ster, its richly carved
roof may be best seen. The western wall, with the exception of a few
mortuary tablets, is quite plain. The eastern wall is pierced with eight
three-light windows, between which are the remains of small niches.

Many old vicars are buried within this cloister. The roof is of oak, the
wall-plates, purlins, and rafters are richly moulded and the tie-beams and
principals are richly carved on both sides with various patterns and
devices.

The Rev. F. Havergal says:--"The late William Cooke acquired an immense
amount of information relating to the college and the vicars in olden
time. His biographical notices of them are most curious and amusing,
giving a complete insight into the manners, traditions, and customs of the
place." He goes on to quote from the _Lansdowne Manuscript_ in the British
Museum, 213, p. 333.

"Relation of a survey of twenty-six counties in 1634, by a captain, a
lieutenant, and an ancient, all three of the military company in Norwich.

"Next came wee into a brave and ancient priviledg'd Place, through the
Lady Arbour Cloyster, close by the Chapter-house, called the Vicars
Chorall or Colledge Cloyster, where twelve of the singing men, all in
orders, most of them Masters in Arts, of a Gentile garbe, have their
convenient several dwellings, and a fayre Hall, with richly painted
windows, colledge like, wherein they constantly dyet together, and have
their cooke, butler, and other officers, with a fayre library to
themselves, consisting all of English books, wherein (after we had freely
tasted of their chorall cordiall liquor) we spent our time till the Bell
toll'd us away to Cathedral prayers. There we heard a most sweet Organ,
and voyces of all parts, Tenor, Counter-Tenor, Treble, and Base; and
amongst that orderly shewy crew of Queristers our landlord guide did act
his part in a deep and sweet Diapason."

*The North-East Transept.*--This transept shows ample evidence of the
original Norman plan, although its present character is Early Decorated.

Of the triple apse in which the Norman Cathedral probably terminated--an
arrangement similar to the eastern apses of Gloucester and Norwich
Cathedrals--portions remain in the walls of the vestibule to the Lady
Chapel, and in this, the north-east transept, still remain parts of the
apses which opened from the choir aisles. These are somewhat later than
the nave and belong to the Transition period.

After the completion of the great no