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LANGWATHBY. (St. Peter.)

Parish armour (Fig. 1604).

Cf. D. Scott, "Guide to Cumberland and Westmoreland"; A. G. Loftie, "Great Salkeld," p. 61.

[The photograph was kindly taken by Miss Lovejoy of Penrith.]

SALKELD, GREAT. (St. Cuthbert.)

Parish armour, pott, breastplate, backplate, gorget of XVIIth century of pikeman type. A basket-hilted sword of the XVIIth century (Fig. 1605).

Fig. 1604. Langwathby

Fig. 1605. Great Salkeld

The tower of the church was built as a place of defence for refuge for the inhabitants of the county in the forest of Inglewood, probably by Ralph, 6th Baron Nevill of Raby, Earl Marshal of England, b. 1364, d. 1425. It is a fortified church, and is one of three—the other two being Burgh-by-Sands and Newton-Arlosh. The tower can only be entered through the church, the entrance being 2 ft. 7 in. wide. The tower has five floors. On the first floor is a fire-place formed of tombstones.

Cf. D. Scott, "Guide to Cumberland and Westmoreland"; A. G. Loftie, "Great Salkeld," p. 60.

[The illustration of the armour was kindly supplied by Canon Loftie.]


DERBYSHIRE

BARLBOROUGH. (St. James.)

In this church is a memorial to Sir Richard Pipe: "Hic jacet Ricardus Pipe miles, civis quondam et major, London, et hujus rectoriae solus patronus, qui ultimum diem clausit 19 Die Mensis Sept. A.D. 1587; et aetatis suae 72."

Bassano, an heraldic painter of Derby, who visited this church in 1705 records in his notes that "within the altar rails, south above Pipe's tomb, hangs a helmet with Pipe's crest upon it." This has long disappeared.

Cf. J. C. Cox, "Derbyshire Churches," i, p. 57.

BONSALL. (St. James the Apostle.)

Previous to the restoration of the church there hung over the monument to Henry Ferne a helmet crested. In 1877 the helmet was suspended over the entrance to the north aisle. The Ferne crest is a mount of fern ppr. thereon a garb or banded gu.

Cf. J. C. Cox, "Derbyshire Churches," ii, p. 422.

CHESTERFIELD. (St. Mary and All Saints.)

There is no armour in the church.

Sir Godfrey Foljambe of Walton, by his will (23 Hen. VIII), directed "my carcase to be buried in the Chapell of St. George beside my lady my wife in Chesterfield . . . my funeral mass & dirge with all other