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covered with a sleeved hauberk, a coif is drawn over the head, and the lower limbs and feet are guarded by chausses of the same flexible and inwoven defence. The genouillieres, or knee-plates, are possibly of prepared leather. There is a lion at his feet, and he is not, as in many other instances, represented as cross-legged; his attitude is that of repose. Mr. Waller's remarks on this are to the following effect:—"Considered as a work of art, it will be found that the figure is ill-proportioned, but the arrangement of the drapery judiciously contrived; whilst, as a production of the burin, this brass is not excelled by any subsequent example; each link of the mail is distinctly represented, and the mere work of graving up so large a surface must have cost many weeks of patient labour." This name of d'Aubernon appears to have been derived from the river Aube, in Picardy, Champagne, and Burgundy. Roger d'Aubernon came over with the Conqueror, and appears in Doomsday as settled in Surrey, under Richard de Tonbridge, Earl of Clare. He held the manors of Molesham and Aldbury, and others in Stoke and Fetcham, but he established his residence at Stoke. This baron also possessed various other estates in other parts of the kingdom, especially in Bedfordshire and Devonshire. Several of his descendants are mentioned, and Walter d'Aubernon bore arms against King John. The first of this family, named John, died before 1279, the 7th, that is, of Edward I., leaving a son, another John, who died 1327; his son was also John, and his son William, who died in 1358 without male issue, after which the representation of the family became vested in the female line. There are three stones commemorative of members of this family in the chancel, all to Johns; but these are easily distinguished, and to each a period