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 INGATESTONE. 

[Communicated by the Rev. R. H. Pope, Northchurch.]

1. Close helmet, circa 1570 (Fig. 1617).

2. Close helmet, circa 1570 (Fig. 1618).

3. Close helmet, funerary, crested, two lions' heads (Fig. 1619).

Tradition. The Petre family.

Crest. Two lions' heads erased and addorsed, the dexter or, collared az., the sinister az., collared or. (Petre.)

RAYNE. 

1. Armet, circa 1520 (vide ante, vol. ii, Fig. 445F).

2. Helm, 1510-25 (vide ante, vol. ii, Fig. 492).

3. Close helmet, XVIth century, now in Saffron-Walden Museum, presented by Mr. Charles Probert (Fig. 1620).

4. Close helmet, XVIth century, Elizabethan.

Tradition. All the above were once in the church. The helm hung until 1840 over the tomb of the Capels, Earls of Essex, and was associated with Sir Giles Capel, the famous jouster in the time of Henry VIII. The other three are probably Capel helmets. When the church was pulled down all the helmets were removed. The Baron de Cosson has described them in "Helmets and Mail," p. 73 (Fig. 78), and in "The Capels of Rayne Hall."

RIVENHALL. 

[Communicated by Mr. C. R. Beard.]

1. Helmet, XVIth century.

2. Helmet, XVIIth century.

Tradition. These helmets hang over the tombs of Ralph Wyseman, ob. 1594, and Richard Wyseman, ob. 1641, with which they are by tradition associated.