Campany, as Bryce was very well aware, was a walking encyclopaedia of information about Wrychester Cathedral: he was, in fact, at that time, engaged in completing a history of it.

And it was through that history that Bryce accidentally got his precious information.

For on the day following the interview with Mary Bewery and Ransford, Bryce being in the library was treated by Campany to an inspection of certain drawings which the librarian had made for illustrating his work-drawings, most of them, of old brasses, coats of arms, and the like,--And at the foot of one of these, a drawing of a shield on which was sculptured three crows, Bryce saw the name Richard Jenkins, armiger.

It was all, he could do to repress a start and to check his tongue.

But Campany, knowing nothing, quickly gave him the information he wanted.
"All these drawings," he said, "are of old things in and about the Cathedral.