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Rh ton Mauleverer, a parish in the upper division of Claro Wapentake, 4 miles from Knaresborough, was son of Sir Halnath Mauleverer, and one of the deponents in the famous controversy between Scrope and Grosvenor, in the court of chivalry, A.D. 1385-90. It appears from his deposition that he was born, in 1342, and had twice served in the Scotch wars. Sir John died Nov. 30, 1400, according to Thoresby and Hargrove, or, according to Sir Harris Nicolas, on Nov. 21; he was buried in the church of Allerton, and on a flat slab of blue marble, inlaid with a plate of brass, are the effigies of Sir John Mauleverer and Eleanore, his wife, daughter of Sir Piers Middleton, of Stockeld, in the parish of Spofforth, in the same division of Claro. Their issue was a son, Sir Halnath Mauleverer, High Sheriff of Yorkshire, A.D. 1420-21, who married Milicent, daughter and heir of Sir Alexander Lutterel. The arms of Sir John Mauleverer were, gules, three greyhounds courant in pale, collared or. Those of Middleton were, argent, fretty, a quarter sable. His ancestor, Richard Mauleverer, founded the priory of Allerton, as a cell to Marmoutier, in the reign of Henry II., circa A.D. 1100." The foundation charter has been preserved by Dom Martene, and a translation is given in Mr. Stapleton's memoir on the priory of the Holy Trinity, York, forming part of the volume of the Transactions of the Institute, at York, p. 27.

Mr. Goldie, junior, of York, has communicated a drawing of the founder's tomb in Gilling church, Yorkshire, from which the annexed representation has been taken. Mr. Goldie remarks; "it is in the usual position in the chancel, viz., on the north side, and lies under the depressed arch of which I have sent a sketch. The chancel is Decorated work, with debased insertions; from the arch mould I should say that the recess was of a later period, but I think the tomb is evidently Decorated. I have been endeavouring, but in vain, to find out the bearer of the armorial charges sculptured on the shield. The present owners of Gilling are the Fairfax family, and they were preceded by the Eltons, now extinct, though other families of the same name exist. There are several examples of this singular style of monument, but I have not met with any where the recumbent effigy and the monumental cross are thus combined. The most common are found merely with the bust disclosed. The present example has never been, I believe, published, nor has it attracted much attention; as in other respects the church, from its disgraceful mutilations and bad state of repair, has little to invite the ecclesiologist."

The Rev. W. E. Scudamore, Rector of Ditchingham, Norfolk, forwarded to the Committee a plan of the church of Ditchingham, with drawings representing the mural paintings recently discovered there. The subjects are the Last Judgment, and the popular medieval Moralité, commonly entitled "Le dit des trois morts et des trois vifs;" of the latter a representation is given in the annexed engraving. The same subject was discovered about two years ago painted over the chancel-arch of Battle church, Sussex. In the present instance the inscriptions on the labels are unfortunately all but obliterated, they were doubtless moral sentences referring to the vanity of earthly