ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 23$ 



"The present parsonage house (of Lucomb als. East 

 Chelborough) was built by the Rev. Blakley Cooper, M.A., 

 of Wadham College, the Rector and then patron of the living, 

 in the year 1832. He was at that time (instituted 1809) resident 

 Vicar of Yetminster, but during the Reform Bill riots, becoming 

 unpopular at that place, he took up his residence at East 

 Chelborough." 



Size. Figures, 38in. in height ; inscription, 41 in. by 5f in. 



Heraldry. Two shields remain, 5fin. by 6|in., bearing the 

 following arms : 



1. Quarterly ist and 4th, azure, three horses' heads, couped 



or, bridled gules,* Horsey. 2nd and 3rd, Barry wavy 

 of eight f arg. and sable, a saltaire or, Malbanck. 



2. The same, impaling Azure a chevron between three 



cross-crosslets fitchee or, within a bordure engrailed 



of the second, Turges. 



Description. Sir John Horsey is bare-headed, and has the 

 long hair of the period ; he wears a collar of mail, a cuirass 

 richly chased with scroll work, having pauldrons, the right being 

 the larger; on both are passe-gardes. His coutes are alike in 

 size [cf. John Dauntesay, Esq., 1559, West Lavington Church, 

 and John Baynton, Esq., 1516, Bromham Church, in the 

 adjoining county of Wiltshire, both having the left nearly twice 

 the size of right]. His genoullieres and anelace J are large ; 

 brassarts and vambraces are plain. His hands, without gauntlets, 

 are raised in attitude of prayer. He has a short skirt of taces, 

 having two fluted tuilles dependent from it, and beneath all a 

 skirt of mail. His legs are encased in fluted jambs , on his feet 



* Tinctures given by Haines and possibly visible in his day ; but given in HarJ. 

 MS. 1,160, fo. 86: Azure three horses' heads couped and bridled or; and in 

 Harl. MS. 5,827 (as copied in Baring Gould's Armory of the West} Az. three 

 horses' heades arg : raynes and bridles or. 



f Agreeing with Harl. MS. 1,166, fo. 86. 



J" An anelace and a gipciere all of silk hung at his girdle, white as morwe 

 milk" (from the description of a knight's costume in the prologue to The Canter- 

 bury Tales}. 



