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Effigy of Effigy in Great Malvern Church is in Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
THIS unappropriated figure is of the same period with that of Longespee, Earl of Salisbury. There are some remarkable peculiarities in the arms which it bears. In the right hand is a formidable martel de fer, horseman's hammer, or pole-axe, formed on the same principle as the pick-axe of the labourer, but shorter in the head, which measures about nine inches, and has one cutting and one pointed end; apparently a most efficient weapon for breaking defensive armour, beating down and wounding opponents. In the left hand is a circular target, eighteen inches in diameter. On the left side is suspended the broad-bladed sword of the time.