interest. Three represent scenes from the popular mediaeval allegory
of "the Dance of Death."

The centre groups are: (1) a death bed, (2) a kneeling man being
deprived of his shirt and a cripple waiting to receive it (?), and (3)
a very well-expressed burial scene. The side groups in each show Death
leading by the hand personages of various ranks, including a pope. Of
the others, Satan in chains, the General Resurrection, and a
delicately executed Tree of Jesse are the best.

[Illustration: A MISERERE, LADY CHAPEL.]

Several monuments formerly in this chapel are now elsewhere in the
church. A memorial to the Hon. F.W. Hood, killed in battle in 1814, is
by Chantrey. On the north wall is a brass plate bearing the following
inscription:

Here lyeth M'r Thomas Bond, Draper, sometime Mayor of this Cittie
and founder of the Hospitall of Bablake, who gave divers lands and
tenements for the maintenance of ten poore men so long as the world
shall endure and a woman to looke to them with many other good
guifts; and died the XVIII day of March in the yeare of our Lord God
MDVI.

The Communion Table is a fine example of early seventeenth century
work, and outside the screen is a very beautiful oak chest, believed
to date from the time of Henry VII. From the Lady Chapel we pass into
that of St. Laurence. Its two windows are filled with glass to the
memory of past mayors. The dates, 1860 and 1862, sufficiently suggest
their artistic merit. Several old monuments are upon the north wall,