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fomsctr Slafcs in eroxall C^uvcf). 



Drawn by Mary Ussher. 



HERE is an unusually large number of incised 

 monumental slabs in the. Church of S. John Baptist, 

 Croxall, chiefly to the memory of the Curzon and 

 Horton families. It is proposed to give fac-simile drawings 

 of the whole of this interesting series in successive numbers of 

 the Society's Journal. Two of the larger ones are now given. 

 The earliest of these lies on the north side of the chancel, 

 and is to the memory of John Horton, of Catton, and Anne, 

 his wife. The following is the marginal inscription : — 



gjtir jaairt Jo^ca °§otton films d Tgttts !&aQcii Wottan be Cattou 

 ^ntiio/ it guwa uxor i\m filia ^ofcis QutraaM hi Crosball gtrraig 

 <®ui quibe &obi& Wottan ©hiit bit ©rtobris nuaa gni 



jgplliuw atct° *xi°et birta Qnm obiit bio i* gutter bai 



^tillo b° quorn aiabus Hrogiritiur. bins &mn. 



It is perhaps superfluous to specify the armour in which the 

 efhgy of John Horton is pourtrayed, sufficient to say it is plate 

 armour, and is almost identical with that of Henry Stanley, 

 Esq., 1528, on a brass at Hillingdon, Middlesex (see Haines' 

 Brasses, vol. 1, page ccxxxii). Anne Horton, his wife, wears 

 a kirtle fastened at the waist with a belt, from which hangs a 

 chain to which a pomander is attached. Pomanders were used 

 to contain perfumes, or supposed preservatives against diseases. 

 She wears a head-dress with falling lappets, usually termed the 

 pedimental, kennel, or diamond-shaped. At their feet are 

 depicted the figures of three sons and three daughters. Between 



