The capitals were provided of this pattern, the old wall was pulled down, and hidden within it and built into its substance was found _a pier-capital of a moulding identical in detail_. I myself was satisfied that he had never seen any particle of this early work, and he allows me to retell the story here. As to the story of Johannes, the truant monk and nature-lover, it takes the form of an interpretation of his memory-record by another. Whether we are dealing with a singularly vivid imaginative picture or with the personality of a man no one can really decide. But later examples will elucidate the part he plays in the scheme, and it is one of much interest from the psychological point of view. SITTING XXIX.--_Continued._ 20th April, 1908. "Ye crypt was mere a chamber under the stairs and it was at the west end of the chapel. It was not for sepulture and it is gone long syne by reason of the fall of the floor of ye chapel. "Yt wasne underground and was low--a man might hardly walk sans stooping." The work of excavation commenced shortly after the receipt of this communication. SITTING XXXII. 16th June, 1908 (after excavation No. 4). "All is well. We direct your course and will continue. There is some difficulty and ye must use your own intelligence. There are two chapels and ye must try and judge old and new. The scheme of Abbot Monington gave one, and under the church are remains yet older. The pillar of many shafts[20] was in the midst between the buttress and the chapel wall, and the great window needed the buttress to hold hym up. Seek out the choir wall, where the arches were behind the altar, and it will be plaine. Digge for the vestries on the south choir wall--there is somewhat left here, and there is alsoe a chantry under the window by the crosse.[21] [20] There is a sketch of this pillar given in the 1908 volume of the _Proc. of the Somerset Arch. Soc._. It was found by F.B.B. in Kerrich's papers in the British Museum. Its position would fairly obviously correspond to that which the script suggests, and there is therefore nothing very remarkable about this. [21] The wall of the vestry was subsequently dug for and found outside the bay of the south quire wall third from the west, where there were indications of such an appendage in the grooving of the masonry for the flashings of a lead roof, and the plinth mould had been shorn off to get rid of an inconvenient projection. The trench showed a thin wall giving a vestry about 9 feet wide. "Judge not the wall by the foundations thereof. They are mighty but--wee have told you--thin walls were over them.[22]