a rude figure of Hope, to the memory of a seaman's wife, with these words::

"To this world I bade adieu,

Only I wanted to see you,

Which was gone across the Maine.

My dear children to maintain."

Here is also an inscription to the memory of PETER WARD, an industrious mathematician, who died in 1720. And in the south aisle of St. Stephen's chapel in St. Margaret's church,

"Behold a rare monument of Friendship.

Dedicated to the remains of

EDWARD BRADFIELD, Attorney at law;
Happy while he was master of himself,
Unfortunate when he became the servant of others.
His fine Patrimony

and a Profession wherein he excelled
gave him Independency.

and every Enjoyment

That could make Life Agreeable.
But alas!

His accepting the office of Town Clerk,
Subjected him to Servility

and to every Disappointment
That could make Death Desirable.

His Experience of both Fortunes was remarkable:
In the Prosperous he was followed
as if he never had an Enemy:
In the Adverse he was deserted
as if he never had a Friend.

He died September 6th, 1736, aged 47,
leaving a widow and an only daughter.
He was defended while living,
He is covered now dead,
By one who commenced
almost from his cradle,
And continues his friend
Even beyond the Grave."

Trinity Chapel in St. Margaret's church, is on the north side of the chancel, and contains a brass to the memory of Robert Attelath, 1376. The same foreign hand which appeared in the preceding Lynn brasses, was equally discernable in this, which is now entirely gone, and the figure

given in Cotman's Brasses, is copied from Gough, as is also the following inscription:-

Hic

"Hic jacet Robertus Attelath, q'dam burgensis Lenne, qui obiit A. Dni M,CCC,LXXVI, xii die mensis Novembris. Orate pro eo. jacet Johanna, q'dam uxor Roberti Attelatte, que obiit A°. Dni м,CC— Anime eorum per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. Amen."

The date of the woman's death has never been filled up.

Attelath was another member of this wealthy corporation, and a mayor by the buttons on his shoulder. He has a long loose coat to his ancles, fastened down the front by many buttons in pairs, and round the waist by an embroidered girdle. The sleeves of his coat are buttoned at the wrist, and on his hands are half gloves or mittens, of a rich flowered pattern. His cloak, to which there is a standing cape, is fastened on the right shoulder. His shoes, which are rather longer pointed than in the preceding examples, and come up very high behind, are buckled over the instep, with coloured buckles.-For a further elucidation of these works see Cotman's Brasses. Here is also a brass with a rabbit, the rebus of Walter Colney.

The Charnel Hall. On the north side of the churchyard of St. Margaret stands an ancient pile; the upper part of which was a chapel, and the lower part a charnel-house, where the bones taken out on the digging of the many graves were deposited. The chapel part, at the dissolution, was occupied by the scholars of the free school.

The Grammar School was founded in the reign of Edward IV. or in that of Henry VII., when Mr. THOMAS THORESBY, alderman, and thrice mayor of this town flourished. He built a chapel adjoining to the south side of the church of St. Margaret, and gave to the master of the charnel-house (now the free school) certain lands in Gaywood, to the value of 81. per annum, "for teaching grammar and songs, and also for singing dirges in the said chapel." After the dissolution of the religious houses, the crown siezed the endowment of the school in the reign of Edward VI. It was not, however, alienated, but vested in the corporation. There is a copy extant of some ancient statutes, but they are not known ever to have been acted upon. The school is open to the sons of burgesses, free of expense, for the classics only. The number of boarders and day scholars

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fluctuates. The Eton grammars are used, and the Eton system is generally pursued, with such variations as circumstances require." The exhibitions are as follows:

The salary of the master of this school is 631. per annum, with a house fit to accommodate several boarders, out of which he pays window taxes, poor and church rates. There is no second master.-Vide Carlisle's Schools.

The following is extracted from Lenna's Redeviva.-See the end of this article:

GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

"In it a master and an usher eke

Teaching both Latinne and the copious Greeke,

Nor English, nor writing is herein taught,

In other schools these sciences are sought."

The Rev Thomas Kidd, A. M. E. coll. S. S. Trin. late master of Lynn free school, but now of that at Wymondham, is the author of "Opuscula Rhunkeniana," 1807, 8vo.; "Horatii Flacci Opera ad Exemplar Recensionis Bentleianæ plerumque emendata et Brevibus Notis Instructa," 1807, 12mo. and 18mo.

The school house becoming much dilapidated is now pulled down.

This school, in Knox's mastership, was rendered very remarkable by having Eugene Aram for its usher; a man of uncommon acquirements and learning, but still more distinguished by his unhappy and miserable exit, and the borrid flagitiousness of at least one part of his life. He was apprehended here in 1759, under a charge of murder committed in Yorkshire fourteen years before, and tried and convicted at York the ensuing assizes, and soon after executed. His defence at his trial was plausible and masterly, but it could avail nothing against the prepondering evidence of his guilt. The extent of his learning, in which he had made eminent proficiency, was wonderful considering the disadvantages in which he acquired it; and he died a me lancholy proof that a very learned man may yet be desperately wicked, and commit the most heinous crimes.-See Criminal Recorder.

The Charity School, held in an apartment adjoining the north tower of St. Margaret's church, for girls, on the Lancastrian system, was founded by voluntary subscription, at a meeting of ladies held at the town-hall, in 1792. It provides instruction in reading, sewing, and spinning, with some portion of clothing, for thirty children. It is supported by subscription, and by the scholars' plain work. Here is also a similar seminary for boys. The dissenters have also several

schools.

The Chapel of St. Nicholas, a chapel of ease to the parish of St. Margaret, is supposed to be the largest parochial chapel in the kingdom. It measures one-hundred and ninety-four feet in length from east to west, within the walls, and about seventy-four feet in width, having no transept, or distinct choir. It has a bell tower of freestone, and an octagon spire, including these, it rises one-hundred and seventy-nine feet from the ground. The interior consists of a lofty nave, with two lateral aisles. The latter are divided from the former by eleven arches on the north side, and ten on the south, the space of one arch at the south-west angle being occupied by the base of the tower. The place of another arch at the east end, is taken up by a vestry on the south side; and a similar apartment over the vault of sir Benjamin Keen towards the north, leaving a kind of recess between, of the whole width of the nave for the communion table. The distinguishing characters of this structure, as seen within, are lightness, simplicity, and perfect uniformity of style, the tower alone being of an earlier date than the rest of the fabric. The pillars are slender, having the horizontal section of the shaft nearly in the form of a truncated lozenge, releived by shallow flutings, and raised above four feet from the ground, upon corresponding bases. They have no capitals, but small brackets which support the inner ribs of the arches, which are very little, if at all, lower than may be described upon an equilateral triangle, the base of which is a line drawn through the brackets. Opposite the arches in the side aisles are an equal number of windows, the mullions and tracery of one of which is represented with other plates in Britton's Architect. Antiq. (to which we are beholden for much of this account), and above the arches in the upper part of the nave is a row of smaller windows. Between the windows are niches and canopies The east

and west windows are very large, with a pleasing mixture of curved and rectangular tracery and embattled ornaments, upon the transoms. The former is divided into nine days or lights, by eight vertical mullions; and the latter has eleven days or vertical compartments of glass. More ornament has been bestowed upon the doors than on any other part of the building; the west doorway, in particular, is divided by a mullion, which supports an elegant niche, and is adorned with other sculpture, in stone. The small south doorway is in the same style, as is also the larger doorway towards the north. The front of the south

porch is still more elaborate, being covered with a variety of minute decorations; the roof is handsomely groined with stone. At the intersection of the ribs are some heads and figures, in bold relief, but much obscured with whitening; in the centre is a figure of the Almighty Father, with a globe in one hand, and the other lifted up as in the act of blessing those who approach his temple. In the circle surrounding this compartment, appear to be angels, in the act of adoration, and at a little distance towards the windows are two crowned heads, of a male and female, which might be intended for Edward III. and his queen Philippa.

The inner roof of the chapel is of oak, in a plain and simple style, yet with a sufficiency of ornament to harmonize with the rest of the building. The beams and cornices are relieved with carvings of the strawberry leaf, which was so great a favourite with our ancestors; and over all the upper windows there were originally figures of angels, with outspread wings, represented as playing on various musical instruments. That this elegant chapel was built upon the site of one much more ancient, is evident from the style of the tower, the arches of which shew it to have been erected about the time of king Stephen.

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This was the building" said by Parkyn, the continuator of Blomefield's History of Norfolk, "to have been founded by William Turbus, or de Turbe, bishop of Norwich, who was consecrated in 1146, and died about 1174." He gave it to the monks of the priory of Norwich, with all its profits, debarring it of the rights of baptism and marriage, to mark its dependency on St. Margaret's, the mother church. Upon some attempts to make it a parochial church, about twentyfive years after its consecration, his successor bishop John de