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 SUFFOLK

BARDWELL. 

[Communicated by Mr. C. Morley, F.Z.S., F.E.S.; and the Rev. F. E. Warren, D.D., F.S.A.]

1. Sword, XVIIth century.

2. A piece of town armour.

Tradition. There exists one of those traditions not uncommon in country places associating the sword with a knight of the middle ages, Sir William de Bardewell.

In 1859 there was exhibited at a meeting of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology a piece of mail found in Bardwell, but there was no evidence connecting it with the church.

Cf. "Proc. Suffolk Inst. of Arch.," 1859, vol. ii, p. 277.

BARKING. 

Helmet, crested with a star of sixteen points.

Tradition. None.

Cf. "N. and Q.," 6th series, vol. vi, p. 138.

BRAMFIELD. 

1. Helmet.

2. Helmet.

3. Breastplate.

4. Breastplate.

Tradition. There is one tradition associating these pieces with the Coke family; according to another tradition they are pieces of parish armour.

BRIGHTWELL. 

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

1. Helmet, partly gilded, funerary, crested, a stork (Fig. 1733).

2. Helmet, XVIIth century, crested, a stork. The skull-piece is perhaps a genuine one, probably that of a pikeman's pott, with the rim cut off and made into a close helmet for a funeral by the addition of an umbril, a back- and chin-piece, and a gorget (Fig. 1734).

The above are on perches.

3. A small heraldic sword and ferrule of scabbard (Fig. 1734).

4. A pair of gauntlets (Fig. 1734).

5. An escutcheon.

6. A spur.

Tradition. The first helmet is associated with the funeral of Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Bart. (cr. 1663),