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Rather tlian be as it is, I'll be at tbe expense of 

 pulling the present cbancel down, rebuilding and 

 enlarging it, so as to make all convenient and 

 clever, before I'll suffer these encroachments at- 

 tended with every insult upon earth. Surely upon 

 a representation to the bishop that the present 

 chancel is much too small, and that the patron, at 

 his own expense, wishes to enlarge it, I cannot 

 think but it will be complj^'d with. If this is not 

 Mr. Mytton's opinion as the best way, what is ? 

 and how am I to manage these encroaches ? 



" Yours ever, 



"P.S. — If the old chancel is taken down, I'll 

 take care that no pew shall stand in the new one. 

 Mr. Mytton will properly turn this in his mind, and 

 I'll then face the old kit of them boldly. The old 

 pew I spoke of, besides the other two in the chancel 

 (mean and dirty as it is to a degree), yet the parson 

 wants to let, if he does not do so now, to any person 

 that comes to church, no matter who, so long as he 

 gets the cash. It's so small no one can sit with 

 bended knees in it ; and, in short, the whole chancel 

 is not more than one-half as big as the little room I 



