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use of this aumbry was to hold the salt and oil used at baptism. There are in the 

 floor of this Church five altar slabs ; one under the present altar, measuring 

 9ft. 4in. by 2ft. 5in., was anciently the high altar slab. The others are placed 

 in different parts of the flooring of the Church, and were no doubt the altar slabs 

 of the various chantry chapels ; three of these altar slabs have been used since 

 their desecration as memorial stones. The monuments of this Church are worthy 

 of notice. Among them are two effigies of jiriests in eucharistic vestments, the one 

 on the south side is beautifully executed, and dates about the beginning of the 

 14th century ; the other is nearly a century later, with a chasuble and alb of a 

 different type. 



In the south aisle is the monument of Sir John Joce, of Clearwell, and his 

 wife ; it is of the time of Edward III. This monument was sadly damaged by 

 being scraped during the restoration of the Church. Margaret, daughter and heir 

 of this John Joce, or Joyce, married a certain Greyndour, who by that marriage 

 acquired the Clearwell estate. A descendant, Robert Greyndour, married 

 Johanna, daughter and heir of Thomas Rugg, or Rigge, of Charlecombe, county 

 Somerset. He died in 1443, and his widow founded a perpetual chantry in the 

 Church of Newland at the altar of St. John Baptist, and St. Nicholas, and 

 obtained royal licence to endow it with £12 per annum. 



John Clifford was the first chaplain. 



The Clearwell estate descended to the Baynhams, and afterwards to the 

 Throckmortons. 



There is a good brass in this chapel to some members of the Baynham 

 family. The date of the armour, and the lady's dress, show it to be about 1443 ; 

 nearly contemporary with this brass, though probably later, is a brass plate, inlaid 

 above the heads of the two figures, with which however it has no connection. It 

 is a curious representation of an iron, or coal, miner, equipped for work, with cap, 

 pick, candle, and hod on his back. No doubt the owner of this crest was a free- 

 miner of the Forest of Dean. In the floor of this chapel are some remains of 

 interesting tiles, which were removed from different parts of the Church at the 

 restoration. One has the arms of Edward the Confessor, and another of 

 Beauchamp, &c. 



Similar tiles occur at St. Mary's Church, Monmouth, and Malvern Abbey. 



In the churchyard, on the north-east of the Church, lies the effigy of Jenkin 

 Wyrall, a Forester-of-fee of the 15th century, which is probably the only effigy in 

 hunting costume in the kingdom.* He wears a peculiar loose cap, folded in plaits, 

 and tied together towards the top. A small portion of an inner garment appears 

 under a loose frock, or jupon with full sleeves, and a short skirt, which was put 

 on over the head, as there is no opening down the breast ; it is slit at the sides. 

 He has trunk hose, fitting closely to the legs, and low boots, which are here open 

 at the ankles on the outside — they are not open on the inside. The horn is of the 

 usual shape, but small, and the hanger or hunting sword, which is slung by a 

 double strap, has what appears to be a small scabbard for a knife, attached to the 



•Excepting the one in Pershore Abbey. 

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