THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
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There were originally four evangelistic symbols, of which 
only one, that of S. Mark, is left, at the right hand top 
corner. Dugdale gives a fair illustration of this brass, but 
with different armorial bearings. 
II. —Richard Verney, Esq., 1536 — 7, and w. Anne , with 
9 sons and 5 dans. Haines. 
The effigies are about 1ft. lOin. high. 
The husband, who is bare-headed and wears his hair 
long, is represented in armour rather different from any 
yet described. The pauldrons, or shoulder-pieces, are 
composed of plates arranged in ridges. The cuirass has a 
central ridge called a tapul, and a skirt of oblong plates, from 
which depend three tuilles, one at each side and one in front. 
Under these is a hawberk. The hands are encased in 
gauntlets of plate, which leave the fingers exposed. The 
sword is fastened to a belt hanging diagonally across the 
body. The genouillieres have plates above and below them, 
and ornamental appendages at the sides. The greaves 
are prolonged over the ankles ; the feet are covered by broad 
sabbatons , to which spurs are attached. 
The lady wears the kennel-shaped cap, and an outer dress 
with tight sleeves, and wide-frilled cuffs. This dress, being 
cut low and square upon the chest, shows an under garment 
fastened at the neck with a button. The outer dress has a 
wide border, and is confined by a waistband with a rosette in 
front; it is gracefully caught up at the left side, showing an 
under skirt. 
Above these figures is a shield, 8in. long, with Verney and 
Green quartered, six quarterings being now vacant. Below 
the figures are two groups of children. The daughters are 
dressed like their mother ; the sons wear short dresses or 
kilts reaching to the knee, hose, and square-toed shoes. One 
of the boys wears a gypciere, and another has something 
like a Scotch sporran hanging in front of his kilt. 
At the corners of the tombstone were evangelical symbols, 
only three of which are left. On narrow strips of brass round 
the edges of the stone is this mutilated inscription :— 
©ff pour Cbarpte fl>rapc for tbe soulles of 
. . . . bepteb out of tbte psent worlbe tbc ££\ffit tb bape 
of tbe monetbe of September 
In tbe pere of our Uorb (Bob moccccc. 
Dugdale gives an illustration of this brass, with a different 
coat of arms, and says Richard Verney “ was in that esteem 
with King Henry VIII. that, being informed of some infirmity 
