NOTES TO THE PEDIGREE OF THE STRELLEYS. 87 



at Strelley, 7th September, 1458. Sir Robert died 17th January, 

 1487. Their monumental brass still remains in the chancel at 

 Strelley. It consists of the figures of the knight and his lady, 

 with an inscription beneath their feet. The slab has been 

 powdered with stars in roundels, of which one was remaining 

 above the head of the lady in 1851, when I took a rubbing. 

 {" Stei/a," a star: — a sort of play on the family name). The 

 matrices of 18, three in a row, are still to be traced, as also of four 

 shields placed near the angles ; as well as of the two plates repre- 

 senting the family, which, judging from the size of the respective 

 matrices, may have consisted of about four boys and five girls. In 

 the centre, above the efifigies, is a helmet and mantling, surmounted 

 with orle {argent and azttre) and crest (a Saracen's head), the upper 

 half of which is lost. The knight is bareheaded : pauldrons double- 

 plated ; round the neck a gorget of mail, with fringe of the same 

 escalloped beneath the taces : gauntlets with large back plates, 

 but ends of the fingers covered with small lamince : large sword 

 suspended in front : hilt of dagger appearing from behind right 

 thigh : feet in sollerets : lion under foot. The lady is habited in 

 plain kirtle without pleats : sleeves expanding at the wrist, and 

 covering back of the hands : mantle secured over the breast by a 

 strap, with a rose button at each end, and receding downwards : 

 hair brushed behind, and secured with plaited fillet, into which 

 skewers are thrust to extend the " butterfly " head-dress. Two 

 little dogs, vis-a-vis, and belled, crouch at the feet, one flap-eared 

 and smooth-coated, and the other prick-eared and shaggy. The 

 inscription is as follows : — 



'' i^tc tarn nits! 1£loi)frt' Strdleg ue Strell^g 

 iJBilit' i-t S^fsalj^na b.ror ft' jjui qium IXoi^rt' otttt 

 apuu strfllcg xbito \>\t ^(^' Janbart) Slnno Uni 

 iJBinto CCCC \xxx\i\Y tX antenra $0!Sai)fna obtit 

 ajiwu mxXm ft Sc))itlta tfX Cancdla fcclt> n? ^ttf Ucd 

 t>tjo ntf ffpftruari] ao nnt ilfflo (£,(£,(£,'£,'' Ibtifo guor 

 aiai)? pptci^t' t\t' amftt." 



For notice of the ledger, see under No. 12. 



