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boat and swinging a censer with his right, but only the chains 

 of the censer appear, the rest having been cut off. Owing 

 to the deep cuttings of the lines this place was broken during 

 the engraving of the Fowler memorial, and was neatly riveted 

 together. 



This plate is certainly not of Flemish workmanship, nor can 

 it definitely be said to be of English work. The main canopy, 

 with its straight lines, crockets and cusps, and the work on 

 the entablature, especially the row of little four-leaved 

 quatrefoils, looks English ; but on the other hand, the costume 

 of the angel and the very florid treatment of the rose window 

 circle with the masonry beneath, together with the fact of its 

 being engraved on a single large sheet of metal, seems to 

 point to a foreign origin, and I venture to suggest that it may 

 be French. As practically no brasses remain in France, I 

 looked up the incised slabs figured in the late Mr. Creeny's 

 great work on the subject, and found that at Rouen, 1296, 

 Evreux, 1317, Chalons-sur-Marne, 1338, and Epernay, 1351, 

 are examples strongly resembling this brass in treatment. 

 Similar angels, similar circles filled with rich and florid 

 tracery, also canopy work, all corresponding to the work on 

 this fragment." 



STURMINSTER MARSHALL, ST. MARY. 



Henry Helme, Vicar, and founder of Bay lye House (the 

 Vicarage), 1581, inscription in six English verses, altar tomb, 

 chancel . Haines . 



Position. Now on a black marble slab on the floor of 

 chancel. 



Size. Effigy 16 by 6 inches ; inscription below 24 by 

 5 1 inches. 



Description. The effigy of Henry Helme, Vicar, is shown 

 with moustache and double-pointed beard, habited in long 

 gown turned out with fur, his hands raised and joined in 



