The result was interesting, but contained nothing important as regards the Abbey.
SITTING V. 22nd November, 1907.
A further plan was produced of the general range of Abbey buildings, signed "Johannes." This was followed by a short script as here given:
"When you dig, excavate the pillars of the crypt, six feet below the grass—they will give you a clue. The direction of the walls ... eastwards (this word might almost as easily have been 'westwards,' or even 'outwards,' and it was so ill written that nothing could be decided from it) ... was at an angle ... clothyards twenty seven long, nineteen wide."
It would have been just as easy to read the last as "thirteen." The pencilled original of the plan is preserved, but not the script, as it was not regarded as of value at the time, but the mention of the "walls at an angle," referring, as it would appear, to some part of the chapel whose dimensions are in the context, is an interesting point.
The mention of the crypt seemed simply the mentality of the sitters—a reflex of their study of Wild's plan. It is again referred to, however, in later writings.
SITTING VI. 26th November, 1907.
F.B.B. "Perhaps Johannes will tell us something more?"
A. "Johannes Bryant is striving for the glory of Glaston. There is much under the grass deep down and unrifled. The east of St. Mary's has a vault under the stairs and under the nave there are vaults[14]—the destroyers feared, and the ruin of the walls hid the entrance in. Under the tower the volt is perfect, and many names of those buried therein very deep down."
Q. "Where should we commence to dig?"
A. "The east end. Seek for the pillars, and the wall(s) at an angle. The foundations are deep."
SITTING IX. 30th December, 1907.
Commencement of writing quite illegible.