MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES 



ately from foliage and heads, under ogeed 

 canopies of good design, cusped and sub- 

 cusped. At the west end of the tomb are 

 two shields under canopies of the same 

 character, the one being hung from a queen's 

 head, crowned and wearing a wimple, the 

 other from the head of a king bearded and 

 crowned, the two being probably intended 

 for Philippa and Edward III. 



The effigies have suffered much from decay, 

 whitewash and neglect. De Pavely wears a 

 conical and fluted bascinet, to which a camail 

 is attached in the usual way by laces running 

 through vervelles. This head-gear takes the 

 place of the ancient mail hood, forming an 

 important change. The body is clothed in a 

 haketon with tight-fitting sleeves, and over 

 this is worn the singular garment the cyclas, 

 with loose sleeves reaching to the elbow. The 

 hands are protected by plain cuffed gauntlets 

 and the knees by fluted genouilleres ; the legs 

 are encased in chausses of mail, bound with a 

 band below the knees, and the feet armed 

 with rowelled spurs. The sword, which the 

 knight is sheathing, is loosely suspended by a 

 broad transverse belt, fastened by a double 

 locket in accordance with the new fashion, 

 and placed a few inches below the top of the 

 scabbard. How these transverse sword-belts 

 were kept in position at the back, in the 

 absence of the narrow cingulum or waist-strap, 

 is not apparent. They passed away when 

 the baudric came in, and reappeared when 

 the latter fell into disuse, as will presently 

 be seen. The left arm carries the mutilated 

 shield, which must have borne the De Pavely 

 charges. The head rests upon two pillows 

 and the feet upon a lion. The effigy of De 

 Pavely is one of very considerable interest. 

 The fluted bascinet is of excessively rare 

 occurrence, and the cyclas is rendered the 

 more curious in this instance by having sleeves 

 attached to it. Of the fourteen effigies and 

 brasses exhibiting the cyclas in England, three 

 examples are in Northamptonshire. 



The effigy of the lady represents her wear- 

 ing a coverchief over the head confined round 

 the temples with a circlet and falling with 

 long folds over the shoulders. The hair is 

 plaited over small pads and a wimple is pinned 

 up loosely under the chin. She is habited in 

 a gown with tight sleeves and over this is a 

 long supertunic without sleeves, open at the 

 sides as in the later cote-hardi, and falling in 

 easy graceful folds to the feet. The hands 

 formerly in prayer are missing. It is apparent 

 that they were separately attached to the 

 effigy. The head reposes upon two pillows, 

 supported by mutilated angels, and a dog lies 

 at the feet. The memorial is a work of 



great artistic merit ; it is rarely that such an 

 elaborate work, with angels supporting the 

 pillows, is found associated with a wooden 

 effigy. 



Maud Holand, about 1330. Woodford 

 Halse. 



This well proportioned and delicately- 

 sculptured figure, in hard red sandstone, repre- 

 sents a lady wearing the usual coverchief, 

 wimple, gown and mantle of the time. The 

 hands are in prayer, and the head rests upon 

 two pillows supported by angels. The lower 

 part of the effigy has been greatly mutilated. 

 It was discovered March 7, 1878, buried 

 about two feet below the surface of the 

 ground close to the north wall of the chancel, 

 towards the west, outside. 



In 1329 Maud widow of Robert Holand 

 was lady of the manor of Woodford Halse, 

 and is probably represented by this effigy. 



Sir Thomas le Latymer. Died 1334. 

 Braybrooke. 



This wooden effigy of strange proportion, 

 and of the great length of 7 feet 4 inches, 

 has suffered much from decay. It is 

 carved in very knotty oak, and represents a 

 man wearing a ridged cerveli^re over a mail 

 hood, a hauberk and chausses of mail, 

 genouilleres of plate, a surcote reaching only 

 to the knees — the cyclas in fact, with its 

 hinder portion cut off — and plain gauntlets. 

 The spurs have wheel rowels, and the shield, 

 no doubt originally blazoned with arms, is 

 suspended by a narrow gigue. The short sur- 

 cote indicates the transition from the cyclas, 

 which it resembles in being open at the sides, 

 to the jupon which succeeded it as a military 

 garment. The ridged cerveliere is the pre- 

 cursor of the pointed bascinet, but is very 

 seldom met with. 



. . Wale. About 1340. Eydon. 



This disfigured freestone effigy of a lady 

 habited in a gown and supertunic probably 

 represents the wife of Sir Richard Wale, who 

 was lord of Eydon in the time of Edward II. 

 It formerly lay under a pew in the north 

 aisle, from whence it was removed into the 

 vestry in 1865. 



Effigy of a Delamere. Glinton. 



A man is here represented wearing the un- 

 usual dress of a forester. The head is 

 apparently bare with the hair arranged in full 

 locks at the sides. Taking Chaucer's descrip- 

 tion of the Yeoman in the Canterbury 

 Pilgrimage, the shoulders appear to be covered 

 by the hot/t; the body is vested in the coote 

 with close-fitting sleeves, and over this is 



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