y
of King Peada, to the restoring of it by King Edgar." Each light had two
lines of verse at the foot, explaining the subject matter of the glass
above. All the verses in the windows of the west alley are given; and
from this we gather that there were nine windows there of four lights
each. Although Gunton only gives the verses belonging to the west
cloister, yet as he said previously that "every window had at the bottom
the explanation of the history thus in verse," it is supposed that
similar legends appeared in all the other alleys of the cloister. The
verses are very quaint.

[Illustration: Door to Palace Grounds from the Cloisters, 1797.]

[Illustration: Door way to Cathedral from the Cloisters.]

The archway at the south-eastern corner is very elegant, the open
quatrefoil above the round arch and below the pointed arch being
especially good. The south wall indicates that there were two sets of
cloisters here, as the remains of early English arcading are to be
clearly seen. Towards the west was the lavatory, the remains indicating
work of late fourteenth century date. It is on record that Robert of
Lindsey (1214-1222) erected a lavatory in the south cloister: this would
be contemporary with the Early English work remaining in this wall, and
with the archway to the slype; but it must have been removed when the
cloisters were enlarged, and another lavatory, of which we see the
remains under three arches, built in its stead. The Refectory was
immediately to the south of this wall: some beautiful carving is to be
seen in the Bishop's garden. The south-western doorway gives access to
the Bishop's grounds. The depth of the hollows behind the carved foliage
above the door is remarkable.

In the west wall are remains of a Norman cloister; there are three
arches and a door. From the architectural character it seems almost
certain that these are older than any part of the present Cathedral.
William of Waterville (1155-1175) "built the Cloister and covered it
with lead." Canon Davys conjectures that this Abbot in reality repaired
and made sound the old cloisters that had been built by Ernulf
(1107-1115), "whose recent additions to the buildings of the monastery,
we learn, alone escaped the fire, which consumed the other parts of the
Abbey in the time of John de Sais." One of these arches has the cheese
moulding; and on each jamb is a small incised cross, a very few inches
long. If these are consecration crosses they are t