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and upon any great Improvements being carried on, if the Finnances [finances] run short, the Chapter borrow Money in their Corporate capacity and pay off the Debt, when the Accumulations of the Tythes amount to it. In the good Bishop Bagot's Time, a very large new Bell was put up and a new Window of painted Glass put on the East End of the Choir, which cost near a thousand pounds, all the Arms of such of the Gentry. in the Dioces [diocese], as chose it, form a Part of it, my Contribution was 15 Guineas, and I only put nine Quarters, of my Arms, as I thought that filling the Shield with more would make it indistinct. Sir Tho: Mostyn, & Sir Watkin W. Wynn have 101 Quarters in their Shields.
A few years ago, whilst Barrington was Bishop, I was at Salisbury in one of my Rambles, upon going into a Lumber Room, in the Church, or Cloisters, I saw a Boy with an Iron Hammer breaking the Glass of a fine old painted Window, for the purpose as he said of separating the Lead from the Glass, as the Glass was too thick to be used in any Lead that was now made, that the Glass he was destroying, was a Part of one of the Windows of the Chapter House, and that the Bishop had obliged the Chapter to put up the present new Window, I desired the Boy would cease, and he directed me to his Master, to whom expressing my Astonishment and Grief, he said, "he wished I had come there some Weeks sooner, when I might have had perfect whole Figures of Bishops, Abbots etc as a great many of which had been pounded down, as I might have observed from the large Heaps of Glass Fragments in the place where I had seen the Boy at Work." I told him, that I would gladly