Edward Whyte and wife Elizabeth, 1528. Lawyer in plate armour with sword and spurs, wife in gable hood, gown with tight slashed sleeves, girdle with rosary beads. Both died of sweating sickness. Memorial brass in St Martin's Church, Shotesham (Shottisham), Norfolk. Handtinted copperplate engraving drawn, etched and published by John Sell Cotman in Engravings of the Most Remarkable of the Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk, Henry Bohn, London, 1818.

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