transept of Carew Church. The tomb is enclosed between iron railings. On a projection under the head an inscription has been cut as follows:

"Here lyeth St John | Carew knight who | caused this monu ment to be erected in remembrance of himself dame | Elizabeth his wife | daughter of Thomas | Southcotte of Moun | Santry in Devon | Esquire and their three sons viz | Thomas John and George and their | five daughters | viz Elizabeth | Bridget Margaret | Marie and Dorothy | He deceased the 21 Februarie | anno domini | 1637."

Near to this inscription are two sockets, which may have been part of an arrangement to uphold funeral helmet, etc. The sides of the tomb are decorated with twelve ornate urns.

In place of weepers are portraits in relief of the three sons and five daughters mentioned in the dedicatory inscription.

The sons, though graduated in height, are all men, moustached and armed much after the fashion of their father. Thomas, the elder, kneels at a prie dieu, covered with a fringed cloth, on which lies an open book. On each side of the brethren is a blank shield. On the northern side of the tomb are the five sisters. No. 3, Margaret, is represented by a mommet or doll that cannot stand erect, but topples against her sister Bridget-presumably she died as an infant. She is dressed in a waistless robe, wide hat, and deep round collar. The remaining daughters wear square-cut gowns with scalloped borders; a pear-shaped jewel hangs round their necks. They also wear large collars, deep cuffs, and wide caps with long ends and true lover's knots at the apex; they are kneeling in an attitude of prayer.

Sir John is represented as lying at full length; his arms were evidently raised in prayer, but one of these has been broken off, and both hands are missing. The head rests on an elaborate cushion, with an embroidered border and tasseled ends; the body is extended on a