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Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, cut out and laid on to fabric, Sir Robert Swynborne, 1391, Lord of the Manor, in armour, with fine single canopy, church at Little Horkesley, Essex, by Herbert Druitt
'Sir Thomas Swynborne, son of Sir Robert, Little Horkesley, Essex; wearing gorget, under which the camail or fringe of mail attached to the gorget appears; collar of SS; roundels at shoulders; diagonal sword belt; Sir Robert wears the armour of the camail period. The initials R.S.occur on his horizontal bawdric. (Source: A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses, H.Druitt, pub1906)

Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, cut out and laid on to fabric, Margarete de Camoys, c1310, in kirtle, cote-hardie, wimple and veil, 9m shields on dress, single canopy, church at Trotton, Sussex, by Herbert Druitt
'...the earliest lady's brass of which I am aware is the brass at Trotton in Sussex, the remarkable memorial of Margaret, Lady Camoys, who died in the year 1310, the 3rd of Edward II, The wimple, that strange covering for the throat, chin and sides of the face, is here very distinctly shewn; and it is adjusted, after a fashion prevalent in the earlier part of the Edwardian era, in such a manner as to impart a triangular outline to the features. A single curl of hair appears on either side of the forehead, which is encircled by a narrow enriched fillet: and upon the head and falling gracefully upon the shoulders is a coverchef. The remainder of the costume, with the exception of its heraldic decorations, is of the simplest character, but is expressed with great vigour and effectiveness. A super-tunic envelops the entire person; it has no waist-cincture, and its sleeves are loose, and terminate somewhat below the elbow, thus displaying the kirtle worn beneath no more thasn the tight sleeves; the clasped and upward lifted hands are bare. Originally, nine small shields of arms wer attached to the front of the figure upon the tunic but these have now been abstracted, and that at a very recent period. A fine pedimental canopy with slender side shafts and pinnacles, eight shields of armas, the border fillets with the letters of the legendwhich they enclosed, and a profusion of small stars and other ornaments with which it was once semee, have in like manner but at a more distant period been abstracted from the marble slab' (Source: Monumental Brasses and Slabs, Rev.Charles Boutell, pub.1847)

Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, cut out and laid on to fabric, John Leventhorpe, 1433, in armour with Lancastrian livery collar, feet resting on a dog, 2 shields, church at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, by Herbert Druitt

Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, cut out and laid on to fabric, Sir Thomas Brounflet, 1430, cup-bearer to Richard II, treasurer of the household to Henry IV, in armour, church at Wymington, Bedfordshire, by Herbert Druitt

Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, cut out and laid on to fabric, Joan Peryent, 1415, wife of John, with hedgehog at feet and swan on collar of dress, with SS collar, church at Digswell, Hertfordshire, by Herbert Druitt
' A swan is engraved on the left side of the collar;a hedgehog is represented on the skirt. The head-dress, to which no similar example is known on a brass, is triangular in form; the veil merely showing in folds on the top...' (Source: A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses, H.Druitt, pub.1906)

Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball on white paper, cut out and laid on to fabric, Sir William Tendring, 1408, in armour, bare-headed with beard, church at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, by Herbert Druitt