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 RAUNDS. 

[Communicated by Major C. A. Markham.]

1. Pikeman's pott.

2. Pikeman's breastplate and tassets.

3. Pikeman's breastplate.

The above is all Town armour. There is other armour in the parvise.

RAVENSTHORPE. 

A report has been received that there is armour in this church.

STEANE. 

[Communicated by Major C. A. Markham.]

1. Close helmet, XVIIth century, with heraldic bars, crested, a lion rising out of a crown; behind the helmet is an ellipse bearing ''az. a lion rampant or, surmounted by a coronet''. 2. Sword, with curved blade. 3. Two gauntlets. 4. Pair of spurs. Tradition. The above hang almost above the monument to Thomas, Baron Crewe, ob. 1697. Arms. ''Erm. fretty gu., a crescent for difference.'' (Crewe.) Crest. Out of a ducal coronet or a lion's gamb erect arg.

5. Wooden helmet.

Tradition. Hanging over the tomb of Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, ob. 1721.

NORTHUMBERLAND

BAMBURGH. 

[Communicated by the Rev. E. Williams, the vicar, who kindly supplied the photograph from which the illustration is taken.]

1. Helmet, crested, an arm vambraced holding a spear.

2. Pott helmet (Fig. 1693).

3. Breastplate, XVIIth century.

4. Two gauntlets of wood.

5. A sword, heraldic.

The above are hanging on the north wall of the chancel (Fig. 1694).

Tradition. Associated with the mural tablet to Sir Claudius Forster (Fig. 1694), to whom Bamburgh Castle was granted by James I in 1610, but the more strongly supported tradition assigns the achievement as that of Ferdinando Forster (youngest son of Sir William Forster, born 1636, died 1674), who is buried in the crypt, M.P. for Northumberland, born 1669, killed in 1701. Readers will recall how Walter Besant in "Dorothy Forster" paints the scene in the church, and the pride with which the "family sat beneath the helmet 'of some other Forster long since dead and gone.'"

Crest. ''An arm armed ppr. holding a broken tilting spear or.'' (Forster.)

Cf. "N and Q.," 5th series, x, p. 317.