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Cl^urcl^ 5123artrens (were together) 1626 
K. 13. Cfjis fcDorlte tuas Irone faoit^ consience 
And in good conscience we only wish that our modern 
improvers had proceeded thus ; the donor's name, the cost 
of the work, the date of its execution, and the names of 
the churchwardens, all recorded in five lines ! 
But, to show to what an extent these ill-judged " beauti- 
fyings" are sometimes carried, it is not many years since 
" a churchwarden of Saint Stephens, Norwich, commenced 
his reign by cleaning and painting the church, and at the 
" close of his labours, he rested his eye fretfully upon a 
"picture of the Last Supper. 'Boy,' said he to the 
"painter, 'I should consider myself wanting in duty and 
" veneration, did I suffer this church to be cleaned, and 
" our Saviour sitting before a dirfi/ table-cloth : take your 
" brush and paint it white directly !' A few days after 
" this mutilation was discovered by the Rector, who sent it, 
" with tears in his eyes, to an artist, to be restored to its 
" pristine state." — Elms' s Arts and Artists. 
At a period such as the present, when a strong feeling 
is exhibited by the clergy of our venerable establishment 
in favour of the proper reparation of the structures under 
their care, the notice of these instances of Vandalism (most 
of which I have seen) may not seem misplaced. 
If the windows of a church, whether Norman, Early Eng- 
lish, Decorated or Perpendicular, have fallen to decay, and 
modern sashes be introduced, the whole character of the 
structure is destroyed; whereas the expenditure of a few 
pounds, from a feeling of con amove on the part of the 
clergyman and a few parishioners, (if you will, upon the 
voluntary system), would in a few years restore the rauti- 
