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Rubric” of the Book of Common Prayer.]; WALTON-ON-TRENT, 
Robert Morley, Rector (1492). 
The second division furnishes us with about twenty figures of 
Knights and Esquires, dating from 1454 to 1570. The best ex- 
amples are at ASHBURNE, CHESTERFIELD, HATHERSAGE, MORLEY, 
MucciInTon, SawLey, and Sravetey. Eight of these effigies 
have tabards or ‘‘ coats of arms” over their armour ; namely, those 
at ASHBURNE, CHESTERFIELD, EtTwatl, HATHERSAGE (2), 
SravELEy, and WILNE (2). The effigy of Robert Bothe at 
SawLey (1478) has the Yorkist Collar of Suns and Roses, and 
that at MuccinTon of Nicholas Kniveton, the Lancastrian Collar 
of S.S. with the Portcullis Badge of the Beauforts as a pendant. 
The last-named figure has the helmet beneath the head surmounted 
by a most remarkable crest, representing a wolf regarding its own 
image ina mirror. With one exception all these military figures 
are accompanied by those of their ladies, but Sir John Porte 
at Erwatt (1557) and Sir Thos. Stathum at Morey (1470) have 
each two wives, and Henry Stathum at Morey (148r) has three! 
The chief examples of the third class, or Brasses of Civilians, 
exclusive of the figures of ladies on the Military Brasses, are a 
_ curious little plate at Cricu, with a child in swaddling clothes 
(1637)—Richard Blackwall and wife at Tappincron (1505)— 
_ Robert Lytton and wife at TipEswELL (1483)—and Sir Anthony 
Fitzherbert, Justice of the Common Pleas at Norsury (1538). 
To this last I shall refer at length further on. 
The Derbyshire brasses do not furnish any very large and 
striking examples, and the Cokayne brass at ASHBURNE is the only 
_ one with a canopy, but we must not say that our specimens are 
devoid of interest because they are mostly of small size; on the 
contrary, many of their details are cited as typical illustrations by 
the Rev. Herbert Haines in his ‘‘ Manual of Monumental Brasses,”’ 
and a work descriptive and illustrative of the entire series would 
be a valuable contribution to the archeology of the county. 
Many matrices or indents of lost brasses occur in various 
churches—there are two fine ones at WIRKSWORTH and CHESTER- 
FIELD. The lost and mutilated brasses of the Foljambes at 
