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 A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE worn a short surcote with loose sleeves, the legs are covered by hoien and the hands by cuffed gauntlets. On the right side a horn is suspended from a narrow crossed strap, and apparently from a haudric worn under the supertunic. A shef of pocok arwes is carried in what seems to be a sling, a mighty howe is held under the left arm, and the feet rest upon the remains of a hound. The effigy at Glinton is evidently a monu- ment of the early part of the fourteenth century and probably represents one of the Delamere family who possessed land in the adjoining parish of Northborough, and are said to have held the office of foresters of Kesteven, an adjacent district of Licolnshire, from the beginning of the thirteenth century. In the time of Bridges it was lying together with the figure of a lady in Glinton church- yard. They were then described as ' two old stones with battered figures of ecclesiastics.' The forester has been sheltered in the tower, but the effig)' of the lady remains outside, a mere block of stone. Sir William de Hinton, living 1346, and . . . his wife. Hinton-in-the-Hedges. The freestone effigies lie upon low plain panelled tombs of the same material placed continuously against the north wall of the north aisle, and apparently in their original positions. They are somewhat abraded, and were described in 1788 as painted black, perhaps their original condition ; they have subsequently been scraped, and in 1866 were coated with thin green licherK The knight is in a costume very like that of De Paveley at Paulerspury, the attitude is exactly the same, and the latter may possibly have formed the model for a local sculptor. The costume is interesting. De Hinton wears a bascinet and camail, a habergeon, a tight-sleeved haketon, with the lower edge cointised or pinked, a cyclas with a short sleeve on the right side only, gauntlets with articulated cuffs of plate and leather fingers, a mutilated lion- faced pallet or disc is fixed on the right elbow, chausses of mail cover the legs and are bound below the knees. The sword is sus- pended by a rather narrow belt, from a double locket ; on the right side are the remains of a misericorde — the first appearance of this weapon. The shield is hung by a gigue and fastened to the arm by an enarme. The head rests upon the two pillows which are now finally to be superseded in military effigies by the knightly helm. The feet armed with rowel spurs rest upon a lion whose mane is sculptured in a series of long wavy locks instead of the usual short curls. The effigy of De Hinton's wife is uncouth and rudely executed. She wears a tight- sleeved gown and a mantle looped across the shoulders, a coverchief over the head, pads for the hair at the sides of the face, and a wimple under the chin. The head rests upon the usual double pillows supported by headless angels, and the feet upon a mutilated animal. Sir John de Lyons. Living 1346. VVark- worth. The effigy carved in clunch lies under an arch of the north arcade, on a high and narrow altar-tomb of the same stone, of which the north and south sides are divided into eight compartments by buttresses with crocketed finials. Each compartment contains a panel under an ogeed and canopied arch ; three of the panels on each side contain figures, and in the other five are shields sus- pended from foliage. At the west end of the tomb is a kneeling figure under a canopied arch. The east end of the tomb abuts against the respond of the arch under which it is placed. The effigy is a very rich and beautifully sculptured example of the costume of a knight in the middle of the fourteenth century. He wears upon his head a bascinet to which is attached a camail of mail, over his body a cyclas laced at the right side, under this a haketon with sleeves, and under this garment a gambeson. His legs and feet are encased in chausses of mail, the spurs have plain wheel rowels, the knees are protected by genouill^res, carefully decorated with ball- flowers and quatrefoils, like the ' Paules windows' on the shoes of the laity, the elbows by guards and lion-faced discs, and the hands by gauntlets of plate and leather, with close-fitting cuffs, strapped round the wrists. The spurs have plain rowels, left almost in block by the sculptor. The knight's head, supported by angels, rests upon his helm for battle and jousting, surmounted by the crest. The feet press, with admirable spontaneity, on a lion. The shield is charged with the lion rampant of De Lyons. The sword is sus- pended by an elaborate baudric worn obliquely, the ends of it are fastened to a double locket placed a few inches below the top of the scabbard. In later swords the double locket is close to the top, and in earlier examples two single ones are used. The end of the scabbard is protected by a chape or bouterolle, and the pommel of the sword is ornamented with a human face. The ornate misericorde is slung by a loop from the baudric, and every detail of the effigy has received the sculptor's most careful attention. Such was the military dress in which the heroes of Cressy and Poictiers 404