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By W. de C. PRIDEAUX, L.D.S., Eng., F.R.S.M. 



PART VII. 



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T a previous meeting I exhibited a series of 

 figure and other memorial brasses ; to my 

 great regret they were destroyed by fire 

 shortly after, before being reproduced. 

 I may perhaps mention that a large plano- 

 convex lens was the cause of my trouble, 

 and warn fellow-members against leaving 

 lenses near papers, whether rolled or flat, 

 on a sunny day. 



I have rubbed most of these again and reproduce those 

 from Woolland, Pimperne, Lytchett Matravers, and Church 

 Knowle this year. Of others I have five inscribed brasses 

 from Wareham, not in Haines' list. The Rector of St. Mary's 

 was kind enough to allow me to examine the reverse of these 

 brasses for possible palimpsests, I regret to say with 

 negative result. During the alterations at Puddletown 

 Church, the Rev. A. L. Helps allowed me to examine the 

 curious Cheverell effigy and inscription there, but these 

 plates, contrary to expressed opinion, proved to have perfectly 

 plain backs. 



