238 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



Sampford. 3rd, Azure, three bars wavy argent, Bruning. 4th, 

 Sable, a fret or, Matravers. Impaling "a lion statant guardant, 

 on a field which seems to have been paly or cheeky; but it is 

 indistinct and uncertain," * a charge quite indecipherable 

 now. 



Second shield : Quarterly, Matravers, Sampford, and Bruning, 

 as on the former, impaling 4 charges now quite obliterated. 



Third shield : Quarterly, Matravers, Sampford, and Bruning. 



The arms of Bruning given as Argent, 3 bars wavy azure, are 

 liable to be confused with those of Sampford, Barry wavy of six 

 argent and gules, the latter being the older, and given in the Roll 

 of Henry III., as Unde (6), argent and azure, and in Glover and 

 Norfolk Rolls as Unde (6) argent and gules? 



The Matravers fret, with a file of 3 ermine, is very clearly 

 shown quartered with Sampford and Bruning on one of the two 

 remaining shields on the canopy of William Bruning's tomb in 

 the north transept; the other shield having Sampford, impaling, 

 or, 8 piles in point gules, a quarter ermine, Bassett ; as also used by 

 Folliot, of Melbury Osmond. These two shields on the canopy 

 over the recumbent marble effigy of William Bruning, hereafter 

 described, are the poor remains of a wealth of heraldry on 

 engraved brass, with which this tomb, and the similar fine 

 monument under the south transept arch to Sir Giles Strang- 

 ways were enriched ; only empty matrices, with here and there a 

 broken rivet, are the evidence of the former heraldic glories on 

 this latter tomb. 



Sir Laurence Sampford, Kt., Lord of Melbury Sampford, 

 living 41 Henry III., married Hawysia, daughter of the Lord 

 Basset (living a widow 55 Henry III., 1271, and 25 Edward I., 

 1297). Their only daughter, Ada, ultimately heiress of both 

 her father and brother, married Sir Walter Folliot, Kt., whose 

 daughter, Joan, married Sir John Matravers, Kt., and left a 



1 Hutchins' Dorset. 



2 Thomas Sanford de Melbury tempore Eegis Henrici tercii : Azure, three bars 

 wavy argent, 



