be seen so lately as 1800. On Oct.
11, 1612, the body was removed to Westminster Abbey, by order of King
James I., the Queen's son. A photograph of the letter ordering the
removal, the original of which is still in possession of the Dean and
Chapter, is framed and hung on an adjacent pillar.

[Illustration: Portion of Abbot's Tomb.]

In the south choir aisle is a fine monument with a life-size effigy of
Archbishop Magee in his robes. It is carved in pure white marble. On the
side are impaled coats of arms and an inscription. The likeness is
excellent.

[Illustration: Portion of Abbot's Tomb.]

The other tablets and inscriptions hardly require detailed descriptions.
In the New Building is the mutilated monument to Sir Humfrey Orme: no
names or dates remain; at the top are the words _Sanguis Iesu Christi
purgat nos ab omnibus Peccatis nostris_. Near this is an elaborate
erection to Thomas Deacon, 1721, a great benefactor to the town. On a
stone to John Brimble, organist of S. John's College, Cambridge, 1670,
we read that he was _Musis et musicae devotissimus, ad coelestem evectus
Academiam_. Among many inscriptions some interesting items will be
found. John Benson, 1827, was the "oldest Committee Clerk at the House
of Commons." Humfrey Orme, 1670, was _A supremo Ang'iae senatu ad
superiorem sanctorum conventum evocatus._ On the memorial to Bishop
Madan, 1813, are the lines:--

In sacred sleep the pious Bishop lies,
Say not in death--A good Man never dies.

[Illustration: South Aisles of Choir and Nave.]

On the tablet to Bishop Cumberland, 1718, are four Latin lines from
Dean Duport's epigram upon the Bishop's confutation of Hobbes. In the
south choir aisle, on the tablet to Dean Lockier, 1740, is the only
instance of the arms of the Deanery impaling another shield, on a
monument. Near this is a wooden tablet executed in good taste, recording
the fact that the iron screens are a memorial to Dean Argles, whose
munificent gifts to the cathedral are well known. The Norman arch at
the west end of this aisle has a modern painted inscription, believed to
be an exact copy of the original:--

_Hos tres Abbates, Quibus est Prior Abba Johannes
Alter Martinus, Andreas Ultimus, unus
Hic claudit Tumulus; pro Clausis ergo rogemus_.

Near this is a tablet to Roger Pemberton, 1695, with a line from Homer
in Greek, "The race of men is as the race of leaves." In the north choir
aisle John Workman, Prebendar