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somewhat unintelligible. It can scarcely be supposed that by “a 
éarge handsome and convenient church” he meant only the aisle 
after its eastern portion had been roofed, and that the nave stilk 
remained unroofed. Later views of the abbey, ¢g., one in 1777, 
shew the nave with a roof, probably put on during the enlargement of 
the parish church mentioned by Chancellor Waugh ; which enlarge- 
ment he says occurred in 173 , refraining through want of precise 
information from adding the final figure. If in the thirties at all, 
the year must have been 1739, z.¢. immediately after the public- 
ation of Buck’s view; but it may have been in the forties. 
Anyhow it must have been in the decade 1739—49. The “brief” 
mentioned by Dr. Waugh was issued in 1732, as we learn from 
the following memorandum in the register of Brampton Presby- 
terian church : 
Aug. 20, 1732. Then was read in the congregation of _Protestant Dissenters. 
in Brampton the Brief for Abbey Lanercost Church in the County of Cumber- 
land. Charge £1100 upwards. Collected afterwards for the same o. 1. 2. 
To persons unacquainted with the history of ‘“ King’s briefs,” as 
they were called, it may seem odd to hear of a collection ina 
Presbyterian church for the repair of Lanercost Abbey. But such 
collections were ordered to be made in every church and chapel 
in the land. It is not often that anything like a complete record 
of them remains at a church or chapel, the books which contained. 
such record having for the most part been lost. The Brampton 
Presbyterian register, however, containsa very interesting and 
almost complete list of all briefs issued during the period 1712-37. 
The sum obtained for the Lanercost repairs would seem to have 
been insufficient for the purpose, and had to be supplemented 
from other sources. It appears that at least seven or eight years. 
passed before the requisite funds were collected. The work, when 
at length executed, probably included the building of the wall 
which, with the window inserted in it, now separates the nave 
from the choir. As long as the aisle alone served as the parish 
church there was no need for this wall. 
_ Dr. Waugh further says : 
