Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times; their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury College and Redcliffe Church, critically examined, to which is added inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton . the purse bearer of thesecond William Canynges, because he happens tohave something very like a gypciere, purse, orpouch, attached to his left side between the foldsof his ample garments, which are evidently thoseof a civilian. Mr. Cole, an Oxford antiquaiy,considers this figure to be a third representationof Canynges himself; but this opinion I regard asaltogether
Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times; their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury College and Redcliffe Church, critically examined, to which is added inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton . the purse bearer of thesecond William Canynges, because he happens tohave something very like a gypciere, purse, orpouch, attached to his left side between the foldsof his ample garments, which are evidently thoseof a civilian. Mr. Cole, an Oxford antiquaiy,considers this figure to be a third representationof Canynges himself; but this opinion I regard asaltogether untenable, there being little in common,except in some particulars of dress, with thosealready mentioned. As, however, the subject hasbeen discussed at some length in my Notespage 177, and to which the reader is referred, it isonly necessary to state in this place, that the partyit commemorates was in all probability CanyngesSecretary and almoner, two offices which the dogwith a large bone in his paws, and the purse (orink-horn as I would rather regard it from its pecu-liar shape) at the side of the figure itself appears toindicate. The dress of the effigy accords exactlywith the time of Canynges, and like his portraiture i. WESTBURY COLLEGE. 191 as a civilian, it is habited in a long loose garaientreaching to the feet; the turban or cap whichcovered the head, and then a very fashionableappendage, rests in like manner upon the leftshoulder, and the scarf appertaining to it falls uponthe breast. 26. Near this tomb the dust of several of Can-ynges domestics of a meaner giade reposes. On aflat stone is carved a knife and a skimmer, indica-ting that the occupation of the person who sleepsbeneath, was that of a Cook; and an inscriptionunder these rude emblems informs the reader thatit perpetuates the memory of Willm Coke quon-dam servitii Willmi Canynges mercatore villeBristole cujus animcie jjropitietur Deus. Amen:—he was therefore Canynges Cook. On anotherstone close by, orname
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