By the Rev. E. E. Dorling. 



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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, LH.S. and MARIA, and the monograms of 

 the bishop, E.A. and E.S. On the exceptionally large bosses 

 of the vault are two great shields charged, the westernmost with 

 the Audley arms — Gules, 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 

 careful 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, Earl 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 0/6. 

 1. Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs-de-lis azure, three lions 

 of England — the augmentation granted by Henry VIII. " of his 



