[Illustration: THE NEW INN. From a Drawing by E. J. Burrow] 163 Westgate Street contains a fine panelled room (the greater part dating back from 1530-1550), which was discovered in 1890 when alterations were being made. It is shown on payment of a fee, which includes a printed description of the house. Some of the carving--such as the Royal Arms of England--seems earlier than 1520, but the arms may have been copied from an earlier document. Near St. Nicholas' Church is another interesting house, where Queen Elizabeth is said to have stayed in one of her many progresses through the country. The side of the house abuts curiously on the church of St. Nicholas. Inside there is a quaint overmantel, with Elizabethan carving, and E.R. in the centre panel. [Illustration: CARVING AT NEW INN LANE ED J BURROW 1897] In Southgate Street, opposite the Corn Exchange, is a well-known house with a carved front. There is an elaborate over-mantel dated 1650. It bears the arms of the Yates, the Berkeley, and the Box families. Opposite St. Nicholas' Church is the Bishop Hooper Pharmacy. It is said to be the house where the Bishop was kept closely guarded on the night before his execution. [Illustration: Remains of the Roman Wall Under 36 Westgate Sr. Ed J. Burrow dil/94.] The house of Robert Raikes, of Sunday School fame, is a fine house of three gables, and is well preserved. The house where Raikes held his first Sunday School can still be seen in St. Catherine Street, Hare Lane. The old Roman wall can be seen in several places--_e.g._ at 36 Westgate Street, at Messrs Lea & Co.'s furniture warehouse in Northgate Street, at Mr John Bellows' in Eastgate Street. The #Gloucester Candlestick.#--One of the most interesting relics of the Abbey of Gloucester is a candlestick which is now in the museum at South Kensington. It is a remarkably fine piece of metal work, about 16 inches in height, cast by the _cera perduta_ process in very pale bronze, richly gilt and decorated. The upright stem is divided into two compartments by bosses, ornamented with the emblems of the Evangelists, and supporting a cup at the top. A triangular base supports the stem, and the whole is enriched with forty-two monsters in various grotesque attitudes, wrestling and struggling with nine human beings. Round the stem is a ribbon bearing the inscription-- ABBATIS PETRI GREGIS ET DEVOTIO MITIS ME DEDIT ECCLESIE SANCTI PETRI GLOUCESTRE. Round the cup is a ribbon, on the outside of which a couplet is inscribed-- LUCIS ONUS VIRTUTIS OPUS DOCTRINA REFULGENS PREDICAT UT VICIO NON TENEBRETUR HOMO. Inside this same ribbon are two hexameters-- HOC CENOMANNENSIS RES ECCLESIE POCIENSIS THOMAS DITAVIT CUM SOL ANNUM RENOVAVIT.