pot was chosen
near the cross roads in the village, on which there is
more space, to which as I believe there is no objection,
and which would certainly be nearer than that now selected
to the majority of the congregation.

But of course it would not be for me to trouble your
lordship as to the ground on which a Methodist chapel
should be built, unless I had reason to show why the
site now chosen is objectionable. I do not for a moment
question your lordship's right to give the site. There is
something less than a quarter of an acre in the patch in
question; and though hitherto I have always regarded it
as belonging in some sort to the Vicarage,--as being a
part, as it were, of the entrance,--I feel convinced that
you, as landlord of the ground, would not entertain the
idea of bestowing it for any purpose without being sure
of your right to do so. I raise no question on this
point, believing that there is none to be raised; but I
respectfully submit to your lordship, whether such an
erection as that contemplated by you will not be a lasting
injury to the Vicarage of Bullhampton, and whether you
would wish to inflict a lasting and gratuitous injury
on the vicar of a parish, the greatest portion of which
belongs to yourself.

No doubt life will be very possible to me and my wife, and
to succeeding vicars and their wives, with a red-brick
chapel built as a kind of watch-tower over the Vicarage
gate. So would life be possible at Turnover Park with
a similar edifice immediately before your lordship's
hall-door. Knowing very well that the reasonable wants of
the Methodists cannot make such a building on such a spot
necessary, you no doubt would not consent to it; and I now
venture to ask you to put a stop to this building here for
the same reason. Were there no other site in the parish
equally commodious I would not say a word.

I have the honour to be,
Your lordship's most obedient servant,

FRANCIS FENWICK.

Lord Trowbridge, when he received this letter,--when he had only
partially read it, and had not at all digested it, was disposed to
yield the point. He was a silly man, thinking much too highly of his
own position, believing himself entitled to unlimited deference from
all those who in any way came within the rays of his magnificence,
and easily made angry by opposition; but he was not naturally pr