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intercourse that subsisted between them and the priors 

 of Selborne. 



We must now proceed to the chancel, properly so 

 called, which seems to be coeval with the church, and is 

 in the same plain unadorned style, though neatly kept. 

 This room measures thirty-one feet in length, and 

 sixteen feet and an half in breadth, and is wainscoted 

 all round, as high as to the bottom of the windows. 

 The space for the communion table is raised two steps 

 above the rest of the floor, and railed in with oaken 

 balusters. 



Here I shall say somewhat of the windows of the chancel 

 in particular, and of the whole fabric in general. They 

 are mostly of that simple and unadorned sort called 

 Lancet, some single, some double, and some in triplets. 

 At the east end of the chancel are two of a moderate size, 

 near each other ; and in the north wall two very distant 

 small ones, unequal in length and height : and in the 

 south wall are two, one on each side of the chancel door, 

 that are broad and squat, and of a different order. At the 

 east end of the south aisle of the church there is a large 

 lancet-window in a triplet ; and two very small, narrow, 

 single ones in the south wall, and a broad squat window 

 beside, and a double lancet one in the west end ; so that 

 the appearance is very irregular. In the north aisle are 

 two windows, made shorter when the roof was sloped ; 

 and in the north transept a large triple window, shortened 

 at the time of a repair in 1721 ; when over it was opened 

 a round one of considerable size, which affords an agree- 

 able light, and renders that chantry the most cheerful part 

 of the edifice. 



The church and chancels have all coved roofs, ceiled 

 about the year 1683 ; before which they were open to the 

 tiles and shingles, showing the naked rafters, and threaten- 

 ing the congregation with the fall of a spar, or a blow from 

 a piece of loose mortar. 



On the north wall of the chancel is fixed a large oval 

 white marble monument, with the following inscription ; 

 and at the foot of the wall, over the deceased, and 



