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 288 NOTICES OF FOREIGN SEPULCHRAL BRASSES. seen, is in conformity with a practice not unfrequently found both in France and Germany. The figures are of the full size of life, the knight measuring in length 6 feet 7 inches. The head is bare, the features strongly marked. We can have little doubt that an actual portrait of the deceased was intended. The body armour is a hauberk of " banded mail," worn over a padded garment, probably the pourpoint, quilted in longitudinal ribs, the stitches being very distinctly marked. The close fitting sleeves of this garment appear under the short sleeves of the hauberk, which extend about midway between the elbow and the wrist ; the defence of the liand and arm being, probably, rendered complete by means of long cuffed gauntlets.^ This tight quilted sleeve rarely appears in English effigies, but it is frequently seen in foreign monuments, as in the French figures admirably etched by the late Mr. Kerrich.^ The skirt of this pourpoint appears beneath that of the hauberk, and falls over the knee. The upper garment is a short-sleeved surcoat, A^itli a vent on either breast, through which pass the chains, appended seemingly to the hauberk, one of them connected with the hilt of the sword, the other with the dagger. This precaution to obviate the risk of dropping the weapon in the heat of conflict, appears less commonly in England than in Flanders or G-ermany. Occasionally three guard-chains appear, one attached to the helm. A single chain for this purpose is seen on the figure of Sir John de Northwode, circa 1330, at Minster (engraved by Stothard), but this brass appears to be of foreign design. Sir Roger de Trumpington (Waller's Brasses) has this helm-guard attached to his girdle.^ A roundel is attached by an arming-point at the elbow. It is a customary appendage at this period, of which it is not easy to define the use, but it probably served to protect the bend of the arm.^ The skirt of the surcoat opens both in front, and at the sides, a prevalent foreign fashion, — whilst in ' The use of such gauntlets is well ^ An example of the use of chains from illustrated by the drawings in Roy. MS. the inammellirrcs is supplied by the effigy IG, G. vi. of a Blaiichofrout at Alvechurch, given by ■^ Compare the effigy of liouis, Comte Stothard. One chain is attached to the d'Eyreux, 1319, in the Archa'ologia, vol. sword-hilt, the other to the scabbard, xviii., pi. xvi. ; the original drawings by Tlie same fashion is .shown by the curious Mr. Kerrich, preserved in the British effigy of Thomas Giff'ard at Leckhampton. Aluscum, Add. MS., 72!5 ; the figures of They apjiear vei-y often on German Charles, Comte d'Etampes, in Mr. Shaw's effigies. See Hefner's " Trachten." " Dresses and Decorations," and that of • Compare the brass of Sir John d'Au- Gottfried of Arensberg, Hefner, pi. 5.0. bernoun, Jun. 1.327. (Stothard).