ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



153 



The adjoining slab, with its brass tablet to the memory of 

 John Chafy, Rector, who succeeded Richard Highmore in 

 1730, has also gone since Hutchins described it. (Vol. IV., 



P- H7-) 



We will hope no one was tempted in the manner following, 

 which needs little explanation. 



(Note kindly supplied by the Rev. W. Miles Barnes) 



"Extract from the Stratton churchwardens' accounts, 1753, 

 April 26th Two Brasses not wey'd at 7 p. pound sopos'd to 

 wey 12 pound they wey'd but gibs. o. 5. 3." 



There are no brasses at Stratton now. 



(8 & 9.) PURSE CAUNDLE. 

 WM. LONGE, ESQ. 



" W m Longe, Esq (?) c. 1500, wife and inscription lost North 

 Chantry." Haints. 



"Elizabeth daughter and heiress of W m Longe, Esq 1527, with 

 flowing hair, small, North Chantry." Haines. 



Position. Upon the floor, on a small brass plate, under a 

 figure of a woman, in the angular head-dress of the period* and 

 furred cuffs, with the hands joined in the attitude of prayer, is 

 the following inscription : 



Of yo r cbarite pray for the Souk of Elizabeth Longe 

 daughter and beyre of Ulyllm Longe Esquyer, luhicbe 

 Elizabeth dyed the XXV day of January, ye y rc of o r (Lord) 



m- vc xxvn 



* Really the dress of some 30 years earlier. " That the old fashions lingered 

 longest in the country may be easily seen by a glance at the collections of brasses 

 by Cotman and others." Costume in England, F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A., 

 p. 245. 



