248 SEPULCHRAL BRASSES.

HERE UNDER LYETHE Y® CORPS OF PETER REDE ESQVIER WHO HATH WORTHELY SERVED NOT ONLY HYS PRYNCE AND CVNTREY BVT ALLSO THE EMPEROR CHARLES THE 5 BOTHE AT THE CONQVESTE OP BARBARIA AND AT THE SIEGE OF TVNIS AS ALSO IN OTHER PLACES WHO HAD GIVEN HYM BY THE SAYD EMPEROVR FOR HYS VALIAVNT DEDES THE ORDER OF BAR- BARIA W^HO DYED THE 29 OF DECEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OVRE LORD GOD 1568. This brass is in the north chancel-aisle of St. Peter's Mancroft in Norwich ^. It is an instance of a practice which seems to have been not uncommon in the later days of the use of monumental brasses, when a new legend was united to an old effigy, probably with the view of saving expense. The effigy of Peter Rede is in armour, of the fashion of 1480, much re- sembling that of Ralf Blenerhayset, but his death did not take place till 1568, so that we can only account for the dis- crepancy by supposing that a new legend was attached to an old figure. Other instances of this occur at Laughton, near Gainsborough, where the date of the figure and canopy is about 1400, but that of the legend 1543; and at Howden, in Yorkshire, where the real date of the effigy attributed to Peter Dolman appears to be about the year 1500, but the legend is dated 1691. This legend is engraved on a portion of an older brass, and is an instance of what Mr. Way has styled palimpsest brasses'. In addition to these observations relating to sepulchral brasses in Norfolk, I must mention an example which has lately come under my notice ; it seems indeed to be unique. It is a small effigy of a civilian, by his side is a sort of crutch or walking-stick ; the legend refers to this : ^laij for tl)£ sotolc of SERiiU'in ^ijilmtr toinl) b^ Stnit, tol)l)ct)c tJcccsiti on I)oly IRoiJc Davt in u^ ycre of our lortr (Boti ?l.jm°e:C!D®Ci:CD.XX° on tnljosc sotule EI)u I;a5je mcrcg. I do not remember any similar commemoration of a bodily infirmity, such as William Palmer's lameness, in monumental brasses. The situation of this brass in the church of Ingold- mells, on the eastern coast of Lincolnshire, has prevented its being earlier noticed. w. d. ^ Blomef. Norf., vol. iv. p. 200. Cotman, duceus in his right liand, pdinted down- Pi. Ixxvii. p. 41. There was formerly an wards ; on his sinister side, a sword in pale, escutcheon at each corner of the slab, dis- with the point downwards, piercing a playing the bearings of Rede, with the Moor's head. honourable augmentation conferred by the ' Notice of the memorial of Thomas emperor; a canton sinister parted per pale, Totynglon, abbot of Bury, now existing on the fiist part two ragged staves in sal- in Hedgerley church, Bucks. Archaeol., tire; on the second a man holding a ca- vol. xxx. p. 121.