ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 151 



The ends of the stole drop very low, covering on each side a 

 portion of the orphrey-work on alb, again having a wider fringe 

 than is sometimes seen. 



The chasuble is very different from that worn by William 

 Grey ; it has little orphrey around the edge ; its " parura" 

 consists of a broad stripe from the neck downwards of quatre- 

 foil diaper work, similar in arrangement to that of a priest at 

 Wensley Church, Yorkshire, although the former is much plainer 

 in its pattern and ornamental details. 



The mutilated state of this brass is very disappointing, for, as 

 an example, it would be a finer engraving than our Evershot 

 Rector, although so small. We may congratulate our generation 

 that this damage is not of recent date, the effigy being very 

 generally spoken of as the headless priest and the slab being 

 fractured there. 



The inscription, too, is better cut ; the factor of wear may 

 have something to do with the appearance of William Grey's, 

 but the individual letters on the Brodewey epitaph are of much 

 finer form, although they partake of the same general style as 

 the other. 



Hie jacct Dns Richard 9 Brodcmey quondam rector huf 

 ecclTe qui obut sexto die decembris fln dni tt) V^ XXXVI 

 cui' flie propiciet' de' ame 



In connection with Purse Caundle it may not be out of place 

 to state that the large slab in memory of Dr. Nathaniel High- 

 more, the celebrated physician and writer of Oxford and 

 Sherborne, after whom the Antrum of Highmore in the Maxilla 

 is named, has recently been removed from its position within 

 the chancel rails, and could not be found when the writer visited 

 the church in 1902. 



Dr. Highmore's father was Rector of Purse Caundle for many 

 years from 1613, and his brother, Richard Highmore, was Rector 

 in 1695, and one of the exors. of the Doctor's will. 



