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The hinged seats, known as misereres or misericordes, were constructed to keep the monks from falling asleep while at prayers.
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Six of the stalls with, and several others without, canopies still survive, and on one of the misereres are the arms of the Chisholm family, surmounted by a mitre.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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On the misereres of the ancient stalls are some wonderful grotesque carvings.
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Most of these misereres have exquisite conventional flowers (especially roses) cut upon them in addition to the figure-subjects.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The misereres and arms of the stalls are exquisitely carved.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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What doleful _misereres_ must first ascend to cloud the brightness of the heavens and dim the joy of the blest!
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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The fronts of the stalls are generally of open work, shewing the hinged seats, or misereres as they are usually called, behind; in both series of stalls these are curiously and grotesquely carved beneath.
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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A magnificent range of stalls crowned with elaborate tabernacle work of the sixteenth century adorns the choir, and under each of the sixty-eight seats are carved misereres, making a larger collection than any other in the country.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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The choir has much sumptuous carved woodwork, and the misereres are full of quaint detail.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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The _misereres_ below are much earlier in date than the canopies, but do not go quite so far back as those at Exeter, which may be assigned to about 1230.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912
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