But publication necessitated scrutiny of this statement, and, to assess the true length, reference was made to William Wyrcestre's _Itinerary_, wherein, speaking of Glastonbury Abbey (p. 292), he says: "Longitudo navis ecclesiae monasterii continet 54 virgas vel 100 gressus"--making 54 yards = 100 steps. If 100 steps= 54 yards, one step = 1·62 feet. So we have our material for calculation, as follows: I. Length of church 311 × 1·62 = 503·82 feet "et capella nova" (_i.e._, and the new chapel) (add) 90·00 " ------ 593·82 " --an amazing result! Elizabeth's commissioner, quoted on p. 12, says: "The great Church in the Aby was ... 594 feet." And our own plan (Fig. 12), based on careful measurement, yields the total 592 feet! (The 580 feet measure discussed on p. 62 is an _internal_ measure.) _Q._ "_Please state it in feet._" _A._ "Pedes DCCXXXIII[32] circa." [32] DCCXXXIII pedes _circa_ (_about_ 733 feet)--at first sight a hopelessly discordant measure, being 140 feet in excess of the first--yields on analysis an even more astonishing result. For 733 feet circa _is_ 311 paces; but Romano-British paces--not mediæval! 311 paces of 2 feet 4-1/4 inches is 733 feet. The true Roman pace (single) is 2 feet 5 inches--occasionally less in Britain--so we see it in this case slightly shortened. And the qualification "circa" gives us the slight latitude which the computation requires. It is as though our question, addressed to the previous informant, had been answered by another in a literal sense, according to his own knowledge of the measure, and without reference to the monkish standards. (See note in synopsis at end of vol., _sub._ "Ell" and "Passus.") _Q._ "_Was there anything east of the Edgar Chapel?_" _A._ "Yes, but not Ecclesia major. On the wall was a capella for them who came from over the hill called Chalice--a little capella, but he was not of the grete church. You have hym all. "We sayd he (the church.--F.B.B.) was somewhat over three hundred passuum on the path which passeth on the north syde of hym. This I knowe. The chappell was ninety-one[33] of feet, for I did draw hym. [33] This being a foot in excess of the measure first given and found correct, we have preferred the latter in the calculation given on the last page. "RICARDUS T^a." 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. 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.