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THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
Translation :— 
Here lietli Nicholas Asheton B.D. of Cambridge, chaplain 
of the Earl of Derby, late rector of this church, and sometime 
vicar of Kendal near Great Leaver Lancashire : who died on 
the last day of September a.d. 1582, being the 24th year of 
the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 
An engraving of the brass will be found in Bloxam’s 
“ Gothic Architecture,” p. 254. 
WHITNASH. I. — A Civilian and w., circ. 1500. 
Probably Benedict Medley, Clerk of the Signet to Henry VII. 
Haines. 
This brass is now mural, in the chancel. The figures are 
about 2ft. high, and represent a civilian with long hair, a 
loose fur-lined gown with wide sleeves, and a closely-fitting 
under-tunic ; and a lady with the kennel head-dress, a long 
flowing gown with tight sleeves having fur at the cuffs, and a 
waist-band fastened with a large buckle, the loose end falling 
as low as the feet. A modern inscription has been placed 
beneath the figures, which says, “ The above figures of 
Benedict Medley and his wife were fixed here at the restora¬ 
tion of the chancel 1856. He was Clerk of the Signet to King 
Henry VII., and Lord of this Manor. He died a.d. 1504 and 
was buried with his wife in this church.” 
According to Dugdale, the manor was sold to Benedict 
Medley by Sir Henry Willoughby, grandchild of Sir Hugh 
Willoughby, the first husband of Margaret, wife of Sir 
Bichard Bingham, whose brass is at Middleton. Sir Henry 
Willoughby was father of Dorothy Fitz-Iierbert, whose brass 
also at Middleton (see above). 
II.— Rich. Bennet, M.A., 1531. Haines. 
A figure, 17in. high, of a tonsured priest, vested for mass 
and holding a chalice, above which is a wafer. This figure 
is peculiar in not having a maniple, and should be compared 
with the effigies of W. Abell at Coleshill, and B. Willardsey 
at S. Nicholas’, Warwick. 
Upon a plate 23in. by 4in. is the following inscription :— 
Ibtc loci sepelitur Omus IRicbarbus JBemtet artis laicc 
maqister | atq. buius quonOa ecclesie Oiliqcns pastor qut 
fatis cosessit | viti bie ntesis ^anuarij ano Oni mcccccjjji 
cuius misereat 1 ' 
