eaten out with antiquity & weather as most of them were in danger of falling, & one of them did fall down directly over the Pulpit in the Quire about half an houre after the sermon which (had it fallen a little sooner ere the people had gone out of ye Church) would have slayne many men & women. He made new stone windows almost about all the Quire, & in other places of the Cathedral he put in new stanches of stone, as he did in the Pallace windowes, where he flored or planched 5: rooms with bords, & wainscotted & benched the two ..... windows in the stone Chamber, & made wainscot portals for the Abbot's Chamber (since termed the nursery), the chamber over the Chappell. He built also a new Coach House at the north east corner of his orchard (called the Kidcort), made the Bp's stables (almost all ruined before) with a new Chamber therein for the Groom to lodge in & all things needful for it."
The following extract from a letter addressed to Nathan Walworth, of Ringly-fold, by his friend Peter Seddon, of Prestolee, in the outwood of Pilkington, 14th December, 1634, describing the consecration of Ringley chapel by bishop Bridgeman a few days before, is of much interest as shewing the form then used at the consecration of churches:
