A list of monumental brasses in the British isles / by Mill Stephenson.

  • Mill Stephenson
Date:
1926
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Credit: A list of monumental brasses in the British isles / by Mill Stephenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEVONSHIRE. Devon N. and Q. Devon Notes and Queries. Exeter Trans. Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, I-VI, 1843-52; 2 S. I-V, 1867-92; 3 S. I-III, 1899-1920. Rogers, Sep. Effs. Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devonshire, by W. H. H. Rogers, 4to, 1877. Rogers, Memorials. Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, by W. H. H. Rogers, 8vo, 1888. Stabb. Some Old Devon Churches, by J. Stabb, 3 vols., 1908-16. Aldington, East. I. Inscr. John Fortescue and w. Margt., c. 1500, mur., S.A. II. Lad}^, c. 1540, kng., head mutil., mur., S.A. Devon N. and Q., II, 101. III. John Fortescue, esq., 1595, aged 70, in civil dress, and w. Owner, mur., S A. Devon N. and Q., II, 101. Atherington. I. [Sir John Basset of Umberleigh, 1539], in arm., and 2 ws., (1) [Honor, dau. of Sir Thos. Grenville], with 1 son and 4 daus., (2) [Anne, dau. of John Dennys, esq.], with 3 sons and 4 daus., 3 shs. (another lost), rel. and the children misplaced ; marg. inscr. lost; A.T., N.C. Druitt, 282 ; Exeter Trans., VI, pi. 2 ; Somerset Arch. Soc. Proc., XLIV, ii. 57. Barnstaple. I. Inscr. and sh. Anne, dau. of Sir Hugh Pollard, knt., w. of Jas. Welshe, esq., 16—, mur., N.C. Berry Pomeroy. I. Inscr. with 4 Eng. vv. Hen. Dyptforde, 1590 ; by his w. Elizth. he had 1 son and 1 dau. ; mur., N.C. Bickleigh, near Plymouth. I. Inscr. with 10 Eng. vv. Nich. Slanning, esq., 1583, aged 59, mur., N. Bigbury. I. Lady, c. 1440, and 1 sh. Burton impaling Bigbury ; inscr. lost ; now on a board, mur., N.A. Exeter Trans., VI, pi. 30. II. [Robt. Burton, esq.], in arm. (eff. lost), and w. Dame Elizth., [dau. of Sir Thos. Paulton of Heanton, widow of Wm. Bigbury, 2nd w. and widow of Sir Thos. Arundell of Tolverne], c. 1460, marg., inscr. nearly all lost, slab powdered with scrolls, 1 sh. remains over indent of man and bears the arms of Burton ; eff. of lady and4scrolls now on a board, mur., N.A. The original slab, now mur., S.C., and partly concealed by pews, contains other fragments. Exeter Trans, V, pi. 11. BlackAWTON. Nich. Forde, 1582, in civil dress, and w. Margt. [Fountain ?], 1 sh. Braunton. I. Lady Elizth. Bowcer, dau. of John [Bourchier, 1st] earl of Bath, w. of Edw. Chechester, esq., 1548, kng. ; palimp.
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