of St. Mary Key it is impossible to determine, as no notice of any change of position is recorded in the church books. To its situation is without doubt attributable the remarkable degree of preservation in which it at present remains. Little doubt exists that this fine brass is the workmanship of a foreign, probably a Flemish workman, and is attributable to the same artist who cut the fine brass of Andrew Evynger and family, in All Hallows, Barking, London. The date of these brasses are severally, Pownder 1525, Evynger 1536, and both furnish a variety of valuable heraldic illustrations. Each bear upon a shield their respective marks. Pownder carries on two shields. the arms of Ipswich dexter, and the Merchant Adventures sinister; and Evynger bears the arms of the Merchant Adventurers and the Salter's Company. Some other parts of the designs of both disclose an identity of style and taste, and the touch and stroke of the graver are far from dissimilar in each example. Although upwards of a dozen specimens of Flemish brasses have been found, yet the Pownder and Evynger Brasses are the only two which partake of an identity of style. The Ipswich memorial carries in its shields the fragments of colouring, such as have been perfected in the illustration given in the volume.

The inscription on this fine memorial is as follows: "Here lieth buried Thomas Pownder Merchauns and som time balie of Ipswiche which departed in the yere м'vxxv yeris and 7th day of Nouebyr. And Emma Pownder his wife which departed in the yere M'vc...." (The year is left blank for the insertion of the date of the death of this lady, but probably she died and was interred elsewhere.)

The Pownder Brass in its emblazonment bears a testimonial of its foreign parentage. The arms of

IN THE CHURCH OF ST MARY TOWER, IPSWICH, LATE 1501.

Ipswich are party per pale gules and azure-on the dexter side a lion rampant gardant or on the sinister three demihulls of ships joined to the impaled line of the last. In the shield on the Pownder Brass is only one demihull, and the coat is reversed, perhaps in order to turn the lion towards the centre of the subject, a license not unusually adopted in German and other continental heraldry.*

The Brass which next occupies attention among this description of memorial in Ipswich, is that of a notary, lying in the centre of the nave in the church of St. Mary Tower. No inscription marks the name of the person of whom it is a record, or the date of his sepulture, but on examination of the wills in the registry of this division of the Diocese, a copy of the last will and testament of William Long, notary, has been found dated 1501, which was probably the individual thus represented. But few brasses of this class exist, and none exhibiting more unequivocally the notarial implements of pen and ink case or "penner." Another specimen of a notarial brass lies in the south aisle of this church to Wymbull and his two wives. There is also a brass in the same church to Thomas Drayle, 1500, which occupies a place in the Bailiffs' aisle. There is also a brass in the south aisle for Alice, the wife of Thomas Baldry, 1506.

In St. Margarett's church are no brasses but a reaved stone exists, showing the effigy of a priest, with the scarce emblem of the cup and sacred wafer in his hand.

The brasses in the church of St. Clement's are neither numerous or of antiquity. On the floor of the

*Shaw's Dresses and Decorations. "Party per pale gulz and azure, in the second, three demy botes of the third." Copy of Grant by Clarencieux, 1561.

nave is a stone reaved of its metal, showing a male and female figure with children below-on the chancel floor a stone on which is a brass to John Tye, merchant, his two wives, and fourteen children, date 1583, the man habited in a furred gown-and also on the chancel floor a brass to William Cocke, and his wife with six children shown, date 1607.

St. Mary Elms has only a rcaved brass.

St. Nicholas has four brasses-of William Style and wife, civilian, of a late era-a male and female figure, late, inscription gone-a male figure, formerly with a female, but the latter gone and having no date, but of late style-the last is a mere inscription only, to the memory of Susanna Parker, date 1604.

St. Helen's contains no memorials of this character. St. Lawrence contains no brasses with figures. St. Stephen's contains more than one reaved stone, but no perfect brass.

St. Peter's contains one brass to John Knapp, with wife and children, date 1604.

St. Mary Stoke contains no brasses.

St. Mary Key contains the Pownder Brass previously described, several reaved stones, one imperfect brass, late, with a female figure, inscription gone; and a small brass in the wall above Toolie's monument.

Monuments for the dead to be found in the Ipswich churches, are of no great antiquity, and with the exception of the tomb of Toolie in the church of St. Mary at the Key, there is no ancient altar tomb.

Other monuments in the Ipswich churches deserving remark by their characteristics are chiefly those of the 17th century, affixed to walls, with panels and entablatures supported by Italian pilasters and pillars, the upper divisions containing kneeling figures before