English: Monumental brass made circa 1405 of an unknown knight wearing the style of armour used at the Battle of Agincourt (1415), All Saints' parish church, Laughton, Lindsey, Lincolnshire. It has a later imitation gothic inscription from 1549 added at the bottom, which shows that it served as the ledger stone of William d'Alison (died 1546) and his son George d'Alison (died 1549). It is purposefully anachronistic for men who died during the early Rennaissance, when the fashion for the Gothic style of architecture (see the style of canopy) and text had disappeared. The Roman style of text would have been in fashion at that later time.

Latin text:

Hic jacent Will(el)mus Dalison Armig(er) quonda(m) vicecomes & eschaetor comit(atus) Lincoln ac un(um) justiciar(es) pacis ..... in eodem com(itatu) et Georgius Dalison filius et heres eiusde(m) Will (el)m(i) qui quide(m) Will(el)m(u)s obiit decimo octavo die me(n)sis decembris Anno d(o)m(ini) M^oCCCCCXLVI^o & a(nn)o regni .... regis Henrici Octavi XXXVII et dictus Georgius obiit XX^o die mensis junii anno d(o)m(ini) M^oCCCCCXLIX et anno regni .... regis Edwardi Sexti tertio. Quar(um) anima(rum) p(ro)picietur deus amen.

"Here lie William Dalison, Esquire, at one time Sheriff and Escheator of the County of Lincoln and one of the Justices of the Peace ... in the same county; and George Dalison, son and heir of the same William; which William died on the 18th day of the month of December in the year of our lord the 1,000th five hundredth and 46th and in the year of the reign of ..... King Henry the Eighth the 37th; and the said George died on the 20th day of the month of June in the year of our lord the 1,000th five hundredth and 49th and in the year of the reign of ..... King Edward the Sixth, the third. Of the souls of whom may God look upon favourably, amen".

William was Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1546.

Comparatives

Similar in appearance to the following brasses:

• Sir Peter Courtenay (d.1405) in Exeter Cathedral;
  
• Sir Maurice Russell (d.1416), Saint Peter's Church, Dyrham, Gloucester;
• Thomas Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley (d.1417), Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.