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9 inches in width. This coffer is very primitive in its struc- 

 ture ; the lock is only a horse-shoe widened out at the ends ; 

 the iron bands overlap their ends and are fastened down by a 

 piece of wood and nails. Besides this coffer there is a second 

 coffer, 4 feet 2 inches long. It is divided into two 26-inch 

 divisions, and each division having three separate locks. 

 Canon 70 of the canons of A.I). 1603 ordered that the coffer 

 in which the registers and the church plates were kept should 

 have three locks and keys for the priest and two church- 

 wardens. 



Advancing to the east end, one would notice on the 

 right a piscina with a stone credence in perfect condition. 

 On the piscina a curious device is seen : a cup or chalice 

 with the consecrated wafer standing half-way above the rim 

 of the cup, and the cup itself has a triangle incised on its 

 surface. This cup has a pair of curved wings ; and under 

 the wings are a fish x on the right, a horned adder on the 

 left. Evidently the device speaks in stone language of the 

 exaltation of the consecrated bread and wine ; the Christian 

 looks up in faith and love how he may serve and worship 

 God, but the evil person looks up and deviseth evil things 

 out of his evil heart how he may vex God. There is also 

 an aumbry close by. 



On the north side of the chapel a beautiful Early 

 English arcade of two arches open into the chancel of the 

 parish church. These arches are very Early English, as the 

 angles at the heads are not acute, and the pillars are short 

 and thick, i.e. Norman-like. These pillars have each four 

 smaller (much) pillars, banded together 6 feet high from 

 the base. Here let me point out that the Early English 

 tool-marks may be seen and studied with advantage. I 

 will quote Professor T. Hayter Lewis, who writes : " At 

 quite the latter end of the twelfth century there appeared 

 in England that beautiful style — the Early English — bear- 

 ing the general outlines of the Norman forms, but clearly 

 marked out from the Norman by its exquisitely beautiful 



1 The Greek word [X6T2 (fish) is made up <>f the initial letters of the 

 words [H20T2 XPI2T02, 8E0T TI02, 20THP. Tertullian (about a.l>. 

 196) says : "We poor fishes, Following after our 1X0T2 Jesus Christ, arc bom 

 in water." 



