The first example we give is from a farm called “Hundred Elms,” between Harrow and Sudbury. It is now used as a stable with a loft over it. I think it was originally a dwelling-house, though as the whole of the interior has been dismantled and altered, its purpose cannot be distinctly traced; its great peculiarity is that everything is constructed of brick, the window-mullions and tracery being very neatly cut out of that material and put together with no little skill. It is thought that the Archbishops of Canterbury, in early times, had a residence at Hundred Elms (in the fourteenth century), and that afterwards they removed to Headstone, where there still exists a moated grange, now a farm-house. [Illustration: AT CALAIS-COURT, KENT.] The Rev. W. Done Bushell in the “Harrow Octocentenary Tracts” has entered into all the arguments connected with the question, and they are very interesting, but too long to quote here, nor would they help us in ascertaining the history or purpose of this interesting little building, as the Archbishops must have left Hundred Elms farm some two centuries before it was built, as it is evidently a sixteenth century work. Brickwork in England, it should be observed, is rarely found in houses before the commencement of the sixteenth century. Although brick-making was never quite abandoned, yet it was very little used during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. The only important brick church erected during this period is Holy Trinity at Hull, which is of fine red brick. The thirteenth century walls of Yarmouth show dressings of white brick, used like stone, and brick vaulting constructed exactly after the manner of stone is to be seen in the ground floor of the Bishop’s Palace and the Chapter House of the Blackfriars monastery at Norwich. At the commencement of the sixteenth century brick was probably regarded as a luxury and was more expensive than stone. This explains the fact that the palaces and great mansions of the nobles are erected of this material in all districts where it could be procured. In the second quarter of the century, it became the practice to build all the better class of houses of brick in the eastern and home counties of England, though not so in the north or west where fine building stone was much more easily procurable. It is, however, very remarkable that even in the eastern counties, where beautiful brick was to hand, we scarcely ever find this material used for churches. There was evidently an idea prevalent in the minds of our forefathers that churches should be built of stone, and houses of brick, and this prejudice, to a great extent, prevails to the present day, and is very curious because it does not pertain in any other country in Europe. I think nearly all girls and women dislike brick churches, yet why they should do so it is difficult to understand. We should like some of our clever girls to tell us. (_To be continued._) HIS GREAT REWARD. CHAPTER III.