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from Our Lord's hands ; at the foot of the cross is the skull of 

 Adam. Below is St. Mary Magdalene under a canopy, and the 

 upper part of the canopy of a second figure. At the corners of the * 

 work are four other panels with figures of saints, but the upper two \ 

 have lost their canopies. The upper left-hand figure is identified ! 

 by his name, fc.S ^ilOUta^ ; it is uncertain whom the other figure i 

 represents. The two lower figures are : on the left, St. Philip 

 holding three loaves and a book enclosed in a chemise or forel, and 

 on the right St. James the Greater . The canopies of these figures * 

 differ in design from the canopies on the cross. The field is I 

 sprinkled with flowers of several species, fleurs-de-lis, and seraphim i 

 holding scrolls lettered (Blortattt BCCL 



There can be little doubt that the whole of the applied ornaments i 

 have once formed part of the decoration of a vestment or chasuble. 

 The cross ornamented its back. The four corner panels may have I 

 formed the pillar- orphrey in front, and the flowers, etc., are the 1 

 remains of a series with which the vestment was powdered. All 

 are of a date circa 1490 — 1500. 



It is not at all unlikely that the whole received its present form 

 during the Caroline revival in the 17th century, when the ornaments 

 of a worn out or discarded chasuble were rearranged on a piece of 

 new silk to serve as a hanging behind or above the altar. 



HuiXlOUrOUS West Countrie Tales, by the Author of Wiltshire 



Bhymes [Edward Slow, of Wilton] . Cr. 8vo. Cloth. Salisbury. 1899. 

 pp. 147. Price, cloth, 2*. 6d. ; boards, Is. 6d. 



The first two or three of these stories are old friends, which were 

 published separately, as "Bob Beaker's Visit ta Lunnen," and " Ben 

 Sloper at the Diamond Jubilee Zelebrayshun," but they are quite worthy 



amulets, nit%tMts. 



