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,r.chaeri0jgta €mittmis. FOURTH SERIES.—VOL. XIV, NO. LVI. OCTOBER 1883. ON THE SEPULCHRAL EFFIGY OF A PILGRIM IN St. MARY'S CHURCH, HAVERFORDWEST, SOUTH WALES. On the 21st of August 1872 I proceeded by rail from Tenby to Haverfordwest, on my way to St. David's, for the purpose of taking notes of the monuments in St. David's Cathedral; which notes were subsequently published in the Archceologia Cambrensis. I did not reach Haverfordwest till late in the evening, and the the whole of the following day was occupied in journey¬ ing by a vehicle I had engaged to St. David's and back, and in the Cathedral, for the purpose I have stated. I had arranged to leave Haverfordwest" the following day by a certain railway train, which gave me an oppor¬ tunity on the morning of that day, the 23rd of August, of going about the town. Amongst the places I visited was the Church of St. Mary, which presented, as far as I can recollect, no special feature of architectural de¬ sign. I noticed, however, in that church an object which excited my attention, and so fully compensated my visit that I regretted my time was so limited that I could barely take down a description in my note¬ book, and the slightest possible memorandum-sketch in another note-book, and this I was forced to do by candle-light. The object then was no less than the sepulchral 4th ser., vol. xiv. 18