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the south wall of the nave. This is, Argent, a tiger passant, re- 

 guardant, coward gules, gazing at a mirror azure handled or, for Sibbell 

 of Kent. This very singular collocation of bearings only belongs 

 to two families in English heraldry. Speaking of this coat Gwillim 

 moralises thus : — " Some report that those who rob the Tigre of 

 her young, nse a policy to detain their dam from following them, 

 by casting sundry Looking-glasses in the way, whereat she useth 

 long to gaze, whether it be to behold her own beauty, or because, 

 when she seeth her shape in the glass, she thinketh she seeth one 

 of her young ones, and so they escape the swiftness of her pursuit. 

 And thus are many deceived of the substance whiles they are busied 

 about the shadows." 



It is not a little surprising that there are scarcely more than a 

 dozen coats of arms of Bishops of Salisbury in their own cathedral. 

 I venture to pass on to the Society a suggestion made to me by one 

 of your members, that it would be most appropriate to fill the great 

 window of the north-east transept, which is exactly opposite to 

 the throne, with stained glass, containing a complete series of the 

 arms of the Bishops of Sarum. 



This leads me to say one last word about the heraldic glass in 

 the Cathedral. The only ancient specimens are in the windows 

 at the west end of the nave. In the south aisle appears the 

 complicated coat of Bishop Jewel — Or, on a chevron azure between 

 three gilly flowers gales slipped cert, a maid's head of the. first, ducally 

 crowned of the third, on a chief sable a hawk's lure stringed of the 

 first between two falcons argent. In the north aisle window is the 

 quartered shield of Thomas ap Eice, who died in 1560. He bore 

 quarterly (1) Ap Eice — Sable, three roses argent ; (2) Cotymore — 

 Gules, a chevron between three stag's heads, cabossed argent ; (3) 

 Meredith — Gules, a chevron ermines between three helmets argent ; (4) 

 Foulkes — Gules, three boar's heads erased in pale argent. At the 

 top of the great west window are the arms of Henry VII. within 

 the garter and ensigned with a royal crown, and at the bottom are 

 the following shields: — Beginning at the south side : (1) Clare — 

 Or, three chevroncls gules; (2) Paly of 8 gules and or ; doubtless 

 representing the arms of Arragon (Or, four pallets gules) borne by 



