. 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. tliesecoi?d Wilham Canyrjg(\s, because he liappens tohave stmietliinti; \erv like a gypciere, purse, orpouch, atiached to liis left side between the foldsof liis ample garments, ^vhich are e^?idently thoseof a ci\ilian. Mr. Cole, an Oxford antiquary,considers this figure to be a third representationof Canynges himself; Imt this opinion I regard asaltogether unten
. 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. tliesecoi?d Wilham Canyrjg(\s, because he liappens tohave stmietliinti; \erv like a gypciere, purse, orpouch, atiached to liis left side between the foldsof liis ample garments, ^vhich are e^?idently thoseof a ci\ilian. Mr. Cole, an Oxford antiquary,considers this figure to be a third representationof Canynges himself; Imt this opinion I regard asaltogether untenable, there being httle in common,except in some particulars of dress, with tliosealready mentioned. As, however, the subject liasbeen 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 prol)alulity CanyngesSecretary and almoner, two oflices which the dogwith a large bone in his paws, and the purse (orink-horn as I would rather regard it from its pecu-liar sha]>e) at the side of the figure itself appears to•indicate. Ihe dress of the e/hgy accords exactlywith the time of Canynges, and like his portraiture. ? •? wi:sTiu-)iV cOLLCOi:. 191 as a c,i\iliaii, it is lialilfd i]i a lonu, loose [garmentroacliiiig to tlic feel; llie tiirbau or cap \vbiclicovered llie liead, and llieii a \cry fashiouaMea])peiidage, rests in lilce manner uj)on the leftslioulder, and the scarf a})pertaininL^^ to it falls uponthe hreast. 20. Near this tonih ilie dust of several of Can-vnges domestics of a meaner i^rade re})Oses. On aIhit stone is carved a. knife and a skimiiier, indica-ting that the occupation of the person who sleepsheneath, was that of a Cook; and an mscriplionunder these rude endjlems informs the reader thatil ]ierpctuates the memory of Willm Coke quon-dam ser\itii AVillmi Canjnges niercatore villeJhistole cujus animiT3 propitictur Deus. Amen:—he was therefore Cany
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