circa 1470, in gown, and hood or cowl. It resembles the smaller 
figure of Robert Beauner, monk, in St. Alban’s Abbey. The 
upper plate has originally been about 32 inches long, and, when 
complete, bore on its reverse a long inscription in double columns, 
to the memory of a Prior of some religious house, but no locality 
or date is given. About 2 inches has been cut off from the 
beginning, and as much as 8 inches off the end, but we are able 
to make out that the first word was ‘‘ Thomas.” The remnant of 
the inscription reads thus :— 
BRASS IN NORBURY CHURCH. 55 
[Dho]mas quondam prior - hic tellure quiescit 
eas s hune bersum memor - esto que morieris 
ete suna fer quid - bult signare cadaber 
agin flores cito marcent be que dolores 
eer ista leges - mi frater funde precamen 
AB Se SE 
Smguicti mundum sibi par..... ...... 
Wile cadaber sum - tal... 
Ga caro ba que data - be........... 
Qui dunt merores cum............... 
. Su ponis degeres ut ab............... 
| Owing to the loss of so much of the second column, it is utterly 
hopeless to attempt to supply the missing words. It is, I think, 
: clear that this inscription and the monk’s figure belong to the 
_ Same memorial. 
; The object of this paper has been merely to describe at length 
the different parts of the Fitzherbert brass, and matters historical 
or genealogical do not therefore come within its scope. For these 
the reader is referred to Mr. Cox’s third volume of ‘‘ Motes on the 
Churches of Derbyshire.” 
Mr. Cox comments on the strange irony of events which caused 
these palimpsest fragments to be worked up into a memorial of 
‘Sir Antony, who had dared to oppose Cardinal Wolsey on the 
score of the alienation of Church lands; and on his death-bed 
hhad solemnly enjoined his children under no pretext to accept 
g we or become purchasers of monastic property. 
