Show Quaintest Auction That Takes Place in England r Correspondence I nc ONDON Oct O l Many quit cue cus customs T L toms are associated with old En Lw lIh churches but one of Ute the queerest std Mid most mOlt ancient ancl tit U Is that which has hat just Jost town been observed observe at al t Cited Ched soy a quaint oU old village In shire In th the year ute Itt a godly man maim named Y Yea a th r departed this life lite ci of ot property to bet be b devot deol devoti leaving Having a piece Illece pl sil III to the of or the church By his hla hi will he direct directed U that t the I M of It should bt be t sold mid It al t auction aucO 1 elry v ry at 21 1 11 II r during II for a 1 term of hays y the burning of ot halt an 1111 n Inch nob of M candle the l lilt tut t bW lw prier to lh the being consumed to b be the In a mu with th the term teems of or his hla pious Molts be bequest bequest thus obtained Ii is turn lurn turned quest th till the money mon y rector and church war wardens wardens ed sd over to 10 the dens den of ot ChedZOY church to b be expended upended In keeping the tha In rep lr In th the manner described the le leaie e of ot the property which h her lIa i been designated Church Acre was wa auctioned o ort oft at al the th Manor Menor Rouge Howe Inn Innet the other day the rector l lb Kira t the th e nl 6 a 1 lt ullin presiding of et at ceremony After Arter the pl piece c ol or candle had been measured and found not to exceed halt half an Rn Inch In length It IL was wal placed on a Plate Ilia Ie In the center of a Ion long table abU along one ove side Iida or ot which were seated th the church the Tn bidders I mere wera er ranged at t the other side of or the tha 1 room At nt such uch a R distance from th the can ill dIe that none non of them could Inadvertently malice afore hought bl w wit tent or of ot nItIe aforethought blow It II out After Aller lighting th the c candle Jl the rector roctor with lIh one eye Ife ye on the flame flam made madea a appeal for lor of which might s serve aa al a a mocIel of ora oratorical condensation Then 1 th the ague star started ed The th do much talking Th The Hint first price offered was wal UW mO but bu before lh the tan ean tandl an dl die expired and terminated the sale a l 1441 had lied bun reached which was coil 1011 on a II good goal price Apart from IU Its oben nce of ot thin this quaint and ancient custom haa has many claims to historic interest t although It numbers only sumac some JOO inhabitants in inhabitants habitants It was II th there re that alrh had his hi headquarters headquarter when Bridge Bridgewater water in tn tile In tn on Oh one of the but buttresses bu buttresses t tresses of If the Ih church IH ls I still 1111 n II 1 sandstone on which th the rues axes of ot the Ihl Duke of at men nen were sharp sharpened sharpened ened 40 W years earll later for the Ih battle of or last luat fight us as Iaru lay II says lay deserving the Ih name of bat bel battle battie tie tle that has hili b ben been n fought on English ground Many years afterwards afterward the skeletons of or a 3 M person supposed to have been killed In that tight wore Its 1111 covered just below belo the surface ol of o the ground not far from the church One of oC the rectors rector of ot church was Ial Dr Raleigh III the staunch Ro Royalist allt who ho became Dean nf of Welts Wells In t 1841 41 and ami andAve five Ave years later wits done dnn to death In III his hla own house horse for tal his hll loyalty The church hurch Is I but much of ot It was wal restored in 1166 In III the Interior though are art 1111 eUIl to be sass eca many relics One of ot them Is 10 I a 1 line One effigy In tn brass brall of a knight In armor which dates date hark hack to HK HJ the th same year that the good Yea lea died The nama name of ot toe the U knight II fa l unknown but bul Teas Tea pious pioul bequest still tin perpetuates perpetuate his memory |