Afterwards, when he is shown the dead body of the unhappy prince, he exclaims— " Ο death, randa proud with puTe and princely beauty 1 The earth had not a hole to hide this deed. All murders past do stand excused ia this. And this, so sole, and so unmatchable, Shall give a holiness, a purity. To the yet unbegotten sin of times, And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest, Exampled by this heinous spectacle.** This illustrious nobleman was a great benefactor to the Templars. He granted them the advowsons of the churches of Spenes, Castelan-Embyan, together with eighty acres of land in Eschirmanhir.* By the side of the earl of Pembroke, towards the northern windows of the Hound of the Temple Church, reposes a youthful warrior, clothed in armour of chain mail ; he has a long buckler on his left arm, and his hands are pressed together in supplication upon his breast. This is the monumental effigy of ROBER T LOR D D B Ros, and is the most elegant and interesting in appearance of all the cross-legged figures in the Temple Church. The head is uncovered, and the countenance, which is youthful, has a remarkably pleasing expression, and is graced with long and flowing locks of curling hair. On the left side of the ligure is a ponderous sword, and the armour of the legs has a ridge or seam up the front, which is continued over the knee, and forms a kind of garter below the knee. The feet are trampling on a lion, and the legs are crossed in token that the warrior was one of those military enthttsiastswho so strangely mingled religion and romance, * Atonal. Angì., p. 894, 834, 837, 843.