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5. On iron brackets two pencels of blue silk edged with blue and gold fringe; each bears the Dryden crest, and on one the sphere, on the other the Ulster hand.

6. A pair of spurs.

7. A pair of gauntlets, funerary, painted brown.

8. An heraldic sword, covered in velvet to represent a scabbard.

Tradition. Associated with the burial of Sir Robert Dryden, born 1639, died unmarried 1708, Sheriff of the county of Northamptonshire. In the centre of the church is a stone, formerly the top of an altar tomb, bearing the crest and arms of Dryden.

Crest. A demi-lion sustaining in the dexter gamb a sphere or. (Dryden.)

John Dryden, the poet, born 1631, died 1710, was the son of Erasmus, third son of Sir Erasmus Dryden, the first baronet.

EASTON MAUDIT. 

[Communicated by Major C. A. Markham.]

1. Close helmet, heraldically barred and gilded, XVIIth century, funerary.

2. Pair of gauntlets, funerary.

3. Sword, heraldic.

4. Escutcheon, bearing ''arg. three lions rampant and a chief gu.'' (Yelverton), which can be faintly identified.

5. Banner, bearing per pale dexter, ''gu. a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or'' (Talbot); sinister (Yelverton).