hue jacet dus Thomas pethyn quonda Thomas Petbyn, Rector, c. 1470. LYTCHETT MATRAVERS, ST. MARY. 1.-Thos. Pethyn, rector, c. 1470, in shroud, small, in Chancel. 66 2.-Inscription; Margaret Clement generosa specialis benefactrix reedificacionis hujus ecclesie 1505." 3. A matrix of a very large fret (the arms of Maltravers), with marginal inscription to Sir John Matravers, 1365 (Gough's Sepulchral Effigies, Vol. I., p. 117). Haines. THOMAS PETHYN. Position. Mural, below a window in the Chancel a little west of the piscina. Size.-15in. high by 42in. wide at the feet. tion 12 in. by 23in. The inscrip Description. This is the solitary example of a shroud brass extant in Dorset, although there are matrices, one being at present in St. Peter's, Dorchester. They are not found earlier than the fifteenth century, one of the earliest being the half effigy of Joan Mareys at Sheldwich, Kent, 1431. Thomas Pethyn's effigy is probably c. 1470. The origin of these peculiar effigies is given in Cotman's Brasses, Vol. II., p. 51, to remind us "that the robes of pride will shortly be exchanged for the winding-sheet, and that beauty and strength are hastening to the period when they will become as the spectre before them." The preparation for a shroud brass cannot have been very different from the following, for a marble effigy now in St. Paul's. 66 'A monument being resolved upon, Dr. Donne sent for a Carver to make for him in wood the figure of an Urn, giving him directions for the compass and height of it; and to bring with it a board, of the just height of his body. 'These being got, then without delay a choice Painter was got to be in readiness to draw his picture, which was taken as followeth.-Several charcoal fires being first made in his large Study, he brought with him into that place his winding-sheet in his hand, and having put off all his clothes, had this sheet put on him, and so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted, to be shrowded and put into their coffin, or grave. Upon this Urn he thus stood, with his eyes shut, and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean, pale, and death-like face, which was purposely turned towards the East, from whence he expected the second coming of his and our Saviour Jesus.' In this posture he was drawn at his just height; and when the picture was fully finished, he caused it to be set by his bedside, where it continued and became his hourly object till his death." -Walton's Lives, p. 72. The inscription is in Old English type with usual preReformation wording bic jacet dns Thomas Petbyn quandẩ MARGARET CLEMENT. Position.-On a slab in the Nave near the Font. Size.-16 in. long, 3in. wide. Description. A plain inscription in Old English characters that incidentally fixes the date of a restoration of the Church in 1505. bic jacet Margareta Clement Generosa specialis benefactrix reedificacionis bujus ecclesie que obiit XXFFFF die Junii o dni o vc v cujus aie propicietur deus ame. CHURCH KNOWLE, ST. PETER. John Clavell, Esq. in armour and two wives, 1st wife with 3 sons and 1 daughter, 2nd, Susan, daughter of Robert Coker of Mappowder, mural, North aisle. Haines. Position.-Beneath the canopy of an altar tomb of Purbeck stone are three compartments, having the following three |