ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 125 



services, fortunately we do not need to say that it is a place 

 of " fractured arch and mouldering wall." 



The Brasses have been partially reproduced, being given 

 to illustrate an article on Mohuns Otter}', Devon, in 

 " Memorials of the West," published in 1888, by W. Hamilton 

 Rogers, F.S.A., whose recent death has removed a charming 

 personality from the ranks of West Country antiquaries. 



For the sake of sequence, however, I bring them again to 

 3'our notice, and show the usual plain black and white 

 facsimiles of these square but interesting 17th Century plates, 

 in their stone frames. 



Position. Within stone frames fixed against the Chancel 

 wall on either side of east window ; the earlier brass being on 

 the North side. A marble slab within a similar stone frame 

 deserves notice ; it is on the South wall of the Chancel, and I 

 reproduce it for comparison. 



Size. 1. Margaret Mohun, 1603, 27in. high by 20in. wide. 



2. Maximiliam Mohun, 1612, 20ins. high by 28in. 



wide. 



3. Francis Mohun, 1711 (Marble Slab), 24in. high 



by 19|ins. wide. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 



" Hie jacet Margarita uxor quondam castissima viri 

 dignissirni Roberti Mohun alias Moun de Bothenhampton 

 in comitatu Dorcestensi armigeri, quac quidem Margarita 

 f nit filia et cohaeres Stephani Hyde de Hyde in eodem etiam 

 comitatu armigeri. Hace 17 liberorum faelicissima fuit 

 parens. Vixit annos circiter 90, ac in Domino requiescit. 

 Obiit primo die Decembris anno regni serenissimi Jacobi 

 Anglorum regis 1 ac Scotiae 36, salutis 1603." 



" Here lies Margaret once the virtuous wife of the most 

 honourable Robert Mohun, otherwise Moun of Bothenhampton 

 in the county of Dorset, esquire, which Margaret was the 

 daughter and coheiress of Stephen Hyde in the same county. 



