TABLE OF THE VERIDICAL PASSAGES IN THE AUTOMATIC SCRIPT, SIXTEEN IN NUMBER, REFERRING TO THE EDGAR CHAPEL AND EAST END OF QUIRE

I. AS TO A LARGE RECTANGULAR CHAPEL EAST OF THE RETRO-QUIRE.
Script.Existing Data.Result.
November 7, 1907. Plan of Abbey, showing oblong chapel at east end, of very large dimensions, and exterior to retro-quire, the width overlapping three of the five chapels of same.
The sketch would indicate a width between 20 and 30 feet, and a length probably exceeding 70 feet.		 Professor Willis's Architectural History shows nearest parallel, but his plan is only an eastward extension of the central one of five little chapels, and its total length would only exceed the rest by about 12 feet, and width would be a little over 11 feet. Proved by excavation as substantially correct for the earlier or rectilinear portion of the chapel.
The dimensions are shown in the plan published in the Proc. Som. Arch. Soc. for 1908, and again in 1909.
II. AS TO THE DEDICATION OF THE CHAPEL.
November 7, 1907. "Capella St. Edgar. Abbas Beere fecit hanc capellam Beat(i) Edgar(i).
"... et capella extensit 80 virgas ... et fecit altarium ... et tumbam ante altarium gloriosam aedificavit ad memoriam Sanct(i) Edgar(i)."
Q. "Which Abbot did this?"
A. "Ricardus Whitting."		 Leland says: "Abbat Beere builded Edgares Chapel at the east end of the Church. But Abbat Whitting performed sum part of it."
Willis thought that the Edgar Chapel might have been at this point—i.e., where he shows his projecting central chapel.		 Proved later to have been the edgar chapel by a plan discovered in 1910 in a private collection. (See Som. Arch. Soc. Proc., 1916-17.)
The 30-yard length is the result of an addition to the original plan.
III. AS TO A DOOR IN THE EXTREME EAST.
November 7, 1907. "Portus introitus post reredos, post altarium quinque passuum" (An entrance door five paces behind the reredos).
June 16, 1908. "There was a passage to the east doore in ye walle to the streete."		 No record of such a feature, and no warrant for supposing it. Eastern doorways are very unusual.
Nothing known of door or wall to the street from this part.		 Proved by the gap found in the footings at the eastern extremity, where the two foundations of the angular apse walls do not join. the depth of the apse is about five paces.
The use of the word "portus," meaning "door," is confirmed in this sense by the allusion to the "east door." The angular south wall of the apse continues on, and was perhaps a fence-wall to a pathway, but it has not been possible to pursue this. The ditch or moat is believed to have run on the south side of same. On the north, the footing of the angular wall stops short, leaving a gap in the foundations at the east end, as though for a doorway.
IV. AS TO THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE CHAPEL.
November 7, 1907. "Et capella extensit 30 virgas ad orientem" (And the chapel extended 80 yards to the east). The Elizabethan Inventory, in a list of measures of the Church, says: "Chapter House, 90 feet." Proved by measure. The internal measure is 87 feet, and this, allowing 3 feet more for thickness of end wall and plinth gives the 30 yards for the total length of the edgar chapel.
V. AS TO THE AZURE GLASS IN THE WINDOWS OF THE CHAPEL.
November, 7 1907. "Et vitrea azurea" (And window-glass of azure). Azure blue does not predominate in glass of the sixteenth century.
The dominant tones are white and gold, the field often being almost entirely white. The subjects are in glass of various colours. The blues tend to a steely grey.		 Proved by the discovery of fragments, relatively numerous, of blue glass in the trenches. This glass was probably refitted from the windows of the earlier work altered or removed by successive abbots, and appears to be of the thirteenth century.
VI. AS TO THE VAULTING OF "FANS."
November 7, 1907. "Abbas Beere ... fecit voltam petriam quod vocatur quadripartus, sed Abbas Whitting ... destruxit ... et restoravit eam cum nov ... multipart ... nescimus eam quod vocatur."
November 13, 1907. "Wee saide that ye volte was multipartite, yt was fannes old-style in ye este ende of ye choire, and ye newe volt in Edgare's chappel ... Glost'er fannes."		 It is a fair inference that a chapel of this nature and period (Henry VII. to Henry VIII.) would be vaulted in "fans," and we should have thought Abbot Bere's original scheme would have provided for this.
"Fannes old style" would apply to those built on a half-hexagonal section. The real Tudor fan has a circular sweep.		 The edgar chapel had the later (multipartite) form of fan, as is proved by the nature of the fragments found. One of the main bosses is extant, and on its back has the direction (in scored lines) for the correct setting of the block, and this shows twelve ribs, implying a wheel of tracery between fans.
VII. AS TO THE POLYGONAL EAST END.
November 19, 1907. "The direction of the walls ... was at an angle."
November 19, 1907. "Forty and two feete was the hight of ye newe chapelle, and yt was ybuttressed with faire buttresses, and walls slantwise at ye cornere."
November 26, 1907. "The east end. Seek for the pillars, and the walls at an angle."
November 30, 1908. "The ending of the chappel was at an angle, the sides makyng as it were a baye in the east wall there."		 No existing data from which such might be inferred. The nearest example of a polygonal east end seems to be at Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, unless we regard the Lady Chapel at Wells as a parallel instance. This chapel, however, is in reality an elongated octagon, with a domical roof. It was erected A.D. 1326. Proved by discovery in january, 1909, after the tentative plan of an angular apse had been in the press for publication by the somerset archæological society; and after actual publication in the christmas number of the Treasury FOR 1908.
VIII. AS TO THE DIFFERENCE IN THE FOUNDATIONS.
February 19, 1908. "Thin walls and poore foundations in the new work." Nothing known. Proved by excavation. the footing walls of the apse were thin and poor, in marked contrast to those of the rectangular part of the chapel, which were exceedingly broad.
IX. AS TO AN OLDER LADY CHAPEL BEFORE MONINGTON'S TIME WITH A POLYGONAL APSE.
April 20, 1908. "The olde church had a chapell going east like to Edgar's, and the corners were cut off most like. The foundations ye mean remain." Nothing known, but there is a possible inference as regards a Lady Chapel beyond the original Quire before the Western Lady Chapel was incorporated.
Phelps has preserved a reminiscence of this chapel, and he suggests a semicircular end, which might mean a polygon. The projection beyond the retro-quire would be about 12 feet, according to his diagram.
Compare the Lady Chapel at Wells.		 In june, 1908, traces of a slant wall (footing trench) were found close inside the east wall of the retro-quire and a little south of the centre (recorded in a report from Rev. H. Barnwell, late Vicar of Glastonbury written to F.B.B. shortly after the commencement of excavation.)
About 12 feet beyond the retro-quire, the levels of the ground and foundations rise considerably. At this point comes the west wall of the Edgar Chapel; and the same point probably marks the extreme eastward limit of the older Lady Chapel.
June 16, 1908. "There are two chapels, and ye must try to judge old and new. The scheme of Abbot Monington gave one, and under the church are remains yet older." Nothing known at the time.
Phelps's plan of a Lady Chapel, copied by Warner, suggests two different states of this building, the original extending under the quire, and afterwards absorbed in Monington's new work.		 The existence of older footings under the quire floor was proved later. they were too much pulled about and altered to establish their original form.
X. AS TO THE LITTLE CRYPT UNDER THE STAIRS.
April 20, 1908. "Ye crypt was mere a chamber under the stairs, and it was at the west end of the chapel."
June 16, 1908. "The cript is fallen in, but the clay is not the old clay. Clear out the midst thereof."		 Nothing known at this date of chapel, crypt, or stair. The rise of ground at east might suggest a raised floor for the chapel exterior to retro-quire. Britton's plan of Abbey suggests that the two piers found circa 1813 on the site of the middle chapel of the retro-quire were "probably part of a crypt," but there was nothing known to warrant such a suggestion, and facts were against it. The necessity of a staircase to bere's chapel is proved by the subsequent discovery of its superior level—probably some seven feet above the retro-quire. As the ground rises immediately east of the west wall of the chapel, it almost inevitably follows that a crypt would be confined to a small space beneath the antechapel or stairway of approach.
XI. AS TO THE DOUBLE HAND-RAIL.
"And ye stairway was divided in ye midst by a grete rail of stone," etc. Nothing known at the time. A double-handed stone rail was detected later among the débris lying about the abbey quire walls not far from the site of the chapel.
XII. AS TO THE WIDTH OF BERE'S BUILDING.
June 16, 1908. "The width ye shall find is twenty and seven, and outside thirty and four, so we remember.—BEERE, Abbas." Nothing known. The west wall of the chapel measures about 31 feet 6 inches. 27 feet is a probable measure for the interior width of the chapel, whose walls, deeply recessed for the windows, would stand well upon the outer part of the footings. these are 6 feet 6 inches wide on the north and south. The outer, or 32 feet measure does not include the buttresses.
XIII. AS TO THE LENGTH OF BERE'S BUILDING.
June 16, 1908. "Wee laid down seventy and two, but they builded longer." Nothing known or recorded. No inference possible. Proved as a measure substantially correct for the superstructure, as inferred from the footings. (See plans in Som. Arch. Soc. Proc. for 1908-9.)
ft.  in.
    Antechapel..(approx.)12   0
    Bere's Rectangular Chapel
        (5 + 50 + 5)   . .   . .  60   0
———
72   0
XIV. AS TO A CEILING IN GOLD AND CRIMSON.
June 16, 1908. "And he who followed made new schemes for a certaine roofe in golde and crimson." Nothing known or recorded. Proved by the subsequent discovery of arch-mouldings with members painted in red and black, and retaining traces of gold.
XV. AS TO A CHAPEL OF FOUR BAYS.
February 19, 1908. "And the chamber was in length 70 feet, in four bays." Nothing known and no inference possible. The rectangular chapel proved to be of four bays. the 70 feet includes the antechapel, but is a round-figure estimate, the true length being about 72. (See XIII. above.)
XVI. AS TO THE ALTAR SCREEN AND TRIPLE ARCADE.
December 2, 1908. "The procession path went round three corners, and they builded the new window after hys time straight. Ye have found the old wall before Monington, I guess, but do not know.... Hee (Monington) did make the Est end full square, that I know he didd, and in hym three arches and a grete screene." Nothing known at the time.
At Wells there are three arches between quire and retro-quire, behind the reredos, and a similar arrangement at Glastonbury would easily be inferred.		 The excavation proved that there were formerly three arches behind the altar, and there were indications of a screen wall between.
ADDENDUM TO THE TABLE OF THE VERIDICAL PASSAGES.
December 2, 1908. "Soe it was in my day, that he who followed after did enlong the window, and it was full weake and they rebuilded it. He did build strong walls over ye lytell chapel of Our Ladye that then was, and in them a new window, and on either side he placed a walle which did continue the walls of the choire, and did put in an arche and under hym a tombe on either side with the altar in the midst, and above the arche as it was two grete high windows very narrow, which did make on to the grete east window, and wyth hym made a grete faire window which did light up all the choir," etc. The suggestion is that one of the Abbots coming after Monington substituted for his square east and a bayed end with a principal window flanked by two narrow ones set anglewise. The great east window of Glo'ster is slightly bayed and has buttressings for support to the east. It is recorded that in Bere's day the great east window was "casting out" and had to be given further support. Nothing can be proved as regards any later alteration of the east window, as all above ground is cleared away.