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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
On the north side of the ante-chapel of New College, Oxford, lies a brass for John Yong, Warden of the College, who was titular bishop of Callipolis in Thrace. The date of his death, the 25th March, 1526, has not been filled in in the inscription, so it is to be inferred that the brass was put down in his lifetime, say c. 1525.
page 381 note 1 In the fifties of the last century, when it was the custom to bury fine ledger slabs under concrete and neat tiles, it was the custom of some architects to mark the place of the slab by a small square of coloured composition showing the arms in colour and an inscription and date. These have by wear now become almost entirely effaced, but examples may be still seen in Ospringe church, Kent. But the custom did not continue for long, probably being found rather troublesome and too costly.
page 381 note 2 Many small pieces of this brass were until recently loose in a cupboard in the vestry. But they were all lately carefully fixed in the stone under the direction of our Fellow the Duke of Rutland, and the brass has now recovered its pristine beauty.