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said by Churchyard to have been a squirrel, but now broken away. It seems to 

 have been attached by a chain, which passes over the body with a sweep, and ter- 

 minates in a wide slit or pocket in the side of the kirtle. 



This monument is supposed to represent Eva, daughter of William Marshall, 

 Earl of Pembroke, and wife of William de Braose, the last Lord of Abergavenny 

 of that name. She died in 1246. Churchyard says, the story handed down was, 

 that the lady had a pet squirrel which escaped, and she, in trying to recover it, 

 overbalanced herself, fell from the Castle wall, and so lost her life. 



They say her squirrel lept away, 



And toward it she run ; 

 And as from fall she sought to stay 



The little pretie bun, 

 Right down from top of wall she fell 



And tooke her death thereby. 



Chdbohyabd. 



The animal is supposed to have been represented on her tomb in commemora- 

 tion of the event. 



This effigy has certainly no characteristic whatever of the 13th century. Its 

 true date is about 1300 to 1320, and, therefore, if it represents Eva de Braose, it 

 must have been made long after her death. 



No. X.— EVA DE CANTELUPE (12.57). 



This is by far the most interesting and rem.arkable effigy in the Church. It 

 is an excellent specimen of sculpture, and all its details are rich and beautiful. 

 The coarse masonry beneath detracts greatly from its tine appearance. It is an 

 altar tomb of hard gritstone, with a recumbent female figure 4 ft. 3 in. in length. 

 The face has been much injured. The head rests on an oblong cushion, dressed 

 in a whimple with a veil hanging down behind. The figure wears a state mantle ; 

 the hands are raised upon the breast in prayer, holding a heart between them. 

 The feet rest on a dog. The most interesting circumstance is, that the body of 

 the figure below the hands is covered with a long heater shield, 23 in. by 17 in., 

 with the Cantelupe arms, covered in relief by three very large fleur-de-lis, two 

 and one. This is supposed to be the earliest representation of a shield on a 

 female figure, and it enables the monument to be identified as that of Eva de 

 Cantelupe, daughter and co-heiress of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny ; 

 she married William de Cantelupe, who in right of his wife became Lord of 

 Abergavenny. He died in 1256, and left his widow Baroness in her own right. 

 She died in 1257, leaving one son, George de Cantelupe, represented by the effigy 

 in oak, in this Church, already described. This lady must have been a near 

 relative of the Bishops Cantelupe, of Worcester and Hereford. St. Thomas de 

 Cantelupe, Bishop of Hereford, bore three fleur-de-lis, which appear at the 

 present time as the arms of the see of Hereford. 



There is an effigy of diminutive size, but of surpassing beauty, in Castle 

 Frome Church, which represents a knight holding a heart in his hand. 



