II. Rectangular plate with kneeling effigies of Thomas Inwood the elder, yeoman, 1586, in civil dress, and three wives, the first with two daughters, the second with two sons and one daughter, and inscription with six English

verses.

A rectangular plate, 24 by 183 inches, with twisted rope pattern border with small quatrefoils in the angles, very much resembling in style and execution the plate

at Egham to Anthony Bond and his two wives, 1576, and probably from the same workshop. Thomas Inwood, in the usual civil dress of the period, kneels on a tasselled cushion to a table covered by a cloth and on which lie open books. books. On the other side of the table is his first wife with her two daughters behind her, then the second with her two sons and one daughter,

and finally the third and last wife. All the wives kneel upon cushions, and all are dressed alike in highcrowned broad-brimmed hats, and the usual gowns with frills at the neck and wrists. The daughters wear mob caps in the place of hats, and the sons the ordinary civil doublet.

Below is the inscription in three lines with six English verses, both in black letter:

Here under lyeth buried the body of Thomas Inwood ye ellder late of this Towne yoman Beccassed the fyrst daye of

May in the vere of or Lorde God. 1586.

En perfet fayth he lyved and dyed, of lyfe sincere and puir whose godly fame and memory for ever will enduir

his sprit with Christ in heauen aboue in ioye t blesse doth rest

whose fayth and true Kelygion he constantlye professt

whose godly lyfe and death on earth, god graunt us to ensue that after death with Christ in heauen, wee all mage lyve anew.

Aubrey (III, 110) notes the plate as "at the east end of the south ile, on the wall, now covered." Manning and Bray (II, 790) in the same place, "but not covered." In 1838 it was still in its original position. The figures only are engraved in Brayley and Britton, II, 395, and there is a small reproduction of the whole in Girl's Own Paper, XVI, 149 (8 Dec., 1894); and V. and A. Mus. List. of Brasses, pl. 41.

In his will (P. C. C., 53 Windsor) dated 6 February and proved 24 October, 1586, Thomas Inwood the elder, of Weybridge, yeoman, desires to be buried in the parish church. Mentions his wife Joan, his sons Thomas (then under age) and Henry, his daughters Jane, married to Francis Barneham, and Anne, married to William Banister. Also his sister Margery, wife of John Rowdon, and their son Thomas.

Nothing is known of his first wife, but the daughters Jane and Anne mentioned in his will are, no doubt, the two shown on the brass. Further details of his second

wife, together with the

.

names of her children, are

recorded on a tablet lately recovered and replaced in the church (Surr. Arch. Colls., XXVIII, 186). From this it appears her name was Frances Clarke, and that she died 9 February, 1570, leaving issue two sons, Thomas and Henry, and one daughter, Annis.

The tablet also records the death of Elizabeth, second daughter of James Sutton the elder, of Cobham, gent., and wife of Thomas Inwood, elder son of Thomas Inwood, yeoman. She died 15 January, 1595, and had issue one daughter, Frances, then of the age of four years and odd months, and one son, who was buried with her.

Henry, the second son of Thomas Inwood by his second wife, died in 1606. In his will (P. C. C., 76 Stafford) dated 4 July and proved 31 October, 1606, he is described as of Chertsey, yeoman. Leaves to his wife Elizabeth, who is appointed executrix, his freehold lands in Chertsey for her life, with remainder to William, second son of my brother Thomas Inwood. To Frances, daughter of my said brother," he leaves £50 at 21 or marriage, to be kept meantime by "my brother-in-law Francis Barneham, citizen and draper of London." His wife Elizabeth is said to have been a daughter of Sir John Watts, lord mayor, and to have afterwards married Thomas Smith of Chertsey. The Christian name of Thomas Inwood's third wife was Joan, as appears from his will. She died in 1589, and in her will (P. C. C., 51 Leicester) dated 3 April and proved 13 June, 1589, desires to be buried in the parish church of Weybridge near unto her late husband Thomas Inwood. She was apparently a widow when she married Inwood with children by her former husband, as she mentions her sons Richard and Edward Toolarge, her daughter Grace married to John Remnant, her daughter Susan married to John Birde, and her daughter Jane married to John Winche.

III. Effigies of John Woulde, gent., 1598, in civil dress, and two wives, Audry, died 1596, widow of Thomas Streete, esq., by whom she had eight children living at his death, and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Notte, esq., of Thames Ditton, and widow of Henry Standish, esq., of Esher, by whom she had eight children living at the time of his death, two groups of children, foot inscription, and three (originally four) shields of arms. Full-length effigies, 18 inches in height, of John Woulde standing full-face between his two wives who are turned sideways towards him. He is represented with short hair, pointed beard and moustaches, wearing ruff, doublet, and gown with false sleeves.

The two wives are almost identical except for the embroidery on the petticoats and the sash worn by the first. Both wear French hoods with lappets behind, large ruffs, peaked bodices, and close-sleeved gowns, square at the hips, and thrown open below to display the embroidered petticoats.

Below the figures is the inscription, 24 by 8 inches, in ten lines in Roman capitals; the date of the death of the second wife not filled in:

HERE LYETH IOHN WOVLDE GENT: WHO DECEASED THE XXVTH DAYE OF

MAYE ANNO DNI 1598. HERE ALSO LYETH ADRYE HIS

WHICH WAS THE ELDEST DAVGHTER OF WILLIAM NOTTE OF THAMES

DITTON ESQVIRE AND FIRST THE WIFE OF HENRY STANDISH OF ESHERE

ESQVIER, BY WHOME SHEE HAD EIGHTE CHILDREN LIVINGE

AT THE TIME

OF HIS DEATHE AND ENDED HER LYFE THE

DAYE

OF

ANNO DNI.

Below the inscription and under the female effigies are the two groups of children on separate plates, each 6 by 8 inches. They are almost identical except in the number of the sexes, the first wife's being four boys and four girls, the second's five boys and three girls. All the elder boys wear ruffs and gowns with false sleeves, but the younger ones have plain collars. All the girls wear French hoods, peaked bodices, and plain

gowns.

At the corners of the stone were originally four shields, 6 by 5 inches, but one is now lost. It was in existence in 1838 when a rubbing was made by the late Mr. J. G. Waller, which is now amongst the collections of the Society of Antiquaries. The upper dexter shield bears the crest of Standish, on a wreath an owl holding under its dexter foot a mouse. The upper sinister is charged with the arms of Standish impaling Notte Quarterly of six, I. (sa.), three dishes (arg.), in chief an annulet for difference. Standish. II. . . a chevron . . between three griffins segreant. . III. . . six griffins segreant, 3, 2, 1, IV. . . three stags' heads erased. . V... bendy (10) VI. . . three dishes . between five crosslets fitchy impaling (Az.), on a bend between three leopard's faces (or) as many martlets (gu.) Notte. The first shield shows the crest of Elizabeth Woulde's first husband Henry Standish, and the second records their marriage. The lower dexter shield (now lost) bore Ermine three bezants, a cinquefoil.. in fess point for difference. Smythe, impaling Blount, Quarterly I and IV. Barry nebuly (or). and (sa.) Blount of Kinlett. II and III. (Arg.) a lion rampant (gu.) within a bordure (sa.) bezanty. Cornwall. The arms of Elizabeth Woulde's grandparents, Robert Smythe and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Blount of Kinlett, whose brass is at Thames Ditton. The lower sinister shield bears Notte impaling Smythe, the lady's parents, William Notte and his wife Elizabeth Smythe, whose brass is also at Thames Ditton.

Aubrey (III, 109) and Manning and Bray (II, 790) both note the brass as "on the chancel floor," where it