THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
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Then in very elegant Gothic characters is appended this 
translation :— 
Heare • lyetli • Joyce • Tomer • slayne • by • death : 
That: : had :: of:: physsicke : skvll: : ( scroll) 
Whose : losse : these : comfortes * Saunders • sliewes : 
As :: tokens :: of:: good : : wyll:: [scroll, dc.) 
The word “ mista” is of course a Latinised form of the 
Greek “ one initiated.” 
WHATCOTE. — Wm. Auldington, parson, 1511 (?). 
Haines. 
In the chancel is the figure of a priest, about 15in. high, . 
head lost, vested for mass (see Coleshill, Tysoe, Warwick), 
and holding a chalice. The drawing is coarse. 
Upon a plate, 9Jin. by 2Jin., is inscribed :— 
prav for tbe sowl of Utllvllm Bui | btnqton aomtgme 
parson here | on wbos sowle ibu bave meres. 
Wm. Auldington was succeeded at Whatcote by Robt. 
Maud in 1511 (see Dugdale), and probably died in that year. 
WHICHFORD. — Nidi. Asheton, rector, 1582. Haines. 
Of this effigy, which is 18in. high, Mr. M. H. Bloxam 
says it portrays Nicholas Asheton “ habited in the cassock, 
open in front, but with sleeves wide at the wrists, so as to 
display his doublet; over the cassock, however, is worn the 
sarcenet tippet (the so-called scarf of modern days).” 
(“ Trans, of Arcliaeolog. Sect, of Mid. Instit.,” 1874, p. 18, 
where also an engraving of the brass will be found.) This 
post-Reformation brass should be compared with that of 
Sir John Fenton, at Coleshill, and here it should be added 
that Mr. Bloxam considers that the latter is vested in a 
cassock, and not in a Genevan gown. 
There is a shield of arms at each corner of the tombstone, 
and the following inscription beneath the effigy, upon a plate, 
20in. by 5Jin.:— 
Ibic 3acet IFUcolaus Bsbeton sacra: tbeoloqia: S3accba= 
laureus | Cantabr: Gappellanus Comltis Darbie: IMuper 
iRcctor istius | Bcclestae: ac oltnt vicarius be heuballe 
Xancastrensis apub | magna* leaver: qul obiif ultimo bie 
mensis Septcmbris Bnno | bin /llMllessimo quin^entessimo 
octoqessimo secunbo reqiti | ^ 5 li 3 abetbae IReq: vicessimo 
quarto 
