Brass rubbing, in black heel-ball, on white paper, Nicholas Kniveton in armour with SS collar and wife, Joan Mauleverer, c1475, with detached effigies of five sons (1 lost) and one daughter, 4 shields, at All Saints' Church, Mugginton, Derbyshire, by Herbert Druitt, 1876-1943
' On this altar tomb both are shown standing full-face, she on a plot of grass, he with his feet resting on a flop-eared, bellied dog, and his head on a helm which depicts his crest - a fox looking at a reflection of itself in a mirrorunique heraldic device probably recalls the fable of a tiger (here a fox) that pursued hunters who carried off its cub. By throwing down the mirror, the hunters delayed the tiger that saw itself and imagined it was gazing at the lost cub. The crest may be suggestive of the knight's cunning in battle' (Source: www.hamline.edu/brass/pdf)
'...His armour seems more decorative than usual. The couters on the elbow, for example, seem to offer no opportunity to bend the arms, and the rerebraces on the uppewr arms have lines that seem insignificant...Pauldrons on the shoulders are symmetrical with a small haute-piece on each side to better protect the neck against blows of a sword...The SS livery collar is a Lancastrian insignia...Below the breastplate, Nicholas wears a short fauld of overlapping lames to which several scalloped tasses are attached...A misericorde or dagger appears at the right hip and a long sword with a large hilt and pommel hangs diagonally suspended by a belt in front of the body' (Source: as above)
'Below the two major effigies are four individual figures of four sons plus one more missing and one daughter. The sons, all practically identical, are in armour much like that of their father, and the one daughter wears a pedimental headdress and a dress with a full skirt, close fitting sleeves and fur cuffs and a low neckline. The brass of the fifth son...was once seen in the Bateman Collection of Antiquities at Lomberdale House in 1870, but no further trace has been discovered' (Source: as above)
' On this altar tomb both are shown standing full-face, she on a plot of grass, he with his feet resting on a flop-eared, bellied dog, and his head on a helm which depicts his crest - a fox looking at a reflection of itself in a mirrorunique heraldic device probably recalls the fable of a tiger (here a fox) that pursued hunters who carried off its cub. By throwing down the mirror, the hunters delayed the tiger that saw itself and imagined it was gazing at the lost cub. The crest may be suggestive of the knight's cunning in battle' (Source: www.hamline.edu/brass/pdf)
'...His armour seems more decorative than usual. The couters on the elbow, for example, seem to offer no opportunity to bend the arms, and the rerebraces on the uppewr arms have lines that seem insignificant...Pauldrons on the shoulders are symmetrical with a small haute-piece on each side to better protect the neck against blows of a sword...The SS livery collar is a Lancastrian insignia...Below the breastplate, Nicholas wears a short fauld of overlapping lames to which several scalloped tasses are attached...A misericorde or dagger appears at the right hip and a long sword with a large hilt and pommel hangs diagonally suspended by a belt in front of the body' (Source: as above)
'Below the two major effigies are four individual figures of four sons plus one more missing and one daughter. The sons, all practically identical, are in armour much like that of their father, and the one daughter wears a pedimental headdress and a dress with a full skirt, close fitting sleeves and fur cuffs and a low neckline. The brass of the fifth son...was once seen in the Bateman Collection of Antiquities at Lomberdale House in 1870, but no further trace has been discovered' (Source: as above)
