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nimbed, and a curved band behind the shoulders bearing the inscription: Hen. Rex.[1] A pair of beads of dogeon (boxwood) and an image of King Henry formed the bequest of Sir Robert Aubery, priest of a chantry in Lincoln Cathedral, to one Master Thorp in 1535; and at Windsor, where the hat and spurs of the King were venerated as most efficacious relics, little signs or tokens were made to be carried home by pilgrims.[2] The dagger that killed Henry VI "schethe and all" was kept until the Reformation by the Augustinians at Caversham among other relics and offerings, such as "schroudes, candels, images of wax, crowches and brochys."[3]
In the churchwardens' accounts of Pilton, Somerset, for 15 Hen. VII the valuables belonging to the church include
- ↑ See the Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Dec. 1880) for an account of this portrait, with a reproduction. Similar fifteenth-century paintings have been discovered in Warfield Church, Berkshire, and on the west wall of the nave of Wilton Church, Norfolk.
- ↑ See Journal of the Brit. Arch. Assoc. (Oct. 1845 and Sept. 1868) for some account of these, with plates.
- ↑ Wright, Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries (Camden Soc), p. 224.
