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Two Helmets in St. Botolph's Church, Lullingstone, Kent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

J. G. Mann
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The majority of the helmets suspended over monuments in English churches are of mediocre quality, and were probably supplied by the undertaker for the funeral. Their interest lies in their being relics of a once widespread custom. But among them are a few specimens of great value as examples of the armourer's craft.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 1932 , pp. 136 - 145
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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References

page 136 note 1 Record of European Armour and Arms, i, 99 ff.

page 136 note 2 Ibid., v, 151 ff.

page 137 note 1 Antiq. Journ., xi, 405 ff.

page 137 note 2 Proc. Soc. Ant., xxxi, 196 ff.

page 138 note 1 Compare the buff on the helm at Marston Moretaine, Beds.; Laking, op. cit., i, fig. 306.

page 138 note 2 I have followed Hall's usual spelling of the name. On his tomb and on the brass of his father it is spelt Pecche, but his rebus of a peach with the letter E shows that the last syllable was pronounced.

page 138 note 3 J. Gairdner, Letters … of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII. Rolls Series 24, i, 1861, Appendix A, pp. 394–404. MS. Cott., Julius, B xii, f. 91.

page 139 note 1 Arch. Journal, xl (1883), 64–79Google Scholar, C. A. de Cosson: ‘The Capells of Rayne Hall, Essex, with some notes on the helmets formerly in Rayne Church.’

page 141 note 1 Printed in Arch. Cantiana, xiv, 235–7. Canon Scott Robertson: ‘Peche of Lullingstone’.

page 141 note 1 Monumental Effigies, pl. cxlii; see also Arch. Cantiana, xiv, 103, 104.

page 142 note 1 The Greenwich workmen continued to make this type of head-piece long after it had been abandoned on the continent in favour of the form opening down the sides. The helmet on the North suit (Tower II, 82) is an exception. The Worcester close-helmet (II, 83) has gorget-plates made to fit over the rolled collar of the helmet after the cheek-pieces have been locked.

page 143 note 1 It can be seen among the pieces lying in the church in the photograph, pl. xxvi, fig. 2, which was taken about 1921.

page 144 note 1 Country Life, xxxiv, 506; dated 1575.

page 145 note 1 Ibid., 608.