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and Poligclitus, to survey the three divisions of the world when it 

 was about to be taxed. The Emperor is represented as delivering to 

 them written orders confirmed by a mediteval seal. In the apex is 

 represented the day of judgment, with the Virgin Mai-y interceding 

 for the faithfnl, who are rising from the graves and entering heaven. 

 The world is represented as a circular plane surrounded by the ocean ; 

 rather more than the upper half is allotted to Asia, the Mediterranean 

 separating the two lower quarters, Europe and Africa. At the top is 

 the Garden of Eden, with the eating of the forbidden fruit, and the 

 expulsion of our first parents. Jerusalem is made the central point 

 of the earth. The only other cities which are marked beyoud Great 

 Britain are Babylon, Troy, described as Troja civitas bellicosissima 

 and Rome. Yet in the medifeval grotesqueness we have most of the 

 Cathedrals marked in Great Britain; Hereford appearing as " Sancti 

 Ethelberti Ecclesia." Many scriptural incidents are pourtrayed, mixed 

 up with legends taken fi'om Herodotus. There are also numerous 

 figures of animals, many of which assigned to the various countries 

 with an utter disregard for ficts, monke.ys, for instance, being repre- 

 sented in Norway, and scorpions on the jjanks of the Rhine. The fact 

 that so many of the legends are taken from scriptural history, has 

 given rise to the conjecture that it was intended for an altar piece of 

 one of the chapels of the Cathedral. The map is elaborately drawn 

 in colours on vellum, and shows that its author must have been a 

 distinguished calligTapher. At present, however, age has made it 

 almost impossible to decipher some parts of it. 



The most conspicuous object in the north transept is a geometrical 

 window of stained glass, said to be the largest of its style in the 

 United Kingdom. It was erected in 1804 by the Freemasons of 

 England, in memory of a former Archbishop of Hereford. The 

 window contains six lancet lights in two triplets, divided by a central 

 mullion into two designs : that on the western side representing 

 the church militant, that on the east the church triumphant. In 

 the base appear various masonic emblems : indeed^ although imposing, 

 it looks rather out of place in a Cathedral. 



The tomb of Bishop d'Aquablanca, which is in this transept, is one 

 of the finest of the many monuments of Hereford. The effigy lies 

 under a rich and sharply pointed canopy, in three divisions, supported 

 by slender shafts of Purbeck marble. The gables of the canopy are 

 crowned ■\\ith floriated crosses. 



Of monumental brasses there are more remaining in Hereford than 

 in any other Cathech-al. 



There is an interesting monument in the nave to Sir Richard 

 Pembridge, Avho was created a knight of the garter by Edward III. 

 for services on the field of Poictiers. It is said to be the earliest 

 existing representation of a knight with the garter. 



In connection ^rith the Cathedral, the Bishop's palace is also 

 deserving of notice. It was formerly a Norman hall. The size of 

 this hall may be imagined from the fact that it is at present divided 



