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Fig. 743. From the effigy of Sir Hugh Caveley About 1390. Bunbury Church, Cheshire After Stothard

Fig. 744. From the brass of John Corp 1391. Stoke Fleming Church, Devonshire After Waller

Fig. 745. From the brass of a franklin About 1370. Shottesbrooke Church, Berkshire

two oblong pieces of iron or of bronze were added, the lower forming a true quillon. The knightly use of such a dagger can be seen on the effigy of Sir Hugh Caveley in Bunbury Church, Cheshire, 1390 (Fig. 743); and its use by the franklin in the late Mr. Waller's fine drawing of the brass of John Corp in Stoke Fleming Church, Devonshire, 1391 (Fig. 744). In the case of the latter brass the basilard is shown hanging under the arm from a baldric passing round the neck, a circumstance which led Mr. Waller to remark that the only other brass on which the basilard so worn can be