In Boxgrove church, Sussex, there is a splendid and elaborately sculptured monument of the Lords Delawar; and on the side which has not been engraved in Mr. Dallaway's history of the county, there are two figures of Death and a female, wholly unconnected with the other subjects on the tomb. These figures are 9-1/2 inches in height, and of rude design. Many persons will probably remember to have seen among the ballads, &c. that were formerly, and are still exhibited on some walls in the metropolis, a poem, intitled "Death and the Lady." This is usually accompanied with a wood-cut, resembling the above figures. It is proper to mention likewise on this occasion the old alliterative poem in Bishop Percy's famous manuscript, intitled _Death and Liffe_, the subject of which is a vision wherein the poet sees a contest for superiority between "our Lady Dame Life," and the "ugly fiend, Dame Death." See "Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry," in the Essay on the Metre of Pierce Plowman's Vision. Whether there may have been any connexion between these respective subjects must be left to the decision of others. There is certainly some reason to suppose so. [Illustration] The sculptures at Berlin and Fescamp have been already described. Among the subjects of tapestry at the Tower of London, the most ancient residence of our kings, was "the Dance of Macabre." See the inventory of King Henry VIII.'s Guardrobe, &c. in MS. Harl. 1419, fo. 5. Two panes of glass with a portion of a Dance of Death. 1. Three Deaths, that appear to have been placed at the beginning of the Dance. Over them, in a character of the time of Henry VII. these lines: ... ev'ry man to be contented w{t} his chaunce, And when it shall please God to folowe my daunce. 2. Death and the Pope. No verses. Size, upright, 8-1/2 by 7 inches. In the author's possession. They have probably belonged to a Macaber Dance in the windows of some church. CHAPTER XVII. _Trois vifs et trois morts.--Negro figure of Death.--Danse aux Avengles._ The first of these subjects, as connected with the Macaber Dance, has been already introduced at p. 31-33; what is now added will not, it is presumed, be thought unworthy of notice. It is needless to repeat the descriptions that have been given by M. Peignot of the manuscripts in the Duke de la Valliere's catalogue. The following are some of the printed volumes in which representations of the _trois vifs et trois morts_ occur. They are to be found in all the editions of the Danse Macabre that have already been described, and in the following Horæ and other service books of the catholic church. "Horæ ad usum Sarum," 1495, no place, no printer. 4to. Three Deaths, three horsemen with hawks and hounds. The hermit, to whom the vision appeared, in his cell. "Heures à l'usaige de Rome." Paris. Nicolas Higman, for Guil. Eustace, 1506, 12mo. "Horæ ad usum Traject." 1513. 18mo.