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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
Chapel. The Knight wears a bascinet, chain camail, and 
suit of plate armour with roundels at the elbow-joints 
and gussets of mail at the armpits and insteps. The skirt of 
his liawberk, ornamented with a fringe of small bunches of 
rings, is visible beneath tli ejupon. The edges of the bascinet 
are ornamented with the well-known “ ragged staff,” the 
epaulieres, coutes, gauntlets, genouillieres, and sollerets are 
profusely chased. The jupon, a short close-fitting cassock 
with escalloped skirt, is diapered with an elaborate design, and 
upon it are emblazoned the Beauchamp arms, Gu. a fess bet. 
six crosses crosslet or. Bound the Knight’s hips is a trans¬ 
verse belt supporting a sword and dagger, all highly decorated. 
At his feet is a chained bear. 
At the Earl’s right side is the Countess, whose hair, 
gathered in a caul at the top of her head, falls down on each 
side of her face to be again gathered in a smaller caul on 
each side. Upon her kirtle, with its long buttoned sleeves, 
are emblazoned the arms of Ferrers of Groby, to which family 
she belonged : and upon her mantle the Beauchamp arms. 
A small lap-dog sits at her feet. 
Thomas Beauchamp, 4tli Earl of Warwick, had a 
chequered career. He served Edward III., and was 
appointed one of the governors of Bichard II. When that 
King assumed the government, Beauchamp retired to War¬ 
wick, built the N.E. tower of the castle, and enlarged S. 
Mary’s Church. The Earl was subsequently charged with 
high treason and condemned to death, the sentence being 
changed-for one of banishment to the Isle of Man. Upon 
the deposition of Bichard by Henry IV., Warwick was 
recalled and reinstated. Haines gives references to illustra¬ 
tions of this brass in Dugdale, Gough, Yol. II., PI. 2, and 
Waller, PI. G. The first-named gives a picture of the 
original tomb, which was destroyed by fire. 
II.— Thus. Oken, 1578, and iv. Jane. Haines. 
These figures are 28in. high, and are now mural in the N. 
transept. The husband has close-cropped hair and a pointed 
beard. He wears a fur-lined civilian’s gown with false 
sleeves, over a long belted doublet. Upon his feet are 
round-toed shoes. 
The wife wears a small circular cap with lappets covering 
her ears, and a loose over-gown with falling collar and 
puffed sleeves. It is confined by a sash at the waist, but 
being open from that point downwards displays an under¬ 
dress, the neck of which is visible above the falling collar. 
