Brass rubbing, in gold heel-ball on black paper, Anne Lately, first wife of Gifford Long, MP and landowner, in Elizabethan costume, with two shields and inscription, brass dated 1601, at an unidentified church, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, by Herbert Druitt, 1876-1943
'The large ruff, the special adornment of Queen Elizabeth, which was held up by a framework of wires, called the supportasse or underpropper, is seen on a few brasses, e.g.(wearing farthingales)' (Source: A Manual of Costume as illustrated by Monumental Brasses, Herbert Druitt,pub.1906)
'The large ruff, the special adornment of Queen Elizabeth, which was held up by a framework of wires, called the supportasse or underpropper, is seen on a few brasses, e.g.(wearing farthingales)' (Source: A Manual of Costume as illustrated by Monumental Brasses, Herbert Druitt,pub.1906)
