[13] I.e., in the reign of Henry VII.
[14] It is most improbable that any are remaining at this day. The eighteenth century probably saw the last of them, but this may not be in the sphere of cognisance which we are here touching.
[15] At this point the sitting was interrupted, and was not resumed until eight hours later, when the broken thread was immediately taken up.
[16] I.e., the exterior width.
[17] These were proved later.—F.B.B.
[18] The sitting was interrupted here, and resumed later with a repetition of the words "as we saw it, but."
[19] The work of the mere copyist is not inspired.
[20] There is a sketch of this pillar given in the 1908 volume of the Proc. of the Somerset Arch. Soc.. It was found by F.B.B. in Kerrich's papers in the British Museum. Its position would fairly obviously correspond to that which the script suggests, and there is therefore nothing very remarkable about this.
[21] The wall of the vestry was subsequently dug for and found outside the bay of the south quire wall third from the west, where there were indications of such an appendage in the grooving of the masonry for the flashings of a lead roof, and the plinth mould had been shorn off to get rid of an inconvenient projection. The trench showed a thin wall giving a vestry about 9 feet wide.
[22] The great breadth of the footings of the rectangular part of Edgar's Chapel—about 6 feet 6 inches on the north and south walls—might easily have inspired a wrong opinion as to the substance of the walls themselves. But students of the work of this date are familiar with the fact that the flat and heavy fan-vaulted stone roofs of the Tudor period require, in addition to their external buttresses, a certain amount of interior support, which is given by building the walls as a series of hollow bays, the windows occupying the recesses, and the intermediate masses being brought out inwards, as piers or counterforts, the same being architecturally treated, so that the description elsewhere given of "piers as panellæ" is quite probably accurate, as a description of such features.—F.B.B.