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 invective against the monks and friars, and some of the great men of that age: Mr. Le Neve says that the manuscript was in his own hands, and that he had it out of the Ashwell-Thorp library, and that it was allowed to be Skelton's own handwriting; it now [1736] belongs to Mr. West, who purchased it at Mr. Le Neve's auction.

JOHN BRIARS, A. M. Rector of DISS,

Was chaplain to Charles Bishop of Norwich; he published

A Sermon preached at Palgrave in Suffolk, at the first meeting of the gentlemen and clergy, for encouraging the charity school lately set up there, on Phil. iv.; 17 edit. Lond. 1711.

And also a pamphlet, entitled, the present Behaviour of Mankind inconsistent with the true Spirit of Charity, which alone can prove available to put an end to our unhappy Divisions: being a discourse on the 13th chapter I Cor.

And several poems without his name, inserted in divers miscellanies. He was also rector of Billingford by Diss, where he was buried, Jan. 1st, 1728.

St. Nicholas's Chapel
Besides the parish church, there was a free chapel dedicated to the honour of St. Nicholas the bishop, which was built about the time of Henry