The article focuses on the effigies of the early-17th-century. It mentions that the Roman Catholic Queen Mary, upon her succession, passed the Statute of Repeals Act (1553) which returned the country to Catholicism and with it came the resumption of the notion of purgatory. It also mentions shroud monument that consciously avoids any of the earlier references to the horror of death and decay can be seen in that of Anne Chichester, Lady Kinloss, who died in 1627.