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NAME TYPE MATERIAL DATE Edmund Brudnell Recumbent civilian Alabaster 1590

Depicted in the robes of a magistrate with a large full ruff and long loose sleeves, fringed at the wrists, the effigy's head reclines on a tasselled cushion. The hands, the finger ends of which are broken off, are in the attitude of prayer. At his feet is a sea-horse naiant – the family crest. By his right side lies his infant son, Robert, who is depicted in swaddling clothes lying on his own miniature tomb-chest. Born in March 1584, he only survived for three weeks. In front of the tomb-chest are the kneeling representations of Edmund's wife, Elizabeth, now headless with the hands broken off, kneeling on a cushion, and their son and two daughters. On the west end of the tomb-chest are carved the arms of Brudenell (Argent, a chevron gules between three chapeaux azure). On the east end of the tomb are the same arms impaling Argent, a lion rampant sable, crowned or, debruised by a baton gules all within a bordure azure (Burnell). Over the effigy, on a square of freestone set into the chancel north wall, is the inscription: Here lyeth buried ye bodie of Edmund Brudnell of Stanto Wivell, esquire, who departed this life the XIV Maye 1590. A man that lyved in the true feare of God, a lover of hospitallitie, pitiful to the poor, a quieter of controversies in his co'trie, beloved of his neighbours, learned in the laws of the realme both civill and common: he married Elizabeth, one of the daughters of William Burnell of Wickbourne in the countie of Nottingham, esquire, by whom he had two sonnes and two daughters: Agnes, Robert, Thomas and Frances. There is a monument to Edmund's parents in St Peter's, Deene, Northamptonshire. Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6. Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6. No copying or reproduction without prior written permission. Published by Heart of Albion Press Back to top of this page This website does not gather or store any visitor information.