162 MARKS OF CADENCY of the minute examination now bestowed on the remains of medieval art, some vakiable additions may be made to it of examples, which, if they have not hitherto escaped observa- tion, have not yet been brought before that portion of the public that takes an interest in such matters. On a visit to Lincoln Cathedral in October last, my atten- tion was arrested by the interesting sculptured heraldry displayed on the Burghersh tombs.^ A series of six shields, of different members of the Plantagenet family, especially attracted me. They are on the north side of Bishop Burghersh's monument, in the spandrils above the niches, in which are figures in ecclesiastical habits. The shields are all of the same form and size, about 3 inches long, and now without colour ; but some traces of their having been coloured still remain. They are as follows, and, reckoning from the west, in the following order : — 1. France and England quarterly. 2. France and England quarterly, a label of five points, plain. 3. France and England quarterly, a label of five points, each charged with a cross. 4. France and England quarterly, a label of five jioints, each charged with two ermine spots. 5. France and England quarterly, a label of five points, each counter compony. 6. England with a label of five points, each charged with two fleurs de lis. The arms of France are in each case semee of fleurs-de-hs ; and the general character of all these shields is shown by the annexed illustrations. I immediately recognised Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 6 as the arms respectively of King Edward III., the Black Prince, John of Ghent, and Henry, Duke of Lancaster ; but Nos. 3 and 5 were new to me, and I have failed to discover them among the differenced coats attributed to this family, or elsewhere ; but I hope I shall be able to show whose they were, and why those particular labels were used. I will here notice a seceming anachronism arising from the fact, that Bishop Burghersh died in December, 1340, the year in which John
- I have since been informed that these but that the particulars about to be nieu-
tombs were the subject of a paper read at tioned were not noticed in it. the Meeting of the Institute at Lincoln,
