which occur at Rochester, Kent, and at Cobham, Surrey. A small
plate of brass, in the possession of a friend, has on one side
a group of children, and on the reverse the uplifted hands of
an earlier figure."

And lastly, one from "A.P.H." (to which we cannot do ample
justice, as we do not keep an engraver), from which we extract
the following passages:--

"A friend of mine has a shield in his possession, taken from
a slab, and which has been enamelled. It is of late date
and rudely executed. On the back is {371} seen the hands and
breast of a small female figure, very nearly a century earlier
in date. I can also remember an inscription in Cuxton Church,
Kent, which was loose, and had another inscription on the back
in the same manner.

"I am very much impressed with the idea that the destroyed
brasses never had been used at all; but had been engraved,
and then, from circumstances that of course we cannot hope to
fathom, thrown on one side till the metal might be used for
some other purpose. This, I think, is a more probable, as well
as a more charitable explanation than the one usually given of
the so-called palimpsest brasses."]


_Chapels_ (No. 20. p. 333.).--As to the origin of the name, will you
allow me to refer Mr. Gatty to Ducange's _Glossary_, where he will
find much that is to his purpose.