Brasses, sepulchral tablets of a mixed metal, called latten, inlaid in a slab of stone, and insculpt with figures and inscriptions of a monumental character; the oldest in England is at Stoke d'Abernon, in Surrey.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brass, Sampson * Brassey, Thomas