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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No, 200. 



Walberton and' 

 Haulf-naked. 



Note or two from some correspondents of yours, 

 allow me to tliank them, and at the same time to 

 inform them that " A general Collection of all 

 the Offices of England, with the Fees, in the 

 Queene's guifte," a manuscript temp. Elizabeth, 

 contains the following reference. Under the head 

 " Castles," &c. occurs, — 



" Com. Sussex. 



'Keeper of tlie Manor of £ s. d. 

 Half-naked and Good- 

 wood - - - 20 O 

 Keeper of the Wood and 



Chace of Walberton - 3 10." 



Chaeles Reed. 



Boohs chained to Desks i?! Churches (Vol. viii., 

 p. 94.). — An engraving of a very fine perpendi- 

 cular lettern, having a book fastened to it by a 

 chain, is given in the Proceedings of the Arch. Inst. 

 for 1846, as existing at that time in the church of 

 St. Crux, York. In 1851 I noticed the upper 

 part of one in Chesterton Church near Canibridge, 

 placed on the sill of the east window of the south 

 aisle with a book lying upon it, vei-y much torn 

 and wanting the title-page. I ascertained the 

 subject of it at the time ; but omitted to make a 

 note of it, and I am sorry to say it has now slipped 

 my memory. 



Rutter, in his Somersetshire, speaks of some old 

 reading-desks, which were still remaining in 1829 

 in Wrington Church, fastened to the walls of the 

 chancel, on which were several books, " especially 

 Fox's Martyrs, and the Clavis JBiMiorum of 

 F. Roberts, who was rector of the parish in 1675." 

 There was one also about the same time at Chew 

 Magna Church, Somersetshire ; with a copy of 

 Bishop Jewel's Defence of the Church chained to 

 it. In Redcliff Church, Bristol, there is a small 

 mahogany one supported by a bracket, with a 

 brass chain attached, near the vestry on the north 

 side of the choir. Until within a very few years, 

 a desk, with Fox's Martyrs lying upon it, was in 

 the Holy Trinity Church, Hull, affixed to one of 

 the pillars in the nave. 



A fine old Bible and chain is shown amongst the 

 relics at Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. 



It would appear that theological works were 

 not the only ones secured in this manner : for I 

 find (Rutter's Somersetshire, p. 258.) that one 

 Captain S. Sturmy of Easton in Gordano pub- 

 lished a folio, entitled The Mariner s or Artisan's 

 Magazine, a copy of which he gave to the parish 

 to be chained and locked in the desk, until any 

 ingenious person should borrow it, leaving 3Z. as 

 a security in the hands of the trustees against 

 damage, &c. R. W. Elliott. 



It is somewhat strange that I should have 

 omitted the following passage whilst writing on 

 this subject in a recent Number, as the work 



to which it refers. Bishop Jewel's Defence of his 

 Apology for the Church of England, is so well 

 known : 



" At the desire of Archbishop Parker, a copy of the 

 Defaice was set up soon after Jewel's death, in almost 

 every parish church in England ; and fragments of it 

 are still to be seen in some churches, together with the 

 chain by which it was attached to the reading-desk 

 provided for it." 



This extract is taken from the Life of Bishop 

 Jewel, prefixed to the English translation of the 

 Apology, edited by Dr. Jelf for the Society for 

 promoting Christian Knowledge (Svo.Lond. 1849), 

 p. XX. 



An order for the setting up of " the Paraphrases 

 of Erasmus in English upon the gospels " in some 

 convenient place within all churches and chapels 

 in the province of York, will be found in xlrch- 

 bishop Grindal's Injunctioiis for the Laity, § 4. 

 (Remains, SfC, Parker Societ}^ p. 134.) See also 

 the Articles to he enquired of within the Pi'ovince 

 of Cantei-hurie, § 2. (Ibid. p. 158.) 



\V. Sparrow Simpson. 



In Malvern Abbey Church is a stand to which 

 two books are chained. The one is a commentary 

 on the Book of Common Prayer ; the other is a 

 treatise on Church Unity. In Kinver Church 

 (Worcestershire) are three books placed in a desk 

 {not chained) in the south aisle : being The Whole 

 Didy of Man (1703) ; A Sermon made in Latinein 

 the Reigne of Edward the Sixte, by John Jewel, 

 Bishop of Sarisburie ; and 21ie Actes and Monu- 

 mentes of Christian Martyrs (1583). 



CCTHBERT BeDE, B. A. 



At Bowness Church, on Windermere Lake, 

 there is (or at least was, in 1842) a copy of 

 Erasmus's Paraphrase chained. If I am not mis- 

 taken, some of Jewel's works will also be found 

 there. E. H. A. 



Schellrum (Vol. vi., p. 364.). — Karl will find 

 scheltrum, variously written " scheltrun, sheltrun, 

 shiltroun, schetrome," of very common occurrence 

 in the translation of the Old Testament by WicUff 

 and his followers ; it is there rendered from the 

 Lat. acies. The instances quoted by Jamieson, 

 from the Latin testudo, come nearer to the origin, 

 shield. Q» 



Bloomsbary. 



Quarrel (Vol. vi., p. 172.). — Balliole?sSis will 

 be pleased with Mr. Trench's ingenious account of 

 our conversion of a complaint into a quarrel. 



" The Latin word {querela) means properly ' com- 

 plaint,' and we have in ' querulous ' this its proper 

 meaning coming distinctly out. Not so, however, in 

 ' quarrel,' for Englishmen, being wont not merely to 

 ' complain,' but to set vigorously about righting and 

 redressing themselves, their griefs being also grievances, 

 out of this word, which might have given them only 



