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Place it had probably been long before conveyed 5 
flnee none of the Inhabitants remembered its being 
taken out of the Church, and nothing could then 
be difeovered there, which bore the leaft Refem- 
blance- to it. Upon fhewing it to a very skilful 
Architect, he immediately faid, it was the Model of 
a Church Window ; and that it was the Cuftom for- 
merly to have fuch Models made for the Ufe of the 
Mafons. Some time after I defired Mr. ‘Peter New - 
come y now a Member of this Society , to convey a 
Copy of the Draught above mention’d to his Bro- 
ther, the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Newcome, who 
was then in that Neighbourhood, and from whom 
he foon received the following Account : “ There 
“ was a Window in the North Front, that fell down 
“ thirty Years fince, which, the Sexton tells me, 
“ he thinks fomething refembled the Draught (for 
“ I fhewed it to him) as well as he can remember. 
“ That Window was bricked up for twenty three 
“ Years, but about feven Years ago was repaired 
lc and glazed.” But, in the fame Letter, fpeaking of 
the prefent State of it, he fays: “ I viewed the North 
“ Front, and could not fee any Building or Window, 
“ either without or on the Inftde, that in the leaft 
“ refembled the Draught.” From the Sexton’s Ac- 
count therefore it feems to me not improbable, 
that there was formerly a Window fomewhat in that 
Form, but larger, in the North Front, and that the 
Draught fent to the Society contains only Part of it; 
which being conlider’d barely as a Date exprefling 
the Year 1011, the reft was not attended to. But, upon 
comparing it with the Model, I could not enter into 
that Sentiment $ tho’ I had not drawn up my Thoughts 
upon. 
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