The placing of a monument in the church or a tablet on its walls is also within the jurisdiction of the ordinary ; for the fixing of it in the chancel the consent of the rector is required, yet a lay rector has not A right to erect a monument or construct a vault there without a faculty from the ordinary. To remove without the ordinary's consent a monument or tablet once erected is an offence which subjects to pro secution before the ecclesiastical courts the party committing it, even though he should have himself erected the monument, and should have the consent of the incumbent for its removal.
As tho erection of a tombstone, so the inscription upon it is a matter of ecclesiastical disciplime and an epitaph is unquestionably unlawful which is contrary to the canons or constitutions of the church in force at the time when the inscription is made. Thus when in a recent case the inscription " Pray for the soul of A. B." was objected to in the Eeelesiaeucal Court as recognising the doctrine of purgatory, the judge (whilst he deemed that prayers for the dead are not contrary to the canons, and, therefore, that the epitaph was not unlawful) distinctly affirmed the doctrine, that any new epitaph opposed to the doctrines of the Church of England might bo removed, and the inscription of such an epitaph would subject tho party who inscribed it to ecclesiastical censure.
(Haggard's ConiiitcrR Reports, I. 14, 205; ii. 333; Curteis's Ecclesias tical Reports, I. 880; Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, article Burial ;' and Rogers's ditto.) TON, or TUN. In modern English spelling the ton is a weight (twenty hundredweight, or 2240 pounds avoirdupois) and the tun is a measure of wine (two pipes, or 252 gallons). Accordingly, some have supposed that the measure was derived from the weight, and in fact a tea of water weighs about a ton. But a very little consideration of the
manner in which tonne and twine were used, is enough to convince any one that the weight was derived from the measure. These words are not classical, but they occur frequently in iniddlo Latin (see Ducange, in ver6.), and always as signifying a large cask. The hollow empty sound made by striking a large cask may have given rise to the mine : we have often heard them say ton as plain as a cask can speak. The diminutive is ('media, which was often used, but not much in England. The Commissioners of Weights and 3tensures found it only in Cardiganshire, standing for sixteen bushels of lime. The modern use of the word tunnel is now familiar enough. The old taxes of ton nage and poundage are enough to create a suspicion that the ton was originally a measure. This phrase would bo tautology if tonnage meant a tax upon weight : we must understand tonnage and poundage to be a tax on measure and a tax on weight.
There are many local tons of weight which have sprung up iu modern times.
TONE (in Music). The technical use of this word may be aeon in SCALE, Tiernacnoan, &c., in which it signifies a musical interred. In common language it refers to the quality of a musical sound, as when we speak of a fine-toned instrument.
In painting, the word tone is used in a somewhat similar manner. With reference to a particular tint it expresses the degree, quality, or intensity of a colour or shade, in relation to the other colours of the picture, or to the chiaroscuro. The tone of a picture, on the other hand, has relation to the general scale of colouring: thus a painting is said to be low, or gray, or warm in tone.