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Sketch by Willis from The Bodlian Library
(MS7) George Ingylton (1493/4) and wife Sibyl Position in Church: Formerly in chancel, brass now lost. Date made: 1493/4. Date recorded: 1755, by Browne Willis. Description: Standing figures of man in armour, bare-headed, with left hand raised, right hand joined to that of wife, dressed in gown and mantle, with long cord fastening. A small shield, set at a slant, was somehow suspended at waist level from each figure; below them was an inscription plate. The head and shoulders of the wife's figure were lost before Willis made his drawing. Style: London Workshop F. Inscription:
Interpreted:
Script: Gothic minuscule. Heraldry: Man's shield: Quarterly, i and iv, Argent, a chevron between three tuns sable, from the bunghole of each a flame issuing proper, on the chevron a molet for difference, INGLETON; ii, Argent, semy of crescents ..., a lion rampant ..., WANDESFORD, iii, Argent, three gryphons' heads erased and three crosslets fitchy azure, (?) an early form of INGLETON. Wife's shield: Argent, a cross voided between four crosslets fitchee gules, BILLING. Notes: This commemorates George, the surviving son and heir of Robert Ingleton, and his wife Sibyl, daughter of Thomas Billing, known to have died in 1494/5, leaving a child heir, Robert (the father of Jane, no II). The brass was certainly lost before 1847, probably by 1800. References: L.S.W. Bucks., 212-3; M.B.S. Trans. XIII, 28-9, (from Bod. MS Willis XI, 189); R.H. Russell, 'The Monuments at Thornton, Bucks.' in Records of Bucks., VII, 52-60. |
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