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arches of the Tower, two are round and two pointed, though all 

 built at the same time. There is also a portion of a curious arcade 

 of intersecting arches which formerly ran round all the inner walls 

 of the tower. On the south side against the chancel is a pretty- 

 Chapel, of architecture much later than the original church. It 

 has frequently been called the Hungerford Chapel, but I feel 

 almost sure that it was not built by that family : and my reason 

 for saying so is that I have so many particulars of them and their 

 works that if this Chapel had been theirs, some notice of it or 

 some slight allusion to it, would most likely by this time have been 

 met with ; but I have never met with any. The Chapel is so very 

 much like one at Bromham Church, in its ornaments and general 

 character, that it is more likely to have been erected by the 

 Beauchamp family to whom Bromham formerly belonged : but 

 here again, if the chapel at St. John's is so late as the reign of 

 Henry VIII. (as Mr. Britton used to say), it could hardly be the 

 work of the Beauchamps of Bromham ; for the last of them died in 

 1508, just before Henry VIII. came to the Throne. The builder, 

 ■whoever he may have been, has left no device or coat of arms by 

 which we might find him out, and therefore, as he wished to 

 remain in obscurity, in that obscurity we must leave him. 



The other church, St. Mary's, seems to have been the Parish 

 Church from the first. The older parts of its architecture are of 

 the same age as St. John's, and it was therefore probably built 

 with the help of the Bishop's money. 



SiMNEL. 



Among the various articles produced in the town there is one to 

 the manufacture of which it adheres with admirable pertinacity : 

 but to which I presume it would not adhere unless the article were 

 popular and the demand continual. It is an article of food ; or 

 rather it is a dainty intended not so much for the animal sustenance 

 as for the solace and gratification of the consumer ; an effect which 

 I sincerely hope it produces. The dainty alluded to is Simnel 

 Cake: a subject of course beneath the dignity of your Historian, 

 but admitting of a place on a less serious page. 



