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PLATE 102<br />

tf. Abraham and Melchisedeck, from the Psalter in St.. John's College, Cambridge, MS, K. 26:<br />

ii xjjin. These pictures (46 in all) are bond op with a late/fourteenth/century text, and nothing<br />

is certainly known of their provenance. Stylistically they seem to belong to the St Albans style<br />

of the late thirteenth century, and are notable examples of it<br />

i. Felbrigg brass, 1416, Felbrigg Church, Norfolk. Sir Simon Felbrigg and his wife Margaret (cousin<br />

to Anne of Bohemia) who died<br />

1416, when the brass was made, the for the date of his<br />

spaces<br />

death being left blank. He is represented as standard/bearer to Richard II. Notice his palettes bearing<br />

St. George's cross, and the garter on his left leg. She wears kirtle, mantle, and crespine head/dress, and<br />

has a pet dog at her feet. Above are the arms of Richard II and his queen, and on the middle pinnacle<br />

those of Sir Simon and his wife, with his badge, a fetterlock, repeated. Richard II's badge, a white hart,<br />

forms the corbel from which the .arches spring

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