Image: RichardFortescueFilleighBrassFacingRight

Description: Monumental brass depicting Sir Bernard Drake (d.1586) formerly affixed to tomb-monument he had erected in memory of his brother-in-law Richard Fortescue (d.1570) in Filleigh Church, North Devon. He kneels toward the right. Arms of Drake of Ash, nr. Musbury are shown in the dexter escutcheon: A wyvern gules. The escutcheon to sinister shows the arms of his wife, Gertrude Fortescue. A matching brass of similar form, from the same monument, depicting Richard Fortescue exists in the same church, kneeling to the left. The inscription in Gothic lettering below is as follows: (Quoted in: Nichols, John Gough, The Herald and Genealogist, Vol. 8; Friend, Hilderic, Bygone Devonshire; Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol. 6, 1822, Antiquities: Ancient Church Architecture) "Forget who can yf that he lyft to see, Fortescue of ffylleghie the seventhe of that degre, Remembrance of a frynde his brother Drake doth showe, Presentinge this unto the eyes of moo, (more) Hurtfull to none and fryndlye to the moste, The erthe his bones the heavens possese his goste. Richard ffortescue died at Filleghie ye last day of June 1570".
Title: RichardFortescueFilleighBrassFacingRight
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