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 428 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MAY 28, 1921. Octob, To George Nun for 6 yards and 3 nailes of broadcloath at 9s the yard for 2 Cloaks for the Sarjeants. . * . . . . 02 1 8 for 3 yards and J an ell of bayes for them. . . . . . . . 00 08 For Silke and stiffiininge for the capes 00 1 for the makinge of them. . . . 00 04 Novemb. To John Lunis for curinge sore heads and leggs for poore people. . . . 02 10 Decemb. more to him (Willm Bardwell) for wine and sugar at the vension feast. . 01 13 For Mris Thomsons dynner then. . 00 01 More for the mans dynner that brought the venison. . . . . . 00 01 ARTHUR T. WINN. Aldeburgh, Suffolk. (To be continued.) 00 and the inserted pieces for the true outline. Three separate pieces of copper, not too large for enamelling, were then coloured and secured to the stone in positions relatively correct with the chevron. These are all now firmly attached to the old stone and appear to be safe for many years to come. The smaller shield still remaining was small enough to be enamelled on one piece of metal, but no attempt at colouring the BRASS AT STOKE D'ABERNON, 1277 : ENAMELLED SHIELD. The brass to Sir John Daubernoun the elder holds a unique position among English brasses for more than one reason. Not only is it the oldest existing brass in this country, presuming the dedicatory inscription at Ashbourne, 1241, to be a later work or copy, but it is the only brass, save a small figure in the Blastings brass, showing a lance with pennon attached ; the effigy is also larger and bolder in design than its contemporaries. But there is a yet more important difference from its fellows to be found in the technical treatment of its heraldry " azure, a chev- ron, or " in which vitreous enamel instead of some coloured pigment was used to produce the colour of the field, most of the original enamel still existing. There appears to be no other remnant of enamel before the Carshalton brass, c. 1490. Enamelling is usually confined to small surfaces, and the method adopted at Stoke to overcome the difficulty occasioned by the size of the shield may be of interest, as this is a matter not touched upon in Haines's or any of the usual reference books. The accompanying woodcut shows the shape to which this portion of the great effigy was cut before the shield was filled in or attached. The dexter portion of the field was pierced through, leaving the pro- jecting chevron as a part of the original sheet of metal, so that the sinister and base portions, cut away as in the print, are denuded of any sort of outline or frame to indicate the edge of the shield, the engraver trusting to the incised matrix pennon was made, the chevron being engraved in outline only. In each shield the enamel is remarkably hard, but not brittle, and in fairly good condition though well worn. The shield of Sir John the younger does not retain the slightest remnant of colour, but the roughly engraved sunken surface was evidently intended for the more usual pitchy filling (now all gone) and not for enamelling, nor was it cut away for the insertion of enamelled plates. These brasses are carefully covered with a thick carpet but are always open to inspection, which will repay anyone for a walk or ride from Leatherhead, three miles distant. WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 16, Long Acre, W.C.2. PEDESTRIANISM IN 1818. Toone, ' Chr. Hist.', ii., pp. 640, 642, writing of this year, has these entries : Feb. 6. The greatest pedestrian feat ever recorded was performed by Mr. Howard, of Knaresford, who for a wager of 200 guineas walked 600 miles in ten days, a task beyond the powers of a horse. May 9. The recent pedestrian performance of Howard was exceeded by D. Crisp, who accom- plished the extraordinary and unparalleled under- taking of walking 61 miles each day, for 17 successive days ; on the last day he was 52 minutes within the given time, and arrived quite fresh. ^ JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.