y, 1685, is described as _Proto-Canonicus_,
probably meaning that he held the first stall. The tablet to Frances
Cosin (d. 1642), wife of the Dean, afterwards Bishop of Durham, was not
erected till after the Bishop's death in 1672. He prescribed in his will
the words of the inscription. On the large tablet above the piscina is a
punning motto, _Temperantia te Temperatrice_, the person commemorated
being Richard Tryce, 1767.

Two tablets of interest in connexion with the Great War are to be seen
in the south aisle of the nave, one in marble to Nurse Cavell, and the
other in bronze to the "lonely Anzac," Thomas Hunter, an Australian who
died in Peterborough from wounds received in France.

Last of all we must speak of the one memorial which is usually looked at
first, the famous picture of Old Scarlett, on the wall of the western
transept. He is represented with a spade, pickaxe, keys, and a whip in
his leathern girdle; at his feet is a skull. At the top of the picture
are the arms of the cathedral. Beneath the portrait are these lines:--

YOV SEE OLD SCARLEITS PICTVRE STAND ON HIE
BVT AT YOVR FEETE THERE DOTH HIS BODY LYE
HIS GRAVESTONE DOTH HIS AGE AND DEATH TIME SHOW
HIS OFFICE BY THEIS TOKENS YOV MAY KNOW
SECOND TO NONE FOR STRENGTH AND STVRDYE LIMM
A SCARBABE MIGHTY VOICE WITH VISAGE GRIM
HEE HAD INTER'D TWO QVEENES WITHIN THIS PLACE
AND THIS TOWNES HOVSEHOLDERS IN HIS LIVES SPACE
TWICE OVER: BVT AT LENGTH HIS ONE TVRNE CAME
WHAT HEE FOR OTHERS DID FOR HIM THE SAME
WAS DONE: NO DOVBT HIS SOVL DOTH LIVE FOR AYE
IN HEAVEN: THOVGH HERE HIS BODY CLAD IN CLAY.

On the floor is a stone inscribed: "Ivly 2 1594 R S aetatis 98." This
painting is not a contemporary portrait, but a copy made in 1747. In
1866 it was sent on loan to the South Kensington Museum.

[Illustration: South Side of the Close, 1801.]

CHAPTER IV.

THE MINSTER PRECINCTS AND CITY.

There are many objects of great interest to be seen in the Minster Yard.
This name is not unfrequently given to the whole of the territory
belonging to the Dean and Chapter surrounding the church. The correct
title is, however, as given above, the Minster Precincts; and it is by
this name that the parish is described, for the Abbey Church, like a few
others, is a parish church, as well as the Cathedral of the diocese.
Although without churchwardens, this parish still appoints its own
overseers of the poor. Old re