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a farm house inhabited by Mr. Chambers tenant to 

 Charles Duncoinbe. Esq., near which is the stump 

 of an elm tree, measuring 23 feet round, and being 

 hollow has served the purpose of a house to hold 

 pigs, and suckle calves in. 



The episcopal place of worship here is a chapel 

 of ease to Helmsley. On the east window of it in 

 stained glass, is a half length figure of Christ on 

 the cross ; and on the outside of the west window, 

 as here represented, is the following singular 

 sculpture. 



The three centre characters I conjecture to be 

 the old English letters I. H. C. ; and perhaps were 

 intended to represent the Greek I. H.* C. : the 

 mark over the C denoting it to be a contraction of 



* It is necessary here to observe that as the Greek 

 letter H. is equivalent to E. long in the English language, 

 the second of the three old English characters in the hi* 

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