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THE BRIGHTON ROAD 



as tradition has it, travelled southward from London 

 to the sea on their own manors. 



The squat, shingled spirelet of Slaugham Church 

 and its decorated architecture mark the spot where 

 many of this knightly race lie buried. In the Covert 

 Chapel is the handsome brass of John Covert, who died 

 in 1503 ; and in the north wall of the chancel is the 

 canopied altar-tomb of Richard Covert, the much- 

 married, who died in 1.547, and is represented, in 

 company of three of his four wives, by little brass 

 effigies, together with a curious brass representing 

 the Saviour rising from the tomb, guarded by armed 

 knights of weirdly-humorous aspect, the more diverting 

 because executed all innocent of joke or irreverence. 



Here is a rubbing, nothing exaggerated, of one of 

 these guardian knights, to bear me up. 



Another Richard, but twice married ,*"who died in 

 1579, is com- 

 memorated in a 

 large and elab- 

 orate monument 

 in the Covert 

 Chapel, whereon 

 are sculptured, 

 in an attitude 

 of prayer, 

 Richard him- 

 self, his two 

 wives, six sons, 

 and eight 

 daughters. 



Last of the 

 Coverts whose 

 name is per- 

 petuated here 

 is Jane, who 

 deceased in 

 1586. 



Beside these 

 things. Slaugham claims some interest as containing 



FROM A BRASS AT SLAUGHAM. 



