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young women of the pariHi, reputed to have died virgins ; and 
recolleft to have feen the clerk's wife cutting, in v;hite paper, the 
refeniblances of gloves, and ribbons to be twilled into knots and 
rofes, to decorate thefe memorials of chaftity. In the church of 
Fdr'Digdon, which is the next parilh, many garlands of this fort 
fiill remain. 
The north aile is narrow and low, with a floping ceiling, reach- 
ing within eight or nine feet of the floor. It had originally a flat 
roof covered with lead, till, within a century paft, a churchwarden 
ftripping off the lead, in order, as he faid, to have it mended, 
fold it to a plumbei-, and ran away with the money. This aile 
has no door, for an obvious reafon ; becaufe the north-fide of the 
church-yard, being furroundcd by the vicarage-garden, affords no. 
path to that fide of the church. Nothing can be more irregular 
than the pews of this church, which are of all dimenfions and 
heights, being patched up according to the fancy of the owners ;• 
but whoever nicely examines them will find that the middle 
aile had, on each fide, a regular row of benches of folid oak, 
all alike, with a low back-board to each. Thefe we fhould not 
hehtatc to fay are coeval with the prefent church : and efpecially 
as it is to be obferved that, at their ends, they are ornamented 
■with carved blunt gotbic niches, exadlly correfpondent to the 
arches of the church, and to a niche in the fouth wall. The 
fouth aile alfo has a row of thefe benches ; but fome are decayed 
through age, and the reft much difguifed by modern alterations. 
At the upper end of this aile, and running out to the north, 
ftands a tranfept, knov/n by the name of the North Chancel, mea- 
furing twenty-one feet from fouth to north, and nineteen feet 
from eaft to weft : this was intended, no doubt, as a private 
chantry; and was alfo, till of late, divided off by a ^oz/vV frame- 
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