ress, or ark, as it
is called, in the vestry, for the purpose of suspending the priests'
vestments.

The inside of the church is spacious and commodious, and has lately been
rendered still more so by converting the gothic arches of the south side
of the nave into one bold semicircular arch whose span is 39 feet, and
erecting a gallery in the wide south aisle, said to have been built by
John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster.

In the great choir or chapel called Trinity choir, at the east end of the
great south aisle, (for the aisles of our churches were formerly often
divided into chapels, but of which in this church no traces now remain),
was held a _Guild_ or Fraternity, called _Trinity Guild_, founded in the
reign of Henry the Seventh, by Sir Richard Sacheverel, Kt. and the good
Lady Hungerford. Collections were made four times a year, of the
brethren and sisters belonging to this Society, whatever it might be, for
Antiquaries have not rendered the point sufficiently clear, but from
their meetings being held in churches, it is most probable that they were
of a religious nature. The money when collected was applied to meet
various expenses, but chiefly to pay the wages of their priest, perhaps
their confessor, and to supply their great feast held annually on Trinity
Sunday, for which, according to the account of the steward and wardens,
the following articles were purchased, A.D. 1508.

s. d.

A dozen of Ale 1 8
A fat Sheep 2 4
Seven Lambs 7 0
Thirty Chickens 1 11
Two gallons of Cream 0 8
0.5qr. of Malt 2 0
Fourteen Geese 4 3

From a curious and ingenious Mathematical Essay on the comparative prices
of similar articles in different ages, presented to the society of
Antiquaries, we have here the pleasure of offering to the attention of
our visitor, the following valuable remarks.

"The generality of readers when they look into the records of antient
times, are forcibly struck by the seeming lowness of the prices of
every article of common demand, when compared with the modern prices.
When they find that an ox was formerly sold for a few shillings, and
the price of a quarter of corn calculated in pence, they are led to
envy the supposed