at remains
in the tracery we may gather that there was a row of eight angel
figures filling the spaces immediately over the lights. Some of these
or similar ones, are now in the apse. They are represented as covered
with feathers and standing on wheels and each holds a scroll over the
head with inscriptions in very contracted Latin. A few less fragmentary
pieces may be found, _e.g._, in the north window, Judas giving the
traitor's kiss, in the north clearstory the arms of Trenton and
Stafford, mentioned and figured by Dugdale, in the south, the figure of
a man in a red gown kneeling with a scroll inscribed "deo gracias" and
over his head "groc(er) de london"--doubtless a donor. Of modern glass
there is a great amount but little worth mentioning save on account of
the persons commemorated. One window in the Lady Chapel is a memorial
of the Prince Consort and one in the Mercers' Chapel is of interest as
a deserved memorial to Thomas Sharp the Antiquary to whose labours all
later historians of the city are so deeply indebted. He died in 1841.

[Illustration: ALMS-BOX.]

The pulpit is of brass and wrought iron, the work of Frank Skidmore a
native of Coventry who made also the choir screen of Hereford
Cathedral and the metal work of the Albert Memorial at Kensington. It
was placed here in 1869. The bells, ten in number, now hang in the
octagon. They were cast in 1774 and weigh nearly seven tons. The first
peal was hung in 1429 and a clock existed in 1467. In 1496 an Order of
Leet ordained that "all manner of persons that will have the bells to
ring after the decease of any of their friends, shall pay for a peal
ringing with all the bells, _2s._ and with four bells, _16d._, and
three bells _4d._"

The six bells were cast into eight in 1674 and the present tenth has
the same inscription as the heaviest of the old peal:

I am and have been call'd the common bell
To ring, when fire breaks out, to tell.

The chimes, which existed as early as 1465, were restored in 1895,
after a silence of ten years, in memory of Lieut.-Col. Francis William
Newdigate. Electric lighting has been introduced throughout the
church.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 6: _See_ Fuller's "Worthies of England." In 1428 an Act of
Leet ordered that no person should dye any wool or cloth with "a
deceitful colour called Masters or Medleys brought into Coventry by a
Frenchman."]

[Illustration: HOLY TRINITY FROM THE NORTH.
_From a lithograph--about 18