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Article ACCOUNT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CHAPEL OF ROSLIN, &c. * ← Page 6 of 6 Article ACCOUNT OF SHAKSPEARE's CRAB-TREE. Page 1 of 2 →
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Account And Description Of The Chapel Of Roslin, &C. *
and two ships , without supporters . This ensign armorial is not mentioned by Mr . Hay . A little above this capital , in a direct line , there is a niche for a statue almost . as big as the life , lacing westward . The key-stone of the third double arch is pendant as the two former ones , but ends in a representation of the star in the East at our Saviour ' s birth ; on the south point of which stands the Virgin Mother with the babe in her arms . On her riht handbeing the next point
g , of the star , is the manger , ancl round from that on the other points are the wise men from the East , each of them having a long rod or staff in his hand . —All these figures are extremely distinct . Each corner of the-window opposite to the star , has three cherubs ( besides those- which have been pedestals of statues on the back of the altar , four of which are in sight of the star ) with a scroll waving
lip and down from hand to hand , representing , perhaps , the angelic declaration of the birth of the Messiah to the shepherds , and the heavenly choir , praising God , and saying , Glory to God in the hig hest , and on earth peace , good-will toxoards men . ' -.-. ¦ The key-stone of the fourth and last double arch above the large altar , depends in length as the former-ones , and is a piece of foliage .
Two sides of this double arch , with your face towards the north-Avest , represents the resurrection , by people rising out of their graves like skeletons , and improving into proper forms plated close to the skeletons . In the opposite window , being the fourth in the altar , north-east corner of the chapel , there are two cherubs with scrolls as above , and tour without scrolls . ( To be continued . )
Account Of Shakspeare's Crab-Tree.
ACCOUNT OF SHAKSPEARE's CRAB-TREE .
SPIAKSPEARE ' s bench , and the half-pint mug out of which he used to take very copious draughts of ale at a public-house either , in Stratford-upon-Avon , or the neighbourhood of that town , are well known to all our English Antiquaries , from their having been long in the possession of the late Mr . James "West , by whose descendants I have no doubt they are carefully preserved , and will be long transmitted , as heir-looms in the family : but with Shakspeare ' s CRAB
TREE the Antiquarian Society probably are not so well acquainted . There has been long a tradition in Warwickshire , that our great dramatic bard was a veiy boon companion ; and the fame of two illustrious bands of good fellows , who were distinguished b 3 the denominations of the TOPERS and the SITPERS , is not vet extinct iu that
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Account And Description Of The Chapel Of Roslin, &C. *
and two ships , without supporters . This ensign armorial is not mentioned by Mr . Hay . A little above this capital , in a direct line , there is a niche for a statue almost . as big as the life , lacing westward . The key-stone of the third double arch is pendant as the two former ones , but ends in a representation of the star in the East at our Saviour ' s birth ; on the south point of which stands the Virgin Mother with the babe in her arms . On her riht handbeing the next point
g , of the star , is the manger , ancl round from that on the other points are the wise men from the East , each of them having a long rod or staff in his hand . —All these figures are extremely distinct . Each corner of the-window opposite to the star , has three cherubs ( besides those- which have been pedestals of statues on the back of the altar , four of which are in sight of the star ) with a scroll waving
lip and down from hand to hand , representing , perhaps , the angelic declaration of the birth of the Messiah to the shepherds , and the heavenly choir , praising God , and saying , Glory to God in the hig hest , and on earth peace , good-will toxoards men . ' -.-. ¦ The key-stone of the fourth and last double arch above the large altar , depends in length as the former-ones , and is a piece of foliage .
Two sides of this double arch , with your face towards the north-Avest , represents the resurrection , by people rising out of their graves like skeletons , and improving into proper forms plated close to the skeletons . In the opposite window , being the fourth in the altar , north-east corner of the chapel , there are two cherubs with scrolls as above , and tour without scrolls . ( To be continued . )
Account Of Shakspeare's Crab-Tree.
ACCOUNT OF SHAKSPEARE's CRAB-TREE .
SPIAKSPEARE ' s bench , and the half-pint mug out of which he used to take very copious draughts of ale at a public-house either , in Stratford-upon-Avon , or the neighbourhood of that town , are well known to all our English Antiquaries , from their having been long in the possession of the late Mr . James "West , by whose descendants I have no doubt they are carefully preserved , and will be long transmitted , as heir-looms in the family : but with Shakspeare ' s CRAB
TREE the Antiquarian Society probably are not so well acquainted . There has been long a tradition in Warwickshire , that our great dramatic bard was a veiy boon companion ; and the fame of two illustrious bands of good fellows , who were distinguished b 3 the denominations of the TOPERS and the SITPERS , is not vet extinct iu that