ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 227 

 CHESELBORNE, ST. MARTIN. 



Position. Now mural, nailed on East wall of North aisle, 

 but formerly part of an elaborate freestone monument, of 

 which portions remain in the Church. They should be 

 more securely fastened. 



Description. Three small but beautifully-cut 16th Century 

 engraver's plates ; two are small and fine enough to serve as 

 book plates. Of the two smaller, one, bearing the name of 

 Hugh Kete, carries the following Crest, a unicorn's head erased 

 argent, armed or, gorged with a belt gules buckled and garnished 

 of the second, Kete. Arms, quarterly, 1 and 4, azure a chevron 

 between three kites' heads erased or. Kete, Chesilborne, 2 and 3 

 gules a chevron engrailed between three leopards' faces argent, 

 Coles, Dorset. The second, bearing no name, carries : Crest, 

 a talbot passant sable, collared argent, Grove. Arms, quarterly, 

 1 and 4, Ermine on a chevron engrailed gules three escallops or, 

 Grove of Odstock near Salisbury, 2 and 3, a fess dancette 

 charged with three lions rampant. 



The middle and largest plate bears the names Kete and 

 Grove with their arms impaled ; immediately below the 

 dexter side of shield, within a small label, appears Hugh Kete 

 obiit xx die Sept : Anno dm : 1589, ^Etatis Suae, 57, below the 

 sinister side within a similar label, Mat : Grove, gen : fecit 

 Tho : Wittes, Scul : 



Inscription 



What lief weil led, hath lefte, his just report doth raise 

 Who spent his time in suche a sorte, as weil deserves a praise 



A patron to the poore, a frinde to cache degree 

 That gave his goods most willingly wher neade might seme to 

 bie, 



Whose weil deserved lawde, thoughe lief the same forsooke 

 Remaines with us in memorie, for men thearon to looke 



That as he lived and died, at last to live againe, 

 Ourselves may showe, as greate a hope, with Christ above to 

 ragne 



