this room
was a door, which opened into a closet, where stood bottles
of strong beer and wine; which never came out but in single
glasses, which was the rule of the house, for he never
exceeded himself, nor permitted others to exceed. Answering
to this closet was a door into an old chapel; which had been
long disused for devotion; but in the pulpit, as the safest
place, was always to be found a cold chine of beef, a
venison pasty, a gammon of bacon, or a great apple-pye, with
thick crust, well baked. His table cost him not much, though
it was good to eat at. His sports supplied all but beef and
mutton, except on Fridays, when he had the best of fish. He
never wanted a London pudding, and he always sang it in with
"_My part lies therein-a_." He drank a glass or two of wine
at meals; put syrup of gilly-flowers into his sack, and had
always a tun glass of small beer standing by him, which he
often stirred about with rosemary. He lived to be an
hundred, and never lost his eyesight, nor used spectacles.
He got on horseback without help, and rode to the death of
the stag till he was past fourscore." Gilpin's _Forest
Scenery_, vol. ii., pp. 23, 26. I should add, from the same
authority, that Hastings was a neighbour of Anthony Ashley
Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, with whom (as was likely
enough) he had no cordial agreement.]

[Footnote 347: "In the northern chapel which is parted from
the side aile by a beautiful open Gothic screen, is a
handsome monument to the memory of the lord Chancellor
Wriothesly, and a _large and costly standing chest_, carved
and inlaid, and stated, by an inscription on its front, to
have been given, _with the books in it_, by JOHN CLUNGEON.
The inscription is as follows:

"John, the sonne of John Clungeon of this towne, Alderman,
_erected this presse_ and gave certain books, who died, anno
1646.

"The books are, however, now gone, and the surplices, &c.
are kept in the chest." See a tasteful and elegantly printed
little volume, entitled "_A Walk through Southampton_;" by
Sir H.C. Englefield, Bart. 1801, 8vo., p. 64.]

[Footnote 348: Ward is described by Hearne as being "a
citizen and vintner of London," and "a lover of
antiquity's." He had a copy of the _Chartulary of
Dunstaple_, in MS., whic