To establish a school of philosophy had been the dream of Alcott's life; and there he sat as I entered the vestry of a church on one of the hottest days in August.

Memorials of Stepney, 44 (Fine for not attending vestry. 1602).

The nave, aisles, chancel, and tower are all in the Early English style and very noble work of their kind, built in the time of Bishop Lawrence de Martin of Rochester (1251-1274); while to the fourteenth century belongs the vestry to the north of the chancel and the western windows in nave and aisles and the piers of the tower as we now see them.

During the year 1836, the Society built the vestry in the attic story of the church, and the following year, 1837, the interior of the church was altered by a new pulpit, ceiling, introduction of gas, painting, &c. at an expense of nearly five thousand dollars.

Its mutilations are comparatively small, consisting only in the destruction of the tracey of the north transept window, and some featherings in other windows, and the building and wall to enclose a vestry.

I went through the vestry into the main part of the church, deciding to examine the vestry later.

The church of St. Saviour is built in the form of a cathedral, with a nave, side aisles, transepts, a choir, with its side aisles; and the chapel of St. John, which now forms the vestry, and the chapel of the Virgin Mary, or Our Lady.

Do you know that they fight, and that they have tribes which are life-long enemieslike those dreadful Corsicansand that they make little sepulchres in the bark of trees, and bury each otheralive, if they can; and they hold vestries, and have burial boards.

In short, that feeling of distrust and discrimination against the outside world, which, in the 18th century, led a Lancashire vestry to dub all outsiders "foreigners," is already fully developed by the end of the 16th century.

Now to pack a vestry, and to nominate a local committee.

" "Certainly!" replied the vestry.

You tell your vestry that if they want it they can have it.

Finally, in the parish church assembled vestries for the holding of accounts, the making of rates and the election of officers.

I visited the vestry where the meetings had taken place, and examining the register, discovered at the bottom of one of the pages, compressed into a very small space, the entry of Sir Felix Glyde's marriage with the mother of Sir Percival.