bascinet is less conical and is delicately engraved with border ornaments, but it still retains its orle. In place of the camaille, is a baviar of plate over a chin piece, riveted to the bascinet, but allowing the head to turn from side to side. The body is protected by breast and back plates, which are finished at the waist by a short skirt composed of rows of plates overlapping each other upwards, and secured by straps buckled at the sides. The shoulders have laminated epaulettes, and the arms are covered with plate, the inner joints protected with fin-like pieces of steel. The figure still retains the baudric in addition to the narrow sword belt, hung diagonally across the hips and fastened to the sword hilt by swivels. The legs and thighs are encased in plate, the knee cops have fin-like projections to protect the joints. The feet are protected by long pointed shoes with lobster-like laminated plates. The lady's headdress is elaborate, the side cauls have developed into horns, pointed above the head, and enriched by a netted caul ornamented with roses composed of pearls. Owing to the dampness dropping from the roof of the alcove upon her face, the rain has found a weak place in the alabaster, which has there decayed. The effigies represent Randle Mainwaring, brother and heir to the John whose tomb we have reviewed, and wife. He married Margery, widow of Richard Bulkley and daughter of Hugh Venables, baron of Kinderton, by whom he had nine children. It is not certain whether it was Margery or Randle who made the chapel and the tomb it contains, but Randle died in 1456.

At Mottram in Longdendale are two effigies representing a knight and a lady in sandstone, lying on a low modern tomb beneath the window of the south chapel. (26) The knight's head is placed upon two cushions, his feet resting upon a lion. He is clothed in plate armour, over which is a jupon. The head is enclosed in a pointed bascinet without an orle, the neck being protected by a baviar of

plate. Beneath the jupon is a globular breastplate with tight waist, the shoulders being protected by laminated plates, the hands being placed upon the breast in an attitude of prayer. Round the hips is an elaborate baudric buckled on the right side, one end being brought over the belt and allowed to hang down, the other finishing in a misericord slung across the body, and further attached to the centre of the baudric by two little straps; the sword also is hung from the baudric, being placed close to the left side. The legs are cased in plate hinged at the sides, the knees protected by steel cops, and attached to the ankles are large spurs. Round the neck is worn a collar of esses with pendant now abrased. The hands, feet and face (which had a moustache) are much broken and defaced. The total length of this effigy is six feet five inches. The lady's head also rests upon two cushions and her feet repose upon a pet dog with large ears. The head-dress is fairly plain and square in shape; the collar of the mantle is high and stiff and round it is placed a collar of esses. The mantle falls from the shoulders upon the bent arms, finishing about two-thirds of the way down the figure, the forearms showing tightly buttoned sleeves; the hands are clasped in prayer. The inner dress is pleated in straight folds and is caught in at the waist by a broad belt. The effigy is six feet in length; the hands, feet, face and pendant are abrased. These effigies are coarsely worked and seem to be local imitations of the alabaster format, earlier fashions lingering, as in the cushions beneath the knight's head. The date may be placed somewhere about 1430. Earwaker suggests that they represent either Sir Ralph Staveley, living in 1405, or Sir John Lovell, who died in 1408, his wife dying in 1423.

It would be as well if we mentioned at this point the vanished tombs of the Troutbecks, once the glory of St. Mary's church in Chester, but allowed to perish through neglecting the building. There is a fairly full