PROCEEDINC.S OF THE COMMITTEE.

393 reign of Edw. III. the parishioners had greatly decreased in number, and the yearly revenue having been reduced almost to nothing, the church became ruinous. Leland notices " the Chappel of St. Michael!, where sometime was a Colledge, havinge a Maister et confratres, but nowe it is taken as a Free-Chapjicll. The Kinge giveth it. The buildinges of the House are sore decayed." Amongst the Collections in the possession of William Staunton, Esq., of Longbridge, there is a " Certificat of all Chauntryes and Hospitalls, Colleges, Free Chapells, Fraternities, &;c. within the Countie of Warr', 37 Hen. VHI.," which was examined b)^ Dugdale, who gives an account of the foundation of this hospital in 'the twelfth century, a list of the guardians, and states that it had fallen into a very reduced state. The remains of St. Michael's church, after having been converted into a dwell- ing house and blacksmith's shop, were finally overbuilt in a row of houses, in the year 1819, and concealed from cx : the point of the western gable may still be seen from the road, and the east end of the building is the yard behind. The tracery in the east window has been cut away, but there are evidences which may suffice to supply a restoration : on the north side there was a small doorway, and a window of two lights. The di- mensions of this little building are about 30 ft. by 17 ft., and the height w'ithin, from the floor to the ceiling, 1 8 ft. 6 in. The ceiling was pan- elled, and bosses ornamented with escutcheons covered the intersec- tions of the framing, but no armorial bearings are now to be distinguished. It would be difficult to find a more Leland Itin. iv. part 2, f. Ki.l b. visible in Groncd Plan.