connexion with the Tau cross points clearly to Ethiopia. The Egyptian symbol of life, the Crux Ansata, would naturally be adopted by the Christians of Africa, and by getting rid of the Ansa it was not only brought to a sufficient resemblance to the Cross of Calvary, but also to the initial letter of the word THEOS, or to the top of the crutch of St. Anthony, the wonder-working hermit. The heraldic Presbyter Johannes accordingly takes his place among the griffons and mermaids of blazonry; and in the escutcheon of the See of Chichester the transverse arms of the cross have curiously diverged into a sword held horizontally in the mouth of the presbyter.

The care of a well-known collector, the late Mr. Dawson Turner, has preserved to us some fragments of panel painting of the fourteenth century, which were discovered in Ingham church in 1782. The drawings were communicated by Sir John Fenn to Mr. Carter, from the originals in his possession, with the following remark: "These strange figures may exercise the fertile invention of an antiquary to develop them." Happily the task is easy, and by the courtesy of the British Museum we are enabled to transfer them to our pages, from the illustrations to Mr. Dawson Turner's edition of Blomefield's Norfolk.

No. I. The Consecration of St. Nicholas. The legend informs us that on his return from the Holy Land the consecration was forced upon him, "plurimum renitentem," by the people of Myra, whose choice was miraculously confirmed. He was venerated as the patron of the distressed, the weak, and the unfortunate, and of children and penitents generally; also of sailors. He stands upon a dais behind which two acolytes are holding the croziers of the two consecrating bishops. Two females are introduced as witnessing the ceremony. One, in the wimple, unveiled, but with covered head. The other, with long tresses, which she exhibits either as an attraction, or as if about to tear her