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pernicious system, alluded to in the First Section, is not in operation.In the course of last year, the very elaborately carved monument ofThomas West, Lord de la Warre,* in Broadwater Church, Sussex, wascompletely restored by ordinary country masons, who had never beforeattempted any thing beyond plain mouldings. On the eastern sideof the county the author met with carpenters of the same order, carvingin oak with all the character and feeling of our old artisans. Indeed,the enrichments of Tudor architecture require little more than decisionof outline, and could be wrought by almost every intelligent joinerand mason, if clearly directed, and furnished with proper models.Even the forms of heraldic animals—more difficult than any otherkind of ornament — are so strongly marked, and need so little expression,as scarcely to come under the designation of sculpture.

* By his will, October 8, 1524, he ordered his body to be buried in a tomb of free-stone,within the chancel of the parish-church of Broadwater, “ according to his honor.” Andbequeathed to that church his mantle of blue velvet of the Garter , and his gown of crimsonvelvet belonging thereto, to make altar-cloths. He appointed ten marks to be paid yearly, forthirty years, as a salary for a priest, daily to say mass in the church of Broadwater, and to prayfor the souls of himself, his two wives, father and mother, and all Christians .

Near him lies the body of his son, Thomas, Lord de la Warre, who exchanged withKing Henry VIII . large estates in Sussex for abbey lands in Hampshire, and was a KnightBanneret, and Knight of the Garter . Died at Offington, September 25, 1554, and buriedOctober 12, with great pomp, having “ standards, banners of arms, and many mourners.”He was reputed to be “ the best house-keeper in Sussex."