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. purpose, principally interesting as evidence of the decay of heraldic 
taste at the time it was built. It only contains three true heraldic 
shields, and two of these are repeated on various parts of the monu- 
ment, while there are more than a dozen shields bearing the two 
sacred monograms, I.H.8. and MARIA, and the monograms of 
the bishop, H.A. and E.S. On the exceptionally large bosses 
of the vault are two great shields charged, the westernmost with 
the Audley arms—Gwies, fretty or, and that to the east with the 
arms of the see impaling Audley. The Audley coat appears again 
ensigned with a mitre on the cresting at the top of the monument 
on the south side, and impaled by Sarum and ensigned, on the 
north side, as well as in the spandrels of both doors and on the 
altar-tomb. On the tomb also appears the arms of the Order of the 
Garter—Argent, a cross gules, of which the Bishop of Salisbury was 
chancellor. One other shield demands a word of notice. It is 
finely carved in the western spandrel of either door-arch, and bears 
Gules, a butterfly or. There is no such coat known in British 
armoury, and as the butterfly occurs again amongst the decoration 
of the moulding I am inclined to think that it may be an Audley 
badge and not a charge. Within the chantry on the string-course 
over the site of the altar, among a number of defaced pieces of 
_ decoration, is a shield, Gules charged with the five wounds of our Lord. 
It is needless to say that this shield, as well as those of the arms of . 
the see, have all been chipped and partially obliterated in the most 
eareful and painstaking manner. 
Next on my list is the great monument which stands on the site 
of the altar of St. Stephen, at the east end of the south choir aisle, 
erected to the memory of Edward Seymour, Karl of Hertford, who 
died in 1621, and of his wife Catherine Grey, daughter of Henry 
Grey, Duke of Suffolk. This gorgeous and elaborate erection is 
singularly rich in English heraldry, displaying on no less than 
eighteen separate shields the principal alliances of the powerful 
families of Seymour and Grey. At the summit of the whole 
appears the complete achievement of Lord Hertford—Quarterly of 6. 
l. Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lis azure, three lions 
of England—the augmentation granted by Henry VIII. “ of his 
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