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Aubrey, Plates XIV., XV., and XVI., so that it need not be re- 

 peated here, beyond calling attention to the east window of the- 

 chancel, particularly the olive tree in the central light bearing six 

 shields showing the descent of the heiress of Beauchamp, wife of 

 Sir Oliver St. John. In the left-hand light is a figure of S. John 

 the Baptist standing on a coronet and holding a book bearing a 

 lamb ; in the right hand a figure of St. John the Evangelist ; 

 these two with the olive tree suggesting a rebus on the name Oliver 

 St. John. 



In connection with the heraldry, attention may be called to the 

 cabinet against the north wall of the chancel, containing full-length 

 portraits of Sir John St. John (died 1594) and his wife Lucy 

 daughter and co-heir of Sir Walter Hungerford) and their son Sir 

 John and Ann his wife (daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh ton) with 

 their six daughters, who were all titled ladies, with a pedigree on 

 the outside of the doors. " This was erected by Sir John St. John, 

 Kt. and Bart., in the year 1615 the 20th of July." To this in- 

 scription is added the following memorandum :— " Some remains 

 of Sir Richard S. George Kt., Garter King at Arms, relating to the 

 Pedigree of St. John written in the year 1615 and now transcribed 

 this present year 1694." 



Aubrey mentions in the " third window of the north aisle " 

 paintings of two bishops and other religious persons with their 

 heads shaven ; also three men in armour ; and a priest habited in 

 white with a red cross sal tire on his breast, joining the hands of a 

 man and woman in matrimony, and he gives a sketch of the head- 

 gear of the woman. He also says there were thirty pennons in the 

 chancel aisle. 



The mural paintings were opened out during the repairs carried 

 out at the Church in 1901. The first subject on the west spandrel 

 on the north arcade is an interesting problem, and to show how far 

 one may be carried by predisposition and imagination I would 

 mention that, on opening out these fragments, I came to the con- 

 clusion that the subject was that of S. George and the Dragon, and 

 on my looking at it subsequently with so high an authority as the 

 Bishop of Bristol, his lordship pointed out the figure of the king's 



