File:LedgerStone RobertHallam KonstanzMinster.xcf

• Konstanz, Münster, Grabplatte Bischof Robert Hallum im Chor;
• Ledger-stone in Constance Cathedral, Germany, of Robert Hallam (d.1416), Bishop of Salisbury, England. One of the English Mission to the Council of Constance, who died there in 1416. Arms of King Henry V of England (1413-1422). Arms of Hallam: Sable, a cross ermine (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.443) with a crescent for difference. The ledger line contains an epigram in Latin in Leonine verse. (see: Ellacombe, Rev. H.T., The History of the Parish of Bitton in the County of Gloucester, Exeter, 1881, pp.50-55, "A Description of the Tombstone of Bishop Hallam", with engraving of brass-rubbing, p.51).

Which may be translated literally as follows:

(1,380 + 36 = 1416).

Text of Ellacombe, pp.51 et seq[1]:

A Description of the Tombstone of Bislwp Hallum one of the English Mission to the Council of Constance, who died there A.D. 1416. At the foot of the steps leading up to the high altar in the cathedral of Constance there is a monument particularly interesting to the English, on account of its con- nexion with the history of their country. It consists of engraved brass plates let into an oblong square stone slab, about nine feet by five in dimension, and represents the effigy of a bishop in the costume of the fifteenth century, standing in an arched niche, which terminates upwards in a crocketed canopy, having on each side of it an escutcheon. That on the dexter side contains the royal arms of the Plantagenet, — quarterly, France and England, surrounded with the garter of the order of St. George, and its device, *' Honi salt qui mal y penseJ* The other, on the sinister side, probably contained (for the metal within the border of it has been removed) the private arms of the bishop, impaled with those of his see; and is surrounded by a scroll, in which appears in gothic characters the words, ^' Miser cot^ioLS Domini in eternum cantaho.^ At the sides of the niche are two pillars ornamented with gothic pannels, in each of which is the figure of an angel, and the whole is surrounded by a square border (separated from the other part of the monument by an intervening space of stone), wliich exhibits, at each comer, an ornament, in the centre of which is a figure, much defaced, but which seems to have been the representation of a dove, with a halo round its head, bear- ing a scroll, and intended, I suppose, to signify the Gospel proceeding from the Holy Ghost. Such a figure can be clearly made out on the ornament at the bottom left-hand comer of the border; and it seems as if the other figures were merely varieties of that which I have particularized, and are the usual emblems of the four evangelists. The rubbed oflf fcuyaimile, which accompanies the present paper, (Plate inserted) will verify the foregoing description, as well as the underwritten epitaph, which ap- pears on the. border in letters of a diflferent character to those around the escutcheons. It sets forth the qualities of the deceased, and the year of his death, in the follow- ing quaint manner. (see above)