2i8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



in the west end ; so that the appearance is very irregular. 

 In the north aile 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 agreeable light, and renders that chantry the 

 most cheerful part of the edifice. 



The church and chancels have all covered 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 1 of the wall, over the deceased, and in- 

 scribed with his name, age, arms, and time of death, lies 

 a large slab of black marble : 



Prope hunc parietem sepelitur 

 GILBERTUS WHITE, SAMSONIS WHITE, de 



Oxon. militis filius tertius, Collegii Magdale- 



-nensis ibidem alumnus, & socius. Tandem faven- 



-te collegio ad hanc ecclesiam promotus ; ubi primae- 



-va moruiii simplicitate, et diffusa erga omnes bene- 



volentia feliciter consenuit. 

 Pastor fidelis, comis, affabilis, 

 Maritus, et pater amantissimus. 

 A conjuge invicem, et liberis, atque 

 A parochianis impense dilectus. 

 Pauperibus ita beneficus 

 ut decimam partem census 



moribundus 

 piis usibus consecravit. 

 Meritis demum juxta et annis plenus 

 ex hac vita migravit Feb. 13. 

 anno salutis 172^ 

 ALtatis suas 77. 

 Hoc posuit Rebecca 

 Conjux illius maestissima, 

 mox secutura. 2 



1 This slab is now in the middle of the chancel. [R. B. S.] 



2 She lived to the age of ninety-one, and died in January 1755, twenty-eight 

 years after her husband. [R. B. S.] 



