s. d. "1644, April 8th, paid to Master Dowson, that came with the troopers to our church, about the taking down of images and brasses off stones 6 0 "1644, paid, that day, to others, for taking up the brasses of grave-stones before the Officer Dowson came 1 0 --_Churchwarden's accounts_; _Walberswich, Suffolk._ "This William Dowing (Dowson), it appears, kept a journal of his ecclesiastical exploits. With reference to the Church of St. Edward's, Cambridge, he says,-- "'1643, Jan. 1, Edward's Parish, we digged up the steps, and broke down 40 pictures, and took off ten superstitious inscriptions.' "Mr. Cole, in his MSS., observes,-- "'From this last entry we may clearly see to whom we are obliged for the dismantling of almost all the grave-stones that had brasses on them, both in town and country; a sacrilegious, sanctified rascal, that was afraid, or too proud, to call it _St._ Edward's Church, but not ashamed to rob the dead of their honours, and the church of its ornaments.--W. C.'"--_Burn's Parish Registers_. 43: The very interesting brasses in Chartham Church, Kent, were found a few years since as here described, by the present rector, and replaced by him on the chancel pavement. 44: "Manual of Monumental Brasses," vol. i. p. 34. 45: "If any one will lay the portrait of Lord Bristol (in Mr. Gage Rokewode's _Thingoe Hundred_) by the side of the sepulchral brass of the Abbess of Elstow (from whom he is collaterally descended) figured in Fisher's _Bedfordshire Antiquities_, he cannot but be struck by the strong likeness between the two faces. This is valuable evidence on the disputed point whether portraits were attempted in sepulchral brasses."--_Notes and Queries_. 46: See page 77. 47: See page 85. [The engravings of sepulchral brasses and of stained glass windows are kindly supplied by the Editor of the _Penny Post_.] 48: See page 67. 49: _Hamlet_, Act i. Sc. 3. 50: Monumental slabs of this description are most common on the pavement of churches in the midland counties. 51: This is the case in Ely Cathedral. 52: At Bawsey, Lynn; Droitwich; Great Malvern; and recently near Smithfield, London, when excavating for the subterranean railway. 53: Thus translated in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for October, 1833:-- "Think, man, thy life | But that thou keepest May not ever endure, | Unto thy executor's care, That thou dost thyself | If ever it avail thee Of that thou art sure; | It is but chance."