Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . s which had accumulated in thechurch w^ere removed to the most noteworthy among these com-memorate Edmund Plowden, of whomas a jurist it was said better authoritycould not be cited; Howell, author of thewell-known letters; and Martin, a recorder of London early in the seventeenth century. Opening on to the staircase whichleads to the triforium is a narrow cell; in this little ease, it is said, offenderswere imprisoned, narrow slits in the wall enabling them to hear the services andlook int
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . s which had accumulated in thechurch w^ere removed to the most noteworthy among these com-memorate Edmund Plowden, of whomas a jurist it was said better authoritycould not be cited; Howell, author of thewell-known letters; and Martin, a recorder of London early in the seventeenth century. Opening on to the staircase whichleads to the triforium is a narrow cell; in this little ease, it is said, offenderswere imprisoned, narrow slits in the wall enabling them to hear the services andlook into the church. There is even a tradition that Walter de Bacheler, GrandPreceptor of Ireland, died here of hunger in expiation of offences against thediscipline of the Order. Some persons of prosaic minds, however, declare thatit was only a cell for the bell-ringers. In the rotunda have been placed nine effigies of associate-knights, and anornamented stone coffin. Tlicse are commemorated by Butler in the days whenthe church, like the nave of St. Pauls, was desecrated, and men were wont to. ST. SEPULCHRES, CAMDllIDGE : THE ROTUNDA. . walk the round with Knights o tlie PostsAbout the cross-leir<ied knii^hts their Iiosts. One effigy is supposed to represent an Earl of Pembroke, who was the husband ofa daughter of Henry I.; another, the Earl whom Shakespeare represents as pleadingwith John on behalf of Prince Arthur; a third, his son, killed untimely at a tourna-ment by a runaway horse. Of the fathers monument a grim story is told. TheEarl, it is said, had seized the lands of the Abbey of Femes; the Abbot had })ro-nounced a curse upon the spoiler, but in a merciful mood came to the grave andoffered to take it off if the lands were restored. But the dead man made no sign,and so the curse fell, and, as men believed, was accomplished in the sons death. 452 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [The Temple Chirch. As pavements, Avails, fittings, arc all modern, tliorc is no need to describe tliem;v\o
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