the south-east wall of the chancel. These relics of the splendid past include the mutilated stone figures of four saints, probably the evangelists, beautifully carved, and a representation of the crucifixion in black marble, but the ornament of precious metal, with which it was adorned, has long since disappeared. [Footnote 15: Professor Freeman.] The altars, desks, and tables in the Lady Chapel were covered with plates of silver, as in the crypt beneath, which was also, in those days, a splendid chantry, served by its own priest, who was called "the Charnel Priest." The sacramental vessels and plate, which were of great value, were sold after the suppression. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Incumbent of Waltham Abbey in 1648, gives the following extracts from the churchwarden's accounts: "1549. _Imprimis._--Sold the silver plate which was on the desk in the charnel, weighing five ounces, for twenty-five shillings. Guess," adds the historian, "the gallantry of our church by this (presuming all the rest in proportionable equipage) when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plate of silver." "1551. _Item._--Received for two hundred seventy-one ounces of plate, sold at several times for the best advantage, sixty-seven pound fourteen shillings and ninepence."[16] The inventory of goods made by order of Henry VIII. also mentions "iiii. tables [of oure Ladye] plated with sylver and gylte, every one of them with ii. folding leves." The Chapel was furnished besides with "a lytell payre of organes," valued at xxs., at the dissolution of the monastery, when Thomas Tallis, the father of English church music, was organist of the Abbey Church, and presided at the "greate large payre of organes" in the Choir. He was assisted by John Boston, of Waltham, who probably performed on the smaller instrument in the Lady Chapel. Both names are mentioned in the pension list, Tallis receiving xxs. for wages and xxs. reward, and Boston iiis. for wages and iiis. reward. [Footnote 16: History of Waltham Abbey, cap. 5.]