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1. Close helmet, crested, a griffin.

2. Close helmet, crested, a griffin.

3. Two coats of arms. One coat bears: (a) ''Arg. a fesse between six cross crosslets fitchée gu.'' (Craven). (b) The same quartering Craven of Appletreewick.

4. Gauntlets.

5. Swords.

The above are shown in the view of the church illustrated in Fig. 1800.

Tradition. All the above are associated with the Craven family. Of this family are buried in this church: (1) "Here lyeth inter'd the body of Sir Willia Craven who deceased Octob^r. 12. An. Dn̄i 1655 in the 46^{th} year of his age"; (2) William Craven, son of Sir William by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Ferdinand, Lord Fairfax, ob. 3 August 1665, age sixteen.

Crest. ''On a chapeau gu. doubled erm. a griffin statant winged erm. beaked and fore-membered or.'' (Craven.)

In the church are monuments of the Bygg family: Thomas Bygg, ob. 1581; Sir Thomas Bygg, ob. 1613; Sir Thomas Bygg, Bart., ob. 1621.

The only interment of a Craven in the Registers is that of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Craven.

Cf. Dingley, "Hist. from Marble," ii, pp. 111, cclxxxvi-vii; E. A. B. Barnard in "Worcs. Arch. Soc.," 8 January 1917, "The Bigges of Lenchwick and their tombs," Evesham, Worcestershire; "Vic. C. H." (Worcs), ii, p. 420; Bloxam, "Fragmenta Sepulchralia," p. 136. [Mr. E. A. B. Barnard, F.S.A., courteously supplied the block for the illustration of the church.]

SPETCHLEY. 

1. Close helmet, XVIIth century, believed to be funerary, crested, a bear's head.

2. Coat of arms.

Hanging in the chancel.

Tradition. Associated with the funeral of Rowland Berkeley, ob. 1611, who married Katherine Haywood (arms: arg., three torteaux in bend between two cottises gu.).