MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES 



tume which rapidly passed away at the death 

 of Henry VIII. She is represented in a pedi- 

 mental head-dress, with plain lappets pinned 

 up at the sides, and her hair braided with 

 ribbon. She wears a partlet embroidered at 

 the neck, and two gold chains, from which a 

 four-leaved flower is suspended. A tight- 

 fitting gown, cut square at the neck, falls 

 in plain folds to the feet ; round the waist 

 is a loosely-knotted girdle from which a 

 gypci^re or purse hangs by a cord with a 

 running knot, and is drawn together by a 

 tasselled string. The gown has divided sleeves 

 attached to it, connected at intervals by 

 points, and showing the pleated under-sleeves 

 of the partlet, with ruffles at the wrist. The 

 lady's head rests upon double pillows — they 

 were called cushions after the period of the 

 Reformation — supported by angels, and at her 

 feet are two lapdogs with belled collars. 



The tomb is divided into compartments 

 with semi-circular arched canopies containing 

 shields at the ends and figures at the sides. 

 On the north side of the tomb are five female 

 figures in pedimental head-dresses, and wear- 

 ing pomanders ; on the south side are two 

 figures of ecclesiastics in tippets and hoods, 

 and three men in long-sleeved gowns, open in 

 front. Arms are painted on three shields at 

 the two ends. Round the verge is the fol- 

 lowing inscription : 



Here lieth • Sir ■ Weliam ■ Par • knight 



• LAT ■ lorde • Par ■ of • Horton • and 



LORDE • CHAMBERLENE-TO-THE -QVINES 



• HIGHNES • DISESID ■ THE X • OF SEPTEM- 

 BER • Ano i 1546 Here • lie ■ th • Marie • 



DOWGHTER • AND COHEIR OF JOHN • 

 SALISBERI • ESQVIER ■ LATE • WIF ■ TO 



Ser • Weliam Par • lord Par • of • 

 Horton • desesed ■ the • x • of ivli • 



A • 1555. 



Sir Thomas Tresham. Died 1559. 

 Rushton. 



This alabaster effigy is remarkable as the 

 only one of its kind in England. Tresham 

 is shown wearing the long black mantle with 

 a cross flory on the breast, the dress of a knight 

 Hospitaller ; the sword is worn over the mantle 

 and portions of the armour are visible at the 

 neck, wrists and ankles. 



When Capt. Symonds visited Rushton 

 June 5, 1645, the day before the battle of 

 Naseby the alabaster tomb and effigy were in 

 the church of St. Peter. This was pulled 

 down in 1785 when the monuments were 

 removed to All Saints church. 



Sir Thomas Andrew, died 1 564, and Dames 

 KATHERiNEand Marv his wives. Charwelton. 



Sir Thomas Andrew is represented in a 

 tabard, blazoned as usual upon the front, 

 back and sleeves, with his arms. The upright 

 guards of the pauldrons, and the straps and 

 buckles fastening the cuirass to the back-piece 

 appear above this garment. The coudieres 

 show the vanishing channels of earlier times, 

 and the nuts fastening them to the straps 

 which kept them in place. Below the tabard 

 is the mail skirt, and the genouilleres and 

 articulations have the characteristic plainness 

 of their date. The head rests upon the tilting 

 helm with its mail skirt, mantling and crest — 

 a Moor's head. A collar of SS is worn with 

 a pendent Tudor rose. 



The effigies of the two ladies show them 

 dressed alike in high-collared gowns, kirtles 

 with divided sleeves, and mantles looped across 

 the breast, the heads reposing on embroidered 

 cushions. 



The figure of Sir Thomas Andrew lies 

 between those of his two wives upon an altar- 

 tomb with the sides divided into three com- 

 partments containing shields. At the east 

 end of the tomb is the coat of Andrew with 

 crest between a man and seven sons, and a 

 woman and three daughters, all kneeling. 



Round the verge of the tomb is the follow- 

 ing inscription : 



Sub isto tum'la jacet tiomina IStattrina 

 3[nlJtctocs prima uxor 2EI)omc 3lnTjrcfac0 

 militia una filiar' et (jetEtium lEljfaartJi 

 CCabe armtge' que quittem Batcrtna 

 obiit liEcimo actafaa bit SuguTti an'o 

 miirima quingentcaimo quinquagfaimo 

 quinto, of totoae aolU ®oti Jjafae mctcg. 

 3 m £ n . 



It is thus shown that the monument was 

 set up by Sir Thomas Andrew after the death 

 of his first wife. He married secondly Mary, 

 daughter of John Heneage. It is evident 

 that the figures are not the accurate portraits 

 that might have been expected. 



William Chauncy, died 1585, and Joan 

 his wife. Edgecott. 



A considerable decline in interest, both 

 antiquarian and artistic, is evinced by the rude 

 and well-preserved alabaster effigies and tomb 

 of the elder Chauncys. The effigy of the 

 man shows him in armour of much the same 

 character that has been noticed in earlier 

 figures in the county. But the upright pass- 

 guards of the pauldrons are gone, and in the 

 place of the tuiles suspended from the tassets — 

 seen for the last time on the effigy of Knightley 

 of Fawsley — we have tuiles of articulated 

 plates, a style which endured as long as armour 

 was worn, working freely with sliding rivets, 



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