several spots which I examined, contains no particles of pounded brick. On the eastern (or south-eastern) side, which was not difficult to approach, the fortification seems to have been slight, but I had opportunity only for a cursory inspection. My reason for wishing to bring this matter before the Committee is the idea, that masonry is scarce in specimens of the military works of the ancient occupants of this country, save in those of the Romans and Normans, to neither of whom, I presume, can this example be referred. The road from the proposed suspension bridge over the Avon, if ever executed, will be carried directly through these remains."
Mr. King (Rouge Dragon) exhibited a facsimile taken by the Hon. and Rev. A. Napier, rector of Swyncombe in Oxfordshire, from a sepulchral brass in the church of Ewelme in that county. The inscription, which is not given by Skelton, runs as follows:—
"Here lyeth buryed Thom's Broke Esquyer late S'iaunt at Armes to our Sou'raigne lord King Henry the viii & Anne his wyf which Thom's decessed the xxii day of Septembre the yere of our lord MVcXVIII and the seid Anne decessed the day of the yer of or lord MVc on whose soules Jhu habe mercy.
The arms over the male figure (in armour) are, quarterly, 1st and 4th, a bull; over all a pale. 2nd and 3rd, a chevron between three eagles displayed (the chevron appears to be charged). Those under him, are the same, impaling Bulstrode with a quartering, a chevron between three eagles' heads erased. The arms over the figure of the lady are, quarterly, 1st and 4th, a stag's head caboshed, between the antlers a cross patteé, and pierced through the nose by an arrow; for Bulstrode: 2nd and 3rd, a chevron between three eagles' heads erased.
The arms under her are those which appear in the shield above her husband. Mr. King stated that "the arms or a bull passant gules, over all a pale ermine, are ascribed in an alphabet of arms in the College of Arms (of the time of Car. II.) to 'Broke, Serjeant at Arms to King Henry 8,' so that no difficulty exists in this case; but as we do not appear to have any pedigree of this gentleman, I am unable to say what coat he quarters. The arms of the lady are those of the family of Bulstrode of Upton, co, Bucks, where they had been seated from the time of Edward II., and were resident there in the time of Charles I. An Anne appears in the pedigree as one of the daughters of Richard Bulstrode, of Hugeley in the parish of Upton, which Richard married in 34 Hen. VI., but no husband is given to her, and there was issue from other branches of the family. The coat of Bulstrode is, sable a stag's head caboshed argent, attired or, between the attire a cross patteé fitchy or, and through the nostrils an arrow or, feathered argent. I have not been able to ascertain to what family the quartering (chevron entre three eagles' heads) belongs."
