Additional note

ADDITIONAL NOTE.

p. 22. Andrew Evyngar. Mr. E. S. Dewick has kindly pointed out that Andrew Evyngar, to whom one of the church properties was leased (p. 22), lies buried with his wife beneath the pavement of a church near the Tower. Mr. Dewick has most kindly forwarded to the editor the number of the Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society in which a facsimile of the brass above the grave is reproduced, with a description of the same by Mr. A. Oliver (vol. III. pt. I.). Read in connexion with the terms of the lease in our records, this description is of much interest. We have among our facsimiles the signature of Andrew Evyngar (p. 312).

Mr. Oliver's description is as follows:—

"In the Nave of All Hallows Barking, is the Brass of Andrew Evyngar, 1535, it is a Flemish example. It is inlaid in a slab, round which is an incised marginal inscription. The left side of the slab has been destroyed, together with the sentence, and also the evangelistic symbols, of which traces may be seen. The Brass consists of the figures of Evyngar, his wife, son, and daughters, standing under a canopy of pointed arches which spring from side shafts. In the centre on a throne or a chair is placed our Lady of Pity, supported underneath by a corbel. The background is richly diapered. The figures of the personages commemorated stand on a tessellated pavement, and are turned the one towards the other. Scrolls, bearing sentences, issue from the mouths of Evyngar and his wife, and address each of the personages above. That from the man bears the words, 'O filii (sic) dei miserere mei,' and that from the woman, 'O mater dei memento mei.' The figure of Evyngar is dressed in a long, loose gown, with deep full sleeves, under which is worn an under-garment; the feet are in broad-toed shoes. The wife's figure is in a long mantle with long gauntlet cuffs at the wrists; round the waist is a broad ornamented belt, with a large round buckle, from which hangs a rosary, which terminates in a tassel; a large plain hood is worn over the head. The son's dress is similar to that worn by his father, excepting the sleeves, which in this case fit close. The five daughters are placed at the side of the mother in three rows. The two in the front row wear a similar dress, excepting for the belt and rosary, which are omitted, their place being taken by a crossed girdle. Of the other figures only the head-dress, which is similar to that worn by the others, is seen. The arms of the Merchant Adventurers and the Salters Company are placed on either side at the top of the Brass. The Merchants' mark is borne on a shield placed between the feet of the principal figures. At the bottom of the Brass is all that remains of the inscription: '. . . of Andrewe Evyngar cytezen and salter of london and ellyn hys . . .' The words with which the inscription commenced, 'Of your charite pray for the soules,' were doubtless erased to save the Brass from total destruction as 'a monument of superstition.'"

CORRIGENDA AND ERRATA.

Page xxxvii, erase Tower gate, 381.

Page lxxxiv, erase 123 after William Grene.

Page 37, for iiij Ioyntes scells read iiij Ioyntes stolls

Page 123, for William Grene read William Prene.