The last bay of the Lady-chapel has an open passage below it, which was rendered necessary at the time of the building of the chapel, from the fact that the boundary wall of the monastery passed north and south in a line with the extreme eastern buttresses. (The marks of this wall may still be seen on the buttresses.) The archway is picturesque in itself. A very striking view of the north-east portion of the cathedral opens beyond it; full of varied and intricate outlines formed by the projecting chapels and the walls of the cloister and chapter-house, and crowned by the great mass of the central tower with its deep shadows and its fretwork of grey stone. The _tower_ (see § III.) was (as appears from the inscription within, § X.) the work of Abbot SEABROKE, (1450-1457,) and was, said one of the monks to Leland (_temp._ Hen. VIII.), “a pharos to all parts of the hills.” The singular beauty of its pinnacles of open-work has already been noticed. A passage called the Abbot’s Cloister separates the chapter-house from the north transept. The cloister itself, however, extended beyond this passage eastward. The inner walls alone remain. The eastern wall has entirely disappeared; and beyond it are some transitional Norman arches, which belonged to the infirmary of the monastery. NOTE, (p. 33). Since the foregoing pages were in type, Mr. Winston has arrived at some very important and interesting conclusions relating to the east window of the choir. The general design of the figure-work is the Enthronement of the Blessed Virgin. The original arms in the window were those of warriors who served in the Cressy campaign, and who were connected with the county of Gloucester by their landed possessions; and there is ground for a surmise that the donor of the glass was Lord Bradeston, Governor of Gloucester Castle. The conception of the work may be attributed to 1347 or 1348, and it was completed not later than 1350. The saving of this noble relic from the destructive effects of a ‘restoration’ is due to the energetic remonstrances of the Archæological Institute; in the Journal of which Society the results of Mr. Winston’s investigations, briefly stated above, will soon, it is to be hoped, appear. They will be eagerly welcomed by all who are interested in the subject. GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL. PART II. History of the See, with Short Notices of the principal Bishops.