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 Tradition. Hanging over the monument to Sir Roger Manwood (ob. 1592), Fig. 1649, with which this achievement is associated. Sir Roger was created Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1578. He was buried in the south transept. Succeeded by his son, Sir Peter, ob. 1625, also buried in the church.

Crest. Out of a ducal coronet a demi-lion gardant or. (Manwood.)

Cf. "N. and Q.," 5th series, x, p. 73.

C.

[Communicated by the Rev. C. A. Manley.]

Close helmet, funerary, XVIIth century.

Tradition. Associated with the Roper monument, over which it is suspended.

"Over one is a banner, bearing the arms of Roper (per fess az. and arg. a pale counterchanged, three stags' heads erased or), and a helmet and surcoat bearing the arms of More (arg., a chevron engr., between three moor cocks sa). John Roper, Attorney-General, died 1524, leaving a son William, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas More, L.C. He died 1578, and it is over the monument to this William Roper that the achievement hangs" ("Hasted," iii, p. 592). William Roper was the author of "The Life and Death of that Mirrour of all Times, Honour and Vertue Syr Thomas More" (pub. 1626).

CHART, LITTLE. 

1. Helm, English, late XVth century, crested, a man's head (vide ante, vol. ii, p. 153, Fig. 491).

2. Close helmet, funerary, crested, a man's head.

Both helmets hang on perches in the Darell chapel.

Tradition. The family of Darell. John Darell (brass), ob. 1438, of Calehill, established himself in Little Chart circa 1410. He married (1) Valentine Barret of Preston, near Faversham, and (2) a niece of Archbishop Chicheley. He was buried in the chancel of the church and was succeeded by his son, William, ob. 1471, who in his turn was succeeded by John, attached as a Squire of the body to Hen. VII, knighted in 1497, and buried in the church, where there is an effigy of him.

Crest. ''Out of a ducal coronet a man's head in profile couped at the shoulders and bearded ppr., wreathed round the temples arg. and az., on the head, a cap also az. and fretty arg., tasselled gold and turned up erm.'' (Darell.)

Cf. "Proc. of the Soc. of Ant.," xxxi, p. 196.