146 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



orphrey of quatrefoils at the foot is quite characteristic of this 

 period. Armorial bearings are frequently found here, instead of 

 the usual ornament, also the " fylfot." 



The Stole was hung over the neck, brought forward and 

 crossed, confined by the girdle of the alb, its fringed ends 

 showing below the chasuble. This arrangement is clearly shown 

 in the brass to a priest at Horsham, Sussex (c. 1430), where 

 the cope, being substituted for the chasuble, permits alb and 

 almost the whole of stole to be seen. They are also well shown 

 on a small brass to John West at Sudborough, Northants, where 

 Eucharistic vestments are given, with the exception of chasuble. 

 In our example the fringed ends only are visible, but represented 

 as worn at that time of the same width throughout (see figure at 

 Stone, Kent, 1408, and Henry Denton, Higham Ferrers, North- 

 ants, 1498). 



The Maniple is shown, as usual, over the left arm and of the 

 same width throughout. It is fringed, and was probably 

 embroidered in colours and gold, rendering it unfit for its 

 original use, to wipe the forehead and face,* hence its names, 

 mappula and sudarium. 



The Golden Legend says of St. Peter that "he bare a/way a 

 sudary (or maniple), wyth wyche he wyped the teerys y l ramie from 

 his eyen"} 



In the brass to John Erton, Rector, Long Newton, Wilts, 

 A.D., 1503,1 the maniple is given on the right arm, and in that 

 to Bishop Yong, New College, 1526, and some others it 

 disappears altogether. 



The chasuble shown on this Evershot brass is of the usual shape 

 it assumes on brasses, that of the vesica piscis, or pointed oval. 



* Manual of Monumental Brasses, Rev. Herbert Haines, M.A. Monumental 

 Brasses and Slabs, Eev. Charles Boutell, M.A. Monumental Brasses, 13th to 

 16th Century, J. G. and L. A. B. Waller, folio. 



t Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages, Henry Shaw, F.S.A. 



+ Plate xii., Kite's Brasses of Wiltshire. 

 $ Page 91 and ante, Oxford Journal of Monumental Brasses, 189". 



