factory condition, and has enabled the Council to issue a larger 

 annual volume than the last. 



At the April Meeting of the Council, Mr. W. H. St. John Hope 

 drew attention to the condition of a wooden effigy then in 

 the Town Vault of All Saints' Church, Derby. A Sub- 

 Committee was appointed to consider the matter, and the follow- 

 ing letter was sent by them to the Vicar and Churchwardens : — 



[copy.) 



S. Peter's Vicarage, Derby, 



April 5th, 1879. 

 Gentlemen, — 



At the meeting of the Council of the Deibyshire Archselogical 

 Society, on the 2nd inst., a sub-committee, consisting of Messrs. J. Charles 

 Cox, F. J. Robinson, H. H. Bemrose, and myself, was appointed to meet the 

 Churchwardens of All Saints', Derby, to see what steps could be taken for the 

 rescue and restoration of the unique wooden effigy and monument of one of 

 the Canons of All Saints', now lying in the Town Vault. 



I have been requested to lay before you the following particulars : In 

 Bassano's MSS. (date about 1710) in the College of Arms, occurs the following 

 entry relating to the monument under consideration : — 



"In the east end of the north aisle is a tombe all of wood erected about 

 "4 feet high. On it is the full proportion of a man in priest's orders in full 

 "canonicall robes, supposed to be an Abbot of Darley, a dog at his feet, 

 " collared, and looking mournfully up at his master. Upon y e side of y« tombe 

 "cut on y e wood y e effigies of 13 monks in praying postures, and under yon 

 "cut on wood, lyeth a man on his left side and wrapped up in his winding 

 " sheet, with a cross patee on his left breast." 



At the re-building of All Saints', in 1723-5, this monument was not actually 

 destroyed, as was the case with so many others, but was divided into its 

 component parts. The effigy, and the "cadaver," or shrouded figure, which 

 rested beneath it, were ignominiously consigned to the damp and dirt of the 

 Town Vault, where they still lie. Both have suffered sadly from decay, the 

 lower part of the effigy has vanished entirely, and the head was stolen during 

 the late repairs. It is, however, fortunately not too late to arrest further 

 damage. The side of the tomb was the only part of it preserved, and when 

 the Church was visited by Mr. Rawlins, in 1831, it hung on the wall beneath 

 the east window of the Chancel — the figures on it were supposed by him to 

 represent S. Paul and the twelve apostles ! ! ! Tradition, he says, ascribed it 

 to the apex of the arch over the doorway of the south porch in the old Church, 

 but he himself did not agree with this surmise, his opinion being that it formed 

 the upper part of a door leading into a Confessional ! ! 



