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 270 SEPULCHRAL MEMORIALS AT ETCIIINGHAM, SUSSEX, some of the most interesting early instances of quartering arms, in England. The centre of each window was plain ; the upper and the lower compartments bore the arms of Edward III., with those of his fjimily and principal nobility, thus disposed, according to the letters of W. Hayley to Dr. WilHam Burrell, written in 1776 and 1778 — East window — Edward, Prince of Wales, Edward III. ; John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster ; John, Duke of Brittany. 1. N. window — Shoyswell. 2. N. window — Holland, Earl of Kent ; Ralph Stafford, Earl of Stafford. 3. N. window — Warren, Earl of Surrey ; Yere, Earl of Oxford. 1. S. window — Echyngham; Edmund, Earl of Cambridge. 2. S. window — Montacute, Earl of Salisbury ; Courtenay, Earl of Devon ; Fitzalan, Earl of Arun- del ; Mortimer, Earl of March. 3. S window- — ^Ufford, Earl of Suffolk ; Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick ; Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. W. Hayley conjectures that these arms were jDut up in 1376. The west window, and those of the aisles, contained in 1778 remains of the arms of Echyngham, Shoyswell, North- wode, Dalingrugge, &c. The arrangement of the altar deserves attention. The steps occupy the middle of the chancel, but on the north and south sides, extending be3'ond these, are two projections, paved with red and yellow tiles. The north projection " has no apparent use, — that to the south serves as a platform to the sedilia." The Ecclesiologist, August, 1846, describes these tiles as of an uncommon description : they are stated to be IjIkp, with devices in yellow, principally consisting of complicated stars. I could obtain none sufficiently perfect to enable me to ascertain the device or colour : they are figured in Parker's Glossary, (Plate 198, no. 22, edition of 1850). The colour appeared to me to indicate no trace of blue, but the tiles are much worn and obscured by dirt and extreme damp. Immediately to the west of the sedilia, there exist the mutilated remains of what appeared to me an altar- tomb, which Ha^dey also hns so described. The writer I