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 2. Close helmet, funerary, XVIIth century. A ring is attached to the skull to suspend it (Fig. 1728b).

3. A pair of gauntlets, funerary (Fig. 1728c).

4. A pair of gauntlets, funerary (Fig. 1728d).

Tradition. The armour is said to have been brought from Trent House.

In the church are monuments to Sir Francis Wyndham, in whose house (Trent House) Charles II was in hiding.

WATCHET. 

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

1. Close helmet, 1565-75, crested, a lion's head erased within a fetterlock (Fig. 1729a).

2. Close helmet, early XVIIth century, crested as in (1) (Fig. 1729b).

3. Officer of pikeman's pot, XVIIth century, with pieces added, crested as in (1) (Fig. 1729c).

Hanging in the chancel and on the north and south walls of the nave. A fourth helmet disappeared within living memory, and in "N. and Q.," vol. viii of the 11th series, p. 155, it is noted that there were three empty perches.

Tradition. Associated with the Wyndham family.

Crest. A lion's head erased or, within a fetterlock of the same, the arch compony counter compony, or and az. (Wyndham.)