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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MBS/1/DOR/9/3
TitleDorothy, wife of John Williams, clerk, 1694
Extent1 item
Datend
DescriptionRubbing of brass square plate showing effigy and recumbent skeleton; inscription in English and Latin; scroll inscribed with quotation from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in English; marginal decoration with skulls and crossbones; makers name Edmund Culpeper.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionPaper, folded
Dimensions: 66 x 50.5 cms
Custodial HistoryFormerly in the collection of Malcolm Norris; MBS 858
Publication NoteThis brass is cited and described in Mill Stephenson, 'A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles ' (1964): Pimperne I
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