the same distinction, as being nearly related to one "who had with his sword opened a way to the Holy Sepulchre of the Common Saviour of Mankind!”* 5. Covered or canopied monuments which I consider as the most beautiful and ornamental of any, came into general use about the beginning of the fourteenth century, and continued till the latter end of the fifteenth. 6. Monuments of brass inlaid on a flat stone, and lying in the pavement, are as early as the thirteenth century. The deceased on them are generally represented at full length, with their hands joined as in prayer, dressed in the habits according to their profession; the lady on the left of her husband, and their children ranged beneath them, the daughters under their mother, and the sons under their father. 7. Mural Monuments became common in the sixteenth century. The figures were generally kneeling, and praying at a desk, the man on the right, and the woman on the left, the children either behind or underneath their parents; the whole frequently represented in natural colours, and the architecture gilded. These monuments are extremely elegant, and have a very splendid appearance, (see those in Wentworth church.) The "Orate pro anima" ended about the reign of "the bloody" Queen Mary; and mural monuments exhibited an heterogeneous mixture of Grecian and Gothic architecture about the time of James I. The whole of these divisions will be more fully enlarged upon hereafter. In addition to the above I subjoin the following remarks. Monuments ornamented with circular and intersecting arches, are considerably older than those which have painted ones formed of two circles; and these are also older than those which have low pointed arches described from four centres. In figures of armed knights, those with mail armour The most perfect monuments of this kind are those in the Temple Church, London. They are admirable specimens of sculpture, and will well repay the antiquarian stranger for the trouble of a visit. Indeed the whole church is a very great curiosity. The reader will find some account of these curious effigies in Pennant.-G.C. and cylindrical helmets, flat at the top, are always older than those with plate armour, and a head piece, having a vizor or bever. Hair radiating and curling inwards, marks the thirteenth or fourteenth century, in a man; and the tiara or mitre cap, the same date in a woman. Henry surnamed "The Fowler," Emperor of the West, (who regulated the tournaments in Germany,) was the first who introduced those marks of honourarmories or coats of arms. Previous to that time, we find nothing on ancient tombs but crosses, with Gothic inscriptions and representations of persons entombed. The tomb of Pope Clement IV. who died A.D. 1268, is the first whereon we find any arms. *-The first English subject who quartered his arms, was Jobn Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, in the reign of Edward III. Supporters were first used by Richard II; and coronets by peers, temp. Henry III. Three fleurs-de-lis, in the arms of France, denote a monumental erection since Charles VII.; for before his time the fleurs were semées. Those monuments in which the heads of figures rest on pillows, with representations of animals at their feet, are all prior to the sixteenth century. TO BE RESUMED. G. CREED. LXII. In the church yard of Thetford, Norfolk, is this extraordinary composition. "My grandmother was buried here, My cousin Jane, and two uncles dear; My father perished with a mortification in his thighs, But the reason why I am here, according to my thinking, We do not find any mention of arms on coins previous to the year 1336. LXIII. On the tomb stone of a sailor in Kingston church yard, near Portsmouth. "Though Boreas' winds and Neptune's waves In spite of both, by GOD'S decree, I harbour here below; Where I do now at anchor ride, Yet once again I must set sail, LXIV. Against the tower of St. Mary's church, Shrewsbury, county of Sallop, is an inscription to the memory of Robert Cadman, who in January 1740, lost his life in a hair-brained attempt to descend from the top of the spire, which is exceedingly lofty, along a rope which he had affixed to its highest part, and extended to a field on the opposite side of the river Severn. It appears he had attempted similar feats several times before with success. A prelate, from whom he had asked permission to fix a sine to the steeple of a cathedral for the like purpose, replied, that" the man might fly to the church whenever he pleased, but he should never give his consent for any one to fly from it." On this occasion, however, the rope broke when in the midst of his passage, and he was precipitated into St. Mary Friars, amidst thousands of spectators. There being a hard frost at the time, his body rebounded to the height of several feet! From various epitaphs proposed on this dreadful occasion, the following quaint one, which I copied myself from that on the tower (1818,) was selected. "Let this small monument record the name Of Cadman, and to future times proclaim, How, from a bold attempt to fly from this high spire,' No, no, a faulty cord, being drawn too tight, FOR J. ARLISS'S POCKET MAGAZINE. A FEW WORDS ON WOMAN. "What lost a world, and bade a hero fly? Yet be the soft triumvir's fault forgiven, And seal their own to spare some wanton's woe." THE first four lines of the foregoing quotation will be objected to by few, on the score of truth or beauty: for, in our own days, men are still Anthonys, and women still possess the power and fascination of the Egyptian syren. But when the noble bard implores our forgiveness for the tender conqueror, because many in their devotion to women lose, not only earth, but heaven, and, in order to spare the sorrows of their mistresses, consign their souls to man's eternal foe, we are inclined to consider, as a set-off to the censure thus implied, how many souls have been redeemed from impending and apparently inevitable ruin, and rendered worthy of life, and life at the same time made acceptable to them, by the affectionate conduct and solacing attentions of "nature's noblest work," as Burns so characteristically termed them. We recal to our recollections how many solitaries have been recalled to love and life by the attractions of earthly angels, who drew them from their cares, and placed them in situations in society which they were calculated to adorn and dignify. How many misanthropes have been taught by their gentle lessons to look with kindness, compassion, and consideration upon their fellowcreatures! We look among our own connexions, and cannot fail seeing, even among those, many who had spent their best years in debauchery and heartless revelry, who have been taught by female influence and assiduity, to comprehend and value domestic happiness, and the blessings of a home! How many, who saw in love nothing but lust, and considered woman as the mere instrument of brutal pleasures, have, through the spell of refinements, almost spiritual, of fascinations irresistible, and of accomplishments, the best proof of whose power was in their influence on such persons; how many, even of those, have been thus induced to look on the delightful subject of this article with the reverence and regard to which she is entitled. Then for solaces in sorrow, for attentions in sickness, for humanity to the poor, and for that great and general virtue, charity, in its widest sense, how superior are they to their self-styled lords! Hear the following anecdote, extracted from a work of Mr.Leigh Hunt, and take it as the finest, deepest, and truest compliment that could be paid to a really good and charitable woman." We will give an anecdote of a gentle and noble minded woman, whose patient face seems smilingly present to us while we are writing, and from whom we inherit, perhaps, such love as we may have for "whatever things are lovely," and "whatever things are just." She was walking with the writer when a little boy; he remembers it well; she was taking him home on a holiday from school, and had not gone far down Blackfriar's road, on the right hand side of the way, when a miserable beggar accosted her, sallow and hollow-faced, trembling, half-naked. He does not recollect whether it was winter; but the season was bleak and cold, perhaps about the present time of the year. Her lips pressed themselves together, as they were wont to do on occasions like these, with an effort to restrain her tears; but her sunken cheeks flushed, and her fine black eyes were wet. He was in the habit of looking up in her face at these times, for she used to press his hand; he looked up involuntarily to see what was to be done. She motioned the beggar to wait a minute, and then going a little way up a turning, like a livery stables, this excellent, deephearted, reflecting, delicate woman, (for she was as delicate in mind as misfortune had made her in body,) contrived to slip a flannel petticoat from under her clothes; it was all she had to give, and the best thing |