THIS effigy is not more than three feet in length. From the custom which prevailed of children educated by the church choosing on St. Nicholas's day (6th December), in mock ceremony, a bishop from their number, this figure has obtained the appellation of the Boy or Chorister Bishop.

Some reasonable doubt may however exist whether this be not a memorial for an adult, a real Bishop of the See of Salisbury. The size of the figure alone appears to countenance the legendary tale, and the monument of Athelmar Bishop of Winchester, in the cathedral of that church, of the same age (which was erected to show the spot where his heart had according to his direction been interred), is equally diminutive.