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68 occasionally occur in sepulchral representations, but they are by no means common.

The figure of the lady presents no striking peculiarity of costume: she wears a square reticulated head-dress, apparently resembling the fashion which is more clearly shewn by the effigy of Catharine, wife of Thomas Beauchamp, in the choir of St. Mary's church, at Warwick, and that of Lady Le Despenser, on the north side of the altar, at Tewksbury. Her under-garment has a high collar closely buttoned up to the chin, a fashion of the fourteenth century prevalent both in male and female attire. Another peculiarity of this little brass may deserve notice: the figures are not cut out, to be inlaid upon the slab, as usual in such memorials in this country, but engraved upon a rectangular plate, the field of which is plain. The sepulchral brasses in France and the Netherlands most commonly were formed thus, consisting of one un- broken sheet of metal, but the field was richly ' diapered, or covered with some design, as shewn by several Flemish brasses existing in England, at Lynn, Newark, Aveley, and other places. Mr. Stapleton has favoured us with the following note regarding the persons commemorated by the brass at Allerton. "Sir John Mauleverer, of Aller-