one of the upper rooms, having, no doubt, been removed from their original situation. Their subject is a duck-hunt— a pastime which Strutt* justly describes as "barbarous," and which is now happily obsolete.

Blomefield mentions an almshouse of brick, built on the east side of the churchyard at Diss, by Mr. Robert Burroughs,† who was Lord of the Manor of Roydon Hall with Tufts, and Patron of the Advowson of Roydon. He wrote his name

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This almshouse was pulled down some years ago, and the site laid into the churchyard. In the Charity Commissioners' Report, it appears to be confounded with the house built in 1610, pursuant to the will of Richard Fisher, but which last, Blomefield says, was down in 1736. ||

Besides that upon the angle-post of the Guildhall, some other similar carvings have been suffered to reach the present times. One of these will be found

on the house in the occupation of Mr. Charles Alger, near the ancient site of St. Nicholas Chapel. This capital is in nearly perfect preservation. It is more deeply and boldly carved than the annexed etching would indicate. The subject on the north side is the Birth of Christ; that on the