Close helmet, second half of the XVIth century, with a visor belonging to an armet, crested, a tiger's head ducally gorged out of a mural coronet (Fig. 1650).
Tradition. The Walsingham family. Thomas Walsingham, ob. 1562, and Sir Thomas Walsingham,
ob. 1679, were buried in the church.
Crest. Out of a mural coronet gu. a tiger's head or, ducally gorged az. (Walsingham.)
Cf. "N. and Q.," 5th series, x, p. 277.
COBHAM. (St. Mary Magdalene.)
1. Helm, first quarter of the XVth century (vide ante, vol. ii, p. 103, Fig. 450). Hanging on the south wall
of the chancel.
Tradition. Sir Nicholas Hawberk, ob. 1407, to whose memory there is a brass in the chancel (Fig. 1651).
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Fig. 1654. Kingstone
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Fig. 1654a. Kingstone
2. Helm, first quarter of the XVth century (vide ante, vol. ii, p. 104, Fig. 451). Hanging on the south
wall of the chancel (Fig. 1651).
Tradition. Sir Reginald Braybrook, ob. 1405, to whose memory there is a brass in the chancel (Fig. 1651).
3. Helm, early XVIth century (vide ante, vol. ii, p. 146, Fig. 486D). Hanging on the north wall of the
chancel (Fig. 1651).
Tradition. Sir Thomas Brooke, d. 1529 (brass in chancel).
4. Armet, the skull-piece is South Italian, circa 1480, with buffe of the XVIth century added; crested, a
Saracen's head (vide ante, vol. ii, p. 89, Fig. 442D). Hanging on the north wall of the chancel
(Fig. 1651).
Tradition. Associated with the tomb of Sir George Brooke, K.G., 8th Lord Cobham, ob. 1558.
Crest. A Saracen's head ppr., wreathed about the temples or and gu. (Brooke.)
Cf. De Cosson and Burges, " Helmets and Mail," pp. 55, 69, and illustrated; Cripps-Day, "The Tournament," p. 54 (illustration). The illustration of the church is taken from a photograph kindly supplied by the vicar.
