delineated. They appear to have been excellent Renaissance
work.]

Walter de Lacy was (Hart. i. 73) buried in the chapter-house with great
pomp in 1085, and the room must have been ready or nearly ready for use
in that year. As Fosbroke naively says of the distinguished dead who are
buried here, "They could not have been buried in this room before it
existed."

In Leland's time the names were painted on the walls near their
gravestones in Black Letter. As he says, "These inscriptions be written
on the walles of the chapter-house in the cloyster of Gloucester: _Hic
jacet Rogerus, Comes de Hereford; Ricds Strongbowe, filius Gilberti,
Comitis de Pembroke; Gualterus de Lacy; Philipus de Foye Miles;
Bernardus de Novo Mercatu; Paganus de Cadurcis; Adam de Cadurcis;
Robertus Curtus."_

Of the names given by Leland it may be noted that Roger, Earl of
Hereford, Bernard de Newmarch ("Novo Mercatu"), and Walter de Lacy, were
all contemporaries of the Conqueror, and "much about his person." They,
therefore, when money was being collected for the abbey buildings,
subscribed, adding some reservation as to the places in which they
wished to be interred.

[Illustration: General sketch plan, shewing boundary walk of Abbey
Grounds as newly as they can be ascertained, and remains
of old Monastic buildings.

1 | Gateway to St. Mary's Square
2 | " King Edward's
3 | " in College Court
4 | " to Miller's Green

A Remains of Infirmary
B Little Cloisters
C Site of Refectory
D '
E Site of Abbot's Lodge
F Boundary Walls
G Cemetery

THE DEANERY IS FULL OF INTERESTING REMAINS OF THE 11TH,
12TH, 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH CENTURIES, AND AT THE HOUSES
MARKED H MUCH OLD WORK MAY BE SEEN.]

In spite of the wires stretched across the building, there is a
remarkable echo.

The #Cloisters# are entered from the church by a door near the organ
screen in the north aisle of the nave. They were begun by Abbot Horton
(1351-1377), who built as far as the door of the chapter-house, and
finished by Abbot Froucester, 1381-1412. It will be noticed how the
mouldings, the tracery of the windows, and the character of the work
generally differ. It is perhaps no exa