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SEPULCHRAL BRASSES.

afterwards in the possession of the late William Hamper, Esq., at the sale of whose collections it was purchased. Date about A.D. 1430.

Middleton. Chancel. Sir Richard Bingham, justice of the King's Bench, and his wife, Margaret Frevill. He is represented in judicial robes. A.D. 1476.

Charlecote. Edmund, son of Thomas Wykeham. Date about A.D. 1480?

John Marskre, "quondam capellanus istius ecclesie." Not mentioned by Dugdale.

Coleshill. Chancel. William Abelle, vicar. A.D. 1500.

Alice Clifton. A.D. 1506.

Compton Verney. Anne Odyngsale, daughter of Richard Verney. A.D. 1523.

Richard Verney, and his wife Anne. A.D. 1526.

Whitnash. Richard Bennet, vicar. Small figures of a man in a secular habit, and his wife, which lay in the chancel detached from the matrices, have been carefully affixed to the wall. They represent, possibly, Benedict Medley (ob. 1503) and his wife. Dugd. A.D. 1531.

Aston. Thomas Holte, Esq., justice of North Wales. A.D. 1545.

Coleshill. "Syr" John Fenton, vicar, and official of Coventry, A.D. 1566.

Haseley. Clement Throckmorton, Esq., and his wife Catherine. Altar-tomb on south side of the chancel. A.D. 1573.

Warwick. St. Mary's. Thomas Oken, and his wife Joan. A.D. 1573.

Compton Verney. George Verney, Esq., and his wife Jane, daughter of William Lucy, Esq., of Charlecote. A.D. 1574.

Coventry. St. Michael's. Maria Hinton. A.D. 1594.

Ann Sewel. A.D. 1609.

Tanworth. Margaret Archer. Dugd. A.D. 1614.

Mereden. Elizabeth Rotton.

At Whatcote, portion of a figure of a priest remains, the head is lost. Some brasses were to be seen in the church of Ryton upon Dunsmoor, detached from the matrices. At Walton on Trent there is a small figure of a priest. Numerous sepulchral brasses formerly existing in Warwickshire have been described, and representations of them preserved, in Dugdale's History.

Tlie following incised slabs may deserve notice.

Newbold on Avon. Geoffrey Allesley, and his wife Alianore. A.D. 1401.

Thomas Boughton, and his wife Elizabeth Allesley. Date about A.D. 1450.

Coleshill. Reginolde Digby, his wife and children. A.D. 1549.

Similar incised memorials, with figures of the persons commemorated, designed in outline upon flat slabs, exist at Ipsley, Withybrook, Whichford, and in other churches in Warwickshire.