THE CHURCH OF ST. HELEN'S, DARLEY DALE. 23 



the burial-place of the family. Against the west wall of this 

 transept there still remain two monument slabs of the Rollesleys 

 that have formerly served as the upper stones of table tombs. 

 They are both of considerable interest, and more highly finished 

 and in better preservation than is usual in incised alabaster 

 monuments of the beginning of the sixteenth century. The lines 

 are filled in with pitch, which renders the designs very distinct. 

 The largest of these has the full length effigies of a man and 

 woman, and below them eight sons and four daughters. The 

 man is clad in a long fur-lined robe, which reaches down to 

 the feet, and a double linked chain round the neck. The woman 

 wears the diamond-shaped hood or head-dress, with long falling 

 lappets, and a close-fitting gown with long embroidered girdle. 

 The heads of both rest upon cushions, and are surmounted 

 by canopies of the same style as appear over window effigies 

 of this date. The inscription round the margin, which is a 

 curious admixture of Latin and English, is to the following 

 effect : — " Hie jacet corpus Johis Rollislei armigi, Elisabeith 

 uxor ejus, the therde dei of Juni, the yere of owre Lorde a 

 thousand v c and thritten (15 13)." Between the heads of the 

 effigies is an impaled coat of arms, Rollesley and Cheney, 

 which has originally been filled up with pigments of the right 

 tincture. John Rollesley here commemorated, married Elizabeth, 

 daughter and co-heiress of John Cheney. The arms of Rollesley 

 were — gu a fesse and bordure, erm ; and the arms of Cheney — 

 Chequy, or and as., a fesse, gu, fretted, arg. See plate II. 



The other slab is only about half the size of that already 

 described. It also has a man and woman engraved on the 

 surface, with ten sons and two daughters at their feet. The boys 

 are crowded together; only the outline of the heads of those 

 in the background is discernible. The man is clad in a gown 

 or robe with wide sleeves, which only reaches just below the 

 knees. The legs are clad in hose, and on the feet are low 

 wide-toed shoes fastened with straps. The gown is slightly 

 open in front, and shows the gypciere, or pouch-bag, attached 

 to the girdle of the doublet. The dress of the lady is similar 



