EXTRAORDINARY DOINGS AT MERTON.

When the Vandals of Parliamentary visiters, in Cromwell's time,

perpetrated their spoliations at Oxford, one of them, Sir Nathaniel

Brent, says Wood, actually "took down the rich hangings at the altar

of the chapel, and ornamented his bedchamber with them."

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