Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various
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I presume that "RAHERE" is a young brass-rubber, or the fact of a plate being engraved on both sides would have presented no difficulty to him. ARUN. [We have received several other replies to this Query, referring to Mr. Boutell's _Monumental Brasses_: one from "W."; another from "A CORNISHMAN," who says,-- "The brass in question, when I saw it last, had been removed from the Rectory and placed in the tomb of Abbot Wheathampstead, in company with the famous one of Thomas Delamere, another Abbot of St. Albans." Another from "E.V.," who states,-- "Other examples are found at St. Margaret's, Rochester (where the cause of the second engraving is found to be an error in costume in the first), St. Martins at Plain, Norwich, Hedgerly Church, Bucks, and Burwell Church, Cambridgeshire. Of this last, an engraving and description, by Mr. A.W. Franks, is given in the fourteenth part of the Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society." One from "WILLIAM SPARROW SIMPSON," who says,-- "It is also described in the Oxford Architectural Society's _Manual of Mon. Brasses_, No. 6. pp. 6, 7. other examples of |
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