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G7 clerk, sold to Margaret his motlier,oiie messuage, a barn and four acres of ground in the parish of Kingston-on-Thames. The device appears to be founded on the ancient popular legend that a husbandman who had stolen a bundle of thorns from a hedge was, in punishment of liis theft, carried up to the moon. Alexander Necham, a writer of the twelfth century, in commenting on the dispersed shadow in the moon, thus alludes to the vulgar belief ; " nonne novisti quid vulgus vocet rusticum in luna por- tantem spinas. Unde quidam vulgariter lo- quens ait Rusticus in Luna, quern sarciiui depriniit una, Monstrat per spinas uulli prodesse rapinas"^." The legend reading — te walteke docebo cvit spinas phebo gero — *■ I will teach you, Walter, why I carry thorns in the moon," seems to be an enigmatical mode of expressing the maxim that '• honesty is the best policy," We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. R. P. PuUan, of Manchester, for the communication of a very interesting sepulchral brass, of which no representation appears hitherto to have been published. It exists in the ehuich of AUerton Mauleverer, in the AVest Riding of Yorkshire, and is the memorial of a knight and lady of the ancient family named Mains Leporarms, or Mauleverer, possessed of considerable estates in that parish, which received from their name its distinctive appellation. The knight is represented in the armour of plate, with some portions of mail, usually worn in the times of Richard II. ; on his short surcoat, which fits closely to the body, and has the skirt escalloped, is seen the bearing of Mauleverer, of the class termed " canting" arms, armoiries parlantes, namely, three gre}'- hounds courant, in allusion to his name . One feature, of rather rare occur- rence in English sepulchral memorials, may deserve notice : this is the pro- jecting visor, attached to his tall and acutely peaked basinet. The visor is seldom seen in the monumental portraitures of any period, in this country, although not infrequently found in those of Germany. It may be noticed, however, more than once amongst the curious small figures representing the contemporaries and friends of Sir Hugh Hastings, introduced in the tabernacle work, on either side of his figure, in the remarkable sepulchral brass at Elsing, in Norfolk '^. In later times examples of the visored salade ' " De Natura Rerum," MS. Harl. 3737, fo. 20 b. •^ " Halvatheus Mauleverer, mil. temp. Hen. v., or Mal-levorer, in Latin mains hporartus, or tlie bad hare-hunter. A gentleman of the county being to slip a brace of greyhounds to run for a great wager, so held them in the swinge, that they were more likely to strangle them- selves than kill the hare; whereupon this surname was fixed on his family." Fuller's Worthies, vol. iii. p. 453. •^ Representations of this brass are given in Carter's Sculpture and Painting,