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 . inscriptions that two individuals were frequently commemo-rated by one slab bearing a single crosswithout any other device:1 still, wherethe two devices which, without any in-scription, accompany a single cross, canbe consistently attributed to the sameperson, this appropriation of them ap-pears to be preferable: and the key, ifheld to be a symbol of the
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 . inscriptions that two individuals were frequently commemo-rated by one slab bearing a single crosswithout any other device:1 still, wherethe two devices which, without any in-scription, accompany a single cross, canbe consistently attributed to the sameperson, this appropriation of them ap-pears to be preferable: and the key, ifheld to be a symbol of the magisterialoffice, may, in all the examples hithertonoticed, be associated with the otherdevice which accompanies it. TheAycliffe double slab I believe to com-memorate two brothers, — the one anarmourer, and the other a wool-mer-chant, who had passed the chair ofcivic This slab appearsto have been consecrated as an altaror credence stone; and it is somewhatremarkable . that the two monumentalcrosses should have been included inthe number of the usual five crosseswhich denote such consecration. Upon one of the slabs at Bakewell in Derbyshire, the four com-partments into which the face of the stone is divided by the four. Coffin-slab, BakeweU, Derbyshire. 1 The slab at Southwell Minster, whichI have already described, shews that twodifferent symbols were sometimes placedwith a single cross upon a slab to denotetwo individuals. 2 In many examples of monumentaleffigies there appear two male figures inthe same composition. The fine brass ofa Priest and a Frankelein at Shottesbrokein Berkshire is a good specimen of thisclass of monument, and probably com- memorates two brothers. (See WallersBrasses, and Section III.) I may men-tion another brass of the same characterat Furneux Pelham, Herts; and againthere are figures of two ecclesiastics inthe bracket brass at Merton College, Ox-ford, engraved in my Monumental Brassesof England. Two brothers may have beencommemorated
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