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 MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES ately from foliage and heads, under ogeed canopies of good design, cusped and sub- cusped. At the west end of the tomb are two shields under canopies of the same character, the one being hung from a queen's head, crowned and wearing a wimple, the other from the head of a king bearded and crowned, the two being probably intended for Philippa and Edward III. The effigies have suffered much from decay, whitewash and neglect. De Pavely wears a conical and fluted bascinet, to which a camail is attached in the usual way by laces running through vervelles. This head-gear takes the place of the ancient mail hood, forming an important change. The body is clothed in a haketon with tight-fitting sleeves, and over this is worn the singular garment the cyclas, with loose sleeves reaching to the elbow. The hands are protected by plain cuffed gauntlets and the knees by fluted genouilleres ; the legs are encased in chausses of mail, bound with a band below the knees, and the feet armed with rowelled spurs. The sword, which the knight is sheathing, is loosely suspended by a broad transverse belt, fastened by a double locket in accordance with the new fashion, and placed a few inches below the top of the scabbard. How these transverse sword-belts were kept in position at the back, in the absence of the narrow cingulum or waist-strap, is not apparent. They passed away when the baudric came in, and reappeared when the latter fell into disuse, as will presently be seen. The left arm carries the mutilated shield, which must have borne the De Pavely charges. The head rests upon two pillows and the feet upon a lion. The effigy of De Pavely is one of very considerable interest. The fluted bascinet is of excessively rare occurrence, and the cyclas is rendered the more curious in this instance by having sleeves attached to it. Of the fourteen effigies and brasses exhibiting the cyclas in England, three examples are in Northamptonshire. The effigy of the lady represents her wear- ing a coverchief over the head confined round the temples with a circlet and falling with long folds over the shoulders. The hair is plaited over small pads and a wimple is pinned up loosely under the chin. She is habited in a gown with tight sleeves and over this is a long supertunic without sleeves, open at the sides as in the later cote-hardi, and falling in easy graceful folds to the feet. The hands formerly in prayer are missing. It is apparent that they were separately attached to the effigy. The head reposes upon two pillows, supported by mutilated angels, and a dog lies at the feet. The memorial is a work of great artistic merit ; it is rarely that such an elaborate work, with angels supporting the pillows, is found associated with a wooden effigy. Maud Holand, about 1330. Woodford Halse. This well proportioned and delicately- sculptured figure, in hard red sandstone, repre- sents a lady wearing the usual coverchief, wimple, gown and mantle of the time. The hands are in prayer, and the head rests upon two pillows supported by angels. The lower part of the effigy has been greatly mutilated. It was discovered March 7, 1878, buried about two feet below the surface of the ground close to the north wall of the chancel, towards the west, outside. In 1329 Maud widow of Robert Holand was lady of the manor of Woodford Halse, and is probably represented by this effigy. Sir Thomas le Latymer. Died 1334. Braybrooke. This wooden effigy of strange proportion, and of the great length of 7 feet 4 inches, has suffered much from decay. It is carved in very knotty oak, and represents a man wearing a ridged cerveli^re over a mail hood, a hauberk and chausses of mail, genouilleres of plate, a surcote reaching only to the knees — the cyclas in fact, with its hinder portion cut off — and plain gauntlets. The spurs have wheel rowels, and the shield, no doubt originally blazoned with arms, is suspended by a narrow gigue. The short sur- cote indicates the transition from the cyclas, which it resembles in being open at the sides, to the jupon which succeeded it as a military garment. The ridged cerveliere is the pre- cursor of the pointed bascinet, but is very seldom met with. . . Wale. About 1340. Eydon. This disfigured freestone effigy of a lady habited in a gown and supertunic probably represents the wife of Sir Richard Wale, who was lord of Eydon in the time of Edward II. It formerly lay under a pew in the north aisle, from whence it was removed into the vestry in 1865. Effigy of a Delamere. Glinton. A man is here represented wearing the un- usual dress of a forester. The head is apparently bare with the hair arranged in full locks at the sides. Taking Chaucer's descrip- tion of the Yeoman in the Canterbury Pilgrimage, the shoulders appear to be covered by the hot/t; the body is vested in the coote with close-fitting sleeves, and over this is 403