By the Rev. J. Ward. 



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filled with stained quarry glass, with ornamented borders, which 

 subdues the light, and gives much warmth of tone to this part of 

 the church. The east window has plain glass, which should be 

 replaced by a good painting. 



There is a very fine Decorated piscina in the south wall of the 

 chancel, having an eightfoiled drain supported by a corbel of foli- 

 age ; the niche is trefoiled under a very rich ogeed canopy, with 

 crockets, a finial, and head terminations to the drip. The shelf, 

 which was of wood, is gone. 



In 1858 a new altar, designed by Mr. Street, was made with the 

 wood of a yew tree which was cut down in the churchyard in the 

 year 1840. At the same time a new altar cloth and hangings were 

 supplied. The superfrontal is of the best crimson silk velvet, and 

 the frontal of green silk velvet of the same quality, both richly 

 embroidered by Messrs. J ones and Willis, in coloured silks, in pat- 

 terns of alternate roses and lilies growing out of vases, under ogee- 

 headed canopies. The dossel is of the richest satin damask, bearing 

 patterns of lilies, suspended from a brass rod running under the 

 window sill. 



There is an Elizabethan monument to the memory of Sir John 

 Seymour, father of Queen Jane Seymour and of the Protector, 

 Duke of Somerset. Sir John died at the age of sixty years, on the 

 21st day of December, 1536, and was originally buried in the 

 Priory Church of the Holy Trinity at Easton Royal in this county; 

 but that Church having become totally ruined, his body was re- 

 moved to Bedwyn in the year 1590. In the following year, the 

 Seymours built the present parish Church at Easton, but not on 

 the site of the former Priory. The following is the inscription : — 



"Here lyeth intombed the worthie S r John Seymovr 



of Wolphall Knight: who by Margerie his Wyfe, 



Davghter of S r Henry Wentworthe, Knight, from whome 



the nowe Lorde Wentworthe is discended, had Six 



Sonnes and Fower Davghters: To wete, John, who 



dyed vnmarryed. Edward, Dvke of Somerset. 



Earl of Hertforde, Viscovnt Beavechampe and 



Baron Seymovr, Uncle to Kinge Edwarde the Sixt, 



Governor of his Royale Person, Protector of all his 



Dominions and Svbjects, Lorde Tresorer and Earle 



Marshall of Englande; w ch Dvke maryed Anne, Davghter 



