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ON MILTON ABBEY ClltmCIl. 



which the remains of " the Host " are reserved after Mass. It 

 is made of oak, and in the form of a tower surmounted by a 

 spire, and its date is indicated by the style in which it is con- 

 structed — Perpendicular or Third Pointed. Sometimes they 

 are formed of etone, as the celebrated one at St. Sebald's Nurn- 

 burg, which is a magnificent specimen of mediseval art, rising 

 from the floor to a height of 70 feet, and adorned throughout 

 with figures and other objects in sculpture. Most of these con- 

 structions in England were destroyed at the Eeformation, and 

 this specimen very probably owes its preservation to the fact 

 that Sir John Tregonwell, to whom the Abbey was given up by 

 Henry VIII., would not allow that wholesale destruction which 

 was carried on elsewhere, within his own domain, so that less 

 damage of every sort took place here at Milton, than anywhere 

 else in the whole county. Hutchings, though an admirable 

 county historian, knew nothing worth speaking of about 

 archeeology, and so he calls it "the model of a tower with its 

 spire." In 1847 the elder Pugin, who was well known to be a 

 very high authority on all such matters, came down here to 

 ^aw the design of the only painted window at present in the 

 Church, which is technically called a " Jesse window," from 

 Jesse, the father of David, as the subject of such windows is 

 invariably to represent our Lord's forefathers according to the 

 flesh. I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours in this 

 Church with Pugin, and learnt from him, for the first time, that 

 Hutchings' "model of a tower" is in reality one of the most 

 curious and interesting articles of church furniture existing in 

 the kingdom, a Tabernacle, or " Sacrament-Haus." I think 

 every one who hears its history and extreme rarity will agree 

 with me in wishing it were made more generally known by means 

 of a photograph. 



THE ESCAPE OF JOHN TEEGONWELL. 



On the east wall of the vestry at the end of the south aisle a 

 tablet commemorates a deliverance from death, which is little 

 short of miraculous. About 1002 or 1603 the heir of this 



