[Illustration: PLATE II.
Fig. 1.--Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick and Lady, 1406 and 1401.
St. Mary's Church, Warwick.
Fig. 2.--Thomas Cranley, Archbishop of Dublin, 1417. New College,
Oxford.
Fig. 3.--Sir William Vernon and Lady, 1467. Tong Church, Shropshire.
Fig. 4.--John Shelley, Esq., 1526, and his wife Elizabeth, 1513.
Clapham, Sussex.
Fig. 5.--Dame Margaret Chute, 1614. Mardon, Herefordshire.
Fig. 6.--Sir Edward Filmer and Lady, 1638. East Sutton, Kent.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 6 from Waller's _Monumental Brasses_.