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tainly remarkable, especially one for its size and 

 attitude. Another noticeable circumstance is that 

 most of the figures are of older date than the 

 tombs on which they lie, or than the church which 

 contains them. The building consists of a nave 

 and south aisle ; and, at the time of its original 

 construction, three canopied recessed tombs were 

 introduced in each of the side walls to receive the 

 effigies which must have existed in the older 

 church. The style of the architecture belongs to 

 the age of Edward III. There are nine figures 

 altogether, some of them greatly mutilated. They 

 are not entirely unknown to archaeologists. 



I may take this opportunity of calling attention 

 to another very fine monumental effigy, of which 

 I believe no moderately good representation has 

 been published, at Tilton in Leicestershire. There 

 are two figures in the church of as early dates as 

 those at Aldworth, one an armed male, and the 

 other a female. The former is in "edgering" 

 mail, and is of good character ; but the latter is 

 of superior design, and very well executed, though 

 unfortunately in a coarse material. The right 

 arm is bent, and the hand brought up to the 

 breast ; the left hangs naturally by the side, and 

 has the fore-arm and (bare) hand exposed from 

 among the folds of the drapery. Slight traces of 

 colour are discoverable. K. C. H. 



The village of Aldworth, in Berkshire, where the 

 effigies of the De la Beche family are to be seen, is 

 about five miles from the Goring Station, on the 

 Great Western Railway, via Streatley. Hewett's 

 Hundred of Compton furnishes a very interesting 

 account of the ten monumental effigies which 

 represent various members of the ancient family 

 of De la Beche in that church, and will be read 

 with no small pleasure. Francis Pocock. 



Stanford. 



Coke and Cowper (Vol. iv., pp.24. 76. 93. 244. 

 300.). — However affected it may appear, these 

 words have been more generally pronounced Cook 

 and Cooper. 



J. H. L. (Vol. iv., p. 76.) adduces the instance 

 of Cowper being made to rhime to Trooper. And 

 I have just stumbled upon a passage in Cowley 

 where Coke is the answering word to Took. 



" May he 

 Be by his father in his study took 

 ^ At Shakspear's plays instead of my Lord Coke." 



" Sylva ; a Poetical Revenge," p. 44., 

 Works, Part IL, London, 1703, fol. 



Er. 

 Warmington. 



Monumental Portraits (Vol. v., p. 349.). — Fully 

 agreeing with my friend H. H. in his opinion of 

 the brass of the Abbess of Elstow, considered as a 

 portrait, I should yet be glad if your correspon- 

 dents would send to " N. & Q." the names of any 



effigies which may appear to them exceptions to 

 the rule of conventional portraiture, especially if 

 of earlier date than the latter half of the sixteenth 

 century. H. H. has mentioned one, Nicholas Can- 

 teys, 1431, at Margate : and I am inclined to add 

 another in the well-executed little brass of Robert 

 de Brentingham at East Horsley, Surrey ; this is 

 about the date of 1380. The artists of that time, 

 in brasses as well as in painted glass, wood-carving, 

 &c., may have sometimes desired to produce a 

 portrait, but certainly they seldom succeeded : a 

 religious severity of expression atoned for the de- 

 ficiency. In English coins it is well known that 

 there is no appearance of a portrait before the 

 reign of Henry VII. 



The particular costume, however, of the de- 

 ceased was more attended to in monumental effi- 

 gies ; and it is this fact which renders the study 

 of them so serviceable towards a knowledge of 

 the manners and habits of our ancestoi's. Care 

 was even taken not to omit any peculiarity which 

 may have distinguished the deceased ; of which 

 the long beard of Sir Wm. Tendring, at Stoke, by 

 Layland, is perhaps an instance, and many others 

 might be quoted. If any decided portraits are 

 known in sto7ie effigies, it would I think be desir- 

 able to communicate such to the pages of " N. & Q." 



C. R. M. 



Motto on Chimney-piece (Vol. v., p. 345.) — 

 It does not appear to me that the mottoes sent 

 by your inquirer C..T. are very difficult to solve. 

 The first is Latin : 



" VITATRANOVULAESTOLIM." 



He says he is not certain as to one or two letters. 

 I suspect the first o should be Q, and the v should 

 be I. It will then read : 



" Vita tranquila est olim." 

 " Life is henceforth tranquil." 



A very proper motto for a fire-side. 

 The second is Italian : 



« VE DAL AM DARO." 

 I suspect the b should be t. It will then read : 

 " Ve da'l amico dato." 

 " Given to you by the friend." 



If the word is daro, it will be — 



" I will give it to you from the friend." 



James Edmestox. 

 Homerton. 



The arms given by your correspondent C. T. 

 are those of Cavendish (quartering Clifford), one 

 of that family having been created Earl of New- 

 castle in 1610. Becoming shortly after extinct, 

 John Holies, Earl of Clare (who had married the 

 heiress of Cavendish), was created by King Wil- 

 liam III. in 1694 Marquis of Clare and Duke of 

 Newcastle. 



