ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 221 



brass) on the outer leaf of the Register as " The other is 

 much antienter, and lyes by the reading desk, with the 

 brass effigies of a man and of two women his wives, one on 

 each side of him, with sentences issuing out of the man's 

 mouth, and of the woman's on the left side of him thus 

 inscribed verbatim : 



" 1bic jacet 5obes Wbite Wo& Gentflman qiiofcm 

 isti' eccl'ie patronus &e fare usoris ei' qui obiit 

 * . _j Me /l&es . . . H fcm"/ID<3CC(L . . . et 

 Sobana ujor ei' que' obiit Me 1Rov>ebr H 5 

 /l&CCCCXim et Blicia ujor et q^pbiit y\y &te 

 /Ilbaii H fcni /IDCCCCJDJ3 quor f aiab3 ppicietur 

 bens 



The sentence issuing out of the man's mouth is this : 



O /Ifoater fcei, memento mei 



Out of the second wife's mouth on the left hand : 



/IlMserere mei bens, miserere mei. 



Over is a shield bearing on a chevron three cinque/oils^ 

 tinctures gone. Papworth gives, or on a chevron sable three 

 five foils . . . Stretchley, co. Dorset. The Devonshire 

 Stretchleys bore, according to Burke's General Armory, Or on 

 a chevron azure three cinque foils of the first. 



The brasses are now mural in the nave, part of the scrolls 

 are missing. John White wood is given in the civilian dress of 

 the period, with his hair polled in a similar manner to that of 

 Sir Thomas Brook at Thorncombe (p. 278, Vol. XXIX., our 

 Proceedings). His wives are dressed alike in the long gown 

 much resembling the tunic, and girt below the breasts ; over 

 the head dress, is a hanging veil or cover chief. The dresses 

 are very similar to that of Elizabeth Poyle, 1424, Hampston 



