PREBENDAL HOUSES AT LITTLE CHESTER. 1 01 



for him, all that we know through his instrumentality, would long 

 have passed into the limbo of the utterly forgotten. In conclud- 

 ing this our last paper on prebendal houses, we cannot do less 

 than express our feeling of thankfulness to those who have 

 rendered us assistance in bringing together these scattered frag- 

 ments of their history, and especially to those occupants of these 

 farm-houses who have shown the utmost courtesy and permitted 

 us to rummage them from cellar to cockloft without ever in any 

 way expressing annoyance, though we have often felt ourselves a 

 thorough nuisance and sometimes a hindrance to them in their 

 household duties. So we make this acknowledgment with the 

 greatest pleasure. 



