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at Upton to a niece of his. Mr. Bird believes that he was a native of Upton, where many of his relatives resided, but who seem to have spelt their name "Morris."

There are but few remains of the monastery: the refectory (with Early Norman base) is still used as the College School; there is a handsome Norman and Perpendicular chapterhouse, with its roof supported by a central shaft; and a fragment of the old Guesten Hall (a fourteeenth century building, unique, and only recently destroyed) still remaining. For the last ten years a thorough restoration and recasing of the Cathedral has been going on, which will probably cost £70,000 on completion, and we shall then have one of the handsomest towers in England, and a nulli secundus peal of a dozen new bells, thanks to the Rev. R. Cattley, a famous campanologist.

The following are the parishes and churches in the city: St. Andrew's: once famous for its wealthy clothiers, whose badge (a woolsack) may still be seen on the barge-board of an old house in Cooken Street (or Cucken Street, from its having been the thoroughfare down which noisy females were formerly conveyed before their introduction to the Severn). The church of this parish, which is mainly late fifteenth century work, with a Norman font, is also noted for its beautiful tapering spire, perhaps the most elegant in England, the work of a mason named Wilkinson, in 1733; its height from the ground, 245 feet 6 inches. Population of the parish in 1861, 1,768; church accommodation, 515; value of living, £106; Rev. E. H. Harrison rector; Dean and Chapter patrons.

St. Alban's: formerly distinguished as the residence of dealers in fish, as still notified by a solitary salmon on the barge-board of a cross-timbered house in Fish Street. Also near the church was the splendid mansion of the Warmstrey family, subsequently converted into a china manufactory, and new used as one of Messrs. Dent and Co.'s glove establishments. The little church, which was partially rebuilt in