ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 77 

 LYDLINCH, ST. THOMAS A BECKET. 



Position. Hutchins states that the Blackmore brass 

 is in the chancel. I found what I consider to be 

 its lower portion securely fixed within an oak frame 

 on the west wall of the porch. 



Size. 21ins. long by SJins. wide. The Shakespeare slab 

 is 33ins. by SJins. 



Description. The upper edge of this fragment is 

 straight, the lower of an ornamental outline, point- 

 ing, I think, to the upper portion having been cut 

 away. This piece speaks of bodies, and below has 

 the initials of Richard Blackmore, Priest, 1767. 

 The Revd. S. F. Hooper, who has taken every care 

 of this brass, knows of no other portion. Richard 

 Blackmore* signs the registers of Lydlinch as 

 Rector from 1745 to 1756, and from 1757 to 1767 as 

 Curate ; children of Richard and Elizabeth 

 Blackmore were baptised, and some buried, during 

 his incumbency, and it is reasonable to suppose they 

 were buried below the chancel, in a spot formerly 

 indicated by this brass when in a complete condi- 

 tion. 



The inscription is very interesting from its 

 similarity to that of Shakespeare on his Stratford 

 slab. 



LYDLINCH. 



GOOD S ir , FOR JESUS' SAKE FORBEAR 

 TO MOVE THE BODIES THAT REST HERE. 



R.B.P 

 1767. 



The Registers of Lydlinch, The Parish Register Society. 



