Ancient memorial brass£s of Dorset. 277 

 SwYRE, Holy Trinity. 



Haines makes no mention of any brasses here. 



On grey marble slabs, within, on each side of the north door 

 are two plain inscriptions in old English characters with separate 

 shields of arms over, each sin. by 6in., inscriptions, i8in. by ^ih}^. 

 respectively, to John and James Russell and their wives. 



Itiscriptioiis. — 



I. 



• '* Ifjcre X^etb 5obn IRusscU Bsquier anC) leiisas* 

 bctb bis w^fe ^auGbter of 'ioA'ixx J'rocftsinei: Esquiec 

 wbicb Oecess^t) tbe it ^ere of Ikino Ifjenr^ ^e pit Ho 

 1505." 



II. 

 ''U^ere X^etb 3ames IRusseU Bsquier an& ai^s 

 b^s w^fe &augbtec of 5obn Mise Bsquier wbo 

 ^ecess^t) tbe first ^ere of Ikino IfDeur^ tbe viii Ho 



Heraldry. — Over John Russell : Argent, a lion rampant, gules, on 

 a chief sable, three escallops of the first, Russell, impaling. Sable, a 

 griffin segreant betiueen three crosslets fitchee argent, Frocksmer. 



Over James Russell : Russell as before, impaling, Sable, three 

 chevronels ermine, a crescent for diffei'ence, or. 'Wise. 



John Russell of Berwick, K.G., created Baron Russell of 

 Cheneys, Bucks, 1538-9, son of the above James Russell, was 

 born at Kingston Russell. In his younger days he resided some 

 time in Spain, and when Philip, Archduke of Austria, and Joan, 

 dau. of Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile and 

 Arragon, were driven into Weymouth by stress of weather in 

 their passage from Flanders to Spain, acted as interpreter for 

 these guests when entertained by Sir Thomas Trenchard {see 

 indent from his despoiled altar tomb at Charminster) at Wolfeton, 

 and subsequently accompanied them to London to the Court of 

 Henry VH, 



