ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 277 

 SWYRE, HOLY TRINITY. 



Haines makes no mention of any brasses here. 



On grey marble slabs, within, on each side of the north door 

 are two plain inscriptions in old English characters with separate 

 shields of arms over, each 5in. by 6in., inscriptions, i8in. by 3oin. 

 respectively, to John and James Russell and their wives. 



Inscriptions. 



I. 



" fbere X^etb 3obit IRussell JEsquier ano )li3a=* 

 betb bis w^fe oauobter of 3obn ffrocfesmer Bsquier 

 wbicb oecess^o tbe u Kte of Iking Ifoenrs se vii HO 

 1505." 



ii. 



"1bere %$etb James IRussell Bsquier ano Hl\?s 

 w\>fe oaugbter of 3obn Mise iBsquier wbo 

 tbe first ^ere of Ikino 1benr^ tbe viii HO 



Heraldry. Over John Russell : Argent, a lion rampant, gules, on 

 a chief sable, three escallops of the first, Russell, impaling, Sable, a 

 griffin segreant between three crosslets fitchee argent, Frocksmer. 



Over James Russell : Russell as before, impaling, Sable, three 

 chevronels ermine, a crescent for difference, or. Wise. 



John Russell of Berwick, K.G., created Baron Russell of 

 Cheneys, Bucks, 1538-9, son of the above James Russell, was 

 born at Kingston Russell. In his younger days he resided some 

 time in Spain, and when Philip, Archduke of Austria, and Joan, 

 dau. of Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile and 

 Arragon, were driven into Weymouth by stress of weather in 

 their passage from Flanders to Spain, acted as interpreter for 

 these guests when entertained by Sir Thomas Trenchard (see 

 indent from his despoiled altar tomb at CHARMINSTER) at Wolfeton, 

 and subsequently accompanied them to London to the Court of 

 Henry VII. 



