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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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nd a camail ofbanded mail is attached to it by cords which pass through staples and endin knots on either side. The quilted and studded cuisses covering thethighs should be noticed, and also the socks which show the form of thetoes. The tinctures of the chevron and the leopards heads are gone, andit is difficult among so many competitors for this heraldic bearing to saywho the knight was. Mr. Hartshorne fixes the date of the effigy asbetween 1345 and 1350, although the canopy of the tomb, from which thepopular supposition referred to has arisen, is of later date. He fixes hisdate 1345-50 on account of the linen material displayed outside thearmour on the shield arm, which he says is unique, and also the bandedcuisses of chasment (the reverse of brigandine). The figure is also repre-sented with a jupon bearing his coat of arms—a chevron between three-leopards heads langued. Mr. Baddeleys researches have also thrownfurther light upon this interesting feature of the church, which fully
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TEWKESBURY.Cenotaph attributed to Abbot Wakeman. Tewkesbury. 43 substantiates Mr. Hartshornes contention. The arms referred to aboveare, he says, presumably those of Sir John de Burley, of Burley, Hereford-shire, a partisan of the Despencers against Queen Isabella, who died 1346,and brother of Walter de Burley, a celebrated theologian of his time, anda commentator on Aristotle, who became tutor to the Black Prince. SirJohn de Burley, K.G., was grandfather to Sir Richard Burley, K.G., whomarried a granddaughter to Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester; he wasalso grandfather to the Sir John Burley who was the diplomatic colleaguewith Chaucer the poet in 1376 on a mission to the Court of France prosecretis negotiis domini regis. In the north ambulatory of the choir are the effigies of Hugh Despencerand his wife, Elizabeth Montacute. This was not the younger HughDespencer who was so cruelly murdered at Hereford in 1326; he wasburied in the tomb behind the sedilia. It is his son, who was a b

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