Ladye Chapel (North-East). Piscina. Stone Coffin (removed). Underneath is an Easter Sepulchre.

It is well, however, to remember that the religious tenets which these men professed were importations from Holland and Switzerland, and other parts of the Continent. Their doctrine was not of native growth; and, had it prevailed, the Church of England would have lost its Catholicity, and been nothing more than a Church "made in Germany."

Seven of the numerous band of Martyrs of Mary's reign are commemorated here in six lancet lights, three on the north-east, and three on the south-east; and by that atrocious blur and blot and daub on the south-a crime and sin against every canon of good taste and feeling.

It would be doing the Marian Martyrs, who are here represented, a vast honour to remove their present crude, inartistic windows, and replace them with others of real merit. The new windows would of course be in memory of the same seven men. Space will not permit us to add much more than their

names:

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Rev. Lawrence Saunders, Rector of Allhallows,
Bread Street. Burned at Coventry.

The Right Rev. Robert Ferrar (or Farrar), D.D.,
Bishop of St. David's. Burned at Carmarthen.
Rev. Dr. Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh,
Suffolk. Burned at Hadleigh.

Rev. John Rogers,* Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, and Prebendary of St. Paul's. Burned at Smithfield. 5. The Right Rev. John Hooper, D.D., Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester. Burned Gloucester.

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6. Rev. John Bradford, Prebendary of St. Paul's. Burned at Smithfield.

7. The Ven. John Philpot, B.C.L., Archdeacon of Winchester. Burned at Smithfield.

Toleration was not understood by either side in those days. Take the case of Philpot as an illustration.

Philpot, in his examination, showed that he too could be a persecutor even unto death. It will be remembered that, in the previous reign (Edward VI.), the Reformers condemned to the stake a person named Joan of Kent, for heresy. Philpot, in the course of his trial, declared that “as for Joan of Kent, she was well worthy to be burned."

Hence it was Philpot's opinion that it was no crime to burn heretics. And it also follows that, had he been in power, he would have sent Gardiner and Bonner, and the rest, to the stake. Whatever party was uppermost considered it quite lawful, in those days, to crush out by torture and death all opposition in the party that was weak and in the minority. Similarly, on the Continent, Calvin consented to the death of Servetus. So also was it in the case of the Pilgrim Fathers, who fled from Europe in search of religious liberty, and scarcely had they touched the shores of New England when they began to persecute each other.

The fifth examination of Merbecke (or Marbecke) was held here in 1543. He was condemned to the stake, but pardoned for the sake of his musical talents.

* He was the Editor of the " Thomas Matthew" Bible.

t Foxe, Book of Martyrs.

This beautiful Chapel is remarkable, in the third place, as containing the ashes of the erudite and saintly

Bishop Lancelot Andrewes.

E was born the son of a sea-faring man at Barking, in 1555. He was educated at Merchant Taylors', from which School he proceeded to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where, in 1576, he was elected to a Fellowship, and in the following year be became Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. In 1589 he accepted the living of St. Giles', Cripplegate, and shortly afterwards he was made Prebend of St. Paul's, and Master of Pembroke Hall.

He was a constant preacher at his own church, but was very reluctant to deliver more than one sermon on the same day, remarking that "when he preached twice he prated once."

In 1597 he accepted first a stall, and then the Deanery of Westminster.

Under James I., who was a great admirer of his preaching, his rise was rapid. In 1605, he was persuaded with difficulty to accept the See of Chichester, was translated to the See of Ely in 1609, and in 1619 to the See of Winchester, from which, says Bishop Buckeridge, "God translated him to heaven."

Bishop Andrewes was great (1) as a scholar. He was acquainted with 15 languages, if not more, and Fuller quaintly writes: "The world wanted learning to know how learned this man was, so skilled in all, especially in Oriental languages, that some conceive he might, if then living, almost have served as interpreter-general at the confusion of tongues." It is for this reason, amongst others, that we find his name first on the list of divines appointed in 1607 to frame our Authorised Version of the Bible, the words of which "live on the ear, like music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the wanderer hardly knows how he can forego."

He was president of the Westminster Company of Ten, whose duty it was to translate the Sacred Books from Genesis to the end of Second Kings.

Elizabeth. He was held to be the very stella prædicantium (the star of preachers), "a very angel in the pulpit," and that, too, in the palmiest days of English literature.

"Such plagiaries who have stolen his sermons, could never steal his preaching."-(Fuller). The late Canon Liddon speaks of him as "a great divine--one of the greatest that Cambridge has ever produced."

He was great (3) as a saint, and possessed the rarest of all gifts, the gift of composing prayers. His "Manual of Private Devotions" has long enjoyed, and still enjoys, an immense popularity, even amongst those who have differed widely from his views. During the last period of his life it was constantly in his hands. "Had you seen," says the first editor of it, "the original MSS., happy in the glorious deformity thereof, being worn with pious hands, and watered with his penitential tears, you would have been forced to confess that book belonged to no other than pure and primitive devotion."

Some authorities have declared that both he and Laud were willing to join the Church of Rome. On the contrary, he wrote and spoke against her, and went about preaching against her, and made many converts from her to the Church of England. He was distinctly a High Churchman, fond of an elaborate ritual, and had his private Chapels, both at Ely and Winchester, richly adorned. He was tolerant, however, of the views of others, and "content with enjoying without the enjoining."—(Fuller).

Can we close without adding that Bishop Andrewes was great (4) as a benefactor of the poor. He left funds and lands for all time, for the benefit of aged poor men, widows, seafaring men, orphans, apprentices, and the promotion of scholars from Free Schools to the University. Most appro

priate, therefore, was the text from which Bishop Buckeridge preached his funeral sermon :--

"IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. SAVIORS, IN SOUTHWARKE,

ON SATURDAY, BEING THE XI OF NOVEMBRE,

A.D. MDCXXVI.

To do good and to distribute forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Heb. 13, 16.

A full-length recumbent effigy of the great prelate lies on the tomb, bearing on the left shoulder, engraved on the rich cope, the Cross of St. George and the Garter, with the motto of the Order, Honi soit qui mal y pense. The head, covered with a small academical cap, rests on a cushion; the left hand clasps his Manual of Devotions.

* Responsio ad Apologiam Cardinalis Bellarmini.