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Rh bar of Denbigh, son of Robert Earl of Leycester," and after recounting the dignities he would have worn, states that he died at Wanstead. Essex, in 1584, "beinge the xxvith yere of the happy reigne of the most virtvoves and Godly Princis Queen Elizabethe, and in this place layed up emonge his noble avncestors, in the assured hope of generall resyrrection."

Leaving these tombs of the Warwicks, we next visited what may be called the crypt of the choir, but which perhaps in Saxon times was the place of worship. It showed its old Saxon lineage of architecture in its columns and arches, and doubtless constituted the foundation for the Norman superstructure. In side apartments or capacious vaults are deposited the remains of several of the Warwick baronial families. One of these has been walled up, after having been filled with a hundred coffins. And that belonging to the present family has already received eighteen contributions to the silent companionship of the tomb. There is one object of unique interest preserved in this crypt, which will repay a visit to the church, if you notice nothing else. It is that compulsory bath-chair used in olden times, called the Ducking Stool. No machine at Brighton or Scarborough equals this in its douche capacity. It is a cross between the old chariot of the early Britons and common wheelbarrow. It has three solid