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 150 ON A MONUMENTAL EFFIGY to be a brother of tlieir houses ; or to obtain one of their coats or cowls to be buried in." And in a sermon preached by him many years earher in 1537, he says — "But yet they that begot and brought forth our old ancient pvu'gatory pickpurse; that was swaged and cooled with a Franciscan's Cowl; put upon a dead man's back to the fourth part of his sins." In the works of WicklifF, who lived in the latter part of the fourteenth century, above one hundred and fifty years before Latimer, occurs the following curious passage: "And here men noten many harmes yat Freris doen y the cherch but kepyng of Godde's mauntements thei cliargen not halfe so muche as he schulde be holden apostata, that lefe ye abite for a dale, but for levyng of dedys of charite, schulde he nothynge be blamed; and thus thei blasfemen in God, and seien whoso dieth in this abyte schall never go to helle for holynesse that is therein." Lastly, it is related by Wadding, in his " Annales Mino- rum," of Clement the Fifth, who occupied the papal chair from A.D. 1305 to A.D. 1314, that he remitted to those buried in the habit of a friar the fourth part of all their sins ; " sepeliendis in liahitu minormn quartam partem omnium joec- catorum remisif,'' — a passage which verifies the last quotation I have given from the works of Latimer. The only other effigy of a friar I am at present conversant with is a small demi-figure, acting as a crest to a tilting helme, beneath the head of a knight in Sawtrey All Saints' church,' Huntingdonshire ; a church in the neighbomliood of Coning- ton. This figure constitutes a portion of an incised brassy and appears in the ccqjjjci manicata or sleeved cowl, with the cajm- tium or hood attached and drawn over the head, but without the mozetta or tippet ; in the hands the ancient " discipline," as the instrument in the shape of a Avhip with knotted cords was called, is represented as held. This figm^e is of the early jjart of the fifteenth centmy, the date given on the inscription being 1404. In Standish church, Lancashire, there is said to be a statue of the first Protestant rector, Richard Moodie, representing him as dressed in the habit of a Franciscan, of which order he had been, but this I have not yet seen. " Noticed in Uie Archaeological Journal, vol. ii. p. 380.