52 BRASS IN NORBURY CHURCH. 
that his figure was of smaller size than the others, and probably 
held a scroll in the same manner as two of his sisters. 
The five daughters are distinguished by having their names 
written beneath them—dorothe & dame dorothe Elpenbethe Alvs 
& Hatherpn. The first and fourth are said to have died un- 
married. Probably their decease occurred in early life, for they 
are represented on the brass of smaller stature than their sisters, 
and a second daughter was afterwards called Dorothy. The 
first figure also holds a scroll inscribed Wisericordias Domini, and 
the fourth, one with the continuation in eternum cantabo. Of 
the three surviving sisters, Dorothy married (1) Sir Ralph Long- 
ford, and (2) Sir John Port; Elizabeth became the wife of 
William Bassett, of Blore ; and Katharine, of John Sacheverell. 
The five figures have each an outer gown with loose sleeves, cut 
low at the neck, thereby displaying an underdress which has 
sleeves striped longitudinally, and with frills at the wrists. The 
first and fourth daughters have pedimental head-dresses and 
flowing hair, but the three married ones wear the covering known 
as the “ Paris head.” Dame Dorothy must have been married 
when the brass was laid down, for over her other garments she 
wears an heraldic mantle, bearing on the dexter side the arms of 
the Longfords—Paly of six (or. and gu.), a bend (arg.), and on 
the sinister her paternal arms—Fitzherbert Ancient quartering 
Fitzherbert Modern. 
The inscription beneath the feet of the principal figures is on 
two plates, each 224 inches long, and 74 and g} inches wide 
respectively, in fourteen lines of Elegiac verse— 
Bee habeo solum que bibus in orbe peregi 
Gt que sunt bike corpore gesta Weo 
Prefueram index cogor nunc indicis ipse 
Alterins instam Sustinnisse manum 
Sed Precibus tu Sancte tuis tu Gterne salutem 
Confer et Offensas dilue Christi Meus 
Alle ego qui quondam fuerat dum bita superstes 
bibentes inter clarns bonore fui 
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