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property was John Tregonwell, born in 1598, When quite a 

 child he was taken one day by his nurse to the top of the church, 

 most probably on the outside of the south transept, a height of 

 about 60 feet from the ground. Some attraction appears to have 

 diverted the nurse's attention from her charge, and the child 

 very naturally took advantage of her carelessness by climbing 

 the parapet, which alone fenced in the roof, to seize a wild rose 

 that grew out of the wall, and in so doing over-balanced him- 

 self and fell right over, descending at one fall a depth of 60 

 feet. "We can easily imagine how horror-struck the poor girl 

 would be, and the wild haste with which she would rush down 

 the turret stairs through the Church into the Church-yard, 

 expecting as a matter of course to find the child dashed to 

 pieces, and she could scarcely credit her senses when she found 

 him entirely unhurt, not even stunned, and, as the village tradi- 

 tion records, very busy picking daisies. It is also recorded that 

 he wore at the time a very full dress made of nankeen, and, as 

 there was a very strong wind blowing, this became inflated, 

 and, acting as a parachute, broke the force of his fall. The 

 tablet, however, records something more than this marvellous 

 deliverance, and mentions that the said John Tregonwell (he 

 lived to be 52, and died in 1650) left by will certain books of 

 Divinity for the use of that vestry for ever. In other words, he 

 gave as a thankoffering those books for the use of the clergy 

 who, in those days, used the vestry as their study, and a good 

 many of them are still in existence, kept in the present parish 

 church. They are more than 60 in number, and consist of the 

 works of St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, St. Gregory, 

 the "Summa" of Thomas Aquinas, Pool's Synopsis, and other 

 works sufGlcient, if properly used, to make each successive Vicar 

 of Milton a ripe and learned theologian. 



THE EESTOEATION. 



I have now detained you a very long time, and nothing but a 

 strong sense of duty would induce me to say another word ; but 

 I feel, and I am sure that you also feel, that any account of this 



