274. _Cross-legged Effigies._--What is the date of the _latest_
cross-legged effigy known, and is the person commemorated known to have
been connected with the Crusades? Is there any cross-legged memorial
effigy with the hands in the attitude of drawing the sword of so late a
date as the fourteenth century?
Dugdale and others say that persons pledged to join a crusade were
marked with the cross. How was this ceremony performed?