2$0 WHITE 



His parishioners, 



especially the sick and necessitous, 

 as long as any traces of his memory shall remain, 



must lament his death. 



To perpetuate such an example, this stone is erected ; 



as while living he was a preacher of righteousness, 



so, by it, he being dead yet speaketh. 



He died April 8 th , 1784, aged 66 years. 



NOTE 



1 In the same manner, to compare great things with small, did Wykeham, 

 when he new built the cathedral at Winchester, from the tower westward 

 apply to his purpose the old piers or pillars of Bishop Walkelin's church, 

 by blending Saxon and Gothic architecture together. See LOWTH'S Life 

 of Wykeham. G.W. 



2 See DUGDALE, Monasticon Anglicanum, Vol. II., where there is a fine 

 engraving of a Knight Templar, by Hollar. G. W. 



LETTER IV 



WE have now taken leave of the inside of the church, and 

 shall pass by a door at the west end of the middle aisle into 

 the belfry. This room is part of a handsome square embat- 

 tled tower of forty-five feet in height, and of much more mod- 

 ern date than the church ; but old enough to have needed a 

 thorough repair in 1781, when it was neatly stuccoed at a con- 

 siderable expense, by a set of workmen who were employed on 

 it for the greatest part of the summer. The old bells, three 

 in number, loud and out of tune, were taken down in 1735, 

 and cast into four ; to which Sir Simon Stuart, the grand- 

 father of the present baronet, added a fifth at his own ex- 

 pense ; and, bestowing it in the name of his favorite daughter, 

 Mrs. Mary Stuart, caused it to be cast with the following motto 



round it : Q ara p ue ll a dedit, dixitque mihi esto Maria : 

 Illius et laudes nomen ad astra sono." 



The day of the arrival of this tunable peal was observed as 

 a high festival by the village, and rendered more joyous by an 

 order from the donor that the treble bell should be fixed bottom 

 upward in the ground and filled with punch, of which all present 

 were permitted to partake. 



