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■IGU Sl::rLLCllKAL MEMORIALS AT ETCHINGHAM, SUSSEX, ingrailed ; 2nd, Fretty of six impaling two cheverons with a canton or quarter ; 3rd, Frettj of six impaling on a bend three horseshoes ; 4 th, Fretty of six impaling three crescents, Avith a canton quartering three birds f perhaps storks or herns." ^ This stone has been removed, to admit of the inter- ment beneath it of John Latham, a former rector of the parish. Against the south wall of the church, between the rails and the chancel door, was a brass of considerable size, erected to the memory of Thomas de Echyngham, son of the last- named. Hayley describes it as a monument now fallen down, and under which is an " altar-tomb." It represented a knight kneeling, his hands raised in prayer, and four escutcheons, " which, together with three of the escutcheons, are lost ; on the remaining one is, — quarterly, 1 and 4 gules, a lion rampant between six cross crosslets, 0. 2 and 3, azure three leopards' heads jessant fleurs-de-lys 0. All that now remains is a small slip of brass, from which this inscription was taken : — " Hie jacet D'n's Thomas Echyng- h'm miles, d'n's de Echyngh'm, qui obiit xx" die mensis Januarij A" d'ni milli'o, cccc", Ixxxij" Cuius Anime p'piciet' deus, Amen." This Thomas de Echyngham married Margaret, daughter of Reginald West, Lord de la Warr, and, although a person of some consideration, outlived both the political influence and the greatness of his family. In the upper part of the south aisle, which is separated from the rest, and in which I think there was originally an altar dedicated to St. Nicholas, there is a small chancel belonn-ino- to the Lord of the Manor of Etchiugham, to the left of which, close upon the Ilaremere pew-door, is a stone, with a brass much injured, representing two female figures of unequal size. These are to the memory of E]izal)ctli Echyngham, daughter of the Thomas de Echyng- ham above named, and Agnes, daughter of Robert Oxenbrigg, a family into which the Ecliynghams married. The former is represented as a young girl, with long dishevelled hair, simply bound around the brow by a fillet ; the figure measures only 12^ inches in length. The figure of Agnes is 4 inches longer than the other, and appears to pourtray a person of maturer age. Both are represented in three-quarters, and as ■■' The descrij)tiou of these arms, and of Brit. Mus., Nos. 6358, and Vol. ii. C34J, the painted glass, is taken from W. Tlut. 122, F., and 6;561. Hayley's Sussex Collections, A<i(l. MS,