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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    Bedford, St. Mary. I. Bobt. Hawse, gent., thrice mayor, 1627, aged 52, in civil dress, under wooden floor of C. Fisher, Colls., pi. 12. II. Inscr. with 4 Eng. vv. Judeth, dau. of Thos. Hawse, w. of Thos. Baldwin, esq., 1629, aged 51. III. Inscr. Wm. Thorne [infant son of no. V.], 1640, mur., C. IV. Mary, eld. dau, of Wm. Horspoole, esq., w. of Dr. Giles Thorne, 1663, aged 61, with 3 daus., rect. pi. with inscr. and sh., mur., C. V. Inscr. with ach. Giles Thorne, D.D., chaplain in ordinary to Chas. II, archdeacon of Bucks., rector of St. Mary and of St. Peter, Bedford, 1671, mur., C. Bedford, St. Paul. I. Sir Wm. Harper, lord mayor of London [in 1561], founder of Bedford grammar-school and almshouses, 1573, aged 77, in arm. with mantle, and 2nd w. Margt. [Leeder or Lethers], rel. and partly restored, A.T., S.C. D.G. Carey Elwes, Bedford and neighbourhood, 14 ; Fisher, Colls., pi. 11 ; Bond, and Middx. Arch. Soc. Trans., IV, 86 ; Macklin, Mon. Br., 1st ed., 30, 6th ed., 32 ; The Ousel, Xmas (1899) Number, supplement. II. Inscr. Robt. Waller, thrice mayor, 1608, aged 73, and w. Mary, 1606, aged 71, had 7 sons and 5 daus., mur., C. III. Inscr. with engraver’s monogram. Wm. Waller, 5th son of no. II., thrice mayor, 1636, aged 58, mur., C. M.B.S. Trans., II, 90 (monogram). Biddenham. I. Wm. Faldo and w. Agnes, also John Faldo, c. 1490, both in civil dress, rel. on vestry floor : Fisher, Colls., pi. 15. II. Inscr. and 6 Lat. vv. John Aylyff, rector [1454-1499], inscr. mur., Tower, vv. mur., C. III. Man and woman in shrouds, c. 1520 ; inscr. lost; rel., Vestry. IV. Helen, dau. of Geo. Nodes of Shephall, esq., w. of Wm. Boteler, esq., 1639, rect. pi. with bust and inscr., mur., Vestry. Biggleswade. I. Wm. Halsted, 1449, in civil dress, head gone, and 2 ws., Isabel (lost) and Alice (name cut on shoulder), worn, now mur., N.C. behind organ. II. Inscr. in 16 Lat. vv., portions of marg. inscr. in 10 Lat. vv., shafts of canopy, 2 crescents and 1 scroll; the remains of the br. to John Rudyng, prebendary [of Lincoln], archdeacon of Bedford, and rector of St. Michael, Gloucester, [rebuilder of the chancel, c. 1467, died 1481], under canopy with SS. John Bapt., Anne, Elizth., and Mary of Eg3rpt in the upper part, sm. fig. of death and two angels with St. John’s head; the original slab powdered with crescents and escallops; the frags, now rel. on N. wall of C. Gough, II, pi. 102, p. 273 (with slab). The flgure of death is now in private hands. Blunham. I. Rich. Maulaye, mercer, 1506, in civil dress, and w. Alice, N.
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