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 vicar to his house for safe keeping. Little store was set upon it, and it was not until an offer of £500 was made for it to the present Duke, that its historical importance and intrinsic value were appreciated. The Duke, very properly, would not consent to its being sold; but he very generously gave the sum of one hundred guineas to the fund being raised for the restoration of the church, the purpose for which the money was to have been used had the helm been sold.

English, late XVth century: hanging above the Darell tomb, Little Chart Church, Kent

The funerary crest is of the latter part of the XVIth century

(a) Profile view. (b) Back view, showing its bascinet-like skull-piece

The third Duke of Norfolk, by his testament, proved the 18th day of November 1554, directed that his body should be buried where his executors should think most convenient, and thereupon they buried him in the south side of Framlingham chancel on 2nd October 1554. Henry Machyn, a citizen of London, records in his diary that he was present at the funeral, and says