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 Monumental Figures.Monumental Figures. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Monumental Figures.
 
No. 3.   1
   Those in scale armour are the most ancient (time, Henry II.).   2
   Those in chain armour or ring-mail come next (time, Richard I. to Henry III.).   3
   Those with children or cherubims, between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries.   4
   Brasses are for the most part subsequent to the thirteenth century.   5
 


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