“To the kindest of fathers-in-law, and the best of patrons, here interred, John Lumley, Baron Lumley, his affectionate son-in-law and executor, with many tears, and as a last testimony of his love, has consecrated this monument, and adorned it with his own armour, not for the sake of preserving his memory, which his virtues have rendered immortal, but for the sake of that mortal body, which is here deposited, in the hope of a happy resurrection.” There is one monument of a peculiarly striking character; it occupies an opening cut in the wall, between the chancel and the Lady’s chapel--the chapel which forms the subject of our principal engraving. They are divided by low arches. The tomb is an open feretrum or bier, carved in alabaster, and formerly painted, under which lies an emaciated figure extended on a shroud. Upon the upper slab is an effigy in plate armour, with a close tabard, emblazoned with Fitz-alan and Maltravers, quarterly, the feet resting on a horse. Two angels support the head. It represents John Fitz-alan, Earl of Arundel, who died at Beauvais of wounds received at the siege of Gerberoy, in 1435. He had selected this spot as the place of his interment; and although his remains were buried in the Cathedral of Beauvais, this singular monument was erected to his memory here. The church encloses several monuments in addition to those we have enumerated; and in the chancel are many brasses, containing epitaphs “in obsolete Latin and monkish verse” to masters and fellows of the college and to servants of the noble families--the Montgomeries, the Albinis, the Fitz-alans and the Howards--who have held sway over Arundel for centuries, for-- “Since William rose and Harold fell, There have been Counts of Arundel; And Earls old Arundel shall have While rivers flow and forests wave.” The decorations of the church and its magnificent tombs were either seriously injured or destroyed by soldiers quartered in the church during the siege of the castle in 1643. The windows were formerly filled with richly stained glass, the eastern window containing a series of kneeling figures, male and female, in coat armour and mantles, with their respective armorial bearings.[51] It is to the honour of the present Duke of Norfolk, that although a member of the Roman Catholic Church, he has deemed it his duty to restore this ancient and venerable edifice from the state of dilapidation in which it has for many years existed. [Illustration: From a drawing by J. D Harding. Day & Son, Lithʳˢ. to The Queen. BOXGROVE CHURCH, SUSSEX.] BOXGROVE CHURCH, SUSSEX.