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himself; and that the kneeling figure of the
judge represented his relative Thomas de Faversham,1
who had survived .him, and addresses this invocation to
the peculiar saints worshipped in this Chapel,2 in
token
of Robert Dod's good works. The style of. the architectural
canopy is evidently of the fourteenth century,
and coeval with these persons.
1 Weever tells us
that in his time there remained, in one of the windows
of Graveney church, the arms of Faversham, underwritten " Tho...Faversham
Justiciar. et Johna ux, ej."
2 That part of the church where the painting remains,
is known to have
contained the chapel of St. Thomas-a-Becket. In an inventory of
goods
and ornaments of the parish church of Faversham, 4 Hen.
"VIII., it is
stated that "In Saynt Thomas Chapelle " there were
"Imprimis a Chesebyll
of purple damask, with the apparell for the Preest. Item, a clothe
of
arras with gold, for Saynt Thomas's auter, of the same. Item, two
greene
curtayns of sarsenett, for the same awter, fringed at the ends.
Item, a
steyned clothe, with a pictor of Saynt Thomas."
The connection of St. Thomas and St. Edmund in this chapel, is
shown
by a bequest of Robert Fale, of Faversham, in 1529, viz. " To
the light of
St. Edmund in S. Thomas chapel, one Cowe."
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