ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 295 
stones belonged to Knights Templars, they must have lain here 
many centuries; for this order came into England early in the 
reign of King Stephen in 1113 ; and was dissolved in the time of 
Edward II. in 1312, having subsisted only one hundred and thirty- 
nine years. Why I should suppose that Knights Templars were 
occasionally buried at this church, will appear in some future letter, 
when we come to treat more particularly concerning the property 
.they possessed here, and the intercourse that subsisted between 
them and the priors of Selborne. 
We must now proceed to the chancel, properly so called, which 
seems to be coeval with the church, and is in the same plain 
unadorned style, though neatly kept. This room measures thirty- 
one feet in length, and sixteen feet and a half in breadth, and is 
wainscoted all round, as high as to the bottom of the windows. 
The space for the communion-table is raised two steps above the 
rest of the floor, and railed in with oaken balusters. Here I shall 
say somewhat of the windows of the chancel in particular, and of 
the whole fabric in general. They are mostly of that simple and 
unadorned sort called Lancet, some single, some double, and some 
in triplets. At the east end of the chancel are two of a moderate 
size, near each other ; and in the north wall two very distant small 
ones, unequal in length and height: and in the south wall are two, 
one on each side of the chancel-door, that are broad and squat, 
and of a different order. At the east end of the south aisle of the 
church there is a Jarge lancet-window in a triplet ; and two very 
small, narrow, single ones in the south wall, and a broad, squat 
window beside, and a double lancet one in the west end ; so that 
the appearance is very irregular. -In the north aisle are two 
windows, made shorter when the roof was sloped; and in the 
north transept a large triple window, shortened at the time of a 
repair in 1721: when over it was opened a round one of consider- 
able size, which affords an agreeable light, and renders that chantry 
the most cheerful part of the edifice. 
The church and chancels have all covered roofs, ceiled about 
the year 1633; before which they were open to the tiles and 
shingles, showing the naked rafters, and threatening the congrega- 
tion with the fall of a spar, or a blow from a piece of loose mortar. 
On the north wall of the chancel is fixed a large oval white marble 
monument, with the following inscription; and at the foot of the 
wall, over the deceased, and inscribed with his name, age, arms, 
and time of death, lies a large slab of black marble: 
