Lower brasses
Beneath the principal figures, which measure 29 inches in height, are two shields, flanked on either side by a small figure with a fillet of brass over each for their names; both the fillets are gone, as are also the figure and shield on the right-hand side; they probably represented Sir John Arundell and his arms, ancestor of the Arundells of Lanherne and Chideocke. The head of the remaining figure is also gone, the shield is charged with the arms of Arundell quarterly as above, impaling, quarterly of four, 1. Howard, Duke of Norfolk; 2. De Brotherton; 3. Warren; 4. Mowbray. These are for Sir Thomas Arundell, Knt., who married Margaret Howard, daughter and co-heir of Lord Edmund Howard, third son of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk; she was sister to Katherine, fifth wife of Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Arundell was the second son of Sir John by his first wife, Lady Elizabeth Grey, and was an ancestor of the later Barons Arundell of Wardour.
Beneath these two shields are the matrixes of two groups of children, the only part remaining being the label over the group to the viewer's right, which bears the names "Joan Eleanor Mary". Below these, and forming the lowest part of the monument, were four shields, of which only three survive:
First shield, for Elizabeth Arundell, daughter of Sir John Arundell, who married Sir Richard Edgcumbe of Mount Edgcumbe, Sheriff of Devon in 1543. Sir Richard married secondly to Winefred Essex, daughter of William Essex, Esq. Blazon: Per pale the dexter quarterly, 1 and 4, on a bend ermines, cotised, three boars' heads couped (Edgcumbe); 2 and 3, Semee-de-lis, and a lion rampant gardant (Holland) impaling Arundell quarterly of six as above.
Second shield, lost, but was doubtless charged with the arms of Arundell as above, probably for Jane Arundell, daughter of Sir John Arundell, who died unmarried in 1577, her will dated 2 Sep. 1575, was proved 31 Oct. 1577.
Third shield, for Mary Arundell, per pale, the dexter quarterly of eight, 1. A bend engrailed (Rateliffe); 2. A fesse between two chevrons (Fitz -Walter); 3. A lion rampant crowned within a bordure; 4. A saltire engrailed; 5. lost; 6. Three bars; 7. Semee-de-lis; 8. An infant swaddled, thereon an eagle preying, wings addorsed. Impaling Arundell quarterly as above. Mary, daughter of the said Sir John Arundell, married Robert Ratcliffe, K.G., Earl of Sussex, so created 8 December 1529; she was his third wife. Their only son, Sir John Ratcliffe, Knt., died without issue.
Fourth shield, another one for Mary Arundell, per pale the dexter quarterly of four, 1. A lion rampant (Fitz-Alan); 2. Three bars; 3. A fesse and canton (Widville); 4. 1 and 4 a fret, 2 and 3 a chief (Maltravers); impaling Arundell quarterly as above. The last-named Mary Arundell, widow of Robert, Earl of Sussex, married secondly to Henry Fitz-Alan, 19th Earl of Arundel, K.G.; she was his second wife, the first being her cousin Lady Katherine Grey, daughter of Thomas, 2nd Marquis of Dorset, by which lady the Earl alone had issue, viz., a son, who died without issue, and two daughters, his co-heirs, Joanna, married John, Lord Lumley, and died without issue; and Mary, married Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, by which marriage the Earldom and Castle of Arundell came to the Howards.
