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8. James, Abury. 



It may not be out of place if I record here one of the most in- 

 teresting circumstances which has occurred in the restoration of 

 this, or perhaps of any other, Church. 



There is a monument in the chancel to John Truslow, who died 

 in 1593, to whom the old manor house of " Avebury Truslowe " 

 belonged, as well as a pew of carved oak in the north aisle. Some 

 fifteen years ago I received a letter from one of this name in New 

 York, who stated that he had been reading a work of Britton, 

 in which it was stated that the Church of Avebury contained 

 a monument of the Truslowe family, and enquiring whether this 

 monument was still in existence. I was able to give him some 

 information on the subject of the family, from our registers, and 

 eventually to supply him with copies of two wills of the family, one 

 of them executed on the eve of his voyage (apparently to the United 

 States) . 



Subsequently to this, no fewer than six members of the family 

 from the States have on three several occasions visited Avebury and 

 inspected the monument and manor house. On one of these occasions 

 I informed the visitor of my intention to convert the old Truslowe 

 pew into choir stalls; and now I have just received the sum of £25, 

 which has been contributed by members of the family in the United 

 States for this adaptation of the pew which was made for their 

 ancestor some three centuries ago. 



Bryan King. 



ury, Calne, 

 Easter Eve, 1884. 



Erratum. 



At page 172, line 16, Ford, Dorset, should be Ford, Devonshire. 



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