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window, shortened at the time of a repair in 1721 ; when over it 
was opened a round one of considerable size, which affords an 
agreeable Hght, and renders that chantry the most cheerful part 
of the edifice.* 
The church and chancels have all coved roofs, ceiled about 
the year 1683 ; before which they were open to the tiles and 
shmgles, showing the naked rafters, and threatening the congre- 
gation with the faU of a spar, or a blow from a piece of loose 
mortar. 
On the north wall of the chancel is fixed a large oval white 
marble monument, with the following inscription ; and at the 
foot of the wall, over the deceased, and inscribed with his name, 
age, arms, and time of death, lies a large slab of black marble : — 
Prope hunc parietem sepelitur 
GILBERTUS WHITE, SAMSONS WHITE, de 
Oxon. militis filius tertius, Collegii Magdale- 
-nensis ibidem alumnus, et socius. Tandem £aven- 
-te collegio ad hanc ecclesiam promotus ; ubi primae- 
. -va morum simplicitate, et diffusa erga omnes bene- 
-volentia feliciter consenuit. 
Pastor fidelis, comis, affabilis, 
Maritus, et pater araantissimus, 
A conjuge invicem, et liberis, alque 
A parochianis impense dilectus. 
Pauperibus ita beneficus 
ut decimam partem census 
moribundus 
piis usibus consecravit. 
Meritis demum juxta et annis p.enus 
ex hac vita migravit Feb. I3« 
anno salutis 172| 
iEtatis suae 77. 
Hoc posuit Rebecca 
Conjux illius msestissima, 
mox secutura. 
On the same wall is newly fixed a small square table-monu- 
ment of white marble, inscribed to the memory of the Rev. 
Andrew Etty, B. D., twenty-three years vicar of this parish. He 
died April 8th, 1784, aged 66 years. 
LETTER IV. 
We have now taken leave of the inside of the church,t and shall 
* The ** lancet" windows are evidently insertions in the place of perpendicular ones. Indeed 
in some of them the work of the original windows may be very distinctly traced. The " round 
window" may afford " an agreeable light," hut it is an ugly unseemly object, and deserving of any 
thing but commendation. — D. 
t Selborne church can now boast of a small organ. With this addition the edifice seems to be 
in the same state as when our author wrote. — D. 
