BOLAM. (St. Andrew.)
[Communicated by Mr. H. Plowman, F.S.A.]
1. Helmet, XVIIth century, funerary (Fig. 1695).
2. A pair of gauntlets of wood.
Tradition. These pieces were brought from a armhouse in the neighbourhood. [Mr. N. Pumphrey, Bolam House, courteously supplied the photograph.]
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Fig. 1694. Bamburgh
HEXHAM. (The Abbey.)
Salade, late XVth century, of pronounced Italian form (vide ante, vol. ii, p. 42, Fig. 393).
"O'er Hexham's altar hung my glove."
Scott, "Rokeby."
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
LANGAR. (St. Andrew.)
1. Helmet, crested.
2. Sword.
Hanging in the transept.
Tradition. Associated with the Chaworth family. There are monuments to George Chaworth, ob. 1521, and to his son Sir John Chaworth, ob. 1558 (effigy), who had fourteen children (by his second wife), of whom there is a third monument to one son, George, ob. 1589 (effigy), who died leaving an only daughter.