[43] The very interesting brasses in Chartham Church, Kent, were found a few years since as here described, by the present rector, and replaced by him on the chancel pavement.
[44] "Manual of Monumental Brasses," vol. i. p. 34.
[45] "If any one will lay the portrait of Lord Bristol (in Mr. Gage Rokewode's Thingoe Hundred) by the side of the sepulchral brass of the Abbess of Elstow (from whom he is collaterally descended) figured in Fisher's Bedfordshire Antiquities, he cannot but be struck by the strong likeness between the two faces. This is valuable evidence on the disputed point whether portraits were attempted in sepulchral brasses."—Notes and Queries.
[47] See page [85]. [The engravings of sepulchral brasses and of stained glass windows are kindly supplied by the Editor of the Penny Post.]
[49] Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3.
[50] Monumental slabs of this description are most common on the pavement of churches in the midland counties.
[51] This is the case in Ely Cathedral.
[52] At Bawsey, Lynn; Droitwich; Great Malvern; and recently near Smithfield, London, when excavating for the subterranean railway.