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Testamentary Brasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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The importance of wills as a means of identifying unknown or lost brasses has long been recognized. Even for a brass of unquestioned identity, the study of the will often serves to elucidate heraldry, identify children, or, at its lowest, as a bonne bouche for the curious. One will, at least, is printed by Cotman, the first man to devote a book entirely to brasses; others are used by Waller; Haines endeavoured to collect from them indications of the costs of brasses; and later brass manuals have followed suit. The growth of record societies, however, and the consequent printing of wills, wholly or in part, has increased so greatly the information available, that it would seem the subject can endure the attentions of yet another antiquary.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1949

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page 183 note 1 A mid-fifteenth-century external tomb was noted by Hasted in the churchyard of Bridge, Kent. Its despoiled slab now lies by the west door. See Arch. Cant. lxi, 109.

page 183 note 2 Testamenta Cantiana, W. Kent, p. 73.

page 184 note 1 Testamenta Eboracensia, Surtees Society, 1836, p. 215. Also Haines, vol. i, p. 58.

page 184 note 2 Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, 1946.Google Scholar

page 184 note 3 Ibid. vi, 327.

page 184 note 4 P.C.C. Blamyr, 38.

page 184 note 5 Sussex Wills, vol. iv.

page 184 note 6 Somerset Wills, f. 310.

page 184 note 7 Surrey Arch. Coll. ii, 169.

page 184 note 8 Le Rayonnement de l'art tournaisien, by A. Hocquet, p. 25.

page 185 note 1 Test. Cant., E. Kent, 5.

page 185 note 2 Op. cit., E. Kent, 10.

page 185 note 3 Sussex Wills, iv.

page 185 note 4 Nicholas's Test. Vetusta, 235.

page 185 note 5 P.C.C. 7 Porch.

page 185 note 6 P.C.C. 39 Porch.

page 185 note 7 P.R.C., A 20. 4: now at County Archives, Maidstone.

page 185 note 8 P.C.C. 13 Welles.

page 185 note 9 Lambeth. Reg., Stafford, f. 131.

page 185 note 10 ‘…Corpusque meum sepeliendum in superiori parte nauis ecclesie cathedralis Norwichensis sponse mee prope medium altaris sancti Willelmi. Super quam sepulturam volo quod fiat unus lapis marmoreis in circumferenciis de cupro insculptus cum armis domini Herberti fundatoris dicte ecclesie et armis meis coniunctis et scribantur in eodem lapide dies mensis et annis obitus mei. Et quod arma et insculpte deaurentur. Item volo quod in columpnis nauis ipsius ecclesie tarn ex parte dextra quam sinistra fiant consimili arma de lattonum ibidem perpetuo remansurus….’

page 186 note 1 Surtees Society, civ, 177.

page 186 note 2 Sussex Wills, vol. ii.

page 186 note 3 Op. cit.

page 187 note 1 P.C.C. 4 Porch.

page 187 note 2 P.R.C. Con. 14, f. 202.

page 187 note 3 P.R.C. Con. 17, f. 4.

page 187 note 4 P.R.C. Con. 13, f. 35.

page 187 note 5 P.R.C., A. 16, f. 285.

page 187 note 6 P.R.C. Con. 15, f. 349.

page 187 note 7 P.R.C., A. 6, f. 192.

page 187 note 8 P.R.C., A. 21, f. 147.

page 187 note 9 P.R.C., A. 12, f. 298.

page 187 note 10 Rochester C.C. vii, 273a.

page 187 note 11 Op. cit. viii, 42a.

page 188 note 1 Dering's Book of Monuments, f. 20: drawing of brass by Fisher: both penes Soc. Antiq. Lond.

page 188 note 2 Rochester C.C. vi, 40b.

page 188 note 3 Op. cit. v, 405ab, 406ab.

page 188 note 4 M.B.S. v, 136.

page 189 note 1 I offer this figure with some reserve, finding it myself somewhat high.

page 189 note 2 Testamenta Vetusta, p. 235.

page 189 note 3 P.C.C. 17 Rous.

page 189 note 4 Rochester C.C. ii, 328ab. The brass, of a demi-effigy and inscription, is palimpsest, contemporary work; the face of the reverse probably was rejected by the executors for lacking the gravity of age.

page 189 note 5 Sussex Wills, vol. i.

page 190 note 1 P.R.C. 15. 249.

page 190 note 2 P.R.C. 18. 209.

page 190 note 3 Sussex Wills, iii.

page 190 note 4 P.C.C. 7 Huddlestone: Misc. Gen. et Herald., 5th series, ix, 9/10.

page 190 note 5 Arch. Cantiana, lviii, 33/34.

page 190 note 6 Haines, 59/60, and 60, note k.

page 190 note 7 Études sur l'Art à Tournai, de la Grange et Cloquet, 1887, pp. 125, 131, 321.