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 MANCHESTER. 

[Communicated by the Rev. H. A. Hudson, M.A.]

1. Helmet.

2. Spear.

The above have long disappeared from the church.

MIDDLETON. 

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

1. Helmet, funerary, temp. Charles I, crested, a boar's head (Figs. 1671 a and b).

2. Sword.

1671a.

1671b.

3. Three spurs (of which one pair was purchased to replace a pair stolen in 1868).

4. A banner (not earlier than 1739).

Tradition. The helmet is by tradition associated with the funeral of Sir Richard Assheton, the soldier of Flodden, but it is generally supposed to have been used at the funeral of Colonel Assheton, ob. 1650, who commanded some of the Parliamentary forces during the Civil War, and was a member of the Long Parliament.

Crest. A boars head couped gu. (Assheton.)

"Soon after the Restoration, in the year 1667, Sir William Dugdale, then Norroy King of Arms, asserting the rights of his office in defacing several achievements hung up in many churches He also commenced a suit at law against one Randle Holme, a painter in the city of Chester, who had invaded his office,