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wholly gone, and the seal of this most famous pre-Reformation Bishop 

 is in bad condition. The cross-keys, if that was the bearing" on the 

 first shield, and the figures of S. Peter and S. Paul, are noticeable. 

 I had at first thought that there was an allusion in the keys to S. 

 Peter's, of York, to which he was nominated by the Pope, but not 

 consecrated, owing to the King's objections. But I think the 

 reference is to the more famous see of S. Peter's, of Rome, under 

 the special patronage of which he was. He was appointed Bishop 

 of Salisbury, by Papal bull, dated June 2nd, 1407, and consecrated 

 by Pope Gregory XII. at Sienna in 1408, and appointed Cardinal 

 by John XXIII,, one of his two rivals, June 6th, 1411. The seal 

 was therefore not improbably cut in Italy, and this may account for 

 the peculiarity of the rays issuing from the central group. It is 

 much to be desired that a good example of the seal might be secured. 

 His brass, I may mention, is in Constance Cathedral, where he 

 died at the Council, according to his epitaph, on the feast of the 

 translation of St. Cuthbert, September 4th, 1416. This brass, 

 which is interesting on many accounts, exhibits a somewhat similar 

 change of feeling to that which we have observed in Robert Wy vill, 

 who first shows deference to tlie Pope, then to the King, though in 

 this case the change is not so clearly in Hallam's own mind. The 

 brass, it was said, was cut and sent out from England, of course 

 some months after his death. The inscription is as follows, 1 and I 

 make no apology for giving it here, as I print it in a more correct 

 form than I have elsewhere seen it. The Festum Cuthberti is the 

 .translation of St. Cuthbert, September 4th. 



Subiacet hie stratus Robert (us) Hallam vocitatus 

 Quondam prelatus Sarum sub honore creatus. 

 Sic deeretorum doctor jpacisque creator, 

 Nobilis anglorum Regis fuit ambaciator. 

 ffestum cuthberti Septembris mense vigebat 

 In quo Roberti mortem Constantia jlebat, 

 Anno Millenno tricent(esimo) octuageno 

 Sex cum ter deno. cum Christo vivat ameno. 



1 I have taken it partly from E. Kite's Monumental Brasses of Wiltshire : 

 Parkers, London and Oxford, 1860, pi. 32, partly from a foreign print given me 

 by my brother. 



