The Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire a Series of Examples of These Memorials R
The Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire a Series of Examples of These Memorials R
Edward Kite
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The hair is long, and from the girdle is fufpended the gypciere, or external purfe, like the franklein in Chaucer's " Canterbury Tales, " whofe " gypfer al of filk Heng at his gerdul, whit as morne mylk. " The end of the girdle hanging as a pendant forms a new feature in the female effigy ; the large cuffs at the wrifts are alfo worthy of notice. The infcription is, for the firft time, in Englifh : — " 3|Ere I'Qil) 31oi;n . Ttofeps anU "aips J)is fcosff tol)icl;e 3oI)n ticKSsett ti^e iibiij Bap... of June ti)c iicrc of oure lorU ffloti t^ousaB cctcliiix&iij. ®n i»I)osc jg'otoljis 35fu tjafac mcrnj. ^mcn. " Aubrey, in his " Collections for Wilts, " mentions, that the north ' Vide fupra, p. Ii. I Coll. Arm. To have been the relidl of . . . . ^ She is ftated by Phillpot, 3. 77. F. 109 b. | Holte, Sixteenth Century. 39 aifle of Seend Church was, according to tradition, built by the family of Stokys. From the ftyle of its architecture, which is late " Perpen- dicular" (circa a. D. 1480), it is probable that the deceafed was the main contributor towards its ereftion.^ The weft window of the aifle exhibits in its external hollow moulding a pair of fciflbrs on the one fide, and a pair of (hears on the other, in allufion to the occupation of the founder, who was, doubtlefs, a clothier.
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