258 Maud Heath's Causey. 
to the repairing the causeway towards Keilway’s Bridge.” Such 
is still the belief. The overlying slab, which is all that is left of 
the monument, is now reared up against the west wall of the tower 
close by the entrance at the south porch. It is a massive piece of 
freestone, about 74 feet in height. In the upper part of it are cut 
two small trefoiled and pointed niches, within each of which is a 
head, now much defaced by time and weather. On the surface of 
the slab below each head there have been at one time floriated 
crosses. Part of one only is now to be seen. ‘There is no trace of 
inscription. 1 
As to its being a monument of Maud, and her sister, joint bene- 
factors to the causey, this is quite contrary to all evidence: for none 
of the deeds or recitals of deeds make the slightest allusion to any 
sister being partner in the gift, but they invariably speak of Maud, 
and Maud only. In the next place we are rather inclined to think 
that the heads are those not of two females, but of a man and his 
wife, which, if it is the case, puts an end to all claim of Maud to 
this memorial; as “the worthy benefactress” was a spinster. The 
heads, it is true, are much defaced: but a very close inspection will 
show under the chin of the face on the sinister (¢.e. the right as 
you look at it), or wife’s side, the distinct remnant of female dress, 
of which there is no trace in the other. Finally, the gravestone is 
of a style generally considered to be at least 100 years older than 
the time of Maud Heath. For these three reasons it is doubtful 
whether it can possibly refer to her. But be that as it may, there 
is no reason for doubting that she lived and probably died in tlie 
parish of Langley Burrell. 
Mr. Bowles admits this, but he afterwards says that “her own 
parish was Bremhill.” His authority for this statement he does 
1 Single incised slabs of this kind, having a head introduced over the Cross, 
may be seen in the Churchyard of Limpley Stoke, between Freshford and Bath. 
Also at Monkton Farley. These particular examples are drawn in the Rey. E. 
Cutts’s pretty and very cheap book, called ‘‘Manual of Sepulchral Slabs and 
Crosses of the Middle Ages.” In that Volume, at Plate Lxx., there is a tombstone 
of the double pattern (which is much more rare), very nearly resembling that 
at Langley Burrell. 
