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WALKERN, HERTS. PALIMPSEST REVERSES OF THE HUMBERSTONE BRASS, 1583.

About one-sixth full size.

Hertfordshire," ed. 1826, vol. ii, p. 371, states that the plate was formerly in the North Aisle, and gives the inscription in full. The missing words are here shown in brackets.

[Here lyeth] buryed the body of Johň (Long salter] [citize]n & Alderman of London and [Dame Mar] [gery h]is wyfe which John dyed ye [vi day of] [July] M°W¢XXXWiii (whose soul Jesus pardon] Chauncey erroneously gives the date as 1536.

Reverse. A portion of another inscription in raised black letter of the second half of the fifteenth century. It is in three lines, but defaced in places:

militis q.

dignissime domine Ele ur’is ei

... animabus propicier' de . . . . .

This fragment is now framed and hangs on the vestry wall.

II.

Half a shield, 3 × 5 inches, from the brass to Ralph Stepney, Esq., first lord of the town of Aldenham, and patron of the church, 1544. Framed and hanging in the vestry.

Obverse. The lower portion of a shield showing part of a chequy fess with an owl in base impaling a quartered coat. A perfect shield still remaining in the slab at the west end of the nave shows the arms to have been STEPNEY, (gu.) a fess chequy (or) and (az.) between three owls (arg.) impaling Quarterly I and IV (Arg.), a lion rampant (sa.) CRESSEY, II and III. (Erm.), three bars (gu.) HUSSEY[?] Reverse. A portion of a group of sons, circa 1500, in the ordinary dress of the period.

BARLEY.

Obverse. Inscription to Robert Bryckett, 1566. Size of plate 20131 inches, in two pieces respectively measuring 14 and 5 inches in length. Formerly on the nave floor but now hanging on the south wall.

Hic iacet Robertus Bryckett gen’osus qui obiit decimo die Junii Anno dñí M°CCCCC°LEUi° et etatis sue xlix.

Reverse. Only the larger piece of the inscription is palimpsest, having on its reverse the greater portion of another inscription to Richard Pecok, citizen and armourer, and his wives and Isabel. Apparently late fifteenth century.

Drate p' aia Ricardi Pecok civis & armer. Wii idus februarii anno dñi millm̃o CCC. te e Isabelle uxorū eidē Duorum animabu

BAYFORD.

Obverse. A man in armour, c. 1545, the centre portion of a female figure of similar date, and a shield charged with the arms of Knighton impaling Gascoigne quartering Pigott. Most probably the remains of the brass to John Knighton, Esq., lord of the manor,

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OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE KNIGHTON BRASS, BAYFORD, HERTS.
About one-eighth full size.

who died in 1545, and of his wife, apparently a member of the family of Gascoigne. The male figure and the shield are now relaid in a recess in the chancel specially constructed to receive the Knighton monuments when the church was rebuilt in 1870. The fragment of the female effigy was not relaid and was in 1900 in the possession of Mr. W. Clinton Baker of Bayfordbury.

The male effigy is 20 inches in height, the fragment of the female effigy 6 inches, and the shield measures 61 x 5 inches. The male effigy is engraved in J. E. Cussans' " History of Hertfordshire," vol. ii (Hundred of Hertford), p. 148.

All existing pieces are palimpsest.

Reverse. The armed figure is made up of two portions of a

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