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ornamented, and the groining with its two curiously-contrived 
straight projecting ribs marks the decline of style. A large 
Purbeck marble altar-tomb stands in the centre. After admiring 
the Alabaster reredos, the party descended into the Lady Chapel. 
On the north wall is a tablet with the following record of the 
death of the sister of Bishop Ken :— 
“ Ex, terris 
M. S. 
Here lyeth buried soe much as could dye of Anne the wife of Isaak Walton, 
Who was 
A woman of remarkeable prudence and of the Primitive Piety, her great and 
general knowledge being adorned with such true Humility, and blest with soe 
much Christian meekenesse as made her worthy of a more memorable 
Monument. 
She dyed (alas that she is dead!) the 17th of April, 1662, aged 52. 
Study to be like her.” 
The Lady Chapel is of the same style as the choir, and 64 ft. in 
height. Several old tombs were pointed out, but some amount of 
uncertainty appears to exist as to the true names of their former 
occupants. Returning back again into the Nave, a circuit was 
made of the Cloisters ; with the exception of some original Norman 
work of the Transition period existing in the west passage, 
all the rest is of Perpendicular date. A slab, with the single 
word “ Miserrimus” cut thereon, indicated, as the Canon said, the 
“ wretchedness of disappointed loyalty” which some friend had 
recorded of an old Jacobite clergyman. The lavatory on the 
west side, and some curious bosses representing the history of 
Jesse, seen sitting under his vine in a headdress of a very 
modern type, and much resembling a chimney-pot hat, were duly 
noted ; and now probably one of the most unique architectural 
features of the day, the Chapter house, was entered. The lower 
part is surrounded with plain round-headed recessed seats, with 
an arcading above of interlacing circular arches, the roof being 
supported by a single round shaft, from which spring plain round 
ribs forming the groining; the whole, with the exception of the 
