i en eee 
By E. W. Godwin, Esq. 365 
reversion of the estate from Elizabeth, his daughter, wife of Edward 
le Despenser, for the sum of 700 marks, in the 11th year of 
Richard IT., and conveyed it to the College in the following year. 
Henry VI. granted to the warden and scholars of New College 
(A.D. 1447), a market at Colerne every Friday, and a fair for three 
days, on the vigil-day, and morrow of the decollation of St. John 
the Baptist (August 28, 29, 30.) 
P.S.—Since the above account was written, sundry alterations 
and reparations have been effected. The boundary of the Early 
English triplet in the chancel can no longer be discerned, for the 
east wall has been rebuilt, and a new “ Geometrical’’ window takes 
the place of its debased predecessor. The chancel has been cleared 
of its “‘boxed-up pews,” and open seats with returned ends against 
the screen substituted. The chancel screen has been deprived of the 
numerous coats of paint with which it was attired, and the old pulpit 
and reading-desk, than which nothing could have been more cum- 
bersome, has given place to a new arrangement, for a portion of 
which an ancient precedent was found. The stone screen between 
the chapel and the north aisle, and which tends to support the 
gallery, used as a private pew, has been partially exposed. In the 
south aisle the head of a “ Decorated” two-light window has been 
discovered ; it is similar to the one east of the porch, and must 
have been blocked up when the porch was added. Amongst the 
stones used in filling up this window were fragments of the jambs 
of a semi-Norman doorway. A new roof has been put over this 
aisle of the same dimensions as the old one, differing only in the 
quantity of molded work. The large four-light window has been 
furnished with new tracery, and together with the east window of 
the chancel, is filled with stained glass by Bell, of Bristol. The 
central window of the clerestory has had its cusps and mullion re- 
paired, and windows of similar character, but of three lights, have 
been inserted in the place of large, unsightly dormer windows. In 
doing this it was seen that the clerestory had formerly but two 
“ Decorated” windows, each of two lights, consequently the west- 
ernmost window is an insertion altogether without authority, but 
which can scarcely be deemed a deception, as it actually pierces 
