[Footnote 10: [See "N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 132.]]
_Wooden Effigies_ (Vol.ix., p. 17.).--I beg to refer your readers to two
figures which are in excellent preservation, and I am not aware that they
have ever obtained public notice. In the church at Boxted, near Sudbury,
Suffolk, which is the burial-place of the ancient family of Poley of Boxted
Hall, are, with several other interesting monuments, the effigies of
William Poley and Alice Shaa, his wife.
He is in armour, with a beard, and the lady in the dress of her day, with a
long pendant from her girdle, having suspended a small thick book and the
arms of Poley impaling Shaa on the cover. At her feet a greyhound to fill
up the space, in consequence of the lady being short, and their heads on
the same line. There is an inscription in relief on the cushion on which
the lady rests her head, which states that he died 17th December, 1587, and
the lady March 7, {458} 1579. The figures rest on a tomb of masonry, and
fill the recess of a window, with iron railing to protect them. Their are
painted black, so that the nature of the wood is not apparent.
Alice Shaa was the only daughter and heiress of her father, and the eldest
son of this William and Alice was Sir John Poley, Knt. (See Morant's
_Essex_, vol. i. pp. 151. 217. &c.)