"Gulielmus de Glaston shall speke ... hath spoken of his tyme, and Johannes wold speke of hys time. The older tyme wasne known to hym. My punishment is past, but Johannes is yet in pain." SITTING XI. 4th January, 1908. At this sitting Johannes speaks for another, as follows: "... wold say, 'Seek ye goal and ensue it. Ne walke in circles as somme doe. Many objects distract ye minde. Seeke one goal and wynne all. "JOHANNES DE GLASTON." In response to a question about two friends: "Dreme. To them is to dreme, not labour. Seek visions. Be constant in mind. "That wych cometh, doe. Wee may not say more. To you is to choose. Opus spiriti, non opus terrae est. Ye are rich, but not in goodes. Work at that which comes." SITTING XVIII. 18th February, 1908. "Stande ye, and be as waxe in oure hands. Listen, and ye shall heare. I, Johannes, say soe. Be patient and yielding. Listen for our voices in choro mid. Ye shall heare them, and much more, but persevere: great things shall come to pass ere ye join the Company. Goe ye and prosper for us and you. Wee waite where wee wold bee. "JOHANNES." SITTING XXVI. 12th March, 1908. This communication bears the names of others besides Johannes, but is included owing to its interesting nature. "The horloge as ye face the wall lieth on the right, six elles or more above the floor. The stair in the right towret led from ye cloister to it, to wind hym every day at matins. "I, Galfrith, knew in my day. They who came spake in Latin, and not all knew the wisdom hid in the british tongue, nor eke the saxon. Some were wrote again, but the fathers were more sought than the Bards and much was hearsay. "What do ye long after, my son? The memory of man is but as the grass that fadeth, and they who would fain translate the word of the barbarian oft inserted what they desired but would not an they could (_? translate truly_). The hidden meaning they knew not which looked for the husk which covered it and soe much was lost for all tyme. The merlins spoke in what ye call an allegory, but the parable was what these fathers read, not the mystery. "Those who would tell you of the glory of our howse all strive together, Saxon, Norman, and native, so which wold ye have--Norman base or later Abbey? "Ye see the howse in its first condition, and like a falling lace, the dremes of later men obscure it. The first dreme improved--it was complete, and the grete church as it stood when Jocelyn came is what ye wish.