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Rh Bk. VI. Ch. hi. CANOPIED TOMBS. 195 outline and detail, every part is elegant, and worthy of the best age of English architecture. Had it not been the custom in those days to bury the illustrious 628. Tomb of Bishop Redman iu Ely Cathedral, (Oath. Hb.) dead within the walls of the churches, this is probably the form. which sepulchral monuments would generally have taken. If we may judge from the examples left us, we can have little doubt but that,