156 
THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
prints, might he made very useful for botanical studies.* The 
Pebble Mill Fields are very pretty and inviting when aglow 
with the buttercups and daisies of early summer, and as 
flanked with the wooded uplands of King’s Heath and 
Moseley ; and the landscape is improved when the valley 
widens out towards Northfield, with a distant view of the 
Lickey Hills, from which the Rea descends, fringed with 
briars, willows, alders, and hazels, haunted by the Water 
Yoles, and here and there made resplendent by the swift 
flight of the Kingfisher. 
THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY E. W. BADGER, M.A. 
(Continued from page 126.) 
EXHALL, near Alcester. —John Walsinghaw, Esq., 
1566, and w. Klenov. Raines. 
One of the most pleasing brasses in the county, the style 
and drawing being admirable. The man is 1ft. llin. high, 
the woman 1ft. lOin. The former has close-cropped hair, 
moustache, and beard. Round his neck is a ruff, which fits 
closely upon a narrow gorget of plate. The pauldrons are 
large, and have a lining with escalloped border ; they are 
fastened by staples and spring-pins. The coutes are small 
and elegant, and the hinges of the vambraces are plainly 
shown. The hands, which are well drawn, are bare. The 
breast-plate is ridged, and to it are fastened, by hinges, two 
large tassets , which are kept in their place by straps passing 
round the thighs. The genouillieres are similarly fastened. 
The sword-belt does not go round the body, but is fastened 
to a ring at the right side of the breast-plate ; the sword has 
the modern guard. This armour belongs to a period about 
fifteen years later than 1566, so that we seem to have here 
another instance of a brass put up some time after the decease 
of the person it represents. (See Compton Verney III.) 
* The suggestion as to the utilising of Cannon Hill Park for the 
purpose of Botanical Science came first from Mr. Oliver, and I have 
recently learned that he is laying out a portion of the park in a series 
of beds to show specimen plants of the European natural orders. 
The smaller pools might be economised for the growth of aquatic 
plants, and botanical knowledge would be imparted if the names, 
Latin and English, of the less familiar trees and shrubs were con¬ 
spicuously attached to them. 
