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women , Avho were furnished with books , shoes , garments , and all necessaries , purchased with the money there given , and distributed by a priest and boy attending at it ; but , adds the old chronicler sorroAvfully , these brotherhoods , by reason of the frequent frauds committed by some , and the

ingratitude of others , and their universal variance , were dissolved and broken up . At St . David ' s , adjoining the north arm , is the chapter-house , on the first-floor of a three-storied building , Avith the treasury over it . Two centuries ago old people could remember having seen in the former alms

apportioned by basinsful , there not being leisure to tell them ; these oblations were made by seamen , passengers , and pilgrims , at the little dependent seaside chapels , and distributed on Saturdays among the clergy then officiating . In the great transept occasionallAve find two

y large rose-windows , one in each arm , as at Westminster and Lincoln : in the latter instance that on the north was called the bishop's , and the southern one the dean ' s eye , as representing their several jurisdictions . At St . Paul ' s the Lady Chapel had a superb rose-windoAv , in the east wall ,

and one still adorns the Nine Chapels of Durham . At Chichester , at York , and at Winchester , the rose-AvindoAV occurs in the transept gable .

The choir transept is the Ala Superior of Gervase . It usually marks the termination of the sanctuary , as the main transept marks the entrance of the choir . As Le ] and calls "the second transept of Salisbury , a light and division between the choir and presbytery" ( Itin ., hi . 96 ) . This

additional structure would not only accommodate altars , but also sick and infirm monks and canons who Avere permitted to attend in the retroehoir . M . Vitet gives twenty-four examples of this transept on the Continent , and attributes its origin to an Oriental source ( Cathed . de NoyonMonum . Ined .

, pp . 204 , 225 ) . M . Didron likewise refers it to the influence of Byzantium . M . Martin found it ordinarily in churches built before tho Ogival period . It came , probably , from Clugny into England . Chapels at Wells , Hereford , and York ,

lona a quasi transept . It marks the limits of the choir at Canterbury , SoutliAvell , Lincoln , York , Salisbury , Rochester , Worcester , Beverley . At Canterbury a pair of toAvers flanked this transept . At Rochester , in the north Aving-, the doorway of the Sacristan ' s chamber remains ; and in the

south Aving the Avell-knoAvn archway of the sacristy , Avith its remarkable series of carvings , a similar design to Avhich Avas painted at York . The Choir ( Oliorus cantorum , Gervase , Scarf , ii . 255 ) , —so called because formerly the choir sangarranged in a circle like a crown around the altar

( Erances , p . 87 ) , —in the Norman churches extended under the lantern , and sometimes into the nave , which a screen parted off , as at Winchester , Peterborough , Westminster , Norwich , Gloucester , Chichester , Ely . Sometimes it merely occupied the crossing , as at Chester , Hereford , St . David's ,

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St . Asaph , Bangor . But at length the crossing was constituted a separate division , Avhen the choirs were reconstructed and prolonged eastward during the thirteenth century ; a solid rood-screen being constructed under the eastern tower-arch to Avard off cold draughts of air , and a reredos added

behind the altar . This was the case at Canterbury , York , Lichfield , Carlisle , Exeter , and Bristol . At Canterbury , York , Salisbury , Lincoln , Rochester , Worcester , the choir occupies the space between the main and choir trancepts . At Worcester and York , the Avestern and eastern

limbs of the church are of equal length . In many churches a deflection on symbolical reasons was given to the ground plan of the eastern arm , which Avas regarded as the caput or drooping head of the crucified , reproduced in the ground plan . The inclination is ordinarily to the north , and is first observable in churches of the thirteenth and

fourteenth centuries : at Christchurch , Dublin , Bridlington , and St . Mary's , York , it Avas in this direction ; but southward at York , Lichfield , Ely , Tynemouth , Canterbury . At Canterbury we may also observe the remarkable contraction of the

central alley towards the east , contributing to improve the perspective and give the appearance of greater length , although designed to avoid the older side toAvers of the choir , and adapt the new structure to the width of the more ancient chapel beyond .

The Anchorage . —A recluse lived in the aisle of Westminster , at Leicester ( Leland ' s Collect ., hi . 337 ) , and another near the Lady Chapel of Peterborough . At Durham , the cell Avas approached by a staircase from the north choir aisle . At Norwicha gallerystill existing in the north

, , choir aisle , communicated Avith the sanctuary men ' s chamber , which , before the fifteenth century , was the relic chapel of St . Osyth , and occupied by a recluse . ( To be continued . )

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

ST . lEVYNE . Is there any foundation for the events related in " St . Irvyne , or the llosicrucian , " and who is its author?—R . X . —[ It is a romance by Shelley . ] EABLT MABTXKS FOR FBEEHASOOTIT . "Wanted a list of early martyrs who have suffered

for being Freemasons . — -J . W . —[ We can't spare the space to give such a list . The MAGAZINE would require to be enlarged to treble its size , for years to come , in order to print their names only . ] THE GUILD TIIEOBY . Prom what Guilds do the Freemasons deduce their

lineage ? _ . . _ . G . C . S . —[ The Guild theory is only an infinitesimal portion of the subject . We do not derive from operative but from spiritual guilds . Don't take such hap-hazard assertions for facts without a semblance of proof . Numbers of middle age Freemasons did belong to operative guilds , but cen-