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In St. Mary's Hall is the salade described in ante, vol. ii, p. 26, Fig. 363. All the armour is civic and includes nine morions and breastplates, three cabassets and breastplates, and a few odd pieces, bills, and halberds. All the breastplates have taces.

The inventory of 1589 records: "Ten new corselets, with head-pieces, vambraces and collars, eight almain corselets and morions, flasks, touch-boxes, bandeliers, halberts, black-bills, salters, partizans, sculls, staves, with 41 pikes, and 23 callibers, 22 bows, 24 sheaves of arrows, maches, swords, and daggers."

LEAMINGTON HASTINGS. 

[Communicated by Mr. Wallis Cash.]

1. Close helmet, XVIIth century, crested, a wyvern, hanging with sword and one gauntlet (Fig. 1773).

Hanging on the north wall of the chancel.

Tradition. The monument to Sir Thomas Trevor near which it hangs.

2. Close helmet, XVIIth century. The crest, a wyvern, is not attached.

Tradition. Associated with the tomb of Thomas, son of above, close to which it hangs.

3. Sword, heraldic, hangs with (1).

4. Two gauntlets—one gauntlet hangs with (1).

Sir Thomas Trevor married: (1) Prudence, a daughter of Henry Botcher, and (2) Frances, heiress of Daniel Blennerhasset of Norfolk, leaving issue, Thomas of Enfield, created a baronet 1641 and K.C.B. at the coronation of Charles II, who married: (1) Anne, daughter of Robert Jenner, and (2) Mary, daughter of S. Hastings of Kew, and died s.p. 1676.

Crest: A wyvern sa. (Trevor.)

Cf. Bloxam, "Fragmenta Sepulchralia," p. 137 (illustration).

MIDDLETON. 

[Communicated by the Rev. R. V. Hodge, M.A., the vicar.]

1. Helmet, with heraldic bars (Fig. 1774).

2. Gauntlets (Fig. 1774).

3. Sword of wood.

Tradition. Associated with and hanging over the monument to Lord Edward Ridgeway, ob. 1638, son of the Earl of Londonderry, but by some said to have been dug up out of a pool in the parish.

Cf. Bloxam, "Fragmenta Sepulchralia," p. 137.

NEWBOLD-ON-AVON. 

1. Close helmet, XVIIth century, crested, a stork's head (Fig. 1775).

2. Sword.

3. Spur.

Tradition. Associated with the Boughton family.

There is a monument (Fig. 1776) of Sir W. Boughton, ob. 1716, erected by his second wife, Catherine, and a monument showing four generations from Edward Boughton, ob. 1583, to William Boughton, ob. 1660. William and Edward are portrayed in armour.

Crest. ''A stork's head erased, chevronny of four sa. and arg., in the beak or, a snake ppr.'' (Boughton.) [The Rev. J. B. Hewitt, the vicar, courteously supplied the photographs.]

STRATFORD-ON-AVON. 

1. Close helmet, funerary, XVIIth century, formerly crested. The front of the helmet is gilded and the back painted pale blue (Fig. 1777).

2. Coat of arms or banner.

These pieces hang over the Clopton pew (Fig. 1778).

Tradition. Associated with the funeral of Sir George Carew, Earl of Totnes, ob. 1629. The Carew monument consists of an altar tomb with the effigies of the Earl and his Countess.

The arms on the banner are the same as those of the armorial shield on the tomb, which has sixteen quarterings:

I. Or, three lions passant guardant sa. (Carew.)