The capitals of the great piers are painted with the device of Richard II., the white hart, chained and collared. Hence a tradition has arisen that the body of the King was drawn by stags from Berkeley to Gloucester. (3.) The chantry, with effigy, of Abbot PARKER, (the last Abbot of Gloucester,) 1515-1539. The chantry has been converted into a pew. The screen enclosing it has a good frieze of vine-leaves and grapes; and the niches for statues at the angles should be noticed. The effigy, of alabaster, has been much cut and injured. The Abbot wears the chasuble and jewelled mitre, (Gloucester ranked as the eleventh of the twenty-seven mitred English abbeys); the top of his staff is broken. There are small figures in the portion left. The base of the monument has shields with the Abbot’s arms, and others bearing the emblems of our Lord’s Passion. XIII. The _north choir-aisle_ is entered from the choir through a Perpendicular doorway in the bay below Abbot Parker’s chantry. The aisle itself is Norman, of the same date as the choir, but has the windows filled with Perpendicular tracery. The low enormous piers of the choir are here well seen, and the monuments already described should all be noticed from this side. At the north-east angle of the aisle is one of the apsidal _chapels_, three of which terminated the Norman choir. The chapel forms a pentagon, the place of the altar being, very unusually, north-east. The whole chapel was altered as a memorial of Abbot BOTELER, (1437-1450). It is enclosed by a Perpendicular screen, and the windows are filled with Perpendicular tracery. Behind the altar is a very rich Perpendicular reredos, having one central and eight smaller niches. Some of the small figures of the Apostles in the canopies above [Illustration: TOMB OF ROBERT, DUKE OF NORMANDY.] are perfect; and there are also many shields of benefactors to the monastery. The whole is richly painted.