2na s. N" 44., Nov. 1. '56.] 



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359 



Huslands authoiised to heat their Wives (2""^ S. 

 ii. 108. 219. 297.) — Perhaps the following curious 

 extract in connexion with this subject may be 

 worth recording in " N. & Q. : " 



" Wife-beating advocated by a Clergyman, S^c. — A very 

 large number of wife-beating cases have recently been 

 brought before the magistrates at Whitehaven, where 

 there exists a sect of professing Christians who propagate 

 the opinion that the practice is in accordance with the 

 word of God. The Rev. Geo. Bird, formerly rector of 

 Cumberworth, near Iluddersfield, has established himself 

 there, and drawn together a congregation ; and within 

 the last few weeks it has transpired that he holds the 

 doctrine that it is perfectly scriptural for a man to beat 

 his wife. About six weeks ago, James Scott, a member 

 of Mr. Bird's congregation, was summoned by his wife for 

 brutally beating her because she refused to attend the 

 same place of worship that he did. When before the 

 magistrates, Mrs. Scott said she had no wish her bus- 

 band should be punished if he would promise not to ill- 

 use her badly again. When asked by the magistrates 

 whether ho would make the requisite promise, he refused, 

 saying, * Am I to obey the laws of God, or the laws of 

 man ? ' As he would not give the promise, the magis- 

 trates committed him to prison for a month, witli hard 

 labour. The liev. Mr. Bird has since delivered a course 

 of lectures on the subject of Scott's conviction. He con- 

 tends that it is a man's duty to rule his own honseliold ; 

 and if his wife refuse to obey his orders, he is justified, ac- 

 cording to the law of God, in beating her in order to en- 

 force obedience." — The Examiner, Oct. 11. 1856. 



Vox. 



Rustington Church (2"" S. ii. 310.) — Tlie 

 foundation of this church is not recorded, except 

 by the presumed date of its most ancient portions. 

 It did not exist when Domesday Book was com- 

 piled, A.D. 1080 — 1086 ; but Rustyntone is men- 

 tioned in Pope Nicolas' Taxation made in a.d. 

 1291, at Avhich time the tov/er and the south 

 range of the nave may have been erected about a 

 century ; at least, they bear the character of 

 Richard I.'s age, when the Norman style was be- 

 ginning to yield to the Early English. The chan- 

 cel is in the latter style, and may be some thirty 

 years more recent than the earlier building. The 

 north range of the nave, the north aisle, and the 

 projection at the east end of the latter, are in the 

 Perpendicular style, and erected early in Henry 

 VII.-'s reign, though their respective ages differ a 

 little. The south aisle has been rebuilt since 

 Dallaway's time. One porch in an unusual posi- 

 tion at the west end, and another on the north 

 side, are both ancient. There are the remains of 

 an exquisite piscina in the building, at the east 

 end of the north aisle, and also a squint com- 

 manding the east end of the chancel, which would 

 lead to the supposition that this erection had once 

 been a chantry, where masses were said to the 

 memory of some deceased benefactor ; but it may 

 have been intended also as an enlargement of the 

 church for the accommodation of his family. Near 

 to the opening of the squint in the cliancel are 

 the remains of the rood-loft stair, and there is 

 another squint on the south side. Altogether 



Rustington is a fine church, and I regret that I 

 have not been able to recover more of its history. 



Patonce. 



Hillier Family (2"'' S. i. 53.) — Is not this a 

 form of the word TJellyer, a not uncommon family 

 name in Devonshire ? where it has the meaning 

 also of " tiler," so far as I can recollect. 



Henry T. Rii^ey. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.*" 



Our worthy publishers, Messrs. Bell & Daldy, have 

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 what the stories are, and by whom they are related : 

 first premising that they form a series of pretty pic- 

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 IX. The Archceohgist' s Second Story : The Figure in the 

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While on the subject of archajological works, we may call 

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 but to which we have felt ourselves unable to do justice 

 within the limited space which we can afford to such 

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 cients discovered by John Wilson ; and two volumes more 

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