WIVES OF ECCLESIASTICS

On the floor of the chancel of Nutfield church, Surrey, are some brass plates representing a man in the ordinary civilian's dress, and a lady in a long gown by his side, neither of them presenting any peculiarities of costume; under them, however, is the following inscription:— "Orate pro animabus Willielmi Grafton quondam *clerici hujus ecclesie* et Johanne uxoris ejusdem et Johannis filii eorundem, quorum animabus propitietur deus. Amen." The man has no tonsure. Over them are two coats of arms, the one bearing *Or*, a *chevron*, the other the same impaling a *saltire*. There is no date on th…