REPORT. XXV11 



At the conclusion of the paper Mr. Kerry conducted the party 

 over the ancient Castle of Ashby, explaining the different archi- 

 tectural features. After a careful examination of the Castle ruins, 

 the visitors were hospitably entertained at tea at the Manor House, 

 by Mr. Hemsley. 



The return journey was made via Burton-on-Trent, Derby being 

 reached at 7.48 p.m. 



Mr. Albert Hartshorne, F.S.A,, who was prevented from being 

 present at this expedition, contributed the following paper upon 

 the pilgrim effigy in the Church : — 



Most of the antiquaries who have taken up the study of monumental effigies 

 soon discover that it is occasionally desirable, and by no means unprofitable, 

 to turn from the contemplation of figures of warriors, ecclesiastics, or states- 

 men, in which the same general armour, vestments, or costumes may be 

 observed with only that variety which changes in fashion or individual caprice 

 brought about, to consider the effigies of a smaller class, each of which 

 represents a distinct type of dress. One of these figures has been fortunately 

 spared to us in the Church of Ashby-de-la-Zouche. 



To this special class belong such effigies as that of a knight at Connington, 

 in Huntingdonshire, who is shown wearing the cowl of a Franciscan friar 

 over his hauberk of mail ; that of a forester, at Glinton, Northamptonshire, 

 in the full habit of a Verderer ; that of Sir Peter Leigh (1527) at VVinwick, 

 Lancashire, habited in a chasuble over his armour ; that of Sir Thomas 

 Tresham (1559) wearing the mantle of a Hospitaller over his harness; and 

 that of Sir John Crosby (1475) wearing an alderman's gown over his armour. 

 Perhaps the most interesting of figures such as these is that now before us, 

 and it is the more attractive to students of costume, because it is quite 

 unique of its kind. 



In the case of Sir Peter Leigh, we know the knight in the latter part of his 

 life joined the priesthood. In that of the knight at Connington, we gather 

 from the peculiar costume that he was one of those who, as the great 

 seventeenth century poet has it — 



" To be sure of Paradise, 

 Dying put on the weeds of Dominic, 

 Or in Franciscan thought to pass disguised." 



As a notable instance of this custom, the remains of the historic friar's 

 weed, the passport of the worst, though the ablest of the Angevins through 

 Purgatory, were found on the head of King John when his coffin was opened 

 at Worcester, in 1797. Another remarkable example is the monument of 

 Robert the Wise, died 1 343, in the church of Santa Chiara, at Naples. A 

 few days before his death the King assumed the habit of a Franciscan, and 



