Christian monuments in England and Wales : an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use in this country from about the era of the Norman conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth . adopted the emblem of her husbands or fathers worldly , the slab at Newbigging, which is charged with two crosses,one of them accompanied bythe shears, and the other with-out any symbol, (admitting itto be the monument of a mar-ried pair), might denote thatthe wife was daughter of awool-merchant; or, changingthe appropriation of the twocrosses
Christian monuments in England and Wales : an historical and descriptive sketch of the various classes of sepulchral monuments which have been in use in this country from about the era of the Norman conquest to the time of Edward the Fourth . adopted the emblem of her husbands or fathers worldly , the slab at Newbigging, which is charged with two crosses,one of them accompanied bythe shears, and the other with-out any symbol, (admitting itto be the monument of a mar-ried pair), might denote thatthe wife was daughter of awool-merchant; or, changingthe appropriation of the twocrosses, the cross with theshears may indicate a wool-merchant, and the cross with-out any device this And so also with theEast Shaftoe double slab : theplain cross with the sword andshield, which occupy the sin-ister side of the composition,is without doubt the memo-rial of a man-at-arms, orknight; and the more grace-ful cross with the shears noless certainly refers to thesoldiers lady—the daughter,as I consider, of some wool-merchant. The distinctionbetween the emblem of afemale, and such an emblem as a female might assume, would not be recognised by ordinaryand casual observers;2 and consequently, the evident association. Double Monumental Slao, East Shaftoe 1 The cross on either side of a doubleslab may be attributed, with equal proba-bility of correctness, to the husband, un-less there be some device of a characternot to be mistaken which decides thispoint: precisely as in monumental effigies,there can be assigned no rule whatever for determining the position of the male figure,whether it should be placed on the rightside of the female, or on the left. 2 I may refer to the fact of the insigniaof the Garter appearing upon some fewmonumental effigies of noble ladies, whosehusbands were knights of that most illus- IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 89 of the shears with the memorial of a female upon the East Shaftoeslab, and upon several others also, will sufficiently account f
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