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| The image is from a brass plate in the parish church of St. Ippollitts, south of Hitchin in
Hertfordshire. The figures are kneeling on cushions beside a table on which there are two open
books with clasps. The figures represent Alice Hughes, who died in August 1594 at the age of
twenty-nine, and her husband Ryce Hughes "Cytyzen and Haberdasher of London" and
their three children, "one sonne and two daughters all deceased and lye buryed lykewyse
in this Church at the Channcell dore". Citizen Hughes wears a cloak and his head is bare.
His wife has a plain dress and a ruff and a rounded hat. The Hughes' brass is on the north
wall of the chancel. |
We are not Herefordshire!
| Yes, people do confuse the two counties. Hertfordshire is a county north of London, one
of the Home Counties adjacent to the capital. Officially, Hertfordshire is designated to be in
the south of East Anglia, the ancient territory of the East Angles and East Saxons. The county's
dominant influence has been the capital, London. The Roman military roads of Ermine Street
and Watling Street pass through the county on the way to York and Chester respectively and
all the county's rivers flow into the valley of the Thames. |
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