The inscription, which is chiefly taken from an entry in Laud's Diary, states:

"On Monday, September 21, in the year 1626, about four o'clock in the morning, Lancelot Andrewes, a most worthy Bishop of Winchester, a light of the Christian world, died.*

A discovery, made six years ago, sent a thrill through the hearts of his admirers - the MS. in Greek, the autograph copy of the Devotions which the Bishop himself used, came to light. It was his dying gift to Laud, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and bears on the outside of the vellum cover the following inscription in Laud's handwriting:

"My reverend Friend Bishop Andrewes gave me this Booke a little while before his death.-W: Bath et Welles."

LADYE CHAPEL OR RETRO-CHOIR ?

This Ladye Chapel has occasionally been styled within recent times the Retro-Choir; but in the pages of the

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Laud makes a mistake in the date; it should be September 25th.

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Gentleman's Magazine, where it is constantly referred to from year to year by eminent architects and antiquaries, and in all the old books upon St. Saviour's, it invariably receives the charming title of

THE CHAPEL OF OUR LADYE;

by which also it has always been known to the "oldest inhabitant," and by the parishioners from time immemorial; and it is a mere modern affectation to call it by any other name. Dugdale, who is our greatest authority in such matters, also styles it the "Lady Chapel."*

For the present it is to be used as the Parish Church. The walls in the interior, from the window-sills to the floor, have had the stucco and plaster removed, and replaced with ashlar; and the groining, which in many places was defective, has been thoroughly repaired. There was a great desire, it would appear, on the part of some, to transfer the tomb of Bishop Andrewes from the west side of this part of the chapel to the south side of the High Altar; but others regarded the monument, containing the ashes and recumbent figure of the saintly prelate, as the only treasure on the parochial side of the Church, and the only solace to the pain and irritation caused by certain offensive inscriptions, which are flaunted in some ugly windows. Here is a choice morsel :

"Your sacrament of the Mass is no sacrament at all, neither is Christ in any wise present in it."

Another runs as follows:

"From the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, good Lord deliver us."

The most uncompromising Anti-Papalist could not surely approve, in his sober moments, words like these, which are so uncharitable, and so insulting to his neighbours and fellowChristians. These inscriptions are actually driving people to Rome in sheer disgust. A case, within the writer's knowledge, has recently occurred.

*Monasticon, vol. vi., p. 171. See also J. Willis Clark: The Observances in Use at the Augustinian Priory of Barnwell, where, in a plan drawn by Mr. St. John Hope, the Lady Chapel occupies a position similar to ours; and jutting out from it at the north-east angle is another Chapel, called the Little Lady Chapel. The true designation of our so-called Bishop's Chapel, which stretched out in an easterly direction through the bay now occupied by the Benson window, until its unfortunate removal in 1830, was, probably, the Little Lady Chapel.

A new window, of a different type and style, has been erected here within the last few years. Its place is in the north-east bay, the site of the bench of the ancient Consistorial Court, in honour of St. Thomas à Becket, in whose name the Prior and Canons of St. Mary Overy originally founded the Hospital of St. Thomas, on a site adjoining this Church; and of Charles I., whose name still stands on the roll of benefactors of St. Saviour's as a helper of its poor; and of Archbishop Laud, the disciple and friend of Bishop Andrewes,. towards whose shrine he turns his eyes.* This window, also by Kempe, is a masterpiece. The donor is Mrs. Stevenson, in memory of her husband, Captain Curtis William Stevenson, and of her sister Mary.

We now pass down the North Aisle of the Choir, and immediately on the left is the monument of

*As to Charles I. His death was illegal.

"The execution of Charles: I. . . . . the work of military violence cloaked in the merest tatters of legality." This is a candid admission on the part of a great modern. historian with a marked Cromwellian bias. Dr. Rawson Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth, vol. i., p. 1.

Charles I. was a martyr in the cause of the Church. 'Had Charles been willing to abandon the Church, and give up Episcopacy, he might have saved his throne and his life. But on this point Charles stood firm ; for this he died, and by dying, saved it for the future." Dr. Creighton, Bishop of London, Laud Commemoration, 1895, Lecture 1, p. 25.

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As to Becket. Hear his brave utterance, when assailed by his murderers, the four Norman knights: In vain you menace me; if all the swords in England were brandished over my head, their terrors could not move me. Foot to foot you will find me fighting the battle of the Lord." Vide Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors.

As to Laud. "That we have our Prayer-Book, our Altar, even our Episcopacy itself, we may, humanly speaking, thank Laud. Laud saved the English Church. The English Church in her Catholic aspect is a memorial of Laud." Dr. Mozley, Essays, vol. i., p. 227. sq.

Similarly Dr. Creighton. “Laud has an unfailing claim upon the homage of English Churchmen." Laud Commemoration, Lecture i., p. 3. Macaulay's account of Laud is not to be accepted. "The climax" (of abuse of Laud) "was reached in the bitter and strangely distorted estimate. of Lord Macaulay." Professor Collins, ut supra.

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Macaulay, as usual, is the most rancorous in his abuse." Times leader, January 11, 1895.

Laud was the ablest champion of the day against Rome. Read his "Conference with Fisher the Jesuit."

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Alderman* Humble.

THIS IS is a fine Altar Tomb, with kneeling figures, under a canopy, of the Alderman, with his two wives behind him; and basso-relievos of the children on the basement, north and south.

* So called. He was duly elected. but he refused the honour, paid the fine, and was 'discharged.'

On the Sanctuary side are inscribed the beautiful and pathetic lines, attributed to Quarles, to Simon Wastell, to Beaumont, and others :

"Like to the damask rose you see,

Or like the blossom on the tree,
Or like the dainty flower in May,
Or like the morning of the day,
Or like the sun, or like the shade,
Or like the gourd which Jonas had;
Even so is man, whose thread is spun,
Drawn out and cut, and so is done!

The rose withers, the blossom blasteth,
The flower fades, the morning hasteth,
The sun sets, the shadow flies,

The gourd consumes, the man he dies.

His daughter married a William Ward, a wealthy citizen and goldsmith of the time, and jeweller to the queen of Charles I. Their son was christened HUMBLE Ward, who, after having married Frances, heiress to the Barony of Dudley, was created Baron Ward in 1644, from which union is derived the present house of Dudley and Ward.

The Crusader.

THIS interesting effigy is on the right. It is an exquisite piece of carving in oak, and represents, most likely, one of the de Warrens, Earls of Surrey, who were great Lords of Southwark. He has returned from the last Crusade with Prince Edward of England (the costume is of that period, 1270). As a good soldier of the Cross he has risked his life in defence of the Holy Sepulchre, and now he sheathes his sword, and ̧ lies down to rest.

"The strife is o'er, the battle done."

He is clad in chain armour, with a surcoat crossed by