h Elizabethan carving, and E.R. in the centre panel.

[Illustration: CARVING AT NEW INN LANE ED J BURROW 1897]

In Southgate Street, opposite the Corn Exchange, is a well-known house
with a carved front. There is an elaborate over-mantel dated 1650. It
bears the arms of the Yates, the Berkeley, and the Box families.
Opposite St. Nicholas' Church is the Bishop Hooper Pharmacy. It is said
to be the house where the Bishop was kept closely guarded on the night
before his execution.

[Illustration: Remains of the Roman Wall Under 36 Westgate Sr.
Ed J. Burrow dil/94.]

The house of Robert Raikes, of Sunday School fame, is a fine house of
three gables, and is well preserved.

The house where Raikes held his first Sunday School can still be seen in
St. Catherine Street, Hare Lane.

The old Roman wall can be seen in several places--_e.g._ at 36 Westgate
Street, at Messrs Lea & Co.'s furniture warehouse in Northgate Street,
at Mr John Bellows' in Eastgate Street.

The #Gloucester Candlestick.#--One of the most interesting relics of the
Abbey of Gloucester is a candlestick which is now in the museum at South
Kensington. It is a remarkably fine piece of metal work, about 16 inches
in height, cast by the _cera perduta_ process in very pale bronze,
richly gilt and decorated. The upright stem is divided into two
compartments by bosses, ornamented with the emblems of the Evangelists,
and supporting a cup at the top. A triangular base supports the stem,
and the whole is enriched with forty-two monsters in various grotesque
attitudes, wrestling and struggling with nine human beings.

Round the stem is a ribbon bearing the inscription--

ABBATIS PETRI GREGIS ET DEVOTIO MITIS ME DEDIT
ECCLESIE SANCTI PETRI GLOUCESTRE.

Round the cup is a ribbon, on the outside of which a couplet is
inscribed--

LUCIS ONUS VIRTUTIS OPUS DOCTRINA REFULGENS
PREDICAT UT VICIO NON TENEBRETUR HOMO.

Inside this same ribbon are two hexameters--

HOC CENOMANNENSIS RES ECCLESIE POCIENSIS
THOMAS DITAVIT CUM SOL ANNUM RENOVAVIT.

After its removal from Gloucester, the candlestick was given to the
Cathedral of Le Mans by Thomas de Poche or de Poce (POCIENSIS).
Subsequently it belonged to the Marquis d'Espaulart of Le Mans, and was
sold to Prince Soltykoff for about L800, and finally was bought from his
collection for L680 for the Museum at South Kensington.

#Bishop Hooper's Memorial# stands in the churchyard