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 tradition associating the pieces with the funeral of Sir John Norbury, ob. 1521, whose effigy was put up in 1633 to replace an older one. Arms. ''Az. three quatrefoils arg.'' (Vincent.) Crest. ''Out of a ducal coronet ppr. a bear's head arg.''

Cf. "Vic. C. H." (Surrey), iii, p. 462. [Mr. H. C. Archer courteously supplied the photograph.]

SUTTON. 

[Communicated by Mr. L. C. Price.]

Helmet, with gorget plates added at a later date.

Tradition. Found in a tomb, and now placed in the chancel.

Cf. "N. and Q.," 11th series, ix, p. 410.

WIMBLEDON. 

[Communicated by Sir Thomas Jackson, R.A.]

1. Pikeman's suit of (a) pot helmet; (b) gorget; (c) breast- and backplate, tassets. On the backplate is the hook "to hang his steele cap upon" (Fig. 1760a).

Tradition. Armour of the Trained Bands.

2. XVIIth century cavalier suit of (a) close helmet; (b) gorget; (c) breast- and backplate and garde-de-rein; (d) lobster tassets of fourteen laminae and knee-cops; (e) arm-pieces of pauldrons, turners, elbow-cops, vam- and rerebraces (Fig. 1760b).

All the above are painted black and of the roughest make (Fig. 1760).

Tradition. This armour hangs in the Cecil chapel (Fig. 1760). The cavalier suit is by tradition said to have been worn by Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, third son of the fourth Earl of Exeter by his wife Dorothy Nevill, and grandson of Lord Treasurer Burleigh. Tradition says it was hung there some years after the death of Lord Wimbledon. In the chapel is the black marble altar tomb, bearing the following inscription:

"Here resteth Sir Edward Cecill Knight. Lo: Cecill & Baron of Putney, Viscount Wimbledō] of Wimbledō] third sone of Thos. Earle of Exet^r. & Dorothy Nevill one of y^e coheires of y^e Lo: Nevill of Latimer & grandchild of y^e Lo: Treasur^r. Burghley" Over the tomb is a large bronze-gilt coronet. Sir Edward Cecil lived at the old manor house, now pulled down, the scene of the scandal referred to in "The Fortunes of Nigel."

Also buried in the chapel: Richard Betenson of Scadbury, Kent, Kt. and Bart., married Albinia, daughter of Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby, Lincoln, Kt., ob. 1677. He lived at Eagle House, now the residence of Sir Thomas Jackson, R.A.

There is a trust under the will of Dorothy Nevill to keep the chapel in repair.

Cf. "N. and Q.," 5th series, x, p. 11; 11th series, x, p. 410. [Mr. H. C. Archer courteously supplied the photograph.]