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 362 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. We are indebted to the Rev. Edward Wilton, of West Lavington, Wilts, for recalling attention to the curious painted glass in the church of Thirsk, described by Mr. Hylton Longstaff, in a former volume of the Journal'. The arms of Askew, there noticed, occur with three distinctions, a mitre, a mullet, and a crescent. The mitre may probably have been assumed or granted to record descent from William Askew, or Ayscough, bishop of Sarum, 1438, murdered by Cade's mob in the parish of Edington, Wilts, 1450'". If this supposition be correct, it will furnish a probable date, useful in ascertaining precisely the age of the glass at Thirsk. Mr. Wilton took occasion also to call attention to the church of Edington, as an interesting and rich example of the transition from the Decorated to the Perpendicular style, built by William de Edington, bishop of Winchester, predecessor of Wyckham, by whom also the rebuilding of the nave at Winchester, which Wyckham carried on, was commenced. The consecration of Edington church, which was built at once, took place A.D. 1361, and it shews the progress towards the introduction of Perpendicular architecture which had been attained". This beautiful building, with the monastic remains of the foundation with which it was connected, affords a valuable example in the chronology of church architecture. We have been enabled by Mr. Wilton's obliging communications to add two more examples to the list of '" palimpsest" sepulchral brasses. They had been taken up during recent restorations of the Dauntesay chapel, a Perpendicular addition to the Early English church of West Lavington, and they will shoitly be retixed amongst the memorials of the Dauntesay and Danvers families, the Lees of Ditchley, and the Abingdons, there existing. A broken figure of a gentleman in armour had been supposed to represent John Dawnse, who died Jan. 4, 1453, according to an inscription, now lost. The costume, however, appears to be of the reign of Henry VIII. This figure measures 2 i"t. 3 in. ; the head rests on a close-sighted helm, without crest, the hair long, small frills at the throat and wrists, globular breast with pass-guards, faces and pointed tuilles over a skirt of mail, and square- toed soUerets. The plates referred to are inscriptions to the memory of John Dauntesay, who died 1559, and his second wife, ^Margaret, daughter of John Ernley ; the former is expressed in the following quaint rhymes: €>nc tI)ousantic lurcs iiiitl) fiuntiictitfcs fijljc anto frtitfc mine full' paste • Jiijon Bauntcsai) DiB djaungr iljis lijfc for lijfc that still' sfjall' lastr. Ilu tl)e uijnctccnil) of jiVlapc tol)cn springe all' if)tncjcs tinto mans t)se, liben tljeu il;ts man tijat niovtaU' toas, Ijis Ucatl; coulBc not refuse. ' Archapol. Journal, vol. ii. p. 7!). the work of l?ishop Edington at Winchester. "' The spot where tliis murder was ceni- Transaetions of the InstitxUe, Winchester, niitted is still marked by local tradition, 1815; AJcnioir on the Cathedral, p. 54. and Mr. Wilton remarks that according The coeval introduction of the Perpendi- to popular belief the cattle refuse to eat cular style in various parts of England is the strong rank herbage which grows upon remarkable : the choir of York Minster the place. The spot, as he observes, an- and spire of Norwich cathedral (both early swers to the description given by Godwin Perpendicular) are assigned to the same of this cruel outrage. peiiod, 1360. " See Professor Willis' observations on