XVIII. The _north choir-aisle_, of the same general character as that opposite, has also been restored. The beauty of the capitals and bosses of foliage is here especially noticeable. In the last bay toward the west, on the west side of the window, and high in the wall, is a small oriel window, of Perpendicular date, formerly communicating with the sacrist’s lodgings. There is now no access whatever to it; but Norman arches in the wall (evident from without) indicate the existence of a sacrist’s chamber, and probably of a window afterwards replaced by that now existing, before the rebuilding of the choir in the thirteenth century. From the window the position of the great shrines at the head of the choir was commanded, and it perhaps served as a watching-chamber. In this aisle (removed from the south transept) is the monument of Bishop MADDOX, (1743-1759,) who had “an exact knowledge of the constitution of this national Church.” XIX. In the easternmost bay of the south aisle of the nave a door (the Prior’s entrance) opens to the _cloisters_. These are of Perpendicular date, but their construction has not been recorded. They are (1866) undergoing a complete restoration, externally and internally; and the debased stone-work, inserted in the windows in 1762, has been removed. The exterior was so dilapidated that an entire re-casing was necessary; but the ancient details have been most carefully decyphered and restored. Although very perfect, however, the cloisters are of no great interest or beauty. The arrangement of the vaulting-shafts on the piers between the windows should be noticed, as well as the flowing tracery on the sides of the arches. The use of the squared openings in the piers, on three sides of the cloisters, is quite uncertain, and Professor Willis has suggested that it may have been a mere caprice of the builder[90]. The vaulting of the cloisters is lierne, with bosses of foliage. In the west walk the ancient lavatory remains. In the north walk is the well-known sepulchral slab, with the single word _Miserrimus_. This “most wretched one” was the Rev. THOMAS MORRIS, Minor Canon of Worcester, and Vicar of Claines, about two miles north of the city. At the Revolution he refused to take the oaths to William III., and consequently lost his preferments. He was supported by the richer Nonjurors, and in allusion to his destitute condition ordered this single word to be engraved on his tomb-stone. The inscription thus really intimates a very different feeling from that suggested in Wordsworth’s sonnet:-- “ ... Himself alone Could thus have dared the grave to agitate, And claim, among the dead, this awful crown. Nor doubt that he marked also for his own, Close to these cloistral steps a burial place, That every foot might fall with heavier tread, Trampling upon his vileness. Stranger, pass Softly!--To save the contrite, Jesus bled.”