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V.—Some Account of the Courtenay Tomb in Colyton Church, Devon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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In Colyton church stands a small high tomb, on which is the recumbent effigy of a young lady with a coronet on her head and a dog at her feet. Over the effigy is a shrine-like canopy; in the sides supporting the canopy are angels with thuribula; and on the outside of the west end in a niche are the Virgin and Holy Child.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1884

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page 157 note a Cleaveland's Family of Courtenay, 1735, p. 247.

page 158 note a Milles's, Catalogue of Honor, 1610Google Scholar.

page 158 note b This signet was described in Laing's Scottish Seals, 1850, No. 44. The cut of its impression in the Archæol. Journ. appeared later in Catal. Archæol. Mus. Edinbr. 1856, 1859, p. 89; and that in Seton appeared earlier in Archæol. Scot. 1857, vol. iv. p. 420Google Scholar. James I. was murdered in February, 1436–7. A seal of the Queen, showing the same impaled coat on a lozenge, remains appended to a document of September, 1439, among the Public Records of Scotland. (Seton, p. 208, PI. IX. fig. 1. Laing's Scottish Seals, Supplement, 1866.)

page 159 note a See an engraving of the castle in Polwliele's, Devonshire, 1790, vol. ii. p. 310Google Scholar.

page 159 note b Nov. 1420.

page 160 note a The remains were removed at the same time (Letter of Rev. J. Comins, Nov. 17th, 1854), but no record of the particulars or dimensions of them is known to exist.

page 161 note a The following are references to Mr. Kogers's volume, as compiled in 1877 from his communications to the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, which are printed in their Transactions.

page 161 note b The objects described above as a veil and its edges appear to some observers as hair and ears. We lament the loss of the original face as of good evidence on this question.

page 162 note a Napier's, Swyncombe and Ewelme, 1858, pp. 45, 68, 102Google Scholar. Planche's Cyclopaedia of Costume, 1876, Dictionary, “Coronet.” Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, 1796, vol. ii. Pl XCIV. p, 248.

page 163 note a Milles's Catalogue of Honor. 1610.

page 163 note b Rot. Part.

page 163 note c d Inqs. p. m. of Hugh, 4th Earl, and Thomas, 5th Earl.

page 163 note e Archæol. Journ. 1846, vol. iii. p. 234Google Scholar; 1862, vol. xix. p. 26.

page 163 note f Brist. and Glow. Archæol. Trans. 1879, vol. iv. p. 44Google Scholar.

page 163 note g Abergavenny Monuments, 1872.

page 163 note h Archæol. Journ. 1854, vol. xi. pp. 417418Google Scholar.

page 164 note a Northamptonshire, 1841, vol. ii. p. 283Google Scholar.

page 164 note b Monumental Effigies of Northamptonshire, 1876, p. 112.

page 164 note c See also Vet. Mon. vol. iv. Plate xviii.; Peacock's English Church Furniture, 1866, p. 127; note on “Herse,” Part iv.; Pugin's, Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament, 3rd ed. 1868Google Scholar, “Herse.”

page 165 note a In Brit. Mus. Lansd. MS. 777.