[23] The local gardeners and workmen had a story of a large covered passage which was said to run from the house or from a point close to it, and towards the Abbey, and one workman, Thyer, now dead, told F.B.B. that he had assisted the late owner, Mr. Austin sen., to fill up a part of this and to remove the flat stone coverings which he needed for his building work.
[24] I.e., the high altar of the later church.
[25] Should be "Edmund."
[26] William the monk who reposes in the quire.
[27] A facsimile of this plan was published in the Treasury for Christmas, 1908.
[28] Cf. p. 37, line 3.
[29] Cf. p. 35, last line, "Portus introitus post reredos," etc.
[30] 'Them,'—i.e., the cellars.
[31] The length of the mediæval "pace" was unknown to us, and would have been inferred to be the natural length of a walking "step" (in F.B.B.'s case 22 inches).
But to reduce paces to feet, or vice versa, is not easy by mental arithmetic, and the calculation was not made. Hence this CCCXI conveyed nothing definite.