filled with "paynted glass;" but as the whole repair cost only £4. 2s. od., the glass could not have been very elaborate'.

An Organ, with what is called a "penthouse" over it, was set up in 1613-14. It was necessary to hew the wall away to let it in, and it was under a window, which was mended at the same time; but nothing is said to tell us where it was placed. A more important alteration is recorded in the following note, written in a contemporary hand at the beginning of a Hebrew Bible in the Fellows' Library':

Thomas Wever, Fellow of Eton, erected and built in the Collegiate Church ther, One great frame of Tymber under ye great Arch in the west end of the sd Church, carved with the armes of King Henerie the Sixt of Famous memorie, Fownder of the two Colledges ye one in Eton and the other in Cambridg; wth ye armes of Queene Elizabeth (a second Fownder and preserver of Colledges by enacting ye Statute of Provision) The Armes of ye two Universities, and ye armes of ye Coll:

1

[Bursar's Account Book, 1625-26. Templum. "To the Glasier repayreinge the east wyndowe in the Churche beinge much in decay and for ye supplyeinge of paynted glasse there ut per billam iiij li. ijs."]

2 Bomberg's Pentateuch, Shelf D. c. 9.

Fig. 32.

South side of the Hall and adjoining buildings, Eton College, taken after the restoration begun in 1858; from Lyte's "Eton College."

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of Eton, and ye Kings Coll: in Cambridge, and diverse other Armes. He gave a Communion Cupp guilded, worth xx markes, and sett up a Communion Table: He sett up Seates for ye Oppidalls, and the great Pew under ye Pulpitt for the use of ye Fellowes, Scholm' and their Families; He gave fowre strong Formes to stand in ye Iles of ye Church for the Townemen to sitt on: He gave two deskes graven wth ye Coll: armes for ye Fellowes to read Prayers: He adorned the deskes for ye Clerks: He translated ye Vestrie, built ye Portall: He repayred ye seat in Dr Lupton's Chappell and sett up a presse ther to laye up ye Songe

books: He repared ye Seates and pewes on ye North and South sides of ye Church besides diverse other things: The Colledg alowed him towards ye work six Loads of rough Tymber. Anno domini 1625.

Laus Deo."

As this work was put up at the sole expense of Mr Weaver, there are but few entries respecting it in the accounts. It had been completed apparently before Michaelmas, 1623, for in the

accounts for 1623-24 we find a charge of £4 "for paynteing and guilding the new worke and the pullpitt in the Church." A portion of it, probably the screen under the chancel arch, was surmounted by a gilt cross; and the seats for the Provost and Vice-Provost were sufficiently massive to have windows in them'. The rails round the communion-table, which are mentioned in 1631-32, were probably part of Weaver's work?.

The flight of stone stairs which now leads up to the south door of the Ante-chapel was built in 1624-25, to replace one of wood; those leading out of the school-yard to the north door were rebuilt in 1694-953. In Hollar's print (1672) they are shewn with a lean-to roof over them.

The exterior of the Church must have become much decayed by 1630, from a charge for "cuttinge out the trees and shrubbs which grew uppon the pinnikles and walls, and surveyinge the windowes to see what decays were about the stoneworke." The defects were remedied by ordinary repairs, until the end of the century, when a thorough restoration of the outside and a rearrangement of the inside was undertaken. The former work was paid for in 1698-99. It included a new roof, and a complete repair of the pinnacles, the cost of which was defrayed by the College. The Provost and Fellows next turned their attention to the interior, and drew up the following statement :

1 [Bursar's Account Book, 1623-24. "To the paynter of Windesor for giultinge the Cross vpon the new worke in the Church vjd.”

Ibid. 1624-25. Templum. “To the Joyner for a new deske in Mr Vicepro's seate and for alteringe the waynescott wyndowes in the Provosts and viceprovosts seates and for two foote stooles there vj s. viij d." "To the paynter for payntinge the wyndowes in the Provosts and vice provosts seates and the desk before the viceprovost vjs." See also Lyte's Eton, p. 225. It was objected to Weaver at Laud's Visitation in 1634 that he had made a sawpit in the Churchyard; and had shortened morning prayer "one holy day to pull doune a tree." Fourth Report of Hist. MSS. Commiss. pp. 147, 8. For Weaver's work at King's College see p. 519.] 2 [Ibid. 1631-32. "New paintynge the pale about the Communyon table." Mr Lyte records that these rails were removed to Burnham Church in 1700.]

[Ibid. 1624-25. After the charges for Purbeck stone, probably for the steps, and "Oxford stone to make the crest for the wall," we find: "To two laborers one day takeinge downe the wooden stayers to the church, and providinge the place for the newe Staires there, xxj d." Ibid. 1694-95. "Item payd Mr Clarke the Mason for ye Staires on ye North side of yo Chappell [etc.] £90. 12. 09." The iron rail was put up in 1743-44. Audit Book.]

[Ibid. 1630---31.]