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ANTIQUITIES 
to be of stone of a closer and harder texture^ is to be 
discerned a discus^ with a cross on it, at the end of a staff 
or rod, the well known symbol of a Knight Templar/ 
This order was distinguished by a red cross on the left 
shoulder of their cloak, and by this attribute in their hand. 
IN'ow, if these stones belonged to Knights Templars, they 
must have lain here many centuries; for this order came 
into England early in the reign of King Stephen, in 1113 ; 
and was dissolved in the time of Edward II. in 1312, having 
subsisted only 199 years. Why I should suppose that 
Knights Templars were occasionally buried at this church, 
will appear in some future letter, when we come to treat 
more particularly concerning the property they possessed 
here, and the intercourse that subsisted between them and 
the priors of Selborne. 
We must now proceed to the chancel, properly so called, 
which seems to be coeval with the church, and is in the 
same plain unadorned style, though neatly kept. This 
room measures thirty-one feet in length, and sixteen feet 
and a half in breadth, and is wainscoted all round, as high 
as to the bottom of the windows. [It is raised one step 
above the body of the church.] The space for the com- 
munion table is raised two steps above the rest of the floor, 
and railed in with oaken balusters. [Over the communion 
table is a painting in iijree compartments of the Offering of 
the Wise Men, presented by Benjamin White, Esq. It is 
attributed to John de Maubeuge.] 
Here I shall say somewhat of the windows of the chancel 
in particular, and of the whole fabric in general. They are 
mostly of that simple and unadorned sort called Lancet, 
some single, some double, and some in triplets. At the 
east end of the chancel are two of a moderate size, near 
each other ; and in the north wall two very distant small 
ones, unequal in length and height : and in the south wall 
are two, one on each side of the chancel door, that are broad 
and squat, and of a different order. At the east end of the 
See Dugdale, "Monasticon Anglicannm," a^oI. ii. where there is a 
fine engraving of a Knight- Templar, by Hollar, — G. W 
