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282 Altar is supposed to have been part of St. Dunstan's shrine, and probably also the work of De Estria.

The fine decorated window in St. Anselm's chapel, said to have been erected in 1336, of which the bill is printed from the archives, bears so close a resemblance to the east window of Chartham church, a few miles only from Canterbury, that it must be considered as the work of the same hand, Henry de Estria, but as he died in 1331 there must be some error in the date of this window, which certainly looks earlier than 1336.

"The Nave.—In December of the year 1378, Archbishop Sudbury issued a mandate addressed to all ecclesiastical persons in his diocese en- joining them to solicit subscriptions for rebuilding the nave of the church, and granting forty days' indulgence to all contributors. The preamble states that the nave, on account of its notorious and evident state of ruin, must necessarily be totally rebuilt, that the work was already begun, and that funds were wanting to complete it." p. 117.

"A.D. 1381-96.—In the Obituary it is recorded that Archbishop Courtney gave more than a thousand marks to the fabric of the nave of the church, the cloister, &c.; and that Archbishop Arundell (A.D. 1396-1413.) gave five sweet sounding bells, commonly called 'Arundell ryng,' as well as a thousand marks to the fabric of the nave." p. 118.

"A.D. 1390-1411.—Of Prior Chillenden, the same document states that 'he, by the help and assistance of the Rev. Father Thomas Arundell, did entirely rebuild the nave of the church, together with the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, therein situated, and handsomely constructed.' Also the cloister, chapter-house, and other buildings enumerated.

"The epitaph of this prior, preserved by Somner, confirms this statement, by saying, 'Here lieth Thomas Chyllendenne, formerly Prior of this Church . . . who reconstructed the nave of the Church and divers other