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cancel the same. Howbeit the said Sir Thomas Hobye, shortly after falling into a fitt of a could palsie, or such like sicknes, which suddainely seised upon him, dyed without perfecting the schedule, or setting downe in particular the names of the persons of his said ladyes kindred and the somes of money to be paid unto them.

Shortly after whose death the said Frances Prowde and James Moore, two of the said executours, proved the said will, and tooke upon them the execucion thereof until the said John Sydenham, esq., attained his full age, upon whome the said Sir Thomas Hobye settled the said mannour of Hacknes and all other his landes. [And ye said Francis Proud and James Moore, or ye said John Sydenham, or dame Anne Sydenham, his relict, or some of them, or some other person, by their or some of their appointmentes (as your orator is informed), did pay or satisfye severall sums of mony to severall of ye said lady's kinred, as part of ye said 2,700li., and tooke acquittances or receiptes for ye same].

1 Inserted by Rokeby at the bottom, in a different hand.

THE NORMANBY EFFIGY.'

IN the autumn of 1900 a curious discovery was made at the Normanby Brickworks, in the parish of Ormesby, near Middlesbrough. The men when digging clay some four feet below the surface came upon a large stone which, when extracted, proved to be the lower portion of the monumental effigy of a knight. Unfortunately, the stone was broken across in removing it from the clay. It seems that arms and other portions of the effigy were unearthed a few years ago, and have since been reburied under what is now an enormous heap of earth and débris from the brickworks, too huge to make it possible to search for them.

The fragments of the effigy, when pieced together, measure 2 feet 6 inches in length by 22 inches in breadth at the widest part. It is of Caen stone, or some similar stone to Caen. The portions unearthed show the feet and legs, clothed in chain mail, with the lower folds of the surcoat, and the poleyns of leather, stamped with a four-leaf ornament, protecting the knee. This ornament, so characteristic of the Decorated period of Gothic architecture, occurs again on the moulded edge of the slab on the left hand side. The spur, which is not shown in either of the plates, is of the rowel, or wheel, kind. The leather band, by which the spurs are fastened on, is very distinct. The feet rest upon a lion, with an animal in its mouth.

This fragment strongly resembles the Colville effigies, dated about 1300, plates of which are given in the last volume of the Journal (pp. 135, 136). In these cases the spurs are of the prick or straight kind, so they are probably a little earlier. The effigies at Crathorne, near Yarm, and at Norton, near Stockton, are almost identical with the Normanby find. The probable date of this fragment is about 1320. All these effigies, it is thought, came from the same workshop, probably at York, where 'marbelers' were at work during the middle ages.

1 Founded on a communication by Mr. J. M. Fallow, F.S.A., to the Society of

Antiquaries, and printed in their Proceedings (Second Series, xviii, 232).

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