216 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



JOHN CHAPMAN. 



Position. On south wall of chancel, but formerly on a 

 stone at the east end of North Aisle (Hutchins). 



Size. ISJins. long by 2Jins. wide. 



Description. Inscription in Old English type of usual pre- 

 Reformation wording 



1btc jacet Sobes Cbapma $ obiit jpo me 3umt 

 HO fciti /I&ocrccc&f 3353 cut ate ppicfet &e'. 

 Hmen. 



WILLIAM GOLDYNGE. 



Position. On south wall of Chancel. 

 Size. 12|ins. long by 6fins. wide. 



Description. Palimpsest,* obverse, Master Wyllyam 

 Goldynge, Parson, reverse, lower portion of an ecclesiastic. 

 Obverse. Inscription to Master Wyllyam Goldynge 



IHC 



HERE LYETHE THE BOD YE OF 

 MASTER WYLLYAM GOLDYNGE 

 SOMTYME PARSON OF THYS 

 PARYSHE WYCHE DECESYD 

 THE XV DA YE OF MA YE 

 IN THE YERE OF OVRE 

 LORDE GOD 1562 



* [" 7roA//i^77(TTos (\bdia) scratched or scraped again ; usually of parch- 

 ment from which one writing has been erased to make room for 

 another " Liddell and Scott]. " Retroscript " reversed, rescript, 

 adapted may describe the condition of this brass ; but 

 " palimpsest," first employed by the late Albert Way, F.S.A., is 

 used by most authorities on the subject, including the Rev. Herbert 

 W. Macklin, M.A., Mr. Mill Stephenson, F.S.A., and Mr. Herbert 

 Druitt, and was used exclusively by Haines and Boutell. 



