of Petie w'thin the said Churche of the ffoundacon of Thomas Athertone of Bikerstath."

Plate 2, Nos. 1 to 16.-These escutcheons surround two pontombs, now in the Derby Chapel, but it is quite clear from Dugdale's superscription that in 1664 they were in the north transept-the now destroyed Bickerstaffe Chapel on the other side of the church-indeed, without it, the charges prove them to belong to the Bickerstaffe family.

Of the one next the chancel, which is the memorial of James Scarisbrick and Margaret Atherton of Bickerstaffe, his wife, Dugdale shows the whole of the twelve escutcheons, though on the one next it on the south, which is the monument of Peter Stanley of Hooton and Elizabeth Scarisbrick, his wife, he only shows four escutcheons, whilst the charges on six can even now be traced. He has, too, made the curious mistake of transposing Ad pedes and Ad caput, for those charges that he shows at the head are really at the feet, and vice versa, and he has misread three charges, misplaced another, and left several un-named.

These pontombs are of the same height, and exactly alike in detail, whilst some of the Stanley quarterings shown on both could, strictly speaking, not be displayed by any of the parties commemorated. These facts tend to show that both were constructed at the same time by Margaret Stanley of Bickerstaffe and her husband, Henry Stanley of Cross Hall, who were entitled to all the charges displayed, to her parents and grandparents. the top of the Scarisbrick pontomb are the matrices for the brasses of husband and wife, with those for a shield of arms at the head and feet of each, and centred under their feet is that for the child heiress, whilst around the rim is that for the inscription; and though all the brasses are now missing, the following extract from the undated

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Towneley MSS. gives a portion of the inscription: "In ye Church of Ormschirche in ye Co. Lancaster, on a tombe-' Of Charity pray for ye soules of James Scarisbricke, of Bickerstaffe, Esquier, and Margarett, his wife, and Elizabeth, their daughter, the w'ch Margerett deceased ye 18 daye of Jan., in ye yeare of our Lord God 1517, and ye same James dec'ed ye day of in ye yeare of our On ye tombe ther is ye portraitures of a man and a woman in brass; he hath graven by him ye coates of Scarisbrick differenced with a crescent. The woman ye coate of Bicarstaffe and Atherton without difference. Another [coat?] showing Atherton to have been ye Lord of Bicarstaffe. The matrices for the brasses on the Stanley pontomb are exactly alike, except that there is no matrice for the heiress, who was not dead when they were erected, circa 1595.

In describing the charges on these pontombs, plate 2, Nos. 1 to 16, I shall follow the actual ascertained blazon, and call attention to the few Dugdale mistakes while so doing.

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The charges on the escutcheons of the Scarisbrick pontomb (Nos. 5 to 16) are as follows: Plate 2, No. 12-Under the head of the man, Scarisbrick (as before), with a crescent cadence, for the second son. Under that of the woman, No. 11, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Scarisbrick; 2, "Gules, three hawks close Argent, beaked, belled, and legged Or," for Atherton; 3, Argent, on a patonce Sable, five mullets Or," for Bickerstaffe. Under the feet of the man, No. 10, Scarisbrick. Under those of the woman, No. 9, "Vert, a lion rampant Ermine, crowned Or," for Gerard of Gerard Hall, Aughton. Those under the head and feet are reversed by Dugdale, and the Gerard charge is now beyond recognition. On the south side of this pontomb are: No. 5, Quarterly, I and 4,

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"Argent, three dragons' heads, erased, fire issuant from their mouths proper," for Halsall of Halsall, and 2 and 3, "Argent, two bars Azure," for Venables [?]. No. 6, Quarterly, 1 and 4, "Argent, on a bend Azure, three bucks' heads, cabossed Or," for Stanley; 2, Scarisbrick; 3, Bickerstaffe (both as before). No. 7, Quarterly, 1 and 4, grand-quarters; 1 and 4, Stanley (as before); 2, "Or, on a chief dancettee Azure, three plates," for Lathom; 3, "Chequy, Or and Azure," for Warren; 2 and 3, "Gules, three legs conjoined in fess-point, in armour Argent, garnished and spurred Or," for the Isle of Man. No. 8, Quarterly (all exactly as No. 6). On the north side are: No. 13, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Scarisbrick; 2, Atherton; 3, Bickerstaffe (all as before). Dugdale repeats Atherton instead of this last. No. 14, an impalement, Dexter, Scarisbrick; sinister, Gerard (both as before). No. 15, Quarterly, I and 4, "Argent, two chevronels between three oak-leaves Vert," for Mossoke of Mossoke Hall, Bickerstaffe [?] 2 and 3, Scarisbrick. No. 16, Scarisbrick.

On these it may be remarked that the 2nd and 3rd quarters of No. 5 are probably got through a Banastre marriage, as one of that family married a Venables. On the drawing the Scarisbrick sign of cadency is missing from No. 13, from the 4th quarter of No. II, and from the 3rd of No. 15. The tincture of the field on No. 9 and on the sinister impalement of No. 14-Vert instead of Azure-is probably to distinguish Gerard of Gerard Hall, Aughton, from the parent house of Brynn, as there is no record of a field Vert with these arms. Nos. 14 and 15 are now entirely new and without any charges, and the 1st and 4th quarters of No. 15 are almost certainly meant to record a marriage of a Mossoke; indeed, I have two deeds, dated 1515, which record such a marriage, and a sale to a Myles