CHURCHES of SUSSEX
Brass Rubbings of Sussex
Arundel - John Baker
There are eight brasses here of the 14th and 15th centuries. The oldest
is the first master of the college, Adam de Ertham, who is in his surplice
and is wearing a cloak rarely seen on monuments; he died 1382.
Near him is his successor, the second
master, William Whyte, who died in 1410. Three other 15th-century priests
have their portraits in brasses: John Baker (below) of 1455, with his
initials on the border of his robe, Esperaunce Blondell of 1450, and Robert
Warde of 1474.
Here in brass also is the chief lady-in-waiting
to the king's daughter who became Countess of Arundel; she afterwards married
Thomas Salmon; their brasses were together for centuries under a canopy,
but the good Thomas has lost nearly all his wife, for her hair netted in gold
wire has gone and her locket with its pendant cross, and the two little lap-dogs
at her feet, and all that is left of the middle of her gown.
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