164 ANCIENT MEMORIAL BRASSES OF DORSET. 



him, and so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands so 

 placed as dead bodies are usually fitted, to be shrowded and put into 

 their coffin, or grave. Upon this Urn he thus stood, with his eyes 

 shut, and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his 

 lean, pale, and death-like face, which was purposely turned towards 

 the East, from whence he expected the second coming of his and our 

 Saviour Jesus.' In this posture he was drawn at his just height ; and 

 when the picture was fully finished, he caused it to be set by his bed- 

 side, where it continued and became his hourly object till his death." 

 — Walton's Lives, p. 72. 



The inscription is in Old English type with usual pre- 

 Reformation wording — 



1FMc jacet ^ns ZTbomas Ipetbv^n qualt^a 

 IRectoris bin eccTie qui aic ppicietur ^i 



MARGARET CLEMENT. 



Position. — On a slab in the Nave near the Font. 



Size. — 16Jin. long, Sin. Avide. 



Description. — A plain inscription in Old English characters 

 that incidentally fixes the date of a restoration of the Church 

 in 1505. 



Bic jacet /Ibargareta Clement Generosa specialis 

 beiiefactnj reeMficacionis bujus ecclesie que obiit 

 il*5555 Me 5unu Ho &m /Ibo Dc x> cujus ate 

 prcptcietur ^^U5 ame. 



Church Knowle, St. Peter. 



John Clavell, Esq''- in armour and two wives, 1st wife with 

 3 sons and 1 daughter, 2nd, Susan, daughter of Robert Coker 

 of Mappowder, mural, North aisle. Haines. 



Position. — Beneath the canopy of an altar tomb of Purbeck 

 stone are three compartments, having the following three 



