Fig. 160. Helm and crest, and bust, of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick (ob. 1439,) from his gilt-latten effigy at Warwick.
Among Stothard's engravings are two of effigies of quite early date of ladies wearing crowns or coronets. One, at Scarcliffe in Derbyshire (fig. [161]), cannot be later than about 1250, and the crown in this case is composed of some twenty simple leaves set upright upon the edge of a narrow band. The other, at Staindrop in Durham, is about a century later, and represents a widowed lady, probably Margery, second wife of John lord Nevill, wearing a crown of curled leaves with points between (fig. [162]). The next illustration is of special interest since it represents Thomas earl of Arundel (ob. 1416) wearing presumably the coronet mentioned above in his grandfather's bequest (fig. [163]); his countess Beatrice has a slighter coronet of similar character. The great alabaster tomb, also at Staindrop, or Ralph earl of Westmorland (ob. 1425) and his two countesses furnishes the next example. In this case the earl is in armour, but both ladies wear delicate coronets, formed of rows of points with triplets of pearls and intervening single pearls, rising from narrow ornamental circlets (fig. [164]).
Fig. 161. Effigy of a lady (c. 1250) in Scarcliffe church, Derbyshire.
Fig. 162. Effigy of a lady in Staindrop church, Durham.