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 306 NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. groined ceiling of this porch was concealed by plaster until recent times, but the fan-tracery is now cleared from this disfigurement. The Registry of wills at Burv,* it may be observed, has suppUed many evidences of the earnest devotion and liberality of the townsmen, contributors like this WESTERN DOORWAV AND NICHES A ■ D • I 84-4-. AS RESTORED. worthy grocer, to the good work of this noble fabric. Bequests of this nature occur repeatedly in the collection of " Wills and Inventories from the Uegisters of the Commissary of l^ury St. Edmunds," edited with great care by Mr. Tymms for the Camden Society in 1850 ; a contribution to our materials for the history of private life and manners in the fifteenth and subsequent centuries, Avhich cannot be too highly valued. The enrichments of the church arc of a very beautiful character ; and of these many representations are given in Mr. Tymms' agreeable volume. W'e must refer to his detailed description of the sculptured figures of angels, which appear upon the hammer-beams of the roof, and of the statues of prophets, ajiostles, kings, and saints, introduced at the ends of the helves into which the hammor-beam ribs are framed. Tiiere occur also in this curious roof some good illustrations of the forms of ancient musical instru- ments. The bosses present also ((uaint devices, of which some arc given amongst the illustrations of Mr. Tynnns' book ; amongst these are angels holding the liead of St. Edmund; angels bearing the seamless coat (?) ; tin; hart lodged, here introduced possibly as the device of Edward IV. ; a* ram enclosed in a wattled ])en, itc. The momnncntal memorials aro not wiilnnit interest to the archieologist. The tomb with tin; effigies of Sir William Carcw, 1 .M' I, and his lady, is a fitio oxamplo of its agi- ; it appr-ars to have been cano|)ie(l over by a tester, whifh has lioon rriu-llv cnt awuv. The resting-plae<" of Mary Tudor,