starch-house.

"The time of the continuance of it in this kind, from the first
letting of it to Wyat, to the restoring of it again to the church,
was threescore and some odde yeeres, in the yeere of our Lord God
1624, for in this yeere the ruines and blasted estate, that the
old corporation sold it to, were by the corporation of this time,
repaired, renewed, well, and very worthily beautified: the charge
of it for that yeere, with many things done to it since, arising
to two hundred pounds.

"This, as all the former repairs, being the sole cost and charge
of the parishioners."

[4] By M.M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

A correspondent, E.E. inquires how it happens that the Chapel of St.
Mary Magdalen, shown in all old plans of the Church, has likewise
disappeared within the present century? This Chapel adjoined the
South transept, and was removed during the repairs, under the able
superintendence of Mr. Gwilt. It was thus described by Mr. Nightingale
in 1818:

"The chapel itself is a very plain erection. It is entered on the
south, through a large pair of folding doors, leading down a
small flight of steps. The ceiling has nothing peculiar in its
character; nor are the four pillars supporting the roof, and
the unequal arches leading into the south aisle, in the least
calculated to convey any idea of grandeur, or feeling of
veneration. These arches have been cut through in a very clumsy