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302 KNIGHTLY EFFIGIES AT SAXDWICH AND ASH. ailettes to the knightly suit, occupies an altar-tomb betTveen the chancel and the north chantry. The figure forming the subject of Stothard's 61st Plate, hes to the east of it. Weever notices these two cross-legged knights : " In this church are many ancient monuments of worthy gentlemen, namely, Sir . . . Goshalls, Sir . . . Leuericks, who lye crosse- legged, as knights of Jerusalem. Hasted, in attempting to distinguish them, seems to mistake the one for the other. " In the north wall" he writes (Hist, of Kent, vol. iii., p. 692, note), near the upper end, is a monument for one of the family of Leverick, with his effigies in armour, lying cross- lesrsred on it : and in the same wall, icestward, is another like monument for Sir John Goshall, with his effigies on it, in like manner." As Laverick was at the siege of Carla- verock, and Goshall '" was residing in Ash, in Edward the Third's reign," it seems most likely (admitting the effigies to be those of the personages named) that our knight is the Laverick, and the other the Goshall. Several influential ftimilies, however, were fixed hereabout at this period, particularly the De Leyburnes, an heiress of whose house was styled, from her large possessions, " the Infanta of Kent." And " in the windows of the church of Ash were formerly painted several coats of arms, and among others, of Septvans, alias Harflete, Notbeame, who married Constance, widow of John Septvans ; Brooke, Ellis, Chtherow, Oldcastle, Keriell, and Hougham ; and the figiu-es of St. Nicholas, Keriell, and Hougham, kneeling, in their respective surcoats of arms ; all which have been long since demohshed." (Hasted, vol. iii., p. 693.) The effigy of our knight is of life-size, the material, free-stone ; the mail having been expressed in stucco. The sculpture is in moderately good conchtion, but the stucco has disappeared from all the exposed parts. The figiu*e reposes on a flat slab, of which the edges are chamfered ofl". The first garment in view is the gambeson, quilted in vertical stripes ; over that is the hauberk of chain-mail, which has been painted of a red-brown colour. The hands are bare, and appear to have held a heart, as in other examples of this period. The chausses are of chain-mail, painted as the hauberk. The genouilleres, ornamented with a cusped trefoil enclosing a three-leaved flower, retain traces of former gilding. The hoop-like form seen above the knee-