150 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



In 1902, when the writer rubbed it, the feet were broken from 

 the body, but the engraving was still in good condition and 

 finely cut. The brass was loose at the Rectory. 



Size. Effigy (headless), loin, by 3fin. ; inscription, Hfin. by 

 3iin. 



Description. This brass to Richard Brodewey represents the 

 deceased as laid out for interment, attired in pre- Reformation 

 Eucharistic vestments, consisting of amice, alb, maniple, and 

 chasuble, similar to the Evershot brass, but having certain 

 differences in detail to be expected at that period. 



The head has been broken off carefully (if one may say so) ; 

 (compare headless priest in cope at Wendron, Cornwall, roughly 

 fractured). 



The hands are raised as in prayer, but no chalice or other 

 ecclesiastical emblem is shown, nor are there initials. 



The apparel of the amice is plainly shown ; it has little orna- 

 ment. 



The alb has an oblong piece of orphrey-work showing quatre- 

 foil embroidery ; the sleeves are loose, and the apparels at the 

 wrist are ornamented with a diaper, instead of a single floreated 

 square, an alteration seen in some 1 6th century brasses ; 

 compare William Grey, ante. 



The maniple, as usual, rests over the left arm, the fringe 

 being somewhat wide. In Macalister's book on the Develop- 

 ment and History of Ecclesiastical Vestments it is said that 

 " When placed on the wrist the maniple was either buttoned or 

 sewn so as to form a permanent loop, so that it should not slip 

 off the arm (p. 77). This was the final development ; in earlier 

 brasses it appears to be simply hung over the arm, and no 

 attachment is visible." 



Shown on a brass, Mr. Macklin considers it almost unique and 

 of very considerable interest ; the writer has discovered in 

 Creeny's Monumental Brasses one other example, engraved 

 from a monument to Cardinal Fredericus Cazmiri, 1570 (son of 

 Casimir, IV. King of Poland), in Cracow Cathedral, where the 

 maniple shown on the left wrist is plainly looped. 



