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 . Incised Slab, St. Johns, Chester. 1 I again quote from Dr. Charltons paper in the Arcluuological Journal. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 97 perhaps (again to refer to Sir Walter Scotts celebrated tale), inhis day not inferior in wealth and importance to the father of theFair Catherine of Perth, but whose name now has long passedaway and been Not so, ho
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 . Incised Slab, St. Johns, Chester. 1 I again quote from Dr. Charltons paper in the Arcluuological Journal. IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 97 perhaps (again to refer to Sir Walter Scotts celebrated tale), inhis day not inferior in wealth and importance to the father of theFair Catherine of Perth, but whose name now has long passedaway and been Not so, however, it is with another. Brass, Fletching. brother of the same goodly craft, who rests at Fletching in Sussex,and whose memorial is there preserved in the pavement of thechurch. This memorial is a plain slab, bearing, engraven on twosmall plates of brass, a pair of gloves and the brief legend,— ^tc ? facet ? }9et£t)£» * 2Denot ? (Blotter.€uiu# ? ate ? pptcietuj ? SDettg * #men. 1 A brass at N/orthleach in Gloucester- from the slab of John Atkyn, glover, shire bears the figure of a tailor, having at 1449, a shield bearing a pair of gloves has his feet a pair of scissors. In the chancel been removed. See Goughs Monuments, of the church of St. Peter at St. Albans, vol. ii. introduction, p. cccxxxv. 98 CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS The emblems of woodcraft, the bow and arrow, appear uponone of the Bakewell slabs. In this example the stem of the crosssupplies the place of the bow-string, and the arrow is representedas placed upon the A slab at Thornton Abbey in Lincolnshire has incised upon
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