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®(je Peralk'i) of Mittoii CIjuvclj. 



By THE Rev. E. E. Dorling. 



The number of shields of anus carved or emblazoned on monu- 

 ments in this, the most notable of the modern churches in the 

 diocese of Sarum, is remarkably small. They are as follows : — 



1. — On the mural monument of William Sharpe, above the 

 south-west door leading into the cloister that connects the 

 lofty campanile with the church, are his arms carved and painted 

 — Argent three eagles' heads erased within a hordure engrailed 

 azure ; and on his helmet the crest — an eagle's head as in the 

 arms. 



2. — On the monument of Sidney, Lord Herbert of Lea, on the 

 north side of the choir, are emblazoned in coloured marbles the 

 arms of Hekbert — Party azure and gules three lions argent — but 

 without the crescent that he bore as second son of the eleventh 

 Earl of Pembroke. 



3. — On the monument of Katherine Woronzow, his mother, wife 

 of George Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke, is a shield of 

 coloured marbles of Herbert impaling Woronzow — Party hend- 

 wise argent and gules a jleur-de-lis between tivo four -leaved roses all 

 in hend counterchanged, on a chief saMe betioeen three mullets of the 

 first a cheveron or charged with as many bombs fred proi^er. 



4. On the marble sarcophagus, in the north-west apsidal chapel^ 

 of Henry, tenth Earl of Pembroke, who died 1794, are — at both 

 ends — the arms of Heubeut, unpainted, but with the tinctures 

 carved. 



5. — Leaning against the western end of this sarcophagus, between 

 it and the wall of the chapel, is the very interesting marble mural 

 monument of Sir John Cofter, described in Kite's Monumental 

 Brasses of Wiltshire (page 66). It was brought from the old 



