AND NOTICE OF THE CHURCH AT THAT PLACE. 207 have been similarly committed), was placed a semicircular label, commemorating the entire reconstruction of the church by William de Echyngham, here buried. It is as follows : — " Iste Will'm's fecit ista' eccl'iam de novo reedificari in honore dei et assu'pc'o'is Beate Marie et s'c'i Nich'i, qui q°nd'm fuit filius Jacobi de Echingh'm militis." On a monument rather more towards the w^est, there is a large canopied brass. It represents three figures (engraved in the Antiquarian Repertory, vol. iii. p. 188 ; copied also in S. H. Grimm's Sussex Drawings), pourtraying William de Echyngham, who died 20th March, a.d. 1412; Joanna, his wife, daughter and coheir of John Arundel, Lord ]Ialtravers, who died 1st September, a.d. 1404 ; and Thomas de Echyng- ham, their son, who died on the 15th Oct., a.d. 1444, as appears by the following inscription : — " Hie jacent Will'mus Echyngh'm miles, D'n's de Echyngh'm, qui obijt xx die mensis Marcij, Anno D'ni Mill'mo. cccc. xij ; Et D'na Johanna, Censors sua, que obijt primo die mensis Septembris Anno Domini Mill'mo cccc. quarto. Ac Thomas Echyngh'm miles d'n's eciam de Echyngh'm filius eor' qui obijt xv°. die Octobr' A° D'ni M*' cccc°. xiiiij". qV a'i'ab^ p'piciet' De'. Amen." The figures of the father and the son are almost precisely similar ; the memorial appears by the costume to be of the later date ; it is now greatly mutilated, but was thus further described by W. Hayley in a letter to Dr. William Burrcll, written in 1776, and among his collections at the British Museum : — " At the upper part of the stone were five escutcheons, of which there now remain only that of the wife, and half of the second. In the middle one over the woman's head was quarterly 1 and 4 a lion rampant, 2 and 3, fretty of six pieces. On the two outer sides of this was fretty of six, and on the two other, frett}^ of six impaling the middle one ; the shields in full bore the insignia of Stopeham, ]Ialtravers, Knyvett, and Shoyswell." The knights are represented in plate armour, their hands upraised in prayer, the female in the centre dressed in the costume of the period, their feet resting on lions couchant ; and beneath the inscription were four escutcheons, thus described by Hayley : — " The first is wholly lost, as is the canton or quarter of the second, and the bend with its charge of the tliird. On the escutcheons were, 1st, Fretty of six inq^aling a bend within a border
