1, and
at the end of the following year he died at Penzance, where he was
wintering.
The fourth window is filled with glass in memory of members of the
Mounsey family, and Captain John Oswald Lambert.
The following subjects are represented:--
Our Lord The Transfiguration. Pilate writing
rebuking the title
the Sea. for the Cross.
The Adoration The entry into Our Lord
of the Magi. Jerusalem. before Pilate.
St. Paul St. Paul before St. Paul
before the King Agrippa. on board
Chief Priests. ship.
At the back of the bishop's throne are some shelves containing a few
standard devotional books for the use of the congregation before and
after divine service. It would be a good thing if this custom could be
generally adopted, and every church in the land furnished with a small
library of the works of such men as Thomas a Kempis, St. Augustine,
Taylor, Law, and Keble.
The low doorway in the north-eastern angle of the retro-choir opens on a
staircase leading to the upper part of the cathedral, and the tower.
If we ascend to the clerestory we may pass along the ambulatory, and
obtain a nearer view of the great east window (especially the old glass
in the tracery), the choir roof, and the clerestory windows. At the end
of the ambulatory we come to the belfry.
There are six #Bells#, one of which, bearing the date 1396, was
furnished by Bishop Strickland. It is inscribed as follows:--
In: voce: sum: munda: maria;
sonando: secunda.
Another bell bears the following sentence:--
"Jesus be our speed." Date 1608.
A third has on the rim--"This ringe was made six tuneable bells at the
charge of the Lord Howard and other gentree of the country and citie,
and officers of the garrisson, by the advice of Majer Jeremiah Tolhurst,
governor of the garrisson 1658." This bell was cracked while ringing
during the rejoicings held in honour of the peace after Waterloo.
On a bell dated 1657 can be read, "I warne you how your time doth pass
away, Serve God therefore while life doth last, and say Glorie in
excelsis Deo."
Of the remaining bells, one is dated 1659, and the other 1728.
In war time the tower was useful as a watch-tower, especially when the
enemy was approaching from Scotland. The sm
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