The Herald and genealogist . he head, restson a well-filled lozenge-shaped cushion. The upper lip is without anymoustache, of the absence of which this and the effigy in Plate 10 arethe only instances among these The legs, though thin andwasted, appear easy and natural. Now, the little-heeded discovery to which we have alluded isthis: that the three plain spaces left on the shield,3 each of 1 As described in The Monumental Effigies of the Temple Church, with anAccount of their Restoration, in the year 1842. By Edward Richardson, Folio. Eleven plates in lithography. 2 E
The Herald and genealogist . he head, restson a well-filled lozenge-shaped cushion. The upper lip is without anymoustache, of the absence of which this and the effigy in Plate 10 arethe only instances among these The legs, though thin andwasted, appear easy and natural. Now, the little-heeded discovery to which we have alluded isthis: that the three plain spaces left on the shield,3 each of 1 As described in The Monumental Effigies of the Temple Church, with anAccount of their Restoration, in the year 1842. By Edward Richardson, Folio. Eleven plates in lithography. 2 Except that in No. IV. the upper lip is not shown. See note in p. 110. 3 The accompanying engraving is copied from Mrj» Richardsons plate : which wehave carefully examined with the original sculpture, and found to be very bars are not cut in relief as the carbuncle is, but are formed by the cessation ofthe diapered pattern, the transverse lines of the diaper running level into the bars. IN THE TEMPLE CHURCH. 103. 104 EFFIGY ATTRIBUTED TO GEOFFREY DE MAGNAVILLE them resembling a dancette or bar dancette, are in fact the armsof the person whom the effigy was intended to carbuncle, as it has been called, was nothing more than aconstructional part of his shield; the diapering was a mode ofornamentation usual1 at the time; but the bars dancette were thedistinctive coat-armour of the individual. It is perfectly clear hewas not Geoffrey de Magnaville, Earl of Essex, nor any othermember of that family. Who he really was it may be difficultto determine: but with our present knowledge of costume and ofarmour it may not be impossible to arrive at a proximate date forhis death. In one of the earliest rolls of arms, we have a coat Barrydancettee of six argent and gules given for Walter de Balun;and Barry dancettee of six or and sable for Roger of these names might claim the effigy, could any con-nection between them and the Templars be establishe
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