MOWBRAY. VI. Chequy (or) and (az.). WARENNE. VII. Quarterly (arg.) and (gu.), in the second and third a fret (or), over all a bendlet (sa.). DESPENCER. VIII. (Or), three chevrons (gu.). CLARE. all in fess point a crescent . . . . . for difference.

III (Lower Dexter). EYNNS quartering NEVILL, as No. II.

Over

IV (Lower Sinister). EYNNS, as No. I, except that the engraver has, by error, put an unnecessary crescent into the fourth quarter of the Gatacre arms.

This brass, now on the wall of the south choir aisle, was originally on the south side of the south-west pillar of the centre tower, near the tomb of her husband, who, in his will, desired to be buried in the Minster, on the south side, "neare adioynynge unto the great pillar of the lanterne." His inscription is given in Drake's Eboracum, p. 496. There is a small engraving of the lady's brass in Dean Purey Cust's Heraldry of York Minster, vol. ii, p. 178.

Elizabeth Eynns, a gentlewoman of the privy chamber to Queen Elizabeth, was the third daughter of Sir Edward Nevill (third son of George Nevill, second Lord Burgavenny), by Eleanor, daughter of Andrew, Lord Windsor, and widow of Ralph, Lord Scrope, of Masham. She married Thomas, son of Thomas Eynns, of Church Stretton, Salop, "one of her Majesties counsell established in the north parts, and secretary and keeper of her highness signett appointed for the said counsell," who, dying on the 19 August, 1578, bequeathed to his widow the prebend of Bugthorp, 759 oz. of plate, and the "house and scyte of Heslington, which I did lately purchase of Christopher Hatton." Elizabeth herself died 3 February, 1585, and by will dated 31 January, 1584-5, proved 19 March following, desired "her picture, graven on a platt," to be set up.

In the church of Wyddial, Herts., is a precisely similar brass, only differing in the heraldry, and evidently engraved by the same hand. It is to the memory of Dame Margaret, only daughter of Sir Thomas Nevill, brother of the Lord Burgavenny, and wife, first of Sir Robert Southwell, Master of the Rolls, and then of William Plumbe, Esq., at whose charge the monument was made. She died 25 December, 1575, aged 55 years.

III.

JAMES COTREL, 1595.

A quadrangular plate, 22 inches in height by 20 inches in width at the bottom, but gradually tapering to 17 inches at the top, with an inscription below measuring 27 by 9 inches. The upper plate is almost entirely filled by the large three-quarter figure of James Cotrel, apparently a portrait. He is represented with beard and

moustaches, with a scroll from his mouth, inscribed Veni domine Jesu sic etiam amen. His right hand is raised, and in his left he holds a small clasped book, from which issues a scroll, bearing the words: Creator non Creata. He wears a skull cap, ruff, doublet slashed on the front and on the sleeves, the latter terminating in frills at the wrists, and a gown with long false sleeves, faced and lined with fur, the edging of the sleeves ornamented with bows. At the top corners of the plate are shields of arms, the dexter bearing COTREL, (Arg.), a bend between six escallops (sa.), and the sinister COTREL impaling WRAY, (Az.), on a chief (or) three martlets (gu.).

Below is the following inscription, in italics:

Jacobo Cotrel Dublino primaria Hiberniae ciuitate oriundo, postmodu' vero ciui

Eboracensi, Armigero, cuius corpus sub saxo insigniis eius notato astantium pedibus urgetur; qui annis

plus minus viginti serenissimae Dominae Reginae Elizabethae, eiusque in his partibus Borealibus senatui

(quod consilium dicimus) testes examinando, fideliter et gnaviter intervivit; viro certe prudenti, graui eru

dito, miserecordi, benefico, in se tamen abiectissimo, Deumqz in primis timenti; quiqz hic sedentibus viuus

curauit (e multis minimum) ut inoffensa valetudine liberius sederent; sedentes, stantes hoc beneuolentiae

vicissim tribuite, ut una cum illo viuo, viui ipsi Dominum Jesum concelebretis; et licet adhuc in terris agatis,

coelestia tamen sedulo cogitetis. Obiit so Cal. Sept. An'o D'ni 1595.

Eliz. 37°

The brass, now on the wall of the south aisle of the nave, was originally in "the south cross aisle," and the wooden benches provided by Cotrel were fixed to the wall near; the benches still exist, but have been shifted round with the brass. The brass itself is the work of a York engraver, and may be compared with the similar quadrangular plates bearing large three-quarter figures at St. Crux, 1597, probably from the same workshop, and at All Saints, North Street, 1642.

James Cotrel, a native of Dublin, appears to have been in the service of the Earl of Sussex about the year 1570, and subsequently for about twenty years served the Queen's council in the north,

"testes examinando," as the inscription says. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Wray and widow of Ralph Gower,' of Richmond, and died 26 August, 1595. In his will, dated 16 August, 1595, with codicils added on the 19, 25 and 26, proved 29 August the same year, he is described as "of York, gent.," mentions his wife Ann, "my dear yokefellow," and various other relatives, mostly of the Wray and Gower families, and bequeaths to the aldermen and burgesses of Richmond a silver gilt salt and cover, weighing fourteen ounces or thereabouts, and the sum of £100, they to pay £8 yearly to the parson there and his successors, the bequest to be entered in the register book of the corporation and also in the parish. register. There are similar bequests to the corporation of York and to the "newly erected college on the east side of Dublin," the money in the one case to be paid to the parson of St. Michael, Ousebridge, and in the other to the divinity lecturer. The Richmond salt still exists, but was recast and altered in 1636. The York piece was sold in 1643-4, to help to pay the debts of the city, and the Dublin one Cotrel was the first alderman of Richmond under the charter

is lost.

of 1576.

IV.

THE EARL OF CARLISLE'S VAULT, 1684.

A large slab, 7 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 6 inches, on the floor of the north choir aisle, bearing a shield with the arms of HOWARD impaling HOWARD, with an inscription plate below, the whole surrounded by a marginal border, with cherubs' heads in the centre of the top and bottom strips. The shield and inscription plate are also ornamented with cherubs' heads and foliage work, but the whole design is very poor, as is also the engraving. Inscription:

Here Lyeth the Body of the Rgt

Honovble Charles Howard

Earle of Carlelyle Who

Dyed ye 4th day of Februa

1684 Ætatis Suæ 56.

His monument on the adjacent wall gives the date of death as 24 February, 1676.

Charles Howard, of Naworth, second son of Sir William Howard, of Naworth, by Mary, daughter of William Euers, Baron Eure, born

1 Ralph Gower died in 1567. His will is printed in full in Richmondshire Wills (Surtees Society, vol. xxvi, p. 194), where in a footnote it is stated that his widow Anne was buried at Richmond on 9 June, 1572. An examination of the

register has cleared up this error, the entry being for Anne, wife of Roger Gower. This lady was a daughter of Christopher Place and first wife of Roger, son of Ralph Gower.