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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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Ellacombe. worn over a surplice and almuce with long furred hood and ends. On theone figure the hoods of both cope and almuce are visible; the latter islying on the pillow which supports his head, and the former looks like alarge flat collar. On the other effigy the hood of the almuce is worn overthe head like a cowl. Near these figures is the lower portion of anotherof the same size vested in alb and chasuble, and with the end of whatlooks like a pall showing over it. (Qy.—Was there anyone connectedwith Bitton who had the pall ?) 64 Transactions for the Year 1900. In this church there is a slab of marble which is partly recessed andpartly in low relief. It represents a knight in an entire .suit of mail-without any mixture of plate, and a surcoat over it, early 13th century. The remarks of the late Mr. E. A. Freeman on the occasion of avisit of the Somerset Archaeological Association to Bitton, in 1876,and reprinted in our Transactions, vol. iii., p. 37, should becarefully studied.
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SISTON COURT.Photo, by Oscar Clark, M.B. The members then drove on to Siston and visited the church and court.The manor of Siston was held in 1086 by Roger de Berkeley of Dursley.Anne had held it in the time of the Confessor. Robert de Waleran, whomarried^ Maud, daughter of Ralph Russell of Dyrham, was lord of themanor in the time of Henry III. From the Walerans it passed bymarriage to the Plonkenets, who were seized of it till the time of Edward SisTON Court. 65 III., when it was sold to the Corbets. Sir Gilbert Dennis married Margaret, sister and heiress of William Corbet, and the Dennises held it till the time of Elizabeth, when it passed after several sales to the Trotmans. Fiennes Trotman was lord of the manor in 1803. It is now in the possession of Major Fiennes Boughton Newton Dickenson. Henry Billingsley, who held it in the time of James I., is said to have entertained Queen Anne of Denmark here on the occasion of her visit to Bristol, in 1614, Siston Court is a fine Tudor hou

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