140 SEPULCHRAL SLABS AT HOPE CHURCH. 
a circular buckle between the stem and cross head. The 
larger one has a similar horn and belt, with a broad-headed 
arrow below it, on the same side, and a cross-hilted sword on 
the left. Their date is probably of the reign of Richard I. or 
John ; and they would be used up in the foundations about a 
century later. Owing to the extreme paucity of documents of 
that early period, it would be idle to conjecture to whom these 
memorials pertained ; but the nature of the symbols seems to 
show that they originally marked the interment of those who had 
held office as Foresters in the Royal Forest of the Peak. 
