Yet the fanciful legends about the casting of the bells give way to stern fact when they are examined.

Upon the first bell is the inscription: "Ave Maria Santisima.

S.Francisco.De Paula Rvelas, me fecit." The second: "Cast by G.H.Holbrook, Medway, Mass., 1828." The third: "Ave Maria, Sn Jvan Nepomvseno, Rvelas me fecit, A.D., '95." The fourth: "Fecit Benitvs a Regibvs, Ano D.1830, Sn.

Frano." In the year 1886 a number of needed repairs were made; the windows were enlarged, and a new ceiling put in, the latter a most incongruous piece of work..