5. On iron brackets two pencels of blue silk edged with blue and gold fringe; each bears the Dryden crest, and on one the sphere, on the other the Ulster hand.
6. A pair of spurs.
7. A pair of gauntlets, funerary, painted brown.
8. An heraldic sword, covered in velvet to represent a scabbard.
Tradition. Associated with the burial of Sir Robert Dryden, born 1639, died unmarried 1708, Sheriff of
the county of Northamptonshire. In the centre of the church is a stone, formerly the top of an altar tomb,
bearing the crest and arms of Dryden.
Crest. A demi-lion sustaining in the dexter gamb a sphere or. (Dryden.)
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Fig. 1689. Braybrooke
John Dryden, the poet, born 1631, died 1710, was the son of Erasmus, third son of Sir Erasmus Dryden, the first baronet.
EASTON MAUDIT. (SS. Peter and Paul.)
[Communicated by Major C. A. Markham.]
1. Close helmet, heraldically barred and gilded, XVIIth century, funerary.
2. Pair of gauntlets, funerary.
3. Sword, heraldic.
4. Escutcheon, bearing arg. three lions rampant and a chief gu. (Yelverton), which can be faintly identified.
5. Banner, bearing per pale dexter, gu. a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or (Talbot); sinister (Yelverton).
