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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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upper one being placed
lozengewise. The features of the face are entirely obliterated.
The body is encased in plate armour, with additional plates to
protect the shoulders and elbows, genouillieres defend the knees,
and solerets the feet, on which the spur-leathers appear, but
the spurs are broken off, as are the toes of the sollereis. The
feet rest on a dog, of which the head is gone, but the two fore legs
appear under the feet of the effigy on the left side. Over the cuirass
is worn a short jupon, apparently made of leather, escalloped at
the bottom, on which the Knights arms are displayed. The sword,
of which the hilt only remains, was supported by a narrow belt pass-
ing diagonally across the body from above the right hip, and is kept

¹ Dugdale states that Sir William had another daughter named Agnes,
the wife of Thomas Herberd, but no such person is named in the records. He
cites an old exemplification in the library at Hatton, dated 22nd Feb., 22nd
Henry VI., of the partition of the estates.
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EFFIGY AND A " BRASS " IN THE CHURCH OF QUINTON. 167

steady by two othier small straps underneath. A broad embroidered
baldrick, decorated with little square ornaments, crosses the body
horizontally, and is fastened with a buckle in front, to this the
analace is attached on the right side. The hands are covered
with cuffed gauntlets. Upon the breast appears an annulet, but
whether it is attached to the wrist or to the jupon we cannot
at present state with certainty. We should have supposed it to
have been the cadency mark of a fifth son, except that Sir William
Clopton appears to have been the eldest, if not the only, son of
his father (See Plate XL)
The Brass of Lady Clopton is set on an altar tomb in the
midst of a small chapel east of the south aisle, and is in excellent
condition, appearing not to have been tampered with in any way,
though the altar formerly in the chapel has been removed. The
brass is mentioned in Haines' Manual Part II., p. 70, in which
the lady is described as a Vowess. It is fully described in Mr.
C. Davis' Cloucestershire Brasses in which this description of the
Lady as a Vowess is continued. We do not quite understand what
precise idea these writers intend to convey by the term they use.
Vows are of different kinds. We shall return to the subject
presently.

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