There are some monuments still remaining in the church, including a peculiar slab on which is the small figure of a bishop. Tradition says that it commemorates a boy bishop, but on good authority it is stated that it shows the “burial place of the heart of Bishop John Breton” of the 13th century. The altar possesses great interest to the antiquarian. It is a large slab supported by massive columns which are really capitals of columns, probably discovered in the ruins and put to their present use when the altar slab was recovered from the adjoining farm-house where it is said to have been used for dairy purposes. When Robert, Earl of Ferrars, founded the monastery, he endowed it with lands “to hold free and quit of all secular service, by the rent of three shillings yearly to be paid at the Feast of St. Peter and _ad vincula_; and this was exprest to be given not only for the Health of the Souls of his Ancestors and Heirs but also for the Peace and Stability of all England and Wales.”--Dugdale’s _Monasticon_. GLASTONBURY (_Mitred Benedictine_) 31 A.D. St Joseph of Arimathæa, with other disciples of St Philip, lands on the south-west coast of England, preaches Christianity to the people, and builds a church on land given him by King Arviragus--433-472, St Patrick becomes first abbot and in a great measure founds the abbey--_c._ 520, Glastonbury saved from destruction by King Arthur, who resists the Saxons at Mount Badon--_c._ 530, A chapel built at the east end of the old church by St David, for use as a chancel--_c._ 597, Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury, introduces the Benedictine order into England; its rules observed in Glastonbury--630, Paulinus of York encases in boards of lead the wattled basilica of St Joseph’s chapel--719, The great church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, built by King Ina--946, The abbey practically refounded by Dunstan after being despoiled by the Danes--106--, Abbey partially despoiled by war and Thurstan appointed abbot--1102-20, A Norman church built by Abbot Herlwin and Abbot Henry de Blois, nephew of Henry I.--1184, The new structure consumed by a disastrous fire, and another building begun by Henry II. and completed in 1303--1539, Dissolved--Richard Whiting, last abbot, hung on the Tor by order of Henry VIII. Annual revenue, £3311, 7s. 4d. Though, once surrounded by fenland, the abbey of Glastonbury--a veritable treasure-house of legendary [Illustration: GLASTONBURY.]