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Sphericum, 1510, and other tracts, by Wynkyn de 
Worde, Richard Pinson, etc., are interesting examples 
of early printing. : 
Under the North Gallery is a handsome piece of 
tapesiry, said to be of the time of Henry VIII., from 
St. Luke’s Chapel, one of the apsidal chapels at the 
east end of Norwich Cathedral. Alongside it is a 
banner, displayed at the coronation of George II., 
by John Harvey, then Mayor of Norwich. This 
was presented by Major F. Astley Cubitt. Beneath 
the East Gallery is a series of four painted 
panels from the roof of the Jesus Chapel, in the 
Church of St. John Maddermarket, Norwich. They 
bear representations of angels bearing scrolls, inscribed 
with portions of the Ze Deum, ‘These are specimens 
_ of the kind of ornamentation employed in Norfolk 
- Churches from Edward III. to Henry VIII. when 
there was a great deal of intercourse between East 
_ Anglia and Flanders. The brass below is to Robert 
Brown and Alice his wife. Brown was Mayor of 
Norwich in 1522, and died in 1530. ‘The long table 
in front of these antiquities is a shovel-board, origi- 
nally the property of the Pastons, and came from 
Oread Hall. At the beginning of the’ present 
century it was purchased from Oxnead and removed 
to the Black Lion Inn, at Buxton, where the game 
was played by the villagers. An account of the 
game, as given in Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes, is 
affixed to the side of the board. 
The Hawaian canoe, with outriggers and paddles, 
given by Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, and the Canadian 
birch-bark canoe, with six paddles, presented by 
Mr. Wyrley-Wyrley Birch, represent somewhat primi- 
tive means of travelling by water surviving in modern 
times. An interesting collection of garments, made of 
fibrous grass, and a helmet of feathers, with specimens 
