RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES, 139 
Little John’s grave was rather a disappointment in a photographic 
point of view, as it consisted only of two very small stones at a 
very great distance apart, “ only this and nothing more ;” and if 
Little John’s head touched one and his toes reached the other, he 
was indeed John le Tall! At a short distance to the south-east 
of the church is the ancient Cottage where he came to die—Jenny 
Sheard’s cottage.* We found the cottage, but Jenny Sheard was 
dead ; her nephew, however, lived in it, an old man, and on 
asking him whether this teally was the cottage in which Little John 
died, he replied, « Ay, I reckon this is it.” We got a large view 
of this. 
Hathersage Church is a fine structure, in the later style of 
English architecture, with a handsome crocketed spire. It had 
recently been restored at a considerable expense, and both church 
and churchyard showed signs of great taste and care in their 
proper preservation. The stained glass is very beautiful, though 
modern, and the west window, presented by Mr. George Eyre and 
his three sisters, I thought particularly good. A fine altar-tomb 
on the north side of the chancel, richly-sculptured, has had a new 
marble top, in which are inserted the old brasses. It bears the 
effigies of Robert Eyre, who fought at the battle of Agincourt, and 
his wife, two fine figures ; both are in the attitude of prayer. He 
is in armour, at his feet a lion. Above their heads is a shield, 
and below their feet a row of children. The date of this tomb is 
1459. I got rubbings as well as I could in my note-book of the 
shield, and a male and female child from the row, to show the 
costume. There are three other brasses on the south wall of the 
chancel, a triple trefoiled sedilia, and an elegant projecting piscina 
with trefoil arch. The chapel on the north side of the chancel 
contained nothing worthy of note, and is occupied by new plain 
slabs to the Shuttleworths. A fine octagonal font, richly decorated 
with the arms of the Eyres, etc., stands near the south entrance. 
We visited Camp Green, just outside the churchyard to the 
east, supposed to be a Danish fortification. It is a grassy mound 
* Since pulled down. 
