A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 



palm to palm on the breast. The head rests 

 on a cushion, and on it there appear to have 

 been three angels, one at the crown of the 

 head, the other two at the sides of the face. 

 The hair is long and curly. The date is late 

 fourteenth or early fifteenth century. This 

 effigy now rests on a Dacre altar tomb, and 

 is said to have been brought from the church- 

 yard. A modern inscription in cursive letters 

 has been cut across the lower part of the 

 figure, as follows : John Crow of Longlands 

 died March 23rd, 1708, aged 25 years. 



Tradition says he was a workman at the 

 building of the abbey, who fell from the 

 clerestory and broke his neck, but Pennant 

 says he broke his neck by a fall he had in 

 climbing round the ruins of the church on 

 23 March, 1708. 



III. The headless bust of a figure, assumed 

 to be that of a deacon, is in an aumbry of 

 the transept. 



MILBURN 



Resting against the south wall of the 

 church on the outside is the recumbent effigy 

 of a lady in white stone, very much worn 

 from exposure. She is clad in a robe with 

 girdle. The head, hands and feet are all 

 missing. Length of the fragment 4 feet. 



MILLOM 



I. On a very handsome altar tomb of ala- 

 baster are the effigies of a gentleman and his 

 lady, undoubtedly of the Hudleston family ; 

 but there is nothing to show which members 

 they are. The man is on the sinister side of 

 the slab, and is bareheaded with long flow- 

 ing hair. The head rests on a tilting helmet 

 of which the crest is gone, but the mantling 

 on the sinister side remains. The crest in 

 most cases is found on the dexter side of the 

 head. Chain mail is seen at the neck. The 

 pauldrons are large and plain. A skirt of 

 invected taces with dependent tuilles covers 

 the lower part of the body. A collar of roses 

 and stars hangs from the neck. The date is 

 the middle or end of the fifteenth century. 



The lady's costume is of a similar date to 

 that of her husband. Her head-dress appears 

 to be knitted, she wears an elaborate collar 

 with a sexfoil ornament the pendants of 

 both hers and her husband's are defaced. A 

 sideless cote-hard i conceals part of the belt 

 which encircles the plain kirtle. A long 

 mantle is seen hanging at the side of the 

 dress, but the cord on the breast and the 

 folded hands have been entirely destroyed. 



The tomb on which the effigies rest is in 

 the south-east corner of the aisle, one side and 

 end being against the walls. The other side 



and end contain seven cusped pinnacled and 

 crocketted niches, each containing a figure of 

 an angel bearing a plain shield. Six of these 

 are attended by one small kneeling figure and 

 the other by two. A date is given to the 

 whole monument because these small figures 

 are those of females, wearing the butterfly 

 head-dress which was in fashion between 

 the reign of Edward IV., 1461, and the 

 early years of Henry VII., 1485. 



II. A grotesque looking fragment of the 

 effigy of a man in oak. The figure is very 

 much worn, but plate armour is seen at the 

 knees. The feet rest on a lion. It is of 

 late fourteenth or early fifteenth century date. 



OUSBY 



An effigy (7 feet long) in oak of a man in 

 chain mail of the thirteenth century, very 

 similar to the stone ones of the same period 

 previously described. Figure in chain mail 

 with plate knee cops, camail, and long 

 sleeveless surcoat, cut up the middle. 

 Under it a hawberk of mail over a 

 haqueton. Apparently banded mail on legs 

 and ringed elsewhere. The spur straps are 

 left, but spurs gone. Narrow guige over 

 right shoulder, but shield and part of left side 

 of effigy gone. Narrow waist belt but broader 

 sword belt with long ends hanging down. 

 The hilt and blade of sword gone. Legs 

 crossed at knee. Feet on a dog. 



Bishop Nicolson has stated that ' the tradi- 

 tion is that he was an outlaw who lived at 

 Cruegarth in this parish, and that he was 

 killed, as he was hunting, at a certain place on 

 the neighbouring mountain, which (from that 

 accident) keeps the name of Baron-Syde to 

 this day. For all great men were anciently 

 call'd Barons in this country.' l The figure 

 is now in the chancel ; formerly it was in a 

 recess on the south side of the nave. 



ST. BEES 



Two fragments of male effigies. The 

 older one (thirteenth century) has traces of 

 surcoat, hood, waistbelt, and shield tolerably 

 perfect, having the armorial bearings of 

 the Ireby family (a shield fretty). 



The second figure is also that of a knight, 

 but of the fourteenth century, probably about 

 1370. Slight traces of the pauldrons, camail, 

 surcoat, bawdric, etc. 2 



1 Miscellany Accounts, p. 66. 



2 Gough states on the authority of Nicolson 

 and Burn's History that there is a wooden effigy at 

 St. Bees, but Lysons could not find it, and it cer- 

 tainly is not there now. It is said to be that of 

 Anthony Lord Lucy, 41 Edw. III. 



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