The Catholic lamb is copied from the roof of the Chapter-houfe at Plufardine 
Abbey. The Caledonian lion, &c. is taken from a defk in the Kirk of Cullen. 
And alfo the rank of figures at the bottom of the plate. 
On the monument erefted over Sir Tnomas Bromley, anno m.d.lxxxvii, in Wefl- 
minfter- Abbey, chofen one of the Privy Council by Queen Elizabeth, celebrated for 
fidelity, equity, magnanimity, fingular virtue, and generofity of foul. 
It is obfervable, that on the frize of the cornice, and on the bafes of the columns, 
there are inferiptions, which every obferver mufl fee exa&ly correfpond with the fym- 
bols here chofen to fiipply their place. The three characterifticks offered to view in 
that confpicuous manner, are 
Juftitia & Equitate. 
Lahore 8c Induflria. 
Studio & Diligentia. 
Confilio, Pietate, ac Jurisprudentia Infignis. 
In this manner our forefathers complimented the dead, and bore record to the 
virtues by which they were diftinguifhed: but I only offer this elucidation of their 
import, from the inferiptions on a monument of a corefponding age, as one of the 
juffeft meafures of interpretation to which we can have recourfe ; although what is 
implied, or couched under j thele ymbolic figures, is fo generally underftood, they 
hardly were in need of fuch illuffration. 
Thefe remarks on the nature of fymbols are only the opening of the veflibule of a 
Gothic Palace, in which we fhall hereafter wander with romantic entertainment 
and inftruftivepleafure. 
' While the author was yet meditating the illuftration of thefe fymbols, it pleafed 
Almighty God to terminate his refearches here below. The above was copied from 
fome of his original fcrolls which he had noted down when contemplating the prefent 
plate. It is impoflible for us to make the defeription more complete ; but what is 
given will in fome degree unfold the intention of the author, and enable thofe who 
delight in fuch fludies, to follow out the ideas to a greater length. 
