54 BRASS IN NORBURY CHURCH. 
daughters’ figures, bears on the other side fragments of an earlier 
memorial. 
Sir Antony’s figure displays on the reverse the lower half of a 
full-sized effigy of a lady in gown and mantle, the latter being 
gathered up under the right arm, her feet resting ona lion. The 
date of this is circa 1320. It should be compared with the figure ~ 
of Lady Creke, at Westley Waterless, Cambs. 1325. 
On the reverse of the larger of the two plates on which the 
daughters are engraved, is a monk beneath a canopy, with a fretty 
background, and on the edge, part of an inscription in separate 
Lombardic capitals Te Te JIE : © XX, The reverses of the 
two loose strips of the marginal legend also bear further portions 
of the same inscription GQ: MDOW: SBE : and 
©OBAYD : DE: W. In the absence of the re- 
mainder, we, can only conjecture the tenor of the inscription, 
which probably ran as follows—the names, of course, are at 
present beyond us :— 
[IN ...... FE@)]Ge : Mon 
SIRE : (HHH IOBAYD : DE: ¥ 
[ ..:* SHEGRIEYR : DE: 
CTE : #59 figaatre y G6YT(SH: Ler: 
riers * The parts slonted are given in brackets. 
These three fragments are evidently portions of the brass of the 
lady on the reverse of the Judge’s figure, and which, when com- 
plete, consisted of a central figure beneath a canopy with small 
figures in niches at the sides. The general treatment of this brass 
is not altogether English—for instance, the marginal legend being 
joined to the small side canopies ; and it is probably the work of 
a Flemish artist. 
On taking up the large inscription, which is on two plates, we 
find on the reverse of the lower a portion of the figure of a monk, 
* Sir Theobald de Verdon, who died in 1316, was the third husband of Lady 
Elizabeth de Clare, foundress of Clare Hall, Cambridge, who died in 1360. 
Query was this part of Lady Clare’s brass, or ‘of another wife of Sir Theobald? 
