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Fortunately we are able to know in what esteem this civic hos 2 > itality- was held by the contemporaries and friends of the worthy mayor of Norwich . The bishop of the diocese lent his couuteuauco on that interesting occasion . There was also a speech made by a Mr . Jonny Martyn , who is described as a " wealthy honest man , " and runs thus : —

" Maister Mayor of Norwich , an' it please your worship , you have feasted us like a king . God bless the queen ' s grace , we have led phntitidly ; and now , whilom I can speak plain English , I heartily thank you , master mayor , and so do wc all . Answer , boys , answer ! Your beer is pleasant and potent , and will soon catch us by the caput and stop our manners . And so , huzza for thc queen ' s majest's and all her bonny browed dames of

ygrace honour . Huzza for master mayor and our good dame mayoress . His noble grace ( Norfolk ) , there he is ; God save him and all his jolly company . To ah our friends round county who have a penny in their purse and an English heart in their body , to keep out Spanish dons and papists , with their faggots to burn our whiskers ! Shove it about , twirl your cap cases , handle your jugs , and huzza for master mayor and his brethren their worships ' . " '

Not the least curious of tho old architectural appendages of the cathedral are the gateways which lead to the precincts of the building . The most ancient , and certainly the finest , is dedicated to St . Ethelbert , who was in the olden time regarded as the patron saint of the city , and was constructed by thc citizens b y way of atonement for the part they took in the

great riots of 1272 , and of which mention has been already made , when , among other things , they destroyed the church of St . Ethelbert , which stood ou the site which the gateway now occupies . Over the arch is a chapel , but no longer used as a place of worship . The lower part is the original buildingand is of stonebut the part is recent

, , upper , and is composed of black flint curiously inlaid with stonework . In the spandrlls of the arch is a sculptured representation of St . George attacking the dragon ; and above is a series of niches with crocketted canopies , the central niche being occupied b y a defaced statue . Erpingham Gate is in better preservation , though inferior as a work of art . It erected

was iu 1428 , as part of a penance enjoined on Sir Thomas Erpingham for having adopted the ' principles of Yvickhffo . Sir Thomas Erpingham was a soldier of renown ; ho had served iu the wars in France with Henry V . ; he was lord warden of the Cinque Ports , and stood hi gh in the royal favour . He had come over from Bretagne , ' in Normandy , with Bolingbroke , and was one of the commissioners

to receive King . Richard ' s abdication . Ho was present tit the execution of Lord Cobhain , who was suspended by a chain fastened round his waist over a fire . This torturing death , wo are told , the noble heretic bore with constancy ^ and with Ins last breath conjured Sir Thomas Erpingham , that if he should sec him ( Lord Cobham ) rise from his

grave in throe clays , he ( Sir Thomas Erpingham ) should intercede with the king on behalf of the Lollards . It is not a little remarkable , as illustrating the effect of persecution on account of religious opinion , that Sir Thomas Erpingham should have become a Wicklifh ' tc .

_ . there remain , as wo have said , but few statues , those that formerly existed being reduced to fragments hy time and violence . Yet does there repose here a goodly number of nooles and prelates . At the time the painted windows were destroyed , the church was stri pped of nearly all its monuments also . _ Sir William Brown says that nearly one hundred brass

inscriptions were stolen and taken away from the tombs . Sir William made out a tolerabl y complete list of the monuments that remained after the spoliation . He also gives a list of " other bishops who mi ght be buried in the church " but of _ whom " no history or tradition remaining of the place or their interment in vain we endeavour to out the

, point place . ' There is , however , one very interesting monument , namely , that of the late excellent Bishop Bathurst . This statue is in a sitting position , and is thc last work of Chan-Erey , who died while superintending its erection . Sir William lorowne . also gives a very curious anecdote , as showing tho

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puritanic abhorrence of all superstition . He says that when the Puritans Avere masters , to show their hatred of all such abominations , they placed the seats of the aldermen at the east end of the . choir , and the mayor ' s seat in the middle of the high altar , and removed the pulpit , and altered the whole arrangement of the sittings of the congregation . Stillthough

, shorn much of its ancient splendour , the cathedral of Norwich is a truly noble structure , a glorious monument of the past . He who is once present at a cathedral service within its Avails Avill not soon forget it . The nature must bo cold , and the imagination feeble , Avhich is not stirred as the words of our liturgy ,

" in service high and anthem clear , " reverberate through tho lofty vaults ; and IIOAV silent Avheu the voice of prayer rises no longer in pious aspiration : — " Every stone is kissed "B y sound or ghost of sound in mazy strife , Heart thrilling strains that cast before the eye Of the devout a veil of ecstacy . "

Taste In Architecture Governed By. Domestic Manners.

TASTE IN ARCHITECTURE GOVERNED BY DOMESTIC MANNERS .

HY JOHN AVILSON BOSS . So intimate is the connection of architecture Avith the changes in the domestic habits and social condition of a people , that its buildings actually become the monuments of a nation ' s history and daguerreotypes of domestic life and manners . No period in our own history , Avith its manners and fashionsfails of being faithfully and invariably

repre-, sented by its architecture . Thc architectural details , for example , in the time of the Anglo-Saxons ( of which , by the Avay , a great mass is preserved to us in the monks' illuminated manuscripts ) bring to light the domestic manners of our forefathers more , clearly than any other class of monuments now existing . The then

predominant architectural character Avas to build houses Avith arcades on either side of the triangular arched doorways , Avhich construction is perfectly accounted for by the circumstance that it was usual for persons of rank to place themselves in the centre of the doorway for the purpose of distributing justice and iving alms to the poor . The Avhole

g architecture of the j > eriod indicates the peaceful , benevolent character of the people . But the great peculiarities of construction among the Normans are at once exjnained by the requirements of their age . "Who cannot perceive from the castle being the only type of building all over England that

that Avas a period of oppression and bloodshed , of attack and defence ; that a fovr powerful men possessed the country AVIIO held their position hy ( he strong hand alone , aud made no attempt to establish arts , commerce , or manufactures ; AVIIO kept doAvn . by force the bulk of the population , having at their beck strong bodies of Avell armed retainers % ¦ All this is told iu the aspect of the strongholds to Avhich the lords of the castle

retreated for self preservation , and Avherein they stored their plunder ; in the walls that Avcre strong enough to resist all known engines of Avar , and high enough to be beyond the reach of scaling ladders ; in the gates so jilaced that darts , stones , and molten lead could be poured easily on thc heads of assailants and in outwork after outworkentrance after

; , entrance , floor after floor , acting as separate means of defence to obstruct the assailant foot by foot , and to dispute the possession of one j > lace after another . This AVUS the distinctive character of architecture in all the counties of England during the iron rule of the Norman and Plantagenet monarchy . In the fourteenth centuryAvhen the nobles became less

, warlike , houses Avere occasionally to be found built without fortifications , and with features denoting the gradual though slow development of civilization and of the useful arts ; of the Litter there are such instances as that smoke , which till then Avcnt front the fireplace directl y through the Avail , AA as then trained to escape up flues or chimneys . Thc general