ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 2^1 



Position. On large marble grave slab, in St. John the 

 Baptist's Chapel, at the east end of the north aisle of the Abbey 

 Church. 



Size. 13^ in. long, by 2| in. wide. 



Description. A simple engraved plate, of XVth Century work, 

 in contemporary church text, as follows : 



" 1btc jacet 3obes Hrtur but' locf monacbus 

 Cutus antme pptctetut fceus, 



We may class this brass as being rare ; apart from those lost 

 us through spoliation, the vow of poverty would militate against 

 many brasses being laid to monks, so we may reasonably con- 

 clude that John Artur was a notable man in the Abbey, either in 

 character or office, and quite possibly filled many parts in his 

 day, although "monachus" alone appears on his simple slab. 



His Benedictine brother at St. Albans, 



" Frater Robertus Beauver qndm hui' monasterii monachus," 

 at various times during forty-six years, was in turn, kitchener, 

 refectorer, infirmerer, spicerer. 



There are two other marble grave slabs in Milton Abbey, 

 each showing the matrix of a brass of about the same size as 

 John Artur's : one lies in the floor of the south aisle, not far 

 from the vestry ; the other (broken) lies loose in the north 

 transept, near the Damer monument. It is supposed that each 

 of these grave slabs at one time covered a monk of the Abbey. 



MELBURY SAMPFORD. 



MEMORIALS TO THE BRUNING ah, BROUNYNG AND 

 STRANGWAYES FAMILIES. 



"i. : Sir Gyles Strangwayes, 1562, in tabard, Nave, p. 236. 

 Inscription, ii. : Two shields, with 14 and 13 quarterings, and 

 inscriptions to Henry Strangwayes, Esq., who 'died at the 

 syege of Bolleyne,' and his wife Margaret, daughter of Lord 



