50 BRASS IN NORBURY CHURCH. 
CHESTERFIELD and TIDESWELL have recently been restored by 
one of the members of our Society, Mr. C. G. S. Foljambe, M.P., 
and the Cokayne brass at ASHBURNE, by Mr. Geo. Cokayne, 
Lancaster Herald. Portions of a monumental brass, and of two 
matrices or slabs from which the brasses had been stolen, were 
discovered during the excavations at DALE ABBEY. 
There are good series of brasses at HATHERSAGE, MORLEY, 
and TIDESWELL. 
Of the singular class known as “ palimpsest ” or re-used brasses, 
we have three examples—one, an inscription at ASHOVER; a 
second, a portion of the brass found at Date Apsey, and the 
third an entire brass at Norpury. There is alsoa palimpsest s/ad 
at Mortey, that to which are affixed the effigies of Sir Henry 
Sacheverell and his lady ; the other side bearing the indent of a 
most elaborate brass of an Ecclesiastic—doubtless part of the 
spoil from Date. The Norsury palimpsest brass is the subject of 
this paper. 
This brass lies in the centre of the chancel between the two 
Fitzherbert tombs, on a slab of blue stone measuring ro ft. 5 ins. 
by 4 ft. 3 ins. Its original position was in the gangway of the 
nave. It commemorates Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Knight, Justice 
of the Common Pleas, who died May 27, 1538—his two wives 
Dorothy Willoughby and Maud Cotton—and his ten children by 
the second wife. When entire it consisted of the figures of Sir 
Anthony and his second wife, with a shield above their heads, 
and an inscription in fourteen lines of Latin verse beneath their 
feet. Below this were the figures, in two detached groups, of 
their five sons and five daughters, and the composition was com- 
pleted by a marginal inscription, with the Evangelistic symbols at 
the angles. From the existence of a chiselled line beneath the 
figures of the children, it appears that the marginal legend was 
originally intended to have been of less length than eventually laid 
down. The Judge’s first lady does not appear on the monument, 
a separate brass inscription having been placed to her memory in 
Middleton Church, Warwickshire. The Norbury brass has, un- 
fortunately, been considerably mutilated. Sir Anthony has lost 
