BRASS IN NORBURY CHURCH. 53 
Marmores hor clandor speen bac sub mole quiesco 
Bee domus hic nitor est hoc theatrale decus 
Atria gemmatis non bic sunt aurea basis 
Hon gue sit tyria palla retincta manu 
Gemma procul nihil est nostro nisi pulbis in Antro 
Palla procul, Corpus nil nisi bermis bubet. 
The marginal legend is on a brass fillet two inches wide. 
When complete it read as follows :—* 
©f pour charitie pray for the soule of Sir Anton Fitzherbert 
Bnight one of the Bing’s Justices of the Com[men benche. and 
sometpme] lorde and pultrone of this Gofon] and Dorothie bis 
foyfe Daughter of Sir Henry Willonghby ABnight & Dame 
Mande his last Wife one of the Baughters and heirs of Zichard 
Colton of Hampstall Rydwoare] Esq by Hhom he had five 
; sonnes und fibe danghters fohich Sir Antony decensed the 27 
Way A° Dni 1538 & the suid Bame Maude... ... 
The date of Dame Maud’s death was left blank to be filled up 
after her decease, but, as is generally the case, this was not done. 
Only three short lengths of this inscription are now left, viz., those 
given in brackets, and when Lysons compiled his History but few 
more words remained. After the word “ipdfare” is a repre- 
sentation of a gauntlet, the sole survivor of sundry devices which 
originally divided the words. At the angles were roundles with 
the Evangelistic symbols. 
; 
We now come to the curious feature about this brass, viz., that 
_ so far as can be at present ascertained, almost the entire memorial 
has been made up of portions of two older brasses, which have 
been turned over and re-engraved.t The figures of the Judge and 
his daughters, the two plates of the inscription beneath the 
"principal effigies, and two strips of the marginal legend, are loose ; 
and each portion, except a narrow strip forming part of the 
* Harl. M.S. 3609. 
_ + This peculiarity was first pointed out by Mr. J. Charles Cox, in 
_ “Churches of Derbyshire,” iii. 241. 
