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nected. The present appearance of the place glves very 

 little indication of the foriiier of these associations. Variouä 

 fragments, indeed, of an older structiu-e, as pFinth mould- 

 ings and simüar reinains, are noticeable in the more ancient 

 of the farm buildlngs, and there still exists a barn with 

 some buttresses of tlie late Perpendicular period, Xothing, 

 however, that I noticed, connected with the structure 

 itself, is necessarily earlier than the slxteeuth centiuy, and 

 accoi'dingly all tliat is now visible niay have formed no part 

 of the conventual edifices, bat have been the work of the 

 first intruders to accommodate the place to their own 

 purposes. Apart from the Fonds, already descrlbed, there 

 are nevertheless a few relics of monastic äays, which I 

 have had the happiness of brlnging into notice. This has not 

 been effected without some difficulty. On the occasion of 

 repeated vislts I had made many and strict enquiries of the 

 labourers employed about the spot, and of the neighbours 

 in generalj as to the discovery or existence of any ancient 

 remains either of the buildings and their ornamental acces- 

 sories, or of the instruments, Utensils, or other evidences of 

 the religious or domestic life of the olden possessors. For 

 a long time I could obtaln for my queries nothing but an 

 uniform negative. At length one of a large body of farm 

 servants set me upon the track of possessing myself of the 

 rings of which raention has already been made, and even- 

 tually succeeded in recollecting that several large grave- 

 stones with illegible inscriptions had been dug up many years 

 before — it was in 1836 — from three to four feet under the 

 surfixce of what is now the kitchen gardeu of the inansion. 

 These after a long search I had at length the gratlfication 

 of recovcring. It is clear, from several previous notices,* 



* See pp. 11,27,37,74. 



