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ge, Oxford, as a "poor serving child," eventually became provost, and proved a great benefactor to that foundation. "The bishop is represented _in pontificalibus_, kneeling, with one hand supporting a crosier; the other is sustaining a lighted candle, and holding a cord to which three dogs are attached, who appear guarding an equal number of sheepfolds from the attack of wolves. Below the candle is a group of figures bearing implements of agriculture and peaceful industry; near their feet is a wolf playing with a lamb; and various warlike instruments scattered and broken. Each part is illustrated with appropriate Greek and Latin sentences chiefly selected from the Scriptures. Behind the bishop is a quadrangular building, enclosing an open court, and apparently intended to represent the college which he had so much benefited. "Over the gateway is a shield charged with three spread eagles, being the arms of Robert Eglesfield, the founder of that college; on the college are the words, _Invenit destructum; reliquit extructum et instructum_ (he found it destroyed; he left it built and furnished). Above this building is the delineation of a cathedral; over the entrance is inscribed--_Intravit per ostium_ (he entered by the door); on a label across the entrance is _Permansit fidelis_ (he endured faithful to the end), and below, on the steps, under a group of figures, one of whom is kneeling and receiving a benediction, are the words, _Recessit beatus_ (he departed blessed). Near the top of the plate is the angel of the Lord bearing a label inscribed in Greek characters, _Tois Episcopois_ (Unto the Bishops). "Above are the words, _Erant pastores in eadem regione excubantes et agentes vigilias noctis super gregem suum_ (there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field and keeping watch over their flocks by night). At the bottom of the plate in the cathedral is a Latin inscription to this effect: 'To Henry Robinson of Carlisle, D.D., a most careful provost of Queen's College, Oxon, and afterwards a most watchful bishop of this church for eighteen years, who on the 13th Calend of July in the year from the delivery of the Virgin, 1616, and of his age 64, devoutly resigned his spirit unto the Lord. Bernard Robinson, his brother and heir, set up this memorial as a testimony of his love.'"[5] [5] Jefferson, "History of Carlisle," p. 180. About halfway up the aisle Archdeacon Paley lies buried between his two
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