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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY E. W. BADGER, M.A. 
(Continued from page 187.) 
MIDDLETON. I. — Rich. Byngham , justice of the 
King's Bench, 1476, and uidow Margaret. Haines. 
These effigies, which are 3ft. 2in. and 3ft. long respec¬ 
tively, are in good preservation, but have been relaid (at the 
entrance of the chancel), as there are no matrices for the four 
shields of arms shown in Dugdale’s illustration of the brass. 
The justice wears a coif or skull-cap, a fur-lined gown, open 
in front, with high collar and wide sleeves, and a large cloak 
fastened upon the right shoulder with two buttons. Upon 
his feet (which rest upon turf, with trefoil and other plants 
springing from it) are pointed shoes. The lady wears a 
wimple or barbe, the sign of widowhood ; a large kerchief, and 
a long loose cloak, beneath which is a kirtle girded at the 
waist. Upon her right wrist hangs a rosary of forty beads, 
four larger beads marking the decades. Attached to the 
rosary is a tassel. 
Upon a plate 2ft. 9in. by 3in. is this inscription :—• 
Ibtc jacent Dns iRlcarDus ^Spnobam miles et Sustlclan' De 
banfco Dnl rests qui obtit j£ito | Me mail afto Dm milU’o 
cccc<d££v>U JEt Dna marqareta sui cosors quor' atabs pptcietur 
Deus ame”. 
In English :— 
Here lie Sir Richard Byngham, knight, and justice of our 
lord the King’s Bench, who died the 22nd day of May, a.d. 
1476, and Lady Margaret his wife ; to whose souls God be 
merciful. Amen. 
There is an illustration of this brass in the Trans, of 
Arch. Sect, of Birmingham and Mid. Inst., 1874, p. 17. 
II.— Dorothy, iv. of Ant. Fitzherbert, 1507. Haines. 
Upon the north wall of the chancel, in an arched recess, 
is a small brass shield with these arms : Arg., a chief vaire, 
or. and gu., over all a bend sa., for Fitzherbert impaling 
Willoughby or., two bars gu., charged with three water 
bougets, arg. 
