2°d S. VII. June 11. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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PAROCHIAL riBBARY. 



{Passim.} 



Having just returned from a voyage of disco- 

 very with a friend in search of an old library we 

 had heard of, some seven miles from where I am 

 now staying, I send you some account of it wliile 

 still fresh in my memory. The place itself is 

 Bi'adfield in the parish of Ecclesfield, high up 

 among the Sheffield Moors, almost the last place 

 in which such a thing would be looked for, and 

 certainly about the very last in which the con- 

 tents of such a library could be of any practical 

 use. The Rev. Robert Turle, sometime one of 

 the assistant ministers of Sheffield parish church, 

 by will dated May 19th, 1720, gives and devises 

 all his books and the press wherein they are (" ex- 

 cepting six octavo English books to be chose 

 thereout by Mr. Steer [Vicar] of Ecclesfield for 

 ^e use of my wife, and excepting the Bibles and 

 Common Prayer Books, and such little pamphlets 

 as my wife shall desire for herself ") unto the 

 minister of Bradfield Chapel in the county of 

 York and to his successors there, and- directs and 

 .appoints that a catalogue shall be taken of the 

 said books, and that a true copy thereof shall be 

 entered in the archbishop's register at York to 

 prevent their being embezzled. We did not find 

 any Catalogue, but we found the press and the books 

 in question in tolerably good condition, dirt and 

 dust excepted, in a sort of lumber-room or cham- 

 ber of a building formerly used as a workhouse. 

 The parish-clerk, who has the charge, was doubt.- 

 less edified by our exclamations of surprise and 

 admiration as we took down each volume in suc- 

 cession ; and though he soon tired of standing over 

 us, it is to be hoped our visit will have the effect 

 of making him regard them with more respect 

 than is likely to have been the case hitherto. 

 The books are moi'e than 160 in number, of all 

 sizes, from a ponderous folio of 1376 pages On the 

 Necessity of Regenei-ation (Charnock ?), 1683, 

 down to a 24rao. edition of S. Augustini Medita- 

 tiones. Some of the vols, had notes of their cost 

 price on the covers, showing that the bequest was 

 one of great value when first made, whatever may 

 be thought of its present worth. 



We made a hasty catalogue, from which the 

 following are extracts : — 



Expositio Pauli ad Coloss. 1627. Fol. 

 Pearson's Works, 1G83. Fol. 



Lat. 1688. Fol. 



Origenis Opera, Gr. 1677. Fol. 

 Henry More's Mj'stery of Godliness, 1660. Fol. 

 Sundry vols of Tracts' and Sermons, about 1689. 

 Rvcaut's Lives of the Popes, 1688. Folio. 

 Cyrilli Opera, 1646, 2 vols. Fol. 

 Boyle's Experiments, 1669. 

 Weemse'a Works, 1636. 



Lightfoot's Temple Service, printed by R. Cotes for 

 Ann Crooke. 

 Epistle of Gildas, translated, 1638. 



Robert Fleming's Christology, 1625. 



Sanderson's Sermons, 1686. Fol. 



Beza on New Test. 1598. Fol. 



Fulke's New Test. John Bill, 1617. Fol. 



Marloratus on Isaiah, Lat. 1610. Fol. 



Heylin's Cosmogony, 1656. Fol. 



Zanchii Opera, 1572, 7 vols. Fol. 



Ductor Dubitantium. Jer. Taylor, 1676. Fol. 



Charnock on the Attributes, 1682, 2 vols. Folio. 

 20Z. 14s. 



BedsB Historia Ecclesiastica and Anglo-Saxon Laws 

 (Sax. and Eng.), 1644. Fol. 



Justin Martyr (Gr. and Lat.), 1686. Fol. 



Platonis Opera, Lat. 1561. Fol. 



Grotii Opera. Fol. 755 pages. 



Petri Ravanelli Bibliotheca Sacra, 1660. Fol. 7?. 10s. 

 2 vols. 



OlyantheaB. Fol. Very thick, title lost. 



Maldonatus on IV. Evang. 1724. Fol. 



New Test. (Gr. and Lat.) interlined, 1719. Petrus de 

 la Eouiere, &c. &c. 



J. Eastwood. 



Minor ^atsS, 



The Ruins at May field, Sussex. — Some few 

 weeks back I had the pleasure of visiting, under 

 the auspices of one of the inhabitants of the vil- 

 lage, the fine old ruins of the archiepiscopal palace 

 at May field. The common traditions of the neigh- 

 bourhood, and some accounts of the county, give 

 names to the various rooms and portions of it that 

 still remain traceable ; and in these there seems 

 to be pretty generally an unity of opinion. The 

 way, however, in which they dispose of the differ- 

 ent rooms does not appear to me to be entirely 

 satisfactory ; and though I would not venture to 

 assert an unrestricted opinion on the point, yet I 

 venture, through the medium of " N. & Q.," to 

 state one point in which I differ from the tradi- 

 tional account, in the hopes that those who have 

 visited this ruin may be induced to answer my 

 Query, and throw some farther light on the 

 subject. 



The main portion of the ruin consists of a large 

 vaulted room, the arches of which still remain in 

 good preservation. This room has gone for the 

 banquetting hall : why should it not have been 

 the chapel ? My own reasons are as follows : — 

 First, from its size and position, I do think it 

 likely that the part generally assigned to this 

 place of worship can be correct, inasmuch as it is 

 very small, and stands north and south : the room 

 I mention being very much larger, and standing 

 east and west. Besides this, there is at the east 

 end of it, high in the wall, a window which, as I 

 ascertained, communicated with one of the present 

 sleeping apartments; and which, I conjecture, 

 may have been in use as a means for sick monks 

 to hear prayers when unable to come to the 

 chapel. I might give other reasons for my view 

 on the matter, but refrain ft-om doing so at 

 present. Antiquabius. 



