The script has been retraced, as it was done in soft pencil and could not be preserved. SITTING XXIX. 20th April, 1908. "Gloria in excelsis tibi Deo. Pax vobiscum, filii. "The time is near. Dig well and those things which ye seek shall be given you but serche carefully lest ye eradicate those things that be left for your guidance.... "... the est end will be the first, and then ye shall find proof of ye goodly towers at ye west end.[17] Serche the ruins for the way they were finished. There is much left to guide you...." [17] These were proved later.--F.B.B. "... Influence man, and that which was before decreed shall aid you and they who are around you shall feel your influence and ours. "In very truth it was a goodly church and it is said that ye of your time shall know what works we did pro gloria Dei. "We were mistaken in some things--all men are--but the thought that made the great church of Glaston was not bounded by ye mind and that thought must live and prevail. "Move, work, and unceasingly persist, and in time there will be a place for what once was and ye shall know its buildings yet again as they were wont to be. The lesser works first: and then cometh one who will build the great church--a son of Glaston from beyond the sea. Even now he waits and watches. We wait and watch and hope with the knowledge that comes to men on the other side. The church is always the church, and in the great schema of the world we come soon and our instrument Glaston shall find a mighty place.... Thus Johannes saith." At this point the sequence of the writing is broken by the story of Johannes going a-fishing, and lingering in the lanes. This we give in Part II. _Q._ "_We should like to know something of the nature of the old foundations which were found under the Quire in the 1904 excavations, also whether any light can be thrown upon the subterranean piers, their date and purpose?_" "... The window was straight as we knew it, but[18] was somewhat changed by Abbot Beere when he made the chapell. Ye are right about ye end walls. Johannes saw to the building thereof for they were five years before they builded the last part because there was nothing in the coffers--so the church was perfect without the new parts. [18] The sitting was interrupted here, and resumed later with a repetition of the words "as we saw it, but." "What was it Beere performed? We will remember. 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. We know but that which we heard and that which they who followed after did, we know not, save only we can enquire. "Beere, Abbot, is not with us now. He has a work to perform. There are others who build in your England and he hath to lead them as they should be led. They who builded in our day and were masters, lead ye now. "ROBERT. ANNO 1334. GLASTON." NOTE ON SITTING XXIX.