ct of veneration.

It was at the eastern end of the nave, and was covered with a great
superstructure, so large that processions, it is said, were obliged to
divide and march to each side of it.

The head appears to have been kept in a silver jewelled chest separate
from the rest of the body. It was exhibited to worshippers who gave
offerings to it. At the Reformation the head was seized by one Layton,
afterwards Dean, and a follower of Thomas Cromwell; its seizure was one
of the chief causes of the Pilgrimage of Grace.

At this time, also, the shrine was demolished, and also the
superstructure over the saint's original place of burial in the nave. It
is said that no remembrance was left of the spot except a tradition that
the saint had lain under a long marble slab in the nave of the church.

In 1732, during the repairing of the nave of the minster, Drake, the
historian of York, obtained leave to search under the said slab, and
there found a coffin of stone, containing a leaden box, in which were
bones wrapped in sarcenet. There was no inscription by which the remains
could be identified, and they were again buried.

Archbishop Melton was buried near the font, as it then stood, at the
west end of the minster. In 1736, when the new pavement was laid, the
stone covering his grave was taken up, and a lead coffin was discovered,
containing the bones of the archbishop. On the top of the coffin was a
chalice and paten of silver-gilt. Inside the coffin was the pastoral
staff, but no ring or vestments. The archbishop was re-buried in the
same place.

#Monuments In The South Transept.#--In the eastern aisle is the tomb of
Archbishop de Grey, who died in 1255. This, one of the two or three
really fine monuments in the church, is Early English in style, and has
been very little damaged. It consists of an effigy, with a canopy
supported by nine pillars above it. The figure of the archbishop is
clothed in full canonicals. In his left hand is a crozier, and his right
is raised to bless. The feet trample on a dragon, into the mouth of
which enters the butt end of the crozier. On each side of the figure is
a shaft ornamented with bunches of leafage at regular intervals. Round
the head of the archbishop is a gable cusped with censing angels on each
side of it.

The pillars supporting the canopy have fine capitals, and above them are
cusped arches, with richly-carved scroll work in their spandrels. Above
is a further tier of arc