_Q. "Please explain the apparent discrepancy of dates in the story of Radulphus and his fight with Eawulf."_ _A._ "Ne Radulphus of Henry the King" (_i.e._, FitzStephen, 1184.--F.B.B.). "Radulphus the Treasurer was Norman of the time of Turstinus--annos One Thousand and Eighty-seven. Ralph was hee. Eorwulf of Edgarley, old in years, was wroth because the soldiers of Turstinus did slay the Saxon monks. Ralph the Norman knight and Treasurer of Turstinus, slew him. Who was hee? Radulphus FitzHamon--as wee wot, an evil man." _Q. "Where was Ralph FitzStephen--of Henry II.--buried?"_ _A._ "Ralph, ye cousin of ye King, dyed as we deem, at Wincastre--there yburied. Chancellor of Angleland was he." _Note._--The two foregoing answers were now read, but unfortunately the first was incorrectly interpreted, as the writing was a little difficult. F.B.B. made the mistake of thinking that it implied that Ralph of Turstinus was FitzStephen (though the sense is clear enough on further inspection), and consequently asked as follows: _Q. "Why do you say that Ralph, treasurer of Turstinus, was Ralph of King Henry?"_ (Here the influence changes and a masterful "personality" of whom we have had previous experience, controls the utterance.) _A._ "Rede. I said it not. I said not 'Ralph of the King Henricus,' but 'Ralph ye Norman.' Taedet damnosum. Lege!--IMPERATOR. "Audi me, barbari stultissimi! Ego Imperator, qui feci interpretationes pro anima insularium.--CAESAR."[44] [44] Which may be freely translated as: "Listen to me, you very dull barbarians!--to me, the Emperor, who have been trying to make these things clear to the minds of you islanders." PART III THE LORETTO CHAPEL The interest of this section is greatly enhanced by the fact that the foundations of the Loretto Chapel were discovered last summer in the place indicated by the script. The work of excavation will not be completed until next season, but already more than half of the plan of the chapel has been laid bare, and a full report with illustrations has been contributed by the author to the Somerset Archæological Society, and will appear in their Proceedings for 1919, now being published early in 1920. The report will be accessible to all archæological students at the principal libraries. The footings of the chapel show that it was 20 feet wide, as the script indicates, but the author's interpretation was at fault in assuming this width to be an internal one, whereas it is the external dimension. The length may be found to follow suit. The chapel lies about 5 feet within the bank as stated, and the west wall-footing is the best preserved, thus bearing out the accuracy of the writings. [Illustration: PLATE IV. CONEY'S VIEW OF THE ABBEY (1817). Frontispiece to Part III.] THE LORETTO CHAPEL Among the lost features of Glastonbury Abbey recorded by Leland[45] is a chapel built by Abbot Bere on the north side of the nave. Leland says of this: