A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



worn a short surcote with loose sleeves, the 

 legs are covered by hoien and the hands by 

 cuffed gauntlets. On the right side a horn is 

 suspended from a narrow crossed strap, and 

 apparently from a haudric worn under the 

 supertunic. A shef of pocok arwes is carried 

 in what seems to be a sling, a mighty howe is 

 held under the left arm, and the feet rest 

 upon the remains of a hound. 



The effigy at Glinton is evidently a monu- 

 ment of the early part of the fourteenth 

 century and probably represents one of the 

 Delamere family who possessed land in the 

 adjoining parish of Northborough, and are 

 said to have held the office of foresters of 

 Kesteven, an adjacent district of Licolnshire, 

 from the beginning of the thirteenth century. 

 In the time of Bridges it was lying together 

 with the figure of a lady in Glinton church- 

 yard. They were then described as ' two 

 old stones with battered figures of ecclesiastics.' 

 The forester has been sheltered in the tower, 

 but the effig)' of the lady remains outside, a 

 mere block of stone. 



Sir William de Hinton, living 1346, 

 and . . . his wife. Hinton-in-the-Hedges. 



The freestone effigies lie upon low plain 

 panelled tombs of the same material placed 

 continuously against the north wall of the 

 north aisle, and apparently in their original 

 positions. They are somewhat abraded, and 

 were described in 1788 as painted black, 

 perhaps their original condition ; they have 

 subsequently been scraped, and in 1866 were 

 coated with thin green licherK The knight 

 is in a costume very like that of De Paveley 

 at Paulerspury, the attitude is exactly the 

 same, and the latter may possibly have formed 

 the model for a local sculptor. The costume 

 is interesting. De Hinton wears a bascinet 

 and camail, a habergeon, a tight-sleeved 

 haketon, with the lower edge cointised or 

 pinked, a cyclas with a short sleeve on the 

 right side only, gauntlets with articulated cuffs 

 of plate and leather fingers, a mutilated lion- 

 faced pallet or disc is fixed on the right 

 elbow, chausses of mail cover the legs and are 

 bound below the knees. The sword is sus- 

 pended by a rather narrow belt, from a 

 double locket ; on the right side are the 

 remains of a misericorde — the first appearance 

 of this weapon. The shield is hung by a 

 gigue and fastened to the arm by an enarme. 

 The head rests upon the two pillows which 

 are now finally to be superseded in military 

 effigies by the knightly helm. The feet 

 armed with rowel spurs rest upon a lion 

 whose mane is sculptured in a series of long 

 wavy locks instead of the usual short curls. 



The effigy of De Hinton's wife is uncouth 

 and rudely executed. She wears a tight- 

 sleeved gown and a mantle looped across the 

 shoulders, a coverchief over the head, pads for 

 the hair at the sides of the face, and a wimple 

 under the chin. The head rests upon the 

 usual double pillows supported by headless 

 angels, and the feet upon a mutilated animal. 



Sir John de Lyons. Living 1346. VVark- 

 worth. 



The effigy carved in clunch lies under an 

 arch of the north arcade, on a high and 

 narrow altar-tomb of the same stone, of which 

 the north and south sides are divided into 

 eight compartments by buttresses with 

 crocketed finials. Each compartment contains 

 a panel under an ogeed and canopied arch ; 

 three of the panels on each side contain 

 figures, and in the other five are shields sus- 

 pended from foliage. At the west end of the 

 tomb is a kneeling figure under a canopied 

 arch. The east end of the tomb abuts 

 against the respond of the arch under which it 

 is placed. The effigy is a very rich and 

 beautifully sculptured example of the costume 

 of a knight in the middle of the fourteenth 

 century. He wears upon his head a bascinet 

 to which is attached a camail of mail, over 

 his body a cyclas laced at the right side, under 

 this a haketon with sleeves, and under this 

 garment a gambeson. His legs and feet are 

 encased in chausses of mail, the spurs have 

 plain wheel rowels, the knees are protected by 

 genouill^res, carefully decorated with ball- 

 flowers and quatrefoils, like the ' Paules 

 windows' on the shoes of the laity, the 

 elbows by guards and lion-faced discs, and the 

 hands by gauntlets of plate and leather, with 

 close-fitting cuffs, strapped round the wrists. 

 The spurs have plain rowels, left almost in 

 block by the sculptor. The knight's head, 

 supported by angels, rests upon his helm for 

 battle and jousting, surmounted by the crest. 

 The feet press, with admirable spontaneity, on 

 a lion. The shield is charged with the lion 

 rampant of De Lyons. The sword is sus- 

 pended by an elaborate baudric worn obliquely, 

 the ends of it are fastened to a double locket 

 placed a few inches below the top of the 

 scabbard. In later swords the double locket 

 is close to the top, and in earlier examples 

 two single ones are used. The end of the 

 scabbard is protected by a chape or bouterolle, 

 and the pommel of the sword is ornamented 

 with a human face. The ornate misericorde 

 is slung by a loop from the baudric, and every 

 detail of the effigy has received the sculptor's 

 most careful attention. Such was the military 

 dress in which the heroes of Cressy and Poictiers 



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