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152 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. Sliiers, of tlie Inner Temple, 1GG8, of which, on account of the pew, a rub- bing cannot be obtained. " The other to Henry and Elizabeth Slyfield, with male and female figures, and those of the six sons and four daughters, three shields, and the inscrip- tion : ' T^ext Utii) fiurirt l^cnrs SMcIB, TEsq. anft lEli^abctf) I)ts toife, fcolbo toas tl}c tJaugI)tcr of l^icliavti Bucfefollf, citizen of lionBon. ^Tfte sayD lijcnxx) toas of tl)c age of 56 pears, anU Bcccascli ftlnno Bin 1598, ant) fjati issue bij ijis luife six sons anij four Uaugfjtcrs.' " There are also twenty-eight lines on a brass plate against the wall, re- counting the virtues of Edmund Slyfield, who died 1590, but no 'effigies.' The Slyfield family lived at Slyfield place, at the northern extremity of the parish, now a farm-house. " Henry, who died as above mentioned in 1598, seems, according to INIan- ning and Bray's History, to have been the last but one of the family who possessed the manor and house of Slyfield. Edmund Slyfield (probably his son) sold all the estates to Henry Breton, who sold them again to G. Shiers, who died 1642. " The third brass is in the chancel, a female figure, with this legend : 'l^ic jacct TEli^alieil) nup. ux. ■cri)ome Sbfclo, ac quonDa ux. fficorgii ISretnes armig'i, ffilic TEOtoarDi Segnt Sofjn milit. que obiit xxiiii" tik mcs. 'augusti %" JBni. JW". liii. ixxiti".' " On the east wall of the chancel is an inscription on stone, in excellent preservation ° : ' HEC : DOMUS : ABBATE : FUERAT : CONSTRUCTA : lOHANNE : DE : RUTHERWYKA : UECUs : OB : sancti : nicholai : anno : milleno : triceno : bisq' : viceno : primo : X/5c : EI : PARET : HINC : SEDEM : REQUIEI.' " A similar inscription exists in Eghara church, in this county, on the north wall of the chancel, in similar characters : HjEC DOMUS EFFICITUR BaPTIST/E LAUDE JoHANNIS, Bis deca septenis trecentis mille sub annis Christi: quem statuit Abbas ex corde Johannes De Rutherwyka per terras dictus et ampnes. " I copy this latter from Manning and Bray's History of Surrey P, as I have no rubbing of it, and it is some years since I saw it. In the above-men- tioned history it is stated as ' remarkable that neither the cliurch of Egham nor that of Great Bookham are mentioned in the Leiger Book of Chertsey amongst the good acts of this abbot, though the inscriptions imply that he built the chancels at least, if not the whole of the churches, and works of much less consequence are particularly specified.' " Egham church has been, if I mistake not, rebuilt. In Great Bookham church the chancel is apparently more recent than the nave, which has on " A facsimile of tliis curious inscription, ArcluEologia, voL xiii. pi. 25. See also coiuuieniorative of the buildinj^ of' the Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surrey, vol. ii. chancel by .lohn de Rutherwyke, abbot of p. ()[)5. Chertsey, A.D. ISll, has been given in the i' Vol. iii. p. 258.