he records that "on the 10th of April, 1549, the cloister of St. Paul's, with its paintings costly and cunningly wrought, were all begun to be pulled down." The spoliation was made by the Protector Somerset, in order to obtain material for building his palace in the Strand. There were formerly paintings illustrating this subject in Salisbury Cathedral, the church at Stratford-uponAvon, at Hexham Church, at many other churches, and at the archiepiscopal palace at Croydon. Mr. Douce says that at the time of publishing his book he had in his possession two panels of glass with a portion of a "Dance of Death": one, three Deaths that appear to have been placed at the beginning of the Dance. Over them, in characters of the time of Henry VII., these lines:

every man to be contented wt his chaunce,

And when it shall please God, to follow my daunce." The other, Death and the Pope. No verses. Size, upright, 8 ins. by 7 ins.

In the same work is given a fine series of pictures on this subject, by Hans Holbein, while in England, and executed by him in 1538 and later.

The date of the picture in St. Andrew's Church would appear to be about 1460, and, one would suggest, of French workmanship.

SHIELDS IN THE PANELS.

In the first panel at the west end, glazed in with other fragments, are shields bearing the following coats:—

See of Canterbury.-Azure, an episcopal staff in pale argent, ensigned with a cross pattée or, surmounted by a pall of the second, charged with four crosses pattée fitchée, sable.

A Merchant's Mark.-This is the mark of Nicholas Colich, Mayor in 1497. Ewing says that he was buried in the church in 1502, and gave fifty marks towards the

rebuilding. He also gave a holy-water stoup of silver and forty shillings to be put into Cambridge's chest.

Arms of the Grocers' Livery Company.-Argent, a chevron gules between nine cloves, six in chief and three in base, sable. This important company was founded Edward III., 1345, and the arins of the company, with crest and supporters, were granted by Henry VIII. in 1531-2, some thirty years after the death of Nicholas Colich.

There are several of these coats of the Grocers' Company glazed in with other fragments.

In the next panel is a shield of the arms of St. Michael, Gules, a cross flory argent.

In the last panel of all are two shields: one, Gules, a saltire vert, for St. Andrew; the other, the emblem of St. Catherine, Gules, a catherine wheel in base or, pierced with a sword in pale argent, hilted and pommelled of the second. This shield is somewhat larger than the others.

BO VIMU AIMBOLIAD

The Old Bridge at Attlebridge.

COMMUNICATED BY

T. D. ATKINSON.

The subject of the accompanying photograph is the bridge which crosses the eastern branch of the river Wensum between Attlebridge and Morton. The river here forms two streams, the eastern and lesser of which was evidently in former days a mill-stream. The mill has now disappeared, but it probably stood near the bridge, and had some connexion with the homestead hard by which has, what was till lately, a very picturesque range of old outbuildings, including a malting.

The bridge over the main stream has been rebuilt in recent years with a total disregard for appearances, but that which spans the mill-stream is an excellent example of the skill with which the medieval workman invested even the most ordinary and utilitarian buildings with charm and character.

The bridge consists of three arches springing from piers, which have the triangular cut-water terminations

These notes were written in September, 1912. The bridge has since been rebuilt in a different form. The hope expressed that modern science would be equal to the occasion has proved vain.