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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MBS/1/BDF/32/5
TitleJohn Acworth, esquire, in armour, with wives, Alys and Amy, 1513
Extent1 item
Datend
DescriptionRubbing of brass effigies and foot inscription in English; marginal inscription in English and Latin, possibly in rhyming verse; eight sons and nine daughters; three shields and indent of another; representations of the four evangelists at the corners; helmet with crest possibly showing a hand throttling a serpent
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionPaper, folded
Dimensions: 202.5 x 100 cms
Custodial HistoryFormerly in the collection of A. Baird; MBS 3950
Publication NoteThis brass is cited and described in Mill Stephenson, 'A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles ' (1964): Luton IX
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