e patrons of the living.

I found some difficulty in getting at the terrier of the
parish,--which you, who consider yourself to be a model
parson, I dare say, have never seen. I have, however,
found it in duplicate. The clerk of the Board of
Guardians, who should, I believe, have a copy of it, knew
nothing about it; and had never heard of such a document.
Your bishop's registrar was not much more learned,--but I
did find it in the bishop's chancery; and there is a copy
of it also at Saint John's, which seems to imply that
great attention has been paid by the college as patron to
the interests of the parish priest. This is more than has
been done by the incumbent, who seems to be an ignorant
fellow in such matters. I wonder how many parsons there
are in the Church who would let a Marquis and a Methodist
minister between them build a chapel on the parish glebe?

Yours ever,

RICHARD QUICKENHAM.

If I were to charge you through an attorney for my trouble
you'd have to mortgage your life interest in the bit of
land to pay me. I enclose a draft from the terrier as far
as the plot of ground and the vicarage-gate are concerned.

Here was information! This detestable combination of dissenting
and tyrannically territorial influences had been used to build a
Methodist Chapel upon land of which he, during his incumbency in the
parish, was the freehold possessor! What an ass he must have been
not to know his own possessions! How ridiculous would he appear when
he should come forward to claim as a part of the glebe a morsel of
land to which he had paid no special attention whatever since he had
been in the parish! And then, what would it be his duty to do? Mr.
Quickenham had clearly stated that on behalf of the college, which
was the patron of the living, and on behalf of his successors, it was
his duty to claim the land. And was it possible that he should not
do so after such usage as he had received from Lord Trowbridge? So
meditating,--but grieving that he should be driven at such a moment
to have his mind forcibly filled with such matters,--still hearing
the chapel bell, which in his ears drowned the sound from his own
modest belfry, and altogether doubtful as to what step he would take,
he entered his own church. It was manifest to him that of the poorer
part of his usual audience, and of the smaller farmers, one half were
in attendance upon Mr. Puddleham'