brasses of Dorset. 





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



PART IX. 



HE eight Brasses illustrated this year are derived 

 from four Churches, Bridport, Cheselborne, 

 West Stafford, and Upwey ; none of these 

 eight are mentioned in Haines' list. 



In a communication I laid before you in 

 1904 I mentioned the Brass (1536) to a 

 Rector of Purse Caundle, then loose at the 

 Rectory, as being the only example in 

 England of an ecclesiastic shown with a 

 looped maniple. The second example being in Cracow 

 Cathedral to the memory of Cardinal Fredericus Cazmiri, 

 1510 (son of Casimir IV., King of Poland), where the maniple 

 shown on the wrist is plainly looped, possibly our little 

 Dorset example, now carefully refixed in Purse Caundle 

 Church, may before long be absolutely unique, and many 

 an example of the brass engraver's art formerly in the 

 Churches of crucified Belgium may only survive as engravings 

 in Greeny 's " Monumental Brasses." 



