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54 Sawles to Haue Marcy And fynally bryng to the Eternall Glory amen for Cheryty."

The general character of the architecture and ornamentation — late Perpendicular — is very similar in spirit to Greneway's Chapel at Tiverton, both having been built within a few years of each other, Lane's being completed in 1517, and this one in 1526, two years before the Founder's death, the inscription on the exterior being anticipatory.

The Mark of John Lane has at the top the usual triangular figure with cross on the arm, adopted by the woollen trade, and in the base a variation that is probably intended to represent a basket or receptacle filled with fleeces of wool. Both it and the Founder's monogram are largely distributed both within and without the Chapel.

It is not known whom Lane married; he left no issue, none are mentioned in his will, although the inscription on the chapel speaks of "with all other their children," it is probably a conventional expression only. Nor did he leave any bequests for charitable purposes, as did Greneway by his almshouses at Tiverton, only in endowment for the perpetuation of the services in his Chapel. No coat-armour attributed to him is on record, and the lozenges on his gravestone were occupied probably by his Trade Mark and Monogram, but the vessels