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NOTICE OF AN UNDKSCRIBED SEPULCHRAL BRASS. 339 William and Margaret De la Pole in 1851 — 1858 s and in 1399 by the heirs of John De la Pole^, from whom it passed to his descendants, the Brookes ^ The exact year of Sir John's death has not been ascertained ; his lady died before her father, Lord Coljhani'^, and that barony descended to their only danghter, Joan : and they were both dead in 1389, as Lord Cobhani had East Tilbiuy appropriated to his college at Cobliam in that year, to maintain two chaplains to sing for their sonls. The time of their deaths, however, woidd probably not affect the date of the brass, as there is good reason to snppose that it was put down in their life-time, and perhaps, soon after their nuirriage. Their daughter Joan was born in 1377, and the costume of the figiu^es, and the style of the In-ass is such as to make it almost a certainty that it was executed about the year 1375, at which time it is pro- bable they also rebuilt the church, as their arms remain on the south door, and many parts of the building are of late Decorated or transition character. This brass adds another to the fine series of monuments of the Cobham family at Cobliam, Kent, among which are brasses to the lady's father, Lord Cobham, and to her daughter, Joan Braybrooke, The following brief pedigree may exhibit the connection of the families more clearly : — N liliiim de la Pole, merchant of Hull. Wra. de la Pole, ob. 1340, RiLhard=Joan — from whom descended the earls of Suffolk. This branch bore, az., a fess 1 between three leopards' William = M argaret Peverel, John Ld. Cobham, heada, or. ob. 1349. ob. 1407, whose brass is at Cobham. .lohu : 1 = Joan Cobham, whose brass is at Chrishall. .loiiii == 1st. Sir Rob. 2ud. Sir Reg. Bray- 3rd. Sir Nich. Haw- 4th. Sir John 5th. Sir John Baroness de Hemen- brooke, ob. 1405, berke, ob. 1407, Oldcastle, Harpendon, Cubham, h.ili>. whose brass is at whose brass is at burnt for Lol- ob. 1457, ob. 1433, Cobham. Cobham. lardLsm, 1419. whose brass (ancestress ^ is in West- of the minster Ab- Brookes, bey. Lords Cobham,) whose brass is nt Cobham. ' Wright's Essex, 186. ■" Morant's Essex. '■ Esch. 22. Ric. 2 -< Harl. MSS. Hoi. 36.