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Despenser ditto, Sir Brian Stapleton, Sir John Harvick, Bishop Gardiner's father, a figure from an ancient tomb in Malvern, Albert de Vere the second Karl of Oxford, two figures from the tomb of Edmund Crouchback, and an armed knight. For the bow window of the library of the same vast building St. Jerome, St. Athanasius, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Etheldrida, St. Co- lumba, the venerable Bede, and Roger Bacon. In the chapel of Stanor, Berkshire, in a window over the chapel, a figure of our Lord. InLlaimolleri church, Denbighshire, the Agony in the Garden.

Less considerable pieces of work of fancy designs have been executed by Mr. Eginton, in great num- bers, and are scattered through churches and gen- tleman's seals all over England.

Birmingham lay before us, and as we entered it we could not but reflect with astonishment upon the creative powers of trade and commerce, which in the course of half a century have added nearly five thousand houses to its limits, and thirty thou- sand inhabitants to its population. The streets, those of modern erection, are tor the most part wide and healthy; the mansions handsome and con- venient; the public buildings large and elegant. Busily employed in manufacturing the productions of the anvil, and the lesser articles of elegance and

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