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absence of a dome can only accurately denot the presence of the cathedral venerated bj the citizens of London who held festival ove the victory of Agincourt 1 GNOMON.

Temple.

If my neighbour DR. BRUSHFIELD can spare five minutes to visit the Exeter Free Library the next time he passes that way and will procure the loan of the volume o Punch for 1876, he will at once see his impres sions are wrong. Mr. Tenniel's famous cartoon for 12 February of that year is entitled 'Th St. Stephen's Show.' Therein occurs a sketch of a huge, open-jawed crocodile, with an un dulating, prominently outlined tongue, look ing fat and tempting as are the sheepV tongues one sees exposed in well-conductec ham-and-beef shop windows. It is readilj admitted that naturalists tell us (I have seen crocodiles in their native haunts, but never close enough to allow opportunity for ex amining their tongues !) the ugly beast in question possesses an apology for that member ; but it is so closely attached to the sides of the lipless mouth that when the jaws are extended no sort of tongue what- ever is observable. It was the artist's distinct mistake of showing a prominent tongue in a position where none is seen that I noted, and to which, it seems, DR. BRUSH- FIELD takes courteous exception.

Whilst upon the subject let me record two instances of what, in the drawing of animals, have been very notable examples. I refer to the back leg of the elephant. In Mantegna's magnificent series of cartoons the hind leg of the elephant in the second picture is hocked the wrong way. Further, it may not be generally known that the earliest instance in the world of an elephant carved in wood is upon a misericord in Exeter Cathedral. It is of oak, and forms one of the series of fifty carved misereres by Bishop Bruere (A.D. 1224-1244). This particular ele-

Ehant is carved with its hind legs hocked ke a dog instead of being kneed like a Christian ! HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

CHURCH IN CANTERBURY OLDER THAN ST. MARTIN'S (9 th S. v. 26, 94, 178). The chapel of St. Pancras, of which the remains men- tioned are now in the grounds pertaining to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, is perhaps one of the oldest relics of Canter- bury, "the city of the swift waters," and, although scarcely so ancient as to be of Anglo-Roman build, is mainly composed of stones and Roman tiles. A portion of the

walls and a pointed archway, probably that of the chancel, are all that are now left of a building about 31 ft. in length and 21 ft. in breadth. Formerly it svas within the demesne of St. Augustine's Monastery, and it is shown in the folio plate of Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum,' 1655, and later editions. The loose plate from the first edition is now before me, and gives a view of a rounded arch and a double-gabled roofed building with a pillar (?), the reference being, "5. Capella St. Pancratij," and the position due east of the (then) fine Tower of Ethelbert, which partly fell and was afterwards battered down in 1822. This engraving is a bird's-eye view drawn by Tho. Johnson from the top of the Bell Harry Tower of Christchurch Cathedral, and was engraved by D. King. The plate was subsequently used as an illustration in the second edition of Somner's 'Antiquities of Canterbury,' enlarged by N. Battely, 1703, facing p. 161, the only alteration being the English translation beneath the Latin title. The folio plate engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar of " the ground plott of Canterbury," also from the 'Monasticon,' shows several remains within St. Augustine's ; but it is im- possible to identify any definitely as those of St. Pancras. I have also an engraved ground plan of the monastery, showing well the site; and a view of the chapel from the south 6 in. by 4| in. engravea by Sparrow, 20 January, 1775, from a drawing made in 1755, both published in Grose. In the latter the claw marks of the demon are well depicted on the wall outside the south porch. For the legend concerning the dedication to the martyr Pancras, the first mass of Augustine, and the imprint of the devil's salons, vide the ' Chronica Willielmi Thorni, monachi S. Augustini':

'& earn in nomine sancti Pancrasii martyris dedicavit & hsec est prima ecclesia ab Augustino

dedicata in quo altari duni Augustinus primo

missam celebraret, diabolus videns se de domo quam per longa tempora inhabitaverat expulsum, nitebatur praedictum ecclesiam funditus evertere,
 * ujus rei indicia adhuc apparent exterius oriental!

nuro porticus supradictse.

Among the bequests Somner (p. 32) states :

" In the will of Hamond Beale, 1492, he leaves to he reparation of St. Pancrace his chapel within the >recinct of St. Augustin's Church -yard and of the Jhapel where St. Augustin first celebrated mass in England, annexed to the former, 31. 6s. 8rf."

"The balance of evidence is now generally onsidered to be in favour of the burial here or within the monastery) of the Saxon King Ethelbert and his Queen Bertha, and not t St. Martin's Church outside, although the atter claims to possess her tomb.