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In Chichester Cathedral, on the south wall west of the doorway, is a brass to William Bradbridge, d. 1546, erected in July 1592. It has the kneeling figures of a man and woman, the man in a ruff and gown, the woman with a flat cap, ruff, padded and slashed sleeves, close corsage and full skirt; their hands are in prayer, and there is a desk with books between them. Behind the man are the figures of six sons and behind the woman eight daughters. It has an architectural background, above which is a shield of the arms, [azure] a pheon [or]. The inscription reads:
'Here under lyeth the bodies of Master. William Bradbridge, who was thrice Mayor of this City, and Alice, his wife, who had six sons and eight daughters, which William deceased 1546 etc. This stone was finished at the charges of the Worshipful Mistress Alice Barnham, widow, one of the daughters of the said William Bradbridge and wife of the worshipful Master Francis Barnham, deceased, Sheriff and Alderman of London in 1570. Finished in July 1592.'
From: 'Chichester cathedral: The nave', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 3 (1935), pp. 135-46. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41670&strquery=barnham.
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