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length. In front it reaches to a little below the fork, 

 leaving visible two rows of the metal rosette studs of 

 the aketoun. At the back, however, it falls to the 

 bend of the leg, and the skirts are split at the side like 

 a dalmatic. There is no girdle, but the sword-belt 

 passing round the hips draws the cyclas together. The 

 sword is of fair size with a long corded grip and an 

 oval pommel and plain quillons with rounded ends. 

 The belt is richly ornamented, but quite simply 

 attached to the scabbard, which has an ornamental 

 metal tip and is somewhat less diminished from haft 

 to point than is the case in the earlier brass. On the 

 head is a fluted oval bascinet reaching to below the 

 ears and with a foiled point or socket at the top. The 

 aventail of banded mail is riveted to the bascinet and 

 covers the neck and shoulders, partly covering the 

 circular pauldrons. Rerebraces of plate are worn 

 strapped over the mail, which shows inside the arm. 

 The elbow cops appear to be articulated on the rere- 

 brace and are reinforced by circular plates tied .on 

 with points. No gauntlets are shown. The legs are 

 clad in mail chausses, over which are strapped plate 

 defences. The knee cops are large ridged and have 

 engrailed borders. The thigh defences are not visible. 

 The insteps are protected by articulated sollerets of 

 five plates, and short prick spurs are worn with rosette 

 bosses. A small heater-shaped shield of a rather acute 

 form rests on the left arm, but has no belt. The 

 hands are joined in prayer and the feet rest on a lion. 

 Over the head is an ogee cinquefoiled canopy, each foil 

 of which is subcusped to form a cinquefoil. This is 

 slightly damaged. The shield is charged with a very 

 broad cheveron. 



In the chancel is also a plain marble slab with a 

 small brass shield and the indents of three others and 

 of an inscription in separate brass letters. The last 

 is so worn as to be indecipherable. The one re- 

 maining shield bears a cheveron with a label of four 

 points. At the north-west of the chancel floor is a 

 slab to ' Sir John Ackland, of Ackland, in the county 

 of Devon, Barronett,' who died in 1 647. Two brasses 

 are fixed to the jambs of the east arch of the chancel 

 arcade. That on the east jamb is of a lady wearing 

 a long head veil, a pleated wimple, a full ungirt robe 

 with moderate sleeves, and an ample cloak with loose 

 cords to fasten it, which hangs down behind the 

 hands, which are joined in prayer. At her feet and 

 on her ample skirts are the figures to a smaller scale of 

 her four sons and four daughters. At the foot is the 

 following inscription : ' Hie jacet dfia Anna Norbury 

 nup' ux' Henrici Norbury milit' II Ac filia Willi 

 Croyser qu'dam dni hui' loci que obiit xn die || oc- 

 tobr' anno dni m CCCC O LX O IIII cui' ai'e ppciet' deu' 

 ame.' The second brass is of a ' chrysom ' child. 

 The swaddling clothes, which are brought over the 

 head in a kind of hood, are bound with crossing bands, 

 and over the forehead the clothes are marked with a 

 cross. Below is an inscription in black letter smalls 

 with capitals : ' Pray for the soule of Elyn bray dowter 

 of s' Edmond || bray Knyght and Jane hys wyfe 

 whiche elyn dyed ye xvi [| day of Maij A M V c xvi.' 

 On the south side of the chapel is a brass to Frances 

 (Bray), 1592, wife of Thomas Lyfield, with a long 

 genealogical inscription. With this are the figures 

 of Frances, her husband, and their daughter Jane, the 

 wife of Thomas Vincent. 



On the south wall of the chancel is a brass plate 

 with the following inscription : ' Hie jacet Johes 



STOKE D'ABERNON 



Prowd Rector isti' ccclie 1 et quat' || Rector ecclie de 

 esthorsley qui obiit nono die Octobr' || A Dm 

 MCCCCLXXXVH" Cujus ai? ppciet' d' amen. 



On the east wall of the chapel is a brass plate with 

 the following inscription : 



Thys Chauntrie foundyt by Syr John Norbury 



The First Prest was Sir John Pinnoke truly : 



Under thys stone lieth buryed His Body 



Of whose soule Jesu have mercy. 



He departed out of this world and from us he is 



gone 



In the yeare of oure Lord fifteen twenty and one 

 The fyrst day of the Month of August 

 In the Marcie of J'hu Christ He puttys all his 



trust. Amen. 



On the east wall is a small mural monument to Sir 

 John Norbury put up in 1633, as the inscription 

 explains, to replace ' the ould monument by injury 

 of time demolisht.' He is represented in early lyth- 

 century armour kneeling at a desk within a semi- 

 circular arch which is surmounted by a broken 

 pediment of classical design. Under the east window 

 of the chapel is the monument of Sarah (Paulet), 

 1608, wife of Sir Francis Vincent. There is a life- 

 size effigy lying on the left side with the cheek resting 

 on the left hand. The costume consists of a tight 

 fitting bodice with a pointed stomacher, and elabor- 

 ately quilted sleeves, a heavily pleated skirt over a 

 farthingale, a deep ruff", and a wide hood. On the 

 plinth below are the kneeling figures of five sons and 

 two daughters. The tomb has a high semicircular 

 canopy the soffit of which is panelled. Above the 

 effigy is an elaborate inscription on a slate slab. 

 Three shields are shown, the first having the quatre- 

 foils of Vincent, the second the three swords of Paulet, 

 the third being Vincent impaling Paulet. Between 

 the two windows on the north of the chapel is a 

 second monument, of slightly later date, to Sir Thomas 

 Vincent, 1613, and his wife, Lady Jane (Lyfield) 

 1619. Sir Thomas is wearing complete armour 

 consisting of a globose breast-plate, a back-plate, a 

 moderate gorget, articulated pauldrons, rerebraces and 

 vambraces, large winged elbow cops, very wide 

 articulated taces over stuffed trunks, articulated jambs, 

 knee cops, vamplate, and articulated sollerets. Over 

 the gorget a fair sized ruff is worn, and the wrists are 

 ruffed. He lies on his right side, and wears a pointed 

 beard. His wife, placed a little below him, is in a 

 recumbent attitude with the hands joined. She 

 wears a close-fitting bodice with a pointed stomacher 

 and moderate sleeves turned back at the cuff, a full 

 skirt with a farthingale, a small hood, a moderate ruff 

 and an ample cloak or mantle. The monument is 

 very similar in design to the last described, but is 

 ornamented with the scrollwork peculiar to the 

 period. The Vincent arms appear on a shield crown- 

 ing the arch. On the back of the tomb are the 

 arms of Vincent and Lyfield, Or a cheveron thereon 

 between three demi-lions gules with three trefoils 

 or on the cheveron. In the churchyard are two 

 ancient grave slabs. The first of these is of plain 

 oblong form and mid- 14th-century date with a mar- 

 ginal inscription in square-sunk Lombardic capitals as 

 follows: ' Johanna Femme de Sire Johan Dabernon 

 chivaler gist icy dieu de sa alme eit merci.' The 

 second is coffin-shaped and ornamented with a cross 



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