Lucy. This gentleman assumed by sign manual in 1787 "All the time of her life, a true and faithful servant of her good God; never detected of any crime or vice; in religion. most sound; in love to her husband, most faithful and true; in friendship, most constant; to what in trust was committed to her, most secret; in wisdom, excelling; in governing her home, and bringing up of youth in the fear of God, that did converse with her, most rare and singular. A great maintainer of hospitality; greatly esteemed of her betters, misliked of none, unless of the envious. When all is spoken that can be said, a woman so furnished and garnished with virtue as not to be bettered, and hardly to be equalled by any. As she lived most virtuously, so she died most godly: "Set down by him that best did know What hath been written to be true.-THOMAS LUCY." A aisle are the remains of what was once a magnificent brass; it is dated 1414, and commemorates Seman at Tong; the lower half remains, showing the figure of a burgess in a coat and pointed shoes, with anelace and knife at his girdle. At the entrance to the south transept is a fine brass, dated 1533, to Henry Hatche and Joan his wife. In the south aisle is a brass, bearing date 1535, to Richard Colwell and family; at the corners were four representations of his rebus, two of which remain, viz., a drawing of a well and the word Col. A brass at the west end of the north aisle has lost the inscription; a man in mayor's robes, together with his family, remain in brass; it is probably that of Nathaniel Besbeech, who was mayor in 1637. An inscription to Edward Thomasson and his two wives, dated 1494, remains in the south transept, near which was formerly the brass of a man in armour; his helmet was turned up in front, his sword was by his side, and he held a battle-axe over his shoulder.* brass of 1492 to John Wygmore, wife, and family, in the north aisle, had the man drawn in his hair, a mail gorget, armour, sword across, rowels to his spurs, and greyhound at his feet; she has the lappet head-dress, a fur cape, and large mitten sleeves; the pendant part of her belt is very rich, ending in a tassel. Below six girls in flowing hair and standing cuffs."+ A brass to Alice Mashin and family, dated 1432, had the veil head-dress and long bag sleeves, ten boys had cropped hair, five girls were in bag sleeves and had the long horseshoe head-dress. Two other brasses had effigies, viz., Agnes Feversham, dated 1427, and William Rose, dated 1509; at the feet of the latter was a greyhound. There were eighteen other brasses, ranging from 1419 to 1582, without effigies, but most had shields on them, notices of which would occupy a considerable space; the persons commemorated were leading burgesses. Two fine tombs deserve mention one of Decorated date, in the south wall of the Trinity Chapel, has been attributed to King Stephen, without reason; the other is Perpendicular, in the north wall of the chancel, the occupant of which is unknown: it was a man undoubtedly, as a very large male thigh-bone was found beneath it a few years ago. The latter tomb was probably used as the Easter supulchre. On the opposite side of the chancel are three sedilia and a trefoiled piscina with a locker over it. The sedilia have detached round pillars, supporting three pointed arches, each enclosing a cinquefoil, whilst between the arches are trefoils. The two tables already mentioned, viz., St. Margaret's and St. Christopher's, were perhaps connected with the shrines which appear to have stood at the ends of the transepts beneath the great windows. In the north transept a rectangular projection of st one may be seen outside, whilst within, a shallow recess about five feet wide was found a few years ago; the stone jambs which had supported an arch remained, and behind a monument which was then removed were found the remains of a canopy; some mutilated fresco painting was discovered within the recess. In the south transept, under the great Decorated window, a stopped-up niche was discovered with fragments of elaborately carved stonework, consisting of human heads, foliage, tracery, and the remains of a cinquefoiled arch; FAVER- these ornaments, at the Reformation, had been rudely broken off, and built up in the niche with the carvings hidden, and the back part reversed; remains of colouring, chiefly red, were at the back of the niche. At the west front of the church, on the south side, is a room which was once a chapel ; it has erroneously been called a Ladye Chapel. A chapel called by that name stood at the north-east corner of the churchyard in the 2nd Henry VIII., according to the town records, and it is mentioned in a will dated 1528. At the east end of the present chapel are the remains of a piscina ; some of the carving, consisting of foliage, was found near it a few years ago. Before the Reformation it appears as if the east wall was partly open to the church, This chapel was once open on the north side, where there were Sir Thomas's son and successor, who appears to have only survived him five years, lies on his stately tomb by himself. His lady, in a black hood, is placed in a praying attitude in front of the tomb, thereby indicating that she was the sorrowful survivor, while, on the plinth is a whole procession of little images of sons and daughters, two and two; six sons on the panel before the mother, and eight daughters on that behind her. The tomb of the third Sir Thomas, grandson of the Sir Thomas, and his lady, is a very splendid one by Bernini, and was executed in Italy. The knight is represented in a recumbent position, leaning on his elbow, as if contemplating the effigy of his wife, whose figure and drapery are finely wrought. The scenery round the neighbourhood of Charlecote is perhaps the most interesting of any associated with the name of Shakespeare. The grand old Elizabethan house, for the most part, presents the same appearance now as it did in the poet's time, and the gentle Avon flows, as brightly as of old, through its sunny lawns and deeply wooded glades, where the poet loved to roam. W. D. WEEVER, in his "Funeral Monuments," records the fact that in his time the tombs and other memorials of the dead were very carefully preserved in this church. From his list and other sources, I find the brasses which were once here made up the finest collection in the county of Kent-not excepting Cobham. In the chancel are brasses to two of the vicars: the earliest is a large one to William Thornbury, died 1480; he is represented in the attitude of prayer, and is habited in vestments. A small brass, dated 1531, represents John Redbourne, also in priest's robes, with the chalice and wafer; a black-letter memorial to Edmund Blackwell, a lawyer, who died in 1572, is close by. In the south * Sold by the churchwardens to repair a chandelier. "There was also a great brass candlestick hanging in the middle of the quire, containing a dozen and a half of lights, with another bow candlestick about the brass eagle. These both were broke in pieces, and most of the brass carried away and sold. "A well disposed person standing by and seeing the souldiers make such spoil speaks to an officer, desiring him to restrain them; who answered, 'See how these poor people are concerned to see their idols pulled down.' "When they had thus defaced and spoiled the quire, they made up next to the east end of the church, and there break and cut in pieces, and afterwards burn the rails that were about the communion table. The table itself was thrown down, the tablecloth taken away, with two fair books in velvet covers; the one a bible, the other a common prayer book, with a silver bason gilt, and a pair of silver candlesticks beside. But upon request made to Colonel Hubbert, the books, bason, and all else, save the candlesticks, were restored again. two round arches communicating with the great behind the ceiling, with some twenty pieces of gold laid western porch. The porch is now the site of the tower; there by a person a little before. This encourages the it had a raised platform eighteen inches high, form- souldiers in their work, and makes them the more eager in ing a step along the whole of the south side, where was breaking down all the rest of the wainscot. The book was the entrance to the chapel. Over the outer western door called Swapham,' and was afterwards redeemed by a were two verses from Eccles. v. A parvise over the porch person belonging to the minster for ten shillings. was formerly used as a schoolroom, and from the following entry it appears that the wardmotes were at one time held in it:"A wardmote was holden on Sunday, November the 6th, in the church." This was in 1592, and in the same year is this entry: "To be paid unto William Saker 20/. in the west porch of Faversham church." Beneath the chapel is an undercroft, having three small round pillars supporting a chalk roof with stone groins. Much ancient stained glass was once in the church, but almost the only remains are in the east window of St. Thomas's chapel, which was made at the expense of Simon Orwell, a brewer in Faversham, temp. Henry VI., and a leading man in Mortimer's rebellion. The remains consist of a small golden lion, some tracery, the hull of a boat, and a rebus-viz., the drawing of a well and the initials S. O. There were two heater-shaped shields in the great east window, and six shields in other windows, all containing arms of benefactors; there were also fifteen shields in brass, all of which are missing. So far as I can trace, there were no shields cut in the roof, either on the corbels or the woodwork. Six of the altars mentioned at p. 64 can be traced by the piscine or other evidence remaining; of the other four, some at least were probably built against the western side of some of the large pillars in the nave, now destroyed with the exception of two; there were formerly ten. In pulling down these pillars an ancient hollowed stone, shaped like the smaller half of an egg, perpendicularly divided, was discovered, and also an oblong stone trough for baptizing children by immersion. The hollowed stone was a small altar, quite black by a lamp being burnt in it, and has been called by some a Roman altar. In 1444 five new bells were purchased of "Johanne Hille of London, wydowe," whose receipt for the money is preserved; a sixth bell was added in 1459. The effect of the new peal was that in 1479 it was necessary to rebuild the campanile. Of the hermitage, which stood in the churchyard, I have already given an account (see p. 20, ante), the chapel at the N.E. corner was, I suppose, a mortuary chapel and wax house. No account of a churchyard cross remains; and there is no yew-tree here, which is rather unusual. The churchyard is full of Roman remains, broken pottery, oyster shells, tiles, &c. Several urns and coins were found in 1794; and at the east end of the churchyard a considerable quantity of bones of oxen and other animals have been dug up at various times. G. BEDO. OUTRAGE BY CROMWELL'S SOLDIERS.-The following "Short and true narrative of the Rising and Defacing the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, by Cromwell's soldiers, in the year 1643," is taken from Gunton's "History of the Church of Peterborough": "The next day after their arrival, early in the morning, they break open the church doors, pull down the organs of which there were two pair. The greater pair which stood upon a high loft, over the entrance into the quire, was thence thrown down upon the ground, and then stamped and trampled on and broke in pieces. "Then the souldiers entered the quire, and there their first business was to tear in pieces all the common prayer books that could be found. The great bible indeed, that lay on a brass eagle for reading the lessons, had the good hap to escape with the loss only of the Apocrypha. "Next they break down all the seats, stalls, and wainscots that was behind them, being adorned with several historical passages out of the old testament, a Latin distich being in each seat to declare the story. Whilst they were thus employed, they happened to find a great parchment book, "Not long after, on the 13th day of July, 1643, Captain Barton and Captain Hope, two martial ministers of Nottingham or Darbyshire, coming to Peterburgh, break open the vestry, and take away a fair crimson satten table cloth, and several other things that had escaped the former souldiers hands. "Now behind the communion table there stood a curious piece of stone-work, admired much by strangers and travellers: a stately skreen it was, well wrought, painted and gilt, which rose up as high almost as the roof of the church, in a row of three lofty spires, with other lesser spires grow. ing out of each of them. This now had no imagery work upon it, or anything else that might justly give offence, and yet, because it bore the name of the high altar, was pulled all down with ropes, lay'd low and level with the ground. "Over this place, in the roof of the church, in a large oval yet to be seen, was the picture of Our Saviour seated on a throne; one hand erect, and holding a globe in the other, attended with the four evangelists, and saints on each side, with crowns in their hands, intended, I suppose, for a representation of Our Saviour's coming to judgment. Some of the company espying this, cry out and say, 'Lo, this is the God these people bow and cringe unto; this is the idol they worship and adore.' Hereupon several souldiers charged their muskets (amongst whom one Daniel Wood, of Captain Roper's company, was the chief), and discharge them at it and by the many shots they made, at length do quite deface and spoil [the] picture. "The odiousness of this act gave occasion (I suppose) to a common fame, very rife at that time, and whence Mercurius Rusticus might have his relation, viz. :—that divine vengeance had signally seized on some of the principal actors; that one was struck blind upon the place, by a rebound of his bullet; that another dyed mad a little after, neither of which I can certainly attest. For, though I have made it my business to enquire of this, I could never find any other judgment befal them then, but that of a mad blind zeal, wherewith these persons were certainly possest. "Then they rob and rifle the tombs, and violate the monuments of the dead. And where should they first begin, but with those of the two queens, who had been there interr'd: the one on the north side, the other on the south side of the church, both near unto the altar. First then, they demolished Queen Katherin's tomb, Henry the Eighth his repudiated wife: they break down the rails that enclosed the place, and take away the black velvet pall which covered the herse,-overthrow the herse itself, displaced the gravestone that lay over her body, and have left nothing now remaining of that tomb, but only a monument of their own shame and villany. The like they had certainly done to the Queen of Scots, but that her herse and pall were removed with her body to Westminster by King James the First, when he came to the crown. But what did remain they served in like manner: that is, her royal arms and escutcheons, which hung upon a pillar, near the place where she had been interr'd, were most rudely pulled down, defaced and torn. "In the north isle of the church there was a stately tomb in memory of bishop Dove, who had been thirty years bishop of the place. He lay there in portraicture in his episcopal robes, on a large bed under a fair table of black marble, with a library of books about him. These men that were such enemies to the name and office of a bishop, and much more to his person, hack and hew the poor innocent statue in pieces, and soon destroy'd all the tomb. So that in a short space, all that fair and curious monument was buried in its own rubbish and ruines. "The like they do to two other monuments standing in that isle; the one the tomb of Mr. Worm, the other of Dr. Angier, who had been prebendary of that church. "In a place then called the new building, and since converted to a library, there was a fair monument, which Sir Humphrey Orm (to save his heir that charge and trouble,) thought fit to erect in his own life time, where he and his lady, his son and wife and all their children, were lively represented in statues, under which were certain English verses written : were so dazzled, that they thought they saw popery in every "Notwithstanding all the art and curiosity of workmanship these windows did afford, yet nothing of all this could oblige the reforming rabble, but they deface and break them all in pieces, in the church and in the cloyster, and left nothing undemolisht, where either any picture or painted glass did appear; excepting only part of the great west window in the body of the church, which still remains entire, being too high for them, and out of their reach. Yea, to encourage them the more in this trade of breaking and battering windows down, Cromwell himself (as 'twas reported,) espying a little crucifix in a window aloft, which none, perhaps, before had scarce observed, gets a ladder, and breaks it down zealously with his own hand. But, before I conclude the narrative, I must not forget to tell, how they likewise broke open the chapterhouse, ransack'd the records, broke the seals, tore the writings in pieces, specially such as had great seals annexed unto them, which they took or mistook rather for the popes bulls. So that a grave and sober person coming into the room at the time, finds the floor all strewed and covered over with torn papers, parchments and broken seals; and being astonisht "Mistake not, reader, I thee crave, This is an altar not a grave, Where fire raked up in ashes lyes, And hearts are made the sacrifice, &c.' "Which two words altar and sacrifice, 'tis said, did so provoke and kindle the zealots indignation, that they re-at this sight, does thus expostulate with them: Gentlemen, solved to make the tomb itself a sacrifice: and with axes, (says he,) what are ye doing? they answered, we are pulling poleaxes and hammers, destroy and break down all that and tearing the popes bulls in pieces. He replies, ye are curious monument, save only two pilasters still remaining, much mistaken: for these writings are neither the popes which shew and testifie the elegancy of the rest of the work. bulls, nor any thing relating to him; but they are the Thus it hapned that the good old knight, who was a con- evidences of several mens estates, and in destroying these, stant frequenter of Gods publick service, three times a day, you will destroy and undo many. With this they were outlived his own monument, and lived to see himself car- something perswaded, and prevailed upon by the same ried in effigie on a souldiers back, to the publick market-person, to permit him to carry away all that were left undeplace, there to be sported withall, a crew of souldiers going before in procession, some with surplices, some with organ pipes, to make up the solemnity. "When they had thus demolished the chief monuments, at length the very gravestones and marbles on the floor did not escape their sacrilegious hands. For where there was any thing on them of sculptures or inscription in brass, these they force and tear off. So that whereas there were many fair pieces of this kind before, as that of abbot William of Ramsey, whose large marble gravestone was plated over with brass, and several others the like, there is not any such now in all the church to be seen; though most of the inscriptions that were upon them are preserved in this book. "One thing, indeed, I must needs clear the souldiers of, which Mercurius Rusticus upon misinformation charges them with, viz. :-That they took away the bell clappers and sold them, with the brass they plucked off from the tombs. The mistake was this: the neighbourhood being continually disturbed with the souldiers jangling and ringing the bells auker, as though there had been a scare-fire, (though there was no other, but what they themselves had made,) some of the inhabitants by night took away the clappers and hid them in the roof of the church, on purpose only to free their ears from that confused noise; which gave occasion to such as did not know it, to think the souldiers had stolen them away. "Having thus done their work on the floor below, they are now at leasure to look up to the windows above, which would have entertained any persons else with great delight and satisfaction, but only such zealots as these, whose eyes faced, by which means, the writings the church hath now came to be preserved. "Such was the souldiers carriage and behaviour all the time during their stay at Peterburgh, which was a fortnights space: They went to church duly, but it was only to do mischief, to break and batter the windows and any carved work that was yet remaining, or to pull down crosses wheresoever they could find them; which the first founders did not set up with so much zeal, as these last confounders pulled them down.” ANCIENT ART TREASURES.-The following letter in the Daily Telegraph, on the ancient art treasures for the British Museum, by Mr. W. R. Drake, may be of interest to our readers :-"Great was the wail amongst lovers of art, when last year it was announced that the fine collection of Cypriote antiquities gathered together by General Cesnola, had been allowed by the authorities of our great National Museum to become the property of our transatlantic friends, instead of finding a resting place, as they might have done, in the British Museum. Now, there is another chance of the nation acquiring a collection of antiquities, of a different character, it is true, but of far greater value and artistic beauty than those which were found in Cyprus. A considerable portion of this attractive collection is now deposited in the British Museum, and will well repay examination by all who are interested in the marvellous art workmanship of the ancients. Greece, Etruria, and Rome contribute to the collections. It would be impossible within the scope of a letter to give anything like a catalogue interred in the churchyard of his native parish of Aruthret, in Cumberland; and by an odd incident, suitable to his profession, the day of his funeral happened to be the first of April. Archy had long shot his bolt with great applause, till he unfortunately fell upon Archbishop Laud, for which he was degraded, had his fool's coat pulled over his head, and was expelled the court. When the news arrived of the tumults in Scotland, occasioned by an attempt to introduce the Liturgy there, Archy unluckily met the archbishop, and had the imprudence to say to his grace, "Who is fool now?" Of this the prelate complained to the privy council, to which he was then going, and, in consequence, the following entry was made in the council book: "Ordered that Archibald Armstrong, the king's fool, be banished the court for speaking disrespectful words of the Archbishop of Canterbury." According to Howell, Archy had the honour of attending Charles, when Prince of Wales, on his romantic expedition to Spain, where his fool's coat gained him admittance into the presence of the Infanta and her ladies of honour, who were pleased with his wit and extravagance. One day they were discoursing what a marvellous thing it was, that the Duke of Bavaria with less than fifteen thousand men, after a long march, should encounter and defeat the Palgrave's army, consisting of above twenty-five thousand, in consequence of which Prague was taken. When Archy heard this, he answered that he could tell them a stranger thing than that, "for was it not very surprising that, in the year 1588, there should come a fleet of one hundred and forty ships from Spain to invade England, and not ten of them could get back to tell what became of the rest.” raisonné of the several items; but I would call attention in the reign of Charles II. Archy, as he was called, lies to the fact that the collection consists of 21 pieces of sculpture in marble or stone, 175 bronzes, 108 terra-cottas, 160 vases, 41 ivories, and 25 ancient ambers. Among the marbles is the head of Hera, found at Agrigentum, of colossal size and of Greek work, in a style which would entitle it to a place among the foremost of the existing monuments of Greek sculpture, and which, in point of simplicity and dignity of expression, might well merit a place beside the head of Asklepios that unsurpassed type of ideal beauty, now in the Museum. The bronzes include, amongst other noteworthy objects, a seated male figure from Tarentum, of matchless beauty, which, in the impression of heroic power it conveys, is not unworthy of being compared with the Theseus of the Parthenon, which the attitude of the figure strikingly recalls. Amongst the bronzes will also be found one of great value from Proeneste, being a strigil, which, judging from its size and beauty, was designed as a votive ornament; the handle is formed of a female figure exquisitely modelled. The terra-cottas are a series presenting several new types of very graceful female figures, and include four very remarkable figures-believed to be unique -of actors of the ancient Roman stage, representing the glutton, parasite, thief, and feeble old man. The majority of the vases are of great importance, including a remarkable archaic œnochoe, a number of rhytons or drinking-cups; several likythi, remarkable for their fine condition, including three from Athens, one of which is especially prized as retaining its original colours; a small black cup, unique in having the figures rendered in intaglio instead of relief, as usual in the black ware. The ivories include one specially remarkable, found at Prœeneste, and apparently dating from a period when Greek sculpture was largely influenced by Assyrian art. To the above have to be added a further collection, including two chefs d'œuvre not yet arrived in this country, but which, I am happy to say, are on their road. The most precious of these objects is a bronze head of Venus, WORLE HILL of heroic size, in the noblest and purest style of Greek artprobably the finest work, next to the marbles of the Parthenon, yet known. It was found in Thessaly, and dates from a period later, perhaps, than Phidias, but not later than Scopas. There is also an Etruscan terra-cotta sarcophagus from Cervetri, a pendant to the celebrated one in the Louvre, from the Campana collection, but even more interesting, as it has a long Etruscan inscription. It is surmounted by two recumbent figures of a man and woman resting on a kind of couch, which is decorated with bas-reliefs, representing battles and scenes of domestic and public life. The attention of the Museum authorities was called to the last-named precious objects in the autumn, by gentlemen who were well qualified to form an opinion on their merit and value, and also, from personal examination, were able to certify to their importance as an acquisition to the store of ancient art already belonging to the nation. In addition, however, to the testimony thus given, Mr. Newton has recently inspected them, and I believe I am not indiscreetly betraying my knowledge on the subject when I state that he has in the strongest terms reported in favour of the purchase. Strenuous efforts were made by the agents of other countries to purchase them, but fortunately an option was secured for England, and it is this option which the trustees of the Museum and the Government have now under consideration. My object in now writing is to call the attention of the public generally to the matter, under the conviction that they will concur in the expression of an earnest desire that no niggardly considerations should be allowed to interfere with the acquisition of the treasures now within our grasp, or that the Government should doubt that the House of Commons will hesitate to vote the sum fixed by Mr. Newton as the money value of the collection, and for which sum the British nation may become the possessors." ARMSTRONG THE JESTER.-The custom of keeping jesters or fools at court ceased with Archibald Armstrong, 66 Queries. CAMP, WESTON-SUPER THERE is no notice of either town or camp in the "Beauties The ancient |