wretched, base, and unworthy, for that, that before this abuse,
was (and is now) a faire and beautifull chappell, by those that
were then the corporation (which is a body consisting of thirty
vestry-men, six of those thirty, churchwardens) was leased and let
out, and the house of God made a bake-house.

"Two very faire doores, that from the two side iles of the
chancell of this church, and two that thorow the head of the
chancell (as at this day they doe againe) went into it, were
lath't, daub'd, and dam'd up: the faire pillars were ordinary
posts against which they piled billets and bavens: in this place
they had their ovens, in that a bolting place, in that their
kneading trough, in another (I have heard) a hogs-trough; for the
words that were given mee were these, this place have I knowne
a hog-stie, in another a store house, to store up their hoorded
meal; and in all of it something of this sordid kind and
condition. It was first let by the corporation afore named, to
one _Wyat_, after him, to one _Peacocke_, after him, to one
_Cleybrooke_, and last, to one _Wilson_, all bakers, and this
chappell still imployed in the way of their trade, a bake-house,
though some part of this bake-house was some time turned into a
starch-house.

"The time of the continuance of it in this kind, from the first
letting of it to Wyat, to the restoring of it again to the church,
was threescore and some odde yeeres, in the yeere of our Lord God
1624, for in this yeere the ruines and blasted estate, that the
old corporation sold it to, were by the corporation of this time,
repaired, renewed, well, and very worthily beautified: the charge
of it for that yeere, with many things done to it since, arising
to two hundred pounds.

"This, as all the former repairs, being the sole cost and charge
of the parishioners."

[4] By M.M. Concanen, jun. and A. Morgan.

A correspondent, E.E. inquires how it happens that the Chapel of St.
Mary Magdalen, shown in all old plans of the Church, has likewise
disappeared within the present century? This Chapel adjoined the
South transept, and was removed during the repairs, under the able
superintendence of Mr. Gwilt. It was thus described by Mr. Nightingale
in 1818:

"The chapel itself is a very plain erection. It is entered on the
south, through a large pair of folding doo