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90 HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.
about it, At his feet is the tomb of one of the
Charltons. Near that is a plain tomb of black,
low placed, with a cross of white srone placed the
length and breadth. On the wall near it, the
painting os a bishop in his pontisicals. Who it
is I cannot, I dare not guess.
Then have you, with one against the East wall
of this aile, the famous tomb of Saint Thomas de
Cantilupe, bishop of this see of Hereford. The
work very fair and well defigned. His figure of
brass, which lay in the upper ark, was stolen
away about the year 1652. The adornments of
the lower ark, being well wrought figures of
armed squires, in sorrowful poslures, had their
heads knocked off in the reformation of Queen
Elizabeth's days, for the superstitious acknow-
ledgements they bore to a popish saint, by some
over-forward ignorant. Near which, high in the
wall, is the memorial of Bishop Field, with this
escocheon over his head, in a pontifical dress :
Arms of the see of Hereford, impaled with Vert
a chevron, inter 3 garbes Or, by the name of
Feild.
You then, by the fair tomb of Bishop Peter de
Aqua Blanca, bishop of Hereford, pass out os
this aile into another, Eastward, by divers other
bishops tombs in arches, in the North wall, of
which hereafter we shall discourse ; and there, in
the
about it, At his feet is the tomb of one of the
Charltons. Near that is a plain tomb of black,
low placed, with a cross of white srone placed the
length and breadth. On the wall near it, the
painting os a bishop in his pontisicals. Who it
is I cannot, I dare not guess.
Then have you, with one against the East wall
of this aile, the famous tomb of Saint Thomas de
Cantilupe, bishop of this see of Hereford. The
work very fair and well defigned. His figure of
brass, which lay in the upper ark, was stolen
away about the year 1652. The adornments of
the lower ark, being well wrought figures of
armed squires, in sorrowful poslures, had their
heads knocked off in the reformation of Queen
Elizabeth's days, for the superstitious acknow-
ledgements they bore to a popish saint, by some
over-forward ignorant. Near which, high in the
wall, is the memorial of Bishop Field, with this
escocheon over his head, in a pontifical dress :
Arms of the see of Hereford, impaled with Vert
a chevron, inter 3 garbes Or, by the name of
Feild.
You then, by the fair tomb of Bishop Peter de
Aqua Blanca, bishop of Hereford, pass out os
this aile into another, Eastward, by divers other
bishops tombs in arches, in the North wall, of
which hereafter we shall discourse ; and there, in
the