the site of the Monastery. Here are carefully preserved a splendid
abbatial chair richly carved and of great size, bearing the monastic
arms, and in remarkable preservation; also two quaint effigies of men
in plate armour fashioned in solid oak about three-quarters of the
size of life. These figures stood on the face of the belfry tower,
and, by turning on a pivot, struck the hours; they are in all
probability coeval with that building.

In one of the shrubberies, hidden from public view, is an obelisk
commemorating the fall of Simon de Montfort, and in the plantation
near the lower road is a tower, like the house denoting the period of
the late Georgian Gothic revival, and bearing the name of the Earl of
Leicester.




CHAPTER VII

THE BATTLE OF EVESHAM

_When the barons in armes did King Henrye oppose,_
_Sir Simon de Montfort their leader they chose;_
_A leader of courage undaunted was hee,_
_And oft-times he made their enemyes flee._

_At length in the battle on Eveshame plaine_
_The barons were routed and Montfort was slaine._

--THE BEGGAR'S DAUGHTER OF BEDNALL GREEN.