(Vol. iii., p. 106.)
Your correspondent and querist, J. D. A., asks for some information
respecting the coat of arms surmounted by a cardinal's hat, sculptured and
affixed to one of the pillars of the south transept in St. Saviour's
Church, Southwark. I send in reply an extract from a now scarce book,
Arthur Tiler's _History and Antiquities of St. Saviour's_, 1765, with which
all the later historians of the church agree:--
"Anno 1400. 2 Hen. IV.
"The whole church was new built about this time; Henry Beaufort (second
son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward III.), Cardinal
of St. Eusebius, and Bishop of Winchester from the year 1405 to the
time of his death in 1447, might have contributed towards the building,
being a man of great wealth, for which he was called the rich Cardinal,
_as the arms of the Beauforts are carved in stone on a pillar in the
south cross aisle; and by the remaining sculpture on each side it
appears to be done for strings pendant from a Cardinal's hat placed
over them_. The arms are quarterly France and England, a border compone
argent and azure."
When the transepts were rebuilt, some years since, the cardinal's hat,
which till that time was nearly defaced, was then restored, and the coat of
arms newly emblazoned.