fighting with wild animals; the labours of husbandry; kings, knights, ladies, dragons, griffins, lions, hogs, and wyverns. Whether there is a hidden meaning in any of these quaint subjects, it is perhaps difficult now to say, but the preaching fox is certainly suggestive. To raise each _miserere_ in order to examine the subject underneath would not only prove to be a somewhat tedious and dusty task, but in some cases would lead to disappointment, when nothing but a plain block is seen where the carved subject ought to be. A few of the original _misereres_ in the lower row are missing, and have been replaced in this way. Those who have not the time or the inclination to examine all the subjects, may take the following as representative examples of the whole series. They are all in the upper row; the lower _misereres_ are, as a whole, inferior, and are restored to a much greater extent. Commencing with the precentor's stall on the north side of the door in the rood-screen, the poppy-head in front is carved with the monkey episode referred to above. The numbers in the following list are counted from the precentor's stall; the names are those inscribed on the tablets hung up at the back of the stalls. The subjects are in each case those carved underneath the _misereres_:-- (2) Archdeacon of Lincoln--a fine head and two roses. (4) Archdeacon of Bedford--foliage. (5) Archdeacon of Huntingdon--a man beating down acorns, and pigs feeding. (8) Milton Manor--the gateway of a castle, and the heads of two warriors in armour. (10) Bedford Manor--grotesque winged monsters. (12) Welton Beck--a boy riding on the back of a bird. (18) Welton Rivall--a mermaid with comb and mirror. (22) Biggleswade--two men with a plough, drawn by two bullocks and two horses; to the left, a man with a harrow; to the right, sacks of corn. (31) Carlton cum Dalby--an Ascension, with two angels swinging censers. This is the last stall on the north side before the new ones, which were erected to cover a residence pew, in the year 1778, at the same time as the bishop's throne opposite. Turning to the south side, and numbering from the dean's stall to the west, the following are worthy of notice:-- (1) Dean--the Resurrection of Christ. (2) Sub-dean--a knight on horseback. (4) Norton Epi.--the Coronation of the Virgin, and angels with musical instruments. (9) Leicester St. Margaret's--the Adoration of the Magi. (16) Ketton--two monkeys, one riding on a lion, and the other riding on a unicorn. (26) Asgarby--a king enthroned under a canopy. (28) Corringham--a lion fighting with a winged monster. The front panels of the vicars' stalls and the choristers' desks in the lower range are carved with Gothic tracery, in the panels of which are angels with musical instruments, saints and kings.