
Liji of Subfcribers. xiii 
 
 Ravenfhaw, Rev. T. F. T., Pewfey. 
 Rofs, Rev. J. Lockhart, Avebury. 
 
 Scrope, G. Poulett, Efq., M.P. F.R.S., &c., Caftle Combe. 
 
 Seagram, William Ballard, Efq., Bratton. 
 
 Simpfon, Juftin, Efq., Stamford. 
 
 Smith, BafTett, Efq., Temple, London. 
 
 Smith, T. Chaloner, Efq., Chilton Lodge. 
 
 Smith, Rev. Alfred Charles, Yatefbury. 
 
 Soames, Rev. Charles, Mildenhall. 
 
 Stanton, Rev. Thomas (Prebendary of Salifbury), Burbage. 
 
 Strickland, Rev. E., Brixton Deverill. 
 
 Sv/ayne, John, Efq., Wilton. 
 
 Swayne, Henry J. F., Efq., Netherhampton Houfe. 
 
 Taylor, Simon Watfon, Efq , Erleftoke Park. (2 Copies.) 
 
 Thurnam, John, Efq., M.D. F.S.A., Devizes. 
 
 Trowbridge, James, Efq., Weft Lavington. 
 
 Tucker, Charles, Efq., F.S.A. (Hon. Sec. of the Archaeological Infti- 
 
 tute), Marlands, Heavitree, Exeter. 
 Turnbull, W. B., Efq., Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Lin, London. 
 
 Ward, Rev. John, Wath, Ripon. 
 
 Way, Albert, Efq., M.A. F.S.A. (Hon. Sec. of the Archaeological 
 
 Inftitute), Wonham Manor, Reigate. 
 Waylen, James, Efq., Etchilhampton. 
 
 Whittaker, Edmund J., Efq., Besfborough Street, Pimlico, London. 
 W^ilkinfon, Rev. Matthew, D.D., Weft Lavington, 
 Wilkinfon, Rev. John, Broughton Gifford. 
 Wilton, Rev, Edward, Weft Lavington. 
 Wood, Rev. Peter Almeric Leheup, Devizes. 
 Woodcock, Mrs., Rowde. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Chap. Page 
 
 I. Introdudlory Remarks . . . . . , , i_r 
 
 II. Defpoiled Slabs . . . . . . . .6-13 
 
 III. Braflcs from a.d. 1370 to the Reformation .... 14-54 
 
 I v. from the Reformation until their final difufe, c. a.d. 1650 55-90 
 
 V. Modern BrafTes ......... 91-93 
 
 VI. Braflcs of Bilhops Waltham and Hallum .... 94-99 
 
 Appendix 101-108 
 
iWouunuutal Brasses 
 
 WILTSHIRE. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 
 N introducing a dcfcription of the Monumental BrafTes of 
 one particular county, it will be fcarccly necciTary to detain 
 the reader with a general notice of thcfe memorials ; this 
 portion of the fubje6l having already been moft fully and 
 ably treated.' To thofe, however, who have not hitherto ftudied them, 
 they may be briefly defcribed as plates of brafs, or a mixed metal called 
 latten^ reprefenting either in their outline, or by the lines engraved upon 
 them, the living forms of departed individuals. Thefe plates were im- 
 bedded in pitch, and firmly riveted to a flab of ftone or marble, ufually 
 forming a portion of the pavement of the church. In this manner the 
 floor was richly adorned, whilft, unlike the more cumbrous fculptured 
 effigy, they caufed no obflru^tion in the area of the building ; thus 
 rendering them the beft means that could be adopted for commemorating 
 the departed, and at the fame time bringing practically before the minds 
 of the living the flern leflon, '■'•Memento ho?no quia piilvis es, et in pul- 
 verem revertcris."" 
 
 The art of engraving Monumental Brafles was fuccefsfully praflifed 
 
 ' More detailed information as regards this 
 point may be found in the feries of Brafles 
 publifhed by the MefTrs. Waller; the volume 
 by the Cambridge Camden Society ( 1 846) ; the 
 treatife on "Monumental Brafles and Slabs" 
 (1847); and the "Monumental Brafles of 
 England" (_i849), ^y ^''^ Rev. C. Boutell ; 
 
 and the Oxford " Manual of Monumental 
 Brafles" (1848), of which a new edition, by 
 the Rev. H. Haines, is now in the prefs. See, 
 alfo, the " Archajologia," ii. 297; the " Ar- 
 chaeological Journal," i. 197 ; and the " Quar- 
 terly Review," v. 337. 
 ■•' Mcfl"rs. Waller. 
 
 B 
 
2 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 in England as early at leaft as the commencement of the 13th century, 
 and continued uninterruptedly for many ages, until about four centuries 
 later it became extin6l, and the effigy of metal was wholly fuperfeded by 
 the mural tablet more commonly known at the prefent day. 
 
 So generally was this fpecies of memorial adopted during the Middle 
 Ages that the pavements of our many cathedrals and parifh churches 
 (then in their full fplendour) muft have glittered with the effigies of 
 archbifhops, bifhops, mitred abbots, knights, and civilians, each with its 
 heraldic or architectural accompaniments, and an infcription recording 
 fome fa6l in connexion with the hiftory of the deceafed. 
 
 Such, unhappily for the archasologift, is not the cafe at the prefent 
 day — the attacks of mifguided zeal,i the ravages of civil warfare, and, it 
 is to be feared in too many inftances, careleffnefs or wanton negledt — 
 have deprived us of many of the finer examples, as attefted by the 
 numerous defpoiled flabs which are commonly to be met with ; whilft 
 others, robbed of their infcription or fome interefting feature, convey 
 but an unfatisfa6lory idea of their original beauty. 
 
 Notwithftanding the great number of thefe memorials which muft 
 have utterly perifhed during the laft three centuries, examples are by no 
 means wanting in the prefent day. A lift of more than two thoufand 
 has been publiftied," but this does not probably include more than two- 
 thirds of the whole number which are yet to be found fcattered through- 
 out England. 
 
 In the various works which have during the laft few years been 
 devoted to the fubje£t many of the finer examples are fully defcribed and 
 illuftrated ; there are, however, a large number remaining, lefs worthy 
 perhaps of notice when regarded merely as fpecimens of art, or examples 
 of coftume, but which ftill prefent a variety of interefting and remarkable 
 features ; recording in fome cafes a benefaiStion to a church, or the 
 foundation of a chantry, and in others tending to throw light on the 
 
 ' In the confufion which unhappily followed 
 the great change of our national religion, the 
 Reformation of the Church of England, brafles, 
 as well as monuments of ftone, peri/hed in great 
 numbers. " This barbarous rage againft the 
 dead," fays Weever, " continued until the 
 fecond year of the reign of Qu^?en Elizabeth, 
 who, to reftrain fuch a favage cruelty, caufed a 
 proclamation (each copy of which was figned 
 with her own handwriting) to be publi/hed 
 throughout all her dominions. This was 
 feconded by another, in the fourteenth year of 
 
 the fame reign. But thefe proclamations," he 
 continues, " took fmall effeft, for much about 
 this time there fprung up a contagious brood 
 of fchifmatics, who, if they might have had 
 their wills, would not only have robbed our 
 churches of all their ornaments and riches, but 
 alfo have laid them level with the ground," — 
 j4ncknt Funerall Monuments, pp. 51-54.. 
 
 ^ By the Rev. C. Manning, in 1846. A 
 fecond lift was publifhed in 1857, by Juftin 
 Simpfon, Efq. of Stamford. 
 
Introdutlory Remarks. 3 
 
 defcent of property, the pedigrees of ancient families, and their armorial 
 bearings; thus furnifliing much information otherwife unattainable, and 
 rendering them of the greateft value to the genealogiR, the topographer, 
 and the antiquary. 
 
 The prefent volume, which is devoted to the illuftration of thefe 
 memorials fo far as regards the County of Wilts, will, it is trufted, be 
 found to fupply a deficiency which has hitherto exifted. It contains 
 notices of no lefs than fixty remaining examples, together with feveral 
 others now loft ; the latter being introduced chiefly on the authority of 
 Aubrey's manufcript colleiflions written towards the clofe of the 17th 
 century, and prefcrved in the Afhmolean Mufeum at Oxford. A chapter 
 is alfo devoted to the illuftration of a few of the more remarkable matrices 
 which from fome particular feature are ftill capable of identity. 
 
 Befides the three principal divifions, ecclefiaftical, military, and civil, 
 the feries includes feveral examples which may alfo claim a feparate 
 notice under the following heads : — 
 
 Founders of Chantries. A chantry was, as is well known, an 
 endowment for one or more priefts, who were required to perform 
 certain fervices, as recited in the "Ordinatio," for the good eftate of the 
 founder during his life, and the repofe of his foul after death. ^ By the 
 Statute 18 Edw. I., which prohibited tenants in capite from alienating 
 lands or tenements to corporations, guilds, and fraternities, a powerful 
 impulfe was given to the ereifion of chantries, and accordingly licenfes 
 for this purpofe became extremely frequent during the 14th and 15th 
 centuries. In cathedrals and collegiate churches, a chantry chapel was 
 fometimes a fmall ereilion between the piers, as that of Walter Lord 
 Hungerford, in Salifbury Cathedral; in other inftances it was an a6f:ual 
 addition to the exterior of the church, as in the cafe of the Bettefthorne 
 Chantry, at Mere ; or, fometimes an altar was eretSled at the eaft end of 
 an aide, as the Horton Chantry, at Bradford-on-Avon. In 1545 (37 
 Hen. VIII.) the revenues belonging to thefe foundations were granted 
 to the king by Parliament; and three years later (2 Edw. VI.) all chan- 
 tries were fupprefTed. A CommifTion was appointed on each occafion, 
 
 ' Chantries were, in many inftances, the 
 oft'fpring of the old age of their founders, of 
 that period when the defire arofe to improve 
 the remainder of their days, to repair the frag- 
 ments of a faltering age, and, by a happy 
 exchange, to turn earthly things to heavenly, 
 and things tranfitory to things eternal, and fo 
 
 to offer an evening facrifice to heaven. *' Die- 
 rum meorum reliquias recolligere et deficientis 
 aetatis fragmenta rcponere ac tcrrenain celeftia, 
 tranfitoria in aeterna felici communio defidcrans 
 commutare vefpcrtinum off'ero facrificium non 
 matutinum." — Surtees' Durham^ iii. 243. 
 
4 Monumental Brajfes of JVilts. 
 
 by the Crown, to enquire into their numbers, annual income, age of 
 incumbents, &c. The Commiffioners for this county, at the former 
 date, were John (Capon) Lord Bifhop of Salifbury, Thomas Seymour, 
 Knight, Robert Chydley, Efq., Thomas Leygh, and WiUiam Greene, 
 Gentlemen :i and at the latter, John Thynne and William Wroughton, 
 Knights ; Charles Bulkeley, John Barwicke, and Thomas Chafynne, 
 Efquires ; and William Thornhill and Lawrence Hyde, Gentlemen. - 
 
 In connexion with this fubjecl the Frekylton brafs at Aldbourne 
 (Plate XIV.) affords an example of a chantry prieft clad in euchariftic 
 veftments ; whilft that of Hyde (Plate XXVI.) prefents the portrait of 
 one of the Commiffioners who was engaged in the fuppreffion. 
 
 Merchants^ Marks. Thefe curious devices'' were originally 
 adopted as diftindlive figns to be ftamped upon bales of goods conveyed 
 to the ftaple town for fale or export ; but afterwards ufed in lieu of ar- 
 morial bearings, then refufed to perfons engaged in commerce. Three 
 examples are figured in the following pages, viz. of Thomas Horton 
 (1530), at Brad ford-on- A von ; Jerome Poticary (1596), at Stockton ; and 
 Peter Crooke (1633), at Steeple Afhton. 
 
 Palimpsest Brasses. Inftances fometimes occur where plates, 
 loofened from the (lab, are found to bear on the reverfe fide portions of 
 an effigy, or infcription, of earlier date. Such are the Dauntefay plates 
 (1559-71) at Weft Lavington ; the Webbe brafs ( 1 570) in St. Thomas's 
 Church, Salift)ury, and the arms of Dauntefay and Sadleir, in private 
 poffeffion. The plate of John Dauntefay (1559) bears on its reverfe 
 
 ' Their Report is preferved in the Public 
 Record Office, Chancery Lane, London (Cer- 
 tificate of Chantries, No. 59). It is a Latin 
 document written on paper, and containing 
 the annual value of each chantry, and the 
 tenure and yearly rental of the property form- 
 ing its endowment. In the fame office (No. 
 56) is a parchment roll containing an abftradl 
 of the above, and entitled " Brevis Certificatio 
 Status omi et fingulor' Collegior', Libar' Ca- 
 pellar', Cantiar', Hofpitaliu, &c." In this laft 
 roll are found feveral particulars not given in 
 No. 59. 
 
 ^ The Report of this Commiffion is alfo 
 preferved in the Public Record Office (No. 58), 
 and a duplicate copy among the Records of 
 the Dean and Chapter, in the Muniment-room 
 of Salifbury Cathedral. Each is neatly en- 
 grofTed on vellum. In the Public Record 
 
 Office (No. 105), is alfo an abbreviated copy 
 of the fame, indorfed " The Countye of Wylt- 
 fhyre, bre-viate" and containing fome additions 
 to No. 58 ; the penfions of fome of the chantry 
 priefl^s, for inilance, being here inferted in a 
 different hand. 
 
 ' They feem generally to convey a rude idea 
 of a /hip's mafl and flag, or a crols, connected 
 with a monogram or initials. " In thefe 
 marks," fays the late Rev. Edward Duke, " I 
 cannot but fay that I recognife a figurative 
 meaning. I cannot diveft my mind of the idea 
 that the pious merchant here means to defig- 
 nate that his mercantile tranfadlions are en- 
 tered into with honeft integrity — that he trades 
 beneath the crojs — that he is enlifled under the 
 banner of his Saviour — that he enters on his 
 commercial dealings with the good faith of the 
 Chriflian." — Prolufiones Hijiorka, i. 82. 
 
Introdu^ory Remarks. 5 
 
 an Infcriptlon in the Dutch language, recording a gift to a fraternity at 
 Weftmouftre, which is readily explained by the fait that all brafs plate 
 ufed in England was at this date imported from Germany and the Low 
 Countries ; its manufacture not having been introduced here until 
 A.D. 1639, when the art of brafs-engraving for monumental purpofes 
 had become nearly cxtin6t. 
 
 Inscriptions. The epitaphs of early date were little varied either 
 in language or fentiment. Until the clofe of the 15th century the 
 " Hie jocct^'' with its accompanying " cnjus anhnce propitietur Deus^" 
 was the ufual type. The infcription on the flab of William St. John, 
 Re6tor of Ramfbury, figured in Chapter II., has a very remarkable 
 commencement. From the beginning of the i6th century to the 
 Reformation, the " Orate pro an'ima^'' or, in the Englifh form, " Off 
 yo'' charite pray for the foule" was commonly ufed. Labels ifTuing from 
 the mouth, and bearing fhort legends, often a fupplication to the Holy 
 Trinity, were alfo common. Sometimes, lines conveying an imprefTive 
 leflbn to the byftander are met with, as in Plate V., which couplet, in 
 various forms, with the omiflion of the concluding fentence, is found 
 on monuments of almoft every age. 
 
 In epitaphs of poft-Reformation date there is one prominent feature, 
 viz. the elaborate manner in which the pedigree, or the many virtues of 
 the departed, are fet forth, either in profe or verfe. An abundance of 
 examples will be found in Chapter IV. Although details of the former 
 kind are of great value to the gcnealogift, the epitaphs of this period 
 muft be regarded as far lefs ftriking and folemn than thofe of earlier 
 times. 
 
CHAPTER 11. 
 
 DESPOILED SLABS. 
 
 ALISBURY CATHEDRAL. The lirft example may per- 
 haps be regarded as 
 one of the earlieft '^ 
 inftances of brafs 
 
 engraving now on record. The 
 flab (reprefented in the annexed 
 woodcut) lies on a raifed tomb 
 in the north aifle of the choir. 
 It is furmounted by a rich archi- 
 tectural canopy, and retains the 
 outline of a large floriated crofs, 
 bearing, at the interfedion of its 
 limbs, the demi-eflfigy of a bifhop 
 furrounded by four lozenges, on 
 which were probably the Evan- 
 geliftic fymbols. A remarkable 
 feature in this example is the 
 introduction of the whole of the 
 paftoral fliafFwith the half-length 
 efligy ; the ftem of the former 
 being confequently arranged in 
 an almoft parallel line with the 
 fl:em of the crofs. The memo- 
 rial is fuppofed to be that of 
 Robert Bingham, who was 
 elevated to the fee in 1229, and 
 died in 1246. 
 
 In the fouth aifle of the 
 choir is a raifed tomb, fomewhat 
 
 Siiih of Bijhop Bingham in Salijhury Cathedral. 
 
 fimilar to the above, and alfo beneath an architedlural canopy. The 
 
Defpoiled Slabs. 
 
 7 
 
 upper flab bears the indent of a dcmi-cffigy, evidently that of a 
 bifhop, but here unaccompanied by a crofs. This is fuppofed to com- 
 memorate William of York, the fuccelFor of Bifhop Bingham in the 
 fee of New Sarum, who died in 1256, and is recorded to have been 
 buried " on the fouth fide of the choir, near the altar of St. John."' 
 
 In the Lady Chapel was formerly the brafs of Nicholas Longesp^, 
 Bifhop of Salifburv, who died in 1297. This prelate was the fourth 
 fon of William Longefpe, or Longfword, a natural fon of Henry II. by 
 Fair Rofamond, and Earl of Salifbury in right of his wife, Ela, daughter 
 and hcirefs of William de Eureux. I'he flab was formed of two ftones, 
 meafuring together nearly 17 feet by 8, inlaid with brai's plates and the 
 infignia of his family.- Leland has prefcrvcd the following infcription,^ 
 which certainly is not accurate as regards the date of dcceafc : — 
 
 " ^ub ^oc lapiHc marmovco tJcsupcr insculpto I)umaium est corpus ^Rcbtrciitii patvis 
 TSTtcoIai ITongcspe, quonfam 5-nrum lEpiscopt, qui plurima \)\w contuUt ^cclcsic, ct 
 obilt 18 mens. Jtlaii, ^"B. 129 1, ex cujug parte australi jacct Bobtrtus aCSicfjamton, 
 ex parte boreali ¥?£nricus 33rantlcsbuin rcquicscit." 
 
 " Under this flab of marble, incifed on the furface, is interred the body of the Reverend 
 Father Nicolas Longefpe, formerly Bifliop of Sarum, who greatly enriched this Church, and died 
 the 1 8th of the month of May, a.d. 1291. On the fouth fide of it li.th Robert Wichamton ; 
 on the north fide, Henry Brandefburn." 
 
 The bowels of Bifhop Longefpe were interred at Ramfbury (where 
 his death probably took place), his body in Salifbury Cathedral, and his 
 heart in the Abbey Church of Lacock.'' 
 
 Beneath the fecond arch weftward from the tower in the north 
 arcade of the nave, formerly flood the Iron Chapel or Chantry, eredVed 
 about the year 1429 by Walter Lord Hunger fcrd, Lord High 
 
 ' Notes on the Oxford edition of Godwin. 
 This, together with the preceding example, 
 carries us back to a period when the Cathedral 
 Church of New Sarum was as yet incomplete. 
 The building, although the eaftern portion was 
 fufficiently advanced for the performance of 
 Divine fervice as early as 1225, was not finally 
 dedicated until the year 1258. Bifliops Bing- 
 ham and York were both zealous promoters of 
 its completion. 
 
 * The fuppofed grave of Bi/hop Longefpe 
 was opened during Wyatt's alterations in 1790. 
 With the fkeleton of the prelate were found 
 the fragments of a paftoral ftaff in wood, a 
 chalice and paten of filver-gilt, and an cpifcopal 
 
 ring of gold fet with an agate. Thefe, together 
 with other relics dilcovered at the fame date, 
 are now in the cuftody of the Dean and 
 Chapter, and fully confirm the account given 
 by Davics ( " Ancient Rites of Durham," 1 672, 
 p. 96) of the ceremony anciently obferved at 
 the burial of bifliops. 
 
 ^ Itinerary, iii. 92. 
 
 * A fmall coffin-fliaped flab, 1 6 inches by 10, 
 engraved with three crozicrs in outline, and 
 now lying in the pavement of the cloifter, is 
 fuppofed to have once marked the place of 
 this interment. It is engraved in Bowles and 
 Nichols' Lacock Abbey, p. 351. 
 
8 Monumental Brajfes of Wilis. 
 
 Treafurer of England. It contained the monumental braffes of the 
 founder,^ and his firft wife, Katharine [Peverell]. The chapel was 
 removed in 1790 to its prefent pofition on the fouth fide of the choir, 
 but the flabs, robbed of their braffes, and raifed on fome architectural 
 fragments forming a low tomb, ftill retain their original pofition. They 
 are engraved in Gough's " Sepulchral Monuments," vol. ii. Plate LVII., 
 and prefent the outline of two large effigies, male and female, the former 
 apparently reprefented in plate armour, the head refting on a tilting helm, 
 and at the feet a lion. Above and beneath each effigy was a fhield of 
 arms enclofed within a garter ; a narrow border fillet around the verge, 
 and between the effigies, bore the infcription, whilft the whole of the 
 intermediate fpace was powdered with fickles, the favourite device of 
 the Hungerford family. 
 
 Gough, in his "Sep. Mon." (ii. PI. LXXIX.), has alfo en- 
 graved another flab, bearing diftindl traces of a fingle effigy in 
 armour, the head refling on a tilting helm. Around it were feveral 
 fhields of arms, the fpace between being powdered with fickles. The 
 memorial is fuppofed to have been either that of Walter, eldeft fon 
 of Walter Lord Hungerford, who was taken prifoner in the 
 French wars, and is faid to have died at Provence, but, according to 
 Leland, was buried at Salifbury ; or of Robert, third Lord Hunger- 
 ford and Molines, who was beheaded at Newcaftle, and is alfo faid to 
 have been interred here. 
 
 ' " Henry the VJ"', fometyme Kinge of 
 England, by his letters patentis gaue lycenfe 
 vnto Walter Lord Hungarford to gyue one acre 
 of land, w"' th' app'ten'nc's in Crekelade, and 
 the advowfon of Saint Sampfon's Church there, 
 and alfo the mannor of Crekelade, called 
 Abyndunscourte, w"" th' app'ten'nc's in the 
 fayd countye of Wilteffh. to the Deane and 
 Chapter of Sar., and to their fucceffors for 
 ev', wiche landis and pofleflions amounte to 
 the clere yerely valewe of xxx" vj* ijd, to the 
 intent that the fayd Deane and Chapter /hulde 
 gyue vnto ij Chuntre preefts, and to there fuc- 
 ceflbrs for ev', the yerely falary of xvj" for 
 wyne and wexe xiij' iiij<*, and the reft of the 
 fayd pofleflions to the Deane and Chapter 
 ar'orefayd, and to there fuccefTors for ev', 
 favynge that the fayd Deane and Chapter fliulde 
 fynd one to helpe them to faye mafle, and to 
 pay hym for his yerely ftypend xiij' iiij*" ; in 
 all, xvijli vj* viijJ." — Certificate of Wilts Chan- 
 
 tries, z Edw. VI. ( I 548), in the Public Record 
 Office, London, No. 58. 
 
 Having procured a licenfe from the king. 
 Lord Hungerford, by a deed dated i June, 1429, 
 further obtained from the Dean and Chapter of 
 Sarum licenfe to enclofe, at his own coft, a 
 fpace lying between two columns (20^ feet by 
 8 feet I inch 1, there to eredl an altar in honour 
 of the BlefTed Virgin Mary, as well as to make 
 a place for his own burial. The chantry was 
 maintained until the general fuppreffion, when 
 its yearly value, as above mentioned, amounted 
 to 17/. 6i. %d. ; the plate weighed eight ounces, 
 and the goods and ornaments of the chapel 
 (including prieft's garments, &c.) were valued 
 at 1 2 J. i^d. 
 
 Lord Hungerford was alfo the founder of 
 two other chantries in the parifh church of 
 Chippenham, and the chapel of Farley Caftle, 
 the latter being his place of refidence. 
 
Defpoiled Slabs. 9 
 
 Lacock Abbey. The pavement of the cloiftcr retains the mutihited 
 memorial of its fouiidrefs, Ehi, heirefs of the family of D'Eureux, firft 
 Earls of Sarum. The flab, which is 5^ feet by 4, exhibits the indent 
 of its loft effigy, with canopy and fhields of arms. The infcription, in- 
 cifed around the margin, can ftill be traced, and confifts of a Latin 
 hexameter verfe rhymed both in the middle and at the end of each 
 line : — 
 
 "INFRA • SUNT • DEFOSSA 
 Qyja • DEDIT • HAS • SEDES 
 ABBATISSA • Ql'IDEM 
 ET • COMITISSA • SARUM 
 
 EL^ • VENERABILIS • OSSA 
 SACRAS • MONIALIBUS • ^DES 
 q\JA\ • SANCTE • VIXIT • IBIDEM 
 VIRTUTUM • PLENA • BONARUM." 
 
 It is thus tranflated by the late Rev. Canon Bowles : — 
 
 " Beneath the venerable Ela's bones 
 Are buried ; (he, thefe fcenes of facred peace — 
 Countefs of Salilbury — gave to the nuns; 
 Herfelf the Abbefs here, and full of deeds 
 Of hoiy charity." 
 
 Ela, Countess of Sarum, was the widow of William Longefpe, 
 and mother of Bifhop Longefpe, whofe brafs has been already noticed. 
 She was born at Amefbury in this county. In the year 1220 her hufband 
 laid the fourth, and herfelf the fifth ftone of the prefent Cathedral of 
 New Sarum ; and the Earl dying six years after (a. D. 1226), was the firft 
 perfon interred within its walls. His widow afterwards filled the office 
 of Sheriff-' of Wilts, and in 1232 founded the Abbey of Lacock, where 
 fhe at firft took the habit of a nun, and in 1240 was elected Abbefs. 
 Her death happened in 1261, and her remains were depofited in the 
 choir of the Abbey Church, from whence her monumental flab' was 
 removed into the cloifter on the deftru6lion of the Church foon after 
 the Diflblution. 
 
 In the pavement of the cloifter, not far from the above, is a fecond 
 brafllefs flab, probably the memorial of a later Abbefs of Lacock. 
 
 ' "It is," remarks the hiftorian of Lacock, 
 "clearly of a date long fubfequent to the death 
 of the Abbefs Ela, and was probably fubftituted 
 for her firft lefs fplcndid coffin -lid." This 
 ftatement may, however, admit of a queftion. 
 The commencement of the inlcription is of an 
 early type, its origin being perhaps found in the 
 following legend : — 
 
 "The fcholars of the Venerable Bcde wip- 
 ing after his death to put a title upon his 
 tombftone, one of them wrote, — 
 
 * Hac funt in folTa 
 Bedas ofia.' 
 
 Placing the word ojfa at the end of the verfe 
 for a rhyme, not being able at the moment to 
 think of any epithet that would exadlly fuit 
 him, he fell afleep, and, on awaking, found the 
 verfe filled up by fome angelic hand inferting 
 the word 'vcncrabilii in the blank fpace he had 
 left." 
 
lO 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 Ramsbury Church. In the pave- 
 ment of the chancel Hes a ftone flab,^ 
 9 feet by 3, once inlaid with a crofs 
 fleur)', furmounted by a demi-effigy of 
 a priefl between two fmall fhields of 
 arms. Around the verge is an incifed 
 infcription in Norman French. 
 
 «' y^ SOUTZ • CESTE • PERE • LETTERE • 
 OV • LATON • GIST • WILL'M • LA • SEINT • 
 JOHN • DE • RAiMM • ESBVRY • PERSONE • 
 ET • FER • POR • SA • ALME • PRIER • OR- 
 ASON ■ QARANT ■ lOVRS • ASSVRON • DE • 
 P'DON." 
 
 '*^ Under this ftone lettered with brafs lies Wil- 
 liam de Saint John, Parfon of Rammeftjury, and 
 to make [people] fay a prayer for his foul we aflure 
 [them] forty days of pardon.^ 
 
 William de Saint John, the 
 Redlor, or Prebend of Ramfbury, 
 whofe memorial is thus (it is believed 
 for the firfl time) identified, was living 
 in the year 1322, when he prefented 
 to the vicarage.'' The commence- 
 ment of the legend, if not unique, is 
 certainly of a very unufual type. 
 
 A canopied altar-tomb of Purbeck 
 marble, on the north fide of the chan- 
 cel, enclofes a mural flab, on which 
 are diftincl traces of a fmall male 
 effisv, with a label ifTuing from the 
 hands, on which was doubtlefs a brief 
 fupplication addrefled to a mediaeval reprefentation of the Holy Trinity 
 feen in outline above. Two fhields of arms, and an infcription beneath 
 the figure, feem to have completed the compofition. The date, judging 
 
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 Slai of William de St. Join, in Ramjhury 
 Church. 
 
 ' To William Grace, Efq. the fteward of the 
 manor, I am indebted for permiflion to remove 
 the altar fteps, which concealed a portion of 
 the marginal infcription, thus enabling me to 
 introduce an engraving of the entire flab, which 
 otherwife would have been incomplete. 
 
 ^ Similar indulgences of twenty and forty 
 
 days' pardon were granted by no lefs than ten 
 bifhops to fuch as fliould recite certain prayers 
 at the tomb of William Longefpe in Salifbury 
 Cathedral. 
 
 ■* JVihs Iiijiitutions. The name of the vicar 
 prefented was Simon de Chadelefliunt. 
 
De/poiled Slabs. 
 
 1 1 
 
 from the architecSlural enrichments of the tomb, may be about the clofe 
 of the 15th century. 1 
 
 The Darell Chapel, a "perpendicular" addition, extending eaftward 
 from the north aifle, contains three tombs, two of which were once 
 adorned with bralTes. The chapel, dedicated to the Blefled Virgin 
 Mary, was ere6led apparently about the middle of the 15th century by 
 a lord of the adjoining Manor of Little- 
 cote, and contained a chantry altar, the 
 fteps and other appendages of which 
 are ftill remaining. In the centre is 
 a large Purbeclc tomb, the upper flab 
 of which (reprefented in the annexed 
 woodcut) once contained the effigies 
 of a knight and his lady, the latter 
 wearing the mitred head-drefs. Imme- 
 diately above were three fmall figures, 
 the central one evidently a reprefenta- 
 tion of the Holy Trinity. Over thefe 
 were three fhields placed lozengewife, 
 and each furmounted by a helmet, 
 that in the centre bearing apparently 
 the creft of Darell — a Saracen's head 
 in profile — whilfl: thofe on the dexter 
 and finifter bore, the one a hand hold- 
 ing a fhort fword, or dagger ; the other 
 a bird. Around the effigies were fix 
 other fhields of arms, and the edge of 
 the flab contained a chamfer infcrip- 
 tion, now wholly loft. This tomb 
 may be attributed to William, a 
 younger fon of Sir William Darell, 
 of Sefay, co. York, who, by marriage 
 with Elizabeth, daughter and heirefs 
 
 Slab of JViUiam Darell, and his ivife 
 El:%ahcth \Calfton\, in Rams- 
 bury Church. 
 
 of Thomas Calfton, of Littlecote, by Joan, daughter and co-heir of 
 
 ' Thefc brafTes had difappeared in the year 
 1644. Captain Symonds, an officer in the 
 Royalift army, who vifited Ram (bury at this 
 date, thus mentions them in his very interefting 
 Diary preferved in the Britirti Mufeum (Hari. 
 MS. No. 939), and recently edited for the 
 Camden Society by Charles Edward Long, Efq. 
 
 " In the chancel lyes a flat ftone, in the 
 midft the demy pidture of a pricft, two fliields, 
 and the infcription is circumfcribed in old 
 French letters. Dark at night ; could not 
 rcade them. 
 
 "Another adjoining, the picture of a man 
 in armour inlayed in brafs, two rtiields, and the 
 
12 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilis. 
 
 Thomas Chelrey,^ of Chelrey (or Childrey), co. Berks, became the 
 anceftor of the Darells of Littlecote and of Weft Woodhay. He filled 
 the office of Sub-Treafurer of England, 14th Richard II., and was four 
 times Sheriff of Wilts in the reigns of Henry V. and VI. 
 
 Againft the north wall of this chapel, and on a level with the floor 
 of the altar, is a tomb fomewhat fimilar to that in the chancel above 
 defcrihed, but in a fadly mutilated condition. On a mural flab enclofed 
 within the canopy were the kneeling effigies of a knight and his two 
 wives, each with a label iffuing from the mouth. Behind one of the 
 female effigies were two, and behind the other three, figures of children. 
 On either fide was a plain fhield ; and above them a reprefentation of 
 the Holy Trinity, between two other fhields bearing crefts — one the Sa- 
 racen's head, the other the hand and dagger, as before." This memorial 
 may be affigned to Sir George Darell, of Littlecote, Knight (fon of 
 William above mentioned), and his two wives ; Margaret, daughter of 
 John, firft Lord Stourton, and Jane, daughter of Sir William Hawte, of 
 Shelvingborne, co. Kent. By the former he had iffue three daughters, 
 one of whom married John Seymour, of Wolfhall, and another Sir 
 Thomas Longe, Knight, of Wraxhall and Draycote. By his fecond wife 
 Sir George left iffue a fon. Sir Edward Darell, Knight, who was thrice 
 married, and great-grandfather of William Darell, of Littlecote, the hero 
 of the well-known tragedy recorded by Aubrey. ■' 
 
 Edington Church. Beneath an arch in the fouth arcade of the 
 nave is a canopied altar-tomb, the upper flab of which bore the effigies 
 of a knight and his lady, each about 3 feet in length ; the head of the 
 former refting on a helmet, the latter attired in the butterfly head-drefs. 
 From the armorial bearings, in ftone, on the fides of the tomb and canopy 
 this memorial may be affigned to Sir Ralph Cheney, and his wife 
 Joan, one of the co-heireffes of Sir John Pavely,* the former of whom 
 died in the year 1400. 
 
 In the pavement of the fouth aifle, and nave, are two Purbeck flabs of 
 
 infcription is circumfcribed, but all the braiTe is 
 ftolne. [Of this ftone there feems now (1859) 
 to be no trace.] 
 
 " Another, arched, of marble, and altar 
 tombe with pidlures, fliields, and infcription, 
 which were in the fide inlayed, but all the 
 brafle gone." 
 
 ' The two crefts on the upper part of the 
 flab, to the dexter and finifter of that of Darell, 
 may have been thofe of Calfton or Chelrey. 
 
 It is not unufual to find the crefts of the fami- 
 lies of heirefTes thus adopted. 
 
 ^ The Darell aifle feems unfortunately to 
 have efcaped the notice of Captain Symonds ; 
 but there is little doubt that the brafies here 
 had, like thofe in the chancel, already been 
 ftolen when he vifited the church. 
 
 ^ Li'ves of Eminent Aitn,\\. 493. 
 
 ■* On the canopy is Pavely, a crofs fleury j 
 and Cheney, four lozenges in fefle charged 
 
Def polled Slabs. 
 
 13 
 
 large diincnfions, the former bearing the indent of two effigies (the male 
 apparently in civil coftumc), with canopy and border fillet ; the latter 
 that of a monk, or prieft, probably a Re6tor of the College of Bon- 
 hommes, founded by William de Edington, Bifhop of Winchcfter' (a 
 native of this village), to which the church (dedicated by Robert Wyvil, 
 Bifliop of Sarum, in 1361,- and one of the earlieft and beft authenticated 
 examples of the archite6lural tranfition from " Decorated " to " Perpen- 
 dicular" which took place at this period) originally belonged. 
 
 In the chancel were formerly other brafllefs 
 flabs, one of which (doubtlefs alfo the memorial 
 of a Redlor) retained a fingle fhield bearing the 
 arms of the Monaftery : Or, on a crofs engrailed 
 gules five cinquefoils of the field. 
 
 Ams of Edington Monajiery. 
 
 BoYTON Church. In the pavement of the 
 GifFard Chapel (an addition to the fouth fide of 
 the nave, and an interefting example of the 
 architectural tranfition from the " Early Englifh" 
 to the "Decorated" ftyle) is a flab meafuring 10 feet by 4, and exhi- 
 biting diftin6l traces of a female effigy 6f feet in length, the head refting 
 on a cufhion, at the fides of which were two fmall fhields of arms. 
 The figure was enclofed beneath a rich canopy, and the whole fur- 
 rounded by a border fillet. ' 
 
 St. Edmund's, Salisbury. A large defpoiled flab, once bearing 
 the effigies of a knight, in plate armour, and his lady, beneath a rich 
 double canopy, lies in the pavement of the fouth aifle. 
 
 with as many efcallops; each twice repeated 
 fingly ; Cheney, impaling Pavely j and Che- 
 ney, quartering Pavely. Three fhields on 
 either fide of the tomb bear, i, A fliip's rudder; 
 2, Cheney ; and 3, Erlegh (an anceftor of 
 Pavely), per pale, four efcallops, two and two. 
 
 ' Chancellor and Treafurer to Edward III. 
 It was at firft a college for fecular priefts, but 
 afterwards, at the defire of the Black Prince, 
 changed into an eftablifhment of regular monks 
 called Bonhommes, an order of but little repute 
 in England. 
 
 ^ The matrices of the Dedication CroJJes, 
 anointed by the Bifhop with chrifm on this 
 occafion, are yet to be (ecn both on the ex- 
 ternal and internal walls of the building. Each 
 contained a plate of brafs orlatten, in the form 
 
 of a crofs, enclofed within a circle about a 
 foot in diameter. 
 
 » In Sir R. C. Hoare's " Modern Wilts," 
 the flab is defcribed as being in the pavement 
 of another chapel on the north of the nave. 
 The Rev. A. Fane, in a paper on Boyton 
 Church (" Wilts Magazine," i. 238), lays, 
 " On removing this ftone in the fummer of 
 1853 for fome repairs, a ftone coffin was found 
 enclofing a /keleton, with the flcull placed on 
 one fide, as though the body had been decapi- 
 tated." The interment he refers, with much 
 probability, to the laft male reprcfcntative of 
 the Giftard family, beheaded temp. Edward IL 
 This muft not confequcntly be regarded as thf 
 original pofition of the flab in qucftion, which 
 certainly bears the indent of ^ female figure. 
 
H 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BRASSES FROM A.D. I37O TO THE REFORMATION. 
 
 ;^^OBERT WYVIL, Bishop of Salisbury. Salisbury 
 Cathedral, a. d. 1375. [Plate I.) This interefting and 
 coftly memorial may be regarded as one of the fineft re- 
 maining examples of brafs-engraving executed in England. ^ 
 The prelate here commemorated is faid to have been born at Stanton 
 Wyvil, in Leicefterfhire. On the death of Roger de Mortival, which 
 happened in 1329, he was elevated to the fee of New Sarum, over 
 which he prefided for nearly 46 years. The engraver has endeavoured 
 to perpetuate two remarkable events which took place during his pre- 
 lacy,2 the recovery of Sherborne CafHe, and of Bere (or Biftiop's Bere) 
 Chace, in Dorfetfhire, both of which had long been alienated from the 
 fee. 
 
 The Earldom of Dorfet, together with many pofleflions, of which the 
 Caftle and Barony of Sherborne formed a portion, were given by William 
 the Conqueror to one of his faithful followers, Ofmund, Lord of Seez, 
 in Normandy, who accompanied him in his invafion of England. This 
 Ofmund, on his fubfequent elevation to the fee of Old Sarum, beftowed 
 inter alia the Caftle of Sherborne on the Bifhoprick. On the difgrace of 
 his fuccelTor, Bifhop Roger, it was feized by King Stephen, and, falling into 
 the hands of the Crown, was for nearly two centuries withheld from the 
 fee. In the year 1337 Edward III. granted it to William de Montacute, 
 
 ' This brafs is engraved, but incorredlly, in 
 Vol. LVII. of the " Gentleman's Magazine," 
 Hutchinfon's " Dorfet," iv. 122, and Nichols's 
 " Leicefterfhire," ii. 802. A much more cor- 
 real plate will be found in Carter's " Specimens 
 ot Ancient Sculpture and Painting," accom- 
 panied with a defcriptive notice by Richard 
 Gough, Efq. 
 
 * Any allufion of this kind to a particular 
 
 circumftance in the hiftory or adtions of the 
 deceafed is very rarely met with. One other 
 inftance, but of a much later date, occurs in 
 the brafs of Bifhop Robinfon (161 6) in Car- 
 lifle Cathedral. The buildings of Queen's 
 College, Oxford, to which he had been a great 
 benefactor, are here portrayed, with various 
 allegorical figures and devices. 
 
Fourteenth Century. 
 
 15 
 
 Earl of Salifbury, in return for the fervice rendered by that nobleman in 
 the overthrow of Mortimer, the favourite of Queen Ifabella ; but, as the 
 claims of the fee had never been renounced, Bifhop Wyvil profited by 
 its transfer into private hands to bring a writ of right for its recovery. 
 The cafe was accordingly brought forward in the Court of Common 
 Pleas, at Weftminfter. The Earl of Salifbury anfwered that he would 
 defend his right to the Caftle by fmgle combat, and the queftion was 
 referred to a trial by battle. 
 
 The regifter of Bifhop Wyvil (a.d. 1355) contains a letter from the 
 Bifhop addrefled to the Archdeacon of Berks,' defiring that the prayers 
 of the faithful might be offered up, and mafTes celebrated by the Clergy 
 throughout the Archdeaconry, for the fuccefs of the Bifhop's Champion; 
 more particularly on the morrow of the Purification, and eight days 
 following, the time when the combat was expelled to take place. A 
 tranflation of this document is here appended : — 
 
 " A Letter enjoining Prayer for the Champion ele(S, for the recovery of the Caftle of 
 
 Shirebourn. 
 
 *' Robert, by Divine permiirion, Bifhop of Sarum, to our dearly beloved fon, our Archdeacon 
 of Berks, or his official, health, grace, and benedidion. The Supreme and Almighty God> 
 in whofe hand all things are, demands that He (hall be invoked by the conftant prayer of the 
 juft in aid of His faithful fervants, while afting and making refiftance againft thofe who inflidt 
 injuftice. It is known unto you, my beloved fon, and, indeed, we believe it has come to be 
 generally known, as well within our diocefe as in fome parts without it, how that on account of 
 the Caftle of Shirebourn undoubtedly fituate, ereBed, and built upon foil belonging to our Church of 
 Sarum, and ivhich has from of old belonged to the demefne of the Jaid Church, -very many of our 
 predeceffors hai'ing remained peacefully in ^ofj'cffon thereof, as pertaining to t/.e right and fpiritualty 
 of the Church afore/aid, but which afterwards was, by force too great to be fuccefsfully refifted, 
 invaded in a wrongful manner, for long withheld from us, and pofTeflion of it unjuftly retained ; 
 we long fince had recourfe to legal meafures in the Court of our Lord the King, to obtain recovery 
 and reftitution thereof unto us and our Church, putting our truft in the aid of the Moft High 
 and of the Blefled Mary, His Mother and our patron, and often bearing in mind that part of the 
 oath made by us at the time of our profeffion, whereby we are bound with all our heart to 
 bring together the fcattered pofTeflions belonging to our Church. And although, fo far as in 
 us lay, we endeavoured to make peace in this behalf with our adverfary, and the ivithholder from 
 us of the Cajile aforejaid, and, for the fame reafon, made offer to him, through many lords and 
 intimate friends of ours, to make him no fmall return out of our own means if he would reflore 
 for ever unto us and our Church the faid Caftle, as would be juft and confonant to reafon. Yet 
 our faid adverfary, imitating herein the hardnefs of heart of Pharaoh, and, even as the adder, 
 ftopping his ears, cared not to liften to either ourfelves or the faid lords and friends of ours, but 
 rather made choice that the fuit aforefaid fhould be decided and brought to an end by wager 
 of battle. Wherefore we, being more fully advifed hereon by certain truftworthy and prudent 
 men, well fkilled in the law, who aflifted us in this behalf, were by them expreftly afTured that 
 we were bound to accept the mode of determining and putting an end to the faid litigation fo 
 
 ' Wyvil Reg. lib. i. (1330), fol. clxxviij. 
 The Archdeacon of Berks was either Edmund 
 de la Beche, collated in 1339, or John Har- 
 
 well, who was promoted to the Bifhopric of 
 Bath and Wells in 1366; probably the latter. 
 
i6 
 
 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 offered to us as aforefaid, if it was really our wifh to obtain juftice, and to recover the right 
 belonging to us and our Church to the Caflle fo diverted as aforefaid, or to bring our faid 
 endeavours to any good effeft ; and further, that if we fhould not fo do, we, our Church, and 
 all and every of our fucceffors, fhould be barred for ever from the right aforefaid. Confidering 
 therefore, and deliberately weighing all the matters aforefaid, adting by compulfion and unwil- 
 lingly, we gave our affent (premifing albeit with a proteft for ourfelves in this behalf) to the 
 method fo propofed, fuppliantly commending unto God and the Bleffed Mary our patron, our faid 
 caufe and the iffue thereof. And whereas, in refpedl of the faid matter, the morrow of the 
 Feaft of the Purification of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, with the days immediately following there- 
 after, is fixed and appointed in the Court of our Lord the King for deciding and bringing to 
 an end, as aforefaid, the faid matter in difpute, through champions chofen on either fide, and 
 perfonally prefented, as the ufage is, in the faid Court. We, worthily defiring to be aided 
 mercifully in a matter, fo great and of fuch importance, by the prayers of the faithful, devoutly 
 to be offered unto God and His Saints, do command you and ftriiflly enjoin, that from this 
 time forward you advife and require to be advifed and exhorted, or caufe requifition to be made 
 as to the fame, that all and every perfon fubjedl to us in the faid Archdeaconry, as well 
 religious as of any other condition whatfoever, do offer up devout prayers unto God, and that 
 thofe who hold the office of the priefthood celebrate maffes (and efpecially on the day aforefaid, 
 and the eight days immediately following the faid morrow) for the happy iffue of the faid matter, 
 as alfo for him who is the champion of ourfelves and our Church — Richard by name; to 
 the end that, by the aid of God's grace, he may be protedled in the defence of his body, and, in 
 the moment of conflift, from all evils and perils, and be faved harmlefs in the refult ; as, alfo, 
 that they fuppliantly put up other devout prayers unto God. And to the end that we may 
 the more fteadfaftly awake the minds of the faithful to do as aforefaid. Sec. &c." 
 
 Of the proceedings which took place in the Court of Common Pleas 
 we have a detailed account (by one prefent) in the Year-Book,' of Hilary 
 Term, 29th Edw. III. (1355). The following is a tranflation : — 
 
 " A Writ of Right was brought by the Bifhop of Salifbury againft the Earl of Salifbury, by 
 which the Biihop demanded the Caftle oi Salifbury- [Sherborne], with the appurtenances; and 
 laft Term they joined battle between their champions, of whom Robert ^ S[hawein was the 
 champion of the Bifhop, Nichol D. champion of the Earl ; and they had day till the morrow of 
 the Puiification, and it was faid to them by the Court that they ought at that day to be with 
 their champions arrayed ready to do battle. 
 
 " And before the break, of day of the morrow [of the Purification] the Bifliop comes firft, 
 and his champion follows him to the bar, clothed in white leather nearly to the thighs, and 
 above this a coat of red fendal,'' painted with the arms of the Bifliop, and a knight to carry his 
 baton, and a varlet his target, which was of the colour of his coat, and painted with images 
 within and without ; and the Bifliop was at the bar with his champion near him, the knight 
 holding his baton. 
 
 ' "The reports are extant in a regular feries 
 from the reign of Edward II. inclufive, and, 
 from his time to that of Henry VIII., were 
 taken by the prothonotaries, or chief fcribes of 
 the Court, at the expenfe of the Crown, and 
 publifhed annually, whence they are known 
 under the denomination of Year Books." — 
 Blackstone's Commentaries, i. Introd. s. 3. 
 
 '^ From this evident mifl:ake of the fcribe, 
 Camden, Fuller, and the author of " Magna 
 
 Britannia," have all erred in defcribing the 
 contefted fortrefs as that of Old Sarum. 
 
 ' Another error of the fcribe. In the 
 Bifliop's letter he is diftindly faid to be " Ri- 
 cardo nomine^ 
 
 ^ A thin filk. The «' Doctour of Phifik " 
 in Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales" wears a fuit 
 
 " Lyned with taffata and whh fendal." 
 
Fourteenth Century. 17 
 
 "And Lord Chief Juftice Sir Robert Thorpe caufed the target to be raifed at the back of 
 the champion, fo that the top of the target nearly paflcd the height of the back of his head ; and 
 fo it was held elevated at the back of the champion while he was at the bar. 
 
 " And then comes the Earl, on the other part, leading his champion by the hand, clothed in 
 white leather, and above a coat of red fcndallc with a /hield of arms of the Earl, and two knights 
 carry two white batons in their hands ; and his target was held at the back of the champion the 
 fame as the champion of the Bifhop. 
 
 " Mr. Serjeant Knivet,' for the Demandant. — 'You have here Robert, Bi/hop ofSalifbury, with 
 his free man Robert, the fon of John de S[hawell], arrayed ready to difprove and to perform 
 (with the grace of God) this that the court of our Lord the King formerly awarded, or fliall 
 award, that this he offers againft William Earl of Salilbury ; and we pray that it may be as we 
 demand.' 
 
 " Mr. Serjeant FifF[hide]. — 'You have here William Earl of Saliibury, with his freeman 
 Nicholas, fon of D., all arrayed ready to perform (with the grace of God) according as the court 
 of our Lord the King fhall award.' 
 
 " Mr. Juftice Green.* — 'Sir Bifhop, go and take a chamber within this palace, and unequip 
 your champion, and leave there all his harnefs under guard of the Warden of the Palace, and the 
 Court here will fee fo that no fraud or deceit exift. And you, Sir Earl, in the fame manner in 
 another chamber. And command has been given to the Warden of the Palace to affign cham- 
 bers, and keep your days on Monday here.' 
 
 " And the Court faid, ' Go ; retire from the bar at one time, fo that neither go before the 
 other.' 
 
 "And inafmuch as they would not retire the one before the other, they remained until the 
 Judges rofe, who with difficulty made them go, 
 
 "At this day [Monday] came the Bifliop and the Earl, with their champions, as before ; but 
 in the mefne time, the Judges had view of all the harnefs, fo that the batons were of a length, 
 that is, of five quarters, and the targets of a length and breadth, and the images ; and the 
 champions both took their harnefs ; and Thomas, my Lord Beauchamp, came to the place, and 
 put forward a letter under the Privy Seal to the Judges, rehearfing the matter of the plea between 
 the parties; and becaufe this touched upon the right of the King, he commanded the Judges 
 that they fhould continue this plea in the fame ftate in which it now is until Thurfday next 
 following. 
 
 " Mr. Juftice Green. — 'For this that the King has commanded us to continue, and alfo, 
 inafmuch as in fearching the harnefs of your champions we found fome defeats, and we know not 
 by whom they fhould be amended ; but, however that may be, keep your days here in the fame 
 plight as now on Thurfday next.' 
 
 " And it was faid that the Judges had found in the coat of Shawell, the champion of the 
 Bi/hop, feveral rolls of prayers and <:harms ; therefore Green faid as aforefaid, and [added] 
 ' Depart ye from the bar;' and becaufe neither would depart before the other, they remained 
 until the Judges rofe, as before. 
 
 " And Mr. Juftice Green faid to the Demandant, ' Sir Bifhop, depart from the bar on pain of 
 lofing your adlion !' Whereupon he departed. 
 
 "And before their day (Thurfday) they agreed io that the Bifhop gave to the Earl 2500 
 marks. 
 
 " And on Thurfday the Bifhop came with his champion, arrayed as before ; and the Earl was 
 called and did not come, and the default was recorded. 
 
 " Lord Chief Juftice Thorp put forward a writ for the Bifhop, rehearfing the matter, and 
 how the Earl had prayed the King, and how then the King had commanded the Juftices that 
 they fhould go on with the plea, but not proceed to judgment without confulting him (the King); 
 and now he commanded that in fuch a way, in the bufinefs aforefaid, the procefs may be that they 
 
 ' Afterwards Lord Chief Juftice of the I 2 ^ffg^wards Lord Chief Juftice of the Corn- 
 King's Bench. ] mon Pleas. 
 
 D 
 
1 8 Monumental Braffes of Wilts. 
 
 proceed further Co final judgment, without now inquiring as to collufion, according to the form 
 of the ftatute De Religkfts.^ 
 
 " Whereupon Mr. Juftice Green rehearfed how the battle was waged, and then the default of 
 the Earl recorded ; w-hereupon it was awarded by the Court that the Bifliop fliould recover the 
 Caftle of S., as the right of his Church of Our Lady ofSalifbury, to him and his fuccefTors, 
 quit of the Earl and his heirs for ever.^ 
 
 " And Sir Bifhop fued execution of this by virtue of the writ aforefaid, without any Inquifition 
 De Collujtone." 
 
 The final concord by which the Earl agreed, for the fum of 2500 
 marks, to quit to the Biftiop all claim to the Caftle for himfelf and his 
 heirs, is ftill extant among the records in the cuftody of the Dean and 
 Chapter of Sarum. 
 
 Bifhop Wyvil having enjoyed peaceable pofleffion of the Caftle of 
 Sherborne for twenty years, died therein on the 4th of September, 
 A.D. 1375, and his remains were interred in the midft of the choir of 
 his cathedral ; but this portion of the building having been newly paved 
 with chequered marble, in the year 1684, the flab containing his brafs 
 was removed into the north end of the eaftern tranfept, where it is now 
 prefer ved. 
 
 On the brafs is feen a reprefentation of the contefted Caftle, with 
 the Bifliop's champion ftanding at the gate of the outer ward, holding 
 his baton in his right hand, and with his left fupporting a fhield, with a 
 circular hole in the centre,' and fufpended by a belt round the neck. 
 In the gate of the firft ward is a half-length effigy of the Bifhop, with 
 uplifted hands, and clad in Euchariftic veftments, confifting of the 
 mitre and gloves, the amice, albe, tunic or dalmatic, maniple, and 
 chefuble ; the left arm fupporting the paftoral ftafF. Rifing above the 
 reft of the building is the keep, or central tower, with its gateway and 
 portcullis, and, in the foreground of the fortrefs, the reprefentation of a 
 chafe, with the figures of hares, in allufion to the recovery of the Chace 
 of Bere. 
 
 The entire margin of the flab was furrounded by a border-fillet, 
 bearino; a long Latin infcription, a portion of which is now loft ; but the 
 mifllng words, inferted between brackets, are here fupplied from the 
 
 ' " De Viris Religiofis " was a ftatute to pre- 
 vent alienation in mortmain, pafTed 7 Edw. I. 
 (1239), and is printed by the Record Com- 
 miflioners in " The Statutes of the Realm," 
 i. 51. 
 
 - " Some," fays Fuller, " highly commended 
 the zeal of the BiJhop afferting the rights of 
 his Church, while others condemned this in 
 
 him as an unprelatical a£l, God allowing duels 
 no competent deciders of fuch differences. 
 And moderate men, to find out an expedient, 
 faid he did this not as a biftiop but baron." — 
 Worthies of England, Leiafterflitre. 
 
 3 Probably for the purpofe of entangling the 
 " crok " or head of the baton, and thus gaining 
 a flight advantage over the adverfary. 
 
Fourteenth Century. 19 
 
 Diary of Captain Symonds, before alluded to, who vifited the cathedral 
 in 1644, when it was entire : — 
 
 " [Ilic jacct lionc mcmortc Bobtus JiJtybcU I)uj«s ccclic S-alisburie "lEpus qui EttUam 
 tstam quativaginia quinquc annos $c ampltus pncifttc ?c lautabilit' rait, Uispsa cjustlitt 
 ccclic pruUcntcv , tougrcqalnt $c congrcgata ut pastor Uigilans couscrbatiit. lint' cnim alia 
 bcficia sua minima Ca'itrum ticc ccclic Be ~>cI)ivcbon p. tiuccntos annos ct amplius manu 
 miliiati biolcnt' "occupatum citicm ccilic ut pugil] intrcpiHus rccup'abit ac ipi ccclic 
 cftateam snam tJe la Bcrc rcstitui pcurabit qui quarto tiic ;g)cptcmbri3 anno Bni millio 
 CCCV Iiib'f ct anno consccr' sue xlb}*° sicut altissimo placuit in tico Castro Bcbitum 
 rctlCiKit [l)umanc natur' Cujus aic ppicici' illc in quo sp'abit Jc cvctiitiit cuncia 
 potcns.]"' 
 
 " Here lyeth Robert Wyvell, of happy memory, Bifhop of the Church of Salifbury, who for 
 more than forty-five years peaceably and laudably governed that It-e. He gathered together the 
 difperfed pofleffions of the Church, and, having fo collected, as a vigilant paftor he prudently 
 maintained the fame ; for, among the leaft of his other benefits, he recovered, like an intrepid 
 champion, the Caftle of Sherborne to the faid Church, which tor 2co years and more had been 
 withheld therefrom by military violence. He alfo procured the rertoration to the fame Church 
 of its Chace of Bere ; and on the 4th day of September, a.d. 1375, and in the forty-fixth year of 
 his confecration, according to the will of the Moft High, paid the debt of human nature in the 
 faid Caftle. On whofe foul may the Almighty have mercy, in whom he trufted and believed." 
 
 Of the Evangeliftic fymbols, formerly at the angles of the flab, 
 thofe of SS. Matthew and Mark only are remaining. Two of the 
 fhields which occupied the intermediate fpace have alfo difappeared, 
 the remaining three are charged with a crofs between four rrndlets of fix 
 points pierced — the arms of Wyvil." 
 
 An obit for the repofe of the foul of Bifhop Wyvil was anciently 
 celebrated in Salifbury Cathedral on the nth of 06lober, as appears by 
 the extracts from the " Martyrologye Book," printed in Leland's 
 " Itinerary." 
 
 Circa A.D. 1380. A Knight, (probably of the Ouintik 
 family). Clyffe Pypard. [Plate II.) This effigy lies in the pave- 
 ment near the weft end of the fouth aifle. It reprelents a knight clad 
 in the armour worn at the latter part of the 14th century. On the 
 head appears the bafcinet^^ or conical helmet of fteel, from the rim of 
 
 ' Dr. Rawllnfon's "Hiftory and Antiquities arms on the Bifhop's brafsj neither does his 
 
 of Salifbury Cathedral and Bath Abbey," 1723, ' name occur in the pedigree of Wyvile and 
 
 contains fome portion of the infcription now ■ Brudenell, of Stanton Wyvile and Dene, printed 
 
 miffing. in Nichols's " Leiccfterlhire " (Gartre Hund.), 
 
 ■■^ Bifhop Wyvil is generally ftated, as above ii. 807. 
 
 mentioned, to have been born at Stanton Wy- * The bafcinet, with a removable vizor, was 
 
 vil, CO. Leicefter. That branch of the family, frequently worn in battle ; the heaume, or 
 
 however, bore Gules, fretty -vaire a chief or, \ tilting helmet, being referved for the tourna- 
 
 which does not at all correfpond with the | mcnt. 
 
20 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 which defcends the cama'il^ or tippet of ring-mail, covering the {boulders 
 and attached to the bafcinet by a cord paffing through rings, which is 
 here clearly fliown. The hauberk is covered by the jupon^ or jerkin, 
 which fits tightly over the body, and is efcalloped at the lower edge. 
 The arms are cafed in brajfarts of plate, with coud'ieres^ or elbow-pieces, 
 and epaul'ieres at the fhoulders. The gauntlets, alfo of plate, have 
 knobs at the principal joint of each finger. On the legs are jambarts of 
 plate, with genouilleres at the knees ; and on the feetfollerets, with rowel 
 fpurs. 
 
 The long and tapering fword is attached to the baudrick^ or military 
 belt, girded over the hips, and richly ornamented. The feet of the 
 knight reft on a lion, the head of which, together with the infcription 
 and fhields of arms, have difappeared ; nothing therefore remains, with 
 the exception of the armour, to fix the date of the memorial. 
 
 Aubrey, in his " Colledlions for North Wilts," mentions the lofs 
 of the infcription, but afligns it to a knight of the family of Quintin, 
 who were lords of Bupton, in the parifh of Clyft'e Pypard. This is 
 probably correct, as the fouth aifle appears to have contained a chapel 
 belonging to the Bupton eftate. The parclofe, or fcreen of carved oak, 
 which divides the eaft end of the aifle for this purpofe, ftill remains, and 
 the brafs in qucftion lay, until a few years fince, either within, or clofe 
 to the enclofure thus formed, leaving but little doubt as to its identity.^ 
 
 The figure, after a lapfe of nearly five centuries, is ftill in good 
 prefervation, and from its bold outline and general good effe£l, forms a 
 ftriking obje6l in the pavement of the church. 
 
 Circa a.d. 1393. Sir Edward Cerne and Lady. Draycote 
 Cerne. [Plate III.) This brafs lies in the pavement of the chancel. 
 The armour of the knight is fimilar to that of the laft example, with 
 one or two trifling exceptions, the camail being of chain inftead of ring- 
 mail, and the ruifericorde^ or dagger of mercy, which was ufed to give the 
 coup de grace., is attached to the right fide of the fword-belt. A portion 
 of the hauberk., which is of ring-mail, appears in this inftance beneath 
 
 ' The Rev. C. Boutell, in his " Monu- | aide, however, was the burial-place of the 
 mental Brafl'es of England," 1849, very natu- Cobham family, and here was alfo a chapel 
 
 rally afcribes it to a Cobham. From the 
 Inquifitions p. m., it appears that John de 
 Cobham, knight, died feifed of the manor and 
 advowfon of " Clyve Fippard," 21 Rich. II. 
 ( I 397) ; and to him the memorial would feem 
 at firft fight to be attributable. The north 
 
 fimilar to that in the fouth aifle, the fite of 
 which is now occupied as a pew by Horatio 
 Nelfon Goddard, Efq., the prefent owner of 
 the manor, which anciently belonged to the 
 Cobhams. 
 
Fourteenth Century. 
 
 21 
 
 th^jupon. The left hand of the knight is laid on his breaft, whilft the 
 right hand holds that of his lady. The latter is habited as a widow, 
 with the wimple and coverchef. The loofe robe, with tight fleeves, is 
 partially obfcured by a mantle, faftened acrofs the bofom by a cordon, 
 with Aide and talTels. 
 
 The infcription is in Norman French : — 
 
 " Jttoun sire (i^BiBarti Ccrne cljiUakr o eiyne sa fcmme gist icn : tie Ics qucux 
 almcs Ucut p sa pnu cpt m'ci. ^mcn." 
 
 " Sir Edward Cerne, knight, and Ellen, his wife, lye here ; upon whofe fouls may God of His 
 pity have mercy. Amen." 
 
 The fhields of arms, as well as the creft which furmounted the 
 helmet, have long been torn from the flab. The creft, judging from 
 the matrix, which is fhown in outline on the plate, was a demi-lion 
 rampant. 
 
 The family' of Cerne were for more than a century and a half 
 Lords of Draycote, which derived from them the diftin6live adjunct by 
 which it is ftill known. 
 
 Sir Edward Cerne, as appears by the Inquifition taken on the death 
 of his elder brother, John de Cerne, in 1348, was then twenty-one 
 years of age. As his own death happened in 1393, he muft then have 
 been aged fixty-fix. He died feifed of the Manor of Draycote, with 
 the advowfon of the church ; one mefluage and one virgate of land 
 in Langley ; and the Manor of Avon, which he held in right of his 
 fecond wife, Ellen, reli6l of Sir Walter Pavely. His fon, Edward, by 
 his firft wife, aged twenty-feven, was found to be his heir.- 
 
 EUen de Cerne appears to have died without iflue in 1419.-^ 
 
 Philippa de Cerne. Draycote Cerne. [Plate IV.) This 
 plate is given wholly on the authority of Aubrey, the original having 
 long fince difappeared. The flab which once contained the brafs ftill 
 finds a refting-place in the floor of the chancel, but has been broken in 
 two pieces and confiderably ftiortened, thus giving the matrix the 
 
 ' For a pedigree of the family, as connected 
 with Draycote, fee a valuable paper on the 
 defcent of the manor, by Charles Edward 
 Long, Efq., printed in the " Wilts Magazine," 
 iii. 178. 
 
 2 Inq. p. m. in the Public Record Office, 
 London (17 Rich. IL), No. 12. 
 
 ^ The inquifition taken at Chippenham, on 
 her deceafe, the Monday after the feaft of St. 
 
 Michael (7 Hen. V.), by John Wyke, efcheator 
 of the King in co. Wilts, ftates that John 
 Pavely died feifed of the manor of Avene, 
 held of the Abbey of Malmelbury, which was 
 given to a certain Walter Pavely, and Elene 
 his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. After- 
 wards the faid Walter died without an heir. 
 Elene re-married Edward de Cerne. 
 
1 1 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 appearance of a demi-figure. The three fhields of arms were loft in 
 Aubrey's time. The coftume, in which the reticulated head-drefs and 
 long fleeve lappets are the moft prominent features, would fix the date 
 of the memorial as about the year 1370. 
 
 The infcription, in Norman French, is alfo preferved by Aubrey : — 
 
 "^!)ilippe He Ccrnc g;st icn 
 ©im tJc s'almc cwt mcrci." 
 
 " Philippa de Cerne lies here, 
 On whofe foul God have mercy." 
 
 Philippa was the daughter of Sir Edward Cerne by his firft wife, 
 Philippa, of whofe family we have no record. Edward, the brother of 
 Philippa, who was found to be heir to his father, was, as above 
 mentioned, twenty-feven years of age in 1393. He was confequently 
 born about 1366, which will afford a clue to this memorial of his 
 youthful fifter Philippa, who muft have died at an early age, and in the 
 lifetime of her father. 
 
 A. D. 1398. John Bettesthorne. Mere. [Plated.) This fine 
 and perfecSl: effigy' lies on the pavement of a chantry chapel attached 
 to the fouth fide of the chancel. The armour is very fimilar to 
 that of Sir Edward Cerne (Plate III.) The bafcinet is very acutely 
 pointed, the hauberk and camail are both of chain-mail, the gauntlets 
 have two knobs {gadlings') at the joints of each finger, and the belt is 
 richly embroidered (perhaps jewelled), the end beyond the buckle being 
 arranged as a pendant hanging from the centre. 
 
 The infcription is remarkable as containing the Dominical or Sunday 
 letter for the year of deceafe,- and in the original is reverfed ; — 
 
 " l^ic iacct 3oI)cs Bcttcstljornc quontia tins Be CIjaUcntDiicljc funtiator iftiiis taniarte 
 qui obijt Uj Btc JFcbruarij "Slnno tini jfm°C(£(Cx(!rtjiij liura Unicar C5. tui' ale 
 p'picict' tJcus amc 
 
 Cu qui ii-asicris, faiUcas sta plcge plora 
 
 drs qB cram ct cris qtJ su p me prcor era." 
 
 ' The fine brafles of Sir George de Fel- I * Two other inftances of this are the braffes 
 brigge (1400), in Playford Church, Suffolk 5 
 Sir Nicholas Dagworth (1401), at Blickling, 
 Norfolk ; and Sir William and Lady Bagot, at 
 Baginton, Warwickshire ; have been afcribed 
 to the fame artift as this fpecimen. 
 
 of Ralph de Knevynton (1370), at Aveley, 
 Eflex ; and Edmund Asfheton, redlor (1522), 
 at Middleton, Lancafhire. 
 
Fourteenth Century. 23 
 
 "Here lyeth John Bettefthornc, formerly Lord of Chadcnwyche, founder of this chantry, 
 who died the 6th day of February, Anno Domini 1398. Dominical Letter E. On vvhofe foul 
 may God have mercy. Amen. 
 
 " Whofo pafTeth by, behold, ftand, read, bewail. 
 
 Thou art what I was, and /halt be what I am, pray for 
 
 me I befecch thee." 
 
 Chadcnwyche, or Charnage (the Chedelwich of DomefdayJ, is a 
 tything belonging to Mere; but Bettcfthorne, as appears by an Inquifition 
 taken on his deceafe, was owner of much additional property in Wilt- 
 fhire, and other counties.^ He left an only daughter, Elizabeth, wife 
 of Sir John Berkeley, knight, who was his fole heirefs, and thirty years 
 of age at the time of his deceafe. 
 
 The Bettcfthorne Chantry was founded in the Chapel of the Bleffed 
 Virgin Mary (where the brafs ftill lies), and was dedicated in honour of 
 the Annunciation of the Virgin. It originally confifted of one Chaplain 
 only, but a further licenfe was fubfequently obtained from the king to 
 increafe the endowment for the maintenance of two other chaplains, 
 who were daily to perform divine fervice in the faid chapel " for the 
 good eftate of the faid John whilft he lived, and for his foul when he 
 fliould depart out of this light, for the fouls of his parents and other 
 anceftors, and for the fouls of all the faithful departed, for ever." 
 
 A fecond Inquifition, taken on the deceafe of Bettefthornc, on behalf 
 of the Mere Chantry," defcribes the lands and tenements forming its 
 endowment, which appear to have confifted of one mefluage, forty 
 acres of land, and twelve acres of meadow in Clopton ; ten acres of 
 land, and two of meadow, at Gillingham ; nine mefluages, eighty acres 
 of land, four of meadow, and one of wood, in Mere; together with the 
 manors of Mere and Chadcnwyche. 
 
 The patronage of the Mere Chantry falling into the hands of the 
 Berkeley family, through marriage with the heirefs of Bettcfthorne, it 
 was fubfequently known as " Berkeley's Chantry," under which name 
 it is generally dcfcribcd. 
 
 ' Public Record Office (22 Richard IL), 
 No. 6. Bettcfthorne's property in Wiltshire 
 at the time of his death confifted of the manor 
 of Weft: Grymftead, with the advowfon of the 
 church ; the hamlets of Plaitford (with the 
 advowfon of its free chapel), Bemerton, Ouid- 
 hampton, and More; the manor of Abbefton, 
 
 four acres of meadow in Mere Bourton ; the 
 manor of Mere ; one virgate of land, four acres 
 of meadow, one meffuage, and one carucatc of 
 land, at Knoyle Odierne ; the advowfon of the 
 Mere Chantry ; one carucate and ten acres of 
 land at Seggehull ; one meffuage, one carucate 
 of land, and ten acres of meadow, with the 
 
 with the advowfon of its free chapel; one bailiwick of the Hundred of Elleftubbe at 
 
 meftuage, one carucate of land, and ico acres j Enford. Alfo other lands, &c. in the counties 
 
 of heath at Eaft Grimftead ; the manor of i of Snmerfct, Southampton, and Dorfet. 
 
 Weft Dean ; one meffuage, one virgate, and | ' 22 Richard IL, No. 99. 
 
24 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts, 
 
 In the "Valor Ecclefiafticus," a.d. 1534, it is ftated to be '•'•ex 
 fundacoe yohis Barkeley 7niUt." Henry Duvall, cuftos of the three 
 Chantries, afBrms his portion thereof to be worth annually 6/. 13^. 2^., 
 fubje6t to a deduction of 14^. id. ; John Smyth, another cantarift, 
 6/, 6^.; and Richard Swayne, a third cantarift, 7/. 12s. id. with a 
 deduftion of 255., making together an annual income of 18/. lis. "^d. 
 Out of this fum lOs. was diftributed yearly to the poor, that they might 
 pray for the foul of the founder ; a rent of loj. paid to Roger Stourton, 
 and a third fum of 5j-. to the Dean of Sarum ; again reducino; the clear 
 annual value to 17/. 75. 3^/. 
 
 In the firft year of Edward VI., when Chantries were fupprefled, it 
 was found that the annual income of the " Barkeleye Chauntre" 
 amounted to 23/. los. lod. with the following dedudlions : — 
 
 £ s. d. 
 A rent to the King's manor of Mere . . .115 
 
 A like rent to the Dean and Chapter of Sarum .064 
 Two like rents on land called " Saddleborne," to 
 
 Mr. Morton and Peter Grene . . .0134 
 
 £2 I I 
 leaving 21/. gs. gd. as the clear annual value. 
 
 The cantarifts at this date were John Gelebrand, aged 48, Richard 
 Swayne, aged 63, and John Ferard, aged 40 years ; the plate belonging 
 to the chantry weighed ten ounces, and the goods and ornaments were 
 valued at 3/. 15J. lod. The Commiflioners add to their report the 
 following memorandum refpecting the chantry priefts : — 
 
 " M**.- — The fayd Incumbentis be verey honefte men, and of good report amonge there 
 neighbours, albeit not able to fve a Cure by reafon of their Infyrmytyes and vveakenes, and 
 ferthermore verey poore men, and have none other lyvinges but thefe Chuntrees onlv. 
 
 " Alfo the fayd Rychard Swayne reedyfyed all the houfes app'teyninge unto the fayd Chuntre 
 after they were brent [burnt] at his owne ppe coftis and chargis to the accomplislhement whereof 
 he folde xl' land of his owne inherytaunce, and alfo is yet indebtyd x" vj* viij^i for the repayment 
 wherot he layd in gage ij peyre of veftementis of blewe velvet and oone payre of Cruettis of Sylv' 
 Wiche thingis be not worthe fo moche money as they lye for in confyderacon of wiche p'miflis 
 he prayith the Kingis moofte honorable councell to confyder hym accordinglye." ' 
 
 In 1553, five years after the fuppreflion of their chantrj^, the three 
 incumbents were ftill living ; Ferard and Gelebrand were in receipt of 
 an annual penfion of 5/. each, whilft Swayne, probably on account of 
 his age and length of fervice, was rewarded with an additional i/. per 
 annum. - 
 
 ' Chantry Certificate, No. 58. Public Re- | ^ Willis's A'fitred ^ibeys, n. 258. 
 cord Office. 
 
Fourteenth Century. 25 
 
 In the 2d Edward VI. [1548] lands in Gillingham and Motcombe, 
 belonging to " Berkeley's " Chantry in Mere, were granted to John 
 Thynne, Efq. 
 
 By a deed bearing date 20th November, 6 Edward VI. [1552], and 
 mentioned by Sir R. C. Hoare (" Hund. of Merc," p. 12), it appears 
 that Sir John Thynne, Knight, granted to Thomas Chafyn, Efq., a leafe 
 " of all thofe his meffuages, cottages, orchards, lands and meadows, pas- 
 tures, feedings, rents, reverrions,and hereditaments, in Mere,parcellofthe 
 late difTolved chantry founded in the parifh church of Mere, called ' Barke- 
 ley Chauntery,' for a term of fifty-one years, at a rent of 12/. 145. 6(^." 
 
 From another deed, alfo noticed by Sir R. C. Hoare, dated nth 
 November, 5 Elizabeth [1563], it appears that Sir John Thynne 
 further fold to the faid Thomas Chafyn, Efq., the aide or chantry chapel 
 " adjoining and placed on the fowthe fide of the parifhe church of 
 Meere aforefaid, wherein lately the late chantry prieft of fome certayne 
 chantry, being in Meere aforefaid, called the Chantry of the BlefTed 
 Virgyn Mary in Meere, ufed to fay mafTe ; and which chappel or lie 
 lately app'tained to the faid chantry, and came to the handes of our late 
 Sovereign Lord, of famous memory. King Edward the Sixth, by the 
 difTolution of the faid chantry, by forfe of the A61 of P'liament made 
 in the firfl yeare of the rayne of the faid late Kynge, conc'ning giving of 
 chantries to the faide late King, his heyres and fuccefTors, and after 
 graunted by the faid late Kynge by his letters patents, amongeft other 
 things, to me the faid Sir John Thynne, and to one Lawrence Huyde, 
 Gent., and to my heyres for ever.''^ 
 
 It is worthy of notice that thcfe grantees of the chantry and its 
 endowment were both commifHoners afting on behalf of the Crown at 
 the fuppreflion. The chapel, falling by purchafe into the hands of 
 Thomas Chafj^n, Efq., became the burial-place of that family, and of 
 their defcendants, the Groves of Zeals, and contains many fepulchral 
 memorials appertaining to both. 
 
 John Betteflhornc was alfo the founder of a chantry in the church 
 of Gillingham, co. Dorfct, in honour of St. Katharine, Virgin and Martyr.'- 
 
 ' " But fubfequent to this conveyance," lays 
 Sir R. C. Hoare, " it appears that a chantry, 
 bearing the name of ' Berkeley's,' was granted 
 by Queen Elizabeth, a.d. 1592, by letters 
 patent, to Edward Downinge and Roger Mant, 
 their heirs and afligns, together with certain 
 lands, tenements, &c. ' Quae omnia et fingula 
 premifla in Meere et infra paroch. de Meere, 
 nupcr cognita per nomen de Berkeley's Chan- 
 
 trey, fundat. infra ecclefiam parochial, de Meere 
 predict, ir.odo diffolut. quondam exiftebant.' " 
 
 * 22 Rich. II. It was found not to the 
 King's detriment to grant licenfe to John 
 Bettcllhorne to give one mefTuage and eighty- 
 five acres of land in Gillingham and Milton to 
 the chaplain of the chantry of St. Katharine 
 in Gillingham. {Sjrum Reg.) 
 
26 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 The arms of Bettefthorne were Argent, on a faltier gules five 
 eftoiles or. 
 
 A.D. 141 7. John Wykham, Rector. Bishopstone (near 
 Salifbury). A plate in the pavement of the chancel bears this infcrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " !|it Jacct tins Sloljcs aSSy'^^aw qtiotJa Bettor istC £tclu q. obtit ixu° Uic mens' 
 ^ugusti ^° tmi im°CC(!rC°XU3rE° tuj ^ie p'picict' Be' amc." 
 
 " Here lyeth Sir' John Wykham, formerly Reftor of this Church, who died the 29th day of 
 the month of Auguft, a.d. 1417, on whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 The Prebend or Re6lory of Bifhopfton was formerly in the gift of 
 the Bifhop of Winchefter as lord of the Manor,^ and the deceafed 
 was prefented thereto in 1379 by William ofWykeham, from which 
 it may perhaps be inferred that he was a relative of this prelate.^ 
 
 Wykham appears to have refigned the Redlory in 141 6, as his 
 fucceflbr, John Foxholes, was indu6ted that year. 
 
 A.D. 1418. Thomas and Edith Polton. Wanborough. 
 [Plate VI.) This brafs lies on the pavement at the eaft end of the 
 fouth aifle, which appears to have been formerly ufed as a chantry. 
 The male figure is reprefented in the civil coftume of the period, con- 
 fifting of a plain tunic, with a hood, and a girdle at the waift. The 
 beard is flightly forked, and the hair fhort, and removed from the 
 temples like that of the Reeve defcribed by Chaucer in his " Canterbury 
 Tales,"— 
 
 " His heer was by his eres rounde i-fchorn, 
 His top was dockud lyk a preert biforn." 
 
 The female figure appears in a loofe robe, with full fleeves, cufFs 
 at the wrifts, and very fhort waift. The head-drefs is a coverchef 
 fimilar to that worn by Elene de Cerne (Plate III.) 
 
 ' For an explanation of the word " Do- 
 minus," or " Sir," as anciently prefixed to the 
 names of the clergy, fee an interefting paper on 
 " The Ancient Styles and Defignations of Per- 
 fons," by F. A. Carrington, Efq. in " Wilts 
 Magazine," i. 329. 
 
 * At the Reformation it was feized by 
 the Crown, and granted to Sir William Her- 
 
 bert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke, 35 Hen. 
 VIII. 
 
 ^ In the " Wilts Inftitutions" the name ap- 
 pears with an " a/ias," as Johannes Broun, or 
 Borne, alias Wykeham. During the period in 
 which he held the Reftory he feems to have 
 prefented four vicars. 
 
Fifteenth Century. 
 
 1-1 
 
 The infcription is in hexameter verfe, rhymed in fome inftances 
 both in the middle and at the end of the line : — 
 
 " ilNatmorco lapitit C{)omas jactt Ijic Sf CFDitIja 
 C^uc ■^poUon bitn quisquc Uocabat ita 
 (HJuos mors apulit I)iiu millcno ITirgis anno 
 (^uatiringcntcno Bctio quifius aHitn' octo, 
 SlnUcna lute ^cptcmbris I)unc, KuoOena 
 l|anc ffcbvui, gvatliens (untias ptamina plena, 
 ©cto q^ nator' natar' totq? suavum 
 (Collegium taium ctrcucunKo ^avum 
 <Qx ofiitu quor' aSanlieigi^ turatus i^abebit 
 ^uatuor atq? tiecem nunios que lile tencbit 
 ^ost ortu matris tini Unica Die scquente 
 (!5llcrmis Be Sc l^alU plase aSKanbergI) retmentc." 
 
 From thefe lines, a portion of which is fomewhat obfcure, it 
 appears that the brafs was laid down as a memorial of Thomas Polton, 
 and his wife Edith, both of whom died "in the year of the Virgin "^ 
 1418, the former on the nth of September, the latter on the 12th of 
 February ; that they had eight fons, and as many daughters ; that 
 Thomas Polton was a benefa61:or to a College near the city of New 
 Sarum, and alfo gave 14^. to Wanborough ; and, finally, that his place of 
 refidence at Wanborough was known as " Halle Place.'''' 
 
 From another infcription, alfo engraved on a brafs plate and affixed 
 to the north wall of the tower, it further appears that the Polton family 
 were the chief contributors towards the erection of this part of 
 Wanborough Church, which was begun in the year 1435. It reads 
 thus : — 
 
 " ©rate p. 3ri)oma ^fJolton $c lEOitfja ui? ei' Uefunctis magro ^i^iltppo 'aril^no 
 ©louteste^ 'agncle $c xiii| alits cor' lib'is tino IRob'lo C^bcrarH iJicario Sc oTbs suis 
 pocI;tais q^ f)° tapanilc icepcr't %" tiui Jtt CCC(S°.\"XXF ." 
 
 "Pray for Thomas Polton, and Edith his wife, deceafed ; for Mafter Philip, Archdeacon of 
 Gloucefter, Agnes, and fourteen other of their fons and daughters; for Sir Robert Everard, vicar,^ 
 and all his parifhioners, who began this tower Anno Domini 1435." 
 
 " Here is a tradition," fays Aubrey, " that at a certainc place in this 
 
 ' " Anno V'lrginh " is a term perhaps more 
 commonly ufed on the Continent than in 
 England ; Mr. David Keane faw it on the 
 tomb of a knight in Worms Cathedral. The 
 infcription on the brafs of Biihop Robinfon, in 
 Carlifle Cathedral, defcribes his death as having 
 
 taken place " in the year from the delivery of 
 the Virgin, 16 16." 
 
 - Robert Everard was prefented to the vicar- 
 age of Wanborough in 1423 by the Priorefs of 
 Amelbury, and refigned it in 1439. 
 
28 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 parifh called Court-clofe,! fometime refided the famous Lovell, favourite 
 to Richard III., King of England ; the houfe with a chapell adjoining, 
 and another at Hall-place in this parifh, dedicated to St. Ambrofe (as I 
 am informed), were carried to the building of the Tower j here are few 
 vefHgia of any fuch ftrufture to be difcovered, only a mote which 
 encompafTed the houfe commonly called Lovell's Mote." — ColleBiom for 
 North Wilts. 
 
 There is, however, in the parifh of Wanborough a large meadow- 
 which ftill retains the name of Ambrofe-field^ thus identifying it with 
 the Chapel of St. Ambrofe mentioned by Aubrey. In it are the traces 
 of a moated manfion, the moat enclofmg nearly two acres of land, with 
 large carp-ponds attached. Here then is probably the fite of Hall-place, 
 once the refidence of the Polton family. 
 
 Philip Polton, mentioned on the plate in Wan- 
 borough Tower, was collated to the Archdeaconry 
 of Glouceflier, lift April, 1428, and dying in office, 
 22d September, 1461, was buried in the ante-Chapel 
 of All Souls College, Oxford, where his headlefs 
 effigy in brafs, with the following infcription, yet 
 remains : ^ — 
 
 " 1|ic iacct jl^agist' pl^iltppus 'Polton ISattalIri CCanon qui 
 fuit "^irc^iticaconus ©loutcstric q! obijt iiij° tlie ^eptebr' ?lnno Bni 
 jmillmo C(C(CC°^XF CuC m ppicictur Kc' ^mcn." 
 
 " Here lyeth Mafter Philip Polton, Bachelor Canon, who 
 was Archdeacon of Gloucefter, who died the 22d day of 
 September, A. D. 1461. On whofe foul may God have mercy. 
 Amen." 
 
 Effigy of Archdeacon Polton, 
 All Souls, Oxford. 
 
 By a deed bearing date 6 Henry IV. 
 (1404-5), in the poiTelTion of Ambrofe God- 
 dard, Efq., of Swindon, (1824) it appears that John Goddard, of 
 Hye Swindon, and Thomas Polton, of Wanborough, granted at that 
 date certain lands and tenements to John Palmer, of the former place. 
 The following is an abflracS: of the document:^ — 
 
 " Sciant praefentes et futuri, quod nos, Johannes Goddard, de Hye Swindon, et Thomas Polton, 
 de JVambergh, dedimus, &c. Johanni Palmer, de Hye Swindon, &c. omnia terras et ten quae 
 
 ' Court-clofe is a field ftill well known at 
 Wanborough, and contains traces of a moat 
 enclofing about five acres of land. 
 
 ^ Now (1859) the property of F. A. Car- 
 rington, Efq., of Ogbourne St. George. 
 
 ^ The legend from the month, " Dont' pre- 
 ceptor fill Da-v'ii' miferere mei," and the Ihields 
 
 of arms, bearing three mullets pierced, have 
 difappeared. They are mentioned in Wood's 
 " Hiftory of the Colleges, &c. in the Univerfity 
 of Oxford," edited by Gutch, 1786, p. 295. 
 
 * As given by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., 
 in his privately printed pedigree of the Goddard 
 family. 
 
Fifteenth Century. 29 
 
 nuper habuimus ex dono praedicti Johannis Palmer. Habcndas, &c. prcdicto Johanni Palmer et 
 hercdibus fuis in perpetuum. In cujus rei teftimonium figilla noftra appofuimus. Teftibus 
 Johanne Bray, Waltero Taylor, Thoma Smyth, Johannc Colc/hull, Thoma Bromc, Wn'" Whyte- 
 man, Johanne Everard, et multis alils. Data apud Hye Swindon, an<» r. r, Henrici Quarti port 
 conqucftum fexto." (Affixed were two feals of red wax.) 
 
 The family of Polton appear to have derived their name from the 
 manor of Polton, in the parifh of Mildenhall, near Marlborough. ^ This 
 manor was fubordinate to the Barony of Caftle Combe. In the year 
 1340, John de Polton is mentioned as holding a knight's fee, valued at 
 6/. yearly ; and Thomas de Polton, half a fee, at 10/. In 1404 it was 
 held by Thomas Polton; in 1424 by Thomas Polton, Bifhop ofWor- 
 cefter;- and fubfcquently by George Polton. The latter died in 1436, 
 and in 1454 it was held by Ifabella, widow of George Polton, who is 
 the lafl: owner of this name mentioned in connexion with the manor.' 
 
 A.D. 1427. William Bayly. Berwick Basset. {Plate VII.) 
 This fmall, but curious memorial, lies in the pavement of the nave in 
 front of the rood-fcreen. The collume is precifely fimilar to that of 
 the male effigy in Plate VI. The infcription runs thus: — 
 
 " aSillms i)ic iacct baulL') sic tJno placet, 
 ■Megabit ectlic solitjos ccntu scmp' manere, 
 
 " Here lyeth William Bayly, thus it pleafes the Lord, 
 He bequeathed to the Church one hundred fhillings always to remain, 
 He died the 5th before the ides of November, A.n. 1427-" 
 
 Of Bayly's benefa6lion to the Church of Berwick Baflet, his brafs 
 is unfortunately the only record. 
 
 ' There is alfo a village named Pulton, or 
 Poulton, in the northern extremity of the 
 county, where was a Gilbertine Priory. See 
 Dugdale's " Monafticon " and Tanner's " No- 
 titia Monaftica." 
 
 - Birtiop Polton, who is thus identified with 
 Wiltfhire, and, in all probability, with the 
 Wanborough family, was Archdeacon of Taun- 
 ton in 1403, and in 1408 was appointed to 
 canonries in York and Ripon. He had a ftall 
 at Hereford in 1412, and in the following year 
 was promoted in the York chapter. In 141 6 
 he was eleded Dean of York, and in 141 8 was 
 inftituted to the redtory of Bifliop's Hatfield, 
 Herts, both of which preferments he held until 
 1420, when he was promoted by Papal provifion 
 
 to the fee of Hereford. He was tranflated to 
 Chichefter by Papal bull, 17 November, 142 1, 
 and afterwards to Worceftcr by an Adl of the 
 Privy Council, dated 14 January, 1425—6. 
 He died at the Council of Bade, 23 Auguft, 
 1433, and was there buried. 
 
 A Thomas Polton was inftituted to the 
 re£lory of Broughton, Wilts, in 1399, and 
 vacated it in the following year. He alfo had 
 the redtory of Pcwfey in 1401, and refigned it 
 in 1403. An individual of the fame name 
 refigned the prebendal ftall ofGrimfton and 
 Yetminfter, in Salilbury Cathedral, in 141 8. 
 
 ■' See "Hiftory of Caftle Combe," privately 
 printed by G. Poulett Scrope, Efq. (1852), 
 pp. 157-220. 
 
30 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 A. D. 1429. John Wrofton, EsQ^ Broad Hinton. Aubrey de- 
 fcribes a brafs in the pavement of the chancel bearing an effigy in 
 armour, and the following infcription : — 
 
 "l|tc jatct 3o!)es aSrofton llrmiget qui obiit ibj Hie 'apriUs 'anno ®ni 1429. 
 ©ujus aie p'picictur IBcus '^mcn." 
 
 "Here lyeth John Wrofton, Efquire, who died the 1 6th day of April, a.d. 1429. On whofe 
 foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 The flab, robbed of its brafs, ftill lies in the pavement of the 
 chancel. The effigy, 20| inches in length, w^as reprefented in plate 
 armour, vv^ith the infcription underneath. Four fhields of arms, once at 
 the angles, were loft in Aubrey's time. 
 
 Of the family of Wrofton, or Wroughton, of Broad Hinton, there 
 is a pedigree in Harl. MS. No. 1443, f. 26. It includes nine gener- 
 ations prior to the vifit of the Heralds in the year 1623 ; their anceftor 
 William, of Broad Hinton, according to the Inquifition taken on his 
 deceafe,! died feifed of manors and lands in North Wilts, Somerfet, 
 Gloucefter, and Devon. He left ifliie a fon and heir, John Wrofton 
 (defcribed in the pedigree as Sir John Wrofton, Knight)^ who feems 
 to be the individual commemorated by the brafs. He was feven years 
 of age at his father's death, 10 Hen. IV. (1408-9), and confequently 
 about twenty-feven, in 1429, the date of his own deceafe. By his wife 
 Ifabel, daughter of Edmund Hampden, of Hampden, co. Bucks, he left 
 a fon John, of Broad Hinton," who married Jane, daughter of William 
 Darell, Efq., of Littlecote (fee woodcut at p. ii), and a daughter Anne 
 married to Sir Richard Ludlowe, of Longbridge Deverill. 
 
 A.D. 1429. John Neet, Rector. Everley. A fmall plate of 
 brafs in the veftry, at prefent unfixed, bears the following infcription : — 
 
 " l^ic iacct tJn^ 3oi)cs l^m quon^ ?&xt\QX tttik Be (QvClz qui obijt fa'f Die J^ens' 
 Sulij ^o tini i$l°®ei:ceC''XXEX cui' aic' ppicict' tJe' anttn. 
 
 "Here lyeth Sir John Neet," formerly Redtor of the Church of Everley, who died the 5th 
 day of the month of July, a.d. 1429 ; on whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 ' In the Public Record Office (10 Hen. IV.), 
 
 No. 50. 
 
 ^ The infcription on the monument of his 
 great-grandfon, Sir William Wroughton, who 
 died in 1559, mentions that he built (probably 
 rebuilt) the " Houfe of Broadhenton " in 1540. 
 
 From his grandfon Sir George (a third fon 
 of Sir Thomas, of Broad Hinton, who died in 
 
 1597,) by a fecond wife, Anne, daughter and 
 coheir of John Barwicke, of Wilcot, defcended 
 a branch of the family fettled at the latter 
 place. 
 
 2 In Sir R. C. Hoare's " Modern Wilts " 
 (Hund. of Elftub and Everley, p. 10,) the 
 name is incorreftly printed as John Rut. The 
 plate was taken from the old church. 
 
Fifteenth Century. 31 
 
 John Neet was inftituted to the rc6lory of Everley (which he feems 
 to have obtained by exchange) in 1397 ; and on his deceafe, in 1429, 
 John Berkeley was prefented by the Abbefs of Wherwell,i in whom the 
 patronage was then veiled. 
 
 Circa a.d. 1430. Broken figure of a Knight. Mere. 
 [Plate VIII.) This brafs lies in the Bettefthorne Chapel, already 
 mentioned It originally confifted of two effigies, male and female ; the 
 latter, together with the fhields of arms and infcription, was loft in 
 Aubrey's time, and of the former only the upper half now remains. 
 It furnifhes the only example of complete plate armour in the county : 
 inftead of the camail is a gorget of plate, or haujfe-col ; the j upon has 
 given place to a cuirafs^ or breaft-plate, with depending plates over- 
 lapping each other, called taces ; the arm-pits are prote6led by circular 
 pieces ; and the coutes at the elbows have a fan-like appearance. The 
 fword-bclt is here worn diagonally. 
 
 In the abfence of infcription, or arms, the pofition of the brafs may 
 afford a clue to its identity. Elizabeth, the only daughter and heirefs 
 of John Bettefthorne (Plate V.), married Sir John Berkeley, knight, 
 who died 5 Hen. VI. (1426-7), with which date the armour on the 
 brafs feems precifely to correfpond. 
 
 ift Wife. 2d Wife. 
 
 Margaret, 4th dau. of =j= Thomas =p Catherine, dau. John Bettefthorne, Lord of 
 
 Roger de Mortimer, | Lord 
 Earl of March. ^ Berkeley. 
 
 of Sir John Chadenwyche, ob. 1398. 
 
 Cleveden. Brafs in Mere Church. 
 
 Sir John Berkeley, Knight, Sheriff of =p Elizabeth, only dau. and 
 
 Wilts, II Hen. IV. (1409-10), ob. 
 5 Henry VI. (1426-7). Brafs 
 Mere Church. (Plate VIII.) 
 
 heirefs, at. 30, ad m. 
 patris. Died before her 
 hufband. 
 
 Maurice Berkeley, fon and 
 heir, aet. 30, ad m. patris. 
 
 The lower portion of the figure is reftored in dotted lines from 
 other examples of fimilar date, and the greyhound is given on the 
 authority of Aubrey. 
 
 Circa a.d. 1430. A Priest (without infcription). Upton 
 LovEL. The flab which originally contained this brafs is loft, and 
 the demi-effigy, here engraved, which is the only remaining portion, 
 
 1 Or Whorwell, co. Hants. A Bcnediaine I Edgar, and dedicated to the Holy Crols and 
 nunnery, founded by Elfrida, the wife of King I St. Peter. 
 
32 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 is now affixed to a fmall ftone within the altar rail. The original is 175 
 
 inches in length, and reprefents a prieft, 
 doubtlefs one of the early reftors, clad in 
 his euchariftic veftments. In the fifteenth 
 century the Lords Lovel were patrons of 
 the church, and the " Wilts Inftitutions " 
 furnifh the names of feveral re6lors indu6l:ed 
 at this period ; but, from the entire abfence 
 of the infcription, it is difficult to deter- 
 mine with accuracy to which of them it 
 belongs. 
 
 A.D. 1430. William Asgille, Rec- 
 tor. WisHFORD. On a brafs plate for- 
 merly in the pavement of the nave was 
 this infcription : — 
 
 Deml-effigy of a Prieji. 
 Upton Lo-vel. 
 
 " l^ic jacct aa^illms "asgille,' nup' Bcctor cttlie i)uj' 
 loci cpii obiit biii Hie litalcnti' ©ctob' ^^"(IZ<S.<iL<&°XXX 
 cuj' aie p'puict'' ticus 5lmcn." 
 
 "Here lyeth William Afgille, late Redlor of the Church of this place, who died the 8th day 
 before the Calends of Odlober, 1430; on whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 According to the " Wilts Inftitutions " William Algar was prefented 
 to the reftory of Wifhford in 1418, and John Yve in 1430. 
 
 A.D. 1453. John Dawnse. West Lavington. This plate 
 has long fince difappeared, but the infcription is printed on the 
 authority of a manufcript copy made by a late curate of the parifh, the 
 Rev. John Williams : — 
 
 "l^ic jacct jloljannes JBatunsc qui obiit quarto Uie mcnsis Sanuaiii ^nno IDom'. 1453, 
 cuj aninuT propitietur ©cus Hmcn." 
 
 " Here lyeth John Dawnfe, who died the fourth day of the month of January, .\.v. 1453. 
 On whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 The plate was probably in the Dauntefay Chapel, a fmall erection 
 of " Perpendicular " date, attached to the fouth fide of the Church. 
 Of the Dauntefay family, who were anciently Lords of the Manor of 
 Weft Lavington, a further notice will be found in a fubfequent page. 
 
 ' Sir R. C. Hoare has printed the name as William Allen. 
 
Fifteenth Century. 33 
 
 A.D. 1470. Edith Matyn. Amesbury. The infcription 
 from this plate is printed, but incorrecf^-ly, in Cough's " Sepulchral 
 Monuments," ii. 220. In the original it is as follows : — 
 
 " l|(c jacct 1Et(ltf)a .piatyn nup' uxor Hobcrti itiatpn que obiit tiic mens' 
 
 ^° tini JWillio CCCC" IXX CEuj' aie p'picict' Dcus." 
 
 " Here lyeth Edith Matyn, late wife of Robert Matyn, who died the . . . day of the month 
 of . . . . A.D. 1470. On whole foul may God have mercy." 
 
 The flab was originally in the pavement of the chancel,^ but during 
 a recent reftoration was buried beneath it. 
 
 A pedigree of Matyn, or Maten, of Chifenbury and North Tid- 
 worth, will be found in the Heralds' " Vifitation of Wilts," a.d. 1623^ 
 but does not include the name of the deceafed. 
 
 This memorial is unnoticed by Sir R. C. Hoare in his " Hiftory of 
 Modern Wilts." 
 
 A.D. 1473. Thomas Bonham and Wife. Wishford. This 
 brafs, in a very mutilated condition, lies in the pavement oi the nave. 
 It confifted of two figures, male and female, now loft. The infcription, 
 which is nearly obliterated, was as follows : — 
 
 '* 'Bic jacEt C{)omas I5on{)am, '^rmigcr, quontJam ^Qatronus istius ctclcsu"?, qui 
 quiUcm Cf)oma5 obiit biccsimo nono Die J^ttaii ?lnno Domini Jit (£,^<S,'!L lIX.XHili ; 
 CPt (iFoitf)a uior ejus, qua: quitiem (ftiitfja obiit faiccsimo scito tjie "aprilis "anno Dni 
 ill CCGC IIXJEX. ejuorum animabus propiiietur IDcus. "amen." 
 
 " Here lyeth Thomas Bonham, Efquire, formerly Patron of this Church, which faid Thomas 
 died the 29th day of May, a.d. 1473; and Edith his wife, which faid Edith died the 26th day 
 of April, A.D. 1469. On whofe fouls may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 Beneath were the effigies of nine children (apparently three fons, and 
 nine daughters-), arranged in two groups under their rcfpecStive parents. 
 Four only are now remaining, but the matrices of the whole number 
 may ftill be indiftin6lly traced. 
 
 The Parifh Rcgifter contains the following account of this brafs : — 
 
 " There is in the body of our church an ancient monument of fome of the anceftors of the 
 Bonhams, and faid to have been that Bonham and his wife that had {c\cn children at one 
 birth. [Here follows a copy of the infcription given above.] 
 
 ' Cough defcribes It as being in the na-vCf 
 which is an error. 
 
 ' The fecond daughter fccms to have been 
 
 rcprefented as a nun ; two others appear in the 
 ordinary coftume of the period, with the 
 butterfly head-drefs. 
 
 F 
 
34- 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 " They were both buried under the great marble ftone in the middle alley of our church, 
 and the infcription was cut in brafs. Beneath this infcription, on the lower end of the fame 
 marble ftone towards the choir, there were the fmall ftatues or images of nine young children 
 fet in brafs, all which I myfelf knew ftanding there above twenty years, but of late one of them 
 is broken out of the ftone, by means of fome violence and negligence of them that wrought in 
 the church, and laid a great quarry-ftone upon the grave of Robert Killman, lately buried. The 
 ftatues of the faid Thomas and Edith Bonham are faid to be in an hollow-vaulted arch under the 
 wall in the north fide of our church, and fuch ftatues there are. His ftatue lies next to the door 
 of the faid fide, and her ftatue at the feet of his.' By me Roger Powell, Curate there, April lo, 
 Anno Domini 1640." 
 
 Aubrey, at a fomewhat later date, vifited the church, copied the 
 infcription on the brafs, examined the Regifter, and colle6led a few 
 additional details, which he has thus recorded : — 
 
 " This Mr. Bonham's wife had two children at one birth, the firft time ; and he, being 
 troubled at it, travelled, and was abfent feven years. After his return, flie was delivered of feven 
 children at one birth. In this parifli is a confident tradition that thefe feven children were 
 all baptized at the font in this church, and that they were brought thither in a kind of charger, 
 which was dedicated to this church, and hung on two nails, which are to be feen there yet, near 
 the belfry on the fouth fide. Some old men are yet living that do remember the charger. This 
 tradition is entered into the regifter book there, from whence I have taken this narrative." (1659.) 
 — Nat. Hijl. ofmits, p. 71. 
 
 The origin of this curious tradition may, perhaps, be traced to the 
 mediaeval cuftom of placing on monumental brafles, the fmall effigies 
 of children, ufually all of the fame height, excepting the eldeft, as in 
 Plate XI. If, in this inftance, the eldeft fon and daughter (both of 
 whofe effigies are loft) were taller than the reft, thefe, in the tradition, 
 would be the two born firft, whilft the remaining feven would correfpond 
 with the number afcribed to the fecond birth. 
 
 From an Inquifition taken at Wilton, 26 Oct. 13 Edw. IV. (1473), 
 five months after the deceafe of Thomas Bonham," it appears that he 
 died feifed of a moiety of the manor, with the advowfon of Great 
 Wiftiford ; part of the manors of Berwick St. James, Stapleford, and 
 Bereford ; and lands, mefluages, &c., at Aflerton, Uppington, Laver- 
 ftock, Barford St. Martin, and Fouleftone, near Wilton ; alfo of lands 
 in CO. Somerfet. It further ftates that he died on the Lord's day after 
 the Feaft of St. John ante Portam Latinam,'' and that his fon Walter, 
 aged twenty, was found to be his heir. 
 
 ' The male effigy in the north wall, here 
 alluded to, is that of a civilian ; the date pro- 
 bably about 1400. The coftume of the female 
 effigy is apparently about the fame date. 
 
 * Pub. Rec. Office (13 Ed. IV.), No. 41. 
 
 3 St. John before the Latin Gate. This an- 
 cient feaft of the Church, commemorated on 
 the 6th of May, does not precifely correfpond 
 with the date of his death as given in the 
 infcription. 
 
Fifteenth Century. 
 
 ZS 
 
 A.D. 1473. John Winford, Rector. Stourton. A fmall 
 plate lying on the pavement of the chancel bears the following 
 infcription : — 
 
 " ¥?ic jacet jloljannes 3?riinforti quonKam Iiujus rector ctclcsi.t qui obiit X Utc mcnsis 
 3ulti anno jWCiiECCiiiX.XBElt cujug anime piopitictur Bcus. 'amen." 
 
 "Here lyeth John Winford, formerly Reftor of this Church, wlio died the tenth day of the 
 month of July, in the year 1473. On whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 At this date the patronage of the church belonged to the Stourton 
 family. The inftitution of John Winford, owing to an hiatus, does not 
 occur ; but on his deceafe John Edmunde was indu6led, on the pre- 
 fentation of William, Lord Stourton. 
 
 Of this 
 
 A.D. 1480. John Wvlkys, Vicar. Hilmarton 
 brafs, which was formerly in the pavement of 
 the chancel, there is not the lead: trace. Aubrey 
 has preferved a fketch of a fhield (fee woodcut) 
 which bore a chalice, the bowl engraved with 
 the facred monogram. The infcription he has 
 tranfcribed as follows : — 
 
 " l^ic |acct ims 3oI}cs TOulfens quonHam bicarius istius cccUc 
 f\yx\ obiit faiif Bic mcnsis i^laii ^nno Dui J¥lCCC(Ci;XXX 
 
 CUJUS aie p'picictur DCUS. 'amen." Shield from the Brafs of 
 
 John Wylkys. {Aubrey.) 
 " Here lyeth Sir John Wylkys, formerly Vicar of this Church, 
 who died the 8th day of the month of May, a.d. 1480. On whofe foul may God have mercy. 
 Amen." 
 
 Circa A.D. 1490. Elizabeth [Tocotes] Lady St. Amand. 
 Bromham. {Plate IX.) This very interefting brafs is in a chapel 
 attached to the fouth fide of the chancel, and erected about the clofe of 
 the fifteenth century by Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, who 
 founded therein a chantry, dedicated jointly in honour of the Bleflcd 
 Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas. i The effigy, which is affixed to the 
 north wall and enclofed within a canopied altar-tomb, is not engraved 
 on the ufual " latten," but on a whiter metal, which feems, from its 
 hardnefs, to have effedually refifted the contraction and expanfion to 
 
 ' It was endowed with lands and tenements 
 in Stockley, Avcbury, Rockley, Bremhill, and 
 Bromham, producing together (37 Hen. VIII.) 
 
 an annual rental of 11/. 171. III/. — Cert, of 
 Chantries, No. 59. Pub. Rcc. Office. 
 
3^ Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 which the former is h'able, and confequently retains much of its enamel 
 and gilding. It reprefents a female kneeling and addreffing a brief 
 fupplication to a mediaeval reprefentation of the Holy Trinity, which 
 feems to have occupied the matrix immediately above. 
 
 " ^ancta Crinitas ton' flcus miserere [mci ?]." 
 
 " Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on me !" 
 
 The coftume confifts of the fidelefs cote-hardi, apparently of ermine, 
 worn over a kirtle, and beneath a mantle. The head-drefs affords a 
 richly-ornamented fpecimen of the kennel adopted towards the clofe of 
 the fifteenth century, to which period the memorial evidently belongs. 
 
 Round the effigy vv^ere four fhields, of which two only remain and 
 bear the followino- arms : — 
 
 O 
 
 1. Or, fretty fable, on a chief of the fecond three bezants, St. Amand. 
 
 2. Quarterly, i and 4. St. Amand. 2 and 3. Argent 7 mafcles conjoined 3, 3, and I, 
 
 Gules, Braybrooice ; impaling, quarterly, i and 4. Gules, two lions pafTant guardant in 
 pale or, Delamere. 2 and 3. Azure, three roaches naiant or, Roche. 
 
 A portion of the chamfer-infcription around the edge of the tomb 
 has been preferved : — 
 
 " »^ Bit jacct eii-^abctl)' ttna He sco ^manBo filia ^Imerico Bno Ue sco 
 
 ^mantJo q^ obiit " 
 
 " ►J^ Here lyeth Elizabeth, Lady of St. Amand, daughter to Almeric, Lord of 
 
 St. Amand, who died " 
 
 The laft Almeric St. Amand, mentioned in the accompanying 
 pedigree, inherited the barony of St. Amand under a writ iffued to his 
 grandfather, 2 Edw. II., but dying without iffue male in 1403, the 
 dignity fell into abeyance between Gerard Braybrooke, his grandfon 
 (namely, fon and heir of Alianore, his eldeft daughter, who died before 
 her father) and Ida, his daughter by his fecond wife. Ida married Sir 
 Thomas Weft, but died without iffue in 1426 ; when the barony became 
 vefted in the three daughters of Gerard Braybrooke above mentioned, 
 and was confequently in abeyance. Elizabeth, the eldeft of thefe 
 daughters, married William Beauchamp, who was fummoned to Par- 
 liament ywr^ uxorh^ by writ tefted 2d Jan. 27 Hen. VI. (1449), and 
 addreffed, " JViUiehno de Beauchamp^ Domino de St. Amand." '^ 
 
 ' Sir Harris Nicolas's Synopfis of Peerage, Introd. p. xlviii. 
 
Part of the Pedigree of Beauchamf 
 
 to illufirate the defcent of Eli/ 
 
 Founder of tl 
 
 Robert Delamere, eldeft fon =p Catherine, dau, and . 
 of Elias. I Sir John Swantc 
 
 Gilbertus de la Roche, 
 of Bromham. 
 
 Chrlftian. Peter Delamere, Knt. =p Maud, dau. of Sir Hugh H; 
 
 Sir John Roche, of Bromham, =pWillelma, dau. and heir 
 CO. Wilts, Knt. I Peter Delamere, Knt. 
 
 Sir Walter Beauchamp, Knt., of Bromham.' 
 Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. VI. (1430-1). 
 
 Richard Beauchamp, C.G. Biftiop of Salilbury, 1450. 
 Will dated Oft. 16, 148 1. Buried in a chapel 
 erefted bv himfclf in Salilbury Cathedral. 
 
 Elizabeth, dau. and coheir 
 John Roche, Knt. Wil 
 Feb. 6, 1446 : defires 
 buried in the Chantry ' 
 of the Saints Mary, Katl 
 and Margaret, in her 
 church of Steeple Lavi 
 near the tomb of her hu 
 
 ift Hulb. 
 William Beauchamp, of Bromham 
 to Parliament ;«r£ tixorh as Lori 
 from 27 to 32 Hen. VI. (144 
 Ob. 1457. Bequeaths his body 
 in the Chapel of the Chantry 
 Lavington. 
 
 Richard Beauchamp, of Bromham, fon and he 
 I Rich. III. (1483), and fully reftored j 
 (1485). Summoned to Parliament 12 
 (1497). Founder of the Chapel at Bron 
 {'. p. 1. in 1508. Bur. in Blackfriars' Churt 
 
 Anthonv Beaucham] 
 
 ' Died feifed {inter alia) of the Manor of 1 
 ■^ A Sir Roger Tocotes, of the houfehold 
 
 of Ifabel, Duchcfs of Clarence, and her infai 
 
 &cniis, Bundle I.) 
 

 [P^' 36. 
 
 Part of the Pedigree e/ Beauchamp, Delamere, Roche, St. Amand, and Braybrooke, 
 
 
 to Hluftrate the dejcent of Elizabeth, Lady St. Amand, and her fon Richard, 
 
 
 Founder of the Beauchamp Chapel at Bromham. 
 
 
 
 John de St. Amand (brother and heir of Aim 
 
 /■. (1401). Ob. 140a, f.p.m. 
 
 id Wife. 
 6 Rich. 11. £. 38a) 10=1= 
 
 'TmlC ' ""J "sJr^hnWt^n.'" 
 
 ""'« Edw. UmIjVT'"" Hi''" "T 
 
 Gilbcttut de la Rothe, =f Chriftian. Peter DeUmere, Knt. =p Maud, dau. of Sir Hugh H^Jngj. 
 
 .«Wifc. 1 
 
 ■ i h B VT ' 
 
 SirGcratd Braybrooke, ^Alianorej dau. and 
 Knight. Almerie.UtdSt. 
 
 Sir Walter Dcauchsmp, Knt., of Bromham.' = 
 Inq. p.m. 9Hcn. VI. (i4jc^i]. 
 
 P Elizabeth, dau. and coheir of Sir Gerard Braybrooke, fon and heir. =; 
 John Roche, Knt. Will dated 
 Feb. 6, 1446= d^fires to be 
 buried in the Chantry Chapel 
 
 jzParnill, dau.oftbeLordGre 
 
 , of Wilton. 
 
 
 and Margaret, in her parifli 
 church of Steeple Lavinglon, 
 
 
 
 
 RicLrd Beauchamp, C.G. Bifliop of Salifbuiy, 1450- Wil 
 Will dated Oa. 16, 1481. Buried in a chapel to 
 ctefted by himfclf in Salilbury Cathedral. fr 
 
 am Beauchamp, of Bromham, fummoned = 
 
 . 1457. Bequeath! his body to be buried 
 the Chapel of the Chantry at Market 
 
 p Elizabeth, eldcft dau. of Gerard Braybrooke, t= Sir Roger Tocotcj, Knt.* 
 and heirefs of the Birony of St. Amand ; Will dated Sep. j, 1451. 
 
 mental Brafs in the Chantry Chapel of tomb in the Chantry 
 SS. Mary and Nicholas, at Bromham. Chapel at Bromham. 
 
 Twen. VI, (7428-9). 
 
 Richard Beauchamp, of Bromham, Ton and heir; attainted - 
 , Rich. 111. (.483), and fully reftored 1 Hen. VIl. 
 (1485). Summoned to Parliament 11 Hen. VII, 
 (1457). Founder of the Chapel at Bromham. Ob. 
 r. p. 1. in 1508. But. in Blackfriars" Church, Ludgate. 
 
 - Anne, dau. of Sir Walter Wriotheney, Knt. 
 
 Anthony Beauchamp, a natural fon, by Mary Wroughton. 
 
 
 ■ DiedfeifedO«fr'-a/u)ofthc Manof of Bromhim, catlcJ " Roche'! Manor." {CjI. /«^. p.m. IV. 130.) 
 ' A Sir Roger Tocoles, of the houfehold of George, Duke of Clarence, wai tried for being concerned in the murder 
 of Ifabcl, Duchcfi of Clarence, and her infant fon, by adminiftering to them poifoncd ale, of which they died. {Biga 1 
 
 
 ^^ 
 
 r 
 
Fifteenth Century. 
 
 31 
 
 To Elizabeth, eldeft daughter of Gerard Braybrooke, and heirefs of 
 the barony of St. Amand, this memorial may be confidently afligned. 
 By her firft hufband, William, fon of Sir Walter, and brother of 
 Richard Bcauchamp, bifhop of Salifbury, fhe had an only fon, Richard, 
 the founder of the chapel in which fhe lies interred. William Beau- 
 champ, Lord St, Amand, died in 1457;' and his widow re-married 
 Sir Roger Tocotes, Knight, who, taking part with the Duke of 
 Buckingham againft Richard III., was attainted of high treafon, and 
 his eftates forfeited.- Two years afterwards, however, on the acceflion 
 of Henry VII., the attainder was reverfed ;•'' and in 1496 (12 Hen. VII.) 
 Sir Roger, together with his fon-in-law, Richard Beauchamp (who had 
 likewife been attainted for the fame caufe), was among the *' greate 
 compaigny of noble menne," who went with Edward, duke of Bucking- 
 ham, to meet the king at Taunton, then in purfuit of Perkin Warbeck. * 
 
 As Sir Roger, in his will, bearing date 2d Sept. 1492,^ mentions 
 " Dame Elizabeth, Lady St. Amand, my late wife," her death muft 
 have happened previoufly to that date. 
 
 ' By will he bequeaths his body to be buried 
 in the chantry chapel of the Saints Mary, 
 Katharine, and Margaret, in the parifh church 
 oi Steeple [Market] Lavington. From the 
 following memorandum it appears that this 
 chantry was diffolved by fpecial licenfe before 
 the general fuppreflion, and its endowment 
 pafled into the hands of Ifabella, fecond wife 
 and relidt of Sir Edward Baynton, who was the 
 reprefentative of the Beauchamp family. 
 
 " Una cantia in Eftlavyngton unde quis fit 
 fundator non cons . . . que cantia abfqz fpiali 
 licencia dci dni Regis diflbluta fuit p . . . . 
 quartum diem februarii, Anno regni ejufdm 
 Dni Regis xxvij"" (1535), cui' cantie pos- 
 felTiones & alia pficua ann" attlngunt ad 
 vj" \'f iiij'', que terre & poflefliones fup' die 
 cum ptinen ad manus dne Ifabelle Baynton, 
 vidue ann'' deveniunt & in manibz fuis exis- 
 tunt." — Cert. No. 56, Pub. Rec. Office. 
 
 '■^ Pari Rolls, vi. 245. In Salilbury the 
 proclamation on behalf of Henry was made by 
 the Bifhop (Lionel Woodville). The market- 
 place of this city was foon afterwards the fcene 
 of Buckingham's execution, and its cathedral 
 ftill retains, in the alabaftcr effigy of Sir John 
 Cheney, who v/as unhorfed by the hand of 
 Richard III. in his furious charge at the battle 
 of Bofworth, another memento of the fame 
 period. 
 
 ^ Pari. Rolls, vi. 273. At this date Sir 
 Roger held the offices of Conftable of Devizes 
 Caftie, of fteward of the manor and lordfhips 
 of Marlborough, Devizes and Rowde, ofSher- 
 fton, Chiriell, and Brodetown ; and of the lord- 
 fhips, hundreds, manors, lands, and tenements, 
 parcel of the earldoms of Warwick and Salis- 
 bury, and of the duchy of Lancafter, in co. 
 Wilts. 
 
 ■• The Chronicle of "John Harding, by Richard 
 Grafton, fol. 86 of the continuation in profe, 
 1543. Their companions from Wiltftiire were 
 Morifli Berkeley, William Storton, Sir Thomas 
 Longe, John Semer, Edwarde Darell, Amis 
 Faulet, and William Saintemaur. 
 
 ^ This document is preferved in the Prero 
 
 I gative Court of Canterbury, but was not proved 
 
 in that office. He defires to be buried " in 
 
 : the middle aifle of Our Lady's Chapel at Brom- 
 
 I ham," and the alabafter effigy in the centre of 
 
 the Beauchamp Chapel, hitherto attributed to 
 
 a Lord St. Amand (one of whom defires to be 
 
 buried at Market Lavington, and the other in 
 
 the church of the Blackfriars, Ludgate,) muft 
 
 confequently be the memorial of Sir Roger. 
 
 The effigy is that of a knight, clad in the 
 
 armour of the period, and wearing a collar 
 
 ofSS. 
 
38 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 A.D. 1495. CONSTANTINE DaRELL, AND WiFE. CoLLING- 
 
 BOURNE Kingston. This brafs, which Hes in the pavement of the 
 chancel, bears the following infcription : — 
 
 " ©rate pro fuabs Constantini JBarcIl ^rmigl qui obiit .... Kie ... . '3° Uni 
 
 JWCCCC ct 3of)anna tuor cius que obilt bilj Hie Bccembs "S" Uni 
 
 i*\CCC(!rii:XXXXF° qt aiabus ppicict' Be'." 
 
 "Pray for the fouls of Conftantine Darell, Efquire, who died the . . . day a.d. 14 . . 
 
 and Joan his wife, who died the 8th day of December, a.d. 1495. On whofe fouls may God 
 have mercy." 
 
 Conftantine Darell, of CoIHngbourne Kingfton (the anceftor of the 
 Darells of Pagham, co. Suflex), was a younger fon of William Darell, 
 of Littlecote, whofe monumental flab has been already noticed.^ The 
 brafs was evidently laid down on the deceafe of his wife, Joan, daughter 
 of Robert Collingbourne,- whom he furvived for twelve years ; and the 
 blank fpaces left for the infertion of the date of his own death, fub- 
 fequently omitted to be filled in as originally intended. He was Sheriff 
 of Wilts, 6 Hen. VH. (1490) ; and his will, made 5th Feb. 1507, was 
 proved on the 8th of April in the following year. His own effigy has 
 been torn from the flab, and that of his wife only remains. 
 
 A.D. 1498. John Stokys, and Wife. Seend. {Plate X.) 
 Thefe effigies lie on the pavement of the north aifle. The drefs of the 
 male figure is a gown, faced and trimmed with fur, beneath which is a 
 clofe tunic, feen at the neck and wrifts. The hair is long, and from 
 the girdle is fufpended the gypciere, or external purfe, like the franklein 
 in Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales," whofe 
 
 " gypfer al of filk 
 Heng at his gerdul, whit as morne mylk." 
 
 The end of the girdle hanging as a pendant forms a new feature in 
 the female effigy ; the large cuffs at the wrifts are alfo worthy of notice. 
 The infcription is, for the firft time, in Englifh : — 
 
 " 3|Ere I'Qil) 31oi;n .ttofeps anU "aips J)is fcosff tol)icl;e 3oI)n ticKSsett ti^e iibiij Bap of 
 June ti)c iicrc of oure lorU ffloti t^ousaB cctcliiix&iij. ®n i»I)osc jg'otoljis 35fu tjafac 
 mcrnj. ^mcn." 
 
 Aubrey, in his " Collections for Wilts," mentions, that the north 
 
 ' Vide fupra, p. ii. I Coll. Arm. to have been the relidl of . . . . 
 
 ^ She is ftated by Phillpot, 3. 77. f. 109 b. | Holte, 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 39 
 
 aifle of Seend Church was, according to tradition, built by the family of 
 Stokys. From the ftyle of its architecture, which is late " Perpen- 
 dicular" (circa a.d. 1480), it is probable that the deceafed was the 
 main contributor towards its ereftion.^ The weft window of the aifle 
 exhibits in its external hollow moulding a pair of fciflbrs on the one 
 fide, and a pair of (hears on the other, in allufion to the occupation of 
 the founder, who was, doubtlefs, a clothier. 
 
 In his " Natural Hiftory of Wilts," Aubrey alfo gives the fol- 
 lowing particulars refpe6ling the eftablifhment of the clothing trade 
 at Seend in the reign of Henry VII., and its decay at a fubfequent 
 period : — 
 
 " When King Henry the Seventh lived in Flanders with his aunt the Dutchefs of Burgundie, 
 he confidered that all or moft of the wooll that was manufadlured there into cloath, was brought 
 out of England ; and obferving what great profit did arife by it, when he came to the crown he 
 fent into Flanders for cloathing manufa6lurers, whom he placed in the weft, and particularly at 
 Send, in Wiltfliire, where they built feverall good houfes yet remaining : I know not any village fo 
 remote from London that can fhew the like. The cloathing trade did flourifli here till about i 580, 
 when they removed to Troubridge, by reafon of (I thinke) a plague ; but I conjedture the main 
 reafon was, that the water here was not proper for the fulling and wafhing of their cloath j for 
 this water being impregnated with iron, did give the white cloath a yellowifh tindture." 
 
 Aubrey alfo remarks, that in Seend Church there had been a great 
 deal of painted glafs, " with piftures offome of the Stokys children," 
 but beaten down by one William Sumner, of that parifh, about the 
 year 1648. 
 
 A.D. 1501. Robert Baynard, Esq^ and Wife. Lacock. 
 [Plate XI.) This brafs is on the pavement of the fouth tranfept, 
 which portion of the church is attached to the manor of Lackham. 
 The male efEgy prefents an entirely new feature in the tabard, or 
 furcoat, embroidered with the arms of Bluet^ Or, an eagle with two 
 heads difplayed gules ; quartering Baynard^ Sable, a fefs between two 
 chevrons or. Above and beneath the tabard are (een portions of the 
 gorget and fkirt of ring-mail ; the tidies^ or depending plates of metal 
 for the protection of the thighs, are alfo partially vifible ; the fword 
 hangs diagonally ; and rounded fhoes [poullains) cover the feet, which 
 reft on two dogs. 
 
 In the female coftume there is nothing remarkable, with the exception 
 
 ' a fhip's rudder, carved in relief on one of 
 the battlements on the north fide, perhaps de- 
 notes a pecuniary contribution from a member 
 of the Willoughby family, of Brooke Hall, by 
 
 whom this device was ufed. It occurs, at an 
 earlier date, on the Cheney tomb in Edington 
 church. See p. 12, note 4. 
 
40 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 of the mantle, which is embroidered with the arms of Baynard^ as 
 above, quartering Ludlow^ Argent, a chevron between three bears' (or 
 martens') heads erafed fable. 
 
 " 1|it iacEt Bobtrtus iSawnartJ, "armigcr, bir cgrcgius t\ Icgis pcrttus in armis 
 belUcis multu strcnuus Bapifcr prectpuus int' primes patis tos'bator Biligcntissimus 
 uiore I)ens 1Eli?abctI) tltbotissima' tu totiUcm filiis ct filiab'j suberrat ' qui obiit iib| Uie 
 ■^lugusti ^l" Bni JHoCCdTCC" primo C§uor' animab? p'picict' Ucus amen.'" 
 
 " Here lyeth Robert Baynard, Efquire, a good man and /killed in the law, a very adtive 
 foldier, one of the beft of houfekeepers, and a zealous promoter of peace. He had a moft loving 
 wife, Elizabeth, with as many fons and daughters as are reckoned below. He died the 26th day 
 of Auguft, 1 501. On whofe fouls may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 Beneath the infcription are the effigies of thirteen fons and five 
 daughters, all of equal height, excepting the eldefl: fon. The fecond 
 fon wears the maniple and other appendages of a prieft. 
 
 Four fhields, at the angles of the flab, bear the fame arms alternately 
 as thofe above given. 
 
 1 and 3. Bluet, and Baynard ; quarterly. 
 
 2 and 4. Baynard, and Ludlow j quarterly. 
 
 The family of Baynard were for ten fucceffive generations lords 
 of the manor of Lackham, in the parifli of Lacoclc, which they 
 acquired, about 1349, by marriage with the heirefs of Sir John Bluet, 
 Knight, Robert Baynard, whofe brafs is now under notice, married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ludlow, of Hill Deverill, Efq. Of 
 their eighteen children, three only are named in the Heralds' Vifitations : 
 Philip, the eldeft fon, who married Jane, daughter of Nicholas Stewke- 
 ley, of AfFeton, Devon ; George, the fecond fon ; and a daughter, Jane, 
 married to William Temmes, of Rood Afhton, of which family was 
 Johanna Temmes, the laft Abbefs of Lacock. 
 
 Mary, the daughter and heirefs of Sir Robert Baynard, by marriage 
 with the Hon. James Montagu in 1635, conveyed the Lackham eftate 
 to that family. 
 
 A.D. 1501. Thomas Dogeson, Vicar. Great Bedwyn. The 
 fmall figure of a prieft, about fourteen inches in length, which once 
 formed a portion of this memorial, is loft, and the infcription, lying in 
 the north tranfept, is all that now remains. 
 
 ' Probably a miftake of the engraver for fubenat\ a contraftion of Jubenumeratis. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 41 
 
 " l^ic facet tins ^I)omas tJogcson quotia bicariiis istius cccUc qui obiit scptimo Uic 
 tiEC£br(s "3° tJm i*l° U' j cui aic p'piciet' tic\" 
 
 " Here lyeth Sir Thomas Dogefon, formerly vicar of this church, who died the 7th day of 
 December, a.d. 1501. On whoie foul may God have mercy." 
 
 In the caft window of the chancel was formerly the pidlure of 
 a prieft, with two crutches, — a fmall circular bowl in his right hand, 
 and a large cup at his fide. From an accompanying infcription, in 
 Norman PVench, it feems to have been a memorial of an early vicar, 
 named Peris. ^ In 1405, Mr. Roger Derby is mentioned ; and, with 
 thefe two exceptions, Thomas Dogefon is the earlieft recorded Vicar of 
 the parifh of Great Bedwyn. The vicarage was a Peculiar under the 
 jurifdi6lion of the Deans of Sarum, whofe Inftitution Regifters do not 
 commence until the year 1548. 
 
 A.D. 1503. John Erton, Rector. Long Newnton. [Plate 
 XII.) This plate now lies in the pavement of the nave ; but, as both 
 infcriptions are reverfed, it would feem originally to have been in the 
 chancel, at the foot of the altar-fteps. The effigy appears habited 
 in amice, albe, ftole, maniple, and chefuble ; the maniple, by an unufual 
 arrangement, hanging from the right inftead of the left arm. 
 
 " l9ic jacct Bns 31oI)is (Siton quotiin llccior Ijuj' cccTie cpti obiit XFI" Hie Sanuaril 
 ^nno tjni millio C(frCCC° tcrtio CTujus 'auimc p'picict' Be' "amcT" 
 
 "Here lyeth Sir John Erton, formerly Redor of this church, who died the i6th day of 
 January, a.d. 1503. On whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 Beneath this, on the fame flab, is a fecond infcription, as follows : — 
 
 " "Sic p'pc sub lapitic i Bcitra ptc jacct yUi^oIaus 2®I)ite, qui primo oblinuit tc 
 tnonastio jtlalmcsburic scpultuta mortuor' fieri in bac ccclia Crt Cimitetio cjusHm 
 CTujus anime ^ropicietur Ucus "amc." 
 
 " Hard by under a ftone on the right hand, lyeth Nicholaus White, the firft who obtained 
 leave of the Monaftery of Malmcfbury for Burial of the dead in this church, and in the cemetery 
 thereof. On whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 The village of Long Newnton formed a part of the pofleflions of 
 Malmefbury Abbey, and the church, according to Aubrey, was anciently 
 a chapel of cafe to that eftablifhment. Of Nicholaus White, who 
 
 ' See Cough's edition of Camden's "Britannia," i. p. 158. PI. xiii. : and Stukeley's 
 "Itinerary," p. 61. 
 
 G 
 
42 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 obtained the right of fepulture therein, no further notice has been 
 met with. 
 
 A.D. 1504. George Rede, Rector. Fovant. [Plate XIII.) 
 This very curious memorial is affixed to the north wall of the chancel. 
 It is 15 inches in width, by I2g in height, and reprefents the departed 
 prieft in his ordinary habit, with rofary, &c., kneeling and addreffing a 
 fupplication to the BlefTed Virgin Mary (who appears in her Annun- 
 ciation), for interceffion with the Saviour on his behalf. 
 
 " © bUssiB Jtlotfir of pctc prat) to \\)\ soiu (or mc." 
 
 To the right of the Virgin is the angel Gabriel, kneeling on one 
 knee, and holding a fcroU infcribed, 
 
 " "^tie gracia plena Bns tccu." 
 
 " Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee !" 
 
 The emblematic lily, in full bloflbm, is feen in the background, and 
 above it are rays of light ifTuing from the clouds ; and the Dove, with 
 cruciform nimbus, fymbolical of the Third Perfon of the Holy Trinity, 
 defcending towards the head of the Virgin. 
 
 The whole of the background is powdered with fleurs-de-lis and 
 rofes ; whilft the lower portion of the plate bears the following 
 infcription : — 
 
 " ©rate pro a(a Dni CGeorgij IKetJe qwon^m KRcctor (QaXit Oc ffobent tempore 1Et)ifi= 
 tadoi's nobe turr' ibm ^nno tiomini millmo CCCC Iixwif Cujus 'animc ppitict' t(c' 
 
 -am?." 
 
 " Pray for the foul of Sir George Rede, formerly Reftor of the Church of Fovant at the 
 time of building the new tower there, a.d. 1492. On whofe foul may God have mercy. 
 Amen." 
 
 From the " Wilts Inftitutions " it appears that Rede was prefented 
 to the Redory of Fovant, by the Lady Abbefs of Wilton, in 1473 '■> 
 and refigned it in 1504. The tower which is at the weftern extremity 
 of the church, affords a very fair example of late or florid " perpen- 
 dicular " work, peculiar to the period mentioned in the infcription, viz. 
 the reign of Henry the Seventh. 
 
 A.D. 1508. Henry Frekylton, Cantarist. Aldbourne. 
 (Plate XIF.) This effigy lies in the pavement of the chancel. The 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 43 
 
 veftments are fimilar to thofe in Plate XII., but the maniple here 
 hangs, as is ufually the cafe, from the left arm. The infcription is as 
 follows : — 
 
 " ©rate p aia Kiii ^cnricl ffrefenlfon qutfbrT CTapdlani isti' cantarie q^ obijt X° Die 
 mcs' scptdu' ^° t)iu millio eCCCeCCTC" biij (Cut' Hie ppicictur Hcus ?lmen." 
 
 " Pray for the foul of Sir Henry Frekylton, formerly Chaplain of this Chantry, who died 
 the TOth day of the month of September, A.n. 1508. On whofe foul may God have mercy. 
 Amen." 
 
 The bowl of the chalice, which has been torn from the flab, pro- 
 bably contained a reprefentation of the facramental wafer bearing the 
 facred monogram. 
 
 Certain lands and tenements in Aldbourne were, it appears, anciently- 
 given to the Fraternity of the BlefTed Virgin M:;iy for the perpetual 
 maintenance of a chaplain in the parifh church. ' This was, probably, 
 the foundation to which Frekylton belonged. 
 
 A.D. 1510. John, SON OF Sir John Seymour. Great Bedwyn. 
 {Plate XF.) This effigy was formerly in the pavement of the chancel, 
 but is now affixed to the north wall. The coftume is very fimilar to 
 that of the male figure in Plate X. ; but the gown in this inftance 
 has no girdle or other appendage at the waift. The infcription termi- 
 nates differently from either of the preceding examples : — 
 
 " 'Sere hjcti) tlje fiotii) of jioftii *i:iimouvc sonc antJ !)circ of s'^ j'ol)ii S-ciimoure 
 fenngl)t Sc of j^argcnj oon of tfjc "DouctljiEvs of s'' i)cnrn (Ectcnttoovtl) Iinngbt toliicl) 
 Ucccsscti \f .XF Ban of iiulij tl)c ner' of o"^ lortJ J^ U' 3C on tolios soulc il)u Ijabc m'cn 
 ?c of m^ tl)aiiic sao a pater nost' $c a abc." 
 
 The four (hields at the angles of the flab are now lofl:, but in 
 Aubrey's time two remained, and bore the following arms: — 
 
 id. 
 
 2d. 
 
 Gules, two wings conjoined or, with a label of three points, Seymour ; impaling, I. Sable, 
 a chevron between three leopards' heads cabofhed or, differenced by an annulet, Went- 
 WORTH. 2. Per crofs argent and gules, in 2 and 3 a fret or, over all a bendlet fable, 
 Spenser. 3. A faltier engrailed. 4. A fefTe double cotifed. 5. Barry of fix, and a 
 canton ermine. 6. Sable crufuly, three fifhes hauriant. 
 Wentworth, with the quarterings as above. 
 
 ' The annual income of this chantry, at the 
 fupprefTion, was 6A 61.4^. The ornaments, &c. 
 were valued at the fmall fum of 31. 4^. The 
 
 incumbent, Adim Heryett, aged feventy years, 
 was awarded a yearly penfion of 4/., of which 
 fum he was in receipt five years later, a.d. 1553. 
 
44 Monumental BraJJes of Wilis. 
 
 The family of Seymour were at this date feated at Wolfhall (an- 
 ciently Ulfel)^ which property was acquired by the marriage of Roger 
 Seymour (temp. Richard II.) with Maud, the daughter and coheirefs 
 of Sir William Efturmy. Sir John Seymour had iflue by his wife 
 Margery, fix fons and four daughters, and died, in 1536, aged fixty ; 
 confequently he muft have been about thirty-four years of age at the time 
 of his eldeft fon's death in 1510, which will afford fome idea of the age 
 of the latter. The family was doubly connefted with Royalty ; firft, 
 by the marriage of Jane, the fifter of the deceafed, with King Henry 
 VIII. ,^ and next by that of his younger brother Thomas Lord Seymour 
 of Sudeley, at a later date, with Catharine Parr, widow of the fame 
 monarch. 
 
 The Seymours, together with their anceftors, the Efturmies, appear 
 to have ufed the Priory Church of the Holy Trinity at Eafton (near 
 Pewfey) as a place of interment. The fite of this houfe was granted 
 28 Hen. VIII. (1536) to Edward Seymour, Vifcount Beauchamp, 
 afterwards Duke of Somerfet. After his death, and during the minority 
 of his fon Edward, Earl of Hertford, the Priory Church having become 
 ruined, and the monuments of the family either deftroyed or defaced, 
 the Earl, in the year 1590, removed the body of his grandfather, Sir 
 John Seymour, to Great Bedwyn, in the chancel of which church 
 he eredled to his memory an altar-tomb bearing a recumbent effigy. 
 
 The remains of John, the eldeft fon and heir of Sir John, were 
 probably removed from Eafton to Great Bedwyn with thofe of 
 his father ; as alfo the Purbeck flab which contained his effigy in 
 brafs. 
 
 A.D. 1514. Sir John Danvers, AND Lady. Dauntsey. This 
 
 brafs lies on an altar-tomb abutting againft the north wall of the chancel. 
 The male effigy, which is 28 inches in length, appears in a fuit of plate- 
 armour fimilar to that in Plate XI. A pafs-guard^ or plate of metal 
 rifing perpendicularly from the left flioulder, affords a prote6tion to 
 the neck, and is a new feature in this example. Of the female figure 
 a woodcut will be given in a fubfequent page. 
 
 At the angles of the flab are four fliieldswith the following arms : — 
 
 ift. Argent, on a bend gules three popinjays, Brancester (affumed by Danvers) j quartering, 
 gules, two bars or, on a chief argent two bucks' heads cabofhed of the fecond, Barendes ; 
 with a crefcent for difference. 
 
 ' Aubrey mentions the very large barn at | and which was hung with tapeftry on the 
 Wolfhall in which the wedding was kept ; | occafion. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 45 
 
 2d. Paly of fix argent and azure, on a bend gules three cinquefoils or, Stradling ; 
 
 quartering, per pale or and argent three bars nebule gules, Dauntsey. 
 3d and 4th. Brancester and Barendes, quarterly, as above ; impaling, Stradling quartering 
 
 Dauntsey. 
 
 The marginal infcription furrounds three fides of the flab : — 
 
 " '^ixt \m\) burpctJ spr lioljn Banfaers limjgi^t sumtome loiBe of tfjis mancr anU 
 patron of tliis t\)\m\\t in tl)e nigljt of tJamc ^nnc I)is topf tI)E \a\)k\)t saiti snr 3ioI)n ti^e 
 fit) Bun of tf)e monetae of Siannanj HeptHt) tf)L)s Igfe too transitory tlje i)cre of our lortJ 
 goti £^ilL(!L(&(iL€ anB xiiij." 
 
 The family of Danvers appears to have been feated, early in the 
 15th century, at Cothorp, co. Oxon. Sir Robert (eldeft fon of John 
 Danvers of Cothorp by a firfl: marriage) purchafed the eftate of Cul- 
 worth, CO. Northampton, and died in 1467 leaving three daughters. 
 From thefe daughters Culworth was purchafed by their uncle, Richard 
 Danvers, of Prefcote, vv^ho was the father of Sir John Danvers above 
 mentioned. Sir John was Sheriff of Northamptonfliire 10 Hen. VIL, 
 and fubfequently, by marriage with the heirefs of Stradling, became 
 Lord of the Manor of Dauntfey in this county. He was afterwards 
 twice Sheriff of Wilts in 19 Hen. VII. and 5 Hen. VIII. 
 
 Aubrey in his " Colle6lions for Wilts " gives the following curious 
 anecdote in reference to his marriage : — 
 
 " Anno .... here was a robbery committed at the Manour Houfe, on the family of the 
 Stradlings; he [Sir Edward Stradling] and all his fervants, except one plowboy, who hid himfelf, 
 were murthered, by which means this whole eftate came to Anne his fifter, and that heire married 
 after to Sir John Danvers, a handfome gentleman, who clapt up a match with her before fhe 
 heard the newes, he, by good fortune lighting upon the meflenger firft. She lived at that time 
 in Pater Norter Rowe at London, and had but an ordinary portion. This robbery was done on 
 a Saturday night; the next day the neighbours wondered none of the family came to church ; 
 they went to fee what was the matter, and the parfon of the parifh very gravely went along 
 with them, who by the boy was proved to be one of the company, and was (I think) hanged 
 for his paines." 
 
 A.D. 1 5 16. John Baynton, E?(^ Bromham. [Plate XFI.) 
 This brafs lies on the pavement of the Beauchamp Chapel already 
 noticed at p. 35. The effigy is nearly three feet in length, and the 
 armour very fimilar to that dcfcribed in the laft example ; the large 
 fize of the coute on the left elbow is worthy of remark. 
 
 The fhields around the effigy bear the following arms : — 
 
 ift and 4th. Quarterly, i and 4. Sable, a bend lozengy. Argent, Baynton. 2. Gules, two 
 lions pafTant guardant in pale or, Delamere. 3. Azure, three roaches naiant or, 
 Roche. 
 
46 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 2d and 3d. The fame ; impaled with Gules, on a crofs argent, five eagles difplayed fable, 
 
 DiGGES. 
 
 The marginal infcription is as follows : — 
 
 " »^ ©rate pro aia 1,q\^% 33a«nton 'Srmtgcri filii ct !)crcti Bobcrti Bannton mtlitis 
 Consansuinei ct ijcrcti Bicartii ISEaudjamp Uomini tic sto 'amantio, qui obiit ultimo tJ(e 
 mcnsis ©ctobris '?lnno Bni millmo b^ibj" cujus aic propicictur Dcus 'ajinejisr." 
 
 " kJh Pray for the foul of John Baynton, Efquire, fon and heir of Robert Baynton, Knight ; 
 coufin and heir of Richard Beauchamp, Lord of St. Amand, who died the laft day of the month 
 of October, a.d. 1516; on whofe foul may God have mercy. Amen." 
 
 Sidney, in his " Treatife on Government," aflerts that in antiquity of 
 pofleflion and name^ few of the nobility equal the family of Baynton. 
 In the time of Henry II. the Bayntons were Knights of St. John of 
 Jerufalem. Sir Henry Baynton was Knight Marfhal to the King, and 
 his fecond fon Henry, a Knight of St. John, was flain in Bretagne in 
 1 20 1. The family were for nearly two centuries feated at Falftone," a 
 tithing in the parifti of Bifhopftone^ in South Wilts. This property 
 they obtained by the marriage of Thomas de Benton with Margaret, 
 daughter and co-heir of Richard de Grimfted, by his wife Edith, daughter 
 of Guido le Tablier, lord of Falftone, temp. Edw. I., and it continued 
 to be their principal refidence until the commencement of the 
 1 6th century. 
 
 John Baynton, whofe brafs is here reprefented, was the fon and heir 
 of Sir Robert Baynton, knight, of Falftone, as recorded in the epitaph. 
 The latter having taken an ailive part on behalf of King Henry VI., 
 was taken prifoner at the battle of Tewkefbury, and attainted of high 
 treafon,^ 14 Edw. IV., (1475.) His life, however, was fpared, and his 
 eftates were fubfequently recovered by the family. His fon was reftored 
 in blood 19 Hen. VII. ^ (1503), and on the deceafe of Richard Beau- 
 champ, Lord St. Amand, in 1508, he fucceeded to the eftate at 
 
 ' The name of Baynton was probably aflumed 
 from Baynton (in Domefday Book called Ba- 
 gentone) in Yorkfhire (where the family, in all 
 probability, originally fettled) ; the derivation 
 of which place may beeafily found in the fmall 
 river Bain, that runs near it, and the Saxon 
 word tun, a village or hamlet. — Playfair's 
 Britijh Family Antiquity, vii. 73. 
 
 • " Fallerfdowne, I'ulgo Falfton, was built 
 by a Baynton, about perhaps Henry the Fifth. 
 Here was a noble, old fafliioned houfe, with a 
 mote about it and drawbridge, and ftrong high 
 walls embattled. They did confift of a layer 
 ot freeftone and a layer of flints, fquared or 
 
 headed; two towers faced the fouth — ^one 
 the eaft, the other the weft end. After the 
 garrifon was gone the mote was filled up, 
 about 1650, and the high wall pulled down, 
 and one of the towers." — Aubrey's Natural 
 Hijlory of Wilts, p. loi. 
 
 ^ To fome member, or members of the 
 Baynton family, about the time of Henry VI. 
 the ancient and very interefting church of 
 Bifhopftone appears to have been indebted for 
 a confiderable addition made at that period. 
 Carter's " Account of Bijhopjione Church^'' 1845. 
 
 ^ Parliamentary Rolls, VI. 145. 
 
 5 Ibid. VI. 526. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 47 
 
 Bromham as reprefentative of the fecond daughter and coheirefs of 
 Sir John de la Roche who had married his anceftor Nicholas Baynton. 
 
 Sir John de la Roche =j= Willelma, d. of Peter 
 of Bromham, Kt. I de la Mare, Kt. 
 
 Walter, fecond fon of =j= Elizabeth, dau. 
 
 John, Lord, Beau- 
 champ, of Powyk. 
 
 and co-heirefs. 
 
 Joan, dau. and =f= Nicholas Baynton. 
 co-heirefs. 1 
 
 William Beauchamp, Lord =y= Elizabeth 
 St. Amand, ob. 1457. I Braybrooke. 
 
 Richard Beauchamp, Lord = Anne 
 
 St. Amand, ob. 1508, s. Wriothefley. 
 
 p. legitim. 
 
 Sir John Baynton =p Joan Dudley. 
 
 Sir John Baynton=j=Joan Echingham. 
 
 Sir Robert Baynton, =p Elizabeth 
 attainted 1472. Hart. 
 
 John Baynton inherited Bromham as 
 reprefentative of Joan, one of the co- 
 heirefles of Roche, on the deceafe 
 of Richard Beauchamp, grandfon 
 of Elizabeth, the elder dau. and co- 
 heirefs. Ob. 1516. 
 
 Jane 
 Digges. 
 
 A.D. 1517. Thomas Goddard and Wife. Ogbourne St. 
 George. [Plate XFII.) This brafs, as regards coftume, varies 
 but little from Plate X. ; the gown of the male figure is flightly open 
 in front fhowing a portion of the doublet. It lies in the pavement of 
 a fmall chantry chapel which has been added to the eaft end of the 
 north aifle, and was dedicated in honour of the Holy Trinity. 
 
 The infcription is as follows : — 
 
 " ©ff t}o' cl)arue pran for ll)c souks of (ir{)omas GotitlarTJ ant 31oI)an !)ts totfe 
 tol)ic^ tf)oms tJBcH tfte iibij Dan of August ^^ iW b*- ifaii fcoljo' soul' if)u Ijabe md." 
 
 Beneath are two matrices which contained the effigies of a fon and 
 daughter, but both are now loft. 
 
 The pedigree of Goddard, as given in the Heralds Vifitations of the 
 county (Harl. MSS. 1165 and 1443), does not include this individual in 
 connection with the Ogbourne branch of the family. The Thomas 
 Goddard there mentioned, who married, fecondly, a daughter of John 
 Ernely, was living in 1536.1 It is probable, therefore, that the fimilarity 
 
 ' His will, bearing date loth April, 1536, is 
 in the Prerogative Office. He defircs to be 
 buried in the parirti church of Ogbourne St. 
 George, " within the chapel of the Holy Tri- 
 
 nity, before the image of the Trinity," and 
 appoints John Goddard of Upham, and William 
 Lam bard, executors, and John Ernie overfeer. 
 
48 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 of name might have led to the omiflion of a generation, thus excluding 
 the Thomas of 15 17, ofwhofe deceafe at this date the brafs furnifties 
 the moft pofitive evidence. 
 
 A.D. 1518. John Barley and Wife. Preshute. {Plate 
 XVIII.) A very fimilar example to the laft as regards coftume, but 
 the female figure is here remarkably fliff and ill-proportioned. The 
 infcription commences with a fmall letter : — 
 
 " prap for ti)c souUa of 3o]^n 38arlcB Sc J^arnon ftis tonf trif)ic]&£ SofjtT TJccesseK \%t 
 EX Kae of i«laB ti)e pcrc of our lorU :got) J^l" U' ibiij on to'[)os£ soulcs il)u \)SAt 
 meriB." 
 
 The flab lies in the pavement of the fouth aifle. 
 
 Circa A.D. 1520. A Civilian and Wife. Tisbury. Another 
 fomew^hat fimilar example. The plates are each 25 inches in length, 
 and lie in the pavement of the fouth aifle. A very fhort tippet is vv^orn 
 over the fhoulders in the female effigy. The infcription has been 
 removed, but the brafs is traditionally know^n as the memorial of Sir 
 John Davies, Attorney General for Ireland in the reign of James I., 
 w^ho was born at Chickfgrove (a hamlet in this parifh) in 1569, and 
 died in 1626. The coftume, however, is a century earlier than this 
 date, and Sir John is known to have been buried at St. Martin's-in-the- 
 Fields, London. As the family of Davys, or Davies, appears to have 
 held property within the Manor of Tiftjury in 1517,^ and the name is 
 traditionally conneded with the brafs, it may not improbably be afcribed 
 to one of the earlier members, whofe death happened about this date. 
 
 A.D. 1523. Harry Preci. Bishopstone (near Swindon). Of 
 this brafs Aubrey fays : — " In the nave this infcription ; beneath is 
 his picture on a brafs plate affixed to a marble : — 
 
 " ©f pour tfjarite praji for p^ ^o&Dle of ^arri} ^rcci toljicf) 1|arrt) titccsiti tf)e EX 
 Uao of Dull tl)c iicarc of our lEorU CliolJ i¥l. F^ XXEEIE on tol)0sc souU 3H)u f)abc 
 merd ?lmcn." 
 
 There is now no trace whatever either of the brafs, or of the flab 
 bearing its matrix. 
 
 ' Hoare's " Modern Wilts." Dunworth 
 Hund. p. 136. Chalmers, however, defcribes 
 the family as having come into England from 
 
 Wales, with the Earl of Pembroke, and firft 
 fettled at Tifbury temp. Edw. VI. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 49 
 
 A.D. 1524. William Chaucey and Wife. Charlton (near 
 Devizes). [Plate XIX.) This brafs was originally on the floor, but 
 is now affixed to the wall, of a fniall chapel attached to the north fide 
 of the nave. A label illuintr from the mouth of the male fitrure is 
 infcribed, — 
 
 " JtliscricortJias tJni t ct'nu camabo." 
 
 " I will fing the mercies of the Lord for ever !" 
 
 And underneath the figures is the following: — 
 
 " ©fC \\o' cl)aiitc pran {or t!)c soul' of £C\iUm Cbaiucw cjcniulma $c Jfclarion Ijis 
 topfc tohici) aCUlltri cBcficB ll;ris CljapcU auti Hcccssyti tfje EX Ban of 3uni ^nno tmi 
 
 The two (hields of arms bear quarterly, i and 4, a chevron between 
 three efcallops ; the firft quarter differenced by a crefcent, for Chaucey. 
 2 and 3, a chevron between three caftles — Diinch (i*) 
 
 The infcription on this brafs feems to be the only remaining record 
 of the foundation of the Chaucey Chapel. From the pifcina in the 
 fouth wall, near the fouth-eaft angle, it is evident that it once contained 
 an altar, and was ereiled for the purpofe of a chantry; but there is no 
 mention of any fuch foundation, either in the " Valor Ecclefiafticus," 
 or in the certificates of Wilts' Chantries, noticed at p. 4 ; and it is 
 therefore prefumed, that it was never fully endowed as fuch. The 
 dripftones on the outfide of the north and eaft windows reprefent demi- 
 angels bearing fhields, charged with the following arms : — 
 
 Eaji iv'indo%v. I. Two bars, and in chief three plates, Hungerford (?) ; impaling, three bars between 
 twelve efcallops, Moulton (?) 2. Moulton, as above j impaling, a dolphin 
 naiant embowed, Fitz James. 
 
 North ivindoiv, 1. Chaucey, as above, fingly. 2. A chevron between three blackbirds. Thorn- 
 hill ; impaling Moulton. 
 
 Two fimilar ftiields in the interior of the chapel bear Tbornhill^ 
 fingly ; and Chaucey., impaling Dunch., as on the brafs. 
 
 The tower, which, like the chapel, is of the late Perpen- 
 dicular, or 'I'udor ityle, feems, from the arms over the doorway, 
 to have been built either by the fame individual, or fome near 
 relative. Above the doorway is Thornhill^ impaling Chaucey ; ^ 
 
 ' There is no recorded pedigree of Chaucey 
 in the Heralds Vifitations of Wilts. That of 
 Thornhill, however, contains a marriage be- 
 tween William Thornhill, (a fon of Thomas, 
 of Thornhill, CO. Dorfct, and brother of Robert | de Strctford, in 1489-95, I5i9and 1533 
 
 H 
 
 of Charlton, Wilts), and Joan daughter of 
 William Chaucey, which is fhown by this fhield 
 of arms. A Nicholas Chaucey prefented to the 
 chapel ofPorton, in 1437, and John Chawfey, 
 
50 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 and in the fpandrils, Thornhill fingly j and Chaucey impaling 
 Dunch.^ 
 
 A.D. 1528. Agnes Button. Alton Priors. A fmall female 
 figure, eighteen inches in length, lying in the pavement near the weft 
 end of the nave, and bearing this infcription, — 
 
 " &l no'- tfiarttc prai) for "^ soulc of "agncs button late toyfc of acSilltam button 
 t!Dl)ui)e ^gncs BtptiiH ge xi\ Bap of 3)uni in b^ gcrc of o'^ lort itl.F'^ xiUii} infjosc 
 souIe 3H;u pDo^" 
 
 This lady was, probably, the mother of William Button (Plate 
 XXV.) She is defcribed in the Heralds' pedigree as " Jnne^ daughter 
 of John Cater, of Letcombe Regis, co. Berks." The name of 
 Agnes was very commonly ufed for Anne, efpecially in Latin 
 documents. 
 
 A.D. 1530. Anthony Ernley. Laverstock. A fmall plate, 
 formerly affixed to the north wall of the nave. 
 
 " ©ff ijor tijaritc po for tl)c x'oule of "antonii dnlcv) csquitr zvCa jltlargarctt F)is 
 tunfe toJjicf) ^Intonn HcccssiB tijc xbi) tJap of Xobcmbcr "ar Uni jm^ CCCCC" XXX° 
 on fcD!;os soul 3ii)u ^abc mci." 
 
 The family of Ernley were anciently feated at Ernley, co. 
 Suflex, from which village they feem to have derived their 
 name.- The deceafed was fecond fon of John Ernley, of Ernley, 
 by his wife Anne, daughter of Conftantine Darell, of Collingbourne, 
 whofe brafs has been already noticed.'' John, the elder brother 
 of Anthony, fettled at Cannings, near Devizes, and from him 
 defcended the Ernleys of Whetham, Etchilhampton, Brimflade, and 
 Conock.^ 
 
 ' Charlton Church, which is dedicated to St. 
 Peter, was formerly a chapel to Upavon ; which 
 latter church, or Prebend, called a Priory alien, 
 parcel of the poiTeffions of the Abbey of St. 
 Wandragefile, in Normandy, with the Chapel 
 of Charlton annexed, was granted I Hen. VI. 
 to the Priory of Ederofe, or Ivy church, Wilts. 
 Pari. Rolls. Before the commencement of the 
 1 6th century, when the tower and Chaucey 
 Chapel were added, it confifted fimply of a 
 
 neft ; " whence probably the armorial bearing 
 of the family. — Argent, on a bend fable three 
 eagles difplayed or. In allufion to this the 
 monument of William and Joan Ernele (1587) 
 in Allcannings Church, isfurmounted by three 
 eagles, with the quaint infcription : " where so 
 
 EVER A DEAD CARKAS IS, EVEN THITHER WILL 
 THE EGLES RESORTE." 
 
 ' Vide fupra, p. 38. 
 
 ■" The early portion of the pedigree fliowing 
 
 chancel and nave. their connexion with Wilt/hire will be found 
 
 ^ The name is faid to have been originally [ in Harl. MS. No. iiii; and a continuation 
 Erley, (o called from Er-lege, " the eagles' I in Bijrke's Extinff Baronetage. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 5 i 
 
 A.D. 1530. Thomas Horton, and Wife. Bradford-on- 
 AvoN. This brafs lies in the pavement near the eaft end of the north 
 aifle. It confifts of two fmall figures, each about a foot in length, 
 and fimilar to thofe in Plate XIX. A label iffuing from the mouth 
 of each bears a portion of the following fupplication, addrefTed to a 
 mediaeval fvmbol of the Holy Trinity, which has been torn from the 
 flab: — 
 
 " Jjancta Crinitas \x\C He' j^liserere nobis." 
 
 " Holy Trinity, one God. Have mercy on us." 
 
 The infcription is as follows : — 
 
 " ©ff i}o^ c!)aiitc prap for \\)t soulcs of Cf)omas l^orton Cs: jiHan) ftijs topfft tol)itf) 
 
 Cf)oms toas sutijinc fTuntfcv of this cf)atontir> 'Slnt) HctcssiP il)e . . . Bat) of "an" 
 
 tJni jan;" €^€€€" . . . . $c B^ <:aijB Jtlanj ticccsstti n^ ... Han of "an" 
 
 i«° €€€.€€" ©n toI)ois soulcs 3l)u I^abe mcrci}." 
 
 Beneath the infcription is a Merchant's Mark, reprefented in the 
 annexed woodcut ; and at the angles of the 
 flab were four fmall labels, bearing fhort 
 legends, one of which, " Uatlg ii^clpe " — a 
 brief fupplication to the BlefTed Virgin Mary 
 for aid — only is vifible. 
 
 From the entire abfence of dates in the 
 infcription, it is evident that the brafs was 
 laid down as a memorial of the foundation of 
 the chantry in the lifetime of both individuals, 
 ^noZ?H^foT-^ and the blank fpaces fubfequently omitted to 
 
 be filled in, as was originally intended. 
 The antiquary Leland, who vifited Bradford about 1540, has pre- 
 ferved the following notes refpecling Thomas Horton and his wife, 
 which are valuable, inafmuch as they furnifh, in connexion with the 
 above infcription, a record of his principal benefa6lions to the town 
 of Bradford and its parilh church: — 
 
 "There is a very fair houfe, of the building of one Horton, a riche clothier, at the north-eft 
 part by the chirch. This Horton's wife yet lyvith. This Horton buildid a goodly large chirch- 
 houfe ex lapide quadrato [of fquared ftone] at the eft end of the chirchyard without it. 
 
 "This Horton made divers fair houfes of ftone in Throughbridge toun. One Lucas, a 
 clothier, now dwellcth in Horton's houfe in Bradeford. Horton left no children." 
 
 This Thomas Horton was a younger fon of John Horton, of 
 
52 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 Lullington, co. Somerfet, defcended from the Hortons of Catton, co. 
 Derby. 1 His name is given in the Heralds Vifitations, but that of his 
 wife does not appear. In his will, which is dated 26 July, 1530, he is 
 defcribed as " of Iford, Marchaunt ;" he defires " to be buried with his 
 father in the He of Our Lady on the north fide of Bradford Church j" 
 and appoints his wife Mary his fole executrix, and Thomas Horton his 
 nephew, and Thomas Long, overfeers." From the Inquifition taken 
 on his deceafe, it appears that he died at Weftwood, on the 14th of 
 Auguft following the date of his will. Thomas Horton, his nephew, 
 (the fon of his elder brother, William, of Lullington,) became his heir, 
 from whom defcended the Hortons of Iford, Weftwood, Broughton 
 Gifford, and Elfton, co. Gloucefter. 
 
 The Horton Chantry appears to have been founded in the eaftern 
 portion of the north aifle of Bradford Church, which is mentioned in 
 his will as " the He of Our Lady." In the " Valor Ecclefiafticus," 
 (II. 147) its annual value is given at 10/. per annum. It was endowed 
 with lands, &c., at Alyngton, Chippenham, Winfield, Hullavington, 
 Keevii, and Box, co. Wilts ; Whitcome and Farley, co. Somerfet ; and 
 Wefton in the parifli of A4arfhfield, co. Gloucefter ; alfo a houfe in 
 Bradford for the refidence of the chantry prieft. Thefe lands and 
 tenements produced, at the fuppreflion, 2 Edw. VI., a rental of 
 11/. 1 8 J. 3<^. out of which 12 fhillings and 4 pence was paid to the 
 Lord Arundell, from the lands at Keevii. The plate belonging to 
 the chantry weighed 17 ounces, and the ornaments in the chapel, 
 including veftments, &c., were valued at 23 fhillings and 4 pence. 
 The Commiflioners conclude their Report by recommending to the 
 notice of the king's moft honourable council the incumbent William 
 Ffurbner, aged fifty-fix, who is defcribed as " a verey honefte man well 
 learned and ryght able to ferve a Cure, albeit a verey poore man and 
 hathe none other lyvinge but the fayd Chuntre ; and, furthermore, he is 
 bounde by the fundatyon to kepe a ffreefcole at Bradforde and to gyve 
 the Clerke [Vicar] ther yerely xx' to teache children to fynge for the 
 mayntenaunce of Devine fervice, and alfo to diftribute to the poore 
 yerely xiij^ iiij'', all which things he hath done accordinglye.''^ 
 
 Horton's " fair houfe by the church " is now (1859) ufed as a cloth- 
 fa<Sl-ory ; its windows, moulded beams, winding ftone ftairs, and large 
 fireplace, all feem to befpeak the date of its ere61:ion. The " goodly 
 
 ' For a pedigree of Horton, fee " Wilts 
 Magazine," V. 317. Alfo Harl. MS. No. 
 1443, f- i88> and No. 1 165, f. 89. 
 
 ^ In Prerogative Office. 
 3 Cert, of Chantries, No. 58, Pub. Rec. 
 Office. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 53 
 
 large church houfe " alfo remains, but has long fince fallen into private 
 hands ; the walls, of fquared ftone, ftrengthened by fhallow buttrefTes, 
 bear tcftimony to the truth of Leland's itatement, but the windows 
 are chiefly modern infertions. 
 
 Circa A.D. 1539. Anne Danvers. Dauntsey 
 This fmall, but elegant piece of workmanfhip, 
 commemorates Anne, the widow of Sir John 
 Danvers, Knight, daughter of Sir John Strad- 
 ling, and hcirefs of Sir John Dauntcfey, whofe 
 effigy (reprefented in the annexed woodcut) 
 alfo appears on the brass of her hufband already 
 defcribed. Its double occurrence is therefore 
 remarkable, as affording an illuflration of the 
 very different manner in which the fame indi- 
 vidual was reprefented by two diftinft, but 
 contemporary artifts. 
 
 The plate of metal on which this fubje6l 
 is engraved, is affixed to the fouth wall of the 
 chancel and enclofed within a canopied altar- 
 tomb. The upper half reprefents the deceafed 
 beneath a comprefTed ogee arch, kneeling at 
 a defk. Above is a label bearing her name, 
 whilfl a fecond ifTuing from her uplifted hands 
 is infcribed : — 
 
 {Plate XX.) 
 
 " Bnc mtsewre met," 
 
 " Lord, have mercy upon me." 
 
 Effigy of Anne Dati'uers, [from 
 
 the Brafs of her hufband^ 
 
 A.D. 1514..) 
 
 At her right hand is a mediaeval reprefent- 
 ation of the Three Perfons of the Holy Trinity, 
 the Father, — "the Ancient of Days," — in royal attire, feated on a 
 throne, fupporting a crucifix, above which hovers the Holy Dove. 
 
 A fhield to the right of the effigy bears the arms of Dauntefey. — 
 Per pale or and argent three bars nebule gules. 
 
 The following remarkable epitaph completes the memorial : — 
 
 " a®!)at baijlctl) iji llicl;cs or toljat possession, 
 gijftES of \)i^ nature, nobles in genirp, 
 Baftcnes tjcpunjti or prcginant pollnn) 
 sitl) protDcs sitl; polDcr fjaue tljcir pgrcssio 
 
54 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 ffat£ it is fatall on sclff succession 
 ti)at toorlt) i^atl^ no tljing b^ smcUiil) not frcaltit 
 tof)ere most assuraunce is most unsuertie 
 I)EK lietf) tjams "annc tf)c laUn of Uauntcscn 
 to sir 5ioi)u Banbcrs spotosc in couiunctton 
 JTo sir 3ioJ)n tiauntcsci} bn Igne tiisccncion 
 (Coson anU i^circ, infjosc Ijcrntage 5igl)liK 
 fastelo be firmeti in ©ristc f)is mancion." 
 
 John, Walter, Robert, and Peter Auncell. West Lav- 
 INGTON. A fmall plate lying in the pavement of the " Beckett Aifle," 
 a fmall chantry chapel, of late Perpendicular date, on the fouth lide of 
 the chancel. 
 
 " 'i^ic jacct 31oI)anncs C^altcrus llobcrtus §c ^ctrus filii Sioljis "aunccII scnioris p. 
 quor' aiabu pat' nost'." 
 
 " Here lyeth John, Walter, Robert, and Peter, fons of John Auncell, fenior, for whofe fouls 
 [fay a] pater nofter." 
 
 The family of Beckett, of Littleton, by whom this chapel has been 
 for nearly three centuries ufed as a burial-place, were thus defcended 
 from Auncell : — 
 
 William Auncell, grandfon of another William, =p . . . . 
 who married Felice, dau. and heirefs of John 
 Malwyn of Etchilhampton. 
 
 William Keifer =7= Agnes, dau. of William Auncell. 
 
 Robert Beckett, of Wilton =^ Edith, dau. and heirefs. 
 
 From thefe defcended the Becketts of Littleton, 
 whofe prefent reprefentative is Beckett Tur- 
 ner, Efq., of Fenleigh Houfe, Weftbury. 
 
 Walter Clowt and Wives. Wrqughton. Of this brafs, 
 which is now loft, Aubrey gives the following defcription : — " In the 
 Nave, in brafle on marble, three figures, viz. j the hufband between his 
 two wives : infcription thus : — 
 
 " ©i nour ci)ariti) pran for tl^c soulcs of SiHater Clotot $c Isabella $r Stisanne i)is 
 tonbES, on toi^osc soulcs GoU ^abe mcrty." 
 
ss 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 BRASSES FROM THE REFORMATION UNTIL THEIR FINAL DISUSE, 
 ABOUT A.D. 1650. 
 
 OHN DAUNTESAY, Esq. West Lavington. a.d. 
 1559. (Plate XXL) This effigy lies on the pavement of 
 the Dauntefay Chapel, which has been noticed at p. 32. 
 The head here refts on a clofe-fighted helm, without creft, 
 pafs-guards rife from each fhouider, and fmall frills appear at the neck 
 and wrifts. 
 
 On two feparate plates of metal are the following quaint verfes : — 
 
 " ©uc tljousanKc ycrcs toril; ^unUrctitics (ijbc ana (iifatcc mine full paste, 
 iii)on Dauntc<5(in Hit) cljaunge tl)ts lijfc (or hjfc tl)at still sliall laste. 
 En tf)c niinciccuti; of JKaijc inficn springe all tf)inges tinto mans bsc, 
 CFbcn tl)en tf)is man tftat mortall luas, bis Kcatf) coulHe not refuse. 
 l^E batJ too iDpties successifaelye bij Ijolij tuetilockes rigf)t, 
 ?ro toI;om i)c toas as fai}tf)full as isas cber anp totgf)t. 
 Sebcn cljilUrcn Ije l)a"D 611 tlje laste, anti bii tl]c fijrst f),i'a fntie, 
 ^I)rougl) tDl)cm tf)oun;I} Ivife 6c tool'.e aiBaric Ijts name remains alnUc. 
 ¥?c teas CJsquncr, ty office caljc a 31iistice just also, 
 ■3 proppc to poore, a frentie to ricl)c, to none at all a fo. 
 ^0 tD{)cn I)c {)ati spent forirte yeres anti fotorc in bale of tooe, 
 DcatI) stroolic, anti stramc \)t tuas compclltJ out of tl)is tnorltie to goe. 
 llis cartas tl)cn tl)at tuas Init felay to torinlding luorm is mcatc, 
 l^is sotoU !)opc is toiti} GotJ posseeties in Ijcaben a {)cabenlij seatc.'" 
 
 " T^ttit t(otI) in gratic interret) lye a ^filargucret bij name, 
 ©f 3if)on Bauntcsan tf)e last torfe a geme of pecre'.cs fame. 
 Of (Clnltren sebcn sl)e mother teas so C"">oti tiiO lilcssc tliat tree: 
 Cljat pt sljoiiltie not (ruitclessc rcmaine 6ut ftabe poMcrilee. 
 13ut tol)en Beail) pecrst Ijer T)oto5cbant(e ticere, sf)e past l}cr ixnjtitJotoes tiaijcs, 
 linkc turtle true, of ricljc anti poore sljc i)ati antJ f)atf) tf)e pratisc. 
 Ctoclbe iieres a Ixiititiotoe sl)e tiiti Ivbe after licr liolBScbantl tineti, 
 ^s cljaste as cbcr anijc BitJ b.iijtl)in tl)is toorltc most hjitc. 
 
56 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 % matrone mnltJe sf)e h3as most toise, juste, gotilp, grabe antJ sngc, 
 
 l^er lykc, as triall truclne s^ctutl), is rare in tf)is our age. 
 
 ^I;e nebcr turnU aiBan ijer care from tfjcm tijat aijUe tiiti trabc, 
 
 'i^cr ncijgPours poorc tl)at bbU tti toant rclncffe of ]^cr sijoinlUe fjabc. 
 
 Ff)E pcore anB tomfortelesst from tBrongc sI)e sab'U anti BcfcnUe 
 
 llcr praose therefore Dot!) Iibc aiiti lastc tlioug^ life tie brougf)! to enUe. 
 
 l^er toealll) or berteous Igfe coulDc not feccpe her from tiarte of Beat!;, 
 
 ©f January tl)e mjnetccnt]^ si)e B^lfcO l)^! last brcatl) 
 
 3Eu yere of our lorUe a ?If)0to3ant(E ftibc {junTlrcti sebemo one, 
 
 ^f;e felte tfje pangues of Beat!) tl;at may Esci)ch3cti 6e of none. 
 
 ■^l^er solDle toyif) Go"D assuretllo entilesse jones Dotl) fenotoc, 
 
 I|er fioUy slcepcs anU so sljall rest bntill tl)e trumpe tioe blotoe." 
 
 John Dauntefay, of Weft Lavington, was the eldeft fon of Ambrofe 
 Dauntefay of the fame place,^ Sheriff of Wilts, 2 Edw. VI. (1548), by 
 his firft wife Eleanor, daughter of Walter Mervyn, of Fonthill. He 
 married, firft, Katherine, daughter of Anthony Twynehoe, of Steeple 
 Aftiton;- and fecondly, Margaret, daughter of John Ernley, of Can- 
 nings,'' who is commemorated by the fecond infcription ; and by whom 
 he had iffue, among other children, a fon, John Dauntefay, Sheriff of 
 Wilts, 38 Elizabeth (1595), and afterwards knighted. 
 
 On removing thefe plates, during a reftoration of the Dauntefay 
 Chapel, in 1847,^ ^^ ^''^ '^'^^ found to have on the under fide the 
 following infcription, in bolder character, and in the Dutch language : — 
 
 " I)eijlegl)e gl)cest meesters ban bDestmoustrc enKe JuDicn 
 gijiutjcn Daer af in gficbrcfec tnarcn ?oc ?al t^elue goct 
 to'mcn opt gilBe ban sintc CTorncIis ©uctacr mctter 
 ?elucr last alst altsamcn btcclicr blijcisen maci) bi) 
 Hen fontiacicn Bacr af ^ijntie Hacr af ten Iic!)t on Der 
 
 ' William D., Alderman of London, and 
 brother of this Ambrofe, by will dated loth 
 March, 1542, diredls that his executors Ihall 
 purchafe certain ground in Weft Lavington, and 
 caufea church-houfe, a fchool-houfe, and eight 
 chambers to be built thereon ; the fchool to 
 continue forever; one of the chambers to be 
 for the fchoolmarter, and the others for the 
 habitations of five "poor aged and impotent 
 men," and two "honeft aged poor women," to 
 be called the headmen and beadwomen of 
 Weft Lavington. For the maintenance of this 
 charity he bequeathed to the Mercers' Com- 
 pany certain lands, meffuages, and tenements, 
 
 in the City of London, producing at tiiat time 
 an annual rental of nearly 50/. The charity 
 ftill continues to be maintained. 
 
 * His arms, — Party per pale or and argent 
 three bars dancette gules; impaling thofe of 
 Twynehoe — Argent, on a chevron fable be- 
 tween three pewits proper, two ermine fpots 
 in chevron, — on painted glafs, are in the pos- 
 feffion of the Rev. E. Wilton. This glafs was 
 found fome time fince in a hedgerow between 
 Deptford Inn and Yarnborough Caftle. 
 
 ^ Niece of Anthony Ernley, p. 50. 
 
 •* See Journal of the Archaeological Inftitute. 
 No. xvi. Dec. 1847. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 57 
 
 lien fecrcfemccsttrs ccn ontlcr Oc I)ci}lcgl)e gf)cc3l mr's 
 ccn onHcr Hen tJcUcn cnBc balccBcrs ban sintc Come 
 lis oiutacr ecn onlicr He bviutJcn 'Stjiiaen aBnVcn' 
 ccn ontj' He faricnHc' ba' joncavauluc pacssclimc booiu't." 
 
 This infcription is fuppofcd to be not older than the commencement 
 of the i6th century, and Teems to record a gift to fomc Fraternity called 
 the Maflers of the Holy Ghoft, of Weftmouftre, for the maintenance 
 of certain lights in a church as fpecified, probably in the upper part of 
 the plate, now cut away. The following is a tranflation : — 
 
 " Mafters of the Holy Ghoft of Weftmouftre, and fhould 
 
 you [or you people] fail herein, the fame property fhall lapfe to the Guild of the Altar of St_ 
 Nicholas, with the fame charge, as may be further feen in the foundation thereof, being one 
 light thereof amongft the churchwardens, one amongft the Mafters of the Holy Ghoft, one 
 amongft the deacon and vergers [?] of the altar of St. Nicholas, one amongft the friends [of] 
 Adrian Adrianz [the fon of Adrian], and one amongft the friends of the damfel Paeffchme [or 
 PaelTchine] aforefaid." 
 
 On the under fide of the fecond plate was found the following 
 fragment of a memorial only 19 years earlier, in Roman capitals; — 
 
 IVNII 1552 DIVTVRNA ET PENE TRIENNA[Llj 
 EGRITVDINE FRACT' INVICTO TAME ANIM[0] 
 E VIVIS DECESSIT. MARIA AC DULCIA F1L[1^] 
 AMANTISSIME PIETATIS ERGO MONVMENT[VM] 
 HOC POSVERE VT ET TV VIATOR HOC 
 TRISTI EXEMPLO COMOTVS FATA ETIA I[N] 
 ANIMO PERPENDENS QVAM NIHIL HIC S[IT] 
 FIRMUM AC STABILE DISCAS RERV OMN[IUM] 
 FORE ALIQVANDO VICISSITVDINEM ATC] 
 SPRETIS REBVS MORTALIV DEV lMORTA[LEM] 
 TIMERE. VALE ET PUS TVIS PRECIBVS 
 DEFVNCTVM DEO COMMENDA." 
 
 " . . . . of June, 1552, with body worn down by a prolonged illnefs of almoft three 
 years, with mind, however, unimpaired, he departed this life. Maria and Dulcia, his moft loving 
 daughters, eredled this monument as a tribute of their afFedlion, that you alfo, O traveller, may be 
 awakened by this fad example, and by pondering on the fates of men might know that nothing 
 here below is firm and ftedfaft, and learn that all things human will be changed, and, by 
 defpifing the concerns of mortals, fear the Immortal God. Adieu, and by your pious prayers 
 commend the departed to his God." 
 
 A, D. 1570. John Webbe, AND Wife. St. Thomas, Salisbury. 
 [Plate XXII.) The large flab containing this brafs lies in the pave- 
 ment of the chancel. The gown in the male effigy feems, from its 
 decorations, to be rather a robe of office than the common upper 
 garment of the period ; the arrangement of the hair on the forehead is 
 
 I 
 
5 8 Monumental BraJJ'es of Wilts. 
 
 worthy of notice. The female figure is remarkably elegant ; the ftiff 
 collar, the frill clofely confined around the neck, the bonnet, the fleeves 
 puffed at the fhoulders, and the jewelled pendant, being the principal 
 features. The effigies of the children are graduated. 
 
 One fhield at the upper corner of the flab has difappeared ; the 
 remaining three bear the following arms : — 
 
 2. Quarterly, i and 4. Gules, a crofs between four falcons or, Webb. 2 and 3. Azure, two 
 
 fwords in faltire between four fleurs-de-lis or, Abarow. 
 
 3. Webb, impaling Abarow. 
 
 4.. Webb and Abarow, quarterly j impaling Gules, a chevron engrailed between three leopards' 
 faces or, Wylford. 
 
 A border fillet bears the infcription,^ the commencement and con- 
 clufion of which has been torn from the flab : — 
 
 " of 3JoI)n CScbbc laic j^aior of tbts 
 
 CTittic tolbo tntlcK l^is ICwffe tf)£ firste Sane of ;f cbruarn in tftc ncic of ourc lEortJ (TiotJ 
 a 5H)ousanlic fnbe l^unUrctl "E.XX. 1|e JtlarpcB toilf) "annc g®BnorK ©augljlcr to 
 jSTpcfjoIas asanlforD CCiti^cn antj i^arcf)aunt ^aijlor "* 
 
 John Webbe was a fon of William Webbe, of Sarum, by Catherine, 
 daughter and heirefs of John Abarow. He was M.P. for the city in 
 1559, and Mayor in 1561. To one of his anceftors Aubrey evidently 
 alludes when fpeaking of the eminent clothiers' of this county: "The 
 anceftor of Sir William Webb, of Odftock, near Salifbury, was a 
 merchant of the flaple in Salifbury. As Grevill and Wenman bought 
 all the Cotefwold wooll, fo did Hall and Webb the wooll of Salifbury 
 plaines."'* The family poffefTed for many generations the manor and 
 advowfon of Odflock, which was purchafed about 1790 by the Earl of 
 
 \ 
 
 I It"^ 
 
 ' On the reverfe is a portion 
 of an infcription of much bolder 
 character. The letter here en- 
 I I graved as a fpecimen was co- 
 
 _r 11 pied by Mr. G. A. Howitt, 
 
 ^ IV-x fome years fince, when the 
 plate was loofe. 
 1 l^^ ^ In the miffing portions of 
 
 ^\^^ the infcription, a prayer for the 
 foul of the deceafed was pro- 
 bably invited ; which will account for their 
 very careful removal. Aubrey remarks that 
 the families of Halle and Webbe were both 
 Roman Catholics. 
 
 ' The general name for a clothier was " a 
 
 webbe," under which title Chaucer has intro- 
 duced one into his Canterbury Tales. 
 
 * The infcription on the brafs of William 
 Grevel (1401), in Chipping Camden Church, 
 Gloucefterfhire, defcribes him as '■^ the jio'wer of 
 the loocl merchants of the lubole realm of England." 
 His grandfon, John Grevill, refidedat Charlton 
 Kings, in the fame county. Of Webb's Wilt- 
 fhire cotemporary, John Halle, and his manfion 
 on the canal at Saliltury (the hall, or principal 
 apartment or*which is yet preferved,) the late 
 Rev. E. Duke has publifhed many interefting 
 particulars, in a volume entitled, " Prolufiones 
 Hiftoricas." Salifbury, 1837, 8vo. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 59 
 
 Radnor. After jxjfTening the honour of knighthood, they were raifed 
 to the baronetcy in 1644. 
 
 A.D, 1570. Robert Weare, alias Browne. SS. Peter and 
 Paul, Marlborough. This plate, the furface of which is gilt, was 
 formerly affixed to the floor of the church, but is now in private 
 pofl'effion. It is engraved with the following lines : — 
 
 *' l^cvc lijctl) r\obcrt CiHcarc oiI)crluise 33rotonc 
 imxifo teas scbcn tijmcs maior of jUilarlcbrougl) CTotone 
 ■anti hjbcti ill pence all I)is Unijcs 
 SCliif) ■a«nc f)is toifc to tl)cir great pranse 
 auti tHjcB \f III)) of Otiobcr in ij^ ijere of 0^ lortle 1570// 
 lanijo alltoaics in Cjot) Uiti put l;is I)olc trust." 
 
 From this Robert Weare, alias Browne (who was alfo one of the 
 burgefles in Parliament for the borough of Marlborough, temp. Queen 
 Mary), by his wife Anne, daughter of William Peirfe of Langley, 
 Wilts, defcended the various branches of the 
 family aftei wards fettled at Poulton, Wootton 
 Ballet, Calne,' and Denford, co. Berks. His 
 will, as appears from an entry in the Corpor- 
 ation Books, was proved in the Prerogative 
 Court of Canterbury, by Walter Haddon, 
 LL.D., on the 22d November following the 
 date of his death. - 
 
 The arms of the family, as given in the 
 Heralds' Vifitations, are : — Per chevron gules 
 and fable three hinds trippant or. Creft : a 
 falcon levant ftanding on a lure proper. 
 
 A.D. 1576. Edmund Geste, Bishop of 
 Salisbury. Salisbury Cathedral. {Plate XXIII.) This brafs, 
 which was removed from the choir in 1684, now lies in the pavement 
 at the north end of the eaftern tranfept. The prelate is habited in his 
 
 
 ' To John, of Calne, a grandfon, ofRobcit, 
 belongs the following liccnfc to eat fiefh in 
 Lent, granted by William Mortimer, Vicar, in 
 1615, and recorded in the Farifh Regifter : — 
 
 " Anno Domini, 161 5. Die Martij 5. 
 Concefla eft Johanni Were als Browne et 
 Dorctheje vxori ejus, a Gulihclmo Mortimer 
 
 CIcrico Vicario dc Calne, Licentia ComeJendi 
 Carncm Tempore Ouaclragerimae,juxta ftatutum 
 in ea parte edicum Sene(ftutis ergo." 
 
 ' Kindly furnifhed by Thomas B. Meriiman, 
 Efq. The two ftrokes, therefore, at the end 
 of the fifth line have no connedlion with the 
 date. 
 
6o 
 
 Monumental Brnjfes of Wilts. 
 
 epifcopal robes as then worn, and holds in the right hand a fhort 
 paftoral ftaff, and in the left a clafped book. Beneath the effigy is 
 the following infcription : — 
 
 " e^Dmiintsus Gc5tc, sacrrc tijcclogiac professor (Tantabrigtcnsis, Hpiscopi HcFcnsis 
 oncre lauDabilitcr, ^umi lElemosinarii Hcgii mnncrc libcralitcr, ^nnos pltisqttam t!uo= 
 Uctim pErfuncttts est, ^3o3tca bcro q-am a scrcnissima Btgtna C?li?abctl)a translaius 
 qtiinqucnniiim Iiutc (J^piscopatui S'arum ati Cci g'oriam !)onorificc, atl ccclcsijc ae'fific3= 
 tioncm frumiosc, atJ stiam (Comcn'Dationcm cgrcgic prsfiussct, magno sno Comotio ct 
 maj'orc luttu suorum, biiatn lau'Dabilcm cum mcliorc mcrtc coramutans, bonoru (qna 
 I)abuu ncq' nulla ncq' nimia) magnam partem cognatis ct amiris majorcm paupcribus, 
 maiimam famuUs TJomcsticis Icgabh: ct ingcntcm ©piimorum librorum bim, quantam 
 bii una capcrc btbliotbcca potest, pcrpctuo s'.utitosoru nsui in I)ac ecclcsia eonserbantam 
 ticsiinabit buic igitur omatissimo et tioctisstmo ct seni ct prarsuli ultimo t-ie ffcbruarii 
 "anno Bni 157S ctatis bcro sue 63 bita pic Ucfuncto, (Sgitiius llZstcourte 'armigcr, alter 
 ilUus tcstamenti ciecutor, f)Ot monumentu aB tanti biri mcmoiia retinen'Dam a'O suam in 
 illu obscrbantiam testificanHam posuit." 
 
 "Edmund Gefte, Divinity Profeflbr at Cambridge, difcharged the refponfibility of Biiliop of 
 Rochefter with credit, and the office of High Almoner to the Queen with liberality, for upwards 
 of twelve years. But after his tranflation by Her Majefty Qjeen Elizabeth, he prefided over this 
 diocefe of Sarum for five years, for the glory of God honourably, for the edification of the 
 Church profitably, for his own reputation admirably. To his own great gain, but to the ftill 
 greater forrow of his friends, he exchanged a well-fpent life for a happy death, bequeathing 
 a great part of his fortune (which was neither too little nor too great) to his friends and relatives, 
 a ftill larger (hare to the poor, and to his fervants the greateft part; an immenfe colledHon of 
 choice books, almoft above the compafs of one library, he willed to be preferved in this Church 
 for the ufe of ftudents for ever. Wherefore, in honour of this venerable and accompliflied 
 fcholar, and biftiop, whofe faintly death took place on the laft day of February 1578, in the 
 fixty-third year of his age ; in order to preferve the memory of fo eminent a man, and in 
 teftimony of his own regard, this monument was eredled by Giles Eftcourt, Efq., one of the 
 executors of his will." 
 
 Immediately under this is the matrix of a fmaller brafs plate, which 
 probably bore fome further infcription. Four fhields of arms,' originally 
 at the angles of the flab, have alfo difappeared. 
 
 Edmund Gefte (the fon of Thomas Gefte, of the family of Gefte 
 of Rough Heath, in the parifti of King's Norton, co. Worcefter) was 
 born in 15 14 at North Allerton, in Yorlcftiire.- He received a portion 
 of his education in the Grammar School at York, and the remainder at 
 Eton. In 1536-7 he was admitted fcholar of King's College, Cam- 
 bridge, of which he afterwards became Fellow and Vice-Provoft, and 
 took the degree of S.T.B. and S.T.P. in that univerrit)\ 
 
 ' The arms of Gefte are. Azure, a chevron 
 or between three fwans' heads erafed at the 
 neck proper. 
 
 2 The life of Bifliop Gefte, by Henry Geaft 
 Dugdale, Efq. M.A., was publiflied in 1840. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 6i 
 
 In 1548 Gefte appeared as a public fupportcr of the Reformed 
 dodlrine of the Church of England, by " A IVeatife againft the prevee 
 MafTe in the behalfe and furtheraunce of the moofte Holy Communion." 
 He alfo took an a6tive part in the difputations between the Catholics 
 and Reformers, held about this date at both univerfities. In March 
 1550, having taken the degree of B.D., he was licenfcd by the Govern- 
 ment to preach; and at a divinity difputatioii at Cambridge, in 1552, 
 he argued againft Chriftopher CarliOe, in defence of our Saviour's 
 defccnt into hell. 
 
 During the five years of Queen Mary's reign (1553-8), Gefte, 
 unlike many others of his own perfuafion, did not leave England, but, 
 with his companion Bullingham, remained here in fecrefy until the 
 acceffion of Oueen Elizabeth, when he again appears publicly in 
 fupport of the Reformed do6trine, and was appointed, together with 
 Drs. Scory, Cox, Whitehead, Grindal, Horn, Jewel, and Aylmer, to 
 defend the Proteftant faith in the celebrated difputation held in Weft- 
 minfter Abbey, March 30, 1558. 
 
 Gefte was alfo the principal compiler of the prefent Liturgy of the 
 Church of England. Strype, in his " Annals," informs us that Sir 
 Vv^illiam Cecil (the Secretary of Oueen Elizabeth) " appointed Gefte, 
 a very learned man, to be joined with the reft of the revifors of the 
 book, and, as I conjecture, in the abfence of Parker, abfent fome part 
 of the time by reafon of ficknefs. Him the fecretary required diligently 
 to compare both King Edward's communion-books together, and from 
 them both to frame a book for the ufe of the Church of England, by 
 correcting and amending, altering, adding, and takmg away according to 
 his judgment and the ancient liturgies ; w^hich when he had done, and a 
 new fervice book being finiflied by him and others appointed thereunto, 
 the fald Gefte conveyed it unto the fecretary, together v/ith a letter to 
 him, containino^ his reafons for his own emendations and alterations." 
 
 In return for thefe fervices, he v/as appointed to the archdeaconry 
 of Canterbury, together with the reftory of Cliff", co. Kent, and after- 
 wards to the biftiopric of Rocheftcr. He was confecrated to this latter 
 dignity by Archbiftiop Parker, in Lambeth Chapel, Jan. 21, 1559, 
 Jewel, Young, Bullingham, and Davis, being at the fame time con- 
 fecrated to the bilTioprics of Salifbury, St. David's, Lincoln, and St. 
 Afaph. He was alfo appointed Chancellor of the Garter, and High 
 Almoner to the Oueen, which latter office he held for the fpace of 
 twelve years as recorded in his epitaph. 
 
 On the death of Jewel, in 157 i, Gefte was tranflateJ to Salift)ury, 
 
62 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts, 
 
 over which fee he prefided for five years, and dying on the 28th Feb. 
 1576,1 his remains were interred in the choir of his cathedral, near 
 thofe of Bifhops Wyvi! and Jewel. 
 
 His will, preferved in the Prerogative Office, London, bears date 
 the day of his death, and is as follows : — 
 
 "In the name of God, Amen — the eight-and-twentieth day of February, in the nine- 
 teenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, Queen of 
 England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. I, Edmund Gefte, Bi/hop of Sar., 
 being fick in body, but of good and perfedt mind and remembrance, God be therefore thanked, 
 Do make and ordain this my laft Will and Teftament in manner and form following. Firft. 
 and above all things, I moft heartily give, bequeath, and commend my foul into the hands of 
 Almighty God my Creator and only Redeemer, in whofe merits and mercy ftandeth all my 
 truft and full hope of falvation; and my body to be buried, at the appointment and difcretion of 
 my Executors undernoiated, within the Cathedral Church of Sar., with my Funeral and Burying 
 I will and require to be made and folemnized according to the Eftate of my degree and calling. 
 Item, I will that all my fervants fliall be cloathed in Black, every Man according to his degree 
 and eftate. Item, I give and bequeath to the poor people of the City of New Sar, twenty 
 pounds. Item, I will that after my death my Houfehold and Houfe fliall be kept for and by the 
 fpace of one month, unto the finding and providing whereof I give and bequeath the fum of 
 Forty pounds, to be beftowed, over and befides fuch ftore and provifion as is already made and 
 provided for the fame. Item, I give and bequeath to my dear Friends my Ld. High Treafurer of 
 England,^ my Ld. Keeper of the Great Seal,' and to the Mr. Comptroller of the Queens Ma'ties 
 Houfehold,'' either of them one Gold Ring of the value of forty {hillings a piece, in token and 
 remembrance of my duty and goodwill. Item, I give and bequeath to the Library of the Cathe- 
 dral Church of Sar, now decayed, all my Books, there to be kept for perpetual remembrance and 
 token of my favor and good will, to advance and further the Eftate and Dignity of the fame my 
 Church and See, defiring and trufting that the Dean and Chapter of the fame Church will fo 
 ordain and difpofe all thofe my faid Books to places and Stalls as may be fit for the prefervation 
 and good keeping of the fame; and this on the behalf of God, I require them to do as my truft 
 is in them therein. Item, I will and bequeath to Thomas Draples thirteen pounds, fix fliillings, 
 eightpence. Item, I will and require my Executors undernamed to have confideration at their 
 difcretions to give and beftow upon all my Chaplins in Houfehold, and others that have been my 
 Chaplins in Kent, fome fpecial token of my good will to be a remembrance unto them. Item, 
 I will and bequeath the remnant and refidue of all my Goods, my Debts, Legacies, and Funeral, 
 accordingly difcharged, to my Servants in Houfehold attendant upon me to be divided amongft 
 them all, and by difcretion of my Executors. And I make and ordain Giles Eftcourt, Efqre, and 
 Thomas Powell, Gent, my Executors of this my laft Will and Teftament ; and I give and bequeath 
 to the faid Giles Eftcourt, in confideration of his pains taken. One hundred Marks. And whereas 
 I am indebted to Thomas Powell, my other executor, in the fum of twenty-nine pounds, for feven 
 years and one quarter's wages, I will that the faid fum of Twenty -nine pounds, in confideration 
 aforefaid, fliall be One hundred Marks. Item, I will and bequeath to my brother, Chrofer Leedes, 
 the fum of Forty, or Fifty pounds, at the difcretion of my Executors. In witnefs whereof we 
 have fubfcribed our names, Johem Securis,' Hughe Powell, Thos. Dilworth,® Willia. Hayte and 
 Thos. Thackham." 
 
 * The date of 1578, as engraved on the brafs, . * Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
 muft therefore be an error. His will was * Sir James Crofts, Knight, 
 
 proved loth April, 1577; and his fucceflbr, * A celebrated phyfician and aftronomer 
 
 Bifliop Piers, was tranflated from Rochefter in 1 then living in Salifbury. 
 
 the fame year, | ^ Then Prebendary of Fordington, after- 
 
 ^ Sir William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. I wards Sub-Dean of Sarum. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 63 
 
 A.D. 1578. Sir Edward Baynton, and family. Bromham. 
 [Plate XX IF.) 1 he mural effigies here reprefented are enclofcd 
 within a canopied tomb, of plain character and very debafed details, 
 projedling from the ft)uth wall of the Beauchamp Chapel before 
 mentioned. The armour of the knight varies flightly from that in 
 Plate XXL; his helm is placed in front of the prie-dieu at which he 
 kneels ; and above his head is a fhicld with the following quarterings, 
 furmountcd by a helmet bearing the creft of Baynton — a griffin's head 
 erafed. 
 
 1. Sable, a bend lozengy argent, Baynton. 
 
 2. Gules, a feffe between fix crofs crofllets or, Beauchamp. 
 
 3. Gules, a tefle between fix martlets or, within a bordure argent, Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand. 
 
 4. Azure, three roaches naiant in pale argent, Roche. 
 
 5. Gules, two lions pafTant guardant, collared azure, Delamere. 
 
 6. Argent, on a chevron lable three eaglets difplayed or. Wanton. 
 
 His two wives each kneel at a prie-dieu. Above the head of the 
 firft is the Baynton fliield, with the above quarterings, impaling 
 quarterly. 
 
 1 and 4. Argent, a chevron fable between three ravens proper, Ryce. 
 
 2 and 3. Argent, on a crofs fable five crefcents or, per canton a Ipear head gules, Griffith ap 
 
 Elider. 
 
 The fhield above the head of the fecond wife bears the fame quarter- 
 ings of Baynton, impaling quarterly. 
 
 1 and 4. Per chevron fable and argent in chief three mullets of five points pierced or, in bafe as 
 
 many garbs gules two and one, De Pakinton. 
 
 2 and 3. Argent, on a bend azure three martlets or, Hardinge. 
 
 The two fmaller effigies afford an intereffing example of the youth- 
 ful coflume of this period ; the flab contains the matrix of the effigy of 
 another daughter, which is now loft. The following is the infcrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 " Hjerc lictf) ^nt CrtJiBartl ISaynton Ivniglit ti)itl)in tijts marble clatJ 
 
 33b ^gnts Bptc %i% first trcto toyfc that tI)i)riDnc cfjilUrtn \)iCa 
 
 tnfjcarof sljc left nlijtic tDitI)c f)im at l)cr Dcpariuic thrc 
 
 l)ciu'i} llnnc antl (Slij'abctl) tol)05c pictures f)crc noto sec 
 
 iTfic .\5:X"^ Banc of Suquste slie Hcccsctl of Cbristc vi^ ncrc ) 
 
 ' ' '- 1574 
 these litlc fi'gurs stanlDingc hie present the nombcr \)(.xt J 
 
 Chtn tnarictl to Snnc ^Safeyngton his seconU toife she toas 
 
 for tohise remcbrance !)cre m tombe these Iijnes be left in brassc 
 
 ^nno Dni 157S." 
 
 The brafs of John Baynton, who inherited the Bromham eftate 
 
64 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 from Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand, has been noticed at p. 45. 
 By his wife, Jane, daughter of Thomas Digges, of Chilham, co. Kent,* 
 he left ilTue four fons, and as many daughters.- His eldeft fon, Edward, 
 (who was afterwards knighted) rofe high in favour with Henry VKL, 
 and was Vice-Chamberlain to three of his queens.^ He attended his 
 royal mailer in his expeditions to France, where he is fuppofed to have 
 died in 1545. Sir Edward Baynton, whofe brafs is here engraved, was 
 his eldeft fon by his firft wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Sulliard, 
 Knight, Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, and confequently grandfon 
 to John Baynton, Plate XVI. He married firft Agnes, daughter of 
 Griffith Ryce, of Carew Caftle, co. Pembroke,-* and had iflue by her 
 thirteen children, as mentioned in the epitaph, but of thefe three only 
 furvived their mother. Henry, the fon and heir, was afterwards M.P. 
 for Devizes,^ and married Lucy, daughter of Sir John Danvers, Knight, 
 of Dauntfey. Anne, married Sir William Eyre, Knight, — and Eliza- 
 beth (whofe effigy is loft) appears to have died unmarried. By his 
 fecond wife Sir Edward left no iffue. 
 
 A.D. 1580. Edward Zouche, Esq^ Pitton. A fmall plate 
 formerly over the eaft window, but now on the north wall of the 
 chancel, bearing the following infcription : — 
 
 " 'Sere \w\) turict) il)c liotiP of erKtcarii Z-oudjc ejiqttpcr p^ seconK sonnt of Sofjn 
 
 ' John, fon of William Diggs, of Kent, , is thus noticed by Fuller: — "Sir Rhys ap 
 
 fettled at Purton, in this county, and his de- 
 fcendants at Marlborough. For their Pedigree, 
 
 Thomas, of Elmalin, was never more than a 
 knight, yet little lefs than a prince in his 
 
 fee Harl. MSS. 1443, f. 95. i native country; to King Henry VII., on his 
 
 ■■^ Elizabeth, one of the daughters, was a nun I landing with a contemptible force at Milford 
 
 at Lacock, and on the diffolution of the Abbey 1 Haven, Sir Rhys repaired with a confiderable 
 
 in 1539, was afligned a yearly penfion of ■ acceflion of choice foldiers, marching with 
 
 3/. 6i. %d. them to Bofworth Field, where he right va- 
 
 3 He was the grantee of the Abbey of liantly behaved himfelf." 
 Stanleigh ; the yearly revenues of which were \ * Anne, the heirefs of Henry Baynton, his 
 valued by Dugdale at 177/. 0%. %d. and by ' great-grandfon, who died in 1691, conveyed 
 Speed at 222/. 19^. £,d. Ifabella, his fecond the Bromham property to her firft hufband, 
 wife, and relidl, who was the fifter of Sir John j Thom.is Rolt, Efq. of Sacombe Park, Herts; 
 Alley, of Stockvveli, co. Surrey, has been no- whofe fon, Edward Roltof Spye Park, aflumed 
 ticed (at p. 37, note i), as grantee of the the additional furname of Baynton, and was 
 Beauchamp Chantry at Market Lavington. | created a baronet in 1762, as Sir Edward 
 Fox, in his " A6ts and Monuments of the I Baynton Rolt; but the baronetcy became ex- 
 Church," has printed a long correfpondence | tinft in 18 16, on the death of his fon, Sir 
 which took place between Sir Edward, and j Andrew, whofe daughter and heirefs married 
 Hugh Latymer, Reftor of Weft Kington, at i the Rev. John Starky, D.D. Reftor of Char- 
 the period of the Reformation. ' linch, co. Somerfet, the grandfather of the 
 ■• Son of Sir Ryce ap Thomas, K.G., who prefent owner. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 6^ 
 
 Sout!)C Ijinigfjt lortJ 2oucf)c 5'cnttnor anf Canidupc, tofjo BcccassctJ tl)e (prst of Bccembcr 
 ■anno tlomini 1580, anti in tf)c XXirJ-. ^ ycrc of tl)c llaigiu of our ^oucraignc Urty 
 qticne 'JEly^abctf)." 
 
 Edward Zouche, Efq,, of Pitton, was the fecond fon of John Lord 
 Zouche, by Dorothea, daughter of Sir William Capell, Knight. He 
 married Chriftian, daughter of William Chudleigh, of Aflon, co. Devon, 
 Efq., by whom he had ilTue a fon, Richard Zouche. By this branch of 
 the family the manor of Pitton was held for feveral generations, until 
 fold about the reign of Charles I., by William Zouche, Efq., to Sir John 
 Evelyn, of Wefl: Deane. 
 
 A.D. 1584. Alice Walker. Barford St. Martin. This 
 brafs is affixed to the eaft wall of the fouth tranfept. It exhibits a 
 female effigy, 9^ inches in height, kneeling at a prie-dieu^ on which 
 lies an opeTi book infcribed "I SHAL SE FACE TO FACE," 
 and behind her (evtw fons and four daughters, alfo kneeling. A 
 ftiield immediately above them bears quarterly : — 
 
 1 and 4. Argent, a chevron between three birds. Walker. 
 
 2 and 3. On a chevron betvk'een three Heath cocks? three lozenges. 
 
 The infcription is as follows : — 
 
 " l^crc licil) tl)c botii} of ^lis SSaalfecr, (or IdI^ose memoriall 
 
 Cfjomas Cclalkcr f)cr clBcst sonne in tofun of Ijis 
 
 lobe anU Cutijc I;at{) trcctcD tl)is monument. 
 
 tof)Osc soulc (no tJoubtc) I)aili ptarstJc p^ cloutics Sc sfealtic tf)cmpirc sfeics 
 
 tB5)0sc tJcatljE resounBinge cccljocs sbciu'Dc to* piteous plaintcs $c cries 
 
 tol)oe latcln lihe a fruitful! bine at table as slje I^i'D becnc, 
 
 like oliUc braund)cs rouulie aboutc bcr cbilBrcn miybt banc scene : 
 
 %\)z yestertiaie in gootie estate tbesc blcssingcs tiill beboultic, 
 
 to Uaie \)txt coucrtJ Uctb to* cartl)c as toitlj I)er fatall moultje, 
 
 tbe lorBc Sc giitcr of tbesc fruitcs, Bccreette pt sIjoulBc be soe, 
 
 cuen bn tbc meancs be tbus bcr blest, to toorlie ber jonfuU tooc 
 
 soe notoc n' toombc 1/ fruiifull toas in ijccliiingc fiuitc tiecaieti 
 
 is malie a place, Jc fooUe for toormrs, !oe, tbus mans parte is plaicti 
 
 sutb is ibc ficlilc state of man, tb'bncertainc lott of life, 
 
 noe sooner spune bn IJacbese fjan^cs, but cuitc to* Strops fenifc. 
 
 Dcpartet) tins l-'ife in ]>' lorti in 1/ calcntis of Tinnuaric, bcingt 
 after some camputatio n*^ first Daie of i}*^ tjere of o*^ lorti one CTbou^ 
 santJe fine buntircD (ourc score ^ (our, tf)e 44 uccre of f)er age." 
 
 K 
 
66 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 The Herald's Vifitation of Wilts, a.d. 1623, contains a pedigree of 
 Walker, of New Sarum, to which family the hufband of the deceafed 
 feems to have belonged. 
 
 A.D. 1585. John Coffer, and Wife. Wilton. This brafs, 
 together with the monuments of the Herbert family, has been transferred 
 
 from the old to the new church. ^ 
 It confifls of two fmall figures, 
 about 10 inches in height, kneel- 
 ing at a prte-dieu. The male 
 effigy wears, in this inftance, a 
 ftiort cloak thrown loofely over 
 the fhoulders. Above the head 
 is a fhield with the following 
 quarterings : — 
 
 I and 4. A bend fretted between fix 
 martlets, differenced by a mullet, Coffer, 
 
 or CONSURE. 
 
 2. A tefle lozengy between fix ermine 
 fpots. 
 
 3. Two lions paflantguardant in palej 
 impaling, Two bars between fix crofs crofs- 
 lets, 3, 2, and i. 
 
 Effigy of John Coffer, from his hrajs in 
 
 Wilton Church. Yhis is furmountcd by a hel- 
 
 met bearing the creft of Coffer. 
 Above the female effigy is the fhield of her hufband, as above, 
 impaling quarterly : — 
 
 1. Per pale or and azure a fun counterchanged, St. Cleere, or Synclere. 
 
 2. A fefTe engrailed between three mullets. 
 
 3. Gules, three bezants, a label argent, Hidon. 
 
 4. Ten mafcles 4, 3, 2, and i. 
 
 Between the effigies is the motto " <K,lg|)t I I^OUlU:" and under 
 them the following infcription : — 
 
 " l^tre lijcti) tl)c toBn of 31of)n Coffer, gcntclman scrbant to ^^ S^iIItam l|ctbcrt, 
 Iltnigl)! Sc after CJrlc of pcnbrofec after toljos Kcsscssc i^c SEvtiiB li^cnrB 15rle of pcnbrofec 
 I)is Sonne notoc lybing settling tf)em 6otf)e ti^e space of 38 Bcres, anH pI)eUpc f)is totfe 
 
 ' In the old church its pofition was near the 
 eaft end of the north aide. It may with con- 
 fidence be afcribed to the fame engraver as I 
 
 Plate XXIV. in the prefent volume. The 
 fame hand may alfo be traced in the brafs of 
 Antony Forfter (1572), at Cumnor, Berks. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 67 
 
 tJauijl)tcr to CGilbcrt ^tmclere esquire, ti^e toljicljc 3o\)\\ at tl)at tpmc tDa? of tljc age c[ 
 sebcntcn seben Hcrcs, in tl)c tjcrc of our lEorU goB 1585. 
 
 Cl)rist is to mc as life on carti) antj Heat!) to me is gatite, 
 i3ecausc IE trust tI)Vou«I) liim alone saluaticn to obtainc. 
 ^0 brittle is tijc state of man, so soon it totl) Decay, 
 ^0 all tl)e glory of t^is bjorlti must pas anB fatie atoap.'" 
 
 Sir William Herberr, who was connected by marriage with 
 Henry VIII. (having efpoufed Anne, fifter to Catherine Parr, the 
 widow of that monarch), was, on the diflolution of religious houfes, 
 the grantee of the Abbey of St. Edith at Wilton, the buildings of which 
 he immediately began to alter and adapt to a manfion fuited to his rank 
 and ftation, partly, it is faid, under the diredtion of Hans Holbein. He 
 was appointed one of the " confervatores," or executors of the King's 
 will, and fhared with Sir Anthony Denny the honour of riding in the 
 chariot with the royal corpfe when Henry's remains were committed to 
 their final refting-place. In the following reign he was elevated to the 
 peerage, firfl:, as Baron Herbert of Cardiff, and, fubfequently, as Earl of 
 Pembroke. In Mary's time he commanded the forces of the Queen 
 againft Wyat ; was General of the Englifh army at St. Ouintin's, Lord 
 Prefident of Wales, and twice Governor of Calais. To Elizabeth, alfo, 
 he was Great Mafter of the Houfehold ; thus enjoying the diftinguifhed 
 favour of four fucceflive fovereigns. His death happened in 1569-70, 
 and his remains were interred in St. Paul's Cathedral. 
 
 Henry, the fecond Earl, married firft, Catherine, daughter of Henry 
 Grey, Duke of Suffolk ; fecondly, Catherine daughter of George, Earl of 
 Shrewfbury ; and, laftly, Mary daughter of Sir Henry, and fifter of Sir 
 Philip Sidney. Aubrey defcribes him as "the patron to the men of 
 arms, and to the antiquaries and heralds." 
 
 During the thirty-eight years in which Coffer ferved thefe two 
 noblemen Wilton was twice honoured with vifits from Royalty. In 
 1 55 1, Edward VI. then in his 15th year, paid a vifit to Sir William 
 Herbert ; and again, in 1573, Henry, the fecond Earl, entertained Oueen 
 Elizabeth.- Sir Philip Sidney, within the fame period, here wrote his 
 well-known "Arcadia;" and here, upon his iiitrodu6fion, the poet 
 Spenfer was received as an honoured gueft and friend. 
 
 ' This verfe occurs fix years earlier on the 
 brafs of Robert Purfglove, Suffragan Bifliop of 
 Hull ( 1 579), in Tiddefwell Church, Derbyftiirc. 
 
 ^ An account of her Majefty's reception at 
 
 Wilton, in which the Earl's gentlemen fer-vants 
 took part, will be found in Nichols's " Royal 
 Progreffcs," quoted from Sir Rice Merrick's 
 Antiquities of Glamorganjhire. 
 
68 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 As regards the pedigree of Coffer all the ufual fources of information 
 have failed. 1 Poflibly he may have been a foreigner.- The only trace 
 of him that has been met with is his coat-of-arms ; and this, given as on 
 the brafs, occurs at fol. 78 of Phillpot's " Ordinary of Arms," but it is 
 there afcribed, and in Glover's handwriting, to the ftill more uncommon 
 name of" ConfureJ' His wife, Philippa, was the daughter of Gilbert St. 
 Cleere, of Tidwell, in the parifh of Eaft Budleigh, co. Devon, as fhown 
 in the annexed pedigree (Harl. MS. 1538, f. 268), but it is remarkable 
 that even here her /narriage does not appear. 
 
 Gilbert St. Cleere of Toodwell =^ Joan d. of John Strawbridge 
 
 [Tidwell], in Com. Devon. 
 
 [Trowbridge], of Colly- 
 ton in Com. Devon, [re- 
 married to John Ford, of 
 Alhburton]. 
 
 Toane, ux. George 
 
 George. 
 
 Philippa 
 
 Ford, [of Ifling- 
 
 William. 
 
 St. Cleere, 
 
 ton, aet 17. 30 
 
 Thomas. 
 
 a dau. 
 
 H. VIII.] 
 
 
 
 I _ I _ J I I 
 
 Agnes, ux. John Ann, and 
 heire of Thomas Carew, of 
 Bykley, in Com. Devon. 
 [ion of Edmund Lord Ca- 
 rew.] 
 
 The additions and corredtions to this pedigree, enclofed within 
 brackets, are from MSS. in the College of Arms. 
 
 A.D, 1586. Anne Vennard. St. Edmund's, Salisbury. 
 A plate of brafs in the pavement of the fouth aifle bears the 
 following lines : — 
 
 " Yf Bt bee latofuU for a rural penne 
 to toritc of matters toucf)ing Ijtaucninc polncr 
 or to rcutitic a gvcatc romplaintc for tlicm, 
 toljosc ticrtuous Hectics Ijauc gatnti in fjappg I)otBrc 
 a place tiiitl) GoU. v!H)cn giuc me Icauc to tell 
 of sucl)c a losse iiil)ose luiic l)atl) neerc {icfell, 
 ^nnc FenarB sljce toliosc corps interred Ijcre, 
 toi^ose soulc in lilissc toftose bertucs liuc one eartf). 
 •^ motl)cr tl)rtcc, ijca tliricc a mother Ucarc, 
 to^ose gotilnc Infc a britigtJc bn fatall ticatl) 
 makes me complannc. ^inli from a sigl)ing Ijcarte 
 tooe toisl)e tliat place (tf)ougIjc not 1>b mi} Uescrtc), 
 aSIjilste sf)c tiiti liuc f)cr bcrtucs bfectolsc InuUc 
 'Notne si^ce is Dcatfe ti^ep arc againe rcniuD. 
 
 ' His will has been unfuccefffully fought 
 both in the Prerogative Will Office, London, 
 and in the Regiftry at Salifbury. 
 
 ^ Or, he may have come out of Wales with 
 Sir William Herbert. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 69 
 
 (!5ac!)c one t{)at Unclrc I)tr saytJ sljcc liut3 to tJijc, 
 "anti ijct, noine tcatic I)ir praise tijcn ratifnc, 
 Cfjis mc contents I)opc sancs tl)at tDce sl)all mectc 
 Siaitf) totall joij in tf)roanc of I)catjcnlne state. 
 
 J^lors mortis morti mortem nisi morte lietJissct 
 nrtcrn.T bita: Sanua tiausa forct, 9n. 1586." 
 
 The flab appears to have contained one or two fmall figures 
 now loft. The name of " RICARDVS VENNARD" on a ftrip 
 of brafs affixed to the fame ftone may perhaps commemorate the 
 huftjand of the lady whofe epitaph is given above. 
 
 A.D. 1587. Dorothy Stanesbye. Winterslow. This infcrip- 
 tion is affixed to the north wall of the chancel : — 
 
 " In obicu Dorothaee Stanefbye Epitaphium. 
 
 Hoc pia Marmoreo tegeris Dorothaea fepulcro, 
 
 Maxima cuius erat cura placere Deo, 
 Vita, voluptatem, mors, ludtum fecit amicis, 
 
 Triftior haec prefens, letior ilia vigens. 
 Te viuam coluere omnes, prolefq^ fepultam 
 
 Te matrem referet non fine laude fuam. 
 
 Obijt 1^° die Junij 1 587." 
 
 ["An Epitaph on the deceafe of Dorothy Stanefby. 
 
 "Within this marble tomb art thou enclofed, pious Dorothy, whofe chief care was to pleafe 
 God. To friends, thy life gave pleafure, thy death grief. Thy prefence here is very forrowful. 
 Thy being in life very pleafant. Then all cheriflied thee ; and now of their mother lying here, 
 thy children will fpeak with praife. 
 
 ^^She died the 19 day of June, 1587."] 
 
 A.D. 1590. Elizabeth Poticary. Stockton. An altar- 
 tomb in this inftance projects from the fouth wall, near the eaft 
 end of the fouth aifle. Immediately above it, and alfo affixed to 
 the wall, is a brafs plate, 20 inches by 18, the upper half of 
 which bears the figure of a lady kneeling at a prie-dieu^ with a 
 fon and four daughters behind her, alfo kneeling ; whilft on the 
 lower half are engraved the following lines: — 
 
 " Hcare ftiee enterred lyes, depriu'd of breath, 
 Whofe light of vertue once on earth did /hyne. 
 Who life contemn'd, ne feared gaftly death, 
 Whom worlde, ne worldly cares coulde caufe repine 
 
yo Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 Refolu'd to dye, with hope in heauen placed, 
 Her Chrift to fee, uhome lyuing fliee embraced. 
 In prayer feruent ftill in zeale moft ftrong, 
 In death delighting God to magnitye : 
 Pfal. 13. How long wilt thou forgett me Lord : This fong, 
 In greateft panges was her fweete harmony. 
 Forget thee ? no ! he will not thee forget ; 
 In booke of lyfe for aye thy name is fet. 
 
 Elizabeth Poticary, wife to Hierom Poticary, clothier, 
 deceafed at y« age of 35 yeres, 9" Aplis A^ Dni i 590." 
 
 The brafs of Jerome, the hufband of Elizabeth Poticary, will be 
 defcribed in a fubfequent page. 
 
 A.D. 1590. William Button, Esq^ Alton Priors. {Plate 
 XXF.) This brafs is affixed to the north wall of the chancel, 
 within the altar-rail ; and, like the laft example, furmounts a plain 
 altar-tomb. It was not engraved earlier than the year i6io. The 
 fubje6t is intended to reprefent the RefurrecSlion. The deceafed, 
 furrounded by rays of light, appears rifmg from his tomb, and bears 
 in his right hand a palm-branch, fymbolizing his victory over death. 
 Above is an angel blowing a trumpet, which alfo forms a key, infcribed 
 ''The key of David" in allufion to Rev. iii. 7, between two open 
 gates, intended (as appears from the infcription upon them) to reprefent 
 the gates of Heaven. The upper flab of the tomb bears a punning 
 epitaph of fix lines, and on the front is a genealogical notice of the 
 family of the deceafed. A fhield at the dexter end bears. Ermine, a 
 fefTe gules, Button ; impaling, two grofmg irons in faltire between 
 four Kellwey pears, Kellwey. Around the tomb are four lefs diftin- 
 guifhed perfonages, rifmg from earthen graves ; but thefe, unlike the 
 central figure, are reprefented with uplifted hands, and countenances 
 exprellive of the utmoft: terror. 
 
 William Button, Efq., was the fon of another William Button, of 
 Alton, ^ by Anne (or Agnes), daughter of John Cater, of Letcombe 
 Regis, CO. Berks;- and was a lineal defcendant of Sir Walter de 
 Button, Knight, living 12 Hen. HI. [1228]. Sir William Button, 
 who eredled the brafs, was the eldefl: fon of William (the fecond fon) 
 mentioned in the infcription, who married Jane, daughter of John Lambe 
 of Coulflon. He was created a Baronet in 1621, but the title became 
 extinct on the death of his youngeft fon. Sir John Button (fourth Ba- 
 
 ' Son of John Button, of Alton, who died I of the Grey Friars, London. See "Coll. Top.et 
 izth Feb. 1523, and was buried in the church | Gen." V. 390. - Vide fupra, p. 50. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 71 
 
 ronet), in 171 2. Aubrey, in fpeaking of the fatalities of families and 
 places,^ mentions, on the authority of his friend Sir William Button, that 
 the family held the leafe of Alton farm, 400/. per annum (which anciently 
 belonged to Hyde Abbey, near Winchefter), for four hundred years ; 
 and their leafe expiring about 1652, this property fell into the hands 
 of the Earl of Pembroke. 
 
 A.D. 1590. Laurence Hyde, Esq^ and family. Tisbury. 
 {Plate XXf^I.) This memorial lies in the pavement of the chancel, 
 within the altar rail. It confifts of two plates of metal affixed to the 
 centre of a large flab and furrounded by a border fillet bearing an 
 infcription. 
 
 The larger plate of metal, which is here reprefented in facfimile, 
 bears the effigies of the deceafed and his wife, both ftanding ; with 
 their family, fix fons and four daughters, arranged in two groups 
 behind them. In the background are four circular-headed windows 
 feen through an arcade of as many arches with columns and entabla- 
 ture of the Doric order. This is furmounted by an eagle, the creft 
 of Hyde, holding in its beak one of the extremities of an infcribed 
 label. Two fhields, one on either fide, bear, Azure, a chevron between 
 three lozenges or, Hyde ; and. Argent, a tiger ftatant reguardant, at a 
 mirror gules, Sibell. 
 
 The fmaller brafs plate bears the following infcription : — 
 
 " guicquid eras terrae morbo cofeft' & annis 
 
 Concidit, et fadlu eft terra quod ante fuit : 
 Viuet at aeternu pars dudta ab origine cocli 
 
 Mens generofa, nitens, fandla, recepta deo. 
 Cu tuba terribilis lufti vocitarit ad aulam 
 
 Sorte necis fpreta, viuet vtruq'j polo. 
 
 Here lyeth the bodye of Laurence Hyde, Jate of Wefthatch, Efquyer, who had ifTue by Anne 
 his wyfe fixe fonnes and foure daughters, and dyed the vij'*" day of June, in the yeare of the 
 incarnation of our lord god 1590. Beati gvi morivntvr in Domino." - 
 
 The firft fix lines may be tranflated thus : — 
 
 " Your earthly part worn down by age and ficknefs has fallen, and that has become duft 
 which was duft before. But that which was of heavenly birth — the mind, noble, brilliant, 
 fanflified, returned to God, ftiall live for ever. When the awful trumpet /hall fummon before 
 the throne of the Juft, triumphant over death both [body and foul] fliall live in the /kies." 
 
 ' " Mifcellanies," fourth edition, 1857. I ' " BlcfTed are the dead which die in the 
 p. 27. ' Lord." — Rev. xiv. 13. 
 
-7 2 
 
 Monumental Brajjes of Wilts. 
 
 The portion of the marginal infcription which remains is as 
 follows : — 
 
 " This Lawrence Hyde was y^ third fone of Robert H 
 
 Tones by Anne his wife, being y* daught. of Nicholas Sibell of Chimbhams in y* couty of Kent 
 
 Efquier Hamonet and Edward died in their 
 
 infancy the reft furuiued their father." 
 
 Laurence Hyde was the third fon of Robert Hyde of Norbury, 
 in Cheftiire, by a fecond marriage. He appears to have been the 
 firft occupier of the Manor of Weft Hacche, under Sir Thomas Arun- 
 dell, Knight, to whom it had been granted by Henry VHI. after the 
 diffolution of the Monaftery of St. Edward at Shaftefbur^'.^ 
 
 He married Anne, daughter of Nicholas Sibell, of Chimbhams, co. 
 Kent, and widow of Matthew Colthurft, of Claverton, co, Somerfet, 
 by whom he had iflue fix fons and four daughters. The eldeft fon 
 Robert, of Weft Hacche, married Anne, daughter of John Baptift 
 Caftilion, of Benham, in Berks, and died in 1642; Sir Laurence, the 
 fecond fon, who married Barbara, another daughter of John Baptift 
 Caftilion, was attorney-general to Oueen Anne, and dying in i64i,was 
 buried in Salift)ur)^ Cathedral. From the third fon, Henry, of Purton 
 and Dinton, who married Mary, daughter and heirefs of Edward 
 Langford, of Trowbridge, defcended the Hydes, Earls of Claren- 
 don. The fourth fon. Sir Nicholas, of Marlborough, knight, was 
 Lord Chief Juftice, and married a daughter of Sir Arthur Swayne, 
 of Sarfon, from whom defcended the Hydes of Marlborough, and 
 Hyde-end in Berkfhire. Two other fons, Hamonet and Edward, 
 died in their infancy. The four daughters were thus married : 
 Elizabeth, to John St. Loe, of Knighton ; Sufannah, to Sir George 
 Ivye, of Weft Kington ; A vice, to Thomas Baynard, of Wanftrow, 
 CO. Somerfet ; and Joan, to Edward Young, of Durnford, whofe 
 brafs is defcribed at page 80. 
 
 A.D. 1592. Francis Rutland and wife. Chisledon. 
 Thefe effigies, each 13 inches in height, lie in the pavement of 
 
 ' From a Survey Book preferred at Wardour, 
 it appears that he held Weft Hacche of the 
 Lord of the Manor of Tiftjury (which latter 
 had alfo belonged to Shaftefbury Monaftery, 
 and was granted in like manner to Sir Thomas 
 Arundell) in fee farm, by fuit and fervice at 
 
 the Court Baron, and the annual rent of 6i. 3</. 
 Hoare's "Modern Wilts," Dunworth Hund. 
 p. 131. The manor confifts of about 350 
 acres ; the old manfion, of which a very fmall 
 portion now remains, was pulled down in 
 1770. 
 
Sixteenth Century. 
 
 73 
 
 the chancel. The former is reprefented in the annexed woodcut. 
 
 Beneath them are the matrices of feve- 
 ral children, and the following infcrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 "l^cre InctI) ll)c boKnc of ffrauncis ButlantJ 
 IHsquicr, sonnc Sc I)cire to yijcolas HutlantJ of 
 /fclicltam in t{)e tountie of ^g'urriic (Ssquicr, \xH)0 
 marriKti ll)e tJaug!)tcr of dfjomas ;§'tcpf)cns c3= 
 quicr, Sc i)a"o bw f)cr 4 soncs S: 2 Baugl)tcrs, f)e 
 UicB ij^ z7 of 'august, 1592." 
 
 The annexed pedigree of Rutland 
 is taken from the Herald's Vifitation 
 of Surrey, a.d. 1623 (Harl. MS. 1561, 
 f 55,) and will explain the defcent 
 of the family. The marriage of Francis 
 Rutland with Mary, daughter of Thomas 
 Stephens, is not mentioned in the pedi- 
 gree of the latter family, which will be 
 found in the Wilts Vifitation of 1623. 
 (Harl. MS. 1443, f. 243.)! 
 
 Aubrey, in noticing the brafs of 
 Francis Rutland, remarks that " he was 
 a courtier and died in the Progrefle." 
 This evidently alludes to one of the 
 progrefles of Queen Elizabeth, who, about the 15th of Auguft, 
 1592, vifited Sir Edward Hoby, at Bifham Abbey, in Berkfhire, and 
 later in the fame month was at the manfion of Sir Hejiry Lee, at 
 Ouarendon, in the vale of Aylefbury, co. Bucks.- The interment of 
 Rutland at Chifledon will be explained by the fa6l that his wife was 
 the daughter of Thomas Stephens, Efq. of Burderop, to which family 
 the manor and advowfon of Chifledon (which had previoufly been part 
 of the pofleflions of Hyde Abbey) then belonged.^ 
 
 Effigy of Francis Rutland, from 
 his hrajs in Chijledon Church. 
 
 ' The arms of Rutland are, Gules, within a 
 bordurc engrailed or, an inefcutchcon gules 
 within a bordure engrailed or; and thofe of 
 Stephens, Or, on a chevron gules three crofs 
 
 crofflets argent, between three demi-lions 
 rampant fable. 
 
 - Sec Nichols' " Progrefles." 
 
 ^ In the reign of James I. it was fold by 
 them to the family of CaJley, its prelent owners. 
 
74 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 Rouchland, alias Rutland =y= 
 of Walden, co. Efiex. 
 
 I. John, ob. s. p. 
 
 2. William Rutland 
 of Canterburj'. 
 
 Elizabeth, dau. and 
 heir of William 
 Bevill, of Lon- 
 don. 
 
 3. Nicholas, = Clement, dau. 
 Chamber- of..Thomp- 
 lain of fon, of Dun- 
 
 London, mow. 
 
 Francis Rutland 
 
 Nicholas Rutland, of .Micham, 
 in CO. Surrey. Ob. 1582. 
 
 Eleanor, dau. and coheir of 
 William Peper, of Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 Dorothy, dau. of An- 
 thony Hedworth. 
 
 Nicholas, 
 ob. s. p. 
 
 Francis Rutland, ob. Aug. 
 27, 1592. BrafsinChi- 
 fledon Church, Wilts. 
 
 Mary, dau. of Tho- 
 mas Stephens, of 
 Burderop, Wilts. 
 
 William. 
 
 I I 
 
 Joan. 
 
 Mary, m. to 
 Thomas Wat- 
 ton of Kent. 
 
 I I I 
 
 '.. William. 
 Two other 
 fons. 
 
 Nicholas Rutland =p Marj-, dau. of Henry Dorothy. 
 
 Clarke, of God- One other 
 
 manchefter, in co. daughter. 
 Hunts. 
 
 . I 
 Nicholas Rutland 
 
 Sibell, dau. of Wil- 
 liam Holte, of co. 
 Surrey. 
 
 .1 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 I 
 
 Nicholas. 
 
 I. 
 2. William. 
 
 Mary, 
 
 A.D. 1596. Gerard Erington, Esq^ Woodford. A fmall 
 effigy in a gown, fimilar to the laft example, is here affixed, together 
 with a fhield of arms, and infcription, to the wall of an aifle or chapel on 
 the fouth fide of the nave. The fhield bears Argent, two bars, and in 
 chief three efcallops azure, with a mullet for difference, Erington ; 
 impaling. Argent, on a crofs engrailed gules five crefcents or, on a chief 
 azure three bezants, Greene. Infcription thus : — 
 
 "HERE LIETH BVRIED THE BODY OF GERRARD ERINGTON, OF HEALE 
 ESQVIER, WHO MARIED MARGARETT DAVGHTER TO WILLIAM GRENE, OF 
 [STANLINCHE] HEALE ESQVIER, WHO DYED ON CANDLEMAS DAY A" DNI 
 1596." 
 
 The following alfo appears in gilt letters between the figure and 
 
 " Moriturus dixi cvpio dijfolvi ^t ejje cvm Xpo." 
 
 ["At the point of death I faid, I defire to depart, and be with Chrift."] 
 
Sixteenth Century. j^ 
 
 Gerard Erington, of Heale, was the fon of Ninian Erington, of 
 Walwicic Grange, co. Northumberland.' By his wife Alargaret, 
 mentioned in the infcription, he had ifTue five fons and two daughters. 
 His grandfon Gerard, of Salterton, living in 1623, married Anne, one of 
 the daughters of Edward Young, of Little Durnford, whofe brafs is 
 defcribed at p. 80. 
 
 A.D. 1596. Jerome Poticary. Stockton. The brafs of 
 Elizabeth, firft wife of Jerome Poticary, has been already noticed 
 at p. 69. Affixed to the eaft wall of the fouth aifle is a 
 fecond engraved plate, erected as a memorial of himfelf It is of 
 an irregular form, about 18 inches in height, and its greateft width 
 about 32 inches. At the lower corners are the fmall figures of the 
 deceafed and his fecond wife, each kneeling at z pr'ie-dieu ; the latter 
 wearing a coverchef appropriate to her ftate of widowhood. Behind 
 them are two fons, and as many daughters — the iflue of his Jaft 
 marriage. The remaining portion of the plate bears the following 
 infcription : — 
 
 " HOS QVICVNC)VE VIDES FICTA SVB IMAGINE VVLTVS 
 EXFRESSAM VERyE EFFIGIEM VIRTVTIS HABETO. 
 ILLIVS ORA SIMVL TE CERNERE VIVA PVTATO, 
 PLVRIMA QVI PATRI^, QVI PLVRIMA SPARSIT AMICIS 
 COMMODA, SINCERE CVLTOR PIETATIS ET JEQVl, 
 FIRMA FIDES CVIVS SAT NOTA DOMIQVE FORISQVE. 
 CVI NIVEI POSVERE GREGES SVA VELLERA hJETl, 
 ARTIFICES CVI MILLE MANVS SVA PENSA TVLERVNT, 
 QVI VASTVM PATRIIS ORNAVIT VESTIBVS ORBEM. 
 CONIVGIBVS BINIS, TER TRINA PROLE BEATVS, 
 MORIBVS HAC IMITANTE PARENTEM, ILLISQVE MARITV. 
 OMNIA CONVENIVNT PARITER CVM NOMINE SANCTO. 
 EXTITERANT SANCTI MORES MORS DENiyVE SACTA. 
 lAM QVOO^ CV SANCTIS VITA EST MELIORE POTITVS. 
 
 HOC POSVIT CHRISTOPHORVS POTECARV 
 CHARISSIMO PATRI SVO FCELICIS MEMORI^ 
 HIERONYMO POTECARV, QVI OBIIT 3° MAII 
 AO DNI J596 ET ANNO iETATIS SV/E 52." 
 
 " Whofo gazeft on this face, art's counterfeit, be aflured you fee delineated a monument 
 of real worth. Imagine you now fee the living form of one who was a great benefactor 
 
76 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 to his country, and his friends : an obferver of real piety and juftice : whofe unfwerving 
 faith was known at home — was known abroad : to whom fnowy flocks rejoiced to yield their 
 fleeces : for whom a thoufand fkilful hands plied their (willing) tafks : who made the wide world 
 rich with his country's looms. With two wives, with thrice three children, was he bleft : thefe 
 repeating their father's, thofe their hufljand's virtues. Every thing was in accordance with his 
 faintly name," \JerDme\ " faintly his life, faintly his death : and now, having reached a better 
 world, among the faints he lives. 
 
 Ereded by Chrifliopher Potecary, to Jerome Potecary, his mofl: loving father of happy 
 memor)', who died 3rd May, a.d. 1596, and in the 52nd year of his age." 
 
 Jerome Poticary was the fon of Richard Poticar}^, of Wilton, by 
 
 his wife Johanna [Topp] of a Stockton family,' which marriage was 
 
 probably the reafon of his fettling in this village. He was, as feen by 
 
 the infcription on his brafs, a very eminent clothier, and built a 
 
 confiderable houfe at Stockton, which yet remains. 
 
 His merchant's mark (apparently the initials of his 
 
 name "J. P." in monogram) is reprefented in the 
 
 annexed woodcut, but the family do not appear to 
 
 have belonged to the clafs of gentry entitled to bear 
 
 arms. Chriftopher, the fon of Jerome, removed to 
 
 Heytefbury, and fome of his defcendants refided 
 
 at Warminfter. From them defcended a branch 
 
 Merchanfs Mark of fgttlcd at Hooke's Wood in the parifh of Farnham, 
 
 JeroTne Poticary. , . - ^ , . , • 1 t 1 r^^ 
 
 Dorfet, the heirefs of which married John V^lut- 
 terbuck, of Puckerall, Efq. 
 
 A.D. 1601. Anne Longe. Bradford- on -Avon. {Plate 
 XXVII.) This effigy, which lies in the pavement near the eaft 
 end of the nave, affords an excellent illuftration of the coftume 
 peculiar to the clofe of Elizabeth's reign. The huge neck-ruff is 
 here fully developed, and is trimmed with point lace ; the ftomacher, 
 with its acute point, extends into the vardingale^ or hoop ; the gown 
 is open in front difclofing a portion of an under garment richly 
 flowered ; r.nd the high crowned hat and feather likewife forms 
 a new feature. 
 
 ' The family of Topp were lords of the 
 manor of Stockton, which they anciently held 
 under the monks of St. Swithin, at Winches- 
 ter. Sufan, a co-heir of Edward Topp, who 
 
 died in 1740, conveyed it by marriage into the 
 family of Everard, from whom it was, in the 
 next generation, purchafed by an anceftor of 
 Henry G. Biggs, Efq., its prefent owner. 
 
[Page 76. 
 
 mas Poticary, LL.B., 
 How of St. John's 
 )llege, Oxford, and 
 after of the Grammar 
 hool, Salifbury. 
 
 Chriftopher Poticary =^^^9 i 
 (ereded the Brafs f"?* 
 to his father in [5^ 
 Stockton Church). [/**• 
 Ob. at Heyteibury. 
 Bur. at Stockton, 
 4th March, 1650. 
 
 Jerome, bap. 19th 
 
 Aug. 1594. 
 (fecond 
 
 fon). 
 John (pofthumous 
 
 and third fon), bap. 
 
 Sep. 12, 1596. 
 
 Elizabeth, bap. Dec. 
 
 16, 1591. 
 Sufannah, bap. June 
 
 23, 1592. 
 
 [ary, Thomas, 
 
 1620; bap. 15th 
 
 1621. Apr., 1623. 
 
 Chriftopher, 
 (7th fon 
 and loth 
 child), bap. 
 1625. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 ,,6. 
 
 
 
 
 Pedigree of Poticar 
 
 r, of Stockton. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 0>mpiltdfr^ tit Patijb 
 
 Stgi/Utt, St. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Eli»beth, dau. or S 
 
 ,dP.,.. 
 
 " of the Potjcaries of Wilton." =^ Joa 
 
 "' ''"■ "'buriid at'stttttot' ''"'' "■ '"' 
 
 
 ..B., 
 
 
 
 
 
 -hrLePodearyofStookton - Ele 
 
 
 
 
 of Upton Scudamorc. 
 
 
 
 
 arried at Stockton, aeth Fallow 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 April, 1590; iot. 35. 
 
 Br.f. io 
 
 «'■ . "Br^'in'slotk'tori 
 
 J 
 
 one, isgo. (id Wife.) College 
 
 Salifbuty. 
 
 .naar 
 
 
 
 -I 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 ■ bap ,9th 
 
 Elll 
 
 Chfillopher Podcary ^ 
 
 = Mary da 
 
 .ofCof- N,ih. WhiiUk 
 
 r, — Mai> Potlcary. = Chriflophcr Gardner, 
 
 Amlea,mar.ini6o8 Anne, bap. 1589; 
 
 
 fry Wh 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tinhea. 
 
 
 
 
 John Creenhill, of Deviaei, isth 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ap.Jone 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Steeple AOiton. May, 1611, at St. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oh. atHeytefbury. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ob. in 1657. John's, Deviao. 
 
 
 |ohn 
 
 (poAhnmou, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4lh March, 1650. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sep 
 
 ,a, 1S96. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 — 
 
 + 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Geoffry. c 
 
 dtdfoo. Bor. in 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 the Cha 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dm. 1! 
 
 i6i5,it. ai. 
 
 "■"'"''"'■ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 .1.. 
 
 1 
 
 1 1 1 
 Cbriflophcr, Eliiabeth, Cbriftopher, 
 
 1 1 1 
 Richard, Catherine, Mary, 
 
 Tho 
 
 1 
 
 ChriJpber, 
 
 
 16D5. 
 
 b., li.bStpt., 
 ■ 605. 
 
 Mr. Miiy 
 Pykc,mir. 
 
 bap. 20th bap. i6ia} bap. 1614; 
 No^'.ifioe; Ob. in 1643. ob. 1615. 
 
 °6 6 ^''' bl, 
 
 bur-'adAog! bor.ldAug.' bur. t6ai 
 163JI. 1638. 
 
 bap. 
 Apr., 
 
 ,Sth 
 
 ;hlld)',°bap. 
 1615. 
 
 
 
 
Seventeenth Century. 
 
 11 
 
 The concluding fcntence of the infcription is alfo remarkable : — 
 
 « HERE LYETH BVRYED THE BODY OF ANNE, LATELY SOLE DAVGHTER 
 AND HEIRE OF JOHN YEWE,' OF BRADFORDE IN THE COVNTY OF WILTES 
 GENT, AND WIFE OF GYFFORD LONGE GENT, WHO HAD ISSVE BY HER 
 ANNE AND CATHERYN THEIR DAVGHTERS. SHE DYED THE XXVJth qF 
 MARCH, 1601. WHOSE KNOWNE GOOD LYFE SHEWETH THAT GOD HATH 
 TAKEN HER SOWLE TO HIS MERCYE." 
 
 A fmall plate of brafs underneath bears the partly obliterated 
 effigies of the two daughters, Anne and Catherine. The arms at 
 the angles of the flab, Sable, a lion paflant argent; on a chief of the 
 laft three crofs-crolTlets of the firil:, were granted to Edward Longe, 
 of Monkton, the father of Gifford, 31 Elizabeth [1589]. 
 
 The annexed extract from the pedigree of Long of Semington, 
 Trowbridge and Whaddon, privately printed in 1829, by Charles 
 Edward Long, Efq., will fhow the immediate defcent of GifFord, the 
 hufband of Anne Lonse. 
 
 Edward Longe, of Monkton, in =y= Anne, dau. of Henry 
 
 the parifh of Broughton Gifford, 
 third fon of Henry Longe, of 
 Whaddon, and heir by adoption 
 to his uncle Thomas Longe, of 
 Trowbridge. Will dated 1622. 
 Bur. at Broughton Gifford. 
 
 Brounker, of Melk- 
 fliam, M.P. for De- 
 vizes. Ob. 1607. 
 Bur. at B. Gifford. 
 
 I ft wife. 
 Anne, dau. and heirefs 
 of John Yewe, of 
 Bradford, Ob. 1601. 
 Mon. Brafs in Brad- 
 ford Church. 
 
 Gifford Longe, of Rood 
 Afhton,SheriffofWilts, 
 1624. Will dated 1635. 
 
 2nd wife. I I I I 
 
 Amy, dau. of John Warre, Edward, 
 
 of Heftercombe, co. So- Thomas, 
 
 merfet, relid of Robert John. 
 
 Wingatt, of Bifcott, co. Sufan. 
 Beds. Will 1650. 
 
 I 
 Anne, bap. at Brad- 
 ford, I 598 ; wife 
 ofWilliam Brom- 
 wich, 1630. 
 
 Catharine, bap, 
 at Bradford, 
 1601. 
 
 Edward Long 
 of Rood 
 Artiton. Bap. 
 1607. Will 
 1644. 
 
 Dorothy, d. of 
 Ifaac Jones, 
 of London. 
 
 II II 
 
 Roger. 
 Thomas. 
 Anne. 
 Eleanor. 
 
 Henry Long, of Rood 
 Artiton, buried at 
 Steeple Afliton " with 
 his anceftors." Will 
 proved 1674. Ob. 
 s. p. 
 
 Dionyfia, dau. of 
 William Baffct, 
 of Claverton, 
 Ob. 1671. 
 
 I 
 Elizabeth, m. to 
 
 Richard Long, 
 of Colling- 
 bourne Kings- 
 ton. 
 
 ' In 1573, a John Yeovve, or Ewe, held the 
 manor of Broad Somerford, fubordinate to the 
 
 Barony of Caftle Combe. He died in 1558. 
 See "Hiftory of Caftle Combe," p. 317. 
 
?! 
 
 Monumental Braffes of Wilts. 
 
 This branch of the family was defcended from Thomas, of Seming- 
 ton, in the parifh of Steeple Afhton,i who died about 1509, and 
 by his will, defires to be buried in the Chapel of St. George at Seming- 
 ton. His grandfon, Henry Longe, of Whaddon, (the grandfather of 
 Gifford) married Mary, daughter of Thomas Horton, of Iford, men- 
 tioned at page 52, as the nephew and heir of Thomas Horton, whofe 
 brafs is alfo in Bradford Church. 
 
 A.D. 1605. Thomas Bennet, and Wife. Westbury, [Plate 
 XXV III.) This brafs lies on the pavement of a chantry chapel, north 
 of the chancel.2 Neither of the effigies prefents any remarkable feature 
 as regards coftume. One of the fhields bears Gules, three demi-lions 
 rampant argent, differenced by a mullet, Bennet ; the other, three 
 greyhounds courant in pale, differenced by a crefcent, Buriton. 
 The infcription is now (1859) Partially concealed by the flooring 
 of the open benches which occupy the chapel, but the words between 
 brackets are given on the joint authority of Aubrey (" Colle6tions 
 for North Wilts"), and Sir R. C. Hoare (" Hiftory of Modern 
 Wilts "). 
 
 « HERE LYETH THE BODIE OF THOMAS BENNET OF WESTBVRY 
 GENTLEMAN, WHO TOOKE TO WIFE MARGARET BVRITON, THE ELDEST 
 DAVGHTER AND ONE OF THE COHEIRES OF THOMAS BVRITON OF 
 STREATELY IN THE COVNTIE OF BARKES ESQVIRE, WHICH MARGARET 
 SVRVIVINGE HER SAIDE HVSBANDE HATH IN TOKEN OF THEIR MVTVALL 
 LOVE WHILST THEY LIVED TOGEATHER, AND IN TESTIMONIE OF HER 
 CONTI[NVED AFFECTION AFTER HIS DECEASE, CAVSED THIS STONE TO BE 
 HERE PLACED TO HIS MEMORIE, WITH WHOM AS SHE LIVED SO AFTER 
 HER DEATH INTENDETH SHE BY GOD'S PERMISSION TO REST IN THE 
 SAME GRAVE AS THIS MONVMENT DOTH IMPORT. 
 
 THE SAID THOMAS BENNET DIED . . . DAY OF JUNE, ANNO DOM. 
 1605. AND THE SAID MARGARET DIED THE . . . DAY OF . . . 
 ANNO DOM . . ."] 
 
 ' Of Steeple Afhton Church, Leland fays, 
 " Robart Longe, clothyar, buyldyd the northe 
 ifle, Waltar Lucas, clothiar, buildyd the fowth 
 
 Mifle, of theyr proper coftes." 
 Robert Longe died in 1 501, 
 and by will defired the com- 
 pletion of the building of the 
 north aifle, one of the corbels 
 of which bears the accompany- 
 
 ing merchant's mark. There was, as appears 
 from the will of Walter Longe, of Trow- 
 bridge (1546), fome connexion between the 
 families of Longe and Lucas, the joint bene- 
 fadlors to the fabric. 
 
 '^ In Hoare's " Modern Wilts," this is de- 
 fcribed as the Chapel of the Mauduits, and is 
 faid to have contained an altar dedicated either 
 to St. Thomas Martyr or St. John Baptift. 
 
Seventeenth Century. 
 
 19 
 
 Of the family of Bonnet, of Norton Bavent, and Weftbury, there 
 is a pedigree in Hoare's " Modern Wilts," Warminftcr Hundred, 
 p. 78. Thomas, the great-grandfon of William Bonnet, a brother of 
 the deceafed, was the purchafer of Pyt Houfe in 1725. "Fo the 
 memory of an earlier member of the fame family — Thomas Bennet, 
 D.C.L., who was Canon and Treafurer of St. Paul's, and Precentor 
 of Salifbury, and died in 1558 — there is a tomb in the north aide of 
 the choir of Salifbury Cathedral bearing a fkeleton carved in ftone. 
 
 A.D. 1606. Edmund Hobbes. Malmeseury Abbey. A brafs 
 plate on the pavement near the eaft end of the nave bears the following 
 infcription : — 
 
 « HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF EDMOND HOBBES, SOMETYME A BVR- 
 GES OF THIS TOWNE, WHO DECEASED THE XXIIth DAYE OF APRILL, ANO 
 DOMINI 1606. EXPECTINGE THE GENERALL RESVRRECTION." 
 
 The deceafed was, probably, a brother of Thomas Hobbes, Vicar 
 of Charlton and Weftport, the father of Thomas, of Malmefbury, 
 "the Philofopher ;" but Aubrey, in his memoir of the latter,^ from 
 which the annexed fragment of pedigree has been compiled, makes no 
 mention of him as fuch.- 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 ,dmund Hobbes, Bur- 
 
 1 . 
 Francis Hobbes, 
 
 Thomas Hobbes, =p . . . dau. of 
 
 gels of" Malmefbury. 
 
 glover, and al- 
 
 Vicar of Charl- 
 
 . . . Mid- 
 
 Ob. 22 April, 1606. 
 
 derman of 
 
 ton and Wefl- 
 
 dleton, of 
 
 Brafs plate in the 
 
 Malmefbury. 
 
 port juxta 
 
 Broken- 
 
 Abbey Church. 
 
 Ob. s. p. 
 
 Malmefbury. 
 
 borough. 
 
 . Edmund, ofWcftport, 
 
 2. Thomas Hobbes, " 
 
 of Malmfbury." 
 
 1 
 A daughter. 
 
 a glover and Burgefs of 
 
 TbeP/iilofopher. Born 5 April, 1588. 
 
 
 Malmefbury. Ob. Dec. 
 
 Ob. 4 Dec. 1679, at 
 
 Hardvvicke, co. 
 
 
 1665, aet. c. 80. 
 
 Derby. Bur. in the 
 Hucknall. 
 
 Church of Ault 
 
 
 Francis. 
 
 I I 
 
 Mary, mar. to . . Tirell. 
 Eleanor, mar. to , . . Harding 
 
 I I i i I 
 Thomas, and four other children. 
 
 ' "Lives of Eminent Men," II. 593. 
 ^ His burial, which feems to have taken 
 place on the following day, is thus noted in 
 
 theParifli Regifter : — "The 23d April, 1606, 
 was buryed Mr. Edmond Hobbes." 
 
8o 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 A.D. 1607. Edward Younge, and Family. Great Durn- 
 FORD. This plate, 20 inches in height by 27 in width, is affixed 
 to the fouth wall of the chancel, and is enclofed within a canopied 
 tomb of very debafed chara61:er. It bears the kneeling effigies of the 
 deceafed and his wife, with fix fons and eight daughters arranged in 
 two groups behind them, as in Plate XXVI. Above them are three 
 Ihields of arms, the central one bearing the following quarterings 
 impaling, Azure, a chevron between three lozenges or, differenced by a 
 mullet, Hyde: 
 
 I and 6. 
 
 Vaire, on a chief gules three lions rampant or, Younge.' 
 
 Gules, a fefle engrailed ermine between three griffins' heads erafed argent. 
 
 Tropenell. 
 Three lions pafTant. 
 A fefle between three martlets. 
 Barry of fix, on a chief a lion pafTant guardant. 
 
 The fhields on either fide bear the arms of Younge and Hyde, fingly. 
 In the fpace between them are thefe lines, — 
 
 " BEHOLDE ALL YEE 
 YT COME TO SEE 
 
 AS WE ARE NOWE, 
 SO SHALL YEE BE." 
 
 The infcription underneath the effigies is as follows : — 
 
 " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF EDWARD YOVNGE, OF LITLE DORNEFORD, 
 ESQR- SONNE & HEYRE OF JOHN YOUNG, ESQ"- & OF MARY HIS WIFE, 
 ONE OF YE FOWER DAVGHTERS & COHEYRES OF THOM: TRAPNELL,'-' OF 
 MOVNCKTON FARLEY ESQ.R- W^h. EDW: MARIED JOANE, Y^ ELDEST DAVGH- 
 TER OF LAVRENCE HIDE, OF WEST HATCHE, ESQR- & HAD BY HER 6 SONES 
 & 8 DAVGHTERS, WHO DYED FEBR: i8, 1607." 
 
 A.D. 1608. A Lady (name unknown). Broad Blunsden. 
 This brafs feems to have been engraved by the fame artift as that 
 reprefented in Plate XXVIII. It confifts of a female figure about 
 20 inches in height, beneath which are the effigies of two daugh- 
 ters, the latter kneeling. A portion of the border fillet has been loft, 
 but the remainder bears the following infcription : — 
 
 " BVRY BLVNSDEN DYED BEINGE ® THE MOTHER OF HIS 
 
 TWO DAVGHTERS & HEIRES ® 1608. OF THE XJ DAY OF ® 
 
 ' Thefe arms were granted by patent, to 
 John Young, a.d. 1572, by Robert Cooke, 
 Clarenceux. 
 
 ^ In the recorded pedigree of Young, this 
 
 lady is defcribed as daughter of Giles Trapnell, 
 of Chalfield. Thomas Trapnell left ifTue a fon 
 Gihif her brother, whence, probably, arofe the 
 error. 
 
Seventeenth Century. 8 i 
 
 The name of the lady to whofe memory this brafs was laid down 
 is, unfortunately, loft. The village of Broad Blunfden was formerly 
 known as " Bury Town," or " Bury Blunfden," which latter has been 
 given in one or two printed lifts of Wiltfliire brafTcs as the name of the 
 individual commemorated. 
 
 A.D. i6i2. Ambrose Dauntesey, Esq^ Melksham. The 
 infcription from this plate, formerly in Melkftiam Church, is thus 
 printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart.': — 
 
 " HERE LYETH BURIED THE BODY OF AMBROSE DAUNTESEY, ESQ., THE 
 ELDEST SON OF SIR JOHN DAUNTESEY, KNT. WHO HAD TO WIFE GAR- 
 TRUDE, THE WIDOW OF HENRY BROUNCKER, ESQ.^ WHICH LIETH HERE 
 BURIED BY HIM AND DIED BOTH WITHIN A YEAR, AND HAD BY HER 
 FOUR SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. HE DECEASED 29 NOV. 1612, A 
 ZEALOUS CHRISTIAN AND WELBELOVED BY ALL MEN." 
 
 Ambrofe Dauntefey was the fon of Sir John Dauntefey, Knight, of 
 Weft Lavington ; and grandfon of John, whofe brafs is engraved in 
 Plate XXI. of the prefent feries. He died twenty years before his 
 father, leaving iftiae a fon, Ambrofe, born in 16 10, and two daughters, 
 Elizabeth' and Sarah, the former of whom afterwards became the 
 fecond wife of Sir John Danvers, of Chelfea and Weft Lavington,'* 
 M.P. for the Univerfity of Oxford, and one of the judges who fat on 
 the trial of Charles I. 
 
 ' In his CoUedlion of Monumental Infcrip- 
 tions in Wilt/hire, of which vo\ume fix copies 
 only were printed. One of thcfe is depofitcd 
 in the Library of the College of Arms, 
 
 * She W3S the daughter of Henry Sadler, 
 Efq. of Everley, a fon of Sir Ralph Sadler, of 
 Standwin, co. Herts. 
 
 ^ Her monumental effigy, exquifitely carved 
 in white marble, lies in a recefs in the I'outh 
 wall of the Dauntefey Chapel at Weft Laving- 
 ton. It is in a reclining pofture, with the head 
 refting on the right arm. At the back of the 
 recefs is a long Latin infcription, fetting forth 
 her many virtues in the moft elaborate terms. 
 
 Another marble monument adjoining the 
 above bears the effigy of her only fon, Henry 
 Danvers, who died in the 21ft year of his age, 
 November 19, 1654. 
 
 * The ancient rcfiJcnce of the Dauntefey 
 family was fituated to the north-eaft of Weft 
 Lavington Church. Few traces, however, of 
 its former grandeur now remain. Sir John 
 Danvers, on fucceeding to the property, appears 
 to have made many improvements both in the 
 houfe and gardens, the latter of which he laid 
 out in the Italian ftyle, then rare in England. 
 "'Twas Sir John Danvers of Chelfey," fays 
 Aubrey, " who firft taught us the way of 
 Italian gardens. He had well travelled France 
 and Italy, and made good obfervations. The 
 garden at Lavington in this count)', and that 
 at Chelfey in Middlefex, as likewife the houfe 
 there, doe remaine monuments of his inge- 
 nuity." — Nat. liijl. of frills, p. 93. 
 
 M 
 
82 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 The two palimpfeft plates here engraved are now (1859) ^" ^^^ 
 pofiefllon of the Rev. E. Wilton, of Weft Lavington. The fhield 
 No. I bears Gules, a lion rampant argent, chafing a wyvern vert. 
 
 No. I. 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 Dauntefey •,'^ on the reverfe are portions of the kneeling effigies of a 
 knight and lady, apparently belonging to the early part of Elizabeth's 
 reign. The fhield No. 2 bears Or, a lion rampant per fefle azure and 
 gules, Sadler; and on the reverfe the following fragment of an 
 infcription : — 
 
 " APOSTROPHE AD 
 
 OBIJT 23 DIE ... . 
 ESSE VIAM LATAM .... 
 
 AD C^LUM AN 
 
 HANC DATVR IR 
 
 ALMA DIGNAT .... 
 . . . TVA MORS M " 
 
 Thefe plates are both remarkable on account of the very flight 
 difference of date between the engraving on the two fides, and fully 
 confirm the account given by Weever (fee note at p. 2) of the havoc 
 
 ' The Dauntefey arms vary very confider- 
 ably at different dates. John Dauntefey {Plate 
 XXI. ) bore, as already mentioned, — Party 
 per pale or and argent three bars dancettee 
 gules. In the brafs of Anne Danvers, who 
 was the heirefs of Sir John Dauntefey {Plate 
 XX.), the bars are nehule. In Harl. MS. 
 1443 (which contains the Wilts Vifitation of 
 A.D. 1565, incorporated with that of a.d. 
 1623), two diftindt fhields of arms are given 
 
 with the Dauntefey pedigree. One, defcribed 
 as " the old coate" bears Sable, a lion rampant 
 argent grafpling with a wyvern or, winged 
 vert. In the other, to which is prefixed a 
 memorandum ^^ thus entred 1 623," the lion is 
 chafing the wyvern, as here engraved. In the 
 feal of Sir John D., the father of Ambrofe, 
 which is in the pofTefTion of the Rev. E. 
 Wilton, the arms are precifely fimilar to thofe 
 on the fhield No. i. 
 
Seventeenth Century. 83 
 
 to which memorials of this kind were i'ubjecStcd, even towards the dole 
 of Qiieen Ehzabeth's reign, notwithftanding the feverc remedy pro- 
 vided againft offenders in this refpeil. 
 
 A.D. 1612. Edward, Lord Beauchamp. Great Bedwyn. 
 The following infcription on a brafs plate was formerly in the pavement 
 of the chained, affixed to what Aubrey defcribes as " a pittifull grafted 
 freeftone gravcftone," but it is now on the north wall : — 
 
 "BELLOCAMP' ERAM GRAIA CENETRICE SEMERVS : 
 TRES HABVJ NATOS EST QUIBVS VNA SOROR." 
 
 I was Seymour [Lord] Beauchamp, a Grey being my mother ; 
 I had three fons who have one fifter. 
 
 The deceafed was grandfon of Edward, Duke of Somerfet, the 
 Prote6lor, and fon and heir of Edward, Earl of Hertford, by Lady 
 Catherine Grey, daughter and coheir of Henry, Duke of Suffolk, and 
 fifter to Lady Jane Grey. He was born in the Tower of London, 
 Sept. 21, 1 56 1, during his father's incarceration, and was baptized 
 there on the 25th. \i\ 1585 he was privately married to Honora, 
 daughter of Sir Richard Rogers, of Brianfton, co. Dorfet, Knight. 
 He became Baron Beauchamp in his own right, by creation dated 
 14th May, 1609 ; and obtained a patent fecuring to him and his heirs 
 male fucceffion to his father's earldom, but dying before the Earl,' the 
 honours defcended to his eldeft furviving fon, William, who was after- 
 wards created Marquis of Hertford, and was reftored to the Dukedom 
 of Somerfet. Lord Beauchamp died at Wick, near Marlborough, and 
 was buried at Bedwyn, 21ft July, 161 2." His eldeft fon, Edward, 
 born at Camberwell, 12th June, 1586, fuccecded to the barony, and 
 was created K.B. in 1616; but he died in 1618, before his grandfather, 
 and left no furviving iflue. 
 
 The third of the fons alluded to in the epitaph was Sir Francis Sey- 
 mour, created Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, 19th P^eb. 1641. He 
 built the large houfe afterwards the Caftle Inn at Marlborough. Ac- 
 cording to Sir R. C. Hoare, he died in 1664, and was buried at Great 
 Bedwyn ; but there is no record there of his interment. 
 
 ' Edward, Earl of Hertford, furvivcd his 
 eldeft fon nine years ; Lady Catherine [Grey] 
 his Countcfs, died in 1563. In Salilbury 
 Cathedral, at the eaft end of the fouth aific 
 of the choir, is a magnificent monument 
 bearing their effigies, together with thofe 
 
 of two of their younger fons, Richard and 
 Thomas. 
 
 - " 1612. OnTuefday,theone-and twentyeth 
 of July, an° pdco was hcere entombed the body 
 of the right ho'''' Edward Lo. Bcauch.impe, who 
 deceafed at Week," Par. Rez. 
 
84 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 The fifter, the only furviving one of three, was Honora, who 
 married Sir Ferdinand Dudley, K.B. 
 
 Circa A.D. 1620. Nicholas PouLETT, AND Family. Minety. 
 The eaftern portion of the north aifle is here divided from the reft of 
 the church by a fcreen of carved oak, which feems once to have 
 enclofed a chantry altar. The Poulett brafs is affixed to the north 
 wall of the aifle within the fcreen. In the centre of the plate (which 
 is about 19 inches in width and 12 in height) are the kneeling effigies 
 of Nicholas Poulett and his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Hunger- 
 ford, of the Lea. Behind the former is an only fon, " Ames Pou- 
 lett;" and, in the rear of their mother, are three daughters, 
 " Elizabeth," " Mary," and " Edight." The arms of Poulett — 
 Sable, three fwords in pile proper, hiked and pomelled or — appear on a 
 fhield above the male effigies ; and on either fide of this two variations 
 of the family creft, — the firft, a dexter hand in armour proper, gar- 
 nifhed or, holding a fword in bend proper, hiked and pomelled or ; 
 the fecond, a dexter hand in fefle holding a fword in pale, with the 
 motto. Gardes la foy^ on a riband. Over the female effigy are the 
 arms of Hungerford — Sable, two bars argent, in chief three plates, 
 differenced by a crefcent ; between the creft of Hungerford and the 
 family device of three fickles interlaced, with a mullet of five points in 
 the centre. Immediately under them is the infcription, "of svfferans 
 comes ease." The coftume in this example is precifely fimilar to 
 that in Plate XXVI., with the exception of Nicholas Poulett, who 
 appears in a fuit of armour. 
 
 Nicholas Poulett, of Minety, was a fecond fon of Sir Hugh Poulett, 
 of Hinton St. George, co. Somerfet,^ and brother of Sir Amias, of 
 Hinton, privy councillor to Queen Elizabeth.- The fecond daughter, 
 Mary, was afterwards married to Henry Long, of xA-fhley, Wilts. 
 
 A.D. 1620. Robert Longe. Broughton Gifford. {Plate 
 XXIX.) This brafs is affixed to a pier between the nave and a fouth 
 aifle, or chantry. It is certainly the work of the fame artift as that 
 at Alton Priors (Plate XXV.) In this inftance, the half-length effigies 
 of Death and a herald are introduced above the tomb, the latter wearing 
 a tabard of the Royal arms, and holding in his left hand feveral fhields. 
 
 ' Defcended from Sir John Paulett, Knt. 
 who died in 1447, and whofe fecond fon, Wil- 
 
 liam, was anceftor of the Dukes of Bolton, and 
 Marqueffes of Winchefter. 
 
 ^ Anceftor of the Earls Poulett. 
 
Seventeenth Century. 85 
 
 from which the former (as defcribed in the epitaph) felc£ls one bearing 
 the arms of Longc — Sable, femee of crofs-croiTlcts, a hon rampant 
 argent ; two flaunches ermine.' 
 
 The two labels attached to the upper part of the mace and arrow, 
 which are held faltier-wife, bear the following quotation by way of ques- 
 tion and anfwer, being a pun upon a paflage in one of Juvenal's fatires, — 
 
 " Qiiid prodeft (Mortue) LoNGo fanguinc cenferi ?" 
 
 What advantageth it thee (O dead man) to be accounted of the Long blood? 
 
 " Ut vivat poft funera virtus." 
 
 Defire rather that your good name may live after burial. 
 
 Robert Longe was the fecond fon of Henry, ofWhaddon, by his 
 wife Mary, daughter of Robert May, of Broughton. He was coufui 
 of Gifford Longe, of Rood Afhton (mentioned at p. 77), and nephew 
 of Edward, of Monkton, in the parifh of Broughton GifFord, in whofe 
 houfe, as recorded in the parifh regifter, he " fojourned and died."- 
 
 It appears from fome papers in the Britifh Mufeum (Add. MSS. 
 15, 561), that Robert Longe was born Nov. 10, 1574, which agrees 
 with his age as given on the brafs. 
 
 His fourth fon, Pofthumus, was fometime of Corfham, and after- 
 wards of Herbridge, co. Hants. His v/ill bears date a.d. 1682. 
 
 A.D. 1630. John Kent, Esq^ and Wife. St. John, Devizes. 
 [Plate XXX.) The original pofition of this flab is doubtful:^ it now 
 lies in the pavement of the Beauchamp Chapel, — an erection precifely 
 fimilar to that at Bromham, noticed at p. 35. The gown of the male 
 effigy, like that in Plate XXH., appears to be an official robe. The 
 arms of Kent — Azure, a lion paffant guardant or, a chief ermine; fur- 
 
 ' Thefe arms were granted to Thomas 
 Longe, of Trowbridge, in 1561 ; but he dying 
 s. p. they were borne by the defcendants of 
 his younger brother, Henry Longe, of Whad- 
 don, the purchafer of Monkton, although not 
 of the blood of the grantee. They appear in 
 the caft window of Lincoln's Inn Chapel, Lon- 
 don, with the name of " Henricui Long armi- 
 gtr" who was Treafurer there in 1690. 
 
 ' The manor of Monkton was given to the 
 Priory of Monkton Farley, by Ilbert de Chat, 
 who died about 1187, and whofe ftone coffin 
 is prelerved at Lacock Abbey. It was fubfe- 
 qucntly held by Sir Henry Longc, of Draycote, 
 
 who fold it to Sir John Thynne, by whom it 
 was again fold to Henry Longe, of Whad- 
 don, whofe defcendant, Thomas, of Rowden, 
 fold it prior to 1730, when it finally pafled out 
 of the hands of the Longc family. The pre- 
 fent manor-houfe is of the 17th century, and 
 retains many interefting features peculiar to the 
 domeftic architefture of that period. 
 
 3 The initials, " E. I. 1788," chifclled on 
 the face of the ilab, fliow that it was again ufed 
 at this date to cover the remains of the Rev. 
 Edw. Innes, Rc«Sor of Devizes and Stockton, 
 who was buried in the chancel. 
 
86 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 mounted by a helmet, bearing the creft of the family — appears above 
 the effigies, and beneath them is an infcription as follows : — 
 
 " HIC, SVB EODEM TRISTI MARMORIS SPECTACVLO SEPVLTVM JACET 
 CORPVS JOHANIS KENT SENIORIS DOCTISSIMI VIRI, GENEROSI, NVPER 
 DEFVNCTI, CVIVS ABSENTIAM SATIS DEPLORENT, ^VEMQ CASSVM LVMINE 
 NON IMERITO LVGEANT OPPIDANI; DVM VIXERIT, ILLI TAM FERVENS 
 IN DEVM EXISTEBAT FIETAS VT INDE PLACIDA IPSIVS CONSCIENTI^, 
 TRANQVILLITATE ACQVISITA TERRA IPSO SE FRVITVRVM ESSE C^LO 
 DICERETVR, TANTA IN SINGVLOS A SVMIS, AD IMOS AMICITIA VT INTER 
 ADHVC IGNOTOS IN HOC OPPIDVM ADMIRANDA BENEFICIA, IMORTALI- 
 TATIS STERNA EREXISSE TROPH^A VIDEANTVR. VIVET INv^TERNUM 
 IVSTORUM MEMORIA. OBIJT A° ^TATIS 72 PRIMO DIE OCTOBRIS A^ 
 DNI 1630. 
 
 VITA PROBUM PIETAS SANCTlT, FINISQ BEATUM 
 TE CENSENT UIT^ FAMA PERENNIS ERIT 
 
 NEC TANTUM PIETATIS HONOS NEQ^FINIS OLIMPO 
 FULGEAT HIE LAUDIS NON MORITURA DIES. 
 SOLO DEO MIHI SOLA SALUS." 
 
 " Here, under its own effigy difphyed on the fad marble, lies buried the body of John Kent, 
 Senior, Gentleman, a very learned perfon lately deceafed, whofe removal his fellow-townfmen 
 greatly and defervedly deplore. So fervent during life was his piety towards God, that, having 
 thereby obtained the peace of an untroubled confcience, he was thought to be near enjoying the 
 blifs of heaven whilft yet on earth. Such love did he bear towards all of every degree, that his 
 admirable charities, whilft almoft a ftranger in this town, feem to have eredled for him an impe- 
 rilhable monument. The memory of the juft ftiall live for ever. He died in the 72nd year of 
 his age, the firft day of October, a.d. 1630." ' 
 
 The fenfe of the accompanying vcrfes is not very diftin6l. 
 
 John Kent was the fon of Roger, a third fon of Randall Kent, a 
 
 family refiding at Copenhall, 
 in Cheftiire. He fettled at 
 Devizes as early as 1587, 
 and refided here for nearly 
 half- a -century, filling the 
 offices of mayor and town- 
 clerk, and being on more 
 than one occafion returned 
 Autograph of John Kent from a Vellum MS. ^^ ^ reprcfentative of the bo- 
 
 date 1 6 14. r- ^ 
 
 rough in parliament. During 
 this period, he feems to have taken an adlive and prominent part in the 
 
 ' His burial is thus noted in the Parlfh Re- 
 gifter : — "1630. Mr. John Kent, gent. & 
 Juftice of this Burrough, buried the 10th 
 
 Oftobris — the Tenth of Odober." 
 burial of his wife does not appear. 
 
 The 
 
Seventeenth Century. 
 
 87 
 
 affairs of the town. In 1614, we find him engaged in remodelling the 
 ancient guild, or trading company, which had exiftcd from the time of 
 Edward III,, and was now divided into three feparate fraternities. 
 The pedigree of his family, taken on the Vifitation of the Heralds 
 in 1623 (Harl. MS. No. 1165), is attefted by his autograph; and a 
 richly illuminated MS. on vellum, which is ftill preferved, and contains 
 tranfcripts of the borough charters, its various bye-laws, charitable 
 bcnefa6tions, and other fimilar matter, bears teflimony to the care with 
 which, in the year 1628, when at the age of fevcnty, this was colle<5led 
 and entrroffed under his own immediate direction. ^ 
 
 By his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Wyatt, of Calne, he had 
 three fons, — John, who married Ann, daughter of Jerome Poticary, of 
 Stockton (fee p. 75), and died in 1612; Thomas, who married Cathe- 
 rine, daughter of Thomas Reade, of Bradford ; Samuel, a third fon ; 
 and an only daughter, Mary, who married, firft, John Stevens,- and, 
 fecondly, John Pierce, both of Devizes.-^ 
 
 A.D. 1631. Edward Seymour. Collingbourne Ducis. The 
 effigy here engraved is yi inches in height, and lies in the pavement 
 of the chancel. It reprefents an inflint, who died at the age of eleven 
 months. 
 
 ' This volume is now in the pofTeflion of A. 
 Meek, Efq., Town Clerk of Devizes. It con- 
 tains the arms of the borough, with thofe of 
 its three guilds. The copy of each charter 
 (with one exception) is furmounted by a half- 
 length portrait of the monarch by whom it 
 was granted, and forms a valuable illuftration 
 of the art of illuminating MSS. fuccefsfully 
 pradlifed in this inftance at fo late a date. A 
 rough copy of the volume, written on paper, is 
 in the Britirti Mufeum (Lanfdown MS. No. 
 230). It is entitled "The Ledger Bookc, or 
 Regifter of the Burrough ofDevifis; conteine- 
 ing the Charters, Grants, and Confirmacons, 
 of divers Liberties, ftranchifcs. Lands, Tene- 
 ments, and Hereditaments, granted and con- 
 firmed to the Major and Burgcfes of the faid 
 Burrough, by fundry of the moft noble Kings 
 & Queens of this Realme of England, Pro- 
 genitors of Our moll Gracious Sovercigne Lord 
 King Charles, his Maj""" that now is fince the 
 Cunqucfl ; and the Conftitucons, Statutes, A£ls, 
 and Ordinances, lierctofore made, ordained, 
 
 eftablifhed, enaded, and decreed, for the well 
 riileing ordering & governing of the BurgefTes, 
 Artificers, and Inhabitants of the fame Bur- 
 rough, and the Guilde of Merchants within 
 the fame, and for the publike wealth, Worihip, 
 proffitt, and Government thereof; collected, 
 examined, revifed, recorded, and regiftred in 
 this booke by Jo/m Kent Gcntl, Tcivne Clarke 
 of the ja'td Burroughs A^ etatisj'ua 70, & Anno 
 Salutis nre 1628." 
 
 * Philip, their fecond fon, afterwards M.D., 
 and Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford, was the 
 author in part of a botanical work, entitled 
 " Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxonienfis, &c." 
 pub. in 1658. He died in London, 1679, and 
 his remains svere interred in the Church of 
 St. Peter in the Eaft, Oxford. 
 
 ^ Of this family was Thomas Pierce, D.D. 
 fometime Reftor of Brington in Northampton- 
 ftiire, afterwards Prelidcnt of Magd. Coll. 
 Oxon, and finally Dean of Sarum. He died 
 in 1 69 1, and was buried at N. Tid worth. 
 
88 Monumental BraJJes of Wilts. 
 
 The following infcription is engraved on two feparate plates of 
 metal : — 
 
 " EDWARD SAINTMAVR, FOVRTH SONNE TO WIL- 
 LIAM SAINTMAVR, EARLE OF HERTFORD, AND THE 
 LADY FRANCIS HIS WIFE, WAS BORNE AT EASTON, 
 IN WILTSHIRE, MAIE 28, ANO DINI 1630, DIED IN 
 THIS COLLINGBORNE, APRILL 28, ANO DINI 163 1, & 
 IS HEERE BVRIED. 
 
 SPEECHLESS THOVGH YET HE WERE, SAY ALL WEE CAN, 
 THAT SAW, HE PROMISE DID A HOPEFVLL MAN. 
 SVCH FRAME OF BODY, SVCH A LIVLY SOVLE, 
 ARGV'D HIM WRITTEN IN THE LONG LIV'D ROVLE. 
 BVT NOW WEE SEE, BY SVCH AN INFANT'S LOSSE, 
 ALL ARE BVT INFANT HOPES, WHICH DEATH MAY 
 CROSS." 
 
 Effigy of Edivard 
 
 Seymour, Collingbourne 
 Duch, 
 
 This Edward Seymour, fourth fon of William, 
 Earl of Hertford (created Marquis of Hertford 3d 
 June, 1640, and reftored to the Dukedom ofSomerfet 25th April, 1660), 
 by Frances, his fecond wife, fifter and coheir of Robert Devereux, 
 third Earl of Eflex, was next brother to Henry, Lord Beauchamp, 
 the Earl's eldeft furviving fon, father of William, third Duke of Som- 
 erfet, and elder brother of John, the Earl's youngeft fon, who became 
 fourth Duke ofSomerfet, on the premature death of his nephew, William, 
 1 2th December, 1671, aged nineteen. This date and age, taken from 
 the coffin-plate of the young Duke, are mentioned here as corre£ting 
 the printed pedigree of the family. ^ 
 
 A.D. 1632. John Sebastian Carpenter. St. Martin's, 
 Salisbury. An oblong plate of brafs affixed to the wall of the chancel. 
 
 ' The coffins of William Earl of Hertford, 
 who died in 1660, aged 74; Frances [Dever- 
 eux] his Countefs, who died in 1674, aet. 74; 
 their fon, Henry, Lord Beauchamp, who died 
 in his father's lifetime, 1653, aged 27; and 
 Lord Henry's Ion, William, who was third 
 Duke ofSomerfet, and died in 1671, aged 19; 
 were all found in graves beneath the chancel 
 of Great Bedwyn Church, during a reftoration 
 of the building in 1853. Thefe (like the 
 leaden coffins of the Hungerford family, in the 
 vault beneath the Chapel at Farley Caftle) 
 
 each had the part above the face exadlly 
 moulded to the features, and, from the dif- 
 ference of expreffion, it would feem that the 
 actual likenefl'es of the deceafed were thus 
 preferved. Portions of crimfon and fawn- 
 coloured velvet — the covering of the wooden 
 fhells which once enclofed thefe coffins — 
 were alfo difcovered, and in the cafe of Henry 
 Lord Beauchamp it was found that upon the 
 bread had been laid a bunch of rufemary and 
 other flowers, the fl:ems and feeds of which 
 preferved their form. 
 
Seventeenth Century. 89 
 
 on which is rudely painted (not engraved) a fmall kneeling figure, and 
 this infcription : — 
 
 " He due The Hofpitale Of This Citic a Hundred 
 Pound for cucr. 
 
 'I"o theTrenitie fortye li.' 
 To the Carpenters xxiiii li. 
 
 JOHANNES SEBASTIANUS CARPETERUS B. T. ORTU DEVoTeNSIS LIN- 
 GUARU ITALICS GALLICS HISPANIC^ IMO LATINS GR^C^ HEBRAICy^£ 
 NON IGNARUS QUI DECENNALI PEREGRINATIONE UOAAiTn ■ANei'iHinN 'lAKN 
 'A2TEA KAI NOON 'ErNfi TANDEM IN PATRIAM SUAM POST VARIOS CASUS 
 ET MULTA PERICULA RERUM SANUS DEO PROPITIO REUERSUS ET QUINQUE 
 FERE LUSTRA MINISTERIO VERBI DIVINI FUNCTUS HIC DEMUM IN PACE 
 QUIESCIT NATURE DEBITUM PERSOLVIT SATIS LONG^VUS. ^NNO S^} 
 AEl'ATIS CLIM^CTERICO MAGNO 1632. ABI VIATOR PLURA TECUM NON 
 LIBET." 
 
 From this curious infcription we learn that the deceafed — John 
 Sebaftian Carpenter, Bachelor of Theology — v/as a native of Devon- 
 {hire ; that he was well acquainted with the Italian, French, and 
 Spanilh tongues, and not ignorant of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew ; that 
 in the courfe of travel, to ufe the words of Homer, as applied to 
 UlyfTes,— 
 
 *' He faw the cities and the fafhions knew 
 Of many men."'"' 
 
 At length, returning to his native country, after encountering many 
 perils, he, for nearly twenty-five years, difcharged the minifterial duties 
 of the divine word, and peaceably paid the debt of nature in his 
 grand climacStcric year, a.d. 1632. 
 
 A.D. 1633. Peter Crooke. Steeple Ashton. A brafs plate 
 in the pavement towards the eaft end of the fouth aide bears the 
 accompanying merchant's mark (apparently a variety 
 J- -"I of the facred monogram, a crofs being fubftituted for 
 
 the letter S), together with an infcription to Peter 
 
 l^ 
 
 s 
 
 TyT Crooke, "who deceas'd y*" 8 of Aprill 1633," and 
 
 /\ " who gaue to this Church xx^ & to y*" poore of this 
 
 towne xl'' a ycare for euer." This latter charity has 
 
 continued to the prefent day. The fame plate alfo mentions two other 
 
 individuals of the fame family, who died at a fubfcqucnt date. 
 
 ' The Hofpital of the Holy Trinity, originally 
 founded about the middle of the 14th century, 
 
 by Agnes Bottenham. Sec Hatcher's " Salis- 
 bury," p. 90. 
 
 - Horn. Odyfl". I. line 3. 
 
 N 
 
90 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 A.D. 1641. George Evelyn. West Deane. This effigy, 
 153 inches in length, lies on the pavement of the chancel. It is a 
 
 remarkably late example of this kind 
 of brafs engraving, and furnifhes an 
 accurate illuftration of the youthful 
 coftume of the reign of Charles I. 
 The form of the brafs does not in this 
 inftance follow the outline of the 
 effigy, as was ufually the cafe. On 
 the lower portion of the fame plate 
 is the infcription, — 
 
 « GEORGIVS EVELYN ARMIGER FI- 
 LIVS NATV MAXIMVS JOHANNIS EVE- 
 LYN MILITIS OBIIT 6T0 DIE SEPTEM ; 
 ANNO DINI 1641. ^TATIS SV^ SEXTO." 
 
 " George Evelyn, efcjuire, eldeft fon of John 
 Evelyn, Knight, died the 6"' day of September, 
 A.D. 1 641, in the fixth year of his age." 
 
 The family of Evelyn were for 
 three generations connected with 
 Everley and Weft Deane. The 
 fubjecl of this brafs was the only fon 
 and heir of Sir John, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Coxe, 
 of London. He was baptized at Everley, May 19, 1636, and died in 
 1 641, leaving three fifters, Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne. Elizabeth 
 only furvived, and confequently became fole heirefs. She married 
 Robert, fon of the Hon. William Pierrepont, fecond fon of Robert, 
 firft Earl of Kingfton, who was buried at Weft Deane. 
 
 Of the houfe at Weft Deane, formerly the refidence of the Evelyn 
 family, but now deftroyed, there is a plate in the " Gentleman's 
 Magazine," vol. xcvi. p. 297 ; and alfo in Hoare's " Modern Wilts," 
 Alderbury Hund., p. 24. 
 
 Effigy of George Eielyii, Wefi Deane. 
 
91 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 MODERN HR ASSES. 
 
 URING the laft few years the art of brafs engraving for 
 monumental purpofes has been fuccefsfully revived ; and 
 many modern examples, fcarcely inferior as regards their 
 
 j execution to thofe of the Middle Ages, have been laid 
 
 down by the MelTrs. Waller; Hardman and Co., and others. In few 
 inftances, however, has the engraver ventured to introduce the effigy 
 of the departed,' which forms the principal feature in the generality 
 of ancient braffes. This is partly accounted for by the facSl, that the 
 ordinary civil apparel of the prefent day is by no means fuited to the 
 purpofe of monumental immortality, — lefs fo, perhaps, than that of 
 any preceding age. There are, however, numerous cafes to which 
 this remark does not apply, and where a robe of office, either ec- 
 clefiaftical or civil, may be moft appropriately introduced. In the 
 abfence of a whole, or half-length effigy, fome fimple emblem — a 
 chalice, for inftance, in the cafe of an ccclefiaftic — may be added to 
 the infcription, as in the brafs of William Langton, Re6tor of St. 
 Michael's, York, who died in 1463. 
 
 In fome inllances, the defign confifl-s of a floriated Crofs, with a 
 border-fillet bearing the infcription. The evangeliflic fymbols often 
 appear, either as angle-emblems, or at the extremities of the limbs of 
 the Crofs ; with the facred monogram, or the " Agnus Dei," at the 
 point of intcrfeilion. Of Crofs braffes, there are many ancient and 
 beautiful examples; two matrices of this clafs — the refpecfive memo- 
 rials of a bifliop and prielt — being figured in Chapter II. of the prefent 
 work. In the brafs of Nicholas Aumberdene, circa 1330, in Taplow 
 
 ' An exception to this rule is the brafs 1 formation veftments, is introduced beneath a 
 
 recently laid down in Weftminfter Abbey to rich canopy. The brafs was executed by 
 
 the memory of the late Bifliop of Gloucefter Meflrs. Hardman, and, as a fpecimen of 
 
 and Briftol, — Dr. Monk. In this inftance modern art, is particularly worthy of notice, 
 the effigy of the prelate, habited in ante-Re- 
 
9 2 Modern Brajfes. 
 
 Church, Bucks, the foot of the Crofs refts on a fifb — in allufion 
 to his worldly occupation.^ 
 
 Another defign fometimes adopted in modern brafles — viz. an 
 angel, or angels holding a fcroU — is, perhaps, lefs defirable, from its 
 being a purely imaginary reprefentation. 
 
 Of modern brafles within the county of Wilts, the four following 
 examples claim particular notice. 
 
 Salisbury Cathedral. A brafs to the memory of John Brit- 
 ton, the well-known antiquary, who was a native of Wiltfhire. It 
 is inlaid in a flab of black marble, b\ feet by 3 feet 4 inches, affixed 
 to the wefl: wall of the great north tranfept. Two angels are repre- 
 fented beneath a canopy, holding a fcroll bearing the following 
 infcription : — 
 
 " Hn mcmorn of 
 
 Ijistovian of il)is (Etiifite 
 
 anti ^lutfjor of tlje noble scries of toovlis 
 
 on ti^e Cat!)ctiral and itlc'DicTbal ?lniiqintics of CJnglanH, 
 
 5Ef)is Jtlcinotial is crccttU 
 
 [tB(tl) \\)t concurrence of \\)t Dean anti (H)apter] 
 
 Inj JHeml)crs of d)e Boijal Jlnsliiute of BiitisI) 'arcljitctts, 
 
 10 recorU tf)eir sense of t!)c eminent serbices 
 
 ftn 'sa\)it\) \)t retiibet) tl)c admiration of (iPnglisIjmcn 
 
 for tl^e bencrablc J'l'lonumcnts of tl)e taste anti pieti} 
 
 of tijeir Jporefatf^ers, 
 
 anU gaincti for tljese JUajestic Structures 
 
 tfje respect of JForcign TSTations. 
 
 Born Siulp 7, 1771, at "Kington At. j'tticljacl, aSlilts. 
 
 ©ietJ I Slanuarn, 1S57, in l-ontlon. 
 
 13uriel3 in XortoootJ Cemetery, ^urrcin" 
 
 In the head of the canopy is the facred monogram, and the evan- 
 geliftic fymbols are introduced as angle-emblems. A portion of the 
 border-fillet bears a verfe from the forty-eighth pfalm, — 
 
 "a2te f)abc tf)ougf)t of VL\)\} lotting =feintincss, © XortJ ffioU, in tl}e mtBst of Vi\)rt 
 dTcmplc.— ^salm xltiiij b. 9." 
 
 This example was executed by Meflrs. Hardman and Co. of 
 Birminsham. 
 
 ' In lome of the early inclfed (labs fimilar 
 emblems are introduced near the ftem of the 
 crofs ; a pair oi pcan, for inftance, denoting a 
 
 clothier ; a ghnje, a glover ; an inkkom and pen- 
 caje, a notary ; and fo on. 
 
Modern BraJJes. 93 
 
 A fccond, and fomewhat fimilar example, affixed to the eaft wall 
 of the cloiftcr, commemorates Louisa Mary, wife of the late Edward 
 Denison, D.D., Lord Bifhop of Salifbury ; who died in 1841. The 
 fcroll is infcribed thus : — 
 
 Houlsa JWarire SJcnison, 
 
 " Ijcnritf l\er ^cijmcr. He Danforti, in agro IBoi'Sclicnsi ^rmig', .-ifilicT nam 
 scc'.inti.T; CFatoarlii, I)ujuscc tDiotcc^cos CJpistopi, conjugis tiiltctissimrr. (IDbiit .X.X'"° 
 EI^° ^cptcmliris liic, 'anno S>acro 1841, bi.xit annog 29. 
 
 " 33cati muntio coitic quoniam ipsi iBcum tiiticbiuu. J^Tatt. b. 8." 
 
 Devizes, St. John. A Purbeck flab, 8 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, 
 lying on the pavement of the Beauchamp Chapel. It was engraved by 
 the MefTrs. Waller, and commemorates Mary, wife of the Rev. Wil- 
 liam Maskell, of Broadleaze, who died in 1847. "^^^ ^^^ "^ inlaid 
 with a crofs-fleury, having five fteps at the bafe, and the facred 
 monogram on a medallion at the interfedlion of its limbs. At the 
 foot is the following infcription : — 
 
 " K^ l^cre lictl^ J^tanj Jtlaslull tDf)0 tieccasctJ illaij XXE in t'^e ijcar of our 
 l-otU JtlDCECeXlClTEE." 
 
 The border-fillet bears a portion of St. John, xi. 25, 26 : — 
 
 " Kf< E am tfie IXcsuvtcction anti \\)t Txit, saitf) \\)z lorti ; \)z tijat t)cltcl)ctf) in 
 jl;lc, tf)0ugl; 1)£ tDcrc Bfati, ijcl sf)all \)z liljc ; antj tol^osocbcr liUctl; anti bcUcUcii) in 
 Jllc sljall ncbcr Bic. ^mcn." 
 
 At the angles are the evangeliftic fymbols. 
 
 Calne. a brafs in memory of Markham Heale, Efq., who 
 died in 1845. It is of fmaller dimenfions than the laft example, but 
 alfo bears a crofs, with the " Agnus Dei " at the interfc6fion, and 
 the evangeliftic fymbols, enclofed in quatrefoils, at the extremities 
 of its limbs. At the bafe are three iteps, and the border-fillet is 
 infcribed as follows : — 
 
 " >X< Ijic rcquiescit /Slarfefjam locale qui obiit Uic XXE iJprilis 'anno Domini 
 i«i3CCCXi:F malis sue XE. 
 
 " Dclicta jubcntutis mcT ct ignoiantias nuas nc mcmiucvis Domint.'' 
 
94 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 BRASSES OF BISHOPS WALTHAM AND HALLUM. 
 
 HE two examples here included, although not ftri£tly 
 within the limits of the county, feem, from their con- 
 nexion with it, to demand a notice in the prefent 
 work. 
 
 A.D. 1395. John de Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury. 
 Westminster Abbey. [Plate XXXI.') The mutilated remains of 
 this once beautiful memorial lie on the pavement at the north-weft 
 angle of St. Edward the Confeflbr's Chapel, ^ well known as the 
 ancient burial-place of the kings of England. The flab is about 
 8^ feet by 4. The effigy of the prelate, habited in full pontificals, 
 ftands in the centre, above which was a triple canopy, fupported by 
 tabernacle work, compofed of a tier of four niches on either fide,- 
 the whole furmounted by a fquare embattled head-canopy.^ His right 
 hand is raifed in the a£l of benediction, and his left fupports the 
 paftoral-ftaff, to which, in this inftance, is attached a vexillum^ or 
 banner of the crofs.^ The central apparel of the chefuble confifts 
 
 ' This brafs is noticed by Weever (Fun. 
 Mon. p. 4S2) and Cough (Sep. Mon. I. part 
 2, p. 154) ; alfo in Dart's " Weftminfter Ab- 
 bey " (II. 48) where a plate is given. 
 
 ■■' The whole of the figures within thefe 
 niches have difappeared. Gough defcribes 
 three of thofe on the north fide as St. John 
 the Evangelift, St. John of Beverly, and St. 
 John, Almoner. The fourth was perhaps St. 
 John, Baptift. One on the fouth fide, de- 
 faced, "feeming by the fzvord St. Peter," is, 
 [ he fays, all that remained in his time. The 
 I fword, however, is not the emblem of St. 
 
 Peter, and the effigy was much more probably 
 that of St. Paul. 
 
 ^ The proper pofition of the fragments fhown 
 in the plate will be better underflood by refer- 
 ring to Plate XXXII. A is the central finial 
 of the canopy over the bifhop's head, and B 
 the termination of the head canopy on the 
 finifter fide. 
 
 ■• Other inftances of the vexillum are Plate 
 XXXII. in the prefent feries ; the brafs of 
 Abbot Eftney (1498), in Weftminfter Abbey; 
 and that of Biftiop Goodrich (1553), in Ely 
 Cathedral. 
 
Brajfes of Bijhofs Walt ham and Hallum. 
 
 95 
 
 of fix quatrefoils, cnclofing alternately a crofs and a figure of the 
 Virgin and child, — the latter being the arms of the fee of Salifbury. 
 The epifcopal ring appears on the fecond finger of the right hand, 
 whilft the maniple, and a portion of the dalmatic, with its fringed 
 edges, are feen beneath the chefuble. 
 
 The lower portion of the figure, together with much of the canopy, 
 and the border-fillet, which bore the infcription,^ has been torn from 
 the flab. 
 
 Bifhop Waltham derived his name from the place of his birth — 
 Wakham, near Grimfby, in Lincolnfhire, He rofc high in favour 
 with Richard II., during whofe reign he was Mafter of the Rolls, 
 and Keeper of the Privy Seal. On the 20th September, 1388, he 
 was confecratcd Bifliop of Salifbury with extraordinary ceremony, the 
 King himfelf being prcfent on the occafion, together with many illus- 
 trious perfonages, and a vaft concourfe of people. On May 20th, 
 1391, he was appointed Lord High Treafurer of England. His death 
 took place in September, 1395 ;- and by his will he bequeaths his body 
 to be buried in his church of Sarum, in fuch place as the fupervifors 
 and executors thereof, and the Dean and Chapter, fliould appoint. 
 The King, however, by whom he was much lamented, gave orders 
 for his interment in Wcfliminfter Abbey, and his remains were accord- 
 ingly depofited near the tomb of Edward I., — but not, as we learn 
 from Walfingham, without giving great offence to many.^ 
 
 Bifhop Waltham appears to have founded a chantry at the altar 
 of St. Andrew,* within his cathedral, for the maintenance of which 
 he gave to the Dean and Chapter certain lands in the city of New 
 Sarum, producing (2 Edw. VI.) an annual rental of 5/. 13^, 4^/.^ 
 
 His will was made at Sunning, in Berks, which was then within 
 the diocefe of Sarum. It bears date the 2d, and was proved on the 
 
 ' Bi(}iop Godwin notices a portion of the 
 infcription which remained in his time, but 
 does not fcem to have tranfcribed it. 
 
 - Shortly before this he obtained a gr.int of 
 fairs for Southbroom near Dtvizcs, Salifbury, 
 Ramlbury, Marlborough, and Rockingham, co. 
 Berks. Alfoa grant of free manor for his pos- 
 felTions at Lavington, Potterne, and Woodford. 
 
 ^ "Hoc anno [i.e. 1395] obiit Jo. de 
 Waltham Epifcopus Sarum & regni Thefaura- 
 rius, qui tantum regi complacuerat, ut etiam 
 [multh lied murmuravtibus) rcge jubentc apud 
 
 Weftmonafterium inter reges meruit fepultura." 
 ypod. Ncuftr. 149. 
 
 * See "Wilts Inftitutions," a.d. 1531. 
 In Dodfworth's "Salifbury Cathedral" p. 168, 
 the altar of the Holy Relics is faid to have 
 been founded by Biftiop Waltham. 
 
 '' Certificate of Wilts Chantries, No. 5S, 
 Pub. Rec. Office. John Uppington, B.A. aged 
 fifty-fix, "a man of right honeft converfatyon 
 and reporte," was the incumbent at the fupprcs- 
 fion ; the plate weighed 9 ounces, and the 
 goods and ornaments were valued at 131. zd. 
 
96 
 
 Brajfis of Bijhops Waltham and Hallum. 
 
 26th of September, 1395.^ The following abfl:ra6l contains the more 
 remarkable items : — 
 
 To his Cathedral of Sarum he bequeaths his beft and precious veftment that prayers migtit be 
 offered therein for his own foul, as well as for the good eftate of Sir William le Scrope= during 
 his life, and for the repofe of his foul after his deceafe ; with whofe bounty the faid veftment was 
 in great part provided. To the fame Church, his veftment of cloth of gold and blue, with its 
 apparel, together with his two white veftments, his beft pair of candlefticks for the Chapel, his 
 beft pair of cenfers, and his beft miffal, that prayers might be offered in behalf of his own foul. 
 To the King, all his unfet ftones of Beryl and Cryftal, all his un worked Pearls, his beft mule, 
 and his beft gold ring; alfo a thoufand marks to difpofe of according to his difcretion, for the 
 benefit of his foul, as well as that of the teftator. His manors of Steventon, Berks, and Weftbury, 
 Wilts, together with the advowfon of the Church of Steventon, [referving an endowment for the 
 Vicar of Steventon] he defires to be given up to the King, on the execution of his will, (if?) he 
 [the King] thinks fit to execute it in this particular — on condition that they be immediately 
 granted to the Prior and Convent of Sandelford,^ to the finding often additional Canons regular, 
 who, together with the number before appointed, ftiould celebrate Divine Service to the honour 
 and praife of God, of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, of SS. John the Baptift, and Evangelift, and all 
 the faints of God, for the good eftate of the King during life, as well as for the repofe of his foul 
 after his departure, for the foul of the teftator, and the fouls of all their parents, friends, and 
 benefadlors, for ever. To the Archbifhops of Canterbury and York, feverally, new and coftly cloths 
 of gold, of one fort, that each may make from thence one veftment, and afterwards leave it to 
 his proper Church, that prayers may be faid for himfelf, and for the foul of the teftator, for ever ; 
 alfo to each of them a ring fet with a fapphire. To the former he alfo bequeaths all his orfrays, 
 parures {ornaments), and pieces fet with pearls, but not worked into veftments. To the Church 
 of St. Mary of Lincoln, his veftment of green cloth of Damafk, that prayers might be offered 
 therein for his foul. To every brother of the four orders of Mendicant Friars in the City of Lon- 
 don, in the two Univerfities, in the town of Grimfljy, and in the Houfes of thofe orders within 
 his own Diocefe, 6/S, to pray efpecially for his foul. Alfo 500 marks to be diftributed among 
 the poor men of his Diocefe to pray for his own, as well as for the fouls of Sir John Bacon, Sir 
 Nicholas Efpaigne, and all the faithful departed. To the Church of Waltham, his red veftment, 
 orfraied with white cloth of gold ; and 20 marks to be diftributed among the poor men of that 
 town. To the fabric of his Cathedral, ico marks; to every Canon refidentiary, 40/; to every 
 Vicar, 26/8 ; to every Chorifter, i 3/4 ; alfo 10 marks to be diftributed among the reft of the 
 minifters of the fame Church. To every Chaplain of his Chapel, 5 marks ; to every other Clerk 
 exceeding the age of 50 years, 40/; and to every Chorifter, 20/. To the Abbots and Convents of 
 Weftminfter, Thornton, Welhow, Park Lude,'' and Selby, 100 fliillings each. To the Priorefs of 
 
 ' A copy of this document will be found in 
 Lanfdowne MS. 207 E, fol. 60C-610. 
 
 ^ K.G. Earl of Wiltfliire, and afterwards 
 Lord High Treafurer of England. 
 
 * In Berk (hi re 5 a Priory for Canons of the 
 order of St. Auguftine, dedicated to St. John 
 Baptift. The grant of the Manor of Weftbury 
 to this Priory, by Bp. Waltham, feems to fur- 
 nifti a link in its hiftory unnoticed by Sir R. C. 
 Hoare. " The Priory Manor," he fays, " was 
 a cell to the Priory of Steventon, which Litter 
 was a cell to the Abbey of Bee, in Normandy. 
 The donation was made by Henry \. j but upon 
 
 the feizure of foreign religious houfes during 
 the wars with France, the Manor of Weftbury, 
 with that of Steventon, and the advowfon of 
 the vicarage, was loft by the Abbey of Bee, and 
 beftowed by Richard IL on the Abbot and 
 Convent of Weftminfter." Wijibury Hund. p. 
 25. It is, therefore, poflible, that the Crown 
 did not fandlion the transfer to Sandelford. 
 Tanner, in his account of the Priory, makes 
 no mention of thefe Manors as having belonged 
 to it. 
 
 "^ Thorneton, Welhove, and Parco-Luda, or 
 Louth-Park, in co. Lincoln. 
 
Brajfes of Bijliofs Waltham and Hallum. 97 
 
 Stikefwold, 50 marks; and to her Convent, together with thofc of Nonne cotum, and Grimfby,' 
 each 100 ihillings. To the poor brothers and fifters of the Hofpital of Shirburne, in the Diocefe 
 of Durham, loo rtiillings. To the Abbot and Convent of Lefnes jf 40, which fum remained in his 
 cuftody, of the alms of the King, for that ufe. To the Redlors of St. Bride's, St. Andrew's, Hol- 
 born, and St. Dunftan's in the Weft, London, 40/ each. To Joan Langdalc, nun of Wilton, 20 
 marks. To his nephew, John Waltham, the manor and liberty together with his lands, tenements, 
 and rents, in Waltham, after the death of Joan, his fifter j and alfo his manors of Borftal in Kent, 
 and Plefeley in Derbyfliire. To Joan, his fifter, 50 marks, a jug of filver-gilt, all his beds, utenfils, 
 and moveables at Waltham, and a furred robe. To Cecilia, his fifter, 20 pounds, a bafin and 
 water-jug of filver, and a furred robe ; and to John Moigne, her huftjand, a jug of filver-gilt, and 
 a horfe of the value of 20 marks. To William Candeleftjy, 20 marks, and to his mother and 
 daughters, 40 pounds. To a certain poor woman, his own aunt, called Katherine, 20 marks. 
 To the poor of his relationfliip, ico marks. To Richard Meriell and thirteen others, and to the 
 efquires of his houfehold, 10 marks each. To three efquires in perfonal attendance, a horfe of 
 the value of 10 pounds each. To his Chamberlain, £,io ; to his Wardrober, 10 marks ; to every 
 valet (yaUBo) of his houfehold, 5 marks; to every boy (ygardoni) of his chamber, 40/; to every 
 other boy, 26/8 ; and to every page {pagctto), 1 3/4. To John Candelefby, William Diones, and 
 Henry Harburg, £zo each. To John Sapurton, £\o; and to Elene his wife, £zo, and an 
 entire robe. He alfo defires a thoufand Plalters, and a thoufand Placebo and Dirige, to be faid 
 for him by the poor as quickly as poflible. Alfo 100 fit veftments of cloth of filk to be provided, 
 and one of them, together with 40/, given to every Parifli Church which during his life he may 
 have occupied : and the remaining veftments to be beftowed on poor churches. Alfo, that if the 
 bones of the body of his father can be faithfully found, they may be taken and re-placed near to the 
 bones of his mother, and a marble flab laid down in memory of them both ;^ otherwife, the flab 
 to be laid down to his mother only, infcribed according to the difcretion of his executors. Laftly, 
 he defires that an Obit, or Anniverfary, is eftabliftied in his Cathedral, and celebrated therein, an- 
 nually for ever. The remainder of his goods, his debts being duly difcharged, to be difpofed of in 
 the celebration of mafles, alms, gifts, and other works of piety. Moreover, he appoints Sir Wil- 
 liam le Scrope, Kn'., Sir Roger Walden, Maftcr Ralph Selby, Mafter William Waltham, Mafter 
 Richard Holme, Sir George Lenthorpe,-' Sir Thomas Harny, Mafter Richard Pittes, Canons of 
 his Church ; William Holym, William Dyones, Chaplains; and John Gowayn of his houfehold, 
 his executors ; and the Archbifliops of Canterbury and York, the overfeers of his will." 
 
 A.D. 1416. Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury. Con- 
 stance Cathedral. [Plate XXXII.) This moft interefting brafs 
 lies at the foot of the fteps leading to the high altar, and is very fimilar 
 to what the memorial of Bifhop Waltham muft have been when 
 perfect. The effigy of the prelate flands beneath a foliated trefoil 
 arch, with crockets and finial, a quatrefoil in the head of which 
 enclofes the initials " robs/' probably intended to denote his Chriftian 
 name — Robertas — in a contracted form. Above this inner canopy 
 arc two fhields, — one bearing the arms of France and England, 
 quarterly, within a garter; the other (which is loft) probably bore 
 
 ' StixwoIdjNun Cotton, and Grimeftjy, alfo 
 in Lincolnftiire, 
 
 • On removing a pew in the Parilh Church 
 of Waltham (Aug. 1849), a brafs plate was 
 found bearing the following infcription : — " Hie 
 
 jacent Jobes et Margarcta ux" ei quondam pater et 
 mater Joli'is TValtKm nup" Sar' Ep'i quor^ a'tah"^ 
 p'pic'iet^ deui ame^" See " Journal of the 
 Archaeological Inftitutc," No. XXVIII. 
 •* Treafurer of Sarum, in 1404. 
 O 
 
98 
 
 BraJJes of BiJJiops Waltham and Hallum. 
 
 the arms of the bifhop, impaled with thofe of his fee, and was encircled 
 
 with a label infcribed, " iiflistricorliias Bomini in ctprnum cantabo." 
 
 The four niches on either fide of the canopy contain figures of 
 cherubim. The chefuble, or upper veftment of the prelate, is without 
 ornament. On the amice are two letters, apparently ab or ar.^ 
 
 A narrow border-fillet bears the infcription, which is in Latin 
 hexameter verfe ; the fymbols of the four evangelifts in quatrefoils 
 being introduced as angle-emblems: — 
 
 " yU ^ubjacct I;ic stratus 
 ^^uonBam platus 
 T$\t tiEcrctor' 
 Xobilis "anglor' 
 jFtstu €utl)bcrti 
 En quo Bobti 
 'anno millcno 
 S^ci tu tcr Dcno 
 
 ^rlobtrt' "l^allum bocttatus 
 ^ar' sub f)onorc crcattis 
 tioctor pacisq' creator 
 9S.eciis fuit ambasctator 
 ^cptcmbris [>ncns]c^ bigcbat 
 mortem Gonstantia flcbat 
 triccnt' octuagcno 
 tu Xpo bibat amcno." 
 
 Of the birthplace of Bifhop Hallum there is no fatisfa£tory evidence. 
 He was educated at Oxford, and filled the prebendal ftall of Bitton, 
 in Salifbury Cathedral, from 1394 until 1406. He was alfo Arch- 
 deacon of Canterbury, and in 1403 was nominated Chancellor of 
 the Univerfity. He was firil: defignated for the fee of York by a 
 papal bull ; but foon afterwards appointed Bifhop of Salifbury, and 
 received the temporalities Auguft 13, 1407. He is faid to have been 
 made a Cardinal in 141 1. 
 
 In 1414, he was, together with Nicholas, Bifhop of Bath and 
 Wells ; Richard, Earl of Warwick ; the Abbot of Weflminfler, and 
 others, appointed by Henry V. to attend the Council of Conflance. 
 The patent, bearing date 20th October in that year, whereby they 
 were conflituted by the King as his " ambaffiatores, oratores, veros 
 et indubitatos procuratores, et nuncios fpeciales,"^ is printed in Rymer, 
 ix. 167. Whilfl attending the Council, he died fuddenly in the fortrefs 
 of Gotlieben, which belonged to the fee of Conflance ;^ and was interred 
 with great flate in the cathedral church, accompanied by all the 
 dignitaries there afTembled. 
 
 ' Intended perhaps for 'afae, or ^. fi. 
 '^ The tranflation of St. Cuthbert is Sept. 4, 
 ' It is doubtlefs in confequence of this autho- 
 rity, fpecially delegated to Bilhop Hallum, by the 
 king, that the Royal arms appear on his brafs. 
 
 ■• His brother, Richard Hallum, Efq., died 
 two years earlier, on the 22d of November, 
 1414, and was buried in the Church of the 
 Grey Friars, London. See " Coll. Top. et 
 Gen.," V. 394. 
 
Brajfes of Ri/hops Waltham and Hallum. 59 
 
 A volume, written in German, by Ulrich von Reichenthal, and 
 printed in 1483, under the title of " Confilium von Coftnitz," contains 
 the following notice of the event : — 
 
 (Tranflation.) " On the fourth day of the firft Harveft month [September], happened a 
 Tuefday during which VIII hours after midday, towards the night, there died the highly worthy 
 Prince Bi/hop,' Robert of Salilbury, from England, in the fortrefs Gotlieben ; and on the morrow 
 about vefper time there they condiiifted him to Conftance, and they bore him with two golden 
 cloths into the Minfter, and thither went all Cardinals, Patriarchs, Archbirtiops, Bilhops, — our 
 Lord the King — all fpiritual and temporal Princes, prelates, and priefts, and with them a great 
 crowd, by [the light of] LXXX of the largeft-fized burning tapers, — which poor old men bore, 
 
 and they fung him a Vigil, and he was buried in the choir with the other Bi/hops : — and they 
 
 had for him there no offering." 
 
 Maflingberd, in his " Englifli Reformation," pp. 197, 8, gives 
 the following account of the condu6l of this prelate in the Council 
 of Confliance : — 
 
 " When Jerome of Prague was brought up for his firft examination, and had given offence by 
 one of his anfwers, fo that feveral of the dodlors called out, 'To the fire with him !' the accufed 
 anfwered with fome emotion, ' If my death is what you wilh, God's will be done.' Hallum took 
 up his words, ' No, Jerome,' he faid, ' it is not God's will that any finner fhould die, but that he 
 fhould be converted and live.' It would feem by this fpeech, that he doubted of the propriety 
 of convincing a man by fire and faggot, or, at leaft, that he had more mercy in his foul than the 
 majority of them. He diftinguifhed himfelf by the boldnefs and refolution with which he en- 
 forced the Council to profecute the Pope (John XXIII.) faying to a prelate that defended him, that 
 he knew, if he would fpeak the truth, that the man defcrved a hundred deaths. And he brought 
 with him to Pifa and Conftance a good plan for reformation, drawn up by his friend Richard 
 Ullerfton, an Oxford man, an opponent of the Lollards, but very defirous to recover the church 
 from its abufes in difcipline." 
 
 It is afferted, traditionally, that the brafs of Bifhop Hallum was 
 engraved in England, and fent from hence to cover his remains. 
 In the chara6ler of its defign and execution it certainly refembles 
 the numerous brafles of the period now extant in England, but is 
 wholly unlike any fuch memorial hitherto noticed on the Continent. - 
 
 ' Being a Cardinal he was probably claffed at 
 
 the Council with the other ecclefiaftical princes. 
 
 - For fome portion of this account the writer 
 
 is indebted to a paper by R. Pearfall, Efq., of 
 Carlfruhc, Germany, printed in the " Archaeo- 
 logia," Vol. XXX. p. 43c. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Slab of William de St. John. (P. lo.) 
 
 npHE family of St. John were defcended from William de St. John, an officer who accom- 
 panied William of Normandy in his invafion of England. The iurname is derived from 
 the territory of St. Jean, near Rouen, 
 
 Slab of Sir Roger de Stoke, at Great Bedwyn. 
 
 A notice of this memorial was accidentally omitted in Chapter II. It lies beneath a recefTed 
 arch in the fouth wall of the fouth tranfept of Great Bedwyn Church. The centre of the flab 
 (like that of St. John, at Ramfbury) appears to have been inlaid with a crofs. The infcription 
 incifed on the margin, and now much defaced, is thus preferved by Stukeley : — 
 
 " Roger • de ■ Stocre • chev • ici • gvcht • 
 
 DEU • DE • SA • ALME * EVT * MERCI ' " 
 
 The family of Stoke, as mentioned by Leland, were lords of Stpke Hall (now Stock Farm), 
 in the parifli of Great Bedwyn, which was conveyed in 143 1 by Thomas Stokke to Sir Walter 
 Hungerford. 
 
 Sir Roger' died in 1333, feifed of the manor of Wolfhall, and of lands in Savernake 
 Foreft. 
 
 Trial by Battle. (P. 15.) 
 
 The proceedings adopted in the cafe of Bifliop Wyvil againft the Earl of Salifbury neceflarily 
 lead to a few additional remarks in illuftration of this ancient mode of determining, not only 
 cafes of Military and Civil Right, but alfo Appeals of Felony and Murder. 
 
 At an early period, the cuftom of fettling difputes by fingle combat conftituted an important 
 part of the common law of thofe realms in which it prevailed. It was introduced into Italy by 
 the Lombards towards the clofe of the fifth century, and became in courfe of time an eftablifhed 
 law in Germany, Denmark, Gaul, and other countries. In England, its origin may, perhaps, 
 
 ' A recumbent effigy, in ftone, fuppofed to I Sir Roger, alfo lies in the fouth tranfept of 
 be that of Sir Adam de Stoke, the father of | Bedwyn Church. 
 
I02 Monumental Braffes of Wilts. 
 
 be traced to William of Normandy,' from whofe reign until that of Henry II. (when the 
 alternative of the grand afTize, or trial by jury, was introduced) it was the only legal mode 
 of decifion in writs of right. 
 
 The laft trial by battle, waged in the Court of Common Pleas at Weftminfter, took place as 
 late as 1571 ; others alfo occurred in the Court of Chivalry in 1631, and in the County Palatine 
 of Durham in 1638. 
 
 The following account of the form and circumftances attending a wager of this kind is given 
 on the authority of Mr. Juftice Blackftone, and will explain more fully the notes at page 16, 
 taken by the chief fcribe of the Court of Common Pleas, who was an eye-witnefs of the 
 proceedings in the cafe of Bifliop Wyvil : — 
 
 When the defendant in a writ of right pleads the general ifTue — viz. that he hath more 
 right to hold than the demandant hath to recover, and offers to prove it by the body of his 
 champion, which tender is accepted by the demandant, the defendant, in the firft place, muft 
 produce his champion, who, by throwing down his glove as a gage or pledge, thus wages, 
 or ftipulates battle, with the champion of the demandant, who by taking up the glove accepts 
 the challenge. 
 
 The preliminaries having been thus adjufted, a piece of ground is fet out, fixty feet fquare, 
 endofed with lifts, and a court eredled on one fide for the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, 
 who attend in their fcarlet robes. A bar is alfo prepared for the fergeants-at-law. 
 
 When the Court fits, which ought to be before funrifing, proclamation is made for the 
 parties and their champions. The latter are introduced by two knights, and are drefled in 
 a coat of armour, with red fandals, bare-legged from the knee downwards, bare-headed, and 
 with bare arms to the elbows. The weapons allowed them are batons, or ftaves, of an ell 
 long, and a leather target. 
 
 When the champions, thus armed, arrive within the lifts, or place of combat, the champion 
 of the defendant then takes his adverfary by the hand, and makes oath that the property in 
 difpute is not the right of the demandant; and the champion of the demandant, taking the 
 other by the hand, fwears in the fame manner that it is. An oath againft forcery and enchant- 
 ment is then taken by both champions in the following, or a fimilar form : — 
 
 " Hear this, ye juftices, that I have neither eaten, drunk, nor have I upon me either 
 bone, ftone, or grafs ; no enchantment, forcery, or witchcraft, whereby the law of God may 
 be abafed, or the law of the devil exalted. So help me God and His faints!" 
 
 The battle is then begun, and the combatants are bound to fight till the ftars appear in 
 the evening ; and if the champion of the defendant can defend himfelf till the ftars appear, 
 the defendant fhall prevail in his caufe, — it being fufficient for him to maintain his ground 
 and make it a drawn battle, as he is already in pofTeflion ; but if vidlory declares itfelf for either 
 party, for him is judgment finally given. This viftory may arife from the death of either 
 of the champions (which was rarely the cafe) ; or if either yield, and pronounce the word 
 " Craven;" for which he is to be condemned as a recreant, " Amittere liberam legem," — 
 that is, to become infamous, and not to be confidered " liber et legalis homo," being fuppofed by 
 the event to be forefworn, and, therefore, in future, not eligible as a juryman, or in a condition 
 to be admitted as a witnefs in any caufe. 4 
 
 In an appeal of felony, the form and manner of waging battle are nearly the fame as upon a 
 writ of right. There is, however, one difference, — viz, that in a writ of right each party 
 might hire a champion, but in appeals of felony they were bound to fight in their proper 
 
 ' The day before the battle of Haftings, 
 William fent an offer to King Harold to decide 
 their quarrel by fingle combat; but Harold 
 refufed, faying, he would leave it to the God 
 
 of armies to determine. On the following day, 
 Odt. 14, 1066, vicSlory declared in favour of 
 William. 
 
Appendix. 
 
 103 
 
 perfons. If the appellee in the latter cafe were fo far vanquifhed that he could not, or would 
 not fight any longer, he was adjudged to be immediately hanged. But if, on the contrary, the 
 appellee killed the appellant, or maintained his ground until funfet, he was acquitted. 
 
 The annexed woodcut reprefents a judicial combat in an appeal of robbery, which happened 
 temp. Henry III., between Walter Bloweberme and Hamon le Stare. It is copied from an 
 ancient drawing in the Public Record Office, and, although engraved before, has been confidered 
 
 
 <are. 
 
 of fufficient intereft to juftify its reprodudion in the prefent work, as fliowing the fimilarity 
 between the weapons here ufed, and thofe of the champion of Bifiiop Wyvil, reprcfcnted in 
 Plate I. A thin Aircoat is worn in this inftance by each party; and Hamon le Stare, the 
 vanquiflied combatant, appears in the background fufpended from a gallows. 
 
 The fecond woodcut alfo reprefents a champion, in a furcoat, holding his fliield and baton. 
 It is a facfimile of the feal of Henry de Fernbureg, champion of the Abbot of Glaftonbury, 
 
 affixed to a deed, bearing date a.d. 1258, by which 
 the faid Henry binds himfelf to wage battle and to 
 fight, if neceHary, for the right which the Abbot 
 and his church of Glaftonbury had in the manors 
 of Pucelefchurch, Kranmere, Blakeford, and Wynes- 
 Ik^j yi^lx liM S \^\ cumbe, and in the advowfons of Efleburie, Bocland, 
 
 Kineton, and Criftemeford, againft the champion of 
 
 the Bifhop of Bath and Wells, or of the Dean and 
 
 Chapter of Wells, for thirty marks fterling; of which 
 
 fum ten marks was to be paid on the wager of battle, 
 
 on his tonfion five marks, and the remaining fifteen 
 
 marks to be delivered on the day of his arming to 
 
 fume good man in equal hand, to be given to the 
 
 champion if one blow of the battle only were ftruck; 
 
 and if no blow were ftruck, to be reftored again to the Abbot, or his attorney. This document 
 
 is dated at London, on the z8th of April, in the forty-fecond year of the reign of King 
 
 Henry [III]. 
 
 In the Regifter of Thomas Cantclupc, Biftiop of Hereford [fol. 82 />], is alfo a fomcwhat 
 fimilar deed, bearing date at Weftminfter, a.d. 1276, by which this prelate binds himfelf to 
 pay annually, on the feaft of St. Michael, the fum of 6/S fterling, to Thomas de Bruges, 
 his champion, while the faid Thomas is able to exercifc that office, either againft the Lord 
 
I04 
 
 Monumental Brajfes of Wilts. 
 
 Gilbert, Earl of Gloucefter and Hertford, or any other perfon, whenfoever required ; the Bifhop 
 agreeing at the fame time fully to fatisfy him, as well for ftipend as for his fuftentation, and 
 all other neceffaries. 
 
 The fervice for the benedidtion of the ihield and baton of a perfon about to engage in 
 a judicial combat' will be found in the Manuale (or Book of Offices) fecundum ujum Sarum, a 
 copy of one of the early editions of which is preferved in the library of St. Mary's Vicarage, 
 Marlborough.* 
 
 John Stokys. (P. 38.) 
 
 A John Stokes, of Seend (probably the fon of this individual), married Margery, daughter 
 of John Nicholas, of Roundway, who died in 1502. (See Pedigree of Nicholas, in the Herald's 
 Vifitations.) 
 
 Weare a/ias Browne. (P. 59.) 
 
 The word " alias," as here applied to the furname of a family, would feem, at firft fight 
 (judging from its modern ufe), to denote illegitimacy ; but, in many inftances, the fecond name 
 was added from a totally different caufe. 
 
 In fome cafes, we find an official title appended, with an alias to the name, as in the Heralds' 
 Vifitation of Wilts (Harl. MS. 1443), where Camden, the well-known antiquary, is ftyled 
 " William Camden, Efquire, alias Clarenceux King of Armes." 
 
 The fame manufcript contains pedigrees of the Wiltihire families of Pytt alias Bennet, 
 Weare alias Browne, Richmond alias Webb, and others. 
 
 Camden, in his " Britannia," notices the celebrated Judge Littleton as " Thomas Littleton 
 alias Weftcote," which is thus explained by Lord Coke, in the proem to his firft Inftitute. 
 He fays, "Our author, of an ancient and a fair defcended family, de Littleton, took his name 
 of a town fo called, as that famous Chief Juftice Sir John de Markham, and divers of our 
 profeffion, and others, have done. 
 
 " Thomas de Littleton, Lord of Frankley, had iffue Elizabeth, his only child, and did bear 
 
 the arms of his anceftors, — viz. Argent, a chevron between three efcallop fliells fable 
 
 With this Elizabeth married Thomas Weftcote, Efquire, the king's fervant in court, a gentleman 
 anciently defcended, who bare Argent, a bend between two cotifes fable ; a bordure engrayled 
 gules bezanty. 
 
 " But (he being fair, and of a noble fpirit, and having large pofTeffioiis and inheritance from 
 her anceftors, de Littleton, and from her mother, the daughter and heir of Richard de Quater- 
 mains, and other her anceftors (ready means in time to work her own defire), refolved to 
 continue the honour of her name (as did the daughter and heir of Charlton with Weft, the 
 fons of Knightley, and divers others), and therefore prudently, whilft it was in her own power, 
 provided, by Weftcote's afTent, before marriage, that her iffue inheritable fliould be called 
 by the name of ' de Littleton.' 
 
 " Thefe two had iffue four fons, Thomas, Nicholas, Edmund, and Guy ; and four daughters. 
 
 ' " Benedidlio fcuti et baculi ad duellum 
 faciendum." 
 
 ^ " Manuale ad ufum infignis ecclefie Sar'. 
 Parifiis nuper impreffum impenfis honefti viri 
 
 Anthonii Verard mercatoris librarij in eadem 
 urbe juxta ecdefiam beate Marie moram tra- 
 hentis." 4to. no date. 
 
Appendix. 105 
 
 " Thomas, the eldeft, was our author, who bare his father's Chriflian name Thomas, and 
 his mother's furname de Littleton, and the arms de Littleton alfo ; and fo doth his pofterity bear 
 both name and arms to this day." 
 
 The addition of a fecond furnamc with an alias, in confequcnce of a marriage with an 
 heirefs, is further proved by the pedigree of Richmond alias Webb, of Draycot Foliat, given 
 at fol. 58 of the Herald's Vifitation of Wiltshire, above referred to. In this inftance, William 
 Richmond, of Draycot, married Alice, daughter and heirefs of Thomas Webb, of the fame 
 place, and the furname of " Richmond alias Webb " was in confequence borne by their defcendants 
 for four fucccflive generations. 
 
 There can be but liltle doubt that the family of Weare, alias Browne, obtained their 
 additional furname in a precifely fimilar manner, although the adlual marriage with the heirefs 
 of Browne, by which it was acquired, is not included in their pedigree, as recorded in the 
 Herald's Vifitations. 
 
 Bishop Geste. (P. 59.) 
 
 The following is a copy of an original document preferved in the Regiftry at Salifbury, 
 containing the order of Bifliop Gefte for the demolition of the Farilh Church of Draycot Foliat, 
 in this county. The fabric had, it appears, fallen into a very dilapidated condition, and as funds 
 for repairing it were not to be obtained, it was confidered prudent that the church fhould be 
 entirely demoliflied, and the parifli annexed to that of Chifledon. This arrangement was, in 
 accordance with the Bifhop's order, duly confirmed by the patrons of the refpedlive livings, and 
 by the then Vicar of Chifiedon. 
 
 " To all the Sons of Holy Mother Church to whom thefe prefents fliall come, Edmund, by 
 Divine Providence, Bifliop of Sarum, health, grace, and benediction. 
 
 " Whereas the Redtory and Parifli Church of Draycott Foliat, in the county of Wilts, in 
 our Diocefe of Sarum, hath been, and now is, fo fmall and impoveriflied in its Tithes, Rights, 
 Profits, and appurtenances, fo that it is in no wife adequate for the fuitable and fufficient 
 maintenance and fupport of the Redlor who fliall minifter to God and the people there 5 and in 
 fuch condition of Poverty and fcantinefs hath remained for fome time part, and by thofe means 
 it hath come to pafs that not only the chancel of the fame Church there, and the Parlonage 
 Houfe, are, in a manner thrown down, and in ruins, but alfo the faid Church has long fince 
 been bereft and deprived of the performance of Divine worfhip : 
 
 " And whereas the perpetual Vicarage of the Parifh Church of Chiflcldeane, in the faid 
 Diocefe of Sarum, is alfo (lender and infufficicnt in its rights, tithes, and profits, and alfo 
 inadequate for the maintenance of a Perpetual Vicar, io that he who performs Divine Service 
 may alfo be hofpitable : 
 
 " And whereas the faid refpedive Pari/hes of Draycott Foliatt and Chifleldeane have been, 
 and arc contiguous and adjoining Pariflies, fo much fo that their boundaries and limits in moft 
 parts adjoin each other : 
 
 " The premifes, therefore, being maturely confidered, and that a re-formation is to be 
 defired by means of the union, annexation, confolidation, and addition, of the faid Church 
 of Draycott Foliatt, and all its rights, members, and appurtenances, according to the agreement 
 within mentioned, we have held conference with, and obtained the alfurance of, the Honorable 
 Edmund Bruges, Knight of the moft noble order of the Garter, Lord Chandos, Baron of Sudeley, 
 tht true and undoubted patron of the Perpetual Vicarage of Chifeldeane aforefaid ; and with 
 Thomas Chadcrton, Efquire, the true and undoubted Patron of Draycott Foliat aforefaid ; and 
 the refpedlivc Patrons have fubmitted themfclves to us and to our jurifdidion, concerning fuch 
 annexation, union, and incorporation of the Churches, to be completed by us, and by our authority. 
 
 P 
 
io6 Monumental Bra jfes of Wilts. 
 
 " Wherefore we, Edmund, the aforefaid Bifhop of Sarum, the name of Chrift firft being 
 invoked, and fetting Him the only God before our eyes, by and with the like confent and aflent 
 of the faid refpedlive Patrons of the aforefaid Churches, do annex, incorporate, unite, confolidate, 
 and into one mafs and member make, the faid Redlory and Farifh Church of Draycott Foliat, 
 together with its tithes, rights, and profits, in the manner which followeth, unto the faid 
 Perpetual Vicarage of ChifTeldeane, and to the prefent Vicar there, and to his SuccefTors for ever 
 hereafter, viz'. : 
 
 " That the faid Thomas Chaderton, Efquire, in whofe poffeflion or tenure the principal 
 Manor Houfe and the other part of the Manor of Draycott- Folyat aforefaid, together with the 
 Buildings, Land, Glebes, and profits whatfoever, of the faid Redlory of Draycott Folyat now are, 
 his heirs and afligns, in that behalf fliall yearly for ever hereafter have, hold, and poiTefs all and 
 fingular the tithes thenceforth arifing, and alfo all profit and advantage from or out of the 
 Lands, Glebe, and buildings of the Recflory aforefaid ; and alfo fhall have and receive all and 
 fingular the Tithes arifing and happening of in and out of the tenement and its appurtenances 
 within the aforefaid Parifli of Draycott-Folyat, which Tenement with its appurtenances has been 
 and now is in the tenure and occupation of one Joanna Kickman, otherwife Web Widow, or her 
 afligns. 
 
 *' And that the faid Thomas Chaderton, his heirs and afligns, fhall in refpedl and con- 
 fideration of fuch Tithes and profits, pay to the faid Vicar of Chifeldeane, and his Succeflbrs, an 
 annual rent of feven pounds, of good and lawful money of England, yearly, for ever hereafter at 
 two terms of the year, viz', the feaft of Saint Michael the Archangel, and the Annunciation of 
 the Blefl'ed Virgin Mary, in equal portions. 
 
 " And that in cafe the faid Thomas Chaderton, his heirs and afligns, or either of them, fhall 
 refufe to pay the faid annual rent of feven pounds, or any part thereof, by the fpace of one 
 month after either of the feafts aforefaid, on which (as is premifed) it ought to be paid (provided 
 that the fame fum be firft claimed as a debt in the Pari/h Church of ChifTeldeane aforefaid), that 
 then and in that cafe we will that the faid Vicar of Chifleldeane thenceforth during his incum- 
 bency and afterwards his fucceffors fhall have for ever thereafter, as the right and in the name 
 of the Vicarage of ChifTeldeane, all the Tithes of the faid Church of Draycott-Folyat aforefaid, 
 together with all its Lands and appurtenances. 
 
 " We nu'ill aljo direEf and ordain that the /aid Church of Draycott-Folyat be entirely pulled doion 
 and razed, and that the Jiones, lead, iron, glafs, and ivood of the fame, be con-verted and applied 
 toiuards repairing and amending the faid Church of Chijfeldeane. 
 
 " We will befides diredl and ordain that the Inhabitants Parifhioners of the faid parifh of 
 Draycott-Folyat aforefiid, and their SuccefTors, may thenceforth afterwards be Parifhioners of the 
 Parifh of ChifTeldeane aforefaid, for the purpofes of attending Divine Worfhip, and they may 
 thenceforth come to, and be received and admitted to the fame for ever. 
 
 " We will alfo and ordain that the prefent Vicar of ChifTeldeane fhall yearly and every year 
 during the period of his incumbency, and after him that his fucceffors yearly for ever in addition 
 to all other burthens in refpedl of the faid Vicarage and Redlory, pay or caufe to be paid to us, 
 and to our SuccefTors, an annual fum, namely, Five Shillings, and alfo an annual fum of twelve 
 pence, of good and lawful money, refpeftively, to the Archdeacon of Wilts, and his fucceffors, at 
 the Feafl: of the PafTover, for ever. 
 
 " Provided always that fuch confolidation, union, and annexation in the premifes fhall 
 remain in full fiJrce and effeifl for ever, in cafe they be confirmed by the Patrons aforefaid under 
 their hands and feals. 
 
 " We will befides and ordain that the faid Chriflopher Dewe, the prefent Vicar of ChifTel- 
 deane, and his fuccefToiWbr ever hereafter, in addition to the premifes, fhall pay, or caufe to be 
 paid, as well the Tithes and Subfidies' thenceforth arifing, and then due, or to become due, 
 
 ' This, probably, fhould be " Taxes and Subfidies." 
 
Appendix. 107 
 
 to our Lady the Queen ; and alfo all procurations, and whatever other payments to us, and the 
 Archdeacon aforefaid, and to our and his fuccefTors may be now by any occafion due, or become 
 due, or accuftomed to be paid. 
 
 " In tcftimony whereof we have to thefc prcfents caufed our Epifcopal Seal to be affixed. 
 Dated the 27th day of the month of June, in the fourteenth year of our Lady Elizabeth, by the 
 Grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Qi^cen, Defender of the Faith, and in the firft 
 year of our tranflation. 
 
 (Signed) " Ed. Sarum." 
 
 A true Copy of the original Regifter, Examined by 
 
 " G. Frome N.P. Reg. D. 
 of the Lord BiHiop of Sarum." 
 
 Draycot Foliat is a parifli in the hundred of King/bridge. It is four miles fouth of Swindon, 
 and, at the Cenfus of I 851, contained five houfes, and eighteen inhabitants. 
 
 Under the above arrangement the church was wholly deftroyed, but its fite can, at fome 
 times of the year, be eafily traced. It appears to have confifted fimply of chancel and nave, 
 with a weftern tower ; the whole meafuring about feventy-fivc feet in length, and the nave 
 about twenty in width. 
 
 The north aide of Chifledon Church is known as the Draycot aifle, and fome of the timbers 
 of the roof bear carvings which have evidently belonged to fome other place, from which 
 it feems probable that this portion of the fabric was repaired from the debris of the neighbouring 
 Church of Draycot Foliat. 
 
 The living of Draycot is a redlory : the advowfon belongs to Ambrofe L. Goddard, Efq. M.P. 
 The tithes are commuted at i,'i8o per annum, and each redor performs divine fcrvice in his 
 parifh on one day only during his incumbency, — namely, that on which he reads himfelf in. 
 The parifhioners attend ChifleJon Church, a mile diftant, and the Vicar of Chifledon attends to 
 their fpiritual wants, for which he was formerly paid by the Redtor X'lo, afterwards ^'20, and 
 now jfc'jO per annum. 
 
 On the 14th of June, 1857, the Rev. Charles Whittle read himfelf in as Re(rtor of Draycot. 
 On this occafion a rick-cloth was fet up in what had once been the churchyard, and there the 
 new Re(flor performed Divine Service, in the morning to about 200 perfoiis, and in the afternoon 
 to rather a larger number. 
 
 In December, 1858, a fimilar ceremony was performed by the Rev. George Eaftman, the 
 prefent Reftor. 
 
 Sir Edward Baynton's Epitaph. (P. 63.) 
 
 The word " fiSIure" was, it appears, formerly ufed in defcribing, not only portraits in brafs, 
 as in this inftance, but was alfo applied to recumbent effigies in ftone or marble. By an 
 Indenture, dated 27th OA., 23 Elizabeth, between Richard and Gabriel Roiley, tomb-makers, 
 of Burton-upon Trent, and George Shirley, E(q., of Stanton Harold, co. Leicefter, the two 
 former undertake to eredl, in the church of Somerton, co. Oxon, a fair tomb of alabafter to 
 to the memory of Tiiomas Fermor, Efq., bearing a " very faire, decent, and well p'portioned 
 ^/(fTurf or portrature of a gentleman reprefenting y" faid Thomas Fermor," and alfo a "decent 
 and p'fedl piffure or portraiture of a faire gentlewoman " reprefenting his wife j and at the fide 
 of the tomb the " decent and ufuall pi:}ures of, or for, one fonne or two daughters," Sec. 
 Sec " Archaeological Journal," No. XXX. 
 
io8 Monumental Braffes of Wilts. 
 
 The word was alfo applied to flatues, as well as to bufc on coins. Gough, in his 
 "Sepulchral Monuments," (Introd. I. xcviii.) fays, "The ftatue of George I., at Gloucefter, 
 was called the King's piBure" In a letter, dated Nov. 8, I 560, addrefled to the Mayor and 
 Corporation of Wells, and figned by Lord Bacon, Sir William Cecil, and others, the buft on 
 coins called " teftons " is alfo defcribed as the " Kynge's piciure." See " Notes and Queries," 
 zd S. VI. 85. In the books of the Stationers' Company, a.d. 15CO, the term piciure is thus 
 applied to the fmall figure, or effig)-, on an Apoftle fpoon, — " A fpoyne of the gyfte of 
 Mafter Reginald Wolfe, all gylte, with the pyEhire of St. John." lb. II. 112. 
 
 The Churchwarden's accounts of the Parifh of St. Mary, Devizes, a.d. 1557, contain the 
 following item, in which the wooden effigies of SS. Mary and John, placed on either fide of the 
 great Rood, are alfo defcribed as pi3ures. " Item, for tymber to make )^ pyciors y' ftandeth by 
 the Rode named Marye and John." 
 
 Br.ass of L.aurexce Hyde. (P. 72.) 
 
 It fhould have been here mentioned, that Anne, daughter of Edward Hyde, Earl of Claren- 
 don (fon of Henry, of Purton, and grandfon of Laurence, of Weft Hacche), was the firft wife 
 of James II., ai^ the mother of Mary II. and Qu^een Anne. 
 
 End. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Aldbourne, Fraternity of St Mary at, 43. 
 
 Boyton, brafllefs flab at, 13. 
 
 Alton Priors, 50, 70. 
 
 Bradford-on-Avon, 51, 76. 
 
 Afgille, William, infcription to, 32. 
 
 Britton, John, brafs of, 92. 
 
 Aubrey, John, references to his MS. colleftions 
 
 Broad Blunfden, brafs at, 80. 
 
 for a Hiftory of Wiltfliire, 3, 20, 21, 27, 
 
 Broad Hinton, 30. 
 
 30. 31. 35. 38, 39. 41. 43. 45. 48, 54. 73. 
 
 Bromham, 35, 45, 63. 
 
 78, 83 — to his Natural Hiftory of Wilts, 34, 
 
 Broughton Gifford, 84. 
 
 39- 
 
 Button, Agnes, brafs of, 50 — William, brafs 
 
 Auncell, John, infcription to four of his fons. 
 
 of, jc — notice of the family, ib. 
 
 54- 
 
 
 
 Calne, 93. 
 
 Barley, John, brafs of, 48. 
 
 Carpenter, John Sebaftian, infcription to, 88. 
 
 Bayly, William, brafs of, 29. 
 
 Cerne, Sir Edward, brafs of, 20 — Philippa de. 
 
 Baynard, Robert, brafs of, 39 — notice of the 
 
 loft brafs of, 21. 
 
 family, 40. 
 
 Chantries, defcribed, 3 — Commlflioners for 
 
 Barford, St. Martin, 65. 
 
 their fuppreflion in Wilts, 4 — notices of, 7, 
 
 Baynton, John, brafs of, 45 — Sir Edward, 
 
 ^3. 25. 35. 43. 47. 49. 5'. 54. 95- 
 
 brafs of, 63 — notices of the family, 46, 64. 
 
 Charlton, tower and chantry chapel added to 
 
 Beauchamp, William, Lord St. Amand, 36, 
 
 the church, 49. 
 
 37 — Richard, Lord St. Amand, pedigree of, 
 
 Chaucey, William, brafs of, 49. 
 
 36 — his Chantry Chapel at Bromham, 35 — 
 
 Cheney, Sir Ralph, tomb of, 12. 
 
 fucceeded in the Bromham eftate by John 
 
 Chifledon, 72. 
 
 Baynton, 46-47. 
 
 Clowt, Walter, loft brafs of, 54. 
 
 Bedwyn, Great, 40, 43, 83, loi. 
 
 Clyffe Pypard, 19. 
 
 Bennet, Thomas, brafs of, 78. 
 
 Coffer, John, brafs of, 66. 
 
 Berkeley, Sir John, fuppofed brafs of, 31. 
 
 Collingbourne Ducis, 87. 
 
 Berwick Baflet, bequeft to the church of, 29. 
 
 Kingfton, 38. 
 
 Bettefthorne, John, brafs of, 22 — notices of 
 
 Conftance Cathedral, 97. 
 
 his Chantries at Mere and Gillingham, 
 
 Crooke, Peter, infcription to, 89. 
 
 23-25. 
 
 
 Bingham, Robert, Bifhop of Salilbury, fup- 
 
 Danvers, Sir John, brafs of, 44— anecdote 
 
 pofed monumental flab of, 6. 
 
 relating to his marriage, 45 — Anne, brafs 
 
 Bilhopftone (in N. Wilts), 48— (in S. Wilts), 26 
 
 of, 53. 
 
 Bonham, Thomas, brafs of, 33 — extradl from 
 
 Darell, Conftanrine, brafs of, 38. 
 
 the Parifli Regifter, ib. — his property in 
 
 Sir George, fuppofed tomb of, 12. 
 
 Wilts, 34. 
 
 William, fuppofed tomb of, 11. 
 
no Index. 
 
 Dauntfey, 44, 53. 
 
 Lacock Abbey, 9 — Church, 39. 
 
 Dauntfey, John, brafs of, 55. 
 
 Laverftock, 50. 
 
 Ambrofe, brafs of, 81. 
 
 
 Davies, brafs effigies traditionally connedled 
 
 Longe, Anne, brafs of, 76 — pedigree, 77 — 
 
 with the family of, 48. 
 
 Robert, brafs of, 84. 
 
 Dawnfe, John, infcription to, 32. 
 
 Longefpe, Nicholas, Biihop of Salilbury, brals 
 
 Denifon, Louifa Mary, brafs of, 93. 
 
 of, defcribed by Leland, 7. 
 
 Devizes, 85, 93. 
 
 Ela, brafllefs flab of, 9. 
 
 Dogefon, Thomas, brafs of, 40. 
 
 Long Newnton, right of fepulture obtained for 
 
 Draycote Cerne, 20, 21. 
 
 the Church, 41. 
 
 Draycot Foliat, order of Bifhop Gefte for the 
 
 Malmeft)ury Abbey, 79. 
 
 demolition of the Church, and the annexa- 
 
 Marlborough, 59. 
 
 tion of the Parifh to that of Chifiedon, 105. 
 
 Mafkell, Mary, brafs of, 93. 
 
 Durnford, Great, 80. 
 
 Merchants' marks, 4, 51, 76, 78, 89. 
 
 
 Mere, 22, 31. 
 
 Edington, William de, founds a College of 
 
 Melkfliam, 81. 
 
 Bonhommes at Edington, 13. 
 
 Minety, 84. 
 
 brafllefs flabs at, 12, 13- 
 
 
 Epitaphs, ancient forms of, 5. 
 
 Neet, John, brafs of, 30. 
 
 Erington, Gerard, brafs of, 74. 
 
 
 Ernley, Anthony, infcription to, 50. 
 
 Ogbourne St. George, Chapel of the Holy 
 
 Erton, John, brafs of, 41. 
 
 Trinity in the parifli church, 47. 
 
 Evelyn, George, brafs of, 90. 
 
 Oxford, brafs in All Souls' College, 28. 
 
 Everley, 30. 
 
 
 
 Palimpfeft brafles, 4, 56, 58, 82. 
 
 Fovant, church tower re-built, 42. 
 
 Pembroke, notice of William and Henry, Earls 
 
 Frekylton, Henry, brafs of, 42. 
 
 of, 67. 
 
 
 Pitton, 64. 
 
 Gefte, Edmund, Bi/hop of Salilbury, brafs of. 
 
 Polton, Thomas, brafs of, 26 — grant of pro- 
 
 59 — notices of, 60-61 — will of, 62. 
 
 perty at Swindon, 28. 
 
 Goddard, John, grant of property at Swin- 
 don, 28. 
 
 n 1, : r. „ 1 — r. „ r _ 
 
 
 
 Thomas, brafs of, 47. 
 
 Poticary, Elizabeth, brafs of, 69. 
 
 
 T V^ C C F^ ^ «■* C .-U 
 
 Hallum, Robert, Bifliop of Salifbury, brafs of. 
 
 Jerome, Drais or, 75 — notice or tnc 
 family, 76 — pedigree, ib. 
 
 97 — his burial, 99 — his condudl at the 
 
 Poulett, Nicholas, brafs of, 84. 
 
 Council of Conftance, ib. 
 
 Preci, Harry, loft: brafs of, 48. 
 
 Heale, Markham, brafs of, 93. 
 
 Prefhute, 48. 
 
 Hilmarton, 35. 
 
 
 Hobbes, Edmund, infcription to, 79 — pedi- 
 
 Quintin, fuppofed brafs of a knight of the 
 
 gree, ib. 
 
 family of, 19. 
 
 Horton, Thomas, brafs of, 51 — noticed by 
 
 
 Leland, ib. — his chantry, 52. 
 
 Ramft)ury, 10, 11, 12. 
 
 Hungerford, fuppofed monumental flab ofWal- 
 
 Rede, George, brafs of, 42. 
 
 ter or Robert, 8. 
 
 Rutland, Francis, brafs of, 72 — pedigree, 74. 
 
 Walter Lord, monumental flab of. 
 
 
 7 — his Chantry Chapel in Salilbury Cathe- 
 
 St. Amand. See Tocotes and Beauchamp. 
 
 dral, ib. 
 
 St. John, William de, monumental flab of. 
 
 Hyde, Laurence, brafs of, 71 — a Commlffioner 
 
 10, 101. 
 
 for the fuppreffion of Chantries, 4 — grantee 
 
 Salifbur)' Cathedral, 6, 7, 8, 14, 59, 92, 93, 
 
 of the Mere Chantry, 25 — notice of his 
 
 9S, 96. 
 
 family, 72. 
 
 St. Edmund's, Church, 13, 68. 
 
 
 St. Martin's, 88. 
 
 Kent, John, brafs of, 85. 
 
 St. Thomas's, 57. 
 
Index. 
 
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 Seend Church, tradition as to the builder of 
 
 the north aifle, 38. 
 Seymour, John, brafs of, 43 — notice of the 
 family, 44. 
 
 - Edward, Lord Beauchamp, infcription 
 to, 83. 
 
 — Edward, fon of William, Earl of 
 
 Hertford, brafs of, 87. 
 Staneftiye, Dorothy, infcription to, 69. 
 Steeple Afhton, benefadlion to the church and 
 
 parifh, 89. 
 Stockton, 69, 75. 
 
 Stoke, Sir Roger de, brafllefs flab of, loi. 
 Stokys, John, brafs of, 38, 104. 
 Stourton, 35. 
 
 Tifbury, 48, 71. 
 
 Tocotes, Elizabeth, Lady St. Amand, brafs 
 of, 35. 
 
 Sir Roger, 37. 
 
 Trial by battle, note on, 101. 
 
 Upton Lovel, demi-effigy of a prieft at, 31. 
 
 Vennard, Anne, infcription to, 68. 
 
 Walker, Alice, brafs of, 65. 
 
 Waltham, John de, Biftiop of Salifbury, brafs 
 of, 94 — chantry in Salifljury Cathedral, 95 
 — extra(fls from his will, 96, 97. 
 
 Wanborough, bequeft to, 27 — fites of two 
 
 ancient manfions at, 28 — infcription record- 
 ing the ereftion of the church tower, 27. 
 
 Weare, alias Browne, Robert, infcription to, 
 59. Note on the word "alias," 104. 
 
 Webbe, John, brafs of, 57. 
 
 Weftbury, 78. 
 
 Weft Deane, 90. 
 
 Weft Lavington, 32, 54, 55. 
 
 Weftminfter Abbey, 94. 
 
 White, Nicholas, infcription to, 41. 
 
 Wilton, 66. 
 
 Winford, John, brafs of, 35. 
 
 Winterflow, 69. 
 
 Wifhford, 32, 33. 
 
 Woodford, 74. 
 
 Wrofton, John, brafllefs flab of, 30. 
 
 Wroughton, 54. 
 
 Wykham, John, infcription to, 26. 
 
 Wylkys, John, loft brafs of, 35. 
 
 Wyvil, Robert, Bifliop of Salifbury, confecrates 
 Edington Church, 13 — his difpute with 
 Montacute, Earl of Saliflsury, refpedting Sher- 
 borne Caftle, I 5 — letter to the Archdeacon 
 of Berks, ib. — proceedings in the Court of 
 Common Pleas, 16 — his brafs, 18, 19. 
 
 York, William of, Bifliop of Salifljury, fuppofed 
 
 monumental flab of, 7. 
 Younge, Edward, brafs of, 80. 
 
 Zouche, Edward, infcription to, 64. 
 
 CORRIGENDA. 
 
 Page 7, line 8, — dele " or Longfword." The fword in the effigy is found, on comparifon with 
 other examples, to be no longer than the ordinary fword of the period. Mr. Planche, 
 in a paper on the monumental effigies in Salifljury Cathedral (Journal of the 
 Archaeological Affociation, June 1859, P- '^S) ^"ggtfts that the name was moft 
 probably derived from one of his father's anceftors, William Longefpc, fon of Rollo 
 and father of Richard, firft Duke of Normandy. 
 
 „ 27, line 2, — for " hexameter," read " alternate hexameter and pentameter." 
 
 „ 33, line 7 from bottom, for "nine," read "fix." 
 
 ,,43, The four laft quarterings on the Wentworth fliield, to which no names are given, 
 
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 a fefs double cotifed gules, Badlesmere. 5. Barry of fix, or and azure, a canton 
 ermine, Goushill. 6. Azure, three lucies hauriant, 2 and i, three crofllets 
 fitchc I and 2, all argent, Foylueire. The croflcs in the bft quartering, as 
 Iketched by Aubrey, do not appear to be precifely corredl. 
 
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 BERWICK BASSET CHURCH. 
 
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 C. A.D.1^90. 6^" HENR.Y VII. 
 
 ELIZABETH. LADY ST AMAND 
 BROMHAM CHURCH. 
 
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 A.D.l'^^8. i+ Henr.yVII. 
 
 JOHIN STOKYS, AND WIFE. 
 
 S LE N D CH U RCH . 
 
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 ROBERT BAYNARD E S Q ., A N D W I FE 
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 JOHN ER.TON , R. E C T O R, . 
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 HENRY F-R.EKYLTON (CANTARIST 
 
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 JOHN, SON OF SIR JOHN SEYMOUR. 
 GREAT BEDWYN CHURCH. 
 
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 BROMHAM CHURCH. 
 
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 THOMAS GODDAR.D,AND WIFE 
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 PRESHUrr CHURCH. 
 
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 WILLIAM BUT TO N ESQUIRE. 
 ALTON PRIORS CHURCH. 
 
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 A. D. 1590. 35 Elizabeth 
 LAURENCE HYDE ESQ, AND FAMILY 
 TISBUR.Y CHURCH. 
 
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 A. D. 1601 4'^^" EuizAaETH. 
 
 ANNE LONGE . 
 
 BRADFORD CHURCH. 
 
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 A . D 1605 . 3 James I . 
 
 THOMAS BENNET,AND WIFE 
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 ROBERT LONCE. 
 
 BR.OUGHTON CIFFORD CHUR.CH 
 
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 A . D. 16 3 o . e""' CHARuEb I . 
 JOHN KENT E.SQ. AND W.TE. 
 
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