[28] A full description of these brasses appeared in The Antiquary for March, 1904.
[29] A full account of this incident and of the bequest appears in Heath and Prideaux’s Some Dorset Manor Houses, pp. 199, 200.
[30] In connection with the glass in the windows of Milton Abbey, it may be of interest to add the tradition that John Milton “planned” his Il Penseroso at Milton, and that the following lines in the poem are supposed to have been suggested to him by the Abbey Church:
But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloister’s pale,
And love the high embowèd roof
With antic pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight
Casting a dim religious light;
There let the pealing organ blow,