Rubbing2024.20 - Sir Edward Warner
Title
Rubbing2024.20 - Sir Edward Warner
Description
Knight
Inscription:
"Sir Edward Warner, knight, now resteth here/ who lived to full fyftie yeares and fower/ His wifes also by armes you see appeare/ What needeth then with words to blaze them o're/ His virtues rare, would not be letten passe/ Ne yet so worthy state in silence synke/But who dares wright his golden gifts in brasse/ or blot his fame with rude and silly inke/ in somme therefore, let thus be sayd for all/ With God and man he liveth and ever shall./ Obijt 7 die Nov Ao Domi 1565."
Description of Rubbing: There are two sections to this brass.
The top is Edward standing on top of the bottom which is a block of 11 lines of inscription.
Edward is facing forward with his hands in prayer. His head is on a helm. He has tight hair to his head and a long triangular beard. He is in full armor with a mailskirt, tassets strapped over his thighs, broad toed sabatons and symmetrical haute pieces from the pauldrons.
He has a dog (possibly a greyhound) at his feet facing left with a collar. His sword is to the right on his hip with the hilt below his elbow and a dagger to the left behind him the hilt also at his elbow.
Inscription:
"Sir Edward Warner, knight, now resteth here/ who lived to full fyftie yeares and fower/ His wifes also by armes you see appeare/ What needeth then with words to blaze them o're/ His virtues rare, would not be letten passe/ Ne yet so worthy state in silence synke/But who dares wright his golden gifts in brasse/ or blot his fame with rude and silly inke/ in somme therefore, let thus be sayd for all/ With God and man he liveth and ever shall./ Obijt 7 die Nov Ao Domi 1565."
Description of Rubbing: There are two sections to this brass.
The top is Edward standing on top of the bottom which is a block of 11 lines of inscription.
Edward is facing forward with his hands in prayer. His head is on a helm. He has tight hair to his head and a long triangular beard. He is in full armor with a mailskirt, tassets strapped over his thighs, broad toed sabatons and symmetrical haute pieces from the pauldrons.
He has a dog (possibly a greyhound) at his feet facing left with a collar. His sword is to the right on his hip with the hilt below his elbow and a dagger to the left behind him the hilt also at his elbow.
Source
Monumental Brass Society. 2005. "Edward Warner." Monumental Brass Society. 2005. https://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/index-of-brasses/edward-warner.
Date
1565
Format
Parchment 75.5cm x 145.5cm
Rubbing 44cm x 120cm
Coverage
Little Plumstead, Norfolk, east end of the chancel floor
Files
Collection
Citation
“Rubbing2024.20 - Sir Edward Warner,” Exhibits, accessed April 15, 2025, https://exhibits.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/29263.