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 SOMERSETSHIRE

BARRINGTON. 

[Communicated with photograph by Mr. H. St. George Gray, F.S.A.]

In the Somerset County Museum is preserved a late XVIth century helmet with a XVIIth century gorget added (Fig. 1718), which came from Barrington Court. The helmet is said to have been formerly hung in the church.

CHURCHILL. 

[Communicated by Captain A. de Cosson.]

1. Triple-bar lobster-tailed helmet, breastplate, and gorget plate, all Cromwellian (Fig. 1719). Hanging on the north wall of the south aisle.

2. A peascod breastplate.

Tradition. None.

There is a monument to Thomas Latch, ob. 1644, represented in buff coat and boots. On the floor of the aisle is the brass to "Ralphe Jenyns Esquyer," ob. 1572. [Mr. Wallis Cash courteously supplied the photograph.]

ENMORE. 

[Communicated by Mr. H. M. Vaughan, F.S.A.]

1. Helmet, with umbril, barred, and crested, a wyvern's head (Fig. 1720), suspended on the north side of the chancel arch.

Tradition. Associated with the family of Malet of Enmore. Of this family Elizabeth (ob. 1681), daughter of John Malet, the heiress "la triste héritière," married John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-80), the poet, who was educated at Burford and Wadham.

Crest. A wyvern's head ppr. (Malet.)

2. Close helmet, late XVIth century, suspended over the pulpit. [Mr. Wallis Cash courteously supplied the photograph.]