THE MONKS OF MARMOUTIER. 
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Piiory is quite gone exeept traces of the Close walls adjoining 
Bishophill and near the City ramparts, and only a fragment of 
the Church is left. As I have said, the first Church was burnt 
down in the year 741, the second was consecrated in 782, the 
third was built between 1089 aR d 1137 when it was again 
destioyed by fire, and the fourth, of which a portion of the 
nave remains, was erected between 1137 and 1200 in various 
stages. The plan was cruciform, having a nave, with aisles 
and transepts, a central tower called a Campanile, and a choir 
somewhat longer than the nave. 
I he west front must have been a very fine one with a good 
Early English doorway and lancets. A portion of the central 
towei lemains, and one bay of the north aisle, together with 
the triforium and clerestory of the westernmost bay of the 
noith side. the nave arcading still exists, though on the 
noi th side built up, and filled with so-called decorated windows, 
and shorn of the triforium and clerestory, but yet as fine a 
specimen of transitional Norman as York can boast of. 
On the pier on the south side of the present chancel arch a 
peculiai monument is to be seen. That is the memorial tablet 
to Dr. John Burton, the author of “Monasticon Eboracense,” 
and the leputed prototype of “ Dr. Slop” in “Tristram 
Shandy. Two volumes stand above the scroll-shaped marble, 
to viite these two books he took forty-five years. The first 
one was published—the top one in the picture—the second 
one was never published, and you notice it has its back 
turned to the wall. On the upper volume is inscribed “ Mon. 
Eboi. vol. 1., and of course you see the pathos of the position 
of the other. Poor old Burton ! he died nearly broken-hearted 
thiough many troubles, this one perhaps the greatest, and 
before his death he wrote to a friend to say that if after forty- 
fi\e ) eai s toil there was no place in the world for his work, 
the MS. should be burnt, a resolution which was fortunately 
fiustiated. It is now in the hands of a Yorkshire nobleman, 
and I trust will be published before long. I am glad to learn 
that the monument is to be repaired and done up by the York 
Medical Society. 
I he present tower is a great curiosity, being really the tower 
of another Church, the Parish Church of S. Nicholas, Bishop, 
