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was an upright gravestone. Returning home, I held a colloquy with a
young girl about the right road. She had come out to feed a pig, and was
a little suspicious that we were making fun of her, yet answered us with
a shy laugh and good-nature,--the pig all the time squealing for his
dinner.
Displayed along the walls, and suspended from the pillars of the original
King's Chapel, were coats-of-arms of the king, the successive governors,
and other distinguished men. In the pulpit there was an hour-glass on a
large and elaborate brass stand. The organ was surmounted by a gilt
crown in the centre, supported by a gilt mitre on each side. The
governor's pew had Corinthian pillars, and crimson damask tapestry. In
1727 it was lined with china, probably tiles.
Saint Augustin, at mass, charged all that were accursed to go out of the
church. "Then a dead body arose, and went out of the church into the
churchyard, with a white cloth on its head, and stood there till mass was
over. It was a former lord of the manor, whom a curate had cursed
because he refused to pay his tithes.
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