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 quently, when her husband died in 1420, a brass was put down in the same church, upon which the wife as well as the husband were depicted. At Loddon, Norfolk, 1530 and 1561; Dauntesey, Wilts, 1514 and c. 1530; and Staveley, Derbyshire, 1480 and 1503 ; andFairford, Gloucestershire, 1534, are similar examples ; and others of the same nature might be mentioned. Then, again, there are sometimes brasses in different churches to one person, on account of some special connection with each place ; and Robert Hamsley, Master of University Col- lege, who died 1518, had brasses to his memory at University, Merton, and Queen's College chapels, and at Doddington Church, Oxfordshire. The cross, which with the inscription marks the burial-place of Dame Johanna Adderley, is a plain cross with its arms " slipped " : there is a very similar example at Royston, Herts, 1 but in that instance the centre and limbs are marked in the conventional manner to indicate our Lord's five wounds. There is a shield in each of the upper quarters of the slab, one of which is quite illegible ; the other bears quarterly 1 and 4 (sa), a lion ramp, (or) (Brocas), 2 and 3 defaced. The memorial against the wall answered a double purpose : the lower part is of stonework, forming a high tomb (such as is often called an altar tomb, from the form resembling an altar), and to this place the Holy Sacrament and cross were removed on Holy Thursday and watched, with lights, till Easter morning : the cere- monies used, according to the Ritual of the English, as well as the Roman Church, have been heretofore detailed in this Society's publications. The fashion for erecting such structures to answer at once the purpose of an Easter sepulchre and a monument, set in towards the end of the 15th century (though somewhat earlier instances may be found), and continued until the middle of the 1 6th century ; it necessitated the horizontal sur- face on the top of the tornb being flat, and the monu- 1 An engraving of it was lately published in the Evening Meetings Proceedings of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, in illustration of a paper 4ny Me. Milbovtrn, on Royston Church.