death of Cardinal Pole, we see a ceiled room, the ceiling whereof is divided into many rectangular panels with a rose in the centre of each panel. From the centre of the ceiling hangs a light burning within a glass lantern. In the wall of the room are two rectangular windows, each glazed with fifteen rectangular panes. Beneath the hanging lamp, within a roundel supported, in mid air, by two cherubs,* is Cardinal Pole's symbol or badge and his motto:-a globe, around which is coiled a serpent on the head of which a dove is perched, around the whole, as a roundel, is the motto, Estote prudentes sicuti serpentes et simplices sicut columbæ.* At each end of the room, as in a doorway, stands a figure (perhaps female). One of these figures supports a kite-shaped shield bearing the arms of the See of Canterbury; the other bears a similar shield on which appear the eight quarteringst of Cardinal Pole's family coat. This (easternmost) figure swings forward some object which I cannot clearly describe.

In what year these paintings, descriptive of Cardinal Pole's burial here, were obliterated, we cannot ascertain exactly-but I am inclined to believe that they had disappeared probably before 1840, certainly before 1863. It is interesting to learn that in 1863 Cardinal Wiseman drove over to Canterbury from Broadstairs where he was staying, after a severe illness, and that on the following day he wrote to Monsignor Manning (later created Cardinal), "I was able to perambulate the Cathedral and venerate its holy places, unknown and unsuspected. I leaned for rest against Cardinal Pole's tomb, the first Cardinal who has entered that Cathedral since his remains were borne to their resting place." Over the apex of the central arch by which one enters the Corona we can still see the name "S. Maria."

FRESCO REPRESENTING THE LEGEND OF ST. EUSTACE. The Legends of St. Hubert and St. Eustace are both based upon the strange story of a hunter pursuing the chase *Hasted, xi., 414, describes this as "two cherubims holding a cardinal's Clarence, Pole, Nevil, Beauchamp, Warwick, Montague, Monthermer, Clare, and Le Despencer, quarterly. Purcell's Life of Cardinal Manning, vol. i., p. 690.

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on a Holy Day or on a day in Holy Week. During the chase he encounters a milk-white stag, which flies to a small rocky mount in the forest, and when the hunter looks up at him, at once, he sees between the horns of the stag a cross of radiant light, upon which hangs a figure of Christ crucified, who by speaking to the hunter converts him, so that he cries, "Lord, I believe." This portion of both legends is represented at the base of the fresco, at the eastern end of the north aisle of the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral, close to the junction of that aisle with the north-eastern transept. The fresco has been purposely obliterated, probably at the time of the Reformation, but the stag with a crucifix between its horns is still visible (beside and beneath the point marked A in the illustration). The stag stands in a forest of small trees which the artist has drawn in such a way as to remind us of the trees in a child's toy "Noah's ark." The white horse of the hunter, duly caparisoned, can be discerned near a horizontal line which might be drawn through the point marked B. The hunter has dismounted, and is seen kneeling in front of the horse's head, in the centre of the fresco's base. At his feet are dogs. The shoes of the horse are not affixed by means of nails. This portion of the legend is common both to St. Hubert's story and to that of St. Eustace, and it seems probable that the artist who executed this fresco was not aware that there was a second legend with similar incidents. Mrs. Jameson, in her Sacred and Legendary Art, p. 467, says: "The conversion of St. Eustace is only distinguished from the legend of St. Hubert by the classical or warrior costume." St. Eustace was a Roman soldier (captain of the Guards of the Emperor Trajan), who with his wife and two children were martyred in the reign of Hadrian, by being boiled in oil within a brazen bull. St. Hubert was a noble hunter in the forest of Ardennes, who subsequently became Bishop of Liège, and died in A.D. 727. He is the patron saint of dogs and of the hase. St. Eustace's legend is seldom seen depicted in glish, French, or German works of art, but is more often abject of Italian art.

In the Canterbury fresco, the figure of the hunter evi