Brass Rubbing: William de Fulbourne

From the Catalogue, An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings by Kathleen H. Cairns. "William de Fulbourne, 1391, canon of St. Paul's, London. In processional cope with almuce. His initials are embroidered on the orphrey. INSCRIPITON: Here I am given to the worms, and this I try to show that as I am laid aside here, so all honor is laid aside. from Bontell: This may be regarded as the earliest known example of a coped brass. It is of very large dimensions, having above the effigy a lofty canopy. Of the border legend there remain only the words following:— HIC. IACET. DOMINVS. WILLMUS. DE. FVLBVRNE. QVONDAM. CANONICVS. ECCLESIAR. SCI. PAVLI. LONDON.... At the feet of the effigy are the lines, VERMIBS. HIC. DONOR—ET. SIC. OSTENDERE. CONOR. QVD. SICVD. HIC. PONOR. PONIT. OMNIS. HONOR. Two shields of arms are lost. The morse of the cope is charged with armorial insignia,—a saltire, between four martlets: and the initial letters, W.F., appear in the apparels of the cope.

Cairns, Kathleen H. An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings, December 7, 1969 through January 4, 1970. Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh. Catalog #10. Felgate, T.M. Knights on Suffolk Brasses. East Anglian Magazine Ltd. Ipswich, Sufflok 1976. Spinke, Winifred. A Memento from Old England. Bury St. Edmunds, n.d. Bontell, Rev. Charles. Monumental Brasses of England (1849), p. 22.