By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 95 



To which Death replies — 



" Graceless Gallant! in all thy ease and pride 

 Remember this : that thou shalt one day die ; 

 Death shall from thy body thy soul divide — 

 Thou mayest him escape not, certainly. 

 To the dead bodies [here] cast down thine eye ; 

 Behold them well: consider too, and see, 

 For such as they are, such shalt thou too be." 



In the year 1644, this Chapel was visited by a Capt. Symonds, 

 an officer in the Royalist army, who was an Archaeologist as well 

 as a soldier ; and used to amuse himself after his day's march, by 

 going into the Churches of the town where he happened to be 

 quartered, and noting down memoranda of monuments, heraldry, &c. 

 The little pocket book in which he did this, happens to be preserved 

 in the British Museum, and in it he entered, roughly indeed, but 

 still with the roughness of a practised hand, all the arms that were 

 at that time to be seen in this Chapel, with copies of the inscriptions. 

 In the middle of the Chapel at the time of his visit there was an 

 altar tomb, with the coats of Hungerford on it ; the inscription and 

 and brass shield had been stolen. This was the tomb of Lady 

 Margaret the Founder's widow. It had eight shields in quarterfoil, 

 and the slab was a good imitation of a pall, with a cross upon it. Over 

 the door was the picture of a man in Parliament robes (Grough 

 says a doctor's gown), without any name; under him, this writing. 

 "Ye that purport in this Chapel to pray, call to mind the soule of 

 the Noble Knight Robert Lord Hungerford, who lived righteously ; 

 and was friend to the blessed Lady Mother and Christ Jesu, and 

 to this noble Church ; which ordered this Chapel to be founded per- 

 petually, on whose soul Jesu have mercy." Another inscription 

 recorded that "the Chapel was consecrated in honour of our Lord 

 Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, by the Bishop of Sarum." 

 This from the date (about 1480), would be Bishop Richard Beau- 

 champ, whose arms were painted at the east end. There was also 

 on the west wall a painting of St. Christopher, carrying our Saviour 

 as a child on his shoulder: and one of the Annunciation, "both," 

 says Capt. Symonds, "very well done"; also a second, of Death 

 and a Gallant, somewhat like the one above described. 



