ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 279 



tbe ID. Hlso bere ltb oame Jobait Broofe 

 tbe wsfe of tbe sasoe ftbomas tbe wbicbe oieo 

 tbe oas of HprpU. Ube sere of our loroe 

 /IDCCGC & Y>ij ano tbe r.x> sere of Iksnoe Ibarrs 

 tbe \>i : on wbo Soules goo bav>e meres & pite 

 tbat for us oseo on tbe 1Rooe tree. Bine." 



Sir Thomas Brook, of Holditch, Knt., is included by Pole 

 among "the men of best worth in Devon," during the reigns of 

 Rich. II., Henry IV., Henry V. (1377-1413.) In him we reach 

 the most important member of the family ivhile resident in the 

 West (see COBHAM for their glories elsewhere), owing in large 

 measure to his marriage with the wealthy widow of Robert 

 Cheddar, which gave him considerable influence in the counties 

 of Somerset and Devon. He was sheriff of Somerset, 1389, and 

 of Devon, 1394, Kt. of the Shire for Somerset, 10, n, 15, 20, and 

 21, Rich. II. He appears to have had two sons by Joan: 

 Thomas and Michell. The former having married Joan, only 

 surviving child and sole heiress of Joan de la Pole, Lady of 

 Cobham, moved to baronial Cobham, where his name and 

 posterity, enobled and otherwise greatly honoured, flourished for 

 several generations. 



OWERMOIGNE, ST. MlCHAEL. 



Haines mentions no brasses here. 



One inscribed brass remains, 4in. by 23in., to John Sturton, 

 Esq., and is unusual of the period, inasmuch as it states that the 

 deceased caused " this wyndowe to be made." 



"ibere Ipetb 5obn Sturton, esquier, tbe wbicb 

 oecesspo tbe jiit oas of 3anuan?, tbe pere of our 

 OLorb /IIMW3 ; tbe wbicb -Jobn causeo tbis 

 WK?noowe to be maoe tbe \?ere aforesaio. n 

 wbose soul Jesus bave meres." 



