of the chancel a large slab eleven feet five inches long by four feet two and a half inches wide, which manifestly demonstrates, by the still existing indentations, that an Archbishop's brass, with canopy and other ornaments, once occupied its surface. The Rev. Beale Poste has kindly informed me that until the commencement of the present century, it formed the tablet of an altar-tomb, but the loss of the brasses no doubt occurred anterior to Bering's visit, or he would have noted them. On this altar-tomb, probably, Courtenay's body lay in state immediately after his death, with the full intention that his obsequies would be there completed as by himself directed, all things proceeding regularly for that end, and there commenced the fifteen thousand masses and two thousand matins he had directed should be offered up for the repose of his soul: but, owing to the King's directions, the tomb itself remained a mere cenotaph.
   But the question still recurs, How can we prove the canopied monument so long associated with Courtenay, to be Wotton's, and not Courtenay's? By referring to the Will of Wotton, in the Registry of Lambeth Palace, 'Chichele,' p. 309, we find Wotton thus providing for his burial—" Presentando corpus meum ecclesiastice sepulture, videlicet in ecclesia collegiata de Maydeston antedicta, in loco destinato, ante altare sancti Thome martiris, in ala australi dicte ecclesie collegiate." Hence, it is evident that he had fixed upon the identical spot on which the monument now stands, as that where he wished his body to be buried; the place therefore could not have been previously occupied by either cenotaph or tomb. The confusion seems to have arisen from the various escutcheons displaying so prominently the arms of Wotton's great patron, Courtenay. The canopy still exhibits the following coats: first, the arms of the college of which Wotton was the first master, azure three bars gemelles, or; second, those of Wotton's first patron,