[1] This elegant and curious piece of workmanship, the history of
which is involved in uncertainty, bears the marks of an age
subsequent to that of the choir, and was probably erected in
the reign of Henry VI. It is in the most finished style of the
florid Gothic, containing niches, canopies, pediments, and
pinnacles, and decorated with the statues of all the sovereigns
of England, from the Norman Conquest to Henry V. The statue of
James I. stands in the niche which tradition assigns as that
formerly occupied by the one of Henry VI.
[2] These stalls or seats which were formed of oak, and of the most
elaborate workmanship, occupied the side, and western end of the
choir: they were surmounted by canopies, supported by slender
pillars, rising from the arms, each being furnished with a
movable misericordia.
[3] Vide Drake's Eboracum, p. 527.
[4] We thank our intelligent antiquarian correspondent for this
article, which, he will perceive appears somewhat, abridged,
as we are unable to spare room for further details.
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