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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
Y-shaped orphrey. It was made of various materials and varied 
in colour with the festival or season of the Christian year. 
(8) The Albe , a white linen vestment like a cassock, but fuller, 
reaching to the feet, and with close-fitting sleeves. It was 
girded at the waist and generally ornamented with apparels 
on the upper side of the cuffs, and at the edge of the skirt in 
front. In the present instance it is plain. In addition to 
these vestments the celebrant at mass wore the stole, which 
resembles a long narrow scarf generally embroidered and 
fringed at the ends, and the maniple, which may be described 
as a miniature stole worn upon the left wrist. The chasuble, 
stole, and maniple would always be of the same colour. 
Wm. Abell is without the two last (compare the brass at 
Whitnasli), and Haines considers this a mark of provincial 
production. 
The priest holds a large chalice, over which is a wafer 
with the letters lbs. 
The following is the inscription :— 
Iblc jacet bits willin' abell quobnt vlcart' tetl' 
ecclle qul qutbe" bits willin' obut $\nn° bte mes 
inape. ano bttl in b cul' afe pplclet' be' ante. 
Translation:— 
Here lietli Sir William Abell formerly vicar of this church, 
which Sir William died the 18th day of the month of May, 
A.D. 1500; whose soul God pardon. Amen. 
In inscriptions clergy who were non-graduates are called 
dominus ; graduates are called magister (see Fuller, Church 
Hist., vi., 5, 10). This distinction will in future papers be 
suggested by translating dominus ‘ sir,’ and magister ‘ master.’ 
There is an engraving of this effigy in the Imperial 
Dictionary, under the word “ brasses.” 
II.— Alice, dau. of Simon Digbg, and w. of Robt. Clifton. 
Esq., 1506, C. Haines. 
This figure is about 2ft. long, and is considered by Haines 
to be the work of a provincial artist. The lady wears the 
kennel-shaped head-dress, with long lappets; her dress is 
high in the neck, and has sleeves reaching to the knuckles. 
Round the waist is a loose belt, terminating in two rosette¬ 
like ornaments, probably of metal. From the belt depends 
a chain, to which is fastened a highly ornamental pendant 
of open metal-work, representing either a pomander to hold 
scent or preservatives against infection, or a receptacle for a 
heated metal ball for warming the hands. Dugdale gives an 
illustration of this brass, and supplies the following imperfect 
