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daughter and co-heiress, Alice, who married John Bruning, ah. 

 Brounyng, of the County of Gloucester, Esq. 



John Bruning, of Legh, near Durhurst, Gloucester, Esq., son 

 of the above, married, secondly, Alianor, daughter and co-heiress 

 of Sir Thomas Fitznichol, Knt., Lord of Hull, near Berkeley, 

 co. Gloucester, and had two sons, John and William ; the elder, 

 John, born in 1398, died s.p. May 3rd, 1420; the younger, 

 William, was born in 1400. His alabaster effigy appears in 

 armour on the tomb below the arch leading into the north tran- 

 sept, and is of singular beauty and finish. The head rests on a 

 tilting helm, having mantling, and for crest a lizard ; the helmet 

 is open, and, doubtless with the object of showing as much of 

 the profile as possible, wider than naturally ; around the neck is 

 a collar of suns and roses, similar to the Martin effigy at Piddle- 

 town, which it resembles generally and in many particulars ; but 

 here we have the pendant lion of the house of March also. 

 Notice may be taken of the unusual gauntlets, also of the arming 

 points, which latter are shown attaching the elbow caps to the 

 rerebras and vambras, as in the Martin, Harcourt (1471), and 

 Crosby (1475) effigies. The breastplate is in two pieces, the 

 lower, or paunce, having engrailed margins similar to the 

 Piddletown effigy. The fluted tuilles are hung low down on the 

 engrailed taces, again similar to Martin, Harcourt, and others, 

 figured in Stothard. The cuissards, whilst representing metal, 

 have the fold and appearance of leather coverings ; the knee- 

 caps have the same two extra plates with engrailed margins that 

 are pointed out by Viscount Dillon and seen so plainly on the 

 Martin effigy. The feet, encased in plain pointed sollerets, 

 rest on a lion, the whole displaying minute and painstaking 

 craftsmanship. William Bruning was married three times. By 

 his second wife, Katherine, daughter of Laurence Dm, of 

 Southcote, near Reading, co. Berks, he had three sons 

 William, born in 1432, of whom presently; Alexander, and 

 John ; the latter in Holy Orders. His third wife, who survived 

 him, and caused the monument to be erected, was Alice, the 

 widow of Robert Turges, Esq., and daughter of John Burton, 



