3^ The History of the Spur 



diameter of the rowel, and " foliated " when the points were 

 of some other fanciful pattern. This kind of spur went on 

 without any great alteration until the end of the fourteenth 

 century. 



The illustration on Plate 17, Fig. i, shows a spur very 

 similar to a pair worn by Edward, the Black Prince, and 

 which are now hanging over his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral, 

 and gives all these characteristics in a somewhat exaggerated 

 form. By this time, as we see in this spur, and in several 

 specimens preserved in the City of London Museum, the 

 artificers began to elaborate a crest on the top of the heel-plate. 

 This elaboration was sometimes merely a drawing up of the 

 upper edge of the heel-plate into a point, and sometimes 

 elaborating it into a cruciform, or some other form of ornament. 

 An illustration of this is given on Pfate 17, Fig. 2. 



About this time there appears on numerous brasses in 

 various parts of England, curious curved lines, or flourishes, 

 over the spur, so definitely and distinctly engraved as to lead 

 many antiquarians to suppose that it represented some sort 

 of structure. A brass in Great Berkhampsted Church, Hertford- 

 shire, to Sir John Raven, a.d. 1360, and another in Drayton 

 Beauchamp Church, Bucks., to Sir Thomas Cheyne, in 1368, 

 both show a complete circle round the rowel, and were, no 

 doubt, the work of the same engraver. 



Another, of which we give an illustration on Plate 18, 

 Fig. I, is taken from a brass in Thruxton Church, Hampshire, 

 to the memory of Sir John Lysle, who died in 1407. Here 

 the line has every appearance of being a solid circular structure 



