. Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times: their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury college and Redcliffe church, critically examined: to which is added, inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton. f its previous occupation by a very diilerent struc-ture to that \\ljich has usurped its place. Adiscovery made in the month of August, 1852,appears, ho^vevcr, to settle the question. It hadlong been suspected, from certain appearances onthe exteiior of the south aisle of the nave, that inthe wall beneath t\vo of its niost easterly windows,some unrecorded inteime
. Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times: their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury college and Redcliffe church, critically examined: to which is added, inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton. f its previous occupation by a very diilerent struc-ture to that \\ljich has usurped its place. Adiscovery made in the month of August, 1852,appears, ho^vevcr, to settle the question. It hadlong been suspected, from certain appearances onthe exteiior of the south aisle of the nave, that inthe wall beneath t\vo of its niost easterly windows,some unrecorded inteiments had taken place ; andvSholto Vere Flare, Esq. the intelhgent church-warden at the time (uould that all persons whoheld the office were equally so,) resolved, on afitting occasion, to have the wall opened, whichwas accordingly done, beneath both the windowsalluded to : the re>uli was that two recessed tombswere disclosed, each containing human remains—that to the east were those of a female, and themost westerly those of a rrjale person. The face ofboth tombs had been most sliamefully chipjicd away,to render the ^vidl perfectly Hat, pro])ably when thechurch was re-pewed in the reign of Queen Anne ; ?^^r--^;^ ^iM-^ vT. A 4 M MAtni ,«^
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