VISCERA CARCEOLUM, CORPUS FONS SERVAT EBRARDI,
       ET COR ROTOMAGUM, MAGNE RICHARDE, TUUM. 
     IN TRIA DIVIDITUR UNUS QUI PLUS FUIT UNO;
       NEC SUPEREST UNI GLORIA TANTA VIRO.

Richard neither withheld his gifts nor his protection from the metropolitan church; and, after his death, the chapter inclosed the heart of their benefactor in a shrine of silver.  But a hundred and fifty years subsequently, the shrine was despoiled, and the precious metal was melted into ingots, forming a portion of the ransom which redeemed St. Louis from the fetters of his Saracen conqueror.

Henry the younger, who was crowned King of England during the life-time of his father, against whom he subsequently revolted, also requested on his death-bed, that his body might be interred in this church; and his directions were obeyed, though not without much difficulty; for the chapter of the cathedral of Mans, where his servants rested with the body in transitu, seized and buried it there; nor did those of Rouen recover the corpse, without application to the Pope and to the King his father.

A tablet of black marble, affixed to one of the pillars of the nave, contains the following interesting memorial: 

     IN MEDIA NAVI,
     E REGIONE HUJUS COLUMNAE,
     JACET
     BEATAE MEM.  MAURILIUS,
     ARCHIEP.  ROTOM.  AN.  MLV. 
     HANC BASILICAM PERFECIT
     CONSECRAVITQUE ANNO MLXIII. 
     VIX NATOS BERENGARII ERRORES
     IN PROX.  CONCIL.  PRAEFOCAVIT. 
     PLENUS MERITIS OBIIT ANN.  MLXVII. 
     HOC PONTIF.  NORMANNI,
     GULIELMO DUCE, ANGLIA POTITI SUNT
     ANNO MLXVI.

[Illustration:  Monumental Figure of an Archbishop, in Rouen Cathedral]

In the northern aisle of the choir, there still exists a curious monument, in an injured state indeed, but well deserving of attention, from its antiquity.  It has been referred by tradition to Maurice, or William of Durefort, both of them archbishops of Rouen, and buried in the cathedral, the former in 1237, the latter in 1331; but the recumbent figure upon it seems of a yet more distant date.  It differs in several respects from any that I have seen in England[82].  The tomb is in the wall, behind a range of pillars, which form a kind of open screen round the apsis.  Below the effigy, it is decorated with a row of whole-length figures of saints, much mutilated:  the circular part above is lined with angels, a couple of whom are employed in conveying the soul of the deceased in a winding-sheet to heaven[83].

[Illustration:  Monument of an Archbishop]

The Lady-Chapel contains two monuments of great merit, and which, considered as specimens of matured art, have now no rivals in Normandy; for both owe their origin to a period of refinement and splendor.  The sepulchre raised over the bodies of the two Cardinals of Amboise, successively Archbishops of Rouen, towers on the southern side of the chapel.  The statues of the cardinals are of white marble.  The prelates appear kneeling in prayer; and the following inscription, engraved in a single line, and not divided into verses, is placed beneath them:—­