ABBEY CHURCH, East End (with a funeral), showing the Ancient Arch Window BAKER'S ENTRY, remains of the Houses occupied by the Abbots' retainers ....... Herman. O, uncertain path of life! in our hopes how little security! in our joy what short duration : where can weak man And shelter Where in this short life peace ?"-CAMOENS. STEEL PLATE.–VIEW OF THE CASTLE FROM THE NORTA, showing the Keep, the Gate, and Outworks .............................................................. ENTRANCE TO THE KEEP by an ascent of seventy-two stone steps.................... SARGENT CARISBROOKE CASTLE-The ancient Donjon-partly Saxon--from the “Roman Mounds" THE BARRACKS AND GOVERNOR's House, with the Keep, from Mountjoy Tower, SARGENT. ANCIENT GATE IN THE CASTLE, viewed from the Interior, leading to the steps... SARGENT. PART OF THE KEEP, known as the Flag-staff Tower, with the Battlement....... SARGENT. PORTRAIT OF HENRY BEAUCHAMP, crowned King of the Isle of Wight, in his Coronation Robes, from the original by Rous, British Museum............... NORMAN GATE, from the Interior, with the Original Oaken Door, said to be 500 years old THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, with part of the Barracks, erected by Queen Eliza beth.............................. THE GREAT GATE, with Round Prison Towers, Machicolations, and Queen Elizabeth's Gate in the foreground. View taken from the road THE GARRISON WELL, showing the Great Windlass-Wheel, &c.; with the Interior of the Building as it now appears SIGN-MANUAL OF KING CHARLES I., from the Original MS. British Museum..... HERMAN. “QUEEN ELIZABETH'S TOWER," with the Outer Gate and Landscape, from the Keep........ VIEW OF THE APARTMENTS OCCUPIED BY KING CHARLES DURING HIS IMPRISON MENT IN THE CASTLE, with the Window from which he attempted to EXACT FORM AND APPEARANCE OF THE SAME WINDOW, from which, with his own hand, the King had sawed through one of the Iron Bars............... SARGENT. GROUND-PLAN OF CARISBROOKE CASTLE, showing all the Buildings and Out works.......................... VOL. I. THE ABBOT'S SEAL, with its Impression and Inscription ........................... THE CONFESSIONAL, for the Cistercian Brotherhood of the Abbey ................. THE SACRISTY OF THE ABBEY, Vaulted, and Lighted by two Windows............. SARGENT. THE BUTTEBY-DOOR OF NETLEY ABBEY. Peasants with their Offerings receive ing the Priest's Benediction. THE CONFESSIONAL OF NETLEY ABBEY, with Confessor and Penitent.............. SARGENT. NETLEY CASTLE, lately used as a public House of Entertainment................... SARGENT ALLEGORICAL SUBJECT—with Figures and Tomes........................................ SARGENT. SCROLL-HEAD, illustrative of Arundel Castle-West Gateway—“Owl and Swallow" THE BARON'S HALL–Minstrelsy in the Olden Time-SYR Bevis................... ARCHER. DISCOVERY OF HAROLD's Body, after the Battle of Hastings, by his Mistress, Edith with the Swan's neck". ARCHER. .............. HEAD OF KING CHARLES I. as Prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle....................... SCROLL-HEAD, WITH ARUS AND Trophies OF TEWKESBIJRY ABBEY................ MILITARY TROPHIES OF KENILWORTH, with the Arms of Robert Earl of Lei cester................ SCROLL, WITH THE SHRINE OF THE HOLY CROSS, WALTHAM ABBEY...... HERMAX, DELAMOTTE. SCROLL-HEAD AND GATEWAY, with the Royal Crown and Arms.. .................. |