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 priation of the indents of the figures, removed, by sacrilegious hands, from it.

That William War ham, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his brothers, Nicholas and Hugh, were the first of their family whe bore arms, is, we believe, without much doubt. There is no evidence of the invention of the coat used by the archbishop; before his time it is of the heraldic fancy of his age, and moreover the monument of his father and mother, at Church Oakley, is, and always has been, devoid of armorial ensigns.

The arms of the archbishop are gules a fesse or, between a goat's head couped argent, attired of the second in chief, and three escellop shells, two and one of the third in base.

The arms of Nicholas Warham, esq., of Malsanger, the same within a bordure engrailed or, the fesse differenced with a crescent azure.

The arms of Hugh Warham, the same within a bordure argent, the fesse differenced with a mullet sable.

The crest of the archbishop is unknown: that of Nicholas, on a wreath argent and purple, a dexter arm couped at the shoulder, the elbow flexed upwards, vested quarterly argent and azure, the hand grasping a sword point downwards, the hilt or, the scabbard sable, charged with three plates, each bearing a cross gules. The crest of Hugh, from what remains of it on his tomb, seems to have been the head of some animal, coloured brown,—very probably that of a goat.

With respect to the monument in question. Inserted in the wall above it is a square stone, bearing in high relief and colour a shield, quarterly one and four, the arms of Hugh Warham, as above described; two and three argent two bars gules; helmet, full-faced and closed, argent adorned or surmounted by a wreath argent and gules, and the fragment of a crest. The colour of