By the Rev. J. Ward. 



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fragments had been preserved by the care of the parish clerk, and 

 were readily put together and secured in a bed of plaster of Paris. 

 In the same year fac-similes of them were made in Bath stone by 

 a clever sculptor at Oxford, and fixed in their respective places on 

 the monument. 



The shield on the dexter side of the inscription, the only one 

 that remained but little injured, is that of Sir John Seymour, viz. ; 

 (rules, two wings conjoined and inverted Or, impaling Sable, a 

 chevron between three leopard's faces Or for Wentworth. 



One half of the shield over the inscription had been broken*off ; 

 it bore the ensigns of Sir Henr}* - Seymour, K.B. viz. Seymour, with 

 a crescent Gules for difference, impaling Quarterly, 1. Argent, a 

 fess between three martlets Gules, on a chief Sable, three wolf's 

 heads erased Argent, for Wolfe of Gwerngotheyn ; 2. Per pale 

 Sable and Azure, three fleurs de lis Or, for Wolfe Newton ; 3. Or, 

 three wolves passant Azure, for Nanfant ; 4. Argent, on a chevron 

 Gules, between three stag's heads caboshed Sable, three bugle 

 horns Argent, stringed Or, for Le Sore of St. Fagans. It is diffi- 

 cult to conjecture why this shield was fixed in so conspicuous a 

 position on the monument, for Sir Henry was perhaps the least 

 distinguished of the whole family. 



On the sinister side of the inscription the arms are those of Sey- 

 mour quartering the heiresses, with whom the family had previously 

 intermarried, viz., Quarterly of six — 1. and 6. Seymour; 2. Vaire, 

 for Beauchamp of Hache; 3. Argent, three demi-lions couped 

 Gules, for Esturmy ; 4. Per bend, .Argent and Gules, three roses 

 in bend counterchanged, for Macwilliams; 5. Argent, on a bend 

 Gules, three leopard's faces Or, for Coker. 



The six shields on the face of the tomb, which were smaller than 

 those above, having in the year above mentioned entirely disap- 

 peared, the spaces were filled up with newly sculptured bearings 

 representing, 1. Seymour; 2. Beauchamp of Hache ; 3. De Forti- 

 bus, (through Beauchamp,) viz. Argent, on a chief Gules, a label of 

 five points Or; 4. Esturmy; 5. Macwilliams; 6. Coker. 



These are the arms now on the face of the tomb, but it has been 

 recently ascertained from Aubrey's MS. so frequently quoted in 

 this Magazine by its indefatigable Editor, that of these six spaces 



