es. There can be no doubt
that in this case the treatment of the earlier pier, if less logical, is
more successful. The piers of the nave have capitals of beautiful
design, and well executed, but rather small and shallow. The moulding of
the arches is narrow, almost as narrow and small in detail as
Perpendicular work, but, of course, much more diversified in outline. On
each side of the main arches--that is to say, in their spandrels--is a
series of shields with coats of arms, said to be those of benefactors of
the minster. "Murray's Hand-book" gives the arms on the shields as
follow, beginning at the north-east end of the nave:--

1. Seme of fleur-de-lis--Old France.
2. Six lions rampant--Ulphus.
3. On a chevron, three lions passant guardant--Cobham.
4. Barry of ten, an orle of martlets--Valence.
5. A bend, cottised, between six lions rampant--Bohun.
6. A fess, between six cross crosslets--Beauchamp.
7. Quarterly, in the first quarter a mullet--Vere.
8. A cross moline--Paganel.
9. Barry of ten, three chaplets--Greystock.
10. Billette, a lion rampant--Bulmer.
11, 12, 13 and 14. Three water bougets--Roos.
15, 16. Five fusils in fess--Old Percy.

Beginning again at the south-west end of the nave the arms are:

17, 18. Five fusils in fess--Old Percy.
19. Lion rampant--Mowbray.
20. Lion rampant--Percy.
21, 22. Blank shields.
23. Two bars, in chief, three roundels--Wake.
24. A fess, in chief, three roundels--Colville.
25. On a bend, three cross crosslets--Manley.
26, 27. A bend--Manley.
28. A fess dancette--Vavasour.
29. Three chevronelles--Clare.
30. A cross moline--Paganel.
31. Three lions passant guardant, with a label of three
points--Edward, Prince of Wales.
32. Three lions passant guardant--England.

At the centre of each pier rise three shafts to the point at which the
ribs of the vaulting spring: a large shaft in the middle, with a smaller
one on each side of it. There are small carved figures at the point at
which the smaller of these shafts touch the moulding of the arches. The
capitals of these shafts, though small, are of a very delicate design. A
few inches above the top of the main arch is a horizontal string course
or moulding dividing each bay into two storeys. As has been said, the
triforium is merely a prolongation of the lights of the clerestory
window. These lights are five in number. The division between clerestory
and triforiu